Hey Mom and Dad,
Thanks for your emails. I´m glad you´ve had such a great week with all the family home. Though that’s no fun that everyone got sick but I´m glad that it didn´t keep you from doing fun activities, lol. That´s the amazing part of Christmas, being able to get together as a family. We were teaching a Jehova´s witness a few weeks ago and he explained to us how there´s no biblical standing for celebrating Christmas and it´s a pagan holiday so that´s why they don´t celebrate Christmas. I though “wow, I´m so glad I´m not a Jehova´s witness,” lol we tried to explain to him all the good that comes from remember Christ´s birth but we couldn´t convince him. Ah well, maybe one day he´ll see :). Wow that´s awesome that Uncle Brad got a job back in Oregon. When are they planning on Moving?
Well here we definitely had a crazy weekend. Here in Salinas we´ve seen more tourists than people from Salinas. There is one beach here that is really famous for all the nice hotels that are along it and apparently every new years the hotels put on a fireworks show which has gotten very popular so people from all around the country (and outside the country) come to spend new years eve on the beach. There is one member named Clever who has been accompanying me a lot this week so that I could work here in Salinas instead of going between Libertad and Salinas. He was telling me how in years past this certain strip which looks maybe a mile long gets so full of people that you can barely walk straight. So yeah as you can imagine it´s been kinda fun seeing all the people but rough because all of our investigators have been hard to find because they´ve been heading out to the beach. But ah well. On New Years Eve we had a couple of appointments in the afternoon near the beach and as we were walking we saw one member family from my old ward in Quevedo so we stopped and talked with them for a bit. One of the kool things they do here for new years is make paper mache figures of TV characters and things of the year. I think I told you about them the year before. Starting in about November families start to make them and then on new years eve at midnight they burn them. It´s a pretty popular tradition here which is pretty kool. Apparantly on the beach the people bring so many they pile them high and burn them all at once like a bonfire, lol.
On Sunday it was crazy because our chapel was filled with visitors and we don´t usually get more than 70 or 80 people. But it was fun to see. There was one couple from Nebraska who was there. He had served in this mission about five years ago so he came back to visit. The only sad part was everyone only came for Sacrament meeting so the second hour nearly no one stayed, lol. I didn´t have any adult investigators there for my gospel principles class but it was funny because Karen who was baptized in October was just called to be one of the Sunday School teachers and yesterday was her first class. She was a little nervous so I decided to sit in her class.
But anyways, well you guessed right this was the week of changes. In the zone we didn´t receive the changes until last night. It was crazy because we all though that Elder Xicay was going to leave because he´s been in Libertad for six months but to our surprise Elder Parkinson was called to be Zone leader so he left and Elder Xicay stayed, lol. And now I´ve finally gotten a new companion who was actually a District Leader here. His name is Elder Marroquín from Guatemala. He has barely a year in the mission and is already a zone leader so you can tell he´s a great missionary. It´s fun because he knows a bit of English so I think I´ll have to help him practice a little bit, lol.
Well I´m going to try and attack some photos of some of the paper mache figures they make here. But now I´d better get going. Thanks for everything! Oh I got a package from Ryan and from the Lundgreens today and some cards from Grandma and Grandpa Larson. You´ll have to tell them thanks from me. They were great to get.
Well I love you and hope you have another great week and that everyone gets better soon!
Love,
Elder David Frome
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