Family!
Good to see the CLMK
again! I'll start off by answering your questions. No, I didn't get
your Thanksgiving package yet. The post office has stopped leaving the
packages at our doorstep because they don't think it's a safe enough location,
so we have to go by the post office today and pick it up. (By the way, I
was given a scarf this week, so I no longer need one for Christmas).
Thanksgiving was
really good! We started it off with a 3 hour-long planning meeting.
Then we went to an English family's house for a Thanksgiving lunch. Later
on we had dinner with a less-active family from the branch. They made a
pretty traditional American meal, so I didn't really eat anything too
crazy. We played a little Mexican bingo with them, which is just normal
bingo except that the squares have pictures on them and the markers are
beans...
This week Valentina
got baptized! It was a really great service, and afterwards her family
threw a huge party. They invited at least 30 non-members to the service,
so the whole party was spent talking to all the people who came. Crazy!
This week I did
English work for the first time in over a year. We went on exchanges with
the English Zone leaders, and I went to their area. It was still
basically foreign work though because the families we visited were from
Micronesia and Ghana. It was super hard not to speak Spanish while we
were teaching them. I also had to focus super hard while praying or I
would slip into Spanish as I was praying. It was a super fun day, but it
was nice to go back to Spanish work when the day was done.
Nothing else super
huge happened this week. Most of the week was spent prepping for the
baptism and things like that. Here's a few random small things that
happened:
· I ate flautas (tacos durados) for the first
time this week.
· I committed a 7 year-old to never drink tea
again.
· We tried to put out a metaphorical fire when
Gospel Principles class turned into a 30 minute-long discussion on polygamy.
· I learned that our assistant branch
secretary's older brother once slapped Pancho Villa in the face.
· I talked to a few different families who are
absolutely ecstatic about the Executive Order.
Just in case you
haven't heard, the church is launching a huge initiative called "He is the
gift." It's a video about the true meaning of Christmas. They
bought out all of the billboards and televisions in Times Square on black Friday to promote it, and on Dec. 6th they're going to buy out the YouTube banner
all day. You should definitely go watch it and then share it if you
haven't already. christmas.mormon.org
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Foote
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| Elder Foote will teach anyone who will listen |
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| Elder Foote and Elder Elbaba November Baptism |
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| New Member of the Church |
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| Elder Footes Thanksgiving Package |