Hurricane!

 Hello there everybody. So yesterday we got hit by a hurricane.....well more like a tropical storm by the time it got to Franklin. It really wasn't too scary or awesome. But some of the wind that I got to see was pretty cool I must say. We were inside all day yesterday just playing games and napping and just hanging out really :). It was a good day to rest and just have fun inside. We were told to stay inside until told otherwise so thats what we did. Saturday I was able to go to the temple and do an endowment session then do some sealing's. I found it really awesome doing the sealing's for the first time. It was really neat to know that I was helping some people who passed away 200+ years ago be sealed to their parents. I was also able to hear the wedding thing so I kind of know what that is like for when I get to go through the temple when I get married ;) woot woot I'm excited for that. Anyway so that was good to be able to go to the Temple. Other than that let's see what happened. This week has been a bit slower than normal, I'm not too sure why, but it has been. Well I'm drawing a blank rite now so I'm sorry about that it looks like this e-mail might not be as good as they have been lately. well I guess I will call it good for now then. I hope you all have a wonderful week :) love you all very much!
Love
Elder Camron Foust

Year one over!!!

Hello everybody! How crazy is it to think that I have been on my mission for over a year now! holy cow that's intense it honestly does not feel like I have been away from home for over a year! It's weird to think that I haven't seen anybody that I love back home physically for over a year and I'm not going to lie that kind of hit me on the 19th and I got a bit home sick, I wanted nothing more than to be home for just an hour even and give everybody a big ol hug! but a las that cannot be, but that's alright :) I will live I mean I am in a wonderful area and I have great roommates so I got the support I need physically and I got all the support I need from my friends an family who are far away! So this week has been good, i am still complete lost as to what is going on because there is so much that is happening in this area rite now it's crazy!!! We had Zone Conference this past week and we focused on the Atonement. It was a good meeting, i would try and give more detail as to what happened but it was just a lecture pretty much from all of the ZL's in different Zones. So at Zone conference there is an award for the cleanest car in the Zones. This happens every Zone Conference so E. Pestana and I decided that we needed to clean the car out a bit. So we used a vacume and got the inside then we went to a car wash and we washed the car and we both decided that it looked good. Well it was good enough that we ended up winning the cleanest car :) how cool is that huh. We got a $20 subway card and a candy bar so that was cool for sure.

 Also this past week we had a Mini Missionary. His name is Ben Pittman and he was with us for 3 days. He was set apart and everything, the only thing he didn't have was a badge sadly enough. So it was an awesome experience being with him for 3 days and being in a trio. I had a good time teaching him a bit about mission life and we were able to get him excited to go on a full time mission :) we let him know that it's not all strict and as crazy as a lot of people make it out to be but that's its a lot more chill and enjoyable then you would think but most defiantly not the easiest thing you will do but one of the most rewarding things you will ever do! I'm really not sure what else to say at this point and time. This area is awesome, but i am having minor trouble with my new comp, but hey that's life rite:) accept the challenges that are thrown your way and grow from them and become the better person that God intends you to be! I have a quote for all of you that is very true yet very sad "Home is where we are loved the most, but act the worst" Give that some thought :) and think of ways that you can change that saying in your own homes. I love you all and i hope you all have a blessed week!

Love

Elder Camron Foust

New area.. new life‏

Hello everybody :) so i have been in Franklin Mass for the past 4 days now!  It has been an interesting experience for sure to see the difference in areas and ward members.  First of all I haven’t been in a car area for over 4 months and I haven’t driven in almost a year!  Then I get put in Franklin and all of a sudden I am the designated driver and in an area where you need to drive a decent a mount.  It was really weird driving for the first time in over a year and it took me a second to get use to it again.  It's been really cool though :) a bit weird for me still though being in a family ward again with kids and old people haha :) but it's really good for sure.  This ward from what I know is very awesome.  E. Lystrup served here for 10.5 months and he loves this area quite a lot.  So he told me about a few people and some of the things that he loved so much.  So far I’ve been impressed with the way that the wad members feed us!!!  Anyway funny story.  So the first day in my new area we went to go do service for a member in the ward who is moving soon.  E. Pestana (my new comp) got a cut on his heel Wednesday night, just before transfer meeting, and he could barley walk.  Sister White was there and once she found out that E. Pestana could barley walk she told him "once we are done here we are taking you the hospital!" So after we got done with everything we went over to her house and got her son Abe and took him with us so that we wouldn't use up any miles in our car.  Pretty much we were running around for the rest of the day.  We finally got to the hospital around 5ish and E. Pestana ended up getting 8 stitches in his heel!  It was pretty funny watching him quiver every time the doctor came into the area and let him know that he was going to get a shot to numb the pain so he could start stitching up the wound.  Anyway that was a pretty good first day I would have to say :).  Since that though we haven’t really been able to go out and do things, except go to all of the set appointments that we had.  It's been good though we have been fed every night since I’ve been here and our dinner calendar is full for the rest of the month!  Well that’s all I have to tell you for now.  I don’t know much about this place still but it has been good to me so far :) I’m excited to be here in this new place and I think I might be here for a few transfers, which I’m more then ok with :).  I love you all and I hope you have a wonderful week!

