Getting there

Hello everybody, so really I’m not sure what to keep talking about.  This past week we had normal things happen.  Nothing really different when it comes to the work.  We have been having some pretty crazy weather though.  Yesterday we had an intense lighting storm.  Around 5PM after church we were in the church and there was this huge crack of thunder and we knew the some lightning had hit close by.  Sure enough just a few seconds later a member came by and was like; there is a huge fire just over there.  Well over there was just in the other yard where a new CVS is being built.  It was pretty cool actually :)  Other then that though really, nothing too terribly different for the week.  Oh ya Tim and Carol moved to a new apartment and we helped with that on Saturday.  It took form 9 till 2 so that was good i guess.  Then we helped Artibani and Moore as well this week.  I think that’s really all I have for this week.  Have a good one!

Love

Elder Camron Foust

3 down, 3 to go‏

Alright, well were already half way done with this transfer already!  How crazy is that?!?!?!  Seams like time is going by super fast yet super slow at the same time, not sure how else to explain it other than that way :) so hopefully you understand what im saying without saying much.  As for this week, sadly things went back to being slow.  We weren't able to teach douge on Saturday like we were hoping to and we didn't see him at church yesterday, so maybe something happened and he wasn't able to make it.  As for Rissa, she is gone at some camp for the next weeks or two, so we weren't able to teach her either.  We were able to do all of our service opportunities this week though like usual.  Saturday with Bro. Artibani we helped him cut some logs down, then make then into burnable pieces and stacked them.  After which we weren't sure what to do so we were given two options, stay outside and cut some more wood or go inside and move furniture around and de bug the couches.  Well we decided to go inside, and it was a good thing we did.  No more than 10 minutes later it started down poring outside.  Luck for us :) we didn't get drenched instead we were nice and dry and got thing done inside before we went to dinner with Bro. Patterson.  Tuesday with Bro. Moore........O ya we went and got his wood splitter and on the way back to his house the trailer fell off the truck!  It was pretty cool actually haha, nothing bad happened in the least but a cool story to tell people :).  Pretty much we hit a big bump and the trailer came off the hitch and the log splitter flew all over the place, but no damage was really done as far as we could tell.  That's pretty much all of the excitement that has happened this week.  O ya on Friday we had a meeting with the President, AP's and the ZL's.  We talked about how we can better work with members in our areas and how we can be more affective with them and helping them with their missionary work.  That was actually pretty cool to go to and I didn't get tired or board while listening.  President Packard is going to be an amazing President for the upcoming missionaries.  Not gonna lie, kind of bummed that I won't be here for the rein of President Packard :) but I'm glad to be coming home so all is well :).  Alright then that's all i got for this week so i hope you all have a good one!

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Love

Elder Camron Foust

What to name the title...idk this will do :)

Well yet another week come and gone, fun fact the elders quorums president is currently at this moment in time in Evanston WY haha, just got a text from him so I figured I’d let you all know this :).  Well what to ell all of you about this week.  Well we are finally teaching somebody new!  Funny thing is it's Tim and Carol Slacks daughter Marissa!  It's really cool because she has been totally hostile towards the church for the past 7 months and now all of a sudden, after living with her grandparents for most of the summer, she wants to get baptized.  This probably won’t happen before I get home, but I’m excited that she is being a lot nicer to us and is willing to listen :).  Along with that a person by the name of Doug has mentioned that he would like to be taught as well!  So this week has been going I would say.  Doug has been coming to church for a while, but he lives way the heck in the middle of nowhere, where we can’t really get to with our mile allotment.  Good thing is that he said he would drive to Tim's house this Saturday and we could have dinner with them then teach a lesson :).  So after not having anybody to teach for a while we now have 2 possibilities and that is a HUGE improvement for E. Anderson and I :) so that’s exciting hopefully they are able to keep teaching these two people after I leave this area.  Well I could probably end my E-mail rite here with that information, but I’m going to tell you about the service we always do because, well I have been doing that for the past 7 months so why stop now!!!  So Bro moore we went and got a BUNCH of wood that i believe we are going to cut and stack tomorrow.  As for Bro Artibani we finished moving a stack of wood to another location.  Then they took us out to dinner at some Mexican restaurant and it was pretty good I guess :) not the biggest fan of Mexican food, but tis a nice change to have every now and again.  Well i think that will be good for this week!  Well i hope you all have a good one!

-- Love

Elder Camron Foust

I can’t get off my mind of how long I got left.

Sorry about not hitting send yesterday.  I had a feeling that i had forgotten and here i am confirming that thought so again sorry and I hope you like the e-mail

Hey everybody!!!  So it seems like I can’t get off my mind of how long I got left.  Left and right I am hearing it somewhere from somebody, kind of funny actually that so many people know how much longer I have left. Well I have 5 weeks left about and time is going by pretty fast.  It's pretty hard to believe that I only have that much time left.  The other week we had a get to know the president.  As we were going around introducing ourselves I was asked how long I have left and I told them "o I go home next month, Waite no.....ya next month."  It was pretty funny actually when I though about it, I actually had to think to make sure that I was correct :)

