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This was last Saturday at that little boy’s baptism.  I'm walking on Water!! 

 Power of the Priesthood!!

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So yeah!  The work.  It is going.  And it is AWESOME.

Love yall!

Elder Frame

Ha.  Just kiddin.

I wouldn't do that to yall!  No this week has been great!  So here's everything!

Wednesday:  We had a Halloween party for the wards.  Everybody was dressed up all scary like and stuff.  Apparently everybody was disappointed we didn't dress up, but we aren't allowed to dress up anyway, so yah.  That was kind of tiring telling everybody.  Other than that it was great!  Candy, candy corn, candy cotton, candy, candy, and more candy!  I gained 2 pounds literally.  No I really did.  I weighed myself before and after.

Friday aka Halloween:  So we had to be back to our apartments by 6:00.  So we went back to the apartment and watched Forever Strong. Ha, since the coach from that movie, Larry Gelwix, was the old mission president in this mission, that movie was still on the CAN watch list. Ha it was pretty sweet!

All the other days we did many many visits and we've been knocking doors!  We've found 6 new potentials and 2 new investigators who seem pretty solid!  Maria and Vanessa!  They were pretty interested so I'll keep you posted!  As for Marilu, we visited her on Wednesday and she wanted to talk to us about her baptism.  We were kinda worried about what she was going to say.  It was more than ok though because she said she wanted to push her date back so she could get baptized with her 10 year old son Brandon on November 22!!!  WOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!  DOUBLE BAPTISM!!  She's been coming to church every single week!  Reading!  Praying!  Everything!  She's so awesome!  Erick is still a bum and avoiding us.  We're gonna get him!!

Anyways.  I was thinking about finding this week since we have actually had some success for once with knocking on doors.  We are trying to find people to teach the gospel as missionaries, but I kinda applied that to everywhere else in my life.  I should be finding ways to serve.  Finding people who maybe just need a friend.  Finding out more about the gospel.  Finding, finding finding.  Hey you should too.  

Hey!  God Bless!

ORAN SIEMPRE!

Con Amor,

Elder Frame

There is a reason....

Macamango!  I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!! 

There is a reason.....

-that I have a million bug bites

-I can't flush the toilet paper in the toilet (I know it sounds weird but it is frustrating)

-I don’t understand Spanish

-I have to take 2-3 showers a day because it is so humid here

-My companion and I have super different personalities

-I walk 6-8 hours a day and my feet hurt at the end of the day

-I am a million miles away from everything that is comfortable to me

-I am learning Spanish

-I have diarrhea randomly from certain foods- TMI I know but seriously it is a real problem

-I am woken up at 3 in the morning because my legs itch so badly and I am dying from the heat

-The shower has no pressure and is hot when it is already 150 degrees here already! 

-I look stupid half the time when I speak 

-I am serving in Peru

-I am serving in Quillabamba

-I am a missionary.

This all seems like I am complaining. And let me tell you, I am done sugar coating it all. It was a hard week. I am adjusting to missionary life and with that come so many trials. But through it all I can’t tell you how amazing it is when I lay in bed at night and think of what I am able to do, and what a privilege it is to be here on my mission. It has been all I have ever wanted to do for so long and I am here. Sometimes like this week I forget my purpose. Yesterday I had my 6th birthday of my patriarchal blessing. In there it talks about serving my mission and I pulled it out to read and wow. I am supposed to be here. No matter how hard. The people need this message. They need what I have. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ and this brings me so much joy. Salvation is not easy and this is why sometimes I wonder why it is so hard. But I remind myself this is the time I can give it all I got. I get to share the one thing closest to my heart and that is the gospel. It is amazing how much I am learning and I remind myself to find the blessings each day. I am not a sad person... Haha. If anyone knows me this is NOT my personality. The Lord blesses me so much and through my obedience and complete faith in Him, He will help others come to the gospel. I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY. I love it. Despite how hard it can be. Before I go, I have to share a funny experience... So on the other side of heaven there is the part where Elder Grohberg is walking along a path and the mosquitos and bugs are eating him alive and he all of a sudden just starts screaming and yelling while flailing his arms in the air because he was sick of getting bit. Well, I can testify that I have had THE SAME experience. Literally. We were walking and I just stopped threw a fit and started scratching my legs, while stomping and yelling in English- HEAVENLY FATHER WHY DID YOU CREATE BUGS! Haha oh man my companion was laughing for days, and still reminds me of this moment. 

