Ch ch ch changes, turn and face the sun

Happy Memorial Day! Answer me this... I opened my email today and it had a big zero. Did something happen? Is everyone ok? Well for me this week I had a really great fun week and also a really sad hard week. Let's start with last Monday, Pday. Last week I went on exchanges to the Amish country and I really wanted to take Sister Gee back and show it to her. We went with the Jones couple and spent some time with the Amish. It was a blast! The pictures I attached with this email are from the Amish country. There is one more picture (I'll attach it in the next email because myldsmail wont let me send big emails) that we took in Middlefield. There is a famous Amish restaurant called Mary Yoders. We bee bopped over there and had lunch. I will for sure be taking ya'll to Amish country when you come pick me up. We stopped in at a huge quilt shop. Mom,  you and both grandmas would have DIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was a quilt that was made out of tiny yo-yos. It was so cool. It was $1800. We will for sure be going there. The Amish people think that if you take a picture of them or of something they have made a part of their soul is taken away so they didn't allow pictures in the quilt shop. Wednesday we worked at Pioneer School. Remember what that is? Historic Kirtland Visitors' Center is part of the Lake County Historical Society. During the summer the county building puts on different "days camps" or field trip things. The Sisters are in charge of candle dipping. It was our turn this week. It was so much fun. I didn't realize how much I missed teaching children until this week. This week we had 2nd graders. We taught 3 groups for an hour each. It was great. We get to dress up like pioneers and have a good old time. After Pioneer school Sister Gee got a call from President. He asked her if she would train a new missionary that is coming. I cannot tell you how excited I was for her. President asked me if I thought it was a good idea for her to be training. HECK YES IT IS!!!!! Sister Gee is an amazing person and she has come to be my very best friend. These last two transfers I have grown the most and I owe it all to her. She has all the right qualities of a missionary. She knows how to be diligent and reverent but she also knows how to be loud and have fun. Daily we find ourselves laughing to tears together. Her new companion is so lucky! I am also heartbroken to be leaving Painesville. Painesville is my house. I can drive around Painesville without a map or GPS and I can find anything. I can drive down the road and wave to people that are walking around because I have talked to them and made friends with them. I am pretty sure that I couldn't do that in Salt Lake. When I go downtown I def need my iphone to help me get around and I don't know people that are walking down the street. Changes are part of missionary work. Once you learn that things get easier. Learn that right now Mccall. You fall in love with people and then the next minute they are our of your life forever. After Pioneer School Sister Gee and I had a good cry together. It will be good though. I feel 100% confident in leaving Painesville with Sister Gee. The hard part of all of this is telling the people that I wouldn't be coming anymore. We were at Sites the rest of Wednesday so we couldn't tell people in person. I called the Pina family- Cynthia and Fatima. I have been teaching them for almost 8 months. I am literally part of their family. I feel comfortable walking into their house with out knocking and walking over to the sink and filling up my water bottle or driving to their house and asking them if we can use their bathroom while we are out tracting. They are awesome. Cynthia answered the phone she is 13 years old. She was in shock. She kept saying " No no no! Who is the guy that is in charge of you. Let me call him and tell him that you can't leave." Sad! We went over to their house on Thursday and told the rest of the family. A 5 year old girl lives with them and she was so sad which made me so sad. Fatima said the opening prayer and spent like 5 minutes asking God to take care of me and to bless me and to make sure that someone really nice takes my place. Needless to say I cried my makeup off during that whole prayer. The hard thing about being a missionary is you can't ever say, "Ya I know this sucks that I am leaving" or " I'm mad at President for transferring me." (I mean you can say that stuff but not to investigators or people in the ward.) You have to teach them that everything is in God's plan and that you have confidence that the next missionary will be someone that will be great for them. I took a video of the Pina family. I had each of them talking in it. This email won't let me send long videos so maybe I will put it on a disk and mail home all my videos or something..? Or does anyone know how to change the format of a video to a smaller size? On Friday President had a meeting with all of the missionaries that would be training. This transfer there are 3 Visitor Center sisters that are training. They put the companions of the trainers together for the day and kept us at Sites. We were able to give a really cool tour. The Community of Christ has a summer intern program that just started. 6 college students moved out here for the summer and they will be learning how to give tours of the Kirtland Temple. The main CofC guy brought the interns down and asked if we could give them a tour so the interns could 1. learn the history of our church and see how it matches up with theirs and 2. learn how to give really great tours. The three of us were asked to take them out. I was really nervous. I didn't want to say anything that would offend them however I did want to say things that would bring the Spirit. The tour ended up being really great. The CofC people basically have the same beliefs we do they just don't follow the word of wisdom. Since the tour I have seen some of them around Kirtland and it is really great that I can stop and talk to them since we are now friends! We are not allowed to ask anyone from the Kirtland Community of Christ church to let us teach them. They aren't allowed to do it to us either. However if they ask us questions then we can teach them. All we can do right now is be their friends and help them see how great our church is. I'm sure a lot of you have wondered this at some point in your life- Is the church ever going to own the Kirtland Temple? The answer is no. It is better that way. There would be no point. The CofC take really good care of it. They are so respectful and everything they say on tour is accurate to our church. Also if we ended up getting the temple what would we use it for? We couldn't use it as a temple. It is basically the same as the Assembly Hall on Temple Square. It is just a big chapel. The reason the Kirtland Temple was built was so keys could be restored for temple ordinances. Those keys were restored and the purpose of the Kirtland Temple came to pass. (Sorry I am kinda going off about this.) Anywhoo... to sum it all up. Don't worry about who owns the Kirtland Temple. It is being well taken care of. On Saturday we were asked to