Anyway enough about that, this past week has been normal for this area.  It was pretty slow though, honestly I don’t understand why, but I think it had a lot to do with the fact that transfers were this past week even though I’m staying in my area.  It was really quite weird actually and kind of annoying, but thing, like I said above, have picked back up and time is going as fast as ever.  We were able to help Tim on a bathroom that Bro. Scherrer is redoing in his home.   The first time we did this was a while ago and we were able to be the demo team which was a lot of fun :).  Before when we were helping Tim out on a different home he found out that I was really good at cutting, making the lines strait and making a really good fit, so he asked if i would cut the tile for him and I said sure.  We were there for about 2 hours I think and the tile looks really good :).  With Bro Moore i was able to change some blades on his lawn mower that somebody put on upside down.  It was cool seeing as i have never done that before and i found it pretty interesting.  It's funny to see how people change over a period of time and now i can understand why my dad wanted to teach me these kind of things, mainly because I’ll probably have to use it one of these days....I probably should have paid more attention and been more willing to go with him ;) haha o well i still got some time to learn :).  As for Bro. Artibani we helped him set a new place to put his wood and started stacking it there.  All in all it was a really good week when it comes to service opportunities.  As for other things, the work here is still very slow, that’s alright though.  Just keeping a good attitude is all you can do and make the most of things :) well I hope you all have a wonderful week!

-- Love

Elder Camron Foust

6 weeks to go‏

Well I thought this time would never come yet I knew it would.  It's been a quick two years and in just a short 6 weeks I will be seeing all of you once again!  This week has been a weird one, but a good one.  It's been one of those weeks when odd things happened, but not necessarily bad things :).  So on Thursday I went on Tours with E. Bloomfield (the greenie) and he came here with me in Bristol.  It was a good tour even though all we did was help somebody move.  Well we were supposed to help that person move in at 330 but we soon found out that things had been going wrong all day for them and his wife was still about 2 hours away.  So we decided that we should go visit some members while we were waiting and went and did that.  When we got back she was still about 30 minutes out so we helped the member get a couch out of their house that the past tenet left behind.  Once we got that over with the truck finally arrived!  So we started to get that unpacked.  Well it was around 9 when we decided to call it because we were having complications.  We decided that we would resume at 630 the next morning and get everything out of the truck so the members could take the truck back before 10 so they wouldn't get an additional charge on the rent.  Well that’s exactly what we did and around 9AM we finally had everything unloaded and ya :) it was a long few hours but everything got done.  They had a 26ft long truck PACKED and there were only 3 of us helping out so ya it took a while, but it was good.  We have been trying to get a lesson with a person named Jakie.  Her daughter is a RC of a couple years I think and she is currently at BYU.  We recently got this information from the Avon elders.  We will hopefully have a lesson with her either this week or next week.  Well I think that’s all I got for now :) O ya I’m staying in Bristol till I come home so ya :) love you all!

-- Love

Elder Camron Foust

Another transfer already?‏

Hello everybody, so this week has been pretty good.  First of all we got a new mission president as of today!  That is kind of exciting and different as well :).  We will be able to seem them tomorrow actually and get to know the new presidents family a little bit.  Friday was a good day for my district.  We were asked to go up and help with the Youth conference up in Goshen and it was a blast.  At about 10AM we were asked to make an appearance to the youth and they asked a couple of us to bear testimony of serving a mission.  So we had E. Ficklin and E. Bloomfield to give theirs.  The reason why we chose them is because Fricklin goes home in 2 weeks and Bloomfield has only been out for 4 weeks so it was pretty cool to get both ends of the spectrum out to the youth.  Afterword’s we had lunch and then went out to "The Market Place".  It was pretty fun.  This was set up to be in the time of Jerusalem type of thing.  Some of the missionaries were roman soldiers and tax collector.  Pretty much they got to pick on the youth and make them pay their taxes :) it was pretty fun.  As for Saturday we went and helped a member who is, moving from the Hartford ward to our ward, move in.  All we did was unload the Uhal truck, but it was a good time.  After words we went over to Bro Scherrer's house and helped out with his bathroom that he is redoing.  It's a pretty good thing that I did a couple of those with my dad or I would have no idea what the heck was going on.  As it is though I understand what it going on for the most part though I still have much to learn in that respect.  I've forgotten a lot as well, but I believe that it will come back pretty quick as I start working with my dad once again.  Lastly we went and helped Bro Artibani as usual.  We pulled out some stumps that were in some other person’s yard and had a good time.  He ended up taking us to an ice cream place and I got Cake Batter like I normally do :).  So this week was pretty good I should say I hope you all had a great one as well!!!

-- Love

Elder Camron Foust

Yet another week‏

Hello there everybody!  Sorry if there was another e-mail that just said this same thing but I believe that I sent that by accident.  Anyway this week has again once been filled with service and a little bit of minor teaching :).  We did the same old service projects this week with the same people.  We were able to finish the rock walk way for Sis dea on Saturday and it turned out pretty decent considering all we had for tools were our hands and shovels, so ya we did the best we could with that :) ill be sure to get some pictures so you all can see what it looks like.  As for Bor Artibani we were able to help him finish up some wood that needed to be spited, and this coming Saturday we will be able to help him move some things around outside (pertaining to wood) and stuff like that :) at some point we will start helping him with his deck that he wants to extend a little bit so that should be fun, hopefully I’m still around when that happens :).  Sunday evening rite after church we were able to talk to this lady named jakie if I remember rite.  Her daughter is a convert of I’m not sure how long and she wanted to talk with us.  So we got a hold of her yesterday and answered a lot of her questions, hopefully we will be able to start teaching her here soon :) that would be great.  Other than that though it has been pretty slow.  We were able to get a couple referrals this past week and we will be stopping by them this week in hopes that one of them will want to be taught by us and keep us a bit busier then we have been :) anyway I hope you all have a great week!

-- Love

Elder Camron Foust