Hello everybody!  It's been a pretty good week i would have to say.  Lots of parties that we got invited to and lots of food for the fridge!  Anyway my zone went to the temple Wednesday and we had a blast.  Yesterday I lost a 18 year old kid......yup 18 year old kid AT church!! haha it was really funny actually first off Ellen had to go get Tim from work so they could make it to Sunday school so they left Brian at the church and I was keeping track of him but then somebody stopped me and asked me something then next thing I knew brain was gone!!! ahh I was freaking out so Ellen got back to the church and I told her I have no idea where he went so we looked around the entire church like 5 times each outside and inside.  so Ellen was like ok ill go for a little drive and see if he tried to walk home.....o important note he is autistic, ADD, and something else......anyway after Sunday school got out we found brain lol he was in the 18 year old Sunday school class the entire time! :) so ya funny story there it was intense and now pretty fun to tell people!  Well that was pretty much my week just lots of stuff going on because of Christmas!  I hope you all enjoy your self’s this week!  Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night ;)

Love
Elder Camron Foust

Snow Day!!

Yes even us as missionaries have snow days.  Yesterday we got Red dotted which means that we have to stay in our apartments ALL STICKEN DAY!!! We weren’t able to drive or anything, mainly because of the "Nor eastern" which really wasn’t even that bad.  Sure it snowed over a foot in less then uh 5 hours I think, but still it wasn’t even a blizzard I could see clearly outside haha. Wyoming storms are way worse and E. Gardner and I were like what the heck we could totally drive in this safely!  o well it was still an alright day :).  As for Christmas it was pretty epic to say the least.  Missionaries get quite spoiled out here.  I honestly think that I got more presents this year then I have the past 3 or 4 years back home :).  Then we had dinner with the Clarks and it was quite fun.  Dinner its self was pretty much thanksgiving all over again but it was really good!  Then we played a couple games and just had a good time.  Other then that the week was really crazy!  We were going all over the place just teaching people and wishing them a merry Christmas....we tried to get 20 lessons but we were only able to get 16, but that’s alright we were still crazy busy and a couple days kind of screwed us over.  Mainly Friday because we had to go to Nausha (which is a 1.5 hour drive) for breakfast, which was amazing by the way, and we had a white elephant gift exchange and I got a REMOTE CONTROLL CAR!!!! haha its way fun to play with after a  long day.  After that we went home and we had like an hour before we needed to go to out dinner appointment with the Schillemats, who by the way is like HALF of our ward, there a way cool family :). After that  we went to Poul's house and they gave us a Stocking filled with stuff one of which was a Letherman and a knife! there way handy :) it was way nice of him to give us that and it's something that i will be able to use for quite some time......just as long as I put it on the suite case that isn’t going to be on the plane when I come home haha.  Well I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and just love your life’s right now :) don’t worry if anything wrong is going down it will all work out in the end!  I love you all very much talk to you soon!!!!

Love

Elder Camron Foust

Merry Christmas

Hello everybody!  It's been a pretty good week i would have to say.  Lots of parties that we got invited to and lots of food for the fridge!  Anyway my zone went to the temple Wednesday and we had a blast.  Yesterday I lost a 18 year old kid......yup 18 year old kid AT church!! haha it was really funny actually first off Ellen had to go get Tim from work so they could make it to Sunday school so they left Brian at the church and I was keeping track of him but then somebody stopped me and asked me something then next thing I knew brain was gone!!! ahh I was freaking out so Ellen got back to the church and I told her I have no idea where he went so we looked around the entire church like 5 times each outside and inside.  so Ellen was like ok ill go for a little drive and see if he tried to walk home.....o important note he is autistic, ADD, and something else......anyway after Sunday school got out we found brain lol he was in the 18 year old Sunday school class the entire time! :) so ya funny story there it was intense and now pretty fun to tell people!  Well that was pretty much my week just lots of stuff going on because of Christmas!  I hope you all enjoy your self’s this week!  Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night ;)

