Hey Mom and Dad,
But anyways, well I finally got the shoes and opened them this morning!! Thanks they feel great!! now I think I´ll have to convince the elders in the house to go running in the mornings or maybe we´ll go play basketball some pday :) and thanks for the little missionary figurines and cards, those were fun to see. That´s crazy that Sofia is graduated and everything. Funny thing I also got your package for my half birthday so thanks for that too! lol the shirt looks great and that dvd looks awesome. It´s the story of the drawbridge keeper, right? does it have spanish too? It´s funny we can´t open packages or cards until monday so sunday night always gets a kind of christmas eve feeling. Waiting for the next morning to be able to open the presents! So last night was fun waiting to open the packages.
Thats good you did get the cards. Yeah I hope they can get the pictures off. I guess there´s not too many services for electronics in Albany. If only Adam was there :P. Well this week has been good as normal. Working hard and getting to know the members. We have a ton of investigators that are so close to baptism but just find some excuse to cover some doubt that they have, lol. Plus some we have been teaching so long just seem to feel comfortable where they are. Part of missionary work is figuring out the ability to help the people realize what they are lacking, almost so they´re uncomfortable with where they are so they feel the need to change to fulfill the commandments.
oh and mom I don´t think you need to worry about whether we´re getting fed good, saturday I think I ate more food in one day than my whole mission, lol. Starting with lunch we ate with a family that quite often gives us a lot of food, mostly rice, to eat. after the many weeks we know it´s coming so it wasn´t a surprise. We ate and left quite stuffed which was fine. the funny thing was our next apointment was with a family and the sister was so sweet, she asked us if we had eaten and even when we said we had she insisted that we have a bowl of soup that she made for us. Yeah, we were so full but she still brought it out and we ate. Elder Aguirre knows a bit of english so it´s funny sometimes he´ll say some things in english. When we were eating and the sister left he was like "oh no, Elder Frome help me! I´m so full." She offered us rice when we finished the soup but we politely refused :) After that are next few appointments fell through and we went by a less active family and they gave us fried chicken, french fries and some bread. By this point we were about to burst but somehow we got it all down. Afterwards we went to another less active family who are also amazing and they gave us a glass of soda and an orange. When we finished they gave us some more oranges to take in a bag for later. Next we went to a family (whose children are going to be baptized this saturday!) and the mom made a huge pot of popcorn for everyone. I´m not sure how we got that down. Then to top it off our last appointment was with a family and we were going to have a family home evening though sadly none of the guests came but us so they gave us another glass of soda and bread with cheese. yeah, I don´t think I´ve ever been so full in my life. I think i strained a muscle in my stomach, lol. But ah well the good thing is I´m sure the Lord is blessing all those families for having fed the missionaries, just too bad the blessings came at our expense :P.
hmm other than that sunday was kool because the bishop had all of his relatives visiting because his sister is getting married I think. It was kool I talked with one couple who were way nice and they told me they were from England. I though wow that´s awesome and asked them if they spoke english and the sister said with the strongest british accent "we tryyy." lol and we continued to talk in english but it was crazy because one, I wasn´t used to speaking english and two I wasn´t used to hearing a british accent, lol. But it was fun. I noticed later in Priesthood when the brother spoke spanish he had the slightest british accent that I thought was so kool. I imagine he was raised here and served his mission here, but his wife served her mission in London so I guess they live there. I wonder how they met, lol. I guess there was another family from New York but I didn´t get the chance to talk with them.
Well there´s not too much news other than that, lol. Things with Elder Aguirre are going great. He´s a great missionary, very conservative in everything he does but is still funny in some of the things he says, lol. It´s kool I realized that since he´s ending this change then it´s a pretty sure bet that I´m going to be here another change after. But that´s totally fine with me. Quevedo is awesome :)
Alright well I´d better get going. Thanks for everything! Especially the packages! oh and btw we enjoyed those flying balloon toys :P love you!
Love,Elder David Frome
PS- It was kool I also got a letter from Amanda Ostler that surprised me because I thought she left on her mission, lol do you know when she enters the mtc?
