La Vida en Salinas!

Hey Mom and Dad,

I´m glad sounds like you´ve had another good week. But yeah it has been crazy walking around here in the peninsula again. I´ve forgotten how much I loved being here in the peninsula. I mean I´ve loved all of my sectors, especially Quevedo with the people there, but when I got here I remembered how different it is. It´s not quite as green or tropical with so many banana trees or plants like Quevedo, but the nice thing is everything is a little more spread out and just more tranquil. In Quevedo we lived more downtown where there was always noise of cars or music playing in the streets, starting from the morning when we got up until we went to bed there was always noise. Which really wasn´t that bad, I just got used to it until I didn´t even notice it anymore. But now I realize how noisy it really was because here where we live is in a nicer quiet neighborhood and in most parts of our sector it´s not as busy nor is there music playing so much. I remember Elder Sanchez telling me that the lack of music was a blessing of this zone because you can just think and reflect better. That and the sea food is pretty much amazing :) lol already twice this week we ate a famous soup called “encebollado” which is of fish with onion and tomatoes that is way good.

Also it´s been fun and almost surprising to see the members in this ward that I had already met. The first Monday when I left with Elder Baquerizo for our last appointment we passed by a family and they looked at me and a surprised look spread across their faces and they said, “Elder Frome!” which was funny because my first thought was they saw my name tag quick and were surprisingly well at pronouncing my name on the first try but still I asked “hey how´d you know my name??” then they told me I was there in their baptism and that´s when I remembered in my first change with Elder Sanchez we had a baptism together with Elder Eaton and Elder Martineau and I faintly remembered they were baptized, lol. They pulled out a photo of the four of us missionaries that we took before the baptism. It´s surprised me how many members that I knew. Several families also say that I look familiar for some reason and that´s when I tell them I was in this stake before. So yeah it´s been fun.

It´s been great teaching with Elder Baquerizo. He´s a great missionary with a great attitude. I think we´re going to have a lot of success in the next six weeks.
Alright well I´d better get going. Thanks for everything! Hope you have another great week!

Love,

Elder David Frome