if we do our part, the Lord will do his

I swear my adrenaline always pumps a bit faster as i walk to the locutorio on Mondays to write to you guys. It is the best :)

I played soccer with Elder Wilson this morning, it was so great! I miss that elder a ton, can´t wait to be able to just sit and share old memories one day haha. He is such a great missionary here, and I was so lucky to be able to be trained by him. We have made plans that he´ll come up to our house later on and stay there, hope that´s cool with you guys :) haha.

Even though this week was a bit slower/tougher in some senses, looking back on it I can still count many blessings that the Lord gave my companion and I. Jari is slowly progressing, although now it´s tougher because he isn´t reading very much, but we´re trying to help encourage him. I read in Preach my Gospel this morning a part that says "Trust in the Lord that he will bless anyone who reads the Book of Mormon and prays with faith and a sincere heart and true intentions, with a confirmation or answer that it is true." I think it has to do with many other things in life as well, just trusting that if we do our part, the Lord will do his.

One of our main struggles this week was Jessica--that Peruvian lady who always meets in a park and cooks for us. She´s been hung up on the fact that even though there should be one true church, all of the churches, including ours, are the same. She doesn´t feel much different in our church than in the Catholic. We´ve been struggling a bit with what to say and finally came to the conclusion that we should give her a printed version of the talk Callister gave about the blueprint of Christ´s church which explains it pretty clearly. A couple days later we met again to talk about it and, I´m not even joking, I was about to laugh out of frustration and confusion at her response. She said something like ¨Yeah it was good, I mean it is basically teaching the same thing the Catholics and others teach, they´re all the same!´. Freak how do you get that out of his talk? I made a comment like ¨... Well where are the 12 Apostles and prophet in the Catholic church since that is how Jesus formed his church?¨ and she just said they have their leader and then it just extends down..."

I don´t know, it really just frustrated me haha, not sure what more we can do with her. I love this people and really want to help them, her included. But I think not always do the investigators have those desires, but maybe later on they could be ready to accept it more fully.

I finished the Book of Mormon (I started it back at the end of March, not this new challenge that I recently told you guys about) and I learned so much more. I´m excited to read it again. It´s a book that just never gets old!

Tell all of the people there I say hi.

Love Elder Franson

1. My cluttered desk :S.

2. Doodles in my Spanish grammar book.