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Hey Mom and Dad,

That´s awesome Ryan´s home for at least a few days. That´s sounds like an awesome trip you´re planning to head to Washington DC to participate in a rally! lol kind of funny I never pictured our family going to any kind of rally just because I always thought they just seemed too crazy, but I suppose my perception of what is a rally is probably a little off. What exactly is a rally? So a bunch of people are gonna get together to stand outside of the Lincoln Memorial? That´s sweet I wish I could be there that´d be kool. So what message are you sending to the politicians? Is Glenn Beck going to speak? That´s cool I´m excited to see the pictures. That´s kool you get to be in contact with the candidates for the elections to work on that project.

And as for your questions. I´m glad it sounds like all is well at home…just sad to see summer go i´m sure, lol. Though here, I think I´m kind of ready to see summer go :P. and yeah that´s interesting about the time of daylight, here I´m pretty sure the time of sunrise and sunset is about the same all year round.

Last night was transfers which meant everyone got to the house early to wait anxiously for the phone call from one of the assistants. Last night I think it was around 9:45 when the phone rang. It was Elder Aguirre to tell me what changes we were going to have in the zone. In the zone only 3 left so that´s not bad. One who is finishing the mission plus another and Elder Palmer also left, which was kind of sad. He was definitely an elder with a lot of energy and enthusiasm and later the same night President called and asked to speak with Elder Palmer. As soon as President asked if Elder Palmer was there I realized why, he´s going to be zone leader! and sure enough President told Elder Palmer that he will be zone leader. Elder Palmer was pretty blown away, lol. I told him not to worry about it and he´ll do great. Elder Aguirre told me that my new companion is Elder Godinez, who was actually here in this same zone just in another sector, lol. He was probably the best District Leader we had (which explains why he´s now a zone leader:) and we also had confidence in his ability to help tough companionships. So I´m excited he´s a great guy and from Guatemala (I think?) lol. He has about 14 months or so in the mission and a great worker so I´m excited. And yeah I´m not gonna lie I´ve rather enjoyed being in a trio these last few weeks. I think it was so enjoyable just because Elder Palmer and Elder Elías are such great guys. We had fun but at the same time worked hard. Probably one of the best companionships I´ve had yet.

So yeah it´s crazy to think how fast this last change went by. Probably the craziest change of the mission, lol. 3 weeks with Elder Aguirre learning a ton then 3 in a trio working a ton. oh and by the way we are still in the same apartment but we recently found another apartment that looks very nice. We´ve already talked with the owner and when we had the conference Elder Aguirre was able to pass by and inspect it so we´re all good. We´re just waiting for the owner to make the house contract to send to Guayaquil then we´ll move! I´d guess that next Monday we´ll probably be moving if all goes well :). The new apartment has a good sized living room with three rooms, each with a shower and an extra bathroom from the living room. Yeah, pretty good if you ask me. I´ll send you pictures when we move in.

But anyways, this last week was good. We had the conference again on Wednesday and was awesome as usual. We talked about the importance of going to church, of focusing on the investigators and not the lessons, and about how to begin teaching. It was good and I´m sure will help a ton in the teaching. I already feel like it´s helped a lot. This week we´ve invited so many people to be baptized it´s amazing. One family we´re particularly excited about is the Vinza family. The father is Fernando and the mother Germania. I may have told you about them before but we found them just knocking doors and they´ve been way excited since day one. Yeah, they´re awesome.

Elder Elías is getting a new companion named Elder Salas which means no more english at home for the next six weeks, lol, but ah well I could use a boost to help my spanish :).Though Elder Godinez knows a bit of english so we´ll be practicing with him I´m sure.

Well thanks for everything! oh and thanks for that comment from Sister Martineau. That´s awesome all those elders got together. That´s crazy to think of all of them home. I´m glad it sounds like they´re doing great.

Have another great week and enjoy Washington DC!

Love,

Elder David Frome