Serenaded Cows on a Gondola - May 16, 2016

What a week! I can't remember most of it because I spent a lot of time sleeping, on cough medicine, or at the dentist.... But it was a great week nonetheless. 

Monday was spent at the dentist office getting a root canal then I spent the rest of the evening on Jenny's couch watching Meet the Mormons. Okay, Jenny and Sister Gerard watched it while I tried to sleep. 

Tuesday we drove down to Claremore, Ok for exchanges. There were really good! I love Sisters Taylor and Calaway so much. They are amazing! 

Wednesday we drove back to Indy. Had district meeting in Bartlesville, Ok first. I just love this district. We are all trying to hit the standard of excellence for this week so a lot of our discussion was preparing for that. Went tracting and met some great people. Not really interested right now but planted some good seeds. Had a goodbye party for two families in the ward that are leaving. It was fun. Spent most of the time with Nathan Hogge who is leaving for his mission in a month. He is so prepared it is unreal! 

Thursday, we went back to the dentist to get fitted for a crown. I'm pretty sure they gave me something besides Novocain. Sister Gerard sure had a laugh about it though. We went to sister mcguires house so I could get some ice but they just kept talking to me. I found out that I want 3 cows in San Francisco and we're going be serenaded on a gondola.... It was a crazy day. I can't remember most of it but sister gerard took video's so I'll show them to y'all in 6 months. They are hilarious. 

We got 4 new investigators this week which is amazing! Met an awesome lady. I'll tell you about her next week. I am out of time but I just want to say that miracles really do exist. Heavenly Father is aware of us and loves us more than we will ever know. I am so grateful to be a missionary and help move this work forward. He takes my best and turns it into so much more. 

I love you so much! Have an amazing week! I would love to hear from you :) 

Love, 

Sister frederickson

Fiestas & BBQ's - May 9, 2016

This has just been a fun week FULL of miracles! 

We have been able to find so many incredible people, not all interested right now but we just keep planting those seeds. We have been so busy that we have been running from appointment to appointment. I love it! 

Wednesday was zone training and interviews with President Loveland and Sister Loveland. I love them so much! Their love and dedication to the Lord is such a great example. All the training we received was inspired and just what I needed. Met some great people tracting as well! We also followed up with our potential, Jeremiah. He is interested in taking the lessons! After we talked to him the first time he called his mom and asked what we believe. His family aren't members but his old wrestling coach in high school was so he tried to see what his mom could remember. I am excited to start teaching him and his family. 

We tracting into this Hispanic lady and sister gerard could communicate enough to set up a time that night to go back when her husband and son were home. We went back and ended up getting bible bashed for an hour. It was pretty comical actually! Good experience though. 

Thursday we had a fiesta at the Dahles with the Krauses for Cinco De Mayo. it was a lot of fun! We had an appointment before we could hit the pinata so sister dahle let us take a picture with it. 

Friday was our one year mark so we celebrated at Braum's, of course :) While in coffeyville we saw a lot of less actives we normally don't get to see. We went to the Krause's for dinner that night and had a bbq. It was so much fun. They invited a less active family over that we haven't been able to contact so it was really good to get to know them. They even invited us over to their house for dinner. :) The krause's are amazing member missionaries! 

Our Investigator Montie hasn't smoked for 5 days so that is super excited! He is just amazing and so prepared. He has the best questions, we love it! 

Sister McGuire has been their fellowshipper and comes to most of the lessons so when she wasn't there on sunday their whole family was asking where she was. Sister McGuire is just our best friend. She takes such good care of us all the time. We went over there yesterday to see how she was doing and had a great talk with her. We have the most spiritual conversations and some crazy off the wall conversations as well. She grew up in the south so her southern accent is the best! We got her to read the book of mormon to us in it then tell us a bed time story. She is just amazing! 

I love you all so much! Thank you for all your prayers and support. I know this gospel is true. It has changed me life. What a blessing it is to have the commandments in our life to help us and keep us on the right path. I invite you all to read the book of mormon and to apply its words into your life. Pray and ask Heavenly Father what is one thing you can improve on. 

Love, 

Sister Frederickson

Scripture Power - May 2, 2016

Hey! 

