2011 Nov 28

2011 Nov 28 PM

Hey Guys!

I had a good experience this week about the selection of my companion. On Tuesday we all went to the mission home and there were all of the new missionaries who were coming into the mission. Long story short, our companions were all chosen and my comps name is Elder Posas. We for sure were not fighting all of the time but it also wasn't initially easy for me to get along with him either. So it was kind of hard to get along with him and I didn't know what to do so I went into the bathroom and prayed and then I ended my prayer and just sat there for a second and then I remembered about Moroni 7:48 which talks about how to have love so I did what it says (I prayed with all of the will that i could muster) so that I could love my comp and it worked. Lessons learned-when you have love, patience comes naturally so focus on love and not patience. Also, I prayed to God with all of the energy of my heart like the verse says and God gave me that love for him. I love him a lot. And even though I feel that we are not completely compatible, I love him extremely a lot. SO all of the scriptures that god gives us are real. He doesn't just say stuff to sound good or fancy. The power and reality of the scriptures is real. My comp is really good though-I am learning a lot from and with him. He is the only member in his family and he doesn't really know his father or mother or siblings. He is a good guy though.

I really like this new ward that I am in right now too. We are in a place called San Francisco and usually it is a sister´s area but we got to go there. So we are there right now. I am really excited about it too. The members are extremely excited to do missionary work. I have never been in a ward where everyone loves the missionaries and wants to help them do missionary work so much. It is a different but extremely refreshing experience.

Also, there are some members of our ward who know Quiche and they were trying to teach me how to say a couple of phrases but it was extremely hard for me because they have a whole bunch of sounds that I have never made with my mouth before. and i got to thinking that that is probably what it feels like for a lot of Latinos to learn to speak English. There are so many sounds that they do not have in Spanish that they have to use in English. So that was a good perspective to get.

Also, lately, i have been getting some divine reprovement from god about my Spanish and about how i have to improve it lately but last night, we had a meeting with the mission leader and the bishop to talk about what we can do to help out the missionary work in this area and my comp was talking to the bishop and I was talking with the lider missional and he told me that I have really good Spanish and that just about everything from the accent to vocab and everything is very good. So that was a really good experience... to know that I am at least a couple steps above a gibbering gringo who doesn´t know anything about Spanish.

Nestor was able to go to the temple (he is the one in the red sweatshirt) and he is for sure going to get baptized in this change. But I am unfortunately not in that area anymore so I don´t know how he is...

Also, yesterday, we went to the sacrament meeting and they didn´t tell me that I was going to speak until, literally, 5 seconds before so I got up without anything specific prepared but I got up there and gave, I think, one of the better talks that I have given before. So that was a good experience.

Right now, we are in the dry, but freezing cold, season.

Also, with that family in the Viña, I didn´t find out while I was the zone leader there and now it is just about impossible to find out. But I will see what I can do.

Also, other things for the Christmas box: candy, chocolate,

Also, I was telling a member how much time I had left on my mission and I realized that soon I am going to have 9 months on the mission. That is crazy to think about because it is only one digit instead of the two that I am used to. Crazy.

Well, I´ve got to go

Love,

Elder Froelich