2011 Mar 7

2011 Mar 7

¡Querida Familia!

This week was pretty good. I took Dad´s advice and became an expert of the rules. I know every since rule as long as the page numbers to a bunch of them. God will have no CHOICE but to bless us with all of this obedience that I am helping with. I am what they call here among the missionaries a "flecha." It has a bad connotation but when you compare it to Lehi`s dream, it is okay because Lehi didn`t do all those things. In an interview with the president, I asked him how I could improve and he was like "necesita desarrollar caracter" (you need to develop character). So here I am! :) My comp gets kind of frustrated because of it sometimes but I don´t really care. The week after this week (2 Wednesdays) we are going to have cambios and I am going to get a new comp and I am really excited for it. Great guy but I have to pray really hard for patience and love and charity when I am with him. It is exhausting sometimes. My ideal comp would be someone that I don´t have to pray really hard in order to love. :D

It looks like we are going to have to drop Luis because my comp and I talked about it and we think that if we were to baptize him that he would just become an inactive member instantly. So we are going to put him on the back burner and maybe he will be ready by the time that some other missionaries come. And when we were teaching Sonia and Karen the Plan of Salvation puzzle helped a lot. I don´t think that they would have been able to understand it if we hadn`t used it. And the Spanish seems to be doing better. I don´t know. in English, we smoosh words together all the time and it seems like they do it here too but whenever I am not paying attention and I do it, they don`t understand anything that I say. So we`ll see I guess. The members for sure can tell that I`m trying and everything and the members also love me. So that`s really cool.

But, yeah: 6 months tomorrow! How insane is that! I will be more than a quarter of the way done with my mission! Yesterday, we accidentally woke up 14 minutes late because I set my alarm but I forgot to turn it on. And so that whole day... I have never been more tired in this area. SIGNIFICA que God was blessing me so that I would be able to function well and everything before with only 8 hours but he stole it away when I wasn`t completing with my end of the bargain. Like 1 Nephi 3:7. And I was having a particularly hard time loving my comp this morning but then I was reading in the BoM and I found Moroni 1:3-4. It`s about how Moroni had such a pure love for the Lamanites and even though they were going around killing Nephites who still believed in Christ, he said in verse 4 that the only reason that he is continuing the plates was so that he would be able to benefit the posterity of the Lamanites. What a pure love! I don´t have that kind of love at all right now but I`m working on it. If he can love people who have killed all of anyone who he has ever known and loved, then I can love my comp and the little things that he does that annoy me.

But I have to get going. Thank you for all that you guys do for me! Have an amazing week! Christ lives and this Gospel is true!

Love,

Elder Froelich