I love mid week letters!

I thought I would share a few thoughts from Michael's mid week letter home - sometimes he shares a bit more of his week - than just a check off of things he has done :) 

"Today (Sunday) was a GREAT day for many reasons.  First - Elder Quentin L. Cook came to our sacrament meeting today - so this is the second time I have meet him since conference.  Second - we began our Double Male Quartet today and we are singing "Mary Did You Know" (Jonathan would love that)  There are eight people including me, a member of our mission presidency, one of our AP's (assistant to the president), etc.  I am looking forward to a great week.  My companion's birthday is on Wednsday and we are going to the temple.  I am also treating him to lunch at the Church Office Building Cafeteria - so Wednesday will be a good day!  I am starting to enjoy myself more each day.  I still miss BYU-I and my friends, but I know everyone is praying for me and thinking about me.  Let me know how the concert goes.  We have stake conference this coming week.  It will be my first Stake Conference in a year since I was home when  my BYU-I stake had there's and at school when Oakton Stake had there's.  Love you all so much - Elder Frederickson"

Michael's latest letter!

Hello everyone, 

For the first time since I’ve been on my mission, I actually cannot believe that it’s already p-day.  It’s definitely been a busy week.  Here’s my rundown of the week. 

Saturday 10/10 – After emailing we did some mission-wide activities, which was a ton of fun. 

Sunday 10/11 – We got up and went to branch choir practice, went to Music and the Spoken Word, had church, and then we had a dinner appointment with one of the senior couples. 

Monday 10/12 – We got up at 5am so we could go to choir practice and then had our Monday devotional.  We then went to our work zone and in the evening we had our District Meeting.

Tuesday 10/13 – We worked in our zone during the day.  Our mission choir sang at the senior mission conference in the middle of the day and since my companion is not in the choir, I went on a temporary companionship exchange, which was fun.

Wednesday 10/14 – We did more of our zone work, had our monthly Young Elder’s Conference, and then we did another performance at the second senior mission conference (the senior mission conference is divided into 2 days).  We still had our usual Wednesday afternoon choir practice despite having our 3 performances, which was also fun.

Thursday 10/15 – We had another somewhat busy day in our office, and then we had our research night on Thursday night.

Friday 10/16 – We did more of our zone work during the day and night.

Saturday 10/17 – We already did our shopping and will do our laundry and mission-wide activities, which should be fun.

Well that was my week in a nutshell. A few other interesting things are that 2 of the twelve came in to our office today to meet us.  It was Elder Cook and one of the new apostles (leaders in our church)  IT was really neat.  I have also been asked to sing in a double male quartet for the Christmas program.  It should be really fun.  My companion and I got invited to eat at a senior couples home this week.  They served beef stew and it was really good.   I have had a really great week.  

Love and miss you all so much!  Have a great week! J

Elder Frederickson

Conference was Awesome!

Hello Family and Friends,

Another week has come and gone!  Here is my rundown since I last wrote 10 days ago!

Wednesday 9/30 – After emailing, I had choir practice and then went to my night zone.

Thursday 10/1 – This day we did some more of our zone work and then had our weekly research night that night. 

Friday 10/2 – We again did our regular zone work in the day and night.

Saturday 10/3 – That day began our General Conference weekend, and as you can imagine, Temple Square was CRAZY (like literally!) crowded.  My companion and I went to Jimmy Johns for dinner before priesthood session (we saw that session in the Conference Center!!). 

Sunday 10/4 – That was the second day of General Conference and it was again very crowded on Temple Square. 

Monday 10/5 – We had to get up early in the morning for choir practice and then we had our mission devotional.  We then went straight to work afterwards.  That night we had a Zone Conference (and it was my first one as an elder!). 

Tuesday 10/6 – We did some more of our daily and evening zone work.

Wednesday 10/7 – Another busy day in the office doing our zone work.  We had choir practice that afternoon and then did our night shift. 

Thursday 10/8 – This day was the busiest of the days – that was when we got the most phone calls.  In between that, one of the elders showed me a poem that I’m going to attach to this email. 

Friday 10/9 – Yesterday we did another day of our regular zone work both during the day and night. 

Saturday 10/10 – So far today we have done shopping and I have done my laundry (only one of us could do laundry this morning since the laundry room was full).

Thanks for your support each week!  I really appreciate it.  Feel free to continue to write me (by both email and mailing letters!).  Have a great week!

-Elder Frederickson