This week has been incredible as always. It has been full of miracles, blessings, and learning experiences. I've been thinking a lot about the scriptures this week. Every story and experience is in their for a reason, but what is the reason? That has been on my mind a lot lately. As I have read the scriptures I have wondered how I can better apply it to my life and see what I can learn from it. Nephi tells us to Liken the scriptures unto ourselves. I have been trying to have deep studies in all 4 books of scripture. It is amazing how much we can learn when we just ask. Heavenly Father is willing to tell us so much when we are willing to ask and listen. There are countless miracles from hundreds and thousands of years ago and there are still countless numbers of miracles each and every day. I have been trying to be better at noticing the miracles that come into my life every day. I am no where near seeing them all but the 1 or 2 more a day that I see are wonderful. It is a reminder to me that Heavenly Father has a plan for each one of us. He loves us infinitely. Accept his love into your life and it will do wonders! I'm SO grateful for this gospel. I'm so grateful for our Saviors Atonement. I love you all so much and hope you have a wonderful week.

 Happy Mother's Day to the wonderful women in my life. You are incredible! 

Love, Sister Frederickson

Baptism Was the Highlight - April 25, 2016

It has been a really good week. Nothing too excited has happened this week but sometimes that is a good thing. HOWEVER we did have a baptism so that was super exciting! Chris is a super quiet, low key guy so the only people that knew about it were us, the bishops family, and one other family. It was so amazing though! He is so prepared. Him and his wife, Jeri are the best. We stopped by saturday before the baptism to pick up something. Jeri insists on feeding us then chris gets home from work and hands us a bag of donuts. I don't think I have ever left their house empty handed. Anyways his baptism was the highlight of my week. I've got to run but have a great week! I love and miss you lots!

Running Faster Than You Have Strength - April 18, 2016

What a week! 

First off I just want to say thank you for all the prayers and support I get from each one of you. I wouldn't be here without you. I love you all so much!

Monday was missionary Monday at the Dahles house. It was a lot of fun. Sister Dahle is just so cute. Every Monday for dinner and FHE she picks a different country to go to. This week was Liberia so we had Joloff rice. It was delicious. Mom, I'm moving to Liberia. ha, just kidding. They normally use spam but sister dahle is a saint so she just used ham and chicken. We learned about the church there and everything else you wanted to know. It was fun! 

Tuesday we had a lesson with a potential investigator John. He grew up Mennonite but has very very similar beliefs to us. He just needs to make the choice to commit to change. I wish he could see how much the gospel could bless his life. We set up an appointment to see him again friday but he wasn't home so he left us a sign. It made my day. We also met this guy while we were tracting tuesday afternoon. He was so sweet. He has had a couple of really hard months but is so strong in his faith. I love meeting people like him and listening to their testimonies. Just one of the blessings each and every day. He thanked us for our service which always means the world to me. Then he told us of his friend to go talk to. She ended up being a former investigator actually. We went and knocked on her door and a home health care aid answered the door. She told us that the lady wasn't interested in whatever we were selling so we were walking down her drive way when we hear "wait, were those the sister missionaries? Invite them in!" So we talked to her for just a couple minutes. She is so sweet! We are going to try and see her this next week and talk to her more. Such a miracle!

Wednesday was our last district meeting with this district. Had to say goodbye to sister Lunt so that was so hard but I'll see her again probably really soon. I just love her. Met some neat people while tracting. Sister Gerard has definitely taught me to love tracting. I am amazed by all the people I meet everyday. Even if we don't find people through tracting we find them in different areas. For mutual with all the youth they had the stake patriarch come and talk. We invited our Recent Convert Jenny to it and stayed and listened. It was so amazing. After that we met up with the elders to give them the extra mattress in our apartment. Crazy night for sure but all good :) 

Thursday was weekly planning/ mental health day. It was great though! 

Friday we went to coffeyville for the day as usual. There was no school so we took one of the young women tracting with us. We only knocked on like 4 houses but of course with our luck one of them had to be her crush.... It was super awkward for her and we felt so bad! We are close with their whole family so her mom texted us later and was like "I thought I told you not to traumatize Amy." It was so funny and I really hope Amy will forgive us one day. Sorry Amy! 

Saturday was a members funeral. We helped out with that then the Krauses took us to lunch afterward. They are so sweet. We even just had dinner the night before. We don't starve with the krauses :) Drove up to Fall River to meet with a part member family. SO amazing! We answered a lot of Nancy's questions for her. It was incredible to watch and see how things clicked in her head. She has studied many different religions but you could tell this was different for her. 