help with a huge young single adult activity. All of the eastern states get together for a huge EFY like event and they call it Zion's Camp. We were asked to help with breakfast. It was really fun to talk with people our age for once. It was also kinda fun to sit back and watch all of these people try and flirt with each other. We were SSSOOOOOOO glad that we were not in their position. Those cheesy YSA activities can be painful. A bunch of 30 year olds checkin each other out next to the punch bowl. Yikes! The Island of Misfit Toys. Sister Gee and I grabbed one of their schedules and were casually looking to see what they would be doing for the day when all of the sudden my eyes caught the name Alex Boye`. I have come to love him on my mission. He is one of the only church cds that I can listen to without wanting to die. If you don't know who Alex Boye` is you can check him out HERE and HERE. He was having a concert in the Kirtland Temple that night. We ran to our planners and tried to figure out how we could arrange our lessons so we could make it front row to the concert. We decided to be obedient and not go to his concert. (However later that night we might have been peekin out our window lookin for him across at the temple.)  All of Saturday I took a farewell tour around Painesville. We spent the day stopping at peoples' homes to say by. We had lunch with a less active Sister Wheeler. We had a good lesson with the Atleys. She is in her late 80s and started crying when I had to say good bye therefore, I started crying. Geezzz when I said by to all of you at the MTC I was happy as a lark and bee bopped right on it. I've turned into some whimpy crier. You'd be shocked. A member in the ward had a goodbye bonfire for Sister Christian (she is another missionary in the ward. She is going home this week. It's weird to think that missionaries actually finish their missions. It seems like missions go on FOREVER!) and me. It was really nice of him to do that. A few people from the ward came and we had a good time laughing and joking. Man I love these people. I think it will be good that I am leaving because if they ever want to see me they will have to come to the Visitors' Center and that will automatically bring more people out to take tours. Sunday morning Zion's Camp was having sacrament meeting in the temple. Alex would be doin a little number in the middle of the meeting. Sister Gee and I ran over to the temple before our ward started and tried to stop Alex. (Yes I know what you are thinking... You guys are losers! Ya we know. We don't have much out here as missionaries so let us get star struck when a Mormon celebrity comes to town!) We weren't allowed to attend the Sacrament Meeting so we snuck in and spotted Alex on the front row. That was good enough for us but some YSA kid that was in charge grabbed us and asked us if we wanted to meet him. YES!! He introduced us to him and we shook his hand. It would have been slightly inappropriate to snap a photo of him as Sacrament Meeting was trying to start. I invited him to come to the Visitors' Center and take a tour from us. He said he really wanted to but his plane was leaving early. We also told him thank you for making aMormon.org profile because we are able to share it with others. He was really nice. We pretty much are famous because we met Alex Boye. Good times. I didn't really want my ward to know that I was being transferred. I just wanted a clean break. They have seen missionaries come and go so they are used to is. I didn't want to spend all of church taking pictures with people and watching people cry and blah blah blah... I just wanted to go to church. Well I made it all the way to the last 10 mins of church when the relief society president announces that I am getting transferred and she has me come stand in front while they all sing God Be With You 'Till We Meet Again. Ya might as well just rip my heart out and take it home in your purse. The women started crying so then I started crying. What the heck folks! I'm not dying. During the song the R.S. Pres (did I also mention that she is nutty?) was kissing me on the cheek so I had lipstick all over the place. After church people trapped me in the R.S. room. Peeps were cryin and all trying to hug me at once and ask where I was getting transferred. People also had cornered Sister Gee and were asking her who she was getting. Sister Gee ended up kinda being pushed out of the R.S. room and I was trying to weave around people to find her (in case you didn't know companions have to be side by side 24/7). It ended up turning into a mad house. So claustrophobic. Everyone was trying to touch me and get my attention. I started having a mini panic attack so I grabbed Sister Gee and we ran to the car and hid in it until the other Sisters came out. See ya later Perry Ward! I guess people get attached after almost 8 months together. We drove to Sites and it looked like Disneyland. Hoards of people were walkin around. Visiting the Visitors' Center was the last part of the Zion's Camp activity. At one point we had 8 tours out with each tour having about 20-30 people. That is a ton of people!!!!!!!! It was a lot of fun to hang out with peeps our age and ask them about college or what is going on in the outside world. Ok so this email is really long because since it is Memorial Day the libraries are closed so we are emailing at someone's house. Sister Gee finished her emailing in 5 mins and she is currently passed out on the floor which leaves me some time to write. I stayed up really late last night packing up all of my stuff. Man I have a lot of crap. I was able to ditch all of the useless junk and fit everything in my 2 suitcases. Transfer meeting is on Wednesday and that is when I find out my fate. President tends to do anything and everything with Site sisters when it comes to transfers. Site sisters can be sent to the other side of the state and spend a transfer or 2 never coming to Sites (this happens to almost every missionary at some point!! yikes!) or they can be sent to live off campus and come to Sites once a week (that is currently the situation that Kylie is in right now) or he can keep you living on Site and have you at the Visitors' Center 4 days a week.  Right now the sky's the limit for me. I really don't want to go full pros. I would cry really hard. I have come to love giving tours at Kirtland. Sisters that have had to go full pros have said that it is very lonely out there but that it is a good learning experience. Heavenly Father is in charge and he will put me where I am suppose to go. I think that is all that I can possibly think of to write home this week. I love you all. I am sorry about Jack. That is so sad. Plans for a new dog? How is Austin handling it? Also will someone just email me and let me know that you are all alive? I love you all! OHHHH ya!!!! How could I have forgotten this???? I got the wedding invite!!!! Darling!!!!!!! Obsessed!!!!! I think it has gone through each of the Kirtland Sisters' hands. We all approve! I also got your postcard mom. That was really nice of you. I love love getting mail in my mail box. I like it more then getting emails (hint hint!). Have a great week peeps. 

