Family!
Not too much happened
this past week.
My birthday ended up
being a pretty good day. The branch president's family tried to throw me
a surprise party, but it's pretty hard to plan a surprise party for a
missionary when every hour of your day is already planned out. So it
wasn't really a surprise, but it was still a party! She made an awesome
missionary cake for me, and they sang and everything! And the Elders in
my district got me some new indoor soccer shoes. Now I can show off my
full soccer potential...
On Wednesday I
got the opportunity to go to a special leadership council. About half the
mission was there, and in addition to President and Sister Porter, they
had someone there from the missionary department in Salt Lake and the guy who
all the mission presidents in this area report to. It was a really good
meeting, and they focused a lot on our purpose as missionaries and how we can
improve certain areas of our teaching.
We had a lesson with a
less active this week who hasn't allowed missionaries into his home for over a
year. A lot of the members of the branch are related to him, and so we
have a lot of support in helping to activate him. To be honest, getting
in to see him was a miracle, and we were super excited that it happened.
We'll now be seeing him once a week!
We had a lesson with a
less active family who has an unbaptized, 9-year old son. We asked him if
he wanted to be baptized, and he said yes! We are currently working with
the branch to help activate the family so that the dad can baptize his son!
One of Elder Elbaba's
investigators in his last area (Kentucky) was getting baptized on Saturday,
and he really wanted to go. We got permission to go if we had someone
take us down there, so he found a member that was willing to drive us down to
Kentucky, and we went! So I spent a good part of my Saturday in
Kentucky attending my first baptismal service on my mission! It was
pretty exciting!
That's about it.
Sorry I don't have too much to say this week. I hope everything is
going well at home. Thank you so much for everything! Have a great
week!
Love,
Elder Foote
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