Hey Mom and Dad,
Today I opened the package with the peanut butter- thanks!!! I´m way excited now to make some pancakes with peanut butter! Lol, it´s been so long. Also I think I´ll have to try and make some Dinosaur cookies with it. I don’t think I told you I haven´t been able to find any raw cocoa powder here in any of the stores. All I ever see and all the workers ever show us is powdered chocolate to make chocolate milk. So I´ve actually tried making them with that two times, just trying to put a good ratio of chocolate powder and sugar. The first time I tried they turned out terrible, lol. But the second time not too bad. I´m excited now because I found in the freezer a bowl of ground cocoa. I tried it and it tastes like actual non-sweetened cocoa. A guy next to me in the cyber just asked me what I think about William Braham, he showed me a picture of him with a light over his head almost like a halo and told me about how many people believe him to be the “Esias,” or the prophet spoken to come in the Bible. Ha, fun times..and a good opportunity to invite him to General Conference this weekend. But that is interesting, have you heard of that guy? Ha now this guy sitting next to me is trying to convince us that Adam really wasn´t the father of Caín, but the serpent. Gotta love the conversations you get into as missionaries:). But anyways, so yeah.. I´m excited to make some real dinosaur cookies. And haha thanks for the quick make mashed potatoes, those´ll be fun to make some time. One thing that’s awesome about our area is that the chapel was just redone so it´s all new and really nice- oh and there´s an oven! Lol so yeah we´re thinking one Monday we´re gonna have to go and try baking some banana bread, hopefully it turns out good.
But anyways, things here are going great. As for our ward, it seems a little smaller than our ward in Libertad, but still strong. I´m excited because we have a great bishopric who all are willing to help us as much as they can. Like I said before, the building is new. It´s a little different because the actual chapel is a little smaller and it´s all a part of the main building. In Libertad the church had kind of two sections, one with the chapel, and then another building with the rooms (kinda like how the church was in Peru, if you remember how it was). There are 2 wards that meet in our building so our church starts at 8 and the other ward at 10 (yeah, 8! It was hard enough getting investigators to come to church by 9 in the morning, lol. Ah well a trial of the faith I suppose ). It´s called the 18 de Mayo ward I believe because that´s the name of the neighborhood it´s in, which has a street named 18 de Mayo (as to why they have neighborhoods and streets named after specific dates beats me, lol). The area that I´m in itself is actually way small. It’s in the middle of the city between the river Babahoyo and like what looks like huge fields where they grow rice (at least we think they grow rice, lol). It´s like 14 or 15 blocks long and maybe 9 or 10 blocks wide, so yeah, way small, especially compared to my sector in Libertad. Its kind of fun being changed to the middle of a city. Most of the parts where our investigators are feels like downtown Albany. There is one part that looks crazy and I definitely need to get a picture of is the southernmost border of our sector where I said there are what looks like fields of rice. There are tons of houses (many of bamboo) that are built on stilts of about 20 or 30 feet over water. There are a bunch of very rickety looking bridges to get to them. We have one less active family that lives in one of the houses and every time we go over there I hold my breath crossing the bridge, lol. When I get the chance I´ll take a picture to show you, it´s way cool.
