You guys are the greatest support group every, thanks for everything you do :)
We had an amazing week, Andrea got baptized on Saturday and it was so beautiful. I think she was a bit stressed/overwhelmed at the beginning because everyone was giving her orders to go change, take pictures, Do her hair. It would have stressed me out too haha. It reminded me a bit of someone I know...I won´t say the name. :D haha. No but it was really cool to see her baptized and the happiness and peace on her face. She proved her family wrong, they were all saying to the missionaries for a while that Andrea would never choose to get baptized, that she wasn´t really like that. But here we are, and she´s a member now. She´s so awesome, and you all might be able to meet them when we call on Christmassss! We want the branch start a zumba class thing at the church and call her as the instructor...and see if we could get permission to attend haha. We´ll see, it may not actually happen but sounds like a ton of fun.
We are teaching a new girl named Raquel, from the Dominican Republic and has so much potential. Walking out of a lesson I was so speechless and amazed. In the middle of the lesson she asked what the process was like to be baptized, and later after inviting her to be baptized she said she would. I´m really excited. I honestly feel like the Lord is just putting so many great and wonderful people in our path. The ratio of the people we actually teach out of the total number of references that we receive I don´t think has been quite as high as it is now here in Fuenlabrada. There is tons of potential here in this area. Elder Schwenke and I are working super hard.
We´ve been teaching quite of few Spaniards lately, which is super cool. It´s never been the majority but I love talking to them and teaching them. They are very very different than any other nationality here. I would say that if you stopped a Spaniard who was around my age, more or less, 90% of the time they would be atheist. The older generation would be 90% Catholic, but it has kind of flipped flopped here in Spain. Weird how that worked. But I´ve learned a ton as I talk with more of those people who don´t believe in God and figure out how I can help them, how to let them see that God really does exist. Sometimes it stumps me, but I know it´s not impossible to teach someone with that background. Lots of times though they just have a completely closed heart and mind to things like that, I´m sure their parents tried to push them in the Catholic direction for a time and they changed directions. They need a humbling experience...like a storm or something...haha just kidding, that´s rude of me. But it´s for a good cause in the bigger picture. Like in 3 Nephi, I would like the Lord to send a famine or something, to help them turn their hearts unto the Lord again. I want these people to have a chance to accept this great gift that the Lord is freely presenting to them.
We stopped this one girl in the street, I thought she was around 21 or 22, but as we started talking to her we found out SHE IS 14!! I felt a bit weird haha, she doesn´t believe in God, but told us about her sister who actually does, who is a bit older, and we´re going to teach her. Funny/weird experience.
All in all, great week. I´m loving this mission--each day I love it a bit more. Also, we get to skype in like a week, which is BLOWING MY MIND. I´m so excited, it´s going to be awesome.
I haven´t heard much about the snowflake making, hopefully you´re keeping up the tradition. I´ve been teaching some members how to do it, won´t be too long before their housed are covered with them as well.
I love you all dearly, and am so thankful for the things you write me, the support and love you give me. I couldn´t do this without that. Tell everyone in Soda I say hi, and that I miss you all.
Have a great week!
Love Elder Franson
Andrea's baptism.
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