Church was amazing like always on Sunday. You definitely get out what you put into the gospel. Those sundays where I am more focused and want to learn I am amazed by how strongly I feel the spirit. This week I focused a lot on things I wanted to change but didn't really have a direction so all week I felt like I was running 100mph but also spinning in circles. We talked to Bishop yesterday and I didn't quite feel like he knew how I was feeling. Wasn't feeling very what he was saying but then he talked about the scripture in Mosiah 4 that says we shouldn't run faster than we have strength. I took me a little bit for it to hit me but when it did it was like a ton of bricks. We are supposed to change but it isn't in our time. It was requires patience, diligence, and time. We have to continually evolve to become who Christ wants us to be. I was studying this morning about the spirit and revelation. A reference took me to Our Search For Happiness and it talked about he atonement. The atonement is so wonderful. It allows us to have that change but we must include him in it. This was just one of those weeks I forgot a basic principle of the gospel but it was one I needed to learn. I'm grateful for the experiences that Heavenly Father allows us to have. I'm so grateful for this gospel and I am so grateful for each and everyone of you. 

I hope you all have a great week! Sorry this turned into a novel. 

Love, sister Frederickson

fish, chickens, and ducks. - April 11, 2016

This week was a blast!!! 

Monday we went down to Claremore, Ok to go fishing. It was so much fun. I caught a fish two times. :) It wasn't the smartest fish in the pond but I'm sure the senior couple will enjoy it. We had so much fun! All of the missionaries in the zone were there except for 2 elders. It was sister gerards first time fishing on her mission so she was having a blast too. President Bell (stake president) was hypnotizing one of his chicken for us. It was pretty cool. I got to hold the chicken too :) So many firsts have been accomplished on my mission. We were getting ready to leave to make it back for our dinner appointment and president bell threw the chicken in our car. The chicken was totally fine being in there too. The whole day was just a lot of fun!

Tuesday we had a biking day which turned out a lot better than I thought it would. We had a day full of blessings and found a lot of really neat potential investigators. I was so sore for the next couple of days but it was definitely worth it. We had dinner with one of the three sister milligans. She was asking why we were so sunburned so we told her that we had gone fishing. She had no idea that missionaries could go fishing or she would have taken us every monday!!! She is the best. We are planning a fishing trip in the next couple of weeks. :)

Friday we had our zone training meeting. It was so inspired and amazing. The spirit was there so strongly. I'm grateful that I get to stay in this zone for one more transfer with all these amazing missionaries. Throughout the meeting we were trying to think of a vision for the zone and we weren't having any luck. Lots of suggestions but none of them felt right. Very last part of the meeting Sister Taylor offered up another scripture (D&C 121:45-46). As soon as she read it we just knew it was the one. I'm grateful for the amazing missionaries around me and for the holy ghost in guiding us in this important work.

I love you all so much! 

Love, Sister Frederickson

fastest email ever - April 4, 2016

This week was so amazing but I think that is how all my weeks have been. Mission are just the best! 

Things that have happened this week:

- Dinner with my favorite family :) Jenny, our recent convert. She is the best! 

- saw a high school teacher get duck taped to the wall. 

- red rice and beans is my favorite meal made by the hammerschmidts. I just found out that it is actually Zattarans. They had me fooled :) 

- had an amazing lesson with a Less active and his girlfriend. They are so ready to accept the gospel! 

-Great lessons while tracting! You never know who you will find :) 

-Tried to contact a media referral in Middle of Nowhere, Kansas. Sister Hart came out with us. She is pretty much the best. So we get out there, approach the door, knock and ask by name if this guy is home. The lady who answered the door said that he is out and asked what we wanted. We told her who we are and why we were there and she instantly asked how old our info was because "Well, he died 3 years ago. I don't know how you got that name." Super weird, super fishy. We all had a really odd feeling about all of it, so we left after she promptly closed the door. Weird things happen out in Kansas in the middle of nowhere! It was just a little crazy! 

-Escaped a tornado. A tornado hit Tulsa and Claremore. Everyone is safe and sound. No worries! 

-My new black girl name is Tamika! This is what happens when we tract in Indy! 

- and of course GENERAL CONFERENCE! Basically the mormon superbowl! I had so many wonderful insights! I'll write more about them next week! 

Love you all so much!!!! Miss you! 

Alma 5:12-13

Love, Sister Frederickson