Ooh one thing I have to tell you about is the fun experiences I´ve had eating some new fruits. You´ll have to tell Robbie about it, he sent me an email and asked me to tell him about it because it reminds him about being in India eating fruits that aren´t available in the states. The first one I actually had in Libertad several weeks ago named Maracuya (I think, lol, that’s what Elder Barcia said at least, oh and Elder Peters said they´re illegal in the states because you can make a drug out of it, lol, so I told myself I had to try it here while I can :). And it was a crazy oval looking fruit about twice the size of an egg. It was tan and was very hard like a pear. After a few days in the fridge they started getting all wrinkly so I thought they were going bad but Elder Barcia told me they were “maturing.” Lol. So finally he told me to cut one in half to try it and when I did I found there were like hundreds of black seeds in the center in kind of a goopy substance (it looked like a bunch of fish eggs, honestly =). He said you could have it two ways, with salt, or with sugar, I chose sugar. You pour some sugar on it then eat it with a spoon, spitting out the seeds. It had a very tart taste but was quite delicious. The other new fruit we had this week: Guava. I could of sworn there´s tons of guava juices that I´ve had but I´ve never seen the fruit. But it was funny we went to one family of recent converts and the first thing was they gave us two 3-foot long green wrinkly things that were also way stiff and told us to enjoy, lol. Seeing the confused look on our faces they explained it was guava and you open it by twisting it to break it open. Inside there were several huge seeds that had a white sweet covering. Again, you were supposed to eat the white sweet covering and spit out the seeds. It had a sweet taste that I enjoyed as well. All-in-all just fun new fruits that’s a good part of being in Ecuador :P.
Other then that all is going well. I´m way excited for Conference this weekend. It´s amazing the perspective as a missionary now. What I´ve been teaching for 6 months now about prophets and apostles is about to come to life. We have the opportunity to hear people who are inspired of God tell us what the Lord wants for us today. I´m especially excited for our investigators to come. Oh and also I´m glad I have a gringo companion because we can sit in the English room and actually hear the voices of the prophets :P Ok well I believe I´m out of time so I´d better go. Thanks for everything! I love you!
Love,
Elder David Frome
CAMBIOS!
Hey Mom and Dad,
Oh man so this week has been crazy! So yeah good calculating Dad, I realized I forget to tell you but yeah this week was the last week in the change and that means transfers! But oh it was crazy because it was Monday night, the first day of the week. Me and Elder Cordova just finished planning, we were excited for the last week of the change because we had lots of ideas to start teaching a scripture class to invite investigators and especially excited because we were gonna have the baptism of Manuel Baqueriso on the 19th. Then the phone rings, Elder Barcia answered it. That was normal, we often get calls at night for Elder Peters and Elder Cordova as Zone and District leaders. Then Elder Barcia said it was for me--that was different. I answered and it was Elder Gittins, one of the assistants, he said he had a change for me and asked how I felt about it. I was completely surprised and excited but confused because it was Monday, usually they don´t call till Sunday. But he said that I was being transferred to Babahoyo, Elder Ethridge was to be my new companion and that I needed to pack my bags and be in Guayaquil by 10 the following morning. Yeah, crazy, lol. We were all thrown for a loop because I was being transferred so early. Everyone was expecting me to be transferred Sunday. So it was crazy. I grabbed my suitcases and started throwing in clothes and telling Elder Barcia and Cordova that they had to write in my “libro de recuerdos” (it´s a diary that I have that I´m having all my companions and people write in like a year book so I can remember them. I was going to have some of my converts write in it too, but sad day I was transferred before I could). It was one of those bitter-sweet nights. Sad to say goodbye so soon to Elder Cordova and Elder Barcia but exciting to have my first transfer. We had some good times in that house. That change went by way fast. Crazy how I had 3 changes with Elder Sanchez, and not even 6 weeks with Elder Cordova. But oh well that is life in the mission I suppose. The sad thing is I didn´t get to say goodbye to any of my converts or anyone in the ward. We were all expecting to have another week. I spent the bus ride to Guayaquil writing on the back of pictures I printed out to leave with converts and other families in the ward.
In Guayaquil we found out that there were several other missionaries being transferred as well. I guess the mission is just trying out a new way of transferring missionaries. Instead of doing them all at once on the first day of the new change, they´re trying transferring groups at a time throughout the last week of the change. I guess it´s kinda good for the fact that it´s not always the best thing for missionaries to know when they´re leaving and spend time saying good bye. But I dunno, I liked having it all on the same day to see other missionaries and everything. But ah well like Nephi said, “I´ll go where you want me to go,” no matter the day or time.
