How is everyone,
Friday was just a normal
day of contacting and visiting like the 3 or 4 people that we have as
investigators. Then lunch, then studies then the night was normal. We visited
this one lady we ran into the other day who is a Jehovah Witness. At first when
we contacted her it didn’t go that well but as the more we talked and longer we
did, we kind of grew on her and she said we could pass by another day. So we
passed by this night and found her in her house and we taught the Restoration
and she was like always going on and on that Jehovah is God not Jesus. And she
at one point at the end was like wow our churches and beliefs are almost
exactly the same except for this Joe Smith crazy thing. And we were just like
what our churches are nothing alike you don’t even belief in a Restoration. But
she liked the Book of Mormon and the whole Apostasy and everything leading up
to the restoration. she just had a hard time with the First Vision and Joseph
Smith that he saw Father and the Son. She said she would read the Book of Mormon
and we said we would come back another day. Also the whole time I kept on
looking over at the Son because he was on the computer playing World of
Warcraft and I was like whoa he is running a Druid Tank combo in this raid (Ask
Mike or Chris what that means) So I would watch him play when I would look over
every now and then. There is a missionary here from Brazil and he speaks like
perfect English and he learned how to speak and learned English from playing
video games mainly World of Warcraft.
Saturday we went closer
to the river and contacted to see what we could find over there. And we found
one lady that spoke English because her and her husband lived in South Africa
for 4 years. But she couldn’t talk much because she was baking a cake for her
sobrino. Also keep in mind all the people that live by the river are rich, have
huge river houses and pools and are kinda of old. Then we contacted another
house and it was a lady and she talked to us for a while and her husband was in
the shower. She is Catholic but doesn’t like to go to the church nor does she
like the Pope right now. She says she has talked with the Mormons before and
she knows a little about our church she says she has a book from us. Brings out
a book that is titled like Hope. And I look inside it and it was a book from
the Seventh Day Adventists. Then she tells us one of her sons when he was a
teen was really good friends with a Mormon boy and the father tried to force
the boy to go on a mission but the boy didn’t want to go, so one day he hung
himself. And I was surprised, she said that scared her son for a while. Then we
knocked one more house and a girl answered like her in 20s and had braces she
was very nice and said we could come back some other day.
Sunday was church;
nothing super exciting. I helped an old lady walk to her car. Normal church
came home, lunch, study, leave, contact. Went to one house looking for a lady
named Deborah; we get there and no one answers then a car pulls up and they
live there but it wasn’t her. it was her family and we talked with them and
they were super interesting and we taught restoration in the sidewalk and gave
them a Book of Mormon and they had tons of questions and wanted to know more
about us personally and also what we do as missionaries and that kind of stuff
and we just normal talked and it was super tranquil and then at the end they
wanted to take a picture I guess many people don’t see or know Mormon
missionaries. They were like super Italian too.
Monday we went back to
the river and went to the house of the lady that we talked with before for a
while and the husband answered and we talked with him and he was super
interested too and he said he would let us in but he doesn’t have the keys to
the gate to let us in but then right then the wife came home in the car and
unlocked the gate and we all went inside and they talked for like an hour about
the marines and navy and his time on the boats and all of that. and then they
showed us there 15 page scrapbook of their 4 cats and we look at pictures of
their cats for twenty minutes then we taught like half the restoration and it
was time to go. Then before we left they asked if we could leave them with that
special book we had and they asked us for a Book of Mormon even though we didn’t
even talk about it or say anything because we only taught the first half of the
restoration and then the lady told us the friend of the son who hung himself
was a Jehovah Witness not a Mormon. The dad was trying to get the Jehovah
Witness son to go out proselyting and the boy hung himself. I was so glad it wasn’t
it a Mormon.
Tuesday was zone
conference and President Cifuentes came and he talked and his wife and the
assistants and it was great and he taught many stuff how to teach better and
contact better and lots of things I can’t say or write because they are
important to me as a missionary so they would have like no use for normal
people like you. But at the end he took questions from all of us and people
asked all these profound great questions and he knew the answer for every one. Also the
assistants to President are staying in our house this week to work with the
zone leaders. So our house is a little crowded with 8 of us.
Wednesday we painted a
house for service and then lunch, then planning for the week, and then we
visited another girl but instead found her sister home and we talked with her
and she is interested and then the sister the girl we were looking for came
back and then we talked with both of them and they like the message of the restoration
and said if they have time maybe they will come to church in the future maybe,
not this Sunday but next.
Today Thursday woke up
played soccer at church, had pancakes for breakfast, and then went and took a
picnic to the river and played chess and took pictures and had ham and cheese
sandwiches and slept a little it was really peaceful. And now we left the river
and are emailing now.
It was a good week I
enjoyed it. Hope everyone is well and enjoying themselves as well. What is the
weather in the future looking like?
Love,
Elder Frampton
