HEY EVERYONE!!!!
I am loving the MTC! It feels so natural to be here for some
reason. I feel like I have always been a missionary and then I remember that I
just got here last week haha. I am having so much fun and learning so much!
My companion is the delightful Sister Conrad. We were
seriously meant to be together. At first, I thought she was going to be really
serious and that I wouldn't be able to be silly around her, but I was wrong.
She is just as weird as me! We crack each other up. I have also learned so much
from her. I love teaching with Sister Conrad. I am so blessed to have her as my
first companion! Side note: I accidentally call her Lauren about once a day.
No, Lauren is not her first name. However it is my brain's first instinct
because I immediately associated Conrad with Lauren Conrad.... Whoops.
Sister Conrad and Sister Froemming
And guess what?! My district has 4 elders going to Australia
(3 going to Brisbane and 1 going to Sydney North) and then the three other
girls in my district (including my comp) are all going to the West Indies!
Sister Conrad was so excited when I told her my mom was from Port of Spain
because that's where the mission home is. We talk about Trinidad all the time
and what the food will be like for them. It's so cool because our teacher told
us that there are other people going to Australia and the West Indies in the
MTC but they felt prompted to put all of us together. Everyone in my district
is wonderful! We are all so different and weird and I absolutely love it. We
have bonded so much. We are already planning district reunions.
So on Friday, WE GOT OUR TRAVEL PLANS! I leave on the 18th
at 5:30 PM and arrive in Aussie on the 20th at 8:30 AM. Sounds fun right? I'm
so excited! I was almost positive that I would have to wait in the MTC for a
while, but I'm going to be out in the field after only 12 days in the MTC! We
all got SO excited when our plans came!
I have learned so much since I got here. The Lord has
humbled and humbled and humbled me. I love it! I have learned so much about how
to teach people.I think the most valuable thing I've learned though is just
that when your focused on others and putting your trust in Heavenly Father, you
can't fail. I have become so much more in tune with the spirit. And I have been
able to receive revelation for our investigators which is so humbling and
amazing!
So right now, Sister Conrad and I are teaching Johnathon,
Selam (who is our teacher portraying a person she taught on her mission) and
Jamie. Our first lesson was with Selam. We were pretty nervous but we really
tried to focus on the spirit and it went really well! As we were teaching
Selam, we both totally forgot it was our teacher and felt so much love for her.
A little about Selam: she is from Ethiopia, she has a lot of faith, and she
lost her mom to cancer. We went in the lesson planning to teach her the
restoration but we both felt like we should teach her the Plan of Salvation. As
we were teaching, I felt prompted to testify to Selam that her mom is still
alive and that she will see her again one day. As I did that, I actually
started to tear up. I was really surprised that at how much love I had for Selam
even though I was looking at my teacher, Sister Gibson. That experience made me
so excited to meet the people who the Lord is preparing in Australia! We taught
Johnathon and Jamie yesterday too. They are TRC investigators which means we go
meet with them in a room in the TRC building and we have no idea who they are
or if they are members or not. We have learned so much just from teaching them
once. I am so happy I am getting this experience and learning the lessons that
I need to learn here in the MTC rather than in the mission field. I'm so
excited every time we get to teach!
The MTC is a wonderful place! The spirit is crazy strong
here. I can feel the Lord refining me as I learn more and more how to fully put
my trust in Him. I feel so lucky to be on the Lord's errand. I can feel that
Heavenly Father is aware of me more than I ever have before.
"If you spend 20 minutes a day with the Savior of this
world in scripture study, you will spend eternity in His presence." -
Steven R. Covey (His granddaughter is in my district and she shared this quote
with us and I loved it.) I have seen so much peace in all this craziness as I'm
adjusting to missionary life by spending that time in the scriptures. I hope
all of you are making it a priority in your life as well!
I love and care about you all so much!
P.S. I don't have everyone's email, so if you could forward
this to people you know would like to see it, that would be great!
Love,
Sister Froemming
P.S.S. It took everyone THREE DAYS to learn how to say my
name. And last night Sister Conrad called me Sister Froemire for some reason
lol. We laughed about that one for a while.
Excited Missionaries on their way to call their Moms
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