Hey Mom and Dad,
Thanks for your email! I´m glad it sounds like you´ve had a great time visiting Melissa and Sean. That´s sweet you were able to see where some of our great ancestors lived in the 1600s. Wow I didn´t even know we had ancestors here in the 1600s, lol. But that´s awesome. Did we have any ancestors take part in the revolutionary war? And I´m glad it sounds like Ryan is getting back into the swing of things easily.
Well this week has definitely gone by in a flash. With Elder Godinez we´ve been so busy planning everything. Firstly in our ward we´re trying to plan and coordinate better with the members. In Elder Godinez´s old ward they had a good system of calling a ton of members to be ward missionaries and getting them excited to visit the investigators and bring them to church. The bishop is a returned missionary and put a lot of emphasis in it and they´ve been having 10 to 15 investigators in church every week as a result with is awesome. We´re trying to establish the same system here. The bishop gave us permission to basically call as many members as we want to be ward missionaries and help. We just want them to visit once or twice a week and more than anything call the investigators to see how they´re doing. If all goes well we´ll be having a lot more fellowshipping and more investigators in church each week. It just requires a lot more planning. Also the Stake is having an Open house at the end of this month and we as missionary work will take part and we´ll give a presentation on mostly the family and the Book of Mormon. And it´s funny because this week we had a practice in the stake center and all the missionaries came and one of the counselors in the stake presidency told us that we will be at the end of the tour where all the visitors will end up and basically we´re there to answer all the questions that couldn´t be answered during the tour in the other presentations. Which is kind of funny. I guess that throughout the tour of the stake center if anyone asks a question that doesn´t pertain to the subject or anything they´ll simply be told “at the end there will be someone to answer your question.” So that ought to be fun. We´ll see what kind of questions we get.
But yeah with Elder Godinez we´re planning all that to make sure our presentation turns out good and we get it done on time. Then on top is the basic needs of the zone. We had “Consejo de líderes” on Friday this week in Guayaquil with all the zone leaders and the assistants with President which was awesome as normal. I´m not going to lie i´m starting to feel old in the mission. There were quite a few new zone leaders there. I think there was only 2 or 3 who had more time than me. Of course it was good to see Elder Barrientos because we have the same time. But yeah we analyzed the numbers of the mission and how each zone is doing and they asked each pair of zone leaders to give a presentation of their plan to improve and motivate the zone. It was pretty neat. So yeah we´re also trying to think of better ways to help the zone get better. As a zone we set a goal of how many investigators we want with baptismal dates and everyone agreed and sounded pretty excited. But sadly when we received the numbers this week few companionships completed the goal. But ah well we´ll keep working :)
Other than that again on Sunday it was great because this time we had TWO families in church! Alex and Elizabeth came again which was awesome but also we had another family Vinza which I think I´ve told you about. About halfway through sacrament meeting Germania came with the two kids. It was awesome. It was way neat because one sister who is in the primary presidency got up and said she felt inspired to simply testify about her calling so she gave her testimony about her calling in the primary
Well other than that we have a baptism planned for next week. We are teaching two grandkids of the Zamora family and another youth named Yamileth who is about 14. They´re all awesome and are excited to be baptized so hopefully it all goes well this Saturday.
Alright well I´d better get going. We took a picture with Alex and Elizabeth this week so I think I´ll attach it. They´re such an amazing family.
Well thanks for everything! Hope you have a safe trip back to Oregon and a good week! Love you!
Love,
Elder David Frome
PS- oh hey so I was wondering, if you happen to send a package this week maybe you could throw in a vile or two of extract of Rootbeer flavoring :P lol Elder Godinez said he´s only tried rootbeer once and thought it was great but has never had a rootbeer float. So yeah I thought it´d be neat to show him what he´s missing :P
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