Hey Mom and Dad,
Thanks for your email! And thanks for posting all the comments from my facebook page! It was funny to hear what all my old friends said, lol. There was one thing I didn´t understand though the comments where is just says “Sofia likes this. . . “ and nothing more. I imagine there must be something more on facebook that didn´t copy. But ah well thanks!
I´m glad it sounds like you´ve had a good week. Though it´s always sad to say goodbye to everyone who leaves to go back to ordinary life. That´s exciting that Ryan is there and is going to have an interview, or wait, he already had his interview? Well either way I´m sure he does great! And that´s neat it sounds like the year is already being filled with trips to see family, I guess that´s the fun part of having a big grown-up family all across the states, lol. And that´s sweet you had the opportunity to speak on 1 Nephi 3:7. That talk by Pres. Eyring was powerful. I´m sure it was a great talk.
And that´s sweet West Albany is doing good in Swimming. That´s true Corvallis is tough to beat so that´s amazing that they won. And wow so is the national championship today or tomorrow??? It´s funny I don´t know if you´ve heard of Elder Baum but he´s from Oregon too and so whenever we see each other now that we´ve heard that Oregon is in the championship we talk about it, lol. So yeah we´re excited to hear who wins.
Well this week has probably been one of the most craziest weeks of the mission, lol. Though not really for anything big that´s happened just a bunch of little things that keep happening to us that has been keeping things interesting, lol. Though one big thing we had was on Wednesday when we had “consejo de lideres,” where all of us zone leaders went to Guayaquil for a conference. On Monday night the assistants called us and told us that they wanted us to give a presentation on extending the commitment to be baptized. They told us they´ve noticed that we´ve been having a good number of baptisms and so wanted us to share our “wisdom,” lol. So yeah I don´t know why but for me it´s always nerve racking to give presentations like that, especially because the assistants said that we´d have 30 minutes. We decided to talk about the tactic of introducing the theme of baptism from the beginning of the lesson and tying in the theme of baptism in every principle of the lesson no matter what lesson your teaching. I wasn´t sure if it was such a good idea but it turned out great. We had all the elders practice at the end and they said that it helped open their minds to new ideas. Then later on in the conference we looked over the number of baptisms from the month before in each zone and I noticed that here in Libertad we had 20, which was the most baptisms in the mission. So they asked me to stand up and tell everyone what we were doing to have so much success. Yeah, it was nerve racking but flattering that they recognized that we´ve been having success.
Other then that we´ve been working hard but enjoying the time we have. Oh and before I forget your questions for new years we went to bed at the normal time so we didn´t get to see anything special. But it was kool because we did see some fireworks. They started setting off fireworks at about 7:00 around the beach of Salinas. And yeah that´s true I have had a lot of companions from different contries. And it´s interesting because I haven´t really been able to tell the difference between the accents. Those from Colombia do have a distinct accent and those who are from Ecuador but from the sierra have a distinct accent also. Other then that I haven´t been able to notice too much. I¨m glad i´ve kept a list of all my companions and where they´re from so I´ll be able to remember after the mission.
Alright well I´d better get going. Thanks for your emails! I hope you have a great week!
Love,
Elder David Frome