My family!!!!
Please allow me a
moment to brag. For as long as I have been in Dayton, I have been engaged
in a silent struggle, a year-long battle, a fight that I have never been
able to win. Until now. (did you like that build up?) Every few
months we have a zone conference, and at that zone conference they check all of
the cars. Out of 10-15 cars, they pick a winner for cleanest car, and
that companionship is given something more precious than gold: they are given a
few miles added to their monthly mileage allotment. Well, I had almost
given up hope that I would ever win, but this past week at zone conference my
dreams were finally realized. We won! So I can now check winning
the clean car award off of my missionary bucket list...
Quite a bit happened
this week. I used a garden tiller for the first time, I was offered (and
successfully rejected) tequila, and I witnessed a flash flood!
We also found lots of
new people this week, all with tons of potential! I'm super excited for
all the amazing lessons we will have this week with all of them!
Our P-day was moved to
today because of a miracle! President Porter was inspired to have P-day
on Tuesday this week instead of Monday, and to have a huge focus on finding new
investigators. The whole day our phone went crazy as everyone reported
and new investigator that we were able to find. At the end of the day, as
a mission we found 234 new investigators! That is over half of what our
weekly record is: in just one day! We had a mission-wide conference call
and talked about that amazing miracle and about how that was just the beginning
of the miracles that will occur in June. I can't wait to see what the
Lord has in store for us. I know that he is behind all that happens out
here, and that as we obey, he blesses us and those around us.
Sorry this email isn't
too long. If I had more time I'd go into a bit more detail on some
things, but the library is super full today, so I don't have much time.
Thanks for your
emails! It sounds like things are going well at home. I hope
you all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Foote
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| Floating Car During a Flood |
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| View From an Over Pass |
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| Flooding on The Freeway |
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| Flooding in Ohio |