Good week in Salinas!

Hey Mom and Dad,

Wow sounds like a fun weekend with the youth roadshow and everything. I´m glad it all ended up good. And yeah I´d imagine it would be so stressful for the leaders trying to get everything ready for the opening night. I remember when we did a roadshow it didn´t seem like everyone took it seriously but finally when we performed it turned out great. The good thing is it makes for fond memories that´ll last a lifetime :). And that’s funny how they included lines for the ward missionaries, lol. That would´ve been hilarious to hear. And wow that sounds pretty interesting how they´ve completely changed the process of playoffs. So now every team enters to play??? Wow that would be crazy. I guess that´s nice to give every school a chance to get a taste of playoffs but wow, that´d be crazy with everyone traveling everywhere, lol. But ah well I guess we´ll see how far West goes.

Well as for your questions. Yeah funny thing I realized Elder Baquerizo tells everyone he´s from Guayaquil but he and his family have actually moved to Quito 8 years ago so he´s more from Quito. Though it´s funny because he has still ran into old friends when he was serving in one sector in Guayaquil. The funniest incident he told me was one Sunday here in Salinas a friend that he had dated came in to church with her new husband. Apparently they had just gotten married and went to Salinas for the honeymoon. Yeah, ouch, lol. But ah well as is life for those from Ecuador serving here. I´m sure glad that I´m serving in another continent where I´m not going to run into any of my friends, lol. And as for the name of the city I´m not actually sure, lol. Just because they don’t call Libertad or Salinas cities, they call them “Cantones” and I´m not sure what they would be in English, lol. I should probably look it up. But yeah I think the whole area of Salinas and Libertad is known as the Peninsula, which is in the province called Santa Elena. So yeah there is a separate mayor in Salinas and another mayor in Libertad so you could think of them as separate cities. But there isn´t any space between the two to separate them. So yeah, I think I´ll try and figure out more this week. The stake is called the Libertad stake and in the mission it´s the Libertad zone. So yeah I hope that makes it a little more clear, lol.

But anyways, we´ve had a great week. We´ve been getting to know more members so that´s been nice. Though we found out an incident that happened about 6 months ago that involved several families in the ward and caused many to go inactive that is kind of sad. It looks like since that happened the missionaries have had a tough time having baptisms. But other than that I feel like the Lord is blessing us a ton because we´ve been able to find several new investigators. A few have really been a miracle that we found them. Once we had a split with two members of the bishopric and we were going to meet up at the church. I got there first and so I was just waiting when out of nowhere two young men of about 18 and 16 years come up and ask us what we teach. We began talking and invited them to come into the church to talk more. They accepted and we began teaching. They looked very interested and when we invited them to pray and asked if they would be willing to be baptized if they receive and answer they said of course. It was pretty neat. Then another girl that we´ve been teaching has a baptismal date for this Thursday. We´re way excited about that. Her name is Karen and she was introduced to the church by a good friend. She´s is way excited to learn and for her baptism. Hopefully the baptism and everything goes well.

Alright well I´d better get going. Thanks for your emails and I hope you have another great week! Love you!

Love,
Elder David Frome