My new companion is now Elder Ethridge from Tucson Arizona. Funny thing, I think I told you how Elder Cordova was in Zona Libertad before just another sector. Well when he was there Elder Ethridge was one of his companions. Then Elder Ethridge was there for a while because he was still there when I came so I remember him being in our zone (I attached a foto of the activity we had on one of my first p-days playing basketball, Elder Ethridge was there). In fact we had an interchange once when he was in our district (funny thing when we had the interchange I was so new that I didn´t know the sector very good and we ended up walking for an hour trying to find a member’s house for lunch, he says he remembers that too, lol but it´s cool). So its good because I already knew him and knew he was a cool guy. Another funny thing Elder Cordova isn´t the only companion that we´ve both had. He was the companion of Elder Sanchez in the MTC, so yeah we´ve had 2 of the same companions. He´s the District leader here (yeah my first 3 companions have all been district leaders, what´re the odds?) and already has 2 changes here, I think.
As for my new area, it´s in the province of Los Rios, zona Babahoyo (I think it´s the city here) and we´re in the ward 18 de Mayo. It’s very different from Libertad. Firstly it´s no where near the coast so that means no more seafood, but oh man there´s a family here that sells empanadas de queso o carne o pollo that are amazing! I remember you talking about empanadas of beef from Argentina dad and now I understand why you liked them so much. Elder Ethridge was introducing me to all of the families in the ward and when we went to them they offered us any kind we wanted so we got cheese and chicken. Definitely delicious. Also that means there´s not much wind or a breeze but it´s not that bad. It´s really only bad in the mid-day when it gets pretty hot. But really I actually think its perfect in the mornings and at night because it´s not really hot but still warm and it actually feels really good with the humidity.
Ok well, looks like I'm out of time way fast already, lol So I´d better go. Thanks for everything. I hope you have another great week!
Love,
Elder David Frome
Oh man so this week has been crazy! So yeah good calculating Dad, I realized I forget to tell you but yeah this week was the last week in the change and that means transfers! But oh it was crazy because it was Monday night, the first day of the week. Me and Elder Cordova just finished planning, we were excited for the last week of the change because we had lots of ideas to start teaching a scripture class to invite investigators and especially excited because we were gonna have the baptism of Manuel Baqueriso on the 19th. Then the phone rings, Elder Barcia answered it. That was normal, we often get calls at night for Elder Peters and Elder Cordova as Zone and District leaders. Then Elder Barcia said it was for me--that was different. I answered and it was Elder Gittins, one of the assistants, he said he had a change for me and asked how I felt about it. I was completely surprised and excited but confused because it was Monday, usually they don´t call till Sunday. But he said that I was being transferred to Babahoyo, Elder Ethridge was to be my new companion and that I needed to pack my bags and be in Guayaquil by 10 the following morning. Yeah, crazy, lol. We were all thrown for a loop because I was being transferred so early. Everyone was expecting me to be transferred Sunday. So it was crazy. I grabbed my suitcases and started throwing in clothes and telling Elder Barcia and Cordova that they had to write in my “libro de recuerdos” (it´s a diary that I have that I´m having all my companions and people write in like a year book so I can remember them. I was going to have some of my converts write in it too, but sad day I was transferred before I could). It was one of those bitter-sweet nights. Sad to say goodbye so soon to Elder Cordova and Elder Barcia but exciting to have my first transfer. We had some good times in that house. That change went by way fast. Crazy how I had 3 changes with Elder Sanchez, and not even 6 weeks with Elder Cordova. But oh well that is life in the mission I suppose. The sad thing is I didn´t get to say goodbye to any of my converts or anyone in the ward. We were all expecting to have another week. I spent the bus ride to Guayaquil writing on the back of pictures I printed out to leave with converts and other families in the ward.
In Guayaquil we found out that there were several other missionaries being transferred as well. I guess the mission is just trying out a new way of transferring missionaries. Instead of doing them all at once on the first day of the new change, they´re trying transferring groups at a time throughout the last week of the change. I guess it´s kinda good for the fact that it´s not always the best thing for missionaries to know when they´re leaving and spend time saying good bye. But I dunno, I liked having it all on the same day to see other missionaries and everything. But ah well like Nephi said, “I´ll go where you want me to go,” no matter the day or time.