Sister Frampton

Amish With the Amish

Hello Hello! It sounds like this week is busy with weddings and such. I am so excited to get an invite in the mail!! Ok so today I have zero time to write. I am sorry it sounds like I say that every week. Here is some highlights from the week.

1. On Tuesday I went on exchanges with Sister Palmer to the Amish country. It was so much fun. Amish are crazy! I cannot believe they choose to live like that. We were able to say 3 prayers with people as we were tracting.

2. Wednesday was Zone Conference. The Aps broke us up  into groups and had us teach each other different things. President grabbed Sister Gee and I and said I want the two of you to teach me. AHHHHH!!!!!!!!! He wanted us to teach him the Word of Wisdom in 5 mins. Well we did it and we rocked!!! After we finished teaching we went back in the chapel and he went on and on complementing us in front of our Zone. Score some points with President!!!!!

3. The people from the Community of Christ (the church that owns the Kirtland Temple) came through and checked out the art exhibit that I set up. They loved it so much and they asked if I could start helping them at the Kirtland Temple. I got permission and for 2 hours each week I am going to be redoing all of the exhibits at the Kirtland Temple. YAY!!! so fun!!!!

4. Transfers are this week. Please pray that I dont get transferred. Sister Gee and I are doing so well together. I will find out on Sunday if I am getting the boot or not.

5. In about 5 mins. Sister Gee and I are going back to the Amish country. She didn't get to come with me on exchanges so she missed out. I will for sure take you all there when you come to get me. It is so fun! We are going to a big fair that they put on.

I love you all so much! The church is true no matter where you are!

Haaffeenn gaffeenn ubernacken!
Sister Frampton

See you on SUNDAY!!!

Hello Hello everyone! Thank you for the emails. I sounds like some exciting events are taking place this week- mission calls and engagements. I am excited to hear all about them on Sunday. Before I forget to tell you, Sister Gee's sister in law is Denny Shepherd. She was in our League City ward. Mom was her young womens' president. Also, someone named Erin Stringham (no idea who she is.) She knows Sister Gee's aunt and saw a picture of us and said that she knew our family. A few days ago I took Riley Roger's mom and dad on tour. Riley is one of Kevin Boyer's good friends. The mom was so nice. She is a friend of Debbie's. The mom was taking tons of pictures of me on tour and said that she would get them to ya'll. Not sure if she did or not. Have Mccall ask Riley and she can get the pictures to you.

This week was a good week. Our schedule has changed at sites because it is now the busy season. We have big old bus tours coming in. We are not at sites 4 days a week and in our area 2 days a week. It makes it really hard to teach and find people but I guess at sites we are still doing the Lord's will. It doesn't matter where you are you can still do the Lord's will. 

