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Hey!

Sorry about last week!  I ran out of time.  This week I have prioritized my emailing and I'll be emailing this one first!

Hey!  We are going to be going to an activity at 12:15 so we need to leave here pretty quick.

I just want to let you all know that I'm still alive and that I'm sorry my emails have been pretty weak sauce lately.

I really only have a little time to write and so I won't have a lot of time to get my thoughts completely out and how I want them, but here's my best on the update on two of our investigators.

Alejandro Campos Perez will be baptized this Saturday! We are super excited to complete that family! It's been really cool to help them shift their focus from just completing their family through membership and putting their sights on the temple so they can be sealed as a family for all eternity. It's going to be such a sweet day for them!

We've been working with another awesome family also! Mayeli is the mom and she has 3 kids of baptism age. Like usual dad is not as excited to learn. He's ok with us teaching his family though! We are seeing a lot of potential there and we love them a bunch! They came to an activity the other day, mingled with members, and said they loved it! They unfortunately were not able to make it to church so we're going to teach them the Sabbath Day next....

That's kind of the update on our area!  I'm still loving my mission more than life!  It's awesome!

Love you all!

Elder Frame

PS  Merry Christmas.

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I can't send what I was planning on!  I love you all a bunch though!  I'm sorry!  It's been a crazy week with going to the temple, meetings and everything! It's been great though!  I love you all!

CHRISTMAS!

Full of Memories

Well, to start off, we had a great week in Abancay! And we are now in Cusco, traveled this morning and loving every bit of it! The visits have already started with our sweet hermanas. We will be returning this Friday and my poor Hermana Solar is so dizzy and not loving that we travel so much but…. We will live.

This week I have had one of the best weeks in the mission. My companion knows how to get stuff done and we both have the ganas.. the whats that called… well we just want to go and work. The branch we are in is strong… 140 to 160 members attend but the problem is priesthood. If they payed their tithing and there were more priesthood members we would be Gucci! But they give us references left and right! It is amazing to be a part of the work here.  We are sad to have to leave so often but know there is a purpose. This week we have 2 great progressing investigators and we have found so many more potentials. I have felt the spirit so strong this week during the lessons and I know it is because I am focusing on purifying myself. It is a hard thing to do! My companion and I are getting rid of all the slang words we say… or jergas as they say in Spanish. And if I say one I have to do a push up. Oh man… I have cut back but it is still SO HARD! Mom, remember when I had to wash floor boards because I couldn’t get over saying dang it or stupid or freaking…. Yeah. Still working on it. But I know the small things I change make the biggest difference. I can feel the spirit more and the people we are teaching feel it as well. And this is what I call success. But no, it is not easy.

This week we also had an emergency trip to Andahaylas to help some of the hermanas there. There is a new Hermana that has been having a rough time adjust to the mission. She is doing so wel,l but satan is working super hard! On top of trying to adjust to the new food, mission schedule, new country and all we found out she has 4 types of parasites! OH THE POOR THING! We were able to go and just give a bit of comfort and take her to the medic…. During our travel, which btw is not the most pleasant travel… I was so selfish. I was worried about my sector, how sick I was on the trip, and just super bugged… Don’t know what was up. But then I said a prayer. I told God… I know there is a reason we are going. This Hermana needed our help. And as we were able to go I just felt like we needed to go to the medic. We did and found out that she had parasites. She was not opening up to me at all before and  I could not figure it out because I had no clue. But GOING there and being present she opened up and it was all taken care of. Being able to testify to her that the mission is totally worth it, and that she will make it through helped me just understand so much better that there is a reason for everything.

This week I have been able to talk with my companion a LOT about my last sector in Quillabamba. She took my place just when I went to Abancay. Oh the miracles. In the photos you will see baptisms, service, and the members doing all they can to help my converts. Oh it just makes me tear up thinking about it. I was able to be a part of all of their lives, and to hear their progress just makes me so happy. The abuelitos are alive and well! The ward went and did a service project for them and cleaned out their house from bottom to top! Oh, how I miss them. The blessings. I would have never imagined… the small things become those great things. I love being a part of this church, and more a missionary here in Peru.

Well, I love you all and I hope you are all doing well. Until next week….

Hermana Frame

Well, we traveled.... and took a picture of the car that took us back to abancay!

 It says. I go with god, and if I don’t come back I will be with Him. Haha!

 Hopefully not! I politely asked the driver to drive slower than normal.

 But seriously the drivers DO NOT drive safe. Just a fact.

And us taking pics of us fake sleeping. 