Love             

Elder Camron Foust

missionaries aren’t robots

How ya all doin :) alright so it’s been kind of a funny week to say the least.  So first off this week was going as normal, but then we decided to do tours on Tuesday night because Tyler was getting his baptism interview (he failed -_ but that’s ok he is on parole for something so no baptism like we planned but heck it happens :) just get back at it and try again) so I ended up going to Nausha NH for the night/day.  First off everything was normal, we woke up worked out ate breakfast and have our studies.  That’s when things started to get a bit weirder :) so first off we went to this members house that have tricycles that are the size of normal grown up bicycles!!! it was actually pretty pimp haha but that family is CRAZY like the wife was showing me all her catices (which were actually pretty cool) and then she started talking about food and i was told that I needed to say MMMMM really loud and when I did she was like "O I got another ones apitate going" haha yup she does that every time I guess and ya there was other stuff that they supposedly do but nothing too odd happened i guess from what I’ve been told.  anyway next we were going to go to this gay guys house who is investigating but I guess he had a huge crush on one of the elders haha but he wasn’t home so i didn’t get to see him.  Then the day was normal after that we went to another investigator and talked with him for an hour had a lesson and what not.  Lastly we went to chase house, he was supposed to come with us to a referral but he didn’t have any clean clothing to change into so we ended up staying at his place for like 5 hours haha (that never happens but its what we did for some reason) anyway there is a huge story to this guy but ill just give the crazy part.  So E. Clemets saw I way to get into the attic and was like "that would be a good place to hide stuff" and chase was like 'o hey there’s a bong up there' at this point clements had gone to the opening and was looking inside so chase told him to get in the attic and go get the bong haha well clements did after a few minuets and brought it down. I was laughing so hard like really did he just get a bong!  then after that chase asked clements about weed and how Washington weed is supposed to be the best i guess (clements is from washington) and he was like well that’s what I’ve been told.  So chase told his roommate to GO GET HIS WEED!!!! hahah o heck yup anyway he enede up finding his weed and the hade clements smell it....after they closed it and put it all away I ended up getting an after smell while we went up to chases room to finish up talking to him about something that was on him mind that I cant spill like I normally would.  ANYWAY  ya it was a crazy visit like i didn’t know what to think but it was fun (nobody smoked if your thinking that just showed us the weed)  then i saw them playing Black Ops on the x-box and one of them tossed a controller to me and i just froze and had no idea what to do so i just told the guy that i don’t think I’m supposed to play, and gave him the controller back.  after that i sat down and talked to the guy...his names is josh.....and got to know him a lil bit and it was good for him from what chase told us because that was he know that missionaries aren’t robots and are normal people like anybody else is :) anyway that’s my crazy story for the week.  so ya hahah missions are very interesting and the oddest things happen that you would never see coming :) cool experiences i must say actually but heck it was a good lesson with chase and we ended up helping him with his issue and what not.  Well there’s a good story for you all to read :) i love you all peace out!

Love

Elder Camron Foust

Turkey ball!!!

Hello there everybody who gets these e-mails :)!  So i completely forgot to tell you about my Turkey ball!!! It was so much fun!!! So we played flag football on thanksgiving hence turkey ball haha :) anyway it was really fun. We started playing at 9am and stopped at around 1130ish :).  so I pretty much owned the opposite team :) I have a lot of dives and "tackled" a lot of people, my teammates were really surprised....so was I actually :) I pretty much owned...not to sound stuck up or anything but I usually suck at sports so I was pretty proud of my self for once haha.  Anyway we all had a lot of fun :) everybody played fair and there was not real bad competition so everybody was just happy :).  so when the first kick happened i ended up getting the ball and the ground was frozen I started booking it and was running really fast, somebody from the other team tried to take my flags but I ended up doing a circle thing and blocking his hand but then I lost my traction and did a big front flip and got owned by the ground ahha I still have a small scab from it :) the ground took me out 2 or 3 more times after that but I didn’t care I was having fun.....the next day though ahah I did care E. Gardner and I could barely walk and getting out of the car almost got me sweating! haha well not that bad but it really was a work out for a couple days, it was worth it though :) i think that’s something our family needs to start doing :) Turkey Ball!!!  Alright so this week well we have a baptism on the 12th!!!! his name is Tyler and he’s 18 we think anyway he just moved back in with his mom and she asked if he wanted to have the missionary discussions :) well its been I think 4 or 5 weeks and now he’s getting baptized! im pretty pumped for it, I’m not doing anything as in the baptism or confirming him but i don’t care about that im just excited that im getting a baptism :) I’m meeting my goal of 1 baptism...well now i need to make it 2 haha but anyway E. Gardner and i are really happy about it!  So this Sunday was really good, i think it’s thee best fast and testimony meeting I’ve ever been to!  There were so many people that went up to the pulpit that we went 30 minutes over in sacrament meeting! That never happens!!! last fast Sunday in this ward was really lame so i wasn't expecting much but I guess you cant judge anything rite :) I’m glad that it went as it did i learned a lot and i almost decided to go up but ya I’m not that....uh....idk the word but ya :) anyway that’s been my week...o so ya i went to this concert thing called The Messia it was a opera kind of thing but not....hard to explain but it was really cool there were all string instruments a trumpet and obo's i think then a choir behind them and 4 soloist who were the opera singers ahah anyway it was really good :) well i think that’s all i got for this week :) i love you all talk to you soon

