Hey Mom and Dad,
Thanks for your emails. Wow that´s crazy you got the news of the earthquake all the way up there. Yeah it was kinda funny we did feel it about 7 in the morning. Though it´s kinda funny because I almost didn´t notice it. I was about to take a shower and felt a little shaking but didn´t take too much notice because there is a gym above us where people dance to work out so often we feel the building kind of shake so I figured it was just the gymnasium. But then Elder Palmer comes running shouting "Elder Frome! Elder Frome! didya feel it?!" he was quite excited, apparently it was his first earthquake, lol) and then realized it was an earthquake and not the gym and said "oh, yeah!" lol. about half an hour later Hermana Gamboa called and asked us if we felt the earthquake and if we were ok. She was calling all the missionaries to check because she said in Guayaquil they felt it and it sounds like it was even more intense. So yeah it was fun :). I´m glad sounds like another good week at home with some good classic summer weather. Those days were perfect for going to the lake and jumping into the water. That´s funny Haylie’s game with PT cruisers,
But anyways, well I´ve definitely enjoyed this last week thouroghly with Elder Palmer and Elder Elías. We are still in a trio and I´m pretty sure I won´t get another companion until at least later on this week. But it´s alright we´ve been working hard but enjoying it at the same time. We´ve got a good rythmn down now when we´re teaching so it´s going great. We´ve been trying to put in practice what we learned in the last Zone Conference.
Sunday was awesome because that family that I told you about with the amazing kids came to church with us! it was sweet because we passed by and their was a car because Melanie, the neice, was packing to go back to Quito (she was just visiting for her vacation). We came up and greeted them. I was a little disappointed because they weren´t dressed for church or anything but when Melanie left with her family I asked Margarita if she was going to come and she paused for a second, then said "yeah, let´s go. just let me go change." I thought it was a good sign that she really is interested. So she came with Kelvin and her other daughter Erica. They have a baptismal date for the 5th of September. We´re excited for next week because our stake center (where we usually attend) will finally open. It´s been being remodeled since January and its the building where usually both my ward and Bolívar attend. I remember when i got to Bolivar at the end of January hearing about it and wishing we could attend there. We´ve been attending a little ways away in another building. the ward has been kind of hurting because few people have cars and can´t afford to travel (though it´s really only like 15 minutes) so the attendance has gone down. Next sunday is stake conference in the new building then after we´ll have the building as normal. I´m way excited :). Also this week on wednesday we´re going to have another Zone conference to cover the remaining 4 topics so it should be sweet. Last time we talked about 4 of the 8 topics of how we can improve teaching so it should be sweet.
But anyways, well I´ve definitely enjoyed this last week thouroghly with Elder Palmer and Elder Elías. We are still in a trio and I´m pretty sure I won´t get another companion until at least later on this week. But it´s alright we´ve been working hard but enjoying it at the same time. We´ve got a good rythmn down now when we´re teaching so it´s going great. We´ve been trying to put in practice what we learned in the last Zone Conference.
Sunday was awesome because that family that I told you about with the amazing kids came to church with us! it was sweet because we passed by and their was a car because Melanie, the neice, was packing to go back to Quito (she was just visiting for her vacation). We came up and greeted them. I was a little disappointed because they weren´t dressed for church or anything but when Melanie left with her family I asked Margarita if she was going to come and she paused for a second, then said "yeah, let´s go. just let me go change." I thought it was a good sign that she really is interested. So she came with Kelvin and her other daughter Erica. They have a baptismal date for the 5th of September. We´re excited for next week because our stake center (where we usually attend) will finally open. It´s been being remodeled since January and its the building where usually both my ward and Bolívar attend. I remember when i got to Bolivar at the end of January hearing about it and wishing we could attend there. We´ve been attending a little ways away in another building. the ward has been kind of hurting because few people have cars and can´t afford to travel (though it´s really only like 15 minutes) so the attendance has gone down. Next sunday is stake conference in the new building then after we´ll have the building as normal. I´m way excited :). Also this week on wednesday we´re going to have another Zone conference to cover the remaining 4 topics so it should be sweet. Last time we talked about 4 of the 8 topics of how we can improve teaching so it should be sweet.
Alright well I´d better get going, thanks for everything! oh and sorry I didn´t send the pictures last week, for some reason the computer wasn´t reading them very well. this computer isn´t much better so I´ll see if I can send them now but I´m not sure. The trouble with public computers is they´re typically not all that great, lol.
Love you!
Elder David Frome
Phew! Thanks for the blog updates :)
ReplyDeleteI was getting a little worried!
Fun to read.