My new companion is now Elder Ethridge from Tucson Arizona. Funny thing, I think I told you how Elder Cordova was in Zona Libertad before just another sector. Well when he was there Elder Ethridge was one of his companions. Then Elder Ethridge was there for a while because he was still there when I came so I remember him being in our zone (I attached a foto of the activity we had on one of my first p-days playing basketball, Elder Ethridge was there). In fact we had an interchange once when he was in our district (funny thing when we had the interchange I was so new that I didn´t know the sector very good and we ended up walking for an hour trying to find a member’s house for lunch, he says he remembers that too, lol but it´s cool). So its good because I already knew him and knew he was a cool guy. Another funny thing Elder Cordova isn´t the only companion that we´ve both had. He was the companion of Elder Sanchez in the MTC, so yeah we´ve had 2 of the same companions. He´s the District leader here (yeah my first 3 companions have all been district leaders, what´re the odds?) and already has 2 changes here, I think.
As for my new area, it´s in the province of Los Rios, zona Babahoyo (I think it´s the city here) and we´re in the ward 18 de Mayo. It’s very different from Libertad. Firstly it´s no where near the coast so that means no more seafood, but oh man there´s a family here that sells empanadas de queso o carne o pollo that are amazing! I remember you talking about empanadas of beef from Argentina dad and now I understand why you liked them so much. Elder Ethridge was introducing me to all of the families in the ward and when we went to them they offered us any kind we wanted so we got cheese and chicken. Definitely delicious. Also that means there´s not much wind or a breeze but it´s not that bad. It´s really only bad in the mid-day when it gets pretty hot. But really I actually think its perfect in the mornings and at night because it´s not really hot but still warm and it actually feels really good with the humidity.
Ok well, looks like I'm out of time way fast already, lol So I´d better go. Thanks for everything. I hope you have another great week!
Love,
Elder David Frome
Nuevos!
Hey Mom and Dad,
Ah sounds like another nice week at home(funny thing, I´m writing this on Microsoft Word because the internet on this computer is kinda slow so I thought this would be faster, and since I´m writing in English it´s highlighting every word I write in red like it´s spelled wrong, lol, silly ). Sounds like everyone is doing great, Robbie and Melissa must be settled in nicely by now. They both sent me emails this week so you´ll have to tell them thanks for me. I always love hearing from them and I always think in my mind that I´m gonna email them back once I´m finished emailing you but I always seem to run out of time, lol. I should probably learn to be more efficient in my letter-writing, I´ve just never learned how :P. but it´s good to hear they´re both doing good. And oh tell them thanks for the pictures, wow Luke has gotten bigger. And wow was that Isaac in the middle with Josh and Nathan? Lol So finally I understand how Robbie and Ryan must´ve felt on their missions and coming home to seeing their nephews so big.
It´s been another great week in Ecuador. I attached a couple of pictures of two different Noche de Hogares that we had on Fridays. Nearly every Friday we´re organizing them for the ward with the hopes that they´ll bring investigators and recent converts. It was neat these last two we had in the homes of members which was much better then having it in the church because many members who live on the other side of town can´t afford to take a taxi. So having it closer is better so more people can come. Also I added a picture I took of the peluquería (haircut shop, that only costs $1.50 by the way:) that I thought was good to show a typical street in centro. Also I added a picture that we took Saturday night when we fried up part of a huge fish that some investigators have. That’s Elder Peters and Barcia, lol. We made rice and fried some tomatoes to go with it. It was a fun night. I kind of have a silly face, I thought I took more pictures but only have this picture with me, I´ll need to get more pictures that Elder Barcia took.
We have some great families that we found this week. One guy we started teaching and he´s already accepted a fecha bautismal! Also another family that is way prepared because she actually more found us! They offered to give us a ride and then the next day we were knocking doors and knocked on their door! They´re way interested, so we ´re excited.