Yeah we are like 4 year olds haha!

 We had a good laugh though because I look like an idiot!

We went to Mirador! It is where you look over Abancay and it was super pretty and I love my zone! 

Loving the pushups. NOT! But it is the perfect punishment.... because I hate it so much. Haha!

It's the Hap-Happiest Season of All!

Hello once again!

I just love this time of the year!  Christmas stuff going up all over the place!!  This is the time of the year where more hearts are softening, more minds are opening, and more eyes are seeing the importance of Christ in our lives!  I've really felt the Christmas spirit settle in here!  I'm super excited for what that has to bring to us and to our investigators!

As for this week, we had some great training from our Assistants Elder Allred and Elder Mo'o.  They gave a training at Mission Leadership Conference on Exact Obedience.  Obedience is stressed so much out here in the mission.  Coming to realize why was a pivotal moment in my mission and putting exact obedience into action has changed my life.  We are here to prove our loyalties.  Where do your loyalties lie?  Yourself?  Your job?  Your friends?  If your number one loyalty and top priority is the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ then you are exactly obedient to his commandments.  Anything less puts your loyalty in a different place.  Choosing not to read your scriptures proves your loyalty to something or someone else.  We have to prove our loyalty to God by everything we do.  Selective obedience is unacceptable.  You mock God and the Savior by pretending to be loyal to them. You fit in the category of when Christ told Joseph Smith that "they draw near unto me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me...."  Yeah.  It was a great training.  It's exactly what our mission needs at the moment.  There was a lot that the Spirit taught each of us individually and what we can do to help in our stewardships to have more exact obedience.  It was great!

Elder Ayala and I have really been focusing on continuing to find new people to teach. It's cool to see the small miracles that come from praying for opportunities to find prepared people.  We found two new families that we'll be teaching now!  It was awesome!  We followed the counsel to make sure you are exactly obedient in asking referrals from everyone and we had one family refer us to the other family!  Haha!  We still have to figure out their last names because we just talked to the moms of both the families but it all comes in time!  Haha!

Hey.  I want all of you to know that I love my mission. I will never get tired of saying it or talking about it.  I'll never forget everything I'm learning here.  It's so amazing how much God can teach you in one day if you let Him.  I love love love it out here and I'm so grateful for every one of you that helped me in any way to get out here.  I can't thank you all enough.

Love you all!

Elder Frame

PS: 46 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS.

OH MAN!

We helped this investigator of the sisters 

clean up his house so he can get his kids back from the CPS

Me figuring out how to do selfies and me taking a selfie in the mirror 

because I feel bad that I'm not taking pics of what's going on in my life.

Don’t let go!

Well happy first week of November... oh wait it is the second! This week flew for me! I was in Cusco for a few days, in my sector for a few, and it feels like just everywhere all over! No but I was by myself for 4 days until my companion Hermana Solar and I went to concilio on Friday... Crazy few days but I told the Lord... I am going to give it my all these few days by going with members, studying, and doing all I could and he blessed me so much! It was a blessing to see what he does when we do our all where we are at.

But we had a great week! I am SO excited to be companions with Hermana Solar. A little bit about her. She is from Chile, she looks American, and she speaks pretty fast... Haha I love it! She grew up in the gospel and has a sibling in the mission! WAHOO! Crazy... but it has been cool to be with a companion that has had the gospel her whole life. We have the same time in the mission and it is cool to be here with her in Abancay! I want two changes but we will see!

We found out that we will be visiting 4 more sisters and wow, that makes 16 sisters that we will visit! And to top it all off they are all training right now! 11 new sisters came into the mission and we have 8 of them that we visit! What a blessing, and what an adventure it will be! We are excited. The Lord knows why.... He always has a plan and even though I am going crazy leading a sector, visiting the Hermana’s, and changed companions, I am LOVING EVERY SECOND! 

My companion has needed medications and we have put an IV in so she can receive them faster... she has an intestinal infection and it is helping. What a blessing to be using all my nursing knowledge! Never would have thought! Last night I was working with all the IV equipment and all of it all came back! WAHOO! I was so scared that while being here I would forget. 

Working with IVs in Peru!

 The crazy part is we bought all the stuff

 and should go in to the clinic to get it done

 but I have all the skills to do it,

 so why not? Loving the IV pole? Haha!