But anyways, well I finally got the shoes and opened them this morning!! Thanks they feel great!! now I think I´ll have to convince the elders in the house to go running in the mornings or maybe we´ll go play basketball some pday :) and thanks for the little missionary figurines and cards, those were fun to see. That´s crazy that Sofia is graduated and everything. Funny thing I also got your package for my half birthday so thanks for that too! lol the shirt looks great and that dvd looks awesome. It´s the story of the drawbridge keeper, right? does it have spanish too? It´s funny we can´t open packages or cards until monday so sunday night always gets a kind of christmas eve feeling. Waiting for the next morning to be able to open the presents! So last night was fun waiting to open the packages.
Thats good you did get the cards. Yeah I hope they can get the pictures off. I guess there´s not too many services for electronics in Albany. If only Adam was there :P. Well this week has been good as normal. Working hard and getting to know the members. We have a ton of investigators that are so close to baptism but just find some excuse to cover some doubt that they have, lol. Plus some we have been teaching so long just seem to feel comfortable where they are. Part of missionary work is figuring out the ability to help the people realize what they are lacking, almost so they´re uncomfortable with where they are so they feel the need to change to fulfill the commandments.
oh and mom I don´t think you need to worry about whether we´re getting fed good, saturday I think I ate more food in one day than my whole mission, lol. Starting with lunch we ate with a family that quite often gives us a lot of food, mostly rice, to eat. after the many weeks we know it´s coming so it wasn´t a surprise. We ate and left quite stuffed which was fine. the funny thing was our next apointment was with a family and the sister was so sweet, she asked us if we had eaten and even when we said we had she insisted that we have a bowl of soup that she made for us. Yeah, we were so full but she still brought it out and we ate. Elder Aguirre knows a bit of english so it´s funny sometimes he´ll say some things in english. When we were eating and the sister left he was like "oh no, Elder Frome help me! I´m so full." She offered us rice when we finished the soup but we politely refused :) After that are next few appointments fell through and we went by a less active family and they gave us fried chicken, french fries and some bread. By this point we were about to burst but somehow we got it all down. Afterwards we went to another less active family who are also amazing and they gave us a glass of soda and an orange. When we finished they gave us some more oranges to take in a bag for later. Next we went to a family (whose children are going to be baptized this saturday!) and the mom made a huge pot of popcorn for everyone. I´m not sure how we got that down. Then to top it off our last appointment was with a family and we were going to have a family home evening though sadly none of the guests came but us so they gave us another glass of soda and bread with cheese. yeah, I don´t think I´ve ever been so full in my life. I think i strained a muscle in my stomach, lol. But ah well the good thing is I´m sure the Lord is blessing all those families for having fed the missionaries, just too bad the blessings came at our expense :P.
hmm other than that sunday was kool because the bishop had all of his relatives visiting because his sister is getting married I think. It was kool I talked with one couple who were way nice and they told me they were from England. I though wow that´s awesome and asked them if they spoke english and the sister said with the strongest british accent "we tryyy." lol and we continued to talk in english but it was crazy because one, I wasn´t used to speaking english and two I wasn´t used to hearing a british accent, lol. But it was fun. I noticed later in Priesthood when the brother spoke spanish he had the slightest british accent that I thought was so kool. I imagine he was raised here and served his mission here, but his wife served her mission in London so I guess they live there. I wonder how they met, lol. I guess there was another family from New York but I didn´t get the chance to talk with them.
Well there´s not too much news other than that, lol. Things with Elder Aguirre are going great. He´s a great missionary, very conservative in everything he does but is still funny in some of the things he says, lol. It´s kool I realized that since he´s ending this change then it´s a pretty sure bet that I´m going to be here another change after. But that´s totally fine with me. Quevedo is awesome :)
Alright well I´d better get going. Thanks for everything! Especially the packages! oh and btw we enjoyed those flying balloon toys :P love you!
Love,Elder David Frome
PS- It was kool I also got a letter from Amanda Ostler that surprised me because I thought she left on her mission, lol do you know when she enters the mtc?
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