Love

Elder Camron Foust

Still in Keene

Alright so I'm still in Keene :) and still with E. Gardner so next 6 weeks will be easy and I think will go buy pretty dang fast!  Well for thanksgiving we went to a recent convert named Anthony.....he had a fever of 104!!! so E. Gardner and i decided that instead of him have a Thanksgiving all buy him self we went to his house and made the Turkey, stuffing, and this Jordanian dish for him :) little acts of service are kind of fun actually!  Well he really enjoyed that from us and i enjoyed cooking actually....had no idea what the heck i was doing but heck the turkey turned out alright :) not as good as home but that's alright it was a good thanksgiving none the less!  Well that’s most of the good news really haha I don’t have much time today either anyway so ya ill e-mail you all on Monday! ttyl

Love
Elder Camron Foust

Another Transfer soon!‏

Hey everybody so believe it or not I’ve been in keen for 5 weeks already and I might be getting a new comp or moving or everything staying the same next week!!! kind of scary/exciting hopefully I stay where I’m at and with the comp I got :) I’m enjoying it here with him and not too sure if I’m ready to take over the leadership position quite yet....another 6 weeks should do the trick though :).  well lest see so sadly no pics this week my camera is low on batteries and i just got some rechargeable batteries so I can hopefully take a lot more pics and start getting them sent though e-mails.

Alright so this week, well we HAD 2 baptisms for next week but as sad as it is we had to move them to Dec 5th instead but that’s alright they both still intend on getting baptized so another week is just fine buy me.  So on Thursday night we did tours again....that’s when I get set with a different comp for a day....I stayed in Keene this time and was with my DL (district Leader) E. Black.  It was an alright day :) I got to get to know him a bit better and we did the work the best we could since I’m still not too familiar with the area we had a bit of trouble getting places (good thing we had a GPS or we would have been in trouble) but it was still fun and we got a new investigator who we will be meeting with on Saturday :) hopefully we can get him and his family to church the next day!  Really that’s the only cool thing that’s happened this week.....its nice having to tell everybody stuff I think its helping with my memory a bit!!! haha anyway I’m still having a great time out here and learning a lot...I will still be the same when I get home but different as i’m sure you all know but still figured id say it :)!  O so tonight I will be going on tours with the ZL's (Zone Leaders) and ill be staying in keene again but that will be way interesting so the DL tells me what to do and the ZL tells the DL what to do!!! AHHHH i got the big guy looking at what I’m doing!!! haha no biggie though it will be an easy day Tuesdays always are :) plus it will be fun to see how somebody who has been out for a while works and what not maybe I can learn something from him. I sure hope so :) it will be a good experience I know!  Well that’s about it for now I wont be e-mailing till Wednesday this next week due to transfers so you all know :) I love you all very much talk to you soon later!

Love

Elder Camron Foust

The church is ture!

