if you run, run for real

Family and Friends :)

I´m super excited right now, I´ve been on a music kick lately and anytime I hear a stringed instrument playing I get all happy.

On Tuesday we had that leadership council thing and went to President´s house. It was very inspirational, at one point we were talking about giving our all and working as hard as we can and President started to share some video clips to us. The first one was the famous race of the horse Secretariat (!!!) (the real clip) I almost cried out of emotion and excitment! Wow, that was so powerful. The little bit of music behind it just added to the effect even more. I love that story so much. Then after that video, we watched the clip of Roger Banister as he broke the 4 minute mile barrier that seemed impossible to everyone. I was reminded that nothing is impossible in this work, nor in this life, and that if we truly have the faith necessary and the vision to see it happen, then it will. Leaving that meeting, I made personal goals and promises with myself to give it everything, To leave nothing left. Quoting one sister missionary who spoke, she said ¨If I´m in a race and I´m going to run, I´m going to run for real.¨ I hope to be able to speed up my pace and run for real, so that when I finish, I won´t feel regret knowing that I could have given more.

This last week was both short and long ha, kind of weird. We found and taught some really cool people though. We´ve been teaching and finding a ton of Spanish people lately and it´s really cool. They seem to have pretty good potential, we talked to this one young couple with a cute baby girl, Spaniards, a couple days ago. We should be meeting with them soon hopefully.

Hey if you could, I want you to pass on a true thank you to Megan Torman for her classes that she gave to me and the other youth at church. I didn´t truly realize at the time how great of a teacher she is and how that also played a part in my preparation for this mission. There are so many things that helps prepare one for a mission, and I think up towards the top of the list are classes and teachers like her, and also home teaching which helped me incredibly. I don´t think I realized at the time how similar it is to missionary work. It´s the same thing! Calling and scheduling apts., teaching, visiting, service. I´m so grateful for you Dad, motivating me to go with you to help those families, and I´m so grateful for those families we taught--the Burnhams, the Kellers, Roger, Carol and Dwight Black, the Gilmans, and also being able to help Elsie Rowland with the sacrament (tell them all I say hi please). 

I´ve been learning a lot, and really been motivated with certain things lately. I´m trying to get a lot better at setting and fufilling the goals I set for myself personally. And I hope you all can do the same for this year.

I love you all so much! Have a really good week, filled with opportunities to serve and to help others.
Elder Franson