This week.... what happened. It went by so quickly honestly.
It´s definitely cooling off here, just so bitter. Yesterday we didn´t have time to drop our suit jackets off and get our coats, so we just went throughout the rest of the afternoon and night with our suit jackets and scarves and it was so painful. I mean, I grew up in Idaho winters, you´d think I´d be able to endure a little bit of cold, but I think my body is getting used to warmer weather. I bought nice little gloves though for super cheap which will help a ton.
On Saturday we ended up attending a big activity in Mosoles--a neighboring town--for a big open house thing. Our zone went there and divided up with members, doing splits, to contact a ton of people and invite everyone to the chapel. Honestly, we talked to literally everyone that we passed for two and a half hours. I was exhausted by the end but so motivated and excited to continue working. We returned to our town and I tried to bring that same excitement back. We´ve seen lots of good things, and hopefully we´ll be able to continue with that.
We walked into a rec center the other day to figure out if we could go there to play some tennis or something one pday, and as soon as I walked in the door I smelled the chlorine from the pool and I about started crying--I miss swimming! Haha it brought back a ton of memories from swim team.
We taught a girl from Egypt this week!! Super cool, I mean she looked very similar to those people from Morocco, but it´s really cool to say I taught someone from Egypt. She´s Muslim, but listened to us and is really interested in our English classes as well. You never know what can happen! Sambou from last area--Muslim from Mali--is doing really well I´ve heard and has been going to church! Pray for these people please, they need lots of help.
This Sunday was the primary program for the branch and it was so cute, they have a decent number of kids, and did very well. One little boy started sleeping with his head put back on the chair, mouth open and everything, and when they tapped him on the shoulder for his turn to get up and say his little line, he rolled his head forward and just had the most depressed/discouraged face, I imagine it´s very similar to the face Porter makes sometimes, for example, Leah woke him up and said he had 30 minutes to get ready for church and he just got so stressed haha. The members ended up escorting the poor boy down off the stand to his mom, he looked pretty tired haha. I love primary programs.
One really cool thing we had happen was 2 less actives that we´ve been visiting came to church! I was just so happy when I saw them walk through the door. One of them, Mike, doesn´t speak Spanish really well, and so we had to translate for him. He just moved here as well from a couple different countries that he´s lived in, including Austria (!). He´s got a nice quad scripture set, little English hymn book, and some other things. It was so weird to look through that hymn book, so many hymns that I´ve forgotten about! The Spanish one only has 209 songs.
Well I can´t think of much else to write about, sorry it wasn´t the most eventful/funny week.
I hope you all have a great week continue working on the little things that will help strength and fortify your testimonies. I love you all so much, thanks for your support and love for me, I appreciate and rely on it so much.
Love Elder Franson
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