Changes!!

Hey Mom and Dad,
I´m glad sounds like another good week at home. Sounds like a crazy week in sports. But that´s neat that your getting everything prepared for thanksgiving. That´ll be a nice week to see Jeff and Maryanne and everyone. And wow crazy how four of us cousins are out away on missions. And wow that´s awesome that Melissa found out she´s going to have a girl! I´m sure Josh and Nathan are excited if they were hoping to have a sister, lol. That´ll be neat to have a niece.
As for here I think I forgot to tell you that we were in the last week of changes, sorry! But yeah it was kind of funny there were so many transfers in the last change (8 of the 14 missionaries in the zone came in new to the zone) so we figured there woudn´t be too many changes this time so we weren´t really thinking about it either. But on Thursday night we got a phone call by surprise. It was Elder Usseglio one of the assistants and I talked to him. He asked how everything was going so I told him we were all doing great then he told me he had some changes for us. He told me that Elder Franco (who was living with us in the same house that was an awesome guy), another elder from the zone and Elder Baquerizo had changes. Yeah, took us completely by surprise. Poor Elder Baquerizo, only had 2 changes there and was hoping to stay for Christmas had to pack his bags. He traveled with Elder Franco so I got to stay in Libertad to wait for our new companions. Now I am with Elder Suquillo from Quito. He´s a great guy. He has 23 months in the mission so he´s about to finish. It´s sweet because he has a lot of experience as a zone leader so we have a lot of ideas of things we can do to help the zone. I remember hearing about him a lot because when I was in my first sector of Quevedo, in Bolivar they talked about him a lot because he started the mission there and had a lot of time there. So it´s been fun we´ve been talking about how it was in Quevedo. I also met him in Duran so I´ve seen him just never really gotten to know him. It´s kool because he always seemed to be more of a quiet reserved missionary but now that we´re together he´s pretty hilarious. It´s sweet teaching with him because you can tell after nearly two years in the mission he´s pretty well mastered the skills of teaching effectively. That only crazy thing is that he heard that he might go home in the middle of December which would be crazy because this change ends the first few days of January. It might be to just be able to let all the missionaries in his group go home before Christmas instead of keeping them until the week after. We´re not sure yet how it would happen. Of course I´d like to keep my companion until the end of the change but I´m sure he´d love to be able to see his family for Christmas. I´m sure we´ll find out at the beginning of December.
Other than that we´ve been working hard. It was sweet this week because in the zone we had 8 baptisms which is a good number because usually we have 3 or 4. In our sector we helped Juan and Alison set a date for the marriage for the 8th of December because it is right before the baptism for the 11th. Hopefully it all goes good. One funny thing was Sunday morning we got to church and said hi to the bishop and he told me that the third Sunday of each month they usually let one of the missionaries speak and asked me if I had anything prepared. I didn´t have a thing but told him that´d be fine I could always take advantage of an opportunity to speak to the ward. I asked him how much time I would have and he told me ten minutes so I figured that´d be perfect. It´s funny because I really didn´t feel too nervous. I was the last speaker so I had plenty of time to think of what I could say. It´s the nice thing about being a missionary you get good and coming up with things to say quick. I figured the easiest thing to do was to think of one or two stories to tell and that´d fill up the ten minutes easy. So yeah I told that story of the Train keeper and another I had heard here and tied it in with 2 Nephi 2:8 and making the story known by sharing the gospel and ended up going over about 4 minutes, lol. I hope it motivated the members to share the gospel, though I realized as I told the story by the reaction on the faces of the members how sad the story really is, maybe I won´t choose that story to tell next time, lol.
Well other than that we´re doing great. Well thanks for everything, love you!
Love,
Elder David Frome