Family!
Another long, busy
week. I did a better job this week of keeping track of everything that
happened, so I'll just go through the week chronologically and put down
anything of importance.
First off, thanks for
the package! It was awesome! Our apartment is now super festive
thanks to that tree! And I did get the other one from the Keller's
yesterday. Thanks!
We helped a member
finish painting their gazebo this week. It's been an ongoing project for
awhile now, so we decided that it was time to finish it up once and for all,
even though it was only 40 degrees outside... Afterwards he took us out
to eat at a really good Mexican restaurant where I ate my first ever chile
relleno. Another noteworthy thing I ate this week was a seafood soup that
had whole crawdads in it. You had to pick them out and shell them by hand
as you were eating. It was pretty good.
We found a lot of
people this week. One was a super intelligent Guatemalan man named
Jairo. He knew the bible better than most people I've met on my
mission. Usually when I teach I have to explain things very simply and
assume that the people haven't ever heard anything about this stuff before, but
with this guy I was able to be more straight up with what I said instead of
only saying the bare minimum. It was kind of weird to be honest.
This week almost
everyone we tried to visit was sick. We were really surprised; we'd never
seen so many people sick at one time before. I got sick as well, but
luckily it passed in a few days.
A member told us a
super cool story this week. He used to work as a manager at
Skyline. He made pretty good money, he had a decent schedule, and he was
the boss. The only downsides were that he had to work Sundays, and the
work environment wasn't very good. After working in that job for awhile,
he finally felt like he needed to quit and find a job that would allow him to
have Sundays off. So he quit his job and took a job doing maintenance in
an apartment complex for a lot less money. Over time however he was able
to learn a lot, and he soon took over the management of the entire complex, as
well as a few other complexes. He now makes better money than he did
before, he has better hours, he doesn't have to work on Sundays, and he has a
very relaxed work environment. He was definitely blessed as he took a
leap of faith and did all he could to obey the commandment to keep the Sabbath
day holy. Mosiah 2:41.
We went to try a
former investigator in an old trailer park, and it turns out the trailer where
they used to live didn't exist anymore. We started to leave and were
stopped by a lady wanting to talk to us. She said that she had met with
the sisters before, but that her husband never had because he was
Hispanic. We told her we spoke Spanish, she gave us her info, and now we
have a new person to contact. I felt like we were definitely led to be in
that place at that time.
I tried White Castle
for the first time! 70 cent sliders!
That's about all for
this week! Have a good week!
Love,
Elder Foote
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| First White Castle |
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| Second White Castle |
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| Third White Castle |
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| Elder Foote's Christmas Tree |
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| Parking For Elders? |
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| Elder Foote's Christmas Package |
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| Christmas Decorations |