Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Dec 9, 2009, 12:15 pm
Hello, Hello from Keelung City, Taiwan.  This week has been going really good!  Yesterday we had Zone Conference and it was very touching.  Not even kidding.  I think it was my fav...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Dec 2, 2009, 11:27 am
Gigi, thanks for giving me Nena's address, I actually finally got her letter yesterday with the address on it.  haha.  But the thing is I wrote her like 3 transfers ago, and keep seeing ...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Nov 26, 2009, 8:32 pm
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:32 PM Um, why is it that nobody writes me consistently?  You guys need to be better about that, especially since I write you EVERY week, even twice sometimes when my...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Nov 23, 2009, 1:06 pm
Domestic Goddess has left a new comment on a post "Rethinking Depression: Early Release Missionaries" that I put up a year ago.  She makes some good points: I realize its been nearly a year s...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Nov 18, 2009, 1:08 pm
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:26 PM Hello from Rainy Jilong City.  It was nice to get your guys emails finally!  This week when I introduced my family (Here in Taiwan it is standard to intr...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Nov 12, 2009, 8:01 am
Nobody wrote me this week.  I'm still in Jilong with the same companion.  However, there are two extra sisters this transfer and so they decided to put them in Jilong.  Now our area...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Nov 6, 2009, 10:52 am
Sister Daria Clifton reports that Swine Flu in a humorous incident at the MTC: Now, down to the news. On Thursday, six of my elders started complaining that they were not feeling well. They all looked...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Nov 6, 2009, 10:02 am
 I read an unusual bit of advice by Sister Marilyn Gee wife of Oklahoma Oklahoma City Mission president James Gee on lessening trunkiness for missionary's families: As President Gee intervie...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Nov 4, 2009, 9:50 am
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 2:25 AM We have a zone conference tomorrow with Elder Watson of the 70.  I'm excited.  We got to meet him in Taipei yesterday and talk for a couple minutes, a...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Nov 3, 2009, 12:35 pm
Reed Finlayson, a senior missionary serving with his wife in the Dominican Republic shared this from Elder Richard Hinckley of the Seventy about baptisms being up for first time in years: Elder Hink...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Oct 29, 2009, 3:27 pm
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:38 AM Okay I'm writing you like a 2 paragraph email this week, I spent my time online reading emails this week, and it was very nice to get to spend some time lookin...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Oct 21, 2009, 12:34 pm
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:26 PM Today is something I've heard missionaries refer to as a hump day?  No idea why, and nobody here says that, but yeah, I've been on my mission exactly 9...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Oct 20, 2009, 9:09 am
It takes a few days for missionaries to share with their families what they learned or thought about the past conference.  Different missionaries come away with different perspective depending on...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Oct 14, 2009, 7:20 am
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:28 AM Hello there, face here.  Okay, maybe I'm not face, but I liked that cartoon way back in the days.  It's just been another week in Jilong.  ...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Oct 12, 2009, 11:17 am
Elder Brandon Mitchell's family reported on his blog yesterday on Sunday, 11 October 2009 that The MTC presidency has now declared it flu season so we can no longer touch people.  No handsha...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Oct 12, 2009, 7:42 am
Today Landon Rich, a missionary serving in the Peru Lima Mission shares with us the story of Carlos, a drug addict who lived on the streets and slept in the back of a truck who has since cleaned up hi...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Oct 8, 2009, 10:04 am
Sister Aubrey Bjarnson serving in the Italy Rome Mission on the blog Quiet Rain shares this interesting parable The Game of Life: And I want to tell a story. The Game of Life: A Parable of Member ...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Oct 7, 2009, 11:46 am
This week doesn't have a lot in the way of things to talk about. I've found that I don't exactly like moving. I miss Zhongli a lot. Mostly because I worked so hard there in Zhongli for alm...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Oct 2, 2009, 11:25 pm
Elder Lee Jepsen serving in the Minnesota Minneapolis Mission's mother has one of the most interesting missionary blogs as she shares video clips and very interesting accounts of his mission which...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Oct 2, 2009, 10:35 am
In missionary culture the lives of missionaries revolve around transfers.  A transfer occurs every six weeks on a regular cycle and missionaries count their time in the mission field from their f...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Sep 29, 2009, 10:54 am
 From time to time the general authorities have missionaries try different approaches for finding investigators to teach.  One such program called Lesson Series was inaugurated back in March...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Sep 28, 2009, 6:23 am
Monday, September 28, 2009 3:12 AM I have come to the conclusion that this transfer, is going to be incredibly xingku and tongku.  I don't even know if that's the right pinyin and i'...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Sep 23, 2009, 12:08 pm
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 2:27 AM Hello from Zhongli, although it may be my last week here (or maybe I have a long time left here, speculations and bets have begun to be made).  haha.  ...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Sep 16, 2009, 9:26 am
Hmm...let's see, well, this is currently week 23 in Zhongli and not a lot has really happened that week that I have to talk about.  Most interesting though I guess, would be the situation wit...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Sep 10, 2009, 11:28 am
... very high. I taught them how to dress, how to memorize the scriptures. I thought of the hot seat and where I wanted them to be in six months. I told them they would be District Leaders and Zo...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Sep 9, 2009, 8:49 am
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 1:48 AM Okay, I just wrote an entire email in an hour, then the website got all messed up, so this won't be nearly as long or detailed...and I had to spend another 25...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Sep 2, 2009, 7:37 am
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 9:20 PM Hello and welcome to another exciting week in the life of Sister Flora Bruno. Please stay tuned as this is a very entrancing message about the gospel of Jesus Chri...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Aug 28, 2009, 11:22 am
When a person thinks of LDS missionaries giving service they usually think of them as helping people move or assisting in giving out food during a natural disaster which are all good service activitie...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Aug 27, 2009, 1:11 pm
Sister Melanie Elizabeth Warner of the Wisconsin Milwaukee Mission has a very unusual missionary aspiration. I think since she is in dairy country so she developed a mild case of cow infatuation and ...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Aug 27, 2009, 8:29 am
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:29 AM Hello from Zhongli! This week is going pretty good. We met some amazing investigators lately, and even though in some ways for...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Aug 25, 2009, 12:25 pm
The MTC Call Center serves multiple purposes. One it is a place for those who want to investigate the church anonymously can call and have their questions answered about the church. About.com descri...
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Frank B. posted an article on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord - Aug 25, 2009, 9:35 am
Elder Andy Glanzer shares an interesting MTC practice that Spanish missionaries do the Sunday night before missionaries in their zone leave for their fields of labor: When a missionary is going to le...
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