Oi Familia!
I guess no one wanted some daily communcation cuz I didn't get any emails. That's okay though. I still love you guys!
Well things are going pretty good here! The weather warmed up a bit so I'm not in any danger of hypothermia right now. But they tell me it starts snowing by the beginning of november... It's going to be fun that's fo shizzle! Luckily I have the fire of missionary work burning within me.
So, story time. We taught a lesson in the TRC this past week. There people from off the street, usually byu students, come in and get taught by the missionaries. They don't act like investigators or anything, it's just an opportunity for us to teach real people. Well in our second 20 minute teaching session, we were teaching a guy that just got home from his mission in Portugal about a year ago. (BTW we teach in Portugues). The lesson was going fine and it was on the Plan of Salvation. Then Elder Doyel felt inspired to have him read in the BoM that scripture about there being opposition in all things and the guy started to cry. The Spirit entered the room so quickly and completely. We knew as we continued to teach that we were truly teaching to this guy's needs. He may have already known all about what our lesson was on and he probably didn't understand much of our broken Portugues, but he needed to hear the scripture and he needed to hear our testimonies and feel our spirits. I know we helped that man because we were able to truly teach by the Spirit.
Another story, Elder Fogleman and I are quickly becoming best friends. I'm so glad he's here with me. We have a blast together and we're always laughing or testifying. A few nights ago our district was all hanging out in our room and Elder Doyel started talking about how he could hypnotize people and make them go to sleep. Elder Fogleman volunteered to help him demonstrate. After several minutes of Elder Doyel helping Elder Fogleman to relax and get into the "trance" Elder Doyel violently yanked on Elder Fogleman's arm and yelled, "Sleep!" Elder Fogleman collapsed onto Elder Doyel (who is not a big guy and Elder Fogleman is) and we all sat or stood in absolute astonishment and disbelief. It had WORKED. Elder Doyel struggled to keep Elder Fogleman up and he tried to put him onto a bed. We were all still in shock and awe. Elder Doyel asked me to help me put Elder Fogleman on the bed and when I did I grabbed his feet. Elder Fogleman instantly bust up laughing. He had faked the WHOLE THING. We were all trying to catch our breath for the next ten minute because of how incredibly hard we were all laughing. Elder Fogleman fooled us all, even Elder Doyel.
Last story, Saturday night we were in a weekly workshop learning about applying doctrine in our lessons. These workshops are all in english. We got to a point where we broke up into doubles and were supposed to teach a lesson. I was teaching a very large Somoan. I was teaching first. As the lesson started the words, Ola, Como Vais? Came to my mind. Then I realized I didn't need to speak in Portugues. Then I saw this huge guy staring at me and I just couldn't think. The only words that came to my mind were in Portugues! I couldn't even testify in English! Eu seu que....er Eu know que Cristo... er Ahhhhhhh there's a huge Somoan who wants to kill me! It was a hilarious experience.
Well I love you all! Sorry I couldn't write more!
Thank you for the packages! WHY DO I NEED A BOX FULL OF CLOTHES THOUGH?!?!?!
Talk to you soon!
~Elder Frazer
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