Our new district leader is from Honeyville, Utah and has a farm and we like to talk about the farm life a lot haha, He´s a hoot.
So, My companion is Elder Boone! Straight from the MTC in Madrid, just graduated in June as well. He´s amazing, I was praying really hard for a companion that would come into the field with a good desire to work hard and be obedient, and he´s just that. He has impressed me a ton in these first couple of days. We´re working together really well and he´s doing so good. we´re working together on the Spanish, and he´s been improving each day. I´m so excited for this opportunity to train, it´s going to teach me so many things and I´m really excited.
I got the package, Thank you so much, mom! I´m so excited, and thanks for the good ol' Chalean Extreme, love it :D My companion thought it was pretty funny. Thanks also for the pictures, they are beautiful! I miss that place. The district leader--Elder Bennett--loved them as well since he is from a farm haha.
I´ve got a really funny story from yesterday at church--so Jessica showed up with her cute little son Lucas and sat by us during sacrament meeting. Sometimes he can be a handful and super noisy and bad during the meetings, so I tried my best to keep him entertained and quiet. It worked for a while. drawing, rock paper scissors, who can be the quietest contest, holding your breath contest...and he was doing pretty good. Then toward the end, he was on his chair and sneezed really big. He was good though and put his hand over his mouth, but sadly there was a little hole where this big lugey shot out right onto my ARM! hahaha so gross, but so dang funny. We had a good laugh about that one for a while.
I tried to make cinnamon rolls the other day...didn´t turn out at all. They were pretty gross actually haha. I mean I was kind of guessing at all of the ingredients. I´ll try to get better. I made some no bake cookies for a baptism of the other elders on Saturday and they turned out well. There aren´t many things like those desserts here in Spain, so when we make them the people really like it.
We struggled this week with being able to meet with each of our investigators, multiple times they called to cancel the appointment and change it, or sometimes they just didn´t show up. It´s a bit sad and frustrating, but there´s not much we can do I guess.
On Monday or Tuesday, I started noticing my neck getting really tight and aching a lot, and then all of a sudden it got so bad that I couldn´t turn my head from side to side, nor up and down, I was just stuck there haha. Kind of like Sally---remember dad and Leah? From over by trout poop creek? It was really weird haha, and I felt like an idiot having to turn my body 180´ to check both ways before crossing the street haha. Since then it´s stopped though, just a weird fluke thing for a couple days. I made a home made rice bag to put some heat on it, which helped a lot. Hopefully that´ll give you guys a good laugh.
While waiting for the metro (subway basically), a girl came yelling up to us ´Mormons! Mormons!!´ turns out she is an 18 year old, just graduated, from Walla Walla, Washington (!), and is here to teach English for a year. She is not Mormon, and doesn´t really like us, but for the last 2 months there in Washington, she had the elders over every Tuesday I guess to ´argue´ about their beliefs. At one point she said to us ´have you guys converted anyone to Christianity lately? or well I guess Mormonism? since it´s pretty different´´ ... It was really weird, definitely one of those girls Leah would have just killed with her stare and no more within a couple seconds haha. I continued talking to her for a second until we got off, trying to be as nice as I could. Interesting person.
Other than that...we went to that candy warehouse again today and my companion bought a HUGE bag of popcorn for just three euros, like five bucks. Haha so funny, it´s going to last us for such a long time.
This week was a really good one, I´m just smiling as I imagine you guys hearing about some of those funny experiences. I´m doing really great and am so happy, This transfer will bring lots and lots of blessings.
Love Elder Franson
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