2011 Jan 10

2011 Jan 10

Dear family,

That´s so insane about all of the weather that you guys are having! Here, we think it´s really cold in the morning when it´s 40 degrees outside and it´s decent when it´s 70 degrees outside in the afternoon. So that´s crazy that you guys are having such crazy cold weather!

Canquixaja is going pretty well. We found 7 new investigators and that´s really good for that area. We are trying to find the less actives (because we heard that there are a ton) but we've only found one family so far. We still don´t have any attending church yet of the less actives or investigators but they all said that they will come next week so that is really awesome. And the way that we are doing references right now, we are going to pick up the references sometime this week. So that is awesome. And we got to speak in sacrament meeting yesterday and we talked about missionary work. I prepared a talk and I only used like a quarter of it! So that´s really awesome because that means that I can use it as an accordion talk that I can talk on for as long as I need to. but it was a really great talk. I was on a gift of tongues role, speaking a tiny bit better than I usually would be able to.

And I learned how to say the woman is small (niich´ lee ixoq) and the house is big (nim lee ja) and the tree is white or clear (saq lee chee´) and some other stuff. I´m trying to master plural but it´s a lot harder than singular. This one lady who´s family we taught the getting references lesson to didn´t speak hardly any Spanish but in Quiche at the end of the lesson, I told her "thank you very much. Take care of yourself" and she had the biggest smile ever and she said something to me that I didn't understand in Quiche. So sweet. We still don't know what they are really saying in church because the whole thing is in Quiche but Quiche doesn't have a lot of the church vocabulary that we use in church so they sub a lot of Spanish words into it. So we kind of know, in general, what is going on at church.

The Chapel should be finished in this upcoming week and it will be dedicated the week after that to be used as a church. It is really nice looking inside. And when they finish it they are planning on having an open house for everyone and inviting the president of the mission and some other important people. They are building the house as a separate building and they are probably going to finish it in 3 weeks after they are done with the iglesia and it´s going to be kind of attached to the church but kind of far away.

And I was talking with Elder Ronfelt the other day and he has definitely not had a perfect life. And his mom told him that it is hard for her to go to church because she doesn't feel like anyone notices her, and her son (E. Ronfeldts younger brother) is having some problems which makes it even harder. So just always remember that fellowshipping is important because you never know what someone else is having to go through.

And thank you guys for the prayers. Every one helps.

Love,

Elder Froelich

And I´m trying to get letters written and off but it´s really hard to find some place to send it and it´s usually way out of the way. So sorry for not writing back if you have written me a letter... It´ll get done.