2011 May 16

2011 May 16 PM

Hey!

We didn't really know why P-Day got changed. It just kind of did. But for now on, P day will be on Monday usually unless they change it again. They just switched the phones around in the whole mission and set fines for calling people that you are not supposed to call because I guess that there were some missionaries breaking rules.

This week has been pretty good. Elder Barboza had a heart condition before he came on his mission and lately it has been acting up and he gets tired really easily so we have had to slow down a little bit which is kind of difficult for me because I just want to go out and work but my comp's heart is bad so we can't really work as hard. So I sometimes feel like it's his fault that we can't work hard but, really, it is out of his hands. But he has called the mission nurses and they are helping him out. So hopefully everything works out. I sometimes forget what a blessing it is to have perfect health almost all of the time. The worst thing that I have every had was a nasty cold or a sick stomach but to actually have an organ in my body that doesn't work that way that it is supposed to would be frustrating. So, mom and dad, thank you for giving me good genes. :)

Esperanza and her daughter Esperanza didn't get baptized on Saturday because they just got cold feet and didn't feel ready even though they know that everything is true. So that was a little bit frustrating because at that point, it is completely out of my hands and I can't do anything more than support them and teach them. And the papers of Cruz are proving to be very difficult but we'll see how that works out. Thank you for praying for her. In Mosiah 27:14 it says that god answers our prayers in accordance with the faith that we have. So if we do not pray with faith, we will not receive anything. So, thank you again, Mom. Probably all of the baptisms that I have had have been because you have been praying for me. :)

And I was going to play violin for the ward conference yesterday to accompany the youth but then the person who was loaning me the violin told me that the bishops daughter of the ward that is right next to ours plays viola and so she asked this other person and she let me use her viola. Shoot. I have never seen such a beautiful instrument since I have come on my mission. You can imagine how I sounded after 9 months of not practicing and I thought it was a train wreck but the spirit helped me out a lot and maybe helped out the sound waves as they were coming out of the viola but just about everyone told me that I did an amazing job and that they souls were filled with it and everything so that was really nice because a lot of people don't lie to make you feel better so it was pretty sincere. :) I'm excited to get good at the piano too because you don’t have to be that good to be good here and I can play Creo in Cristo pretty well right now.

And that is way awesome that Janeen got her senior fotos taken. I showed that school picture of her that you guys sent me for Christmas to Elder Barboza and he's in love her now. For sure send me pictures. And That Sarah is dominating violin and is going to be taking lessons later is awesome as well. Make her practice! She will hate you now but will love you for it later. And that you guys are beautifying the yard with terraces and trees and everything will make it so that I won't even recognize the place when I come home in a year!

Right now (and yesterday because the problems with Elder Barboza's heart peaked last night so we were just chilling in the house all day) I am reading Jesus the Christ and, in a nutshell, Jesus Christ lives and we would not be able to do anything without him. We would have been sent to the earth only to die, be damned, and drowned in our own sins if it hadn't been for him. And Talmage is such a smart person. I don't even know how someone can be so smart. And I have to get going. Have an amazing week and read the Book of Mormon (which will cause you to have a good week. I don't have time to go into it but basically 3 Nephi 13:32-33.

Love,

Elder Froelich