Wow,
life has been just awesome! Busy and I’m a little kulang(lacking) on sleep this last week
because of emergency transfers, taking zone leaders to the airport and just
catching up from transfer week so things have been a little bit crazy, but all
in all, life is great and I’m learning so much.
My
companion is awesome! He’s a really great loving guy. He’s pretty humble too and I enjoy how he
applies the gospel to everything. He’s
been helping me speak Tagalog a lot more because I’ve been slacking living with
Americans the last 2 transfers. He’s the best! I just feel sorry for him a lot of the time
because he had almost no training for his new position so he’s stressing about
it. I’ve been doing my best to help him
and it works out a lot of the time but we are just always stressed trying to
get all of our work done, especially since we’re on call by president. So we just do what we can. The president sends
us out to run some errands or we need to get a few things and it just takes up
so much time being in traffic. Speaking
of which, we had to do some emergency transfers yesterday. 5 companionships were affected. And guess what? They were all at different
ends of the mission from each other, so that took up our whole morning, and I
got lost on the way home so that took us a while too. Haha! Man,
life is crazy, but I’m so glad I have my supportive companion with me. He’s
always making stressful times happier times and we talk about a lot of things
so we are quite open with each other. It’s
fun.
Other
than that, we are just doing our normal running around trying to keep the
mission running; all of the behind the scenes stuff and it’s been good. Oh, I was able to teach a district meeting for
my district for the first time this transfer.
It was great! We were able to set
very specific goals to work on to help us focus on finding and bringing more
priesthood to the church. Our goals were:
1. 5 referrals asked for (not necessarily
received) each day per companionship.
2. Member visits about sharing the gospel
3. Focus on teaching potential priesthood
So with these goals, we
are hoping to get more finding done and get the wards more involved with
missionary work. I have high hopes for these goals because I have prayed about
them and feel they are what my district needs. Later, after the meeting, Sister
Shumway came up to me and said, “Thanks for these great specific goals. I have
been praying about how we’re going to tackle this area and your goals have been
an answer to my worries. It’s comforting to know that our district leader has
been seeking revelation for our areas.” One thing I’ve learned and have been
seeking to do is pray for confirmation regarding goals and solutions to certain
needs and hardships about our areas. It was something that helped guide us in
Mindoro and something I want to bring over to the City too. So I can’t wait to see how this affects the
missionaries in my district in the next few weeks.
Other than that, I am
officially one year old in the mission. Whoohoo!!! It’s bittersweet, but all I can do is just
keep serving with all my heart and mind and I’ll make it the best last year of
my mission. I can’t wait to see how this next adventure will unfold. I can’t wait to see how this will make me
grow, and I can’t wait to go out and help those people the Lord has prepared.
I hope you all are doing well. Until next time…
Doing you Proud,
Elder Froude ^_^
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| Playing with my camera |
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| Being resourceful and improvising |
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| With Sister Shumway, a sister I served with in Mindoro |
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| More missionaries |
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| My new companion, Elder Peralta (a different Peralta), left foreground, Elder Duenas (he used to be my DL in Mindoro, now an AP) sitting on the chair, Elder Stoddard (AP), and me. We're the office missionaries. |
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