Familia de Pie!!!!
I'll start off with
the subject line, just to mix things up a bit! This week I went to
Indiana for the first time! We had a mission Christmas devotional in
Muncie Indiana at 9 in the morning, and it was about an hour and a half long
drive from Dayton out there. Road trip! And guess who got to
drive? I did! It was actually a pretty boring drive. The GPS took
us on a backroad through the fields, so we pretty much didn't see any modern
civilization for an hour or so. I say modern civilization because as we
were driving, we passed a horse-drawn buggy, with lanterns for
headlights! Amish country all the way! But yeah, the Christmas
devotional was really fun, and we learned a lot as well. In total, I
ended up driving 200 miles that day! I was pretty worn out by the end...
One of the Elders that
we took to Indiana is waiting for his visa to the Netherlands; he's going to
the same mission that is in The Best Two Years. So he taught me some
Dutch. I can now kind of say "We are missionaries for the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" in Dutch!
As we were walking
down the streets of this little neighborhood this week, a car pulled up
alongside us. The guy inside asked if we were Mormons, and we said we
were. He said "I thought so, I'd just never seen a Mexican Mormon
before, so I thought I'd stop and see..." He was talking about Elder
Elbaba, but I keep trying to convince Elder Elbaba that he was talking about me
since I'm so Hispanic...
In response to your
questions about D-----, he isn't quite there yet. He had the baptismal
interview, and there are still a few things that need to happen before he can
be baptized. But his desire to know the truth is definitely there, and I
have no doubt that it'll happen in the future!
I tried menudo for the
first time this week. Menudo is cow's stomach, and it was the first time
I have eaten anything really weird while out on my mission. It wasn't all
that great. The texture was really weird, and I don't think I'll be
having it again anytime soon (voluntarily).
That's about it.
We're excited for Christmas here in Dayton. We have a half P-day today
and the other half on Christmas, so that should be fun. The branch
Christmas party is tonight, and we're really looking forward to that. And
the members here are super awesome; I think almost every member of the branch
has invited us over for Christmas.
I'm excited to talk to
you guys on Wednesday. I'll call mom's cell, and it'll probably be
between 8 and 12 your time when I call. Talk to you soon!
Love,
Elder Foote
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