Family!
Here's the rundown of
what happened this week...
· I finally went to Jungle Jim's! It's
this huge store where they sell food from all around the world. We bought
a papaya for a less active.
· We started having family home evenings with an
awesome member family in our area. They have a lot of goals to progress
in the Gospel this year, so they have invited us to come and help them start
doing regular family home evenings.
· We helped a less active clear out some wood in
her backyard, then as we were about to leave she asked us to translate for her
at Kroger, so we went and did a little bit of translation.
· We had a super cool meeting that they called
the Legacy Meeting. It was for all missionaries in the mission who have 6
months or less in the mission. They held it because when our mission
started, we got a ton of brand new missionaries and we were one of the youngest
missions in the world experience-wise. Now that almost 2 years has past,
we are one of the oldest missions in the world experience-wise. So the
meeting was to help the nearly 130 of us who are leaving in the next 6 months
to think of the legacy we want to leave behind for the coming generations of
missionaries. The Spirit was very strong in the meeting, and I'm very
excited to see what happens with the work here in the next few months.
· One of our investigators dropped us, but we
also taught a lot of great families this week who are very interested. It
seems like a cycle that happens pretty regularly: as you lose investigators,
you find new ones who are even more interested. I believe that those who
want to change their lives are definitely out there!
· We went over to an investigator's house and he
was trying to put a new door on one of the door frames. We tried to help
him, but he was dead set on doing it his way, even though he had no clue what
he was doing. It was pretty funny.
· We met a lady named Ricarda this week.
We tried to figure out what that name would be in English, and the best thing
we could think of was Richardette...
· We had three baptisms in the branch this
week! One investigator of the other Elders, and two little boys from
member families.
· We had branch conference yesterday. I
got to translate for the stake guy who sat in on Elder's quorum. It was
kind of difficult because I would translate some American-Spanish, then some
Colombian-Spanish, then some Dominican-Spanish, then some Guatemalan-Spanish,
and so on.
· We had 100 people in sacrament meeting
yesterday! The week before we had 108, which we found out is the branch
record! The branch is growing!
· I met my first person from Spain!!!!
I've almost met someone from every Spanish-speaking country!!
That's about it!
Hope you all have a great week! Happy late birthday Dad!
Love,
Elder Foote
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| Elder Foote at Church |
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| Elder Foote and an Investigator |
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| Refrigerated Dominican Mondongo |
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| Mondongo After Being Heated in the Microwave |
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| Mondongo Before the Microwave |
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| Elder Elbaba, Elder Foote's Companion |