Oh how I love this work. I really do. Until next week.

Hermana Frame

Flowers we see on our streets. Some of them seriously look fake but they

 are all so so so pretty!

my bug bites on my legs.... oh man I had a flip out moment this week. Even putting on repellent and trying to avoid bugs it’s impossible! I sometimes am up at night but I have taken Benadryl.... and that helps. Goodness me!

 

 My comp and I teach 3-5 students Tuesday thru Friday and it is fun but definitely makes me grateful for the seminary we have in the states. But I love the teenagers. They are so strong here.

I had to hand wash my own laundry. Make sure you are always grateful for washing machines! My hands are SO sore!

It is so beautiful when it rains. And it’s not hot so that is a plus. But this is in our sector.

I ate chicken heart, and also chicken lungs this week! I LOVE THE CHICKEN HEART. But the lungs on the other hand are not so great... They taste like iron, lots of it

Este perro es muy feo! This dog was prego and it is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. They love these dogs here and I want to puke every time I see them.

The river- RIO! It is so beautiful. I forget I am in Peru sometimes till I see things like this. 

It is a river on the way to Macamango

A Stone Rolling Forward not The Stoned Be Rolling

Ha.  You possibly might be wondering why I have such an apostate title.  Well I have an experience to share with thee.  While in the act of walking down the road, knocking upon every domicile in sight, I and my companion Elder Budding, happened upon a red-eyed(stoned) man stumbling around talking to nobody in particular.  We are to share our message with any soul we should come upon and with this commandment in mind we commenced chatting with the craze.  We started amicably speaking with him until he saw our name tags and he got all wide eyed and started yelling about polygamist settlers and the such. We waited till he calmed down and after about 2 minutes of cursing, wailing, and nashing of teeth we told him a little bit about the pioneers and about a musical our stake was putting on called A Stone Rolling Forward which was about the pioneers.  He stared at us for 4 seconds, then burst into jovial laughter saying that that was a great name for the play! We didn't know why he thought it was so funny until he said the name back to us: "The Stoned Be Rolling!"  He kept on laughing and walked away and wouldn't listen to us anymore as we tried to keep the conversation going in order to baptize the poor chap. So anyways.  That was the story behind that.

The play was actually really good.  It was about a missionary about to leave on his mission and then it goes into some accounts of his family history and how he came to be to be a missionary.  We were actually in it at the end welcoming him into the MTC!  Ha so now I can check "Be in a play" off my bucket list.  We got Marilu to come to it though and one of the branch member's non-member mom got super interested in the pioneers so we are going to watch 17 Milagros with her this Thursday!  The work is rolling forward in many different ways!

So update on the investigators!

Marilu- Still going strong!  She's living the Word of Wisdom now and is reading the Book of Mormon more and more!  We also had a baptism and confirmation of an 8 year old in the branch on Sunday so she was able to come to that!  The baptism was super spiritual, but more and more people kept showing up throughout the baptism and by the end you could hardly hear cause there were so many children!!  Anyways, she said she felt the spirit so score!!

Erick- What a bum.  He's been avoiding us all week, so not a good sign, but we are going to nab him one of these days and get him to tell us how his prayers went!

Tim- Bailed out on us on Wednesday, but says he still wants to listen to us so we are going to try him Thursday this week!

Finding finding and more finding!  We hopefully will get another investigator after we teach that lady who was interested in the play.

So I love you all and remember the power of prayer!!!

ORAN SIEMPRE!

Con Amor,

Elder Frame

“QUILLABAMBA!!!! (kia-bomb-buh)”

At the Lima Peru Temple with Hermana Jesperson.  My companion while at the CCM in Lima!

