Hey everyone!
Great start to the transfer. Elder Galeano and I are doing really well. He is from the states, but his dad is from Ecuador and mom his from Puerto Rico. He grew up in a home where they only spoke Spanish, and he learned English from school and friends. Since I really want to work on and better my Spanish, we´ve decided that while we´re out side in the streets we will only speak Spanish to eachother. Its going great; our personalities are a lot more similar than they were with elder mower. We get along really well and he is an awesome missionary.
We got to watch conference (thank goodness!). We traveled to the temple where the stake center is and watched it there. They had a room for the missionaries so we could watch it in english haha. We were able to watch all of them (at weird times though because the afternoon sessons were too late to broadcast here) except for the Sunday afternoon, but we are planning on watching that on Wednesday for district meeting. What were your guys´s favorite talks? I liked a lot of them, but I really liked Holland's as he talked about standing firm and defending your faith. I could relate to it pretty well. We get a lot of stupid comments thrown at us, rude looks, laughs, but when I heard that talk it reinforced my urge to stand strong, to not give in. Satan is doing all he can to get us to back down, but we´re not going to let him. I also liked something what Bednar said about how the Lord makes our burdens light. He doesn´t take the trial away from us, but instead he strengthens us. After all, that's why we are here. To learn and grow and to get stronger. That is why we have these trials. We need to trust in the Lord to make us stronger. We cant turn away from him.
Also, I found out like I´m sure many of you did, that Henry B. Eyring likes the Yankees. Noooooooot okay. Haha. I saw Melissa and Lorenzo in the choir! Had to point it out to my comp that I have an aunt AND and uncle in the choir :) Also, is Brother Hart's wife in the choir?? I thought I saw a lady who looked like her.
We´ve been doing a lot of contacting and finding in the street, don´t have many investigators. The one really good one we had, Libe, who we had a baptismal date with as well for next Saturday, called us and told us not to come by again. Her husband came back (didn´t even know she was married) and is super mad she was meeting with us. It made me so sad, she was so close, so close to something that would change her life forever. I guess it isn´t her time yet. I know God has a plan for everything, we just need to get out of the way and do his will. Even if it is hard or tough of frustrating. It won´t always be the easiest way.
We met a girl in the street the other day, named Fiorela, from Peru, who we came to find out was taught by the missionaries over 3 years ago and was amazing! But I guess something happened right before her baptismal interview and she didn´t pass. So after that it was tough, she didn´t feel as comfortable there and then little by little she lost contact with the missionaries. But we found her again and she seems so ready! Pray for her that she´ll feel comfortable to come back to church and pick back up where she left off, she needs your help.
Thanks for the emails, you are the best! I hope you have a great week!
Love Elder Franson
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