So remember Kent? I just love him so much. He is from Aurora, Colorado. He finally checked himself into an inpatient rehab center so we haven't been able to talk with him. His girlfriend Jennifer hasn't been interested in learning from us. We decided to just be really nice to her and let her see that Mormons are normal people. We would email her back and forth and ask how their new baby is doing and how she is doing. On Friday we got this email from her:

Hey, Sorry that I haven't been in my email. I haven't heard anything from Kent since the latest email. Jeremiah had an ear infection for a few days so I was dealing with that of course he was not a happy little fellow with all of that going on. You know I have been praying about it and I would like to go ahead and to talk to about your beliefs. I mean what harm does talking about it have. You were talking about the possibility of doing this over chat, I believe I would be interested in it.

Jennifer

When we got that email I screamed. We didn't even ask her to meet with us or to pray about it. It goes to show that being an example can bring the Spirit into people's lives. It is so cool. We are going to chat with her Tuesday night. We have a really good lesson plan for her. We are going to teach her parts of the plan of salvation- focusing on the purpose of life and eternal families. Please pray for us all Tuesday. We really want them to get baptized. They are an awesome family. Kent and her are planning on getting married after his treatment. He read about the law of chastity and he really wants to keep it so they have committed to getting married. 

This week we also did something really fun. The mission knows that I taught school so they asked Sister Gee and I to help volunteer at the Lake County Historical Society Center. Once a week they put on a field trip for schools to come. They have a one room school house, a log cabin and some other fun things. (Remember when we did that at Ferguson?) The part that they needed us to do is to teach the kids how to make candles. They gave us all this information about how the people in the 1800s made candles. We present the info and then we help them dip their own candles. We even get to dress us like pioneers. haha! Sister Gee is terrified of children. She has no idea what to do when she gets up in front of them. I told her that kids were my specialty so she let me do my thing. We have been assigned to do this ever Wednesday for the next few months. This week was our first week. It was an interesting week because the group that came was special needs. It was a group of about 12- 15-30 year olds. Sister Gee was really uncomfortable around then (just because she has never been around people like this). I jumped right in and took care of everything. There was some pretty severe special needs, of course there is always an autistic kid screaming in the corner (Ian). There was the cutest Down Syndrome girl named Ellen. She was 22 years old. The lady that is in charge of the Historical Society was really impressed with me. (Sorry I am bragging again). She said  that it is really hard for people to take all of the candle making information and directions and tailor it to special needs people but I did a really good job at it. I loved it. I wish Austy was there. He would have dipped a mean candle! haha!  

Well I am excited to see you all on Sunday! Sister Gee is really excited to meet ya'll. Maybe something funny we can do to trick her is for ya'll to wear something really ugly or look like dorks or wear dumb hats. I think that would be so funny. She would be like uh.... haha! I guess as a missionary you get bored and dumb things start sounding like good, fun ideas.

I guess now I am Sister Frampton the elder! haha

Love you all!!!!!!!!

More about Kent

Hey everyone. Thanks for the emails this week. I loved them. Fun that Dall and Car are in Kenya. So fun for them. A few highlights of this week: I played a musical number for Sacrament meeting. Only a few people have musical talents in the ward so it was a fun way to serve the ward. Also, a new art exhibit was sent to Kirtland. When it came the site director had no idea how to set it up. We were all in a meeting and he said "does anyone have any experience with art museums?" All of the sudden I found myself standing up saying "I do." AHHH what the heck? When you have the spirit with you you end up doing things without even knowing you are doing them. I love art history and I spent a study abroad studying museums. How hard could it be to set up an exhibit? Well it took me 3 days to get it perfect. I was left alone with 10 huge paintings and my comp studying in the corner. I walked in an out of the room trying my best to make sure that the way I arranged them brought the spirit to Kirtland. You should have seen me. I was up on this huge latter adjusting lights and measuring heights. After I finished the site director walked in and he got tears in his eyes. He kept saying this is spectaculor. (Sorry I am taking a moment to brag.) He was really impressed and pleased with my work. I had a lot of fun doing it. The site director was so impressed with my work that he took pictures of it and sent it to the Missionary committee in Salt Lake. The local newspaper came to interview me and asked questions like "How did you decide where everything goes? How did you decide lighting?" The only answer I could give was "I was directed by the Spirit." Sunday was opening night for the exhibit. It was packed. I seriously felt like a celebrity. It was so weird. I just follwed the site director around as he introduced me to upity up people from the community. I was able to have a good 10 min conversation with the mayor and his wife. It is soo cool that missionary work comes in tons of different forms. Because I had the spirit with me I was able to set up this beautiful exhibit and help nonmembers feel the Spirit and want to know why they feel so good. It was a really cool experience for me.