Hermana Hoskins, my new companion!

As president Harbertson starts naming new companionships and the areas my heart starts beating 10x faster than normal. My palms are sweating, I want to cry because everything is so new and I will be leaving Hermana Jesperson but shout out with joy all at the same time because of how excited I am because the journey is really happening. It is alphabetical as he is naming companionships and I was towards the beginning. As he said my name the world just stopped. Literally. For what felt like a million years. Slowly time started again... and he went onto say- Hermana Frame will be serving with Hermana Hoskins in Quillabamba Peru! All that happened was complete shock and burst of excitement.

 I WAS GOING TO THE JUNGLE!!! WHAT??!!!!

Psych! I planned on cold weather- boots, coats, sweaters, well that will be on hold for a while.... Bring on the hot-humid air, millions of bugs, machetes, cold showers, amazing food, and tons of trees. OH MY GOODNESS I can’t even describe I have been here 5 days and I am amazed each day I look out the window or walk around. Monkeys swinging in the trees, tons of fruit (mangos, bananas, mandarins, grapes, coconuts, you name it) and the river right there in the city. Quillabamba is very comparable in weather to Hawaii and about the size of Orem-- but a lot more people! There are only 2 jungle areas in our mission and there are 12 missions so wow I am dying! This city is surrounded by jungle. It has paved roads, sidewalks, stores, and all sorts of parks, swimming pools, etc. But I have a part in my sector called Macamango and we can’t go there at night but this is the intense jungle. Machetes are used, tons of animals and bugs and it is a long walk that is so hot and we are sweating buckets each time we go and visit members out there. But I have NEVER been so grateful for shade in my life!!!!

The drive last Thursday was so beautiful! But I almost died like 10 times! The driver was insane! And the roads don’t have side rails and it has been known for people dying all the time. But the drive from Cusco to Quillabamaba was 6 hours! Crammed in a van holding my bags- all that I have on my lap, bugs biting my legs, and a brand new comp by my side. Oh the life of a missionary! I love it. 

This is the view as I am crammed in the van and hoping to survive the drive!

I love being a missionary!

But more than that, more than being in the amazon rainforest, more than the beautiful nature, more than how rough it is, I am actually out here now spreading the joy this gospel brings. Last night I hit a bump in the road. It was one of those moments where everything was going wrong- we tried finding members- but they have no addresses- SO FRUSTRATING!!  We hadn’t taught any lessons, it was so hot, the bugs were eating us alive, and we had no success. Oh and to top things off we found out 2 days in being here we have to move- SO STRESSFUL! So as of right now my comp and I are homeless in Quillabamba. Haha kidding! But we did open a new sector so my poor comp is trying to figure everything out, plus train me, plus find somewhere to live. Oh man I pray for her every second of the day! Anyways, last night we had no success- nada- we prayed earlier for what we needed to do and to lead us to who needed us right then. Well, the answer did not come right away. We said a prayer around noon and nothing happened till that night. We then just started trying to contact, meet members, and make phone calls but nothing was happening. So we went back to the apartment and plopped on the bed and wanted to give up. No one wanted to listen, we couldn’t find anyone we knew and we were so so drained. But right as we got back to the apartment I felt like we just needed to go. Go and get our food and on the way contact people in the park. so I told my comp and I said the Lord cant bless us if we just give up- we have to go get our food anyways so let’s just talk to people on the way- we were so unmotivated but with whatever energy we had left we started walking the 10 blocks to our pensionista- WOW!!! Miracles! We were not only just able to contact one or two people but whole families! And they were so receptive! Oh how my love for them increased! I am hoping we get a hold of them this next week again so we can start teaching. They were so ready. It brings so much joy to my soul to spread what is near and dear to my heart. The fact that other families can know they can be together forever.

WOW I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY. 

Anyways, I have to go! Have a great week! Thank you all for your support and love!

Hermana Frame

Tthe missionaries from Spanish Fork- Elder Thacker, Elder Thompson, and me at changes!

