Mon, Jul 26, 2010
Hi mom
well… ive got 4 weeks left. dont get trunky. haha. things are going great. we had an awesome baptism last saturday. this girl named janeth zambrano. she had been going to church for a long time now, like a couple months and one day she said, elder frye i want to get baptized! so we baptized her. yeah my bday is coming up this week!, im gonna be 21 can you believe it? crazy. i can buy beer. well here the drinking age is 18 but nobody even follows that law, ive seen 5 yr old kids go to a convenienve store and buy beer for their dad. no joke. but wow i feel old. over the hill you could say. yeah i went to the indian market today and bought some cool stuff to bring home. but this time some real cool stuff, and i bought something for john that i think he´ll like.
oh so a fun story (get ready mom, and dont have a heart attack when you read this) i got to ride in an ambulance last thursday!!! well i was helping a hurt elder in the zone, i wasnt hurt at all. my comp and i were jsut about to start comp study whent he other elder came into my room and said. elder frye… come here NOW! so i walked into his room and one of his comps (he is in a threesome) was just laying on the floor asleep. i said.. umm what happened? is he asleep, is he joking…….. is he breathing? does he have a pulse? and we were all jsut confused so i called the assistants and told them we had an emergency cuz we couldnt wake him up at all. so we picked him up and threw him into a taxi and started for the hospital in durán. we got there and they told us they couldnt attend him cuz he wasnt ecuatorian and missionaries arent affiliated with this hospital. then he started foaming at the mouth… so the doctors knew he was having an epelipsy attack (apparently there are 2 kinds, one that makes you shake a lot and the other that doesnt but its just as bad) so they called and ambulance and we hopped in and flew like a bullet to guayaquil (i have to say, ambulances are completly crazy i fell outta my seat twice cuz he braked and turned so hard and here there arent seatbelts) so we got to the ambulance and met the president there and got the elder with a doctor and figured out what was going on. he doesnt suffer from this disease, it was the first time it had happened to him. he didnt react for about 30 hours. we heard about a day later that he woke up. the other elders said that he was praying and then they heard a thump on the ground and saw him laying there. its so strange. but yeah thats what happened this week.
so am i going to be able to have a homecoming talk? can i speak for just a little bit at stake conf? well the pics i am sending are of: the 4 missionaries are me, brother pisco, brother pisco (they are brothers) and then my comp. they arent missionaries, the young one next to me finished his mission last week, he was in quito, they live in my ward. and they put their nametags on and wanted to take a pic. they are really funny.
the pic of a large group, is the baptism that i did last week. the person that did that baptism is named cosme chavez, hes 20 and is waiting for his mission call. hes been waiting for like 3 months now so hes kinda anxious. adn the girl in white is the girl that got baptized.
then the pic where i have the thumbs up, i am in the church, the kid next to me is named jostyn salazar. he is 18 and we are getting him excited to go on a mission, he was bapitzed at 8 years old. hes really cool but was inactive for a while. but he has been back for like 4 months now and is getting ready to go on a mission.
that last one is of me and elder hall from canada. we live in the same house and are both going home this trasnfer. we are in the center of guayaquil . guayaquil is a pretty place, you would like it. we are coming back in december right? i hope. thats when it is summer here and the beaches are nicer.
well things are going great here. ill see you all soon!
love Elder Markus Frye
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