Hello,
family!
This
week was pretty good. Made some cookies for a member’s birthday and dropped
them outside their door. At nice apartment buildings there are locked keypad
doors to get into the apartment. Since we wanted to leave the cookies secretly
we asked the security guy to open the door....he said go to the door and call
him on the intercom. We did that and waited, and waited for about 2 minutes...we
were watching the door for it to open but we never saw it move. (It was a
sliding door) so the security guy probably saw us and came over and told us how
to call him on the intercom (I don't know why) but then he was like "the
door is already open." Well little did we realize that the door was open
already when we got there. We got distracted by the fact that we were waiting
for movement rather than looking to see the position of the door, which was
open...We felt really dumb. Anyhow the member liked our cookies!
We
met the one less active again at his English academy. I was on exchanges with
another elder and we met with Brother Kim. We had a really good lesson with
him. The spirit was super strong as we taught to his needs rather than a lesson.
He has lots of questions and challenges to overcome in his life right now.
Although he has been less active for 20 years, he surprisingly remembered much
of the doctrine! We were just reminding him and as he talked to us I think the
spirit helped him solve a lot of his questions and helped him know what is
right. We really didn't do much teaching, just listening and giving short words
of truth and encouragement. He was unable to come to church this week for
general conference sadly but he said that he will come next week.
As
we met another less active that just has lots of concerns and doesn't really
want to come to church I really didn't know what to say. I didn't know how to
react and I was really trying to listen to the spirit for words to say but
nothing came. I was confused because I really was expecting to receive words of
comfort and help to say to her. What I felt though was just God's love for her.
Just an overwhelming sense of peace that God still loves her no matter what the
circumstances. I let her know what I was feeling and the surety that I knew it
came from God. We prayed and left.
The
investigator that came to church last week wouldn't answer our calls and only answered some of our texts. We couldn't meet
him. He played baseball with a member this past week which was good but the
member told us that the investigator said he was going to Japan....well the investigator
texted us during church and said he was in Hiroshima , Japan for business...a
little odd and sudden. Hopefully everything works out.
English
class on Saturday was great. We had our usuals and because of conference at the
church 2 sisters and one young man came to English class! It was great. They
had a great time and said they would come again. It was really a much more fun
class with them there.
Conference
was good. Learned a lot about the importance scripture study and prayer plays
in every aspect of our life. Surprised that President Monson didn't speak as much
as he usually does. He must be pretty weak and tired.
Well
Hope everyone has a good week!
Love,
Elder
Frampton