 

So here is a chat that we had with our dear friend Kent this week. I will summarize it just in case it is hard to understand. Last week we mailed Kent a Book of Mormon but it got sent back to us for some reason. He has only been able to read it online so he hasn't been able to read it whenever he wants to. During this conversation he is at the library trying to print off chapters of the Book so he can always have something to read. (Rebecca is my companion-Sister Gee and me is well... me Jennifer  is Kent's girlfriend.)

 

Rebecca: Hey so we realized you don't have the Book of mormon because it got sent back o us.

Rebecca: Are you able to print off some pages at the library?

Kent: yea

Kent: i could do that

Rebecca: sweet. Will you do that right now?

Kent: anything specific i should print off

Me: yes

Rebecca: Go to alma 36

Rebecca: Also Mosiah 27 is good

Rebecca: alma 34, 35 and 36

Me: alma 32

Rebecca: 2 nephi 9 and 31

Me: Those are all chapters

Rebecca: 1 nephi 7

Me: 1 nephi 8

Kent: oh ok

Kent: they lady said it is 10 cents each but gave me the code to print for free! that is so nice of her.

 

Me: That is God showing you he loves you

Me: he made that happen for you because the Book of Mormon will change your life

Me: for good

Rebecca: Miracle. God just showed you that He is going to help you

Me: You are going to have a new life

Kent: i just printed off the first few

Me: perfect

Kent: wow the librarian just brought me the stuff i printed

Me: Such a nice lady

Kent: and she just said "hey i know the book of mormon"

Rebecca: So cool.

Me: go teach her more about the Book of Mormon

Kent: i cant do that haha she probably knows more than me!

Me: Then go learn from her

Me: haha

 

Kent: welp she just said she said shes a member of your church

Rebecca: Stop

Rebecca: kent

Rebecca: That is so cool.

Rebecca: Talk to her

Me: You don't realize that God put her in your path because he loves you
Kent: the librarian just asked if she could talk to you guys here on chat.

Me: Tell her we said that she can.

Kent: Hey guys totally cant stop for too long but couldnt help it!

Kent: ive seen this young man come in and chat on ur site in the library a few times

Kent: I feel the Holy Ghost when I watch him chat with you

Kent: my names Kendra

Me: How perfect is this!

Rebecca: Hey Kendra

Kent: i work here in the library

Rebecca: Thanks for printing off those papers for Kent

Me: Ya we are missionaries in Ohio and we have been teaching him for about 3 weeks

Kent: I can do better than helpin him print pages for free ive got a copy in my car

 

Rebecca: Oh my goodness

Rebecca: Thank you so much!

Rebecca: This is a miracle

Me: The Gospel is so true

Rebecca: We were wondering how we could get him a hard copy because the copy we mailed him got sent back

Kent: my testimony has been strengthened so much

Me: Ours too

Me: This is amazing!!!

Me: Heavenly Father loves us

Kent: that he does!

Me: You are an amazing member of the church

Kent: one moment i gotta help a srudent

Me: Thank you so much Kendra

Kent: u are so welcome!

Rebecca: Yah.

Kent: Ok this is kent again. ha that lady has been really nice to me here at the libary

Rebecca: KENT

Me: She has a book of mormon in her car for you

Rebecca: that is so cool

Me: God is blessing you

Rebecca: She just happened to have one for you.

Kent: yea thats cool

Rebecca: See? God is looking out for you :)

Me: This is the path that you need to be on

Kent: i think so!

Kent: ha she is the nicest libraian i ever met

Me: I am crying right now.

Me: She is nice because she has our church in her life

Rebecca: That is how the people at church are. They are all nice and want to help you

Me: People are on your side

Rebecca: God is on your side.

Rebecca: You can do it!

Kent: shes back haha

Kent: Ok this is Kendra again. Hey sorry I just wanted to thank you guys for serving on a mission

Rebecca: little miracles like this make it all worth it :)

Kent: it is so cool!

Kent: i have been a member of the church for almost 3 yrs

Kent: i am a convert and things like this do indeed make it worth it

Rebecca: Oh that is awesome!

Me: It couldnt be possible without help from the Holy Ghost

Me: and without prepared members like you

Rebecca: :)

Me: Thank you so much

Kent: I have to be honest and tell you that i had been recently struggling

Kent: and i just started reading my scriptures again and thats why i have a copy in my car

Kent: i read it during my breaks

Me: The Book of Mormon can make miracles happen.

Me: I know that if you will read the Book of Mormon every single day that God will take care of you.

Rebecca: Oh my goodness. That is so neat. It is true that you help others as you try to help yourself become the person God want you to be 

Me: Please feel free to call us whenever. Our number is 440-256-9805

Kent: oh ok wonderful!

