2011 July 4

2011 July 4

Hey Guys!

This week was good though. Sometimes it makes it hard because Elder Hernandez can´t walk all that much because of a torn ligament in his knee and since the area is, really, just a bunch of mountains, it makes it kind of hard sometimes. But it´s all been good. I have made it my goal to love every one of my companions as much as I loved Elder Cuellar. So far, so good. Poco a poco.

One day in estudio personal this week, I analyzed my setting apart blessing that you scribed when the stake president was giving it to me versus my patriarchal blessing and the two things are remarkably similar! And so I thought that that was really great. A scripture that I found after I found out that Cuellar had changes was in D&C 9:5-6 and I liked that a lot. And one day while Elder Hernandez was in the shower, I was randomly singing "Child´s prayer" and I felt the spirit suuper strong because I didn´t really feel like God was responding to my prayers but he was. He just said no.

Something cool that happened this week is that someone finally called us for a pamphlet that we handed out! In the almost ten months that I have on my mission, I have never had anyone who has called us in response to the folletos that we have given them even though every single one of our folletos have our number on the back. But that all changed on Saturday... Her name was Fernanda and she called us because of the number that she found on the back of the folleto. The funny thing is that we called her back (because we didn´t recognize the number) and she said that she hadn´t even read the folleto. So I asked her if she wanted to come to church on Sunday and I even called to remind her on Sunday morning but she didn´t want anything. She just wanted to flirt with me. So that kind of stinks but it´s all good. We are never going to talk with her again or even go near her house but poco a poco. Who knows?! Maybe the next person who calls us because of a folleto that we have given them will actually want to know more about Jesus Christ. J

And yesterday was pretty good too. I felt pretty ridic because I didn´t really feel like I had fulfilled my purpose as a missionary because we had just walked all the way to a member´s house super far away and then my comp´s knee started acting up so we had to walk more slowly and after dark, if you don´t have appointments then you basically can´t do anything because contacting does not work at night-time so we just went to this one less active´s house that has recently been coming to church (Elder Cuellar and I helped to reactivate her) and we were just talking and at the end of the night, her mom, who is also a menos activo, asked us for a blessing. And the really great part was that she asked me to give her the blessing part. That is awesome because, even though my Spanish is pretty good at this point (I get complimented on it pretty frequently ) and I make sure that I comport myself in a good, competent, friendly manner in front of everyone, I never get to give the blessing part because they want a native to do it for them. But she was emphatic that I give it to her. So I just gave a blessing according to what the spirit whispered to me and when I finished she was in tears and my comp and I could feel the spirit and she was so grateful that I was just dying from how strong the spirit was right then. It was a great experience. As we were walking back to our own house, I said to my companion "I love her and I don´t even know her!" and he was like, "yeah, me too."

Elder Hernandez is a reasonably obedient elder it is just that it is sometimes hard for him to work because of his knee. And I have to work a little bit harder to get along with him but he really is a good guy.

This area has been doing good though. God has been blessing us for working as hard as we can despite the challenges that we may have. Right now, we have a baptismal date that we are trying to set for the 16th but if not the 16th for the 30th with someone named Maynor! And we are going to go on splits with members so that I can visit our other date that was for the 9th who we couldn´t visit with Elder Hernandez because of he lives way, way, way up in a hill that, translated into English would be big hill (Cerro Grande) and he changed phone numbers. So poco a poco.

But thank you for your prayers and for fasting for me! Every prayer helps a lot! Have a great week and thanks for the suggestions everyone and read the scriptures!

Love,

Elder Froelich