We have some great families that we found this week. One guy we started teaching and he´s already accepted a fecha bautismal! Also another family that is way prepared because she actually more found us! They offered to give us a ride and then the next day we were knocking doors and knocked on their door! They´re way interested, so we ´re excited.
Ok sorry, I'm out of time. I´ll have to tell you more next week, thanks for everything!
Love you!!
Love, David
Conference, General Authorities and Political Protests
Hey Mom and Dad,
That’s way neat that Zach Baldwin is home. Man I can´t believe he´s already back home. Seems like just yesterday he was leaving on his own mission. I have so much respect for converts who serve missions. Seems that would be so much harder. My whole life it´s always just been the expectation that when I turn 19 I´ll serve a mission. I´ve had Robbie and Ryan 's example and Dad always talked about his mission. But, when those who are recently baptized, without that support decide to serve, that´s an amazing thing. That´s fun he bore his testimony in Spanish and then another member did. It´s definitely a great language :P (Speakin´ of which I found a fun statistic that spanish\english speakers can speak with 75% of all the members of the church, while english can only speak with about 55%. Just thought that was nifty :)
Ok, so I just realized I only have 20 minutes left so I´d better start writing about all the awesome\crazy things that happened this week. Firstly, we had Zone conference on Wednesday in Guayaquil. It was awesome, as zone conferences always are, lol. One thing that made this zone conference even more inspiring was because Elder Rafael Pino, who´s the 2nd counselor in the Area Presidency of South America Northeast was there. It was amazing when he walked in during Hma. Gamboa´s presentation she asked us all to stand up. Then, before he spoke he asked to be able to shake hands with us all first. So we lined up and shook his hand. He said he always loves meeting missionaries. It was neat because I remember a few months ago there was an area broadcast via satelite in the Stake center when Pres. Packer spoke. He was also there and spoke. His message to us was really just keeping the vision of our calling. We read D & C sections 15 and 16, which were two revelations given for men going to serve missions, and even though they were exactly alike, they were intimately personal callings. The only difference between them were the names and that´s something we should remember. He said that when there’s an emergency and something bad happens to a missionary, the First Presidency wants to know as soon as possible. For that we´re a unique group. It really just reminded me of a football pep talk. Something that I think we can all use every once in a while. I´m not sure if he´s actually a general authority like I wrote in the subject of this email, but I thought it fit for a good title :)
Then after that, we had an exciting day on Friday, lol. We were going to have the District meeting that morning but then Pres. Gamboa called around 7:30 that morning and asked to speak to Elder Peters, the Zone leader. It wasn´t until I handed the phone to Elder Peters that I realized it was kind of odd that the president was calling us that early, lol. Well to say the least Elder Peters then told us that we weren´t having the meeting, but had to stay in the house until 2:00 and he then called the rest of the missionaries to tell them. Yeah, that fun exciting feeling that gets your heart pumping. Apparently President Gamboa got news of a strike and thus wanted all the missionaries to wait until after mid-day, or possibly the whole day. We found out later that also in the morning hundreds in big cities like Quito and other countries came out with signs in protest. So yeah, if that wasn´t fun enough, we realized that the missionaries from Playas already left so me and Elder Cordovas had to go out to the church to give them the news. I joked that maybe we should go out in street clothes because we don´t want to attract too much attention in national emergencies like this. So we left and just went to the church and back. It was kind of a fun experience, lol. Nothing too interesting happened other than that.
But alright well I´m out of time so I´d better go. Thanks for everything! I got your package today! Thanks the american candy is great! as well as the cards for The Living Christ. They´ll help a lot! love you!