Love
Elder Camron Foust

Should i stay or should i go now!!

Hello everybody! So it's transfers week and like the title says...well kind of says...am I staying or am I going. Stay tuned for the amazing announcement after these messages.

Today we will be talking about the week of a missionary who is spending his time in the LP2 ward in Mass. Elder Foust how has it been for you this past week in the LP2 Singles ward. "Well this past week has been kind of intense I would say. The beginning of the week was going like normal until Friday. Friday evening we had or normal appointment with our investigator Jian. Little did we know of what was going to happen. The lesson was going well until the end when Jian told us that he wanted to take a break for a month and think about things. A little bit before that though we were having an awesome lesson with him and doing our best to get him to start going to sacrament on Sunday's. We told him that if he were come to sacrament this past Sunday that he would receive the answers that he has been looking for, BUT if he did not and decided to go out with his friends instead that he would not receive an answer. It was a great lesson and the spirit was there strongly, but Jian decided that he wanted to take a break and not listen to us and instead think logically about God. Then we made it to Sunday. We found out Saturday night that we were to combined wards with the LP1 Sister missionaries so that now all 4 of us are covering LP1 and LP2. After we had been at church for 7 hours we had a missionary coordination meeting with LP1's ward mission leader and the ward missionaries. It went well but we were bombarded with things that the ward would like us to do, but none of them knew that we had just came from having pretty much nothing going on to having everything going on so we were a bit set back and got an overdose of members being so willing to help out with missionary work".

"So Elder Foust we heard that this week is transfer week. Could you share with us if you are going to be moved this time around or not?"

"O alright well on Saturday night the Elders in my apartment, and my comp of course, went out for dinner together. We went to Cheese Cake Factory, i ended up getting a burger and it was delicious for sure. Anyway after we were all finished with dinner we headed back to the church and we waited for the texts to come that would let us know if we were going to be leaving or staying in our areas. I had the feeling that I was going to be staying and E. Lystryp had the feeling that he was going to leave. We were both incorrect. I will be going to a place called Franklin, which is in Mass. I'm very excited to leave and start a new area once again".

Well everybody you heard it straight from the source. Until next time have a wonderful week and stay tuned for next week's broadcast, "New missionaries in new areas" !

:) I love you all and I hope you enjoyed this random T.V. interview with myself haha :) ill chat with you all next week!

Love
Elder Camron foust

Not sure what this should say...

Hello there everybody :) yet another week has come and gone. This coming Saturday I will find out if I am leaving this area or if I am staying here and if I will be getting a new comp or not. They changed up the system on us when we joined with the Connecticut mission. We will now be finding out if were leaving and where we are going if we are leaving the Saturday before and then we will leave on Thursday like before. Well about this week let's see if I can remember anything. So on Tuesday we taught about 7 Chinese people. One of our members, shakiera, works with people from other countries and they were doing a tour of church's and she asked E. Lystrup and I if we would teach the students about our church. We of course said yes and got everything ready. It was nothing to terribly special, we just did a quick tour of the church itself and then we taught them all a lesson one which teaches them about the restoration of the church. After that we went to this restaurant called Fire & Ice....IT'S AMAZING!!!! It's a buffet but in a unique way. You go up and choose what you want and put it all into a bowl. Everything is in "Ice" and uncooked you pick what you want-Pasta, Meat, Sea food, Vegies (if you want) and a sauce-once you get all of the food you want (that fits into the bowl you have) you go and pick a sauce that you want then you go the grill hence "Fire" and the cook it in front of you :) it was really good and since it's a buffet you can obviously go back as many times as your stomach and handle, it was quite good so people who come out to Boston with me when I visit will most defiantly have the chance to try Fire & Ice. On Friday I was on tours with E. Godfrey again, it went well I though. We had a lesson with Jian that evening and we were able to teach him a lot about receiving answers. He keeps saying that he doesn't know what the spirit feels like so we asked him a lot of questions concerning how he feels when were around or when he prays or when he is at church. He always tells us the same thing, the he feels calm and peaceful. For some reason though when we tell him that that is the spirit talking to him it just doesn't quite sink in like we would like it to. We are still working with him and we are shooting for his baptism to happen this Saturday but by the looks of it we will probably have to move it back a week or two which is fine just as long as he gets an answer that suits him and gets baptized before he goes back to China. We tried to help him understand that God won't show himself to us today because he wants us to act in faith instead of a knowledge....he is still processing that thought, hopefully it sinks in here soon :). Well let's see what else, so today is E. Lystrup's B-day and he is turning 21 :) we don't have too much planned, but I'm going to try and bake him a b-day cake sometime today, I mean you have to have a b-day cake on you b-day right you can't go without that! Today were planning n playing some dodge ball with the Boston Zone and I think it will be a blast. After that who knows what will happen maybe some b-ball or we might head home and play some games who knows :) all I know is I'm excited for today and it will be a good day for sure! I hope you all have a wonderful start to this new week and love life!!!

Love
Elder Camron Foust