How's it going everybody :) so this past week has actually been way amazing!  So the week was going kind of like normal till about Thursday i believe.  We went to this lady's house named Jerrie.  SHE IS LIKE GOLDEN!!! Only problem is she live 30-45 minutes away from church -_- and she might not even be in town because of the holidays so were going to do our best to get appointments and set a baptism date before she leaves!  Then after that E. Gardner and I found out that were getting a new car for the winter XD!!!!  It's a BRAND NEW 2011 Subaru so that in itself makes the week amazing! O I forgot to mention Tuesday, so on Tuesdays we go to a old folks place and play games with them for two hours...were required to do a service at least once a week so that’s what we do.....anyway usually its really quite lame mainly because all the people there have like no energy and ya lol BUT this week we played volleyball while sitting down with balloons! HAHAHA it was way fun actually and the old people were really involved which made thing even better :) so that was fun!  So jumping to Saturday now!  We got a referral on our phone to go see somebody in Putney which is 30 minutes from our apartment, so we decided to go see him because something seemed a bit fishy about him but free miles so what the heck ( it seemed fishy because the txt said that he has been waiting to be baptized for 5 years and he's ready for it) so we went to see him and holy crap the txt was 100% correct.  He is what we call a dry Mormon....pretty much he is a Mormon just hasn’t been baptized yet haha he has been going to church since he was 11 went to all of the activities growing up when to seminary/institute and ya so pretty much were going to baptize him on the 28th IF all goes well :) he was at church yesterday so far all looks really good....so ya this week was pretty EPIC....O ya I almost forgot about Tim/Ellen so there a unique story not going to go into detail but looks like they are hopefully going to get married soon (as soon as Tim gets divorced completely) and then we can baptize Ellen so ya haha lots of work to do here WHICH IS JUST AWESOME!!!!  well that’s been my week :) if you get an e-mail from my hotmail account that’s because I’m trying to send you all pictures....so far it hasn’t worked on this account but I’m going to try a couple other things before i refer to my hotmail account! Love you all PEACE!

Love

Elder Camron Foust

Pictures From Boston

Alright yet another Monday :).  HMMMMM what to tell ya all......well for the most part this week had kind of dragged on......yet it buy really fast at the same time -_- weird how that goes rite?!?!  Well we had zone conference on Thursday which was really nice!!! I was able to see some of the Elders from N. Adams.....ya that’s about all that I miss in N. Adams just the Elders haha!!  Other then that it's been kind of slow this week teaching wise.  Hopefully though this week we will have 3 or more investigators to teach XD!!!  One thing that you will ahe to look forward to is a picture....hopefully soon.....a picture of me with two Read tailed boa's on me XD!!!!  The family is Tim and Ellen and they have two kinds.  There really cool and were trying to get Ellen baptized...hopefully we can soon....but they have 4 snakes the other two are too small so I don’t really want to hold them while trying to take care of two other decent sized ones while getting a picture hehe.....actually this Friday I believe we will be able to see one of the snakes eat!!!! o ya that is going to be really cool I’ll record it on my camera and try to some how send it so you can all see it :)!!!  Well work wise there really isn’t much to tell......W8 I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING!!!!  LOL ok so this is kidna funny actually so on Thursday I think we were tracking for the first time since I’ve been here.  When we got to the 4th door Steve came to the door and he let us in.  This was E. Gardner’s first time ever being invited into a house AND actually teaching the first lesson.  ANYWAY back to the story....when Steve answered the door his belt buckle was undone haha and he pants were falling off.  So we went inside and he had the TV going with a foot-ball game going on.....as E. Gardner and I turned to go sit on the couch lo and behold what did we see.....A STICKENPLAY BOY MAG!!!!!!! HAHAHAHA we were laughing so hard inside luckily the mag was closed and there was nothing bad showing on the cover and is was mostly covered with a newspaper haha o boy so far that’s been the worst thing ive seen in a house......E. Gardner has seen worse so ya i'll keep ya informed on funny/awkward stuff that happens.....if i can remember them that is ;)!  Well i hope you all have a good week Love you all tones PEACE!!!!!!

Keene is just amazing

Sup everybody :D!!!  so Keene is just amazing really.  I like it a whole lot here and ya its just awesome.  we have a lot more to do during the day here it seams like, but sometimes it seams like we have nothing planned yet some how the entire day is gone before ya know it.  Well let’s see, this week went by really fast, and not a whole lot happened that's too interesting to talk about.  Saturday though was kind of cool I guess, well not till later that night anyway :), the ward did a trunk or treat for the kids and elder Gardner and i went to it.  It was a really good turnout and we had a lot of fun and even got some candy XD!  Sunday ya know church and what not then we had lunch, personal/comp study, and ya then we had to be in by 6 since it was Halloween :) so we had dinner at some family's house and just played some games with them since we couldn't go out and work which is fine it was nice to get a small break :).  O!!! so this coming Saturday E. Gardner and I are going to be in the news paper :) trying to get people to call us or have a tour in the church building or w/e so that will be something cool i can send home and hopefully my mom or syd i guess could send it through an e-mail :).  Well that’s about it :) love you all very much ttyl

Love
Elder Camron Foust

New Hampshire!!!!