This week at Concilio the assistants told us to bring pday clothes and we were able to do an activity in the morning where they took us up a mountain and then blindfolded us, told us there was a rope, and that we had to make it to president which was "down there somewhere" and we couldn’t take both hands off the rope. Of course I was brave and said I would go first. So down I went. We were literally told to go down the side of a mountain blindfolded. Crazy! It was an imitation of the Tree of Life. I learned SO much! There came a point where I stopped and couldn’t find a point of the rope and said... I didn’t make it? There was people tempting us all along the way and they said... Take your hand off... You have to to be able to make it... Then I heard one of the Hermana’s right behind me say. Hermana Frame DO NOT TAKE YOUR HAND OFF. I took the advice kept looking and found the next part of the rope. I learned that we need to listen to the right people and remember what the instructions were in the beginning. It was a fun experience!

Well, have to go! Have a great week!

Hermana Frame

With the pics...

I was able to see my daughter! And now she has a daughter!

 What a blessing! I am a grandma! 

We had a blast at concilio with all the new Hermana’s.

 Ate food, laughed, and just enjoyed being together!

 I love all the friends I have made here!

My companion is the best! 

Enjoy a few random pics from Hermana Tangos last week.

 Forgot to send them! 

We made a cake for a wedding.. It was super fun!

Thank You

So, I didn't write last week.  Sorry about that....  I sent pictures and then totally forgot that you'd all probably need explanations to know what was happening.... ha!

I want to do my letter a little bit different this week. I just want to testify and tell you all what I think of my mission and what I've learned.  I hope you will feel the spirit as I testify of these things.

This place is the best.  I love my mission so much.  Teaching the truths of the gospel.  I heard that missions were the best all the time from leaders, family, dad, friends.  It's something you have to experience to understand though.  My mission means everything to me.  Everybody and anybody that is even giving a smidgen of a thought to maybe going on a mission.  Here's my opinion.  Go on a mission.  The Lord will bless you in ways that you won't ever be able to explain.  The things I've seen and gone through so far on my mission have helped me realize so many things:  My divine potential.  What I'm supposed to be doing with the rest of my life.  How to become a true disciple of Jesus Christ.  What true repentance is.  What conversion really means and how I can get it.  And most of all: How the Atonement of Jesus Christ is truly the center of everything and how to apply that in my life.  That's the biggest thing we try to get people to do.  Learn to apply the atonement in their lives.  That's our life quest.  Applying the Atonement of Jesus Christ to the extent that we become the person that our Heavenly Father knows we can be.

I know that Jesus Christ lives.  I know that the power of His Atonement is real.  It can lift the lowest of lives.  It can change the hardest of habits.  It is an infinite power that Christ has gifted to us.  God knows our potential. The only way to realize that potential is through applying the atonement every moment.  Listen to the promptings of the Holy Ghost.  Change.  Become.

I love you all. I love my mission.  I love my savior Jesus Christ.

Thank you so much for the influence that each and every single one of you has had in my life.  It's helped me get to this point and I'm so grateful for that.

Elder Frame

What do you want in your book of life?

Well, if you haven’t noticed I love Mormon ads. I saw one this week and it made me really think. What is it that I want to have written? Oh what joy I have had in the decision to add this wonderful mission in Peru Cusco to one of my chapters. I feel full of joy and love every bit of it. Even though in a few years it will seem like a dream I know that I will never forget really how I feel and what I have done here to not only help others come unto Christ but myself.

As I was able to be with Hermana Tango for her last few weeks in the mission I have really understood what a privilege it is to be here. She is incredible. Before my time with her I was afraid. I didn’t know if I would get along with her, I didn’t have any clue and was listening to everyone else’s opinion. This girl is incredible. She is a convert to the church, she was baptized when she was 16 and has made the decision that living the gospel is all that matters. I wish I could go on and on about her, but she has made a lasting impression on me, and what a blessing it was to realize that she was exactly who I needed in the time I needed it. She left just this last Saturday and I shed a few tears. Tears of joy and sadness as I knew we wouldn’t see each other for a while. But what a good chapter to add, and what a blessing she was to me.

This week I found out my new companion is Hermana Solar! SO EXCITED! She is a Latina from Chile! She has about the same time as me and just was in my last sector in Quillabamba! Yay! We will have so much to chat about! 

Well, think about the things you want written in your book and make it happen. Have a great week!

Hermana Frame

Pics

We enjoyed making tacos with Elder Miranda that is from Mexico!

 I was in heaven, but have had diarrhea for 4 days straight. Don’t tell him!

The sisters had a baptism! Wahoo! 

She is an incredible convert and she loves the missionaries

 so of course we snapped a picture!

My convert Shanaly and her daughter Evangeline! 

They both are doing so well! I am so blessed to be here and to be a part their lives.