Well hello everyone :)
Big news to start off--I was just transferred this morning to city to the south of Madrid named Toledo, famous for its history and oldness. I actually came here once before on a Pday, last year, but didn´t get to see a lot of the city. Now I´ll be able to really get to know it. My companion is Elder Armstrong, from Pocatello! Grew up on a farm as well :) I´m so excited, we´re going to be able to work super hard and I won´t hear any complaining or whimpering! haha It´s so true what they say, that those hard working Idaho farm boys turn out to be great missionaries. I still don´t know him very well nor the area--I´ve only been here for a couple hours, but we´re going to have such a great time. It's also very likely that he´s my last companion, so we´ll see. They´ve told me there is a great Argentine family here in the ward, and I don´t know if I´ve told you before but I love Argentines haha.
It´s technically a ward, but its quite small, 30-40 people coming each Sunday. Could be a branch. I´m so excited to work here and to put all on the field.
We finished really hard for the last week in Fuenlabrada, and saw lots and lots of blessings. We have this new investigator named Jose, from Peru, who was such a miracle! The story is this--is family lives in Peru, and have been members of the church for a little time now. And they continually have been teaching him and sharing the gospel with him as he lives here in Spain and is working a lot. They did such a great job, and were so patient with him as he looked for the church. Finally he got in contact with it and we´re starting to teach him! He´s said multiple times how great he feels in the chapel and the strong spirit that he´s noticed. He loves this church already by seeing the great changes that it has made in the lives of his wife and daughters. The wife actually called him and talked on speaker phone to us as well, just so excited that we´re here haha, and then said ´Elders, baptize him quick!!´ and jose looked up with a big grin as well agreeing, saying he wants to get batpized now. YES! Thank you Heavenly Father for that tender mercy.
It was sad to say good bye to all of the amazing friends I have now in Fuenlabrada, never easy, but thanks to technology we´ll be able to continue in contact. I´ve found so many amazing people here, and have felt their love and trust in me, which was something that i really wanted to have by the end.
I love you all so much, thanks for the emails like always, and for the love and prayers. I´ll be able to send more details and pictures next week :)
With all of my love,
Elder Franson
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