Yes that's right I am now in New Hampshire!!!!  In less then 6 weeks I have been to every state of the mission......that's 4 states in 6 weeks wow, Mass. Vermont, New York, and now New Hampshire XD!!!!  I'm in the town Keene, it's about the same size as Evanston and the ward is around 130 people which is WAY nice compared to what it was in N. Adams :) so that's really nice to be in a real church again XD!!!  My new comp is Elder Gardner and he is from Canada, he's way cool and chill and a very good missionary :) he's been out 6 month.  Anyway :) so far I am loving it here, all the members are pretty cool from what I’ve seen and we've done some fun stuff so far.  On Saturday it was pretty much an all day service for people in the ward.  We helped move a bunch of wood for people then raked a LOT of leaves.......it was thee most epic leaf pile I have ever seen.....but sadly I wasn't able to go jump in it :( o well lol I was helping people out and it was a blast.  Sunday was the primary singing thing....ya don’t remember what those are called but they were singing and what not...o ya primary program duh....wow I'm slow XD!  It was extremity funny actually one kid was supposed to play the violin for one of the songs and he was messing up lol you should have seen the look on his face is was soooo funny then he ended up ducking behind the piano put the violin away and sneaked back to his spot :) it was great! Then we ended up going to this investigators house....they have 2 read tailed boa's XD I had the big one around my neck (about 5ft long) and the smaller one on my hands (about 3ft long) it was cool :) had a good time.  Then there is now or Monday :) well still the same for P-day lol go fig huh!  Were going to go play some b-ball around 2 or 12 your time :) [probably hit up WAL-MART YA!! and buy some stuff that we need, then ya go to dinner with the smith family at 6 and do some street contacting till 9 :) so its going to be an awesome day :) wish you were here with me love you all tones see ya soon XD!!!

Love
Elder Camron Foust

transfer week

It’s transfer week.  I've already been in Mass for 6 weeks and yes I am getting moved, but I don’t know where yet ill find out tomorrow and will let you all know on Monday :).  so besides that news I finished the B.O.M today for the first time :) yup lol only took just under 2 months and I think it will help me progress even further now as a missionary and help my investigators even more :) well that’s about all the fun that has happened this week, since today is p-day instead of the usual Monday lol and since I am getting transferred tomorrow were not doing anything fun, just going to go visit 2 or 3 families get some pictures and ya that’s about it lol.  Well I hope your all doing just great :) love you all and I hope to hear from ya talk to ya soon peace

Love

Elder Camron Foust

SUP EVERYBODY!!!

SUP EVERYBODY!!! so this week has been quite awesome.....oddly enough though we had 7 appointments cancel on us which was making the week drag on really bad cuz we ended up tracking A LOT this week, but my comp and I started to mess around a bit while walking house to house. One day we were quoting Forest Gump " I love you Jenny" LOL ah fun stuff it was awesome.  On Monday though (yesterday) IT WAS EPIC! Best p-day I’ve had so far. So the entire district (6 missionaries) went to my branch president’s house for basically a day at the spa lol.  we went into a sauna so we could do this foot thing that gets rid of bad toxins that are in your body then after that since my branch president  is a chiropractor by trait we all got our backs fixed lol it was epic.  After that we went up to Mt Greylock and went to the top of a light house (yes they have a light house here and i have no idea why) and got some decent pictures of the hills......they call them mountains here but no there hills lol.  After that we went back to the house sat for an hour, i took a 30minute nap and we went to a dinner appointment :) it was a great day that was for sure very very fun.  Now I am here typing you all an e-mail because the library was closed yesterday due to Columbus Day lol :)  well I hope this e-mail was worth reading for once lol i had a bit more to say XD!  I miss you all, but its fun here so ya guess ill stay for another year or so lol see you all soon i wish you the best Love you all XD!!!!!