Kent: i will save it

Me: Take care of Kent for us

Me: Thank you so much!

Kent: i better get back to shelving books but i really needed to tall you that

Kent: *tell

Me: :)

Rebecca: Well it has been a delight talking to you. Thanks for all you do 

Me: Have a great day Kendra!

Kent: Thanks you both are such dears!

Kent: May I ask how long you have been on a mission

Rebecca: yes I have been out for 9 months

Me: I have been on a mission almost 7 months

Kent: wonderful! Keep serving!

Kent: ok bye for now

Me: Bye

Rebecca: Kent?

Kent: im right here haha

Kent: that lady is neat

Me: How are you feeling right now Kent?

Kent: without words

Me: us too

Me: I was just crying because I was so happy

Me: legit tears down my cheeks

Me: haha

Kent: oh snaps

Rebecca: I have a big ol smile on my face because I feel the love God has for you

Me: Can ye feel so now?

Kent: i can!

Kent: i just had no idea she was also a member

Kent: she lets me use a computer where i dont gotta keep loggin in

Kent: must of been cuz she noticed i was on a chat

Me: And she knows that the church will help you

Me: because it has helped her

Rebecca: It is so clear that God is placing people in your life to help you

Me: 

Me: 

Me: i might have looked like that crying

Me: haha no just kidding

Rebecca: She was crying tears of joy :)

Me: 

Kent: what are tears of joy?

Me: more like this

Me: a big old smile

Me: have you ever been so touched or happy before that you have cried?

Rebecca: It is when you are crying because you are so happy

Me: like when you look at jeremiah

Me: or when you hold him?

Me: It's when you cry because you are so happy

Kent: yea i did that when he was first born

Me: Thats why i was crying

Me: becasue i was happy

Me: *because

Me: those are tears of joy

Me: How does it feel to hold the Book of Mormon

Me: ?

Me: 

Kent: awesome!

Kent: i got my own copy! its rather sweet

Rebecca: That is so exciting. It feels good because it is right.

Me: The Book of Mormon is true

Rebecca: That Book will become one of your best friends if you let it.

Kent: :)

Rebecca: I have grown to love the Book of Mormon when I feel alone I read the Book of Mormon and it helps me feel loved.

Kent: but Jennifer doesnt believe in the Book of Mormon

Me: Don't let that discourage you

Rebecca: At least she sees that it helps you and you know it helps you

Me: When it's the right time she will see how great it is.

Me: You should share this experience with her. That the lady just so happened to have one in her car to give you.

Kent: i so will!

 

Isn't that seriously so cool? Not only were we able to help Kent get a Book of Mormon, we also helped a member that has been struggling. AHH the gospel is so true. It is awesome. I love being able to help people. The visitors' center is so cool. I love being able to chat with people from all over the world!!!!! I love you all and miss you like crazy!! YAY McCall! You are going to be doing awesome things like this once you leave! Thanks for your support. PS I love getting letters in the mail so don't be afraid to drop one my way.

 

Sister Frampton

The story of Kenton Renton

Hey everyone! Thank you for the emails. It looks like our family consists of travelers this week. So fun. If you ever make it out my way feel free to drop by and I will give you a tour of Kirtland! This week has been really good. Transfers are this week and Sister Gee and I are staying together in Painesville. Yippeee!!!!! We are teaching a girl named Fatima (we have been teaching her off and on since November). She is really progressing. Her baptismal date is May 11th! Also start planning on Mother's day. I get to Skype home! Yay!!!!

About 3 weeks ago Sister Gee and I had a 23 year old man come on to Mormon.org chat. He said that he was really struggling and he needed help. He said that he was googling a bunch of different things, trying to find help and he came across Mormon.org chat. He said that his girlfriend was about to have a baby and that he is addicted to Meth and he really wants to get off Meth so that he can be a good father to this baby. He said that the mom is a really good girl and doesn't do drugs and doesn't even drink. That's good! We started teaching him how Jesus Christ can help him. We made a deal with him that we would go off sugar if he would go off Meth. He has been clean for 3 weeks and so have Sister Gee and I. We have been chatting back and forth with him ever since. Since then we have taught him about prayer. He loves praying. He can really feel that it makes a difference in his life. Because he is clean he was able to move in with his girlfriend. She had the baby about a week ago and he has loved having a family. His girlfriend is really, really glad that he has found our church because he has made such a drastic change in his life. We have helped Kent come up with a plan for his life and what type of father he wants to be. One day we got on to chat with him and he said that he found the Book of Mormon on our website and he has already started reading it and he loves it. He is such a great guy. How cool is that? We taught him about the law of chastity and he committed to it. He sleeps on the couch while his girlfriend sleeps in the bed. YAY!!! He is planning on this week asking her to marry him because he has a goal of getting married in the Temple so they can be sealed forever!!!!!!!! So cute!!! Here are some emails we got from him this week. He is really progressing. Tomorrow we are planning on starting to teach his girlfriend, Jennifer. Ps his son's name is Jeremiah.

