14 October 2013 - Estancia, Brazil

Hooray for missionary updates!! In Dad's e-mail to Elder Frogley he sent some pictures. Not sure what the subjects of the pictures were, but apparently they were "beautiful." Must have been of the Frogley/Thomson ladies :).

In other news, the office Dad works at in Bountiful (Cory's office, I believe) has hired a fairly open-minded MD. Typically we have shied away from more mainstream medicine, but this guy seems to be OK with working alongside chiropractors, so yay for that.

And yet in other news... Just kidding. I know you'd much rather read about Elder Frogley :) Here you go.

Lookin' stylish. I guess.

Man, the pics were beautifull! Im feeling a father son hike a year from now! You hired an MD? And he agreed to work with chiropractors? Hmmm, cool!  Sounds like life moves on. It still feels like everyones on pause in the USA to me. It feels like everyone hopped in the van and parked in that airport parking lot to wait the two years for my mission. Its a weird feeling being this far away for this long. But life is solid here! 

Our week was fairly normal but weve had some exelent teaching experiences. And ive had some excelent growing opportunities through my personal study. Ive been reading my patriarchal blessing alot and trying to figure out stuff. Its really helped me with my personal growth. During the week we found a family. The mom and sister and aunt of clarisa. The girl were preparing for baptisim. We went to ask her Mom for permision and ended up teaching the whole family. The first time she was accepting but a little skeptical because shes very catholic. The aunt (17) was VERY receptive. It turns out her boyfriend was almost baptised and she accepted baptisim on the first visit. She comited to go to church next week. She was very honest with us and told us she wouldnt go this week for some reason I forgot, but it was way better then promising and not showing up. Clarisas sister also promised to pray and go to church. We went back on Saturday and talked to the Mom again. She told us shed give permission if Dad aproved, the problem is Dads in prison so were waiting for that. We marked all of them to be baptised on the 26th. Even the Mom said shed go to church. They like us alot. We also visited the family that we were teaching. Theyre still very receptive and are wanting to change their lives to conform with the church. Durring the lesson about the Plan of Salvation, the father said ´´Ive had to wait this long to really find out who God is and what I have to do.´´ and then he thanked us. It was very touching. They didnt make it to church, but they told us before hand that they wouldnt. They went baptise their younger son in the Catholic church. He told us that he new it wasnt right but he did it to appease a grandma or something. What ever, theyre still solid. Were going to visit them tomorrow and they were very excited to mark the appointment. They love my accent, they thing its verry ´´cultured and fancy´´. We also did a devision on Friday and I went and visited a VERY promising investigator with the LD. This guy is FULL of questions and he knows the lessons by heart. He bore a quick testimony and pretty much taught the entire first descusion perfectly durring the testimony. He said he wants to be baptised but is scared that he´ll fall away after or he´ll make a mistake. We bore testimony that fear if from the devil and I was able to relate to him by sharing some experiences from my more rebelious stages. He felt alot better after and we marked his baptism for the 19th. Pray for that guy cause hes scared. Everyone gets really hung up on the ´´its better to not know me then to know me and to fall away after´´ scripture. Anyway, we got a load of baptisms coming up! Pray for me! Let me know how life is going! Are we still in a war against Seria or was it a fast little thing? Love you! 

Elder Frogley