Love,
David
That’s way neat that Zach Baldwin is home. Man I can´t believe he´s already back home. Seems like just yesterday he was leaving on his own mission. I have so much respect for converts who serve missions. Seems that would be so much harder. My whole life it´s always just been the expectation that when I turn 19 I´ll serve a mission. I´ve had Robbie and Ryan 's example and Dad always talked about his mission. But, when those who are recently baptized, without that support decide to serve, that´s an amazing thing. That´s fun he bore his testimony in Spanish and then another member did. It´s definitely a great language :P (Speakin´ of which I found a fun statistic that spanish\english speakers can speak with 75% of all the members of the church, while english can only speak with about 55%. Just thought that was nifty :)
Ok, so I just realized I only have 20 minutes left so I´d better start writing about all the awesome\crazy things that happened this week. Firstly, we had Zone conference on Wednesday in Guayaquil. It was awesome, as zone conferences always are, lol. One thing that made this zone conference even more inspiring was because Elder Rafael Pino, who´s the 2nd counselor in the Area Presidency of South America Northeast was there. It was amazing when he walked in during Hma. Gamboa´s presentation she asked us all to stand up. Then, before he spoke he asked to be able to shake hands with us all first. So we lined up and shook his hand. He said he always loves meeting missionaries. It was neat because I remember a few months ago there was an area broadcast via satelite in the Stake center when Pres. Packer spoke. He was also there and spoke. His message to us was really just keeping the vision of our calling. We read D & C sections 15 and 16, which were two revelations given for men going to serve missions, and even though they were exactly alike, they were intimately personal callings. The only difference between them were the names and that´s something we should remember. He said that when there’s an emergency and something bad happens to a missionary, the First Presidency wants to know as soon as possible. For that we´re a unique group. It really just reminded me of a football pep talk. Something that I think we can all use every once in a while. I´m not sure if he´s actually a general authority like I wrote in the subject of this email, but I thought it fit for a good title :)
Then after that, we had an exciting day on Friday, lol. We were going to have the District meeting that morning but then Pres. Gamboa called around 7:30 that morning and asked to speak to Elder Peters, the Zone leader. It wasn´t until I handed the phone to Elder Peters that I realized it was kind of odd that the president was calling us that early, lol. Well to say the least Elder Peters then told us that we weren´t having the meeting, but had to stay in the house until 2:00 and he then called the rest of the missionaries to tell them. Yeah, that fun exciting feeling that gets your heart pumping. Apparently President Gamboa got news of a strike and thus wanted all the missionaries to wait until after mid-day, or possibly the whole day. We found out later that also in the morning hundreds in big cities like Quito and other countries came out with signs in protest. So yeah, if that wasn´t fun enough, we realized that the missionaries from Playas already left so me and Elder Cordovas had to go out to the church to give them the news. I joked that maybe we should go out in street clothes because we don´t want to attract too much attention in national emergencies like this. So we left and just went to the church and back. It was kind of a fun experience, lol. Nothing too interesting happened other than that.
But alright well I´m out of time so I´d better go. Thanks for everything! I got your package today! Thanks the american candy is great! as well as the cards for The Living Christ. They´ll help a lot! love you!