Becca and Lacee: We got most of my stuff moved in. My friend Zane was willing to help so that was kind of him. Yea I read a bit of the Book of Mormon today. Jennifer Jeremiah and I had our first family prayers before bed.  It went really well. I love family prayers...haha but dang that kid ain't got a sleep schedule yet. He wakes up a lot. Jennifer is still somewhat sore so I been learning how to bottle feed him...I love feeding him. Gosh this kid can eat! I feel like he always hungry. lol I've had the day off so it has been great to spend time with my new family. Thank you so much for helping me turn my life around. I don't know where I would be without ya'll. I would probably be in jail or dead in a ditch.

Kent

Becca and Lacee:Hey! Ha yea its crazy being a dad but its weird I wouldn't change it for the world. Its crazy too because its almost like Jeremiah is my new addiction if I can be allowed to think of it that way. Well I am getting ready to take Jennifer and little man to lunch because I have to close at the warehouse tonight from 3 until close. But I'll have some time tmrw after 5 my time if that works to chat. Yea I have been reading the Book of Mormon more. I even worked it into my daily schedule to read before I get things started. Family prayer actually was awesome last night! Jennifer talked to me a little bit about being raised in a baptist church setting. She was totally stoked that I found church. We may find ourselves involved more in your church. Have a good day. Thank you so much for everything!

Kent

Becca and Lacee: Yes I have without a doubt noticed that reading the Book of Mormon and praying makes me happy. Although Jennifer says she prefers to read from the Holy Bible...she does seem happier with me and the fact that I'm changing. She was a bit disappointed that I didn't want to join her for church this morning at her baptist church but I'm just not quite there yet and I think she respected it but was a bit unhappy with me about that. I will ask her tonight about giving her email address to you guys. I think she will like learning from ya'll.  I'm actually happy today I am on office duty at work. Meaning I just have to keep inventory updated online for most of my shift and send out email orders so it shouldn't be too bad tonight...plus I can check my email with u guys off and on today. :)

Kent

Isn't Kent so great. He has come so far. 3 weeks ago he didn't even know who Jesus Christ was or how to pray. Now he is reading the Book of Mormon and praying and setting a goal to have an eternal family!! We mailed him a package today. We sent him two paper Book of Mormons (so he doesn't have to read it online), some movies about parenting, a Lamb of God dvd, a family proc and a bunch of other things. Missions are so great! It is so cool that I have helped a family that lives all the way in Colorado come together and be able to live together forever!!!!

Will each of you pray for Kent, Jennifer, Jeremiah and Fatima? I love you all and I miss you! Can't wait to see your faces on Mother's day!

Sister Frampton

Hide yo kids, hide yo wife... We're goin gangsta

Hello everyone! Thank you to those who emailed me this week. I really do love getting emails and mail from everyone. This weekend I was able to watch all of conference (well all except the last hour of Sunday morning session because we had to give a tour of Kirtland). On Saturday Sister Gee and I went to our ward to watch it. We expected lots of people to be there. I remember going to watch conference at the ward in Texas and tons of people were there. However, we were the only ones there. We had packed a "conference" bag (ya know with our blankets, snacks, drinks, projects to work on, fuzzy socks) and said we would only bring in the conference bag if no one else is there. We have to look professional in front of the members. We had such a good set up in the chapel. It was a lot of fun.

Do ya'll remember back in December when Sister Hansen and I were teaching the Pina family? Well they are back in business. This time it is only Cynthia (she is 14) and Fatima (she is 21). Fatima has 2 kids ages 3 and 9 months. Fatima lives with her boyfriend. Fatima and Cynthia are sisters. I love them both so much. Fatima loves learning from us. She is amazing. We are teaching them tonight and we are going to invite them to be baptized!!!!!! Please pray for Cynthia and Fatima. We are also hoping that Fatima's boyfriend Jose jumps on board.

This week has been really good at Kirtland. I have been really studying the history of everything that has happened here so that I can give really good, powerful tours. I have been studying a lot about the Whitney family. I am so surprised that they are never talked about when church history is being taught. Study about Newel and Elizabeth Whitney. They are so cool!!! 

