2011 Aug 29

2011 Aug 29 PM

Hey!

That is crazy that my farewell talk was only a year ago! Something else that is crazy to think about for me is that I only have the amount of time that I gave my farewell talk left on my mission (if that made sense). I am basically DEAD! That scares me because I still have a lot of other things that I want to accomplish on my mission before I "die" and I only have a little bit of time to do it in.

I said that Rolando and his family would have to wait until the next transfers to be baptized is that he didn´t go to church last week and you have to assist church in order to be baptized. He unfortunately was not able to come to church yesterday either. So we will see what we can do about him.

And yeah! It is already time for transfers! With the other president, he didn´t give us changes until the night before at 1 in the morning but with President Bautista, we found out yesterday. So I am excited about that new policy. But there are going to be changes on Tuesday (tomorrow). Elder Bennion is getting changes but I am going to be staying as a zone leader here in Brasilia. He is going to a place called San Antonio Huista which was an area that was closed the change right before we got into the field. And he is going to go open it up and he is way excited about it. Something that is soo exciting is that we are going to have 3 new Elders (greenies) in the zone! It has always kind of been my dream to train someone so the fact that there are going to be so many of them in my zone really, really makes me excited. All of the 3 zones in Xela combined only got 3 greenies, and my Zone got 3 greenies. I am SO EXCITED! So there´s that.

Also, I still have to talk to President Bautista about coming home early. And to see what we can do about you guys coming up to pick me up. I´ll ask and then let you guys know but keep on asking me about it so that I don´t forget. I am not really worried about the adjustment from missionary to student at all. If I have 4 days to get ready to go back to BYU, then that would be okay, I guess. I just know that I want to cut out as little of my mission as possible. I still have a lot of stuff to do and improve before I am ready to come home!

Something that I liked about this last week is that I prayed on Saturday for God to help me stay alert during sacrament meeting so that I could have a really spiritually uplifting experience. The next day, Some people came to church and Elder Bennion and I introduced ourselves to them and sat by them and there is no way that I am going to be dozing off when I am sitting next to some investigators so I ended up being extremely awake and it was a very spiritually uplifting experience for me. Pretty cool how God answers prayers sometimes, huh?

Well, I have to go. Have a great week! I love you guys

Love, Elder Froelich