Love,
David
Another Week :)
Hey Mom and Dad,
Wow thanks for your emails, sounds like all is well at home. That´s crazy that Robbie´s started dental school, Sean and Melissa are in Cincinnati, and Ryan´s already back in Utah. This morning we had interviews with President Gamboa and one of the first things he asked me was "how´s your family?" I told him how everyone´s great but spread out now, lol. And thanks thats fun to see people´s comments on the blog. Thanks again for doing that. And thats funny what happened with Jordan and filling the font. That´s actually happened a couple times in our building when we didn´t think to turn off the water. Though with our building the font isn´t below ground so when the water starts draining too much (through the drain to keep it from overflowing) what ends up happening is the water comes up through another drain in the bathroom and out in the hallway, lol. Several times we´ve walked in and there´d be water all over in the bathroom and hallway. But alas there´s no carpet in the churches here so it´s easy to clean up and it doesn´t effect anyone in the room to see the font so it´s no worries. That sounds like it´d be crazy for the water to be all over the carpet for Jordan, lol. But alas, as long as the Spirit is there it´s always a good experience :)
We´re teaching Manuel Baquerizo, who´s the nephew of another recent convert of about 9 months. He is awesome. After the first lesson he prayed and received an answer that yes this is the true church. He´s read every pamphlet we´ve given him and is reading the Book of Mormon very well. It´s awesome teaching him because he’s just way smart. Many people have trouble learning things like the Plan of Salvation, but he already knows nearly each step. He has a baptismal date for the 12th. We´re excited for him. Now we´re just hoping he´ll be able to make more friends in the church his own age but I´m not too worried. It was kind of funny. Saturday night me and Elder Cordova had a split with two high Priests. I went with Fernando, and the first lady we went to teach didn´t let us in. She told us that she was just Envangelista and knew she wouldn´t understand our message because we were from a different church. The other family we passed by wasn´t home. That was a little discouraging, but after that we went to Manuels home and had an awesome lesson teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The spirit was strong and Manuel understood everything. He only had a few questions about the atonement and Christ paying for us. It was great being with Fernando also because he was only baptized 3 years ago and had a great story of how when he arrived here he was knocking doors looking for a place to start his practice and ended up knocking on the door of the parents of the Bishop. From there started investigating and was baptized in about a month. It was neat to hear. So yeah, funny how one night can change from bad to good so quickly :).
Other than that we had a fun time Friday night. We are having a Family Home Evening for the Ward and investigators every other week and for the first time we had it in the home of a member (the family Pilligua). We decided it would be better to have it there because it´s closer to the members and other investigators that aren´t able to go to the church that late at night because there aren´t buses running that late at night and you´d have to take taxi. We had a great turnout. Jaime (the mission leader) gave a great message and after we played first a game no me diga sí, no me diga no (don´t tell me yes, don´t tell me no) where one person goes around asking questions and you have to answer without saying yes or no or nodding or shaking your head. I don´t know how it sounds but it was a lot of fun. Took some pictures but sadly forgot to bring the card reader today so I can´t send them until next week.
Well my time is almost up so i´d better get going. ooh if you could send peanut butter that would be awesome=) and also I was wondering if you could find a 3 hole-puncher that is nearly paper-thin. I remember seeing some classmates that had them and thought that´d be nice to have. In the house there´s not much for office supplies and a 3-hole-puncher would be nice and seems like one of those super thin ones would be easy to send. Oh and another thing I was wondering if you could send (or email:) me the recipe for Banana bread, lol. there are tons of bananas here and thought it´d be fun to make on preparation day. and Elder Barcia said that there actually is an oven in there church that we could use :P. so yeah just wondering that´d be fun to have :)But ok, other than that all is well. Thanks again for everything. Love you!
Love,
Elder David Frome
P.S One more thing I took another look at Dad´s email and realized I didn´t answer if I´d like those tapes, lol. so yeah I´d love to hear them. I dunno if they´d make me too homesick or not, but I thinkIi´d rather hear them then not :) oh and yes It´s definitely true that my spanish is doing way better with Elder Cordova. English is even becoming a little uncomfortable. At nights in the house Elder Peters will ask how my day was in english and I´ll forget how I used to answer that in english, lol. The first thing that comes to mind is spanish :) but of course the thing I really lack now is a better vocabulary. There are still times when I want to express myself with certain words but I don´t know them. Or others will say words that I don´t know yet. So alas, memorization, memorization, memorization I still need to work on :).
