Crazy/Awsome week!!!

Hey Mom and Dad,

Curtis and Jenny are expecting twins?! Haha that’s awesome. Yeah I´ll bet that´ll be exciting for them. That’s great. Sounds like things are going great with Melissa and Sean. Sounds like the Primary program went great for them. I´ll bet that was stressful but probably well worth it to see it go over well. As missionaries seeing parents with young kids we can kind of understand, lol. It can be so amazing teaching kids because they accept the gospel so easily, it just brings to mind the teachings of Christ how we should become as little children. But of course at the same time they can be quite untame and stressful, such as the scripture in Corinthians, when I was a child I did childish kids, but when I grew up I put away childish things- or something like that, lol. And that’s funny how Ryan said he dressed up as Superman all week. That’s awesome I wish I could´ve seen him. That’s great how he´s taking advantage of times to have fun like that. I´m glad sounds like all is going well for him at BYU.

I´m excited to get the Thanksgiving package. I think there are some turkeys here, but doesn´t sound like it´s eaten much at all, lol. It´s fun to tell the people about our thanksgiving “Día de Gracias” that we have, just one day to eat as much as we can :P

But anyways, this has definitely been one crazy awesome week. Firstly, as I told you the first part of the week I was with Elder Arellano, an Ortabaleño (which is a city or town in the sierra about an hour away from Quito) and he is definitely a powerful missionary. And it´s amazing to see the Ortabaleño elders because they can open doors that other elders just can´t. Like I told you he recognized one family as from the sierra and because he was also from the sierra he was able to relate and open there heart enough to share our message. He´s the zone leader here in Babahoyo and only has two changes left. It´s funny he´s actually spent over half of his mission here in Babahoyo. He was here for 5 months when he started, was transferred, then got transferred back and has been here for another 6 months. It´s interesting to see how transfers work, but he´s definitely needed here in Babahoyo. But yeah like I said he´s an awesome missionary, I learned so much from him after just being his companion for a few days. Monday and Tuesday was way crazy because we had both his teaching appointments from his sector and my teaching appointments in my sector so we were running up and down the town all day, lol. It was great seeing him teach because he knows the scriptures so well. He can teach clearly and powerfully and has a strong testimony. He´s just one of those Elders that sets the example of what a missionary should be. Hopefully, I´ll be able to know and teach like him by the end of my mission. Then, funny thing was Tuesday night before we were to get our new companions he told me that he especially enjoyed these few days having this companionship! Lol he´s definitely humble as well. So yeah he told me that he´s excited for this change and hopes to have a lot of success as a zone leader and I believe him, we´ll definitely have a lot of success.

Well then on Wednesday we went to Guayaquil to pick up our “kids” at the temple! Yeah we didn´t enter but just picked them up in the hotel next door. It was neat. Elder Sanchez was there (he´s gonna train again :), it was the first time seeing him since we were companions. He´s definitely still Elder Sanchez, lol, funny and good spirited. They had a brief meeting with us trainers before getting our companions just to kind of give us some guidelines and advice on training so that was good. Then it was interesting the way they had us get our new companions. They had all the trainers in a semi-circle around the door and as the new elders came out one by one and they had them find their new trainers (apparently they were given our names before coming out). It was crazy one latino came out and looked all around the circle until he came to me then was like, “hey!” lol we hugged and we got a picture. So yeah, my new companion is Elder Cevallos from Quito. I´m training a latino! Lol it´s fun he´s a great guy. He´s actually 24 years old and was only baptized a year and a half ago. He´s the only member in his family and guess how he was introduced to the church- yep, his girlfriend ;) but it´s good she encouraged him to serve and she´s now waiting patiently :P lol. He´s not afraid to talk or teach so things are going well. I forgot to bring my camera to Guayaquil and I was going to send you the pictures that he took but the batteries in his camera went dead!

Alright, well I´d better get going, thanks for everything and your letters! Hope you have a great week! Love you all!

Love,

Elder David Frome