Love,

Elder Camron Foust

camron.foust@myldsmail.net

Faith walk

Hey everybody :)

So we found a family that looks really promising.  Funny story actually, so we were out on our faith walk late at night near our apartment where nobody walks, just hoping that we would run into somebody. We ended up talking to some drunk guy and he told us that we could come over the next day at 3 and he gave us the address.  So we went over the next day and nobody was home, so we walked around for a minute and ended up talking with this lady for a minute and she was interested and told us that we should talk to her husband about it, she lead us to the house the drunk guy told us to go to lol :)  so it turned out that the guy gave us a phony address, but we might have gotten a golden family.  We weren't able to meet with them our first appointment, but the wife kept calling us to come back again and again until we were able to meet with them.  The appointment went wonderfully, the parents seamed really interested and we are going back to there house on Tuesday :) hopefully everything works out.

That so far is the best thing that's happened on my mission so far.  It's pretty hard out here when nobody wants’ to talk with you, but when you get that one family that listens and they contact you instead of me trying to get a hold of them, really makes this worth while.  Even though I don't know what is going to happen with them, I'm starting to realize more every day that what I'm doing means something to other people and that just buy talking to somebody for a minute is all it takes to plant a seed in there heart, that maybe some day they might call the missionaries to come talk to them :)

Week 5

Hey everybody :) this week hasn’t been any different really -_- o well :) we had more lesson then normal which helped time go buy a little faster....only 5 instead of 17 but that’s normal lol people like to drop o well it happens haha.  I went on tours to Pittsfield Friday and Saturday :) that was a really a fun experience and something I needed :) nice to see a change of scenery lol.  Well nothing much to tell other then that :) ttyl

With Love

Elder Camron Foust

17 lessons this week

HEY EVERYBODY!!!! Boston is going way better this week then last week haha!!!  Starting to have fun.....as much fun as a missionary can have but still fun XD.  I got a lot of work to do this week hopefully with appointments and will not I’ll let you know how it all ends up. Were supposed to have 17 lessons this week so maybe we will get a baptismal date or something outa it XD peace

With love
Elder Foust

A little home sick

So I’ve been in Boston for 4 days now.  Its quite beautiful here.  Am I enjoying it?.....not yet.....its going to take some getting used to first, but I’m doing the best i can and trying to have as much fun as I can so I can start enjoying it asap.  Nothing cool or exciting has happened yet but I’m sure soon enough something will, this town (North Adams) is very weird and something odd should happen soon i bet.  Nothing here is normal....to me anyway lol, my branch has 20 people in it and only 5 or 6 of them aren't converts.  I'm hoping I will get sent to the city in the next transfer but to be honest i don’t think that’s going down -_-.  Anyway, the people in the branch are nice but it’s going to take some time before I feel comfortable around them.  my new comp's name is elder Jones and has been in North Adams for 6 months.......and he’s been on his mission for 6 months.....I sure hope that doesn’t happen to me lol that would suck, i want to see all of MA. not just one place haha.  Well that’s been the first few days here for me, got a lot to get use to and I have to do it fast so i can be of some use to the people here :) love/miss you all

With love

Elder Camron Foust

Week 2

Already been two weeks can’t believe it :). Time is flying buy and I’m not doing much of anything here other then sitting in a classroom all day lol. It gets really boring so us kids tend to entertain our selves so we can make it though the rest of the day :) well I’m almost out of time so hopefully next week I can send you all a longer letter

Love you all
peace:)
Elder Foust

MTC week 1

Hey everybody week one has just been awesom!!! I've been learning a whole lot and really enjoying it. The MTC is way different then i had expected and thats in a good way :). Well last night i was able to here from Elder Holland in person here at the MTC which was just amazing. He told us that this is going to be the best time of our lifes and that we need to work as hard as we can for as long as we can to reap the benifits :). I just wanna tell you all that i miss ya very much and hope that everything at home if going jsut fine. Wish i could sa more but im on a time limit and its almost over :) Love you all very much.
With Love,

Elder Foust
 

Young men, wherever you are called will be right for you,

and you will learn to love your mission.

~Thomas S. Monson