Ok, thanks for everything again,
Love,
David :)
Wow thanks for your emails, sounds like all is well at home. That´s crazy that Robbie´s started dental school, Sean and Melissa are in Cincinnati, and Ryan´s already back in Utah. This morning we had interviews with President Gamboa and one of the first things he asked me was "how´s your family?" I told him how everyone´s great but spread out now, lol. And thanks thats fun to see people´s comments on the blog. Thanks again for doing that. And thats funny what happened with Jordan and filling the font. That´s actually happened a couple times in our building when we didn´t think to turn off the water. Though with our building the font isn´t below ground so when the water starts draining too much (through the drain to keep it from overflowing) what ends up happening is the water comes up through another drain in the bathroom and out in the hallway, lol. Several times we´ve walked in and there´d be water all over in the bathroom and hallway. But alas there´s no carpet in the churches here so it´s easy to clean up and it doesn´t effect anyone in the room to see the font so it´s no worries. That sounds like it´d be crazy for the water to be all over the carpet for Jordan, lol. But alas, as long as the Spirit is there it´s always a good experience :)
We´re teaching Manuel Baquerizo, who´s the nephew of another recent convert of about 9 months. He is awesome. After the first lesson he prayed and received an answer that yes this is the true church. He´s read every pamphlet we´ve given him and is reading the Book of Mormon very well. It´s awesome teaching him because he’s just way smart. Many people have trouble learning things like the Plan of Salvation, but he already knows nearly each step. He has a baptismal date for the 12th. We´re excited for him. Now we´re just hoping he´ll be able to make more friends in the church his own age but I´m not too worried. It was kind of funny. Saturday night me and Elder Cordova had a split with two high Priests. I went with Fernando, and the first lady we went to teach didn´t let us in. She told us that she was just Envangelista and knew she wouldn´t understand our message because we were from a different church. The other family we passed by wasn´t home. That was a little discouraging, but after that we went to Manuels home and had an awesome lesson teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The spirit was strong and Manuel understood everything. He only had a few questions about the atonement and Christ paying for us. It was great being with Fernando also because he was only baptized 3 years ago and had a great story of how when he arrived here he was knocking doors looking for a place to start his practice and ended up knocking on the door of the parents of the Bishop. From there started investigating and was baptized in about a month. It was neat to hear. So yeah, funny how one night can change from bad to good so quickly :).
Other than that we had a fun time Friday night. We are having a Family Home Evening for the Ward and investigators every other week and for the first time we had it in the home of a member (the family Pilligua). We decided it would be better to have it there because it´s closer to the members and other investigators that aren´t able to go to the church that late at night because there aren´t buses running that late at night and you´d have to take taxi. We had a great turnout. Jaime (the mission leader) gave a great message and after we played first a game no me diga sí, no me diga no (don´t tell me yes, don´t tell me no) where one person goes around asking questions and you have to answer without saying yes or no or nodding or shaking your head. I don´t know how it sounds but it was a lot of fun. Took some pictures but sadly forgot to bring the card reader today so I can´t send them until next week.
Well my time is almost up so i´d better get going. ooh if you could send peanut butter that would be awesome=) and also I was wondering if you could find a 3 hole-puncher that is nearly paper-thin. I remember seeing some classmates that had them and thought that´d be nice to have. In the house there´s not much for office supplies and a 3-hole-puncher would be nice and seems like one of those super thin ones would be easy to send. Oh and another thing I was wondering if you could send (or email:) me the recipe for Banana bread, lol. there are tons of bananas here and thought it´d be fun to make on preparation day. and Elder Barcia said that there actually is an oven in there church that we could use :P. so yeah just wondering that´d be fun to have :)But ok, other than that all is well. Thanks again for everything. Love you!
Love,
Elder David Frome
P.S One more thing I took another look at Dad´s email and realized I didn´t answer if I´d like those tapes, lol. so yeah I´d love to hear them. I dunno if they´d make me too homesick or not, but I thinkIi´d rather hear them then not :) oh and yes It´s definitely true that my spanish is doing way better with Elder Cordova. English is even becoming a little uncomfortable. At nights in the house Elder Peters will ask how my day was in english and I´ll forget how I used to answer that in english, lol. The first thing that comes to mind is spanish :) but of course the thing I really lack now is a better vocabulary. There are still times when I want to express myself with certain words but I don´t know them. Or others will say words that I don´t know yet. So alas, memorization, memorization, memorization I still need to work on :).
Ok, thanks for everything again,
Love,
David :)
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