2012 Jun 25

2012 June 25 PM

Hey Guys!

First things first.  The plate of food that I sent you guys a picture of was actually pizza that we had tried to make with some members.  That turkey, to my knowledge anyway, was actually not a turkey but just a chicken with a horn on its head.  It belongs to some less actives that we are working with.  And Fania, I actually found in a place in Centro that we always use internet as a zone.  And that is how we found her.

And it looks like the official release date for me is going to be the 13th of September.  Or on that Monday is when I start finishing but my plane doesn´t take off until the 13th so I would be walking in the door on the night of the 13th.  In the mission they are not always the best at getting the word out on things like this so I and a lot of people were confused for a while but the official "my getting on the plane" day is on that Thursday.  And I will tell them that the airport that I want to use is Colorado Springs.   

And that is crazy that you guys are so close to a wildfire!  I didn´t even realize while I was there that Colorado Springs even had trees to burn!

This week was really great.  On Wednesday I was talking to someone on the bus named Ismael Ruiz.  He seemed really interested in the message so I asked him if we could come to his house and talk to his whole family about it (he is a teenager of like 19 who was returning home for vacations from Chimaltenango to his aldea which is near to Colo) so we called him later and set up an appt for Friday so we got there and it was awesome.  Because on the way there (he lives in a place called La Patria and where he lives there have never been missionaries ever so as we were going there we ran into a whole bunch of people and gave out a lot of folletos and we ran into this one family with this guy who was in Alabama before and was meeting with the missionaries over there for a little while but then moved back to this far away place in Guatemala.  So now we are setting up a day when we can go back over there to talk about the restoration and everything and I am getting really excited about it.  I think that we are going to go back on Friday to talk to him a little bit more.  His name was Rigoberto.  Anyway, I am excited.

Also, I am learning Mam really well.  I am for sure not fluent at all or anything but I am getting to learn a lot of phrases and it is fun.  Something else cool that happened on that day is that we were asking directions of how to get to La Patria and I was asking an old corte lady how to get there in Spanish but she wasn´t understanding so I asked her in Mam and she understood me!  So that was really fun.  I liked that a lot.

And I am almost out of time and I have not even written to the president yet so I will call it a letter.

Love

Elder Froelich