Dear Mom, Dad, Lauren, and Ian,
First I'll write about the progress in the area, and then
tell you about the awesome analogy about missionary work I heard in the Zone
Conference this past week!
So the progress in the area is doing great! We're finding
a lot of really awesome people. One of them is a family of a single mother
named Vicky, who has a baptismal date for the 10th. We're also working on a
baptismal date that same day for her two children (she actually has four but
two aren't old enough to be baptized yet) to be baptized, but neither have been
in the same room yet. We'd like to ask them together. I also realized I haven't
told much about what the church is like here. :P I live in a ward now. It’s a
pretty good size ward! I haven't gotten to know a lot of the members yet
because a lot of them live in the other half of the area, where the other
companionship works. We'll work on that as well! I don't eat with members as
much as I did my last area, mostly because they live outside our area. Haha!
But actually, the neighbors that live beneath us feed us quite a bit. They're
so nice to us! Two of the neighbor's kids are being taught by the other
missionaries and have agreed to be baptized as well! The work here is a lot
better than it has been before, I hear.
This past week we had Zone Conference where the mission
president, Presidente Hernandez ,showed us a video of a long analogy about
missionary work called "Who Moved My Cheese?” (it’s a book as well) In Spanish,
Quien se Movio mi Queso? It's about
two mice and two little people that are in a huge maze looking for cheese. Both
groups look hard for the cheese using two methods that work. They both find the
cheese and are happy. The two rats repeat what they do without fail, while the
two people start to become lazy and complacent, because they're sure that the
cheese will be there. After a while, they eat up all the cheese. When the two
mice return, it doesn't surprise them that all the cheese is gone and go
looking again somewhere else. The two people return and are shocked that all
the cheese is gone, and are preoccupied with their cheese being gone that they
don't go looking for more.
The analogy is much longer than this, but the main thing
I learned from this is to never become complacent. Complacency is laziness and
missionaries shouldn't be lazy. Me personally, I'm always eager to find and
find. I actually kinda felt that way when I blanked the area here. I had to
change some of my working methods to find people again, and I found them! I'm
also making sure not to become complacent either.
So I need to tell you about a man my comp and I met named
Franklin. He's in Hios, mid thirty's and is paralyzed from half his body and
down. 6 years ago he was shot in the chest and the bullet hit is spinal column.
Back then it would have been fixable, but he didn't have enough money. Also,
because he can't get the right medicine (now yes because his brother came to
live with him) a lot of his lower body had rotted away. He told us very quickly
that he wants to be baptized. I think that the Lord is completely capable of
letting that happen. But I've never seen anyone like him before, we'll need a
miracle. I know we have the authority to do that and all, but it doesn't feel
like the time is right yet. We already gave him a blessing and stuff. I didn't
promise him complete healing, I didn't feel like I should say it. But I did
tell him that he would have the opportunity to bless the lives of those around
him, and that he would have the opportunity to attend church and be baptized.
Everything's all good over here! Working like always. But
I think I might have lost my camera... :P I left it at the other house on
accident, but my old comp says he hasn't found it yet. Man! DX
Well, I believe that will be all for this week. Mother's
day is coming up soon! I can't wait for that! :D I'll write you next week! Love
you! I'm praying for you!
-Elder Froude
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