Hey Mom and Dad,
The highlight this week was definitely the baptism we had on Saturday. It was awesome. It was a baptism of five kids- the grandkids of hermana Norma who is in our ward. It was really neat because she was inactive but recently has been coming back as well as her daughter and thus wanted the kids to be baptized in the church. It was especially neat because 3 of the kids (Maoly, Alexander, and Kerly) were in our ward, but the other 2 (Karla and Fernando) were from Chopitea ward, so we got to plan it with Elders Beck and Aucapucclla who live with us in the house. Also it worked out great because the kids picked who they wanted to baptize them and all four of us were picked so we all got to dress in white. We got some great pictures (sorry I forgot to bring my camera again, I´ll have to send the pictures next week) with everyone before. It was interesting planning the baptism this time because I realized that out of the four missionaries in our house, I have the most time in the mission thus the most experience. So as we were planning it and assigning speakers, finding clothes, etc. the other elders would look to me when they weren´t sure. Lol not that it was a big deal just kind of a shock to realize that I don´t have a senior companion to look to, but now the responsibility is mostly on me, so if things go bad I take the blame, lol. Of course we all planned a little bit and it turned out great. Just fun to see how fast your perspective changes in the mission. But that night was definitely crazy. We planned to start at 7, but ended up starting around 7:50 because the mom (daughter of Norma) was way late coming with her kids. Then when they all arrived it was crazy trying the direct all the kids who were laughing and playing to get dressed and take pictures. They were like a herd of animals. I definitely have more respect for elementary school teachers who do that for a living, lol.
But anyways other than that all is good. Sorry I´m sending this email late this week. We actually have had kind of a crazy p-day. Now don´t worry when I say it was because we spent most of the day in Guayaquil because I had an appointment with a doctor there and went with hna. Gamboa, lol. Like I said I think you´d really like hna Gamboa, she´s definitely like the mom of all the elders how she takes care of us. The littlest thing she gets worried and makes sure they get cared of. So yeah the thing was actually a couple of weeks ago I notice my knee started to get a little sensitive so it hurt to kneel down (which, when you’re a missionary, is something that can get tiring really fast, lol). And after a week it started to look inflamed and puffy and red. That and my ingrown toenail I told you about looked like it might´ve still been a little infected as well, lol (but no worries, the biggest problem was probably the fact that it didn´t really hurt very much, because if it did hurt I would´ve stopped:). So Hna Gamboa gave me some antibacterial pills to take for my toe and it looked like they were working for whatever was infecting my knee as well. Several days ago my knee really starting getting better and today it looked like all was well, just maybe a little lump. But Hna Gamboa had already set an appointment in the clinic to look at me knee so we went just to see. When I got there the doctor said that it looked like there was some kind of bacterial infection right under the skin and said it´d be best to clean it out, lol. Yeah, kind of scary the idea but it wasn´t too bad. He also said he´d just take of my ingrown nail while I was there to get it taken care of. So what he ended up doing was cut a tiny incision on my knee and “cleaned it out.” Lol, don´t worry it didn´t hurt he did a good job of using anesthetics. The only thing was once he was done he put 2 stitches, which means that now I can´t bend my knee for –get this- 8 days! Yeah they told me I need to rest on my bed without leaving for 8 days!!! After that we went back to the office, got all the medicine then President and Hermana Gamboa drove us to terminal and we took the bus back. I got to use crutches for the first time in my life so that´s kind of fun. But yeah now I´m just frustrated because I have to stay inside for 8 days when this morning I could´ve sworn all was well, lol. but ah well, like I said I think you´d really like Hermana Gamboa. She said it´s much more important that I get the rest and get better before I go out to work. So no use arguing :P. so yeah that was a new experience. It was kind of fun because the Doctor was apparently studying English so we were having fun talking in English. His English wasn´t the best but he would ask me things like “can. . . you feel. . . this? This. . . hurt? Now your toe, is, sleep. We´ll wait 5 minutes more.” Lol things like that. It´s fun being a gringo in a Spanish country because you find lots of people like that who try to talk to you in English, some are better than others, lol.
But ok, like I said, no worries, I´m doing great now just on bed rest for a week now. I´m pretty sure I´m going to finish my maestro quick now that I have so much time. Funny thing is I was actually working hard on it all week memorizing, in fact I just finished memorizing Joseph Smith History a few days ago and the Living Christ this morning (it´s amazing how things like that that seemed impossible to memorize in high school is now possible when you´re dedicated to do it), all I have left is to memorize the Family, a Proclamation for the World :) Alright well i´d better get going, times nearly up. Again thanks for everything, I love you! I hope you and everyone have a great week!
Love,
Elder David Frome
PS- ha signing my name reminds me of one thing- when me and Hna. Gamboa got to the doctors office she asked what my name was, i was at first puzzled why she would ask me and why she didn´t know and was about to say elder Frome but then she was like, no, your nombre, it took me a second to think then realized, oh my first name, then it took me another second to think of David. lol, i´m so used to saying Elder Frome, and even when our investigators want to know my first name i´m used to keeping it a secret and telling them Elder Frome (it´s kind of fun, it´s like a game the investigators always want to know our first name and we always try to keep it a secret as long as possible, promising that when we leave we´ll tell them:)
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