Hey everyone,
We had an exhausting week, had so much to do, but as I look back on it, I don´t know if I´ve seen so many little and big miracles squished into one week before. We had the baptism of Mariela this week which was really special, she´s been taught for quite some time now but just never made the decision to be baptized, I think she was a bit scared, but when I got here we presented her with a date and she accepted, and now she´s baptized! Also, I found out that Lucho--from Alcorcon--got baptized as well! He is incredible, I talked to him on the phone for a bit and I can tell how much this Gospel means to him now. He told me he loves to watch the Mormon Messages now haha. He is going to come over here to where I live and he wants to visit investigators with us haha. I love that guy, such a good friend.
This week I´ve seen real miracles happen from priesthood blessings. I´ll share a couple of the experiences with you. There is a guy here who we are pretty close with, who has that skin disease (the one he thinks is psoriasis) that doesn´t have a cure. I´m pretty sure he´s had it for over two years, just scabs and scales all over his body that make it hard to move around sometimes. He asked us for a blessing, and as I was giving the blessings I started thinking about all of the blessings Christ did--healing so many people--and also about the John Tanner movie where the missionaries heal his leg and he´s able to walk after. Then just out of my mouth come words saying that with faith, his skin will be completely healed. I kind of forgot about it, but then three days later he came up to me, beaming with happiness and light, showing me his arms. Three days before it was covered in gross rash things and white scales, but it was all gone. I was astonished and speechless, I mean there was hardly anything there! I wrote it all down in my journal haha, that was an experience I had that I hope to never forget. The power of the priesthood is real. It has been restored onto this earth, and I am sure of it.
I was asked to give a talk in sacrament meeting on Sunday and it went pretty good, I talked about having faith and trusting in the Lord with missionary work. As I was preparing it I thought back to the talks Dad gave which were always so good, I miss hearing them. The funny part was that, well, in the talk I made a reference to that blessing we gave to the man and the complete change because of his faith in the Lord, and after sacrament meeting we had four people come up to us asking for blessings haha.
So, we have been working super hard every day, haven´t had much rest time, but it feels so great. I love the feeling of getting home at night knowing I worked hard and did my best to keep a good attitude during the day. I remember talking about that in one of my emails back a while ago, that after lots of hard work or when you feel like things are really down, is when the miracles come. Always give that one more step, go a little bit longer, and the Lord will bless you for that.
Thank you for the great emails and for all of the love and support you´ve given me. I couldn´t have done this without you. Have lots and lots of fun on the hike! I really wish I was there, but I will be next year :) good luck and have a great week. I love you all so much!
Elder Franson
No comments:
Post a Comment