Hna. Frame

Dear Parents,

As you can see in the attached photo, your daughter has arrived safely to the Peru Cusco Mission! We are thrilled to have her here! She looks great, a bit tired from the travel, but ready to go! Thank you for allowing us to watch over her for the next year and a half. She has promised that she will be a missionary we can trust, and we have now given her that trust. As well, you can trust that we will do everything that we can to care for her and to help her to become a successful missionary.

Con Gran Amor,

Presidente y Hermana Harbertson

Luv Makes the World Go Round

Hello everyone.

So yeah. This week has been such a blur!  I'm getting used to being pretty quiet during lessons because I try to listen and follow the Spanish really good.  My Spanish is improving!  When I do talk I can basically talk with only a few pauses but I know every word I need! It's a slow process still though and I'm working on patience.  It's bloody hard.  Anyways, lemme tell yall about my investigators that are actually progressing:

Marilu:  She is super prepared.  She came from a divorce and Mexico.  She is staying in her cousin’s house which is in the nice part of town so it's a nice change of atmosphere when we go teach her.  She also has a son who is 11 and can also be baptized.  We gave her a church tour on Thursday and when we talked about when Christ was baptized and the need for her to be baptized she got all quiet and her eyes started watering.  The spirit was there so strong!!  It was amazing!  And she agreed to be baptized on the 8th of November!  I'm so excited!  I'm doing what my purpose says!!  It feels so good to be helping people save their souls!!!!!!!!

Erick:  His whole family is members.  He goes to church every week.  He reads the Book of Mormon.  But he won't get baptized.  He's a bum.  He just won't get baptized.  We have him praying about the baptismal date of November 1st.  He will receive an answer as long as he sincerely prays about it but yeah, he is such a homie!  He always gives us the football scores during Sunday school and we teach him in English so it's a nice change.

Tim: He's 17 and dating a member in the Spanish branch but he's as white as can be.  OK and also he's actually not technically our investigator yet but we have an appointment with him to teach him on Wednesday so he will be after that!  He wants to marry the girl but she only wants to be married in the temple so he's taking the lessons to make her happy.  I don't really think he's that interested but when we're through with him he will be!!

So yeah that's our two maybe three investigators who are progressing.  All the other ones just like talking to us which is good but isn't a good use of our time.

So tender mercy the other day.  We missed dinner the other night and I memorized where the three Taco Bells were in our area in Modesto and we were close to one so we had dinner there!! Beefy 5 layer burritos all around baby!!!!  Also, a little background to the story, we aren't allowed to have caffeine unless it's offered to us.  I really needed me a Baja Blast, so when I was ordering I asked the cashier lady, "Hey, what's your most popular drink here that you can offer me?"  She said that it was either the Iced Tea or the Baja Blast, so right after she said Baja Blast I said "Yeah I'll have that one."  She looked at me all weird then handed me a cup.  I know that was probably a little apostate but it had to be done for the good of all people in Modesto.  Without my Baja, I probably wouldn't be able to help them all be baptized!

Beefy 5 layer burrito and a Baja Blast!

Spiritual time.  So I was studying the talk given by Jorg Klebingat in General Conference this morning and it is amazing. Read it.  It got me thinking, would I truly be able to walk up to the Savior confidently right now or would I shirk and be ashamed?  Would you truly be able to walk up to the Savior confidently and give him a hug?  If not, what would be holding you back?  There were things I know that would be holding me back.  It's a good thing we have the Lord's infinite Atonement because that means we can have the power to be rid of the guilt of those things and have the strength and power to change and overcome those aspects of our person 24/7.  Use the Lord's Atonement 24/7.  It's there to empower, change and cleanse us!

Love you all!

ORAN SIEMPRE!

Con amor,

                  Elder Frame

My zone leader.

