Hello. Hello.

Hey everyone! This week my companion and I are planning on sewing our outfits so she is chompin at the bit to email quick this week. I am sorry that this email is going to be really short. The weather here is freeeezzziiinnnggggg!!!!!!!! Seriously! I realized that I haven't been on my mission without it snowing. They say mid May it starts to creep up into the 40's. My snow gear is nice and warm so I can make it to May. I am still in Painesville. I am thinkin that it's about time for me to get transferred. I will be so sad but I've been in my area about as long as President keeps people. I love my companion Sister Gee. So fun! Transfers aren't until the middle of April so I've still got time. Thanks for all the pictures this week. I loved them all. It sounds like Temple Square was so fun! Just so you don't get confused: Kirtland missionaries are better then all other Visitors' Center sisters ;) This week Sister Gee was sick so we spent two days at home. It gets boring real quick when you're stuck at home. We tracted for 6 hours on Saturday. It was a lot of fun. We were following a group of J-Dubs. Each door they put up one of their flyers and I would take it down and put up one of ours. We collected about 100 of their dumb little flyers. We didn't get anyone to talk to us but at least the J-Dubs didn't get their flyers out! haha. Everything is really good here. Thanks for the emails this week. I miss you all. A year from yesterday I will no longer be a missionary and all ya'll will be out here trompin around with me in the snow! Yippeeee. On Saturday I am making the girls in my house have an Easter egg roll. That should be fun. Have fun in warm St. George! I am jealous. I loveyou all!!!!

Lacee

Week 22ish

Thanks for the emails this week everyone. Mom- your sewing cabinet looks way nice. My companion graduated from BYU with two degrees, one is in civil engineering and the other is in clothing construction. Today we are going to the fabric store and getting fabric to make a top and skirt. She is a pro so hopefully I can figure out what she is teaching me. To answer everyone's question: yes I wore green yesterday. I have a bright green sweater that I wore! My companion didn't have any green so I let her borrow this other light green sweater that I have. I'll see what outfit I can round up that are the wedding colors and I'll take a picture of it and send it. Kinda fun. I got a really random email today from someone telling me that someone they know is coming to this mission and that they know Jake Airhart..? They also said that Missy Airhart's sister is coming here. I was really confused because the email wasn't from someone that is actually coming here. I emailed the person and said that the person they know can totally email me. I guess if anyone has any info on that you can tell the girl to directly email me.

 

This week was good. We were able to have 9 lessons. That is a lot for our area. We also tracted 5 1/2 hours. Basically that means that we were busy this week. Sister Gee and I have been trying to think of really good ways to talk to people when they open the door. We decided just to be frank and if they aren't interested then move on. When they open the door we say "Hey we are teaching people about this book. It's called the Book of Mormon. It's a book about Jesus Christ that can bring you peace and happiness. DO you want to learn more about it?" It has been quite successful. We also decided that in the nicer areas (which by nice I mean that it's not government housing) we are going to pass out flyers for people to volunteer at the Bishop's Storehouse. Hopefully that will drawn some peeps in. Most of the people that we taught this week are people that we had taught in the past- Cynthia, Marcos, Fatima, Markiesha (her little brother is in our ward) and Alex Telegdy. Alex is someone that we first taught when I got here. We found out that he is on parol for the next 5 years. Well we decided that it will probably take him a few years to change and stop smoking so we might as well start now. The work has been really slow for the mission. No one can figure it out. We had a zone training meeting this week and we went over numbers. No one is having success. Our goal for this year is 557 baptisms. The mission is at 13. Nice! Probably not going to make out goal! We are told that prepared people are here in our mission just waitin for the gospel but where the heck are they? It has been crazy in our ward because this transfer they added missionaries to the ward. There are 8 missionaries and a sr. couple. Ward council can no longer be held in the Bishop's office because the missionaries take over.

 

Ok so has Austin gotten any of the letters that I've sent? Tell him that I love him and that he needs to write me. Tell him to make a video for me and to send it to me. Sister Gee will make him a video this week and send it next Monday. Did Dallin ever get the funny book that I sent him? I saw it for like 75 cents at the Painesville library. Such a gem. Remember how I told ya that my companion doesn't like to stay long and email? Well she is standin over me ready to go. Sacrafice brings forth the blessings of Heaven. Right? Hey if anyone has anything they could send me that would be helpful to me as a missionary send it my way- techniques that worked on your mission, ways that you found people to teach, cute teaching aides that I can print off and color... anything. Send this to all the cousins and see if they have any tips that would help me out.

 

I love you all and miss you like crazy! Oh ya so my release date is March 24th, 2014. Most likely it won't be exactly on that date but a few days either before or after. Start getting work off so ya'll can come out here. No excuses! :) Thanks for everything.

 

Sister Frampton

A new transfer begins!

So my new companion hates staying for a long time at the library to email so it looks like this transfer I will be sending home short emails. Oh well. Sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven. 

This week was transfers. I was stressed. Sister Gee was told that she wasn't leaving our house so she didn't need to pack up. Sister Bell and I were getting split and each taking over the freshly split Painesville. I had a 50/50 chance that the old Geezer would be my companion. Morning of transfers I moved all of my stuff upstairs and Geezer just decided to move her stuff in too. We just assumed that we would be companions. I squweeeeaall a little when the Zone Leaders announced that Gee and I were companions. One of the pictures is right after we found out we are companions. She is so great! I  have lived in the same house my whole mission and we have come to be best friends. 

My district leader let me choose if I wanted to work in Painesville East or Painesville West since I have been here the longest I would know which area everyone would work better in. I chose Painesville West- the ghetto!!!! Sister Bell and her comppy got the really nice area out by Lake Erie. You can see in the pictures I sent how big Painesville is and then the next picture is our tiny tiny area that we now have. Weird!

Oh ya so another Sister Frampton is here from Utah. Her name is Shelby. Will someone find out how we are related? Thanks.
 
Before this transfer our ward has a set of sisters and a set of elders. This transfer they split our area and the elder's area. Now there are 8 missionaries in the ward. Holy freak!!! It is so many. We take over the ward. Our ward is already tiny and then add more missionaries. Both of the elders got fresh out of the mtc companions. It's fun to see them wandering around clueless. I cannot believe that I was once like that. I am so old!

The other picture I sent is so funny. The one with the keys under the driver's wheel. This is how people in Ohio hide their keys when they are at church. Pretty safe right? Might as well just leave them in the ignition. 

On Saturday we had a huge ward activity. The missionaries put together a ward talent show. We have been working on it since January. It was a huge hit! Tons of non members and less actives came out for it. Everyone was really impressed with us. We had so much fun.

So I have some sad news to report about Tommy. We dropped Tommy this week because he was being really rude to us and not wanting to schedule with us. His baptism was suppose to be on the 16th. I called him yesterday to check up on him and he had blocked our number. So sad! Oh well. It's out of our hands now. Mission break ups are so hard!! Oh well. The Lord had to have us drop him so he could make room for us to teach other people. 

Thanks for all of the emails this week. Thanks for the letter Austin. I loved it. Thanks for the package mom. The cards are so cute!! I love you all!!!

Lacee