Hey Mom and Dad,
I´m glad sounds like you´ve had another great week. That´s sweet you got to talk to Kristen and Robbie. And wow that´s going to be crazy to see Luke when I get back. Is he talking up a storm? It was kind of fun in the zone this change we have a couple new gringos. One is Elder Van Wagoner (yeah, as you can imagine not one latino can pronounce his name so we call him Elder Van for short, lol :) who is actually from Wyoming, lol. This week he and his companion had a few baptisms and when we went to do the interviews we started talking and I asked him how things were back in the states (It´s pretty much standard to ask every new gringo elder how things are back in the states:) and he told me a little about how Obama is and how it sounds like his polls are down and how crazy the politics are, lol. The nice thing about the mission is definitely not having to worry about politics. We hear about them every now and then, but we don´t have to talk nor deal with them, so it´s nice.
But anyways, that´s sweet you saw Anna and Walker. Yeah we actually just found out that changes will now be one week later because all the new elders are coming from Peru instead of Colombia and so they arrive a week late. So I get one week more! It sounds like changes won´t be until the 10 of October which makes me happy because that means we have one more chance to baptize our investigators (because before I figured this would be our last week and we can´t have any baptisms because it´s general Conference.
Well as for this week we´ve been way busy. Firstly our zone had the goal of 13 baptisms (which is a way good number) but that also means 13 baptismal interviews. As zone leaders we interview all the baptisms of the district leaders so we´ve been running around interviewing a ton this week (of course no complaints here, better to be busy doing interviews than anything else!). But also we had the Open House for the newly remodeled stake center on Saturday and they asked us to put on a presentation about the Book of Mormon and the Family so we were also planning and getting everything ready for that. Most of the work was because we were making a little mini house with 8 pilars to represent a successful family. For each pilar we put on of the attributes mentioned in the Proclamation for the World. I´m not gonna lie I got a little stressed trying to get it done and coordinating with the elders from the north stake who were going to come and help too. But funny thing how you worry so much in the preparation then when it finally comes together you just feel like a huge burden just lifts, lol. At 3:00 Saturday afternoon the Open House started and we were still waiting for one of the members to bring a couple giant photographs one of the Book of Mormon and another of the Bible that shows both the Book of Mormon and the Bible. It was funny he got there about 3:45 when the groups started coming so we just had one elder hold up the photos and then we would scramble in between groups to tie fishing wire from the ceiling to hang the photos, lol. Elder Godinez drew a picture of the Book of Mormon on one of the rolling white boards and wrote a brief introduction. We put everything in the Room with the baptismal font so it turned out looking way good. The Stake president had the idea to fill the font and have it open to have a even better visual effect. It was crazy though we were still kind of getting everything together when the first group came in. There were a couple elders there but I figured as me and Elder Godinez were the zone leaders we´d have to put the example so even though it wasn´t all totally ready we quickly jumped into position and one elder held up the photo of the book of Mormon and I stepped in front and welcomed everyone in and started talking. The fun thing in the mission is how well you learn to just open your mouth even when you have no idea what to say and somehow words just come and you can make it up as you go. So yeah the presentation went way good and went well all night. There was a good number of investigators and new converts from every ward. It was neat because since I´ve been here in Quevedo for so long I´ve gotten to know a lot of members and especially the new converts whom I´ve interviewed for baptism. A lot of them came so I got to see them again. It was a nice experience. Everything went so well the Stake presidency is thinking about doing it once a year to always get the members excited about inviting their friends and relatives to see the church building.
Alright well I´m out of time so I´d better get going. Thanks for everything! Love you!
Love,
Elder David Frome
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