Lessons Learned in the CCM (MTC)

Oh how I love the CCM. My setting a part blessing said I would and I definitely do. It is a place of learning and preparation. It is like the pre-earth life  of my mission. At this point I have about 6 days left here and it makes me so giddy to think I am almost out but at the same time a whole part of me is saying YOU ARE NOT READY!!!!    I already feel like the Spanish is hard enough... Haha!   I know the Lord will help. He always does! But I will sure miss this safe haven the CCM has been! Also keep my human beings that speak English close to me! Oh the field is going to shock me I know it.... Oh I can just picture myself a week from now with my Latina companion having no idea what I am doing. It’s funny how in life the Lord knows that when my life starts to get comfortable.... better get ready because he has something to throw at me!

But today I wanted to share a few things I have learned this past week and also including the weeks prior here.

1. Being obedient is the key to success in my mission but also in my life. I heard once the saying -selective obedience brings selective blessings- well it is true my friends! This week my companion and I definitely learned this! We chose to stay up a little past bedtime, like 30 minutes just chatting about the day... It didn’t seem like a big deal. Nothing really came of it until literally 5 minutes before we taught our investigator, I became annoying tired, I couldn’t focus, and my Spanish (or the little Spanish I had) was not even coming to me! I could barely even start a conversation. And everything my comp tried saying was super confusing. Embarrassing!!! Oh man, we learned our lesson. It was Heavenly Father teaching us a lesson about exact obedience.

2. There is more to people than what meets the eye. Hermana Gonzales is a 5 foot, short haired, very controlling woman who knows both English and Spanish which is terrifying because she knows what you are saying ALL THE TIME! She is the wife of the President here at the CCM and she is definitely the strictest woman I have ever met. My 1st encounter with her was the 3rd day I was here I was eating dinner having a good time with the Hermanas and I was being myself (which if you know me I can get loud when I talk and my laugh is definitely not any quieter), but while we were eating she came specifically to our table pointed to me and said -sister- (not even Hermana) you need to quiet down in the most tight and intimidating tone ever. And then she does this motion with her hands showing me to quiet down, and believe me the first two weeks she had to use it ALL the time. But folds, I am here to tell you miracles happen. Through much prayer, help from my companion and constant reminders I have learned how to express myself without projecting. I am learning!!!! Yay! But the lesson learned came from 2 nights ago we were able to sit by both her and her husband (president) and we talked with them about the CCM and while this was happening she turned to me and asked if I would remember her by her hand motion and if it worked... Ha-ha I was caught off guard but the conversation was light and I was not even paranoid! We laughed and  joked about how she helped me overcome this TRIAL and now every time I catch myself being loud I will picture her hand motion. It was a good learning lesson because she told me she was the same at my age... and that over time I can succeed. Ha-ha! I HAVE HOPE!!! But also it taught me that the first impression of people is not always how they are. Oh and also listen to those with experience in life, they do understand and know quite a lot.

3. The Lord is my gardner. If you have watched the Mormon message of how the Lord cuts us down and prunes us because he knows we will grow. He gives us trials in order for us to grow spiritually. I was complaining earlier this week about why it is so hard for me to learn. I was mad because nursing school was already hard. I was angry because now I am struggling to learn Spanish... And why is he doing this when I am giving everything to be here and I WANT TO BE HERE, so why Heavenly Father why? I have learned quickly and I know I will learn more in the field. But he is preparing me for later. Life does not get easier, and we will always have trials. But the good thing is that I have learned that through these we can rely on our Savior. It is the only way to make it through. He is the rock. Heavenly Father will constantly be pruning us because he knows we can take it. But only if we rely on him.

I can’t believe my time is coming to an end here. So much change is going to happen in the next week... Crazy I have been here for 6 weeks! But here we go!!! Cuzcotopia here I come!!!! I love and pray for you all. I hope you all know I love this gospel. Keep going... Keep trucking. It is all worth it in the end.

Yo se que en El Libro de Mormon y cuando leemos en este sentimos amor de Dios. Yo se que el Evengelio es verdad y las familias pueden juntos para siempre. Yo se que mi mision es perfecto para mi. Creo en Jesucristo y su vida y su expiacion. Yo se que La Iglesia de Jesucristo  de los santos de los ultimos dias is verdad.

Short and simple but it goes a long way. I hope I can get pics in there next time. I love you all!

Hermana Frame