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 :)