I had a really funny experience on Saturday. We had an appointment with a girl we have been off and on teaching named Markiesha. When we got there she was asleep. Boo!!!!! As we were getting in the car to leave we saw her cousin Bixxie walking up. Now I have had a few good conversations with him in the past. He is the neighborhood's main drug dealer. We started talking with him and asking him how he was doing and stuff. I think he was on something because he was going off about us church girls always comin around and always askin him how he is doing and what's new. After about 5 mins two other black guys walk out of a neighbor's house and I totally knew them. They are sons of a less active that's in the ward. I had met them about a month ago with Sister Bell. They walked over and they were like "Yo whut up it's the church girl Miss Frampton." Bixxie was so confused that I knew his friends and Sister Gee was just rolling her eyes because it seems like I know all of the gangstas in our area. We started talking with them and catching up on how their mom was and how they were doing. They had another friend join up with them that I didn't know. Bixxie was getting annoyed and he said "ya'll can keep talking with us but I don't wanna hear any church talk." Alright that was the plan- just to get them comfortable talking with us and then maybe the next time we'll talk church. They said that it used to be weird to see me (a white girl) hangin out in the ghetto but now they are used to it because they see me all the time just walkin around. Their friend Odin started asking us questions about our church and Bixxie was getting all mad. Odin calmed him down by saying "it's alright man if we talk religion. No harm done. Relax!" Odin had some really great questions for us! He had questions that go right along with the Restoration. He kept saying "i'm not trying to disrespect ya'll but how do you know to trust the men of your church? They are men. How do you they aren't just making things up?" He was so interested in how men have changed the Bible and how men have been teaching whatever they want to teach. We ran to our car and grabbed two restoration pamphlets. We sat down on the concrete and taught him the first lesson. It was so cool. We taught him just enough that he would still have some questions and want to keep talking with us. He gave us his number and we are going to talk again!! It is so cool how when things don't work out (Markiesha flaming out lesson bc she was asleep) that the Lord always has another plan.

Ok well my companion is hovering over me and she is ready to go! I love you all so much! Thanks for all you do!

Sister Frampton

"mmm... Jesus tastes good."

 

Happy Easter everyone! I am jealous that the weather in Utah has been so warm!!! It is so cold and yucky here. According to Sister Atley (my favorite 89 year old Mayan Indian) it doesn't warm up here until the end up May. I guess I just need to buckle up until then.
For Easter we went to a 7:30 am devotional at the Kirtland Temple. The Community of Christ put it on. It was good but a bit strange. Also a really loud trumpet was involved during the service. Nice. We went to church, had an intense Easter egg  hunt at the Kirtland Historic Sites and then the 6 of us that live together dyed eggs and had an egg roll. It was so much fun. Of course I got out on the first round. Nothing new there. (videos to come) 

Some quick highlights of the week:
A 24 year old guy named Kent came onto chat with Sister Gee and I. He said that he has hit rock bottom and he really wants to find God and turn his life around. We had a really good chat with him. It lasted about 2 hours. We taught him all about Jesus Christ. He knew nothing about him. He really liked learning from us. We taught him how to pray and we waited while he prayed on the other end of the computer. He prayed and said that he loved how he felt. We set up another appointment with him for the next day and we had another really good chat with him. We found out that he was about 2 days sober from Meth and that he is having a really hard time coming off of it. Sister Gee committed both her and I to go off of sugar while he is going off of Meth so we can also experience with drawls and cravings so we could relate to him. (Thank you Sister Gee) So since last Wednesday we have been off sugar. I really can relate to Kent. We are calling him tomorrow to see if he made it to church yesterday. Pray for Kent.

Ok here is the best thing that has happened my whole mission. Get ready folks...
On Friday we had dinner at a member's house. It is a bit of a sketchy member but whatever. He is a single dad and has 2 sons about ages 8 and 11. We can't eat there alone with him so we always bring our trusty best friend Sister Atley. He made us an Easter feast- it actually was really good. Lamb (baa baa) (When he turned and looked the other way I hurried and put mine back. I just couldn't do it. Mary had a little lamb...), potatoes, asparagus, broccoli. Before he lets us eat he says "The reason we are having this meal is because it is symbolic. Do you know why it is symbolic?" One of the boys shouts "Because Jesus is a lamb." The dad says "Why yes Joey Jesus is the lamb." All of the sudden Joey takes a huge chomp of Lamb and with his mouth so full he says "Mmmm Jesus tastes good." Sister Gee and I were pinching each other under the table and trying so had not to laugh. The dad said "Ya Lehi said that the gospel is delicious to the taste." WHATTT???? They dad is just goin with it. I tried to bring it all back to reality and I chimed it "Well it's kinda like the sacrament. We aren't really eating Jesus." No one even heard my comment because the boys were saying how good Jesus tastes. The second we got in the car Sister Gee and I bursted out in laughter. 

Well I  hope everyone is doing good. Thanks for the emails this week. I love getting mail in my mail box so just to remind everyone my address is:

7800 Kirtland Chardon Road
Kirtland, OH 44049

Happy Spring!

Lacee Rae