Although it basically still is summer here, it's starting
to cool off more at nights and for the first 4 or 5 days this past week
it was raining and got pretty cool! It's so funny to see, the slightest
bit of cloud cover and everyone runs and grabs a winter coat and
scarf...come on people, you gotta experience the Idaho cold!
This week was pretty hard, a good week of course, but it was pretty
hard. We got failed a ton, one of our new investigators--Julio--has
been super chungo lately (flakey, sketchy). We were sitting in a park
where we usually meet with him, with a member too, and after we called
him he told us ´Oh sorry, I can´t sorry guys.´ Punk. So anyway, we were
struggling a little bit with that but we still managed somehow.
This Saturday
we had a baptism of a lady named Milagros and her son Jose Antonio! Its
a weird situation, we first started teaching her while in the trio but
she lives about 40 minutes away by car so when Elder Wilson came and the
other elders still have the only car, she was their investigator. I was
pretty sad but it's fine. She was so prepared it's not even funny. She had
been talking with the Jehovah's Witnesses because she had just been
searching and searching for something and didn´t know what or where it
was. Then her friend, a member, gave her to us and we started teaching
her. It was so cool. The baptism was really spiritual, and it made me
think of the Holy Ghost and back to my baptism. *haha my good old broken
arm in a sling.* I am so grateful for this gift I´ve been given.
We found a guy, Julian, 19 years old and super cool!
He swims, which made me really happy. But the coolest part is how
we found him. Last week we found a lady in the streets and we set
something up with her for this week to talk to her. When we met, she had
a friend, Julian, and interestingly enough she was not prepared at all
for this message and he was! I don´t know what made her bring him a
long, but he asked to read the Book of Mormon before we even offered it
haha. But of course it was too good too be true, he lives down in Santa Cruz which means we had to pass him off to the elders down there and
they get to teach him, not us. :( but its okay, something I´ve been
trying to work on is the who their success is my success. This is all
the Lord's work and it shouldn´t be about me at all.
The Book of Mormon is key. Holy, that is the understatement of the year. It is so essential. We had an investigator
that for the 2nd lesson he didn´t read the section that we left for him
but the next time he did read it and we could tell a total difference in
him. It was incredible really. Don´t take this book that most of us
have had and known about all our lives for granted.
That basically sums it up, oh besides the awesome
hike we went on this morning with some members and investigators--super
beautiful. I´ll send some pictures.
Thank you for everything,
Love,
Love,
Elder Franson
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