2011 Nov 21

2011 Nov 21 PM

I sent you guys a bunch of pictures today. You are welcome and thank you guys for the camera that you guys gave me. I love it.

STORIES: First of all, we went to the temple on Wednesday. So beautiful and I loved it a lot and it was a great experience for me and for the investigators that were able to come. But that is not the story. My friend (who are in these pictures that I am sending you in this email) is serving in the same ward as me (there are two companionship's in the ward) and at the very end right before we had to get on the buses to go to Huehue again, he was like, "Elder Froelich I want to go to Hill Cumorah” (a small church book store on the road from where the buses parked to the temple). Long story short, I didn't want to and it took about 10 minutes to convince me to do it but his persistence finally paid off, I gave in and we went there. As we got there, there is a restaurant that is right next to it, and a random guy came up to me and asked me if I knew somebody named Matthew Froelich who lives in Spanish Fork Utah and I was like "YEAH! He is like my.... 2nd cousin (what is he to me? I don´t know). And then he told me that he is the 2nd counselor in the temple presidency and that he and Matt had served together in some bishopric or presidency. And then we talked about how good of a guy Matt is and everything and then he had to go to some meeting, I think so we took a quick picture (226) and went our separate ways. But it was so crazy. So many things had to go exactly right for this story to have worked out. First of all, I had to know Matt, who is kind of a distant relative. Second, I had to listen to Elder Franco. 3rd, he had to be in that restaurant and that exact time. 4th, he had to notice my plaque among the, at least, 50 other missionaries who were there at the temple. And then the chances that my ward happened to be scheduled for the 16th of Nov and a whole lot of other things that I am not even noticing! What is crazy, as well, is that it all would have been for absolutely nothing if I hadn't listened to Elder Franco and gone down to the store to look at the backpacks and ties that he wanted to see.

Let´s just think about all of the other crazy stuff that happened in this story and of all the crazy other opportunities that God is throwing into our lives and a lot of times we get promptings from other people that we ignore, but we have to be really attuned to the spirit to be able to take advantage of these opportunities. CRAZY!

Here is another cool story: In the MTC in the states, for some reason (obviously God) I had a huge problem to be able to say the word "ciruela" which means plum in Spanish. I spent 30 minutes seriously just on that word saying it over and over again to be able to say it. So, naturally, it stayed in my brain really well. On Friday there was a conference for all of the elders who are going to train and President was talking and he didn't know how to say "plum" and he was asking everyone-the assistants, the Latinos and nobody knew. Except for me. So I said it and looked pretty smart for it. The same thing happened a little while ago for DNA (he wanted the non-abbreviated version) and I said it. I am so BLESSED.

Also, Nestor is pilas and is going to be baptized soon

I´m excited to train, really excited!

God loves me and is showing me really well with amazing blessings. I just have to notice.

And there is more that I wanted to say but the time just finished.

I love you guys!

Elder Froelich