Hey Mom and Dad,
Thanks for your email I´m glad it sounds like you´ve had a nice week. I´m glad your presentation went well. That is a good cause to try and get the politicians back on track. I remember I liked one of the points of a living prophet from general conference that said a prophet can get involved in civil affairs. Here it seems things have calmed down finally with all the politics. Thank goodness nothing happened to any missionary. That´s funny it sounds like you know just what it´s like Dad when you were in Argentina. The nice thing here is that most government officials recognize who we are and don´t bother us much so it´s a blessing. And wow that sounds like fun what they´re doing for youth conference and how they´re using the ward missionaries, lol. So wait are they making cardboard cutouts and will make dialogue for the characters of our faces? Lol well whatever they do I´m sure it´ll turn out good. Youth Conferences were always a blast.
Alright well now I´ve got some good/bad news. Last night we received the infamous phone call from the assistants with the transfers and as I suspected I was transferred. They told me I had to be in Guayaquil the following morning at 8:00 so again I had the pleasure of packing my bags all night then waking up at 3:00AM to travel to Guayaquil. But ah well it was fine :) and now I´ll bet you´ll never guess where I am. Not in Portoviejo, neither manta (though I was kinda hoping I´d get sent there, I always though that´d be an awesome zone). I´ve been sent to LIBERTAD!! You remember the peninsula? Where I arrived when I started the mission? Yep, I´ve been sent back to the same zone. I´m not in the same ward but I am in the same house. So yeah I´m quite sure I might get the chance to see some of my converts again! Yeah insane, right? It was crazy when we got to terminal I traveled with Elder Mata who also had changes and we arrived a little early so we watched as everyone arrived. When we saw Elder Beck arrive who was one of the zone leaders here in Libertad I thought “oh yeah that´s right, Elder Beck had 6 months there so it´s a good chance he´s leaving, maybe I´ll go there!” :P I asked him how he was doing and who his companion was. He told me he was with Elder Baquerizo and we chatted for a bit. A little later the assistants started telling the elders who there companions were and sending them off. Finally Elder Usseglio turned to me and said “Elder Frome, your companion will be Elder Baquerizo.” And in a second my heart jumped. But yeah I remember hearing how President does that every now and then, he sends missionaries back to where they started the mission to finish. I remember thinking that´d be awesome to come back to Libertad but I didn´t think it would actually happen. But yeah, here I am, in Libertad again, in the same shopping center where I went with Elder Sanchez every Monday over a year ago. Good times :). And yeah Elder Baquerizo is my companion. He is from Guayaquil and has just over a year in the mission. I remember meeting him in Duran and being impressed by his ability as a missionary. I´m pretty sure we´re going to have an awesome change together :)
But anyways, the last week I had with Elder Godinez was pretty sweet. I forgot to tell you but we had a baptism planned. It was for two little girls who are grandkids of a member. One was nine and the other eight. It was way awesome because they are both amazing kids so it was awesome teaching them. It was nice to end with a baptism. My camera was still packed in my luggage so I´ll have to send you the pictures next week.
Other than that we had interviews with the president on Friday so that was neat. This time they decided to have us have our district meeting at the same time so we wouldn´t lose time doing nothing. It was fun to see Elder Baum and Elder Usseglio again.
Alright well I´d better get going. Here is a picture we took with Elder Baquerizo´s camera in the house so you can see my companion. He seems like a great guy. And thanks for sending the package with rootbeer extract. And no worries one day I´m sure Elder Godinez will get to taste rootbeer :)
Well have another great week!
Love,
Elder David Frome
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