the cotton-eyed joe

Hello everyone!

This week was SO great! So many great moments that have brought me to a higher level of happiness.

Okay so one of the greatest moments was the huge activity our ward put on on Saturday that celebrated each country and culture that our ward has here. Spain, Ecuador, Peru, the Domincan Republic, Bolivia, and the States. The Latin groups each prepared great dances with complete costumes to represent their culture, which was really cool to see. We as missionaries wanted to do something for our country, so a couple weeks ago I was thinking about country line dancing, something pretty typical right? Haha so we started planning and decided to do the Cotton-Eyed Joe dance for them, and it turned out so good! They all started getting excited and clapping and yelling, pretty awesome :) Jessica, our investigator, filmed it and put in on YouTube so you guys could all watch it. Okay actually I just called her and she said it´s not working right, so she´s going to send it to me. We´ll see, but some day you guys will be able to watch it haha. There were some really cool dances and things from the other countries. I just love those countries and people. 

Other great news, it´s been raining quite a bit here too, which is nice. I mean it does make contacting a bit more difficult when it´s pouring, but always makes for a great story. On the way home from the activity, we were walking home with some other missionaries with plates full of food and out of nowhere tons and tons of water just comes falling down! Haha we found shelter in a little bus stop and decided to wait there for a bus. I also found out my shoes have a hidden hole in the bottom, when I realized my toes were sloshing around in water haha. Pretty great. The Nordic skis have a little crack in the bottom I guess.

Jessica is doing really well. Now that she has work she only has 1 day off, and so she came to the activity this last week, and this week she´s going to come to church! She´s a great person, and even though we weren´t progressing a whole lot when we were meeting regularly, I think she will in the future and be baptized someday.

The work is doing really great, I´m doing great out here and loving life :) I hope you guys are all doing great! I´m praying for you every day.

Love, Elder Franson