I was receiving inspiration

Hello everybody! How are you all doing today! I hope all is well and everything went well on Saturday. I was quite sad to hear the my great grandma Anderson dies last week, but at the same time I was really happy to know that she was no longer in pain and that she is now with our Heavenly Father :) It's so awesome to have that knowledge that we have about life after death and that we all know that we WILL see out families after we die! I find a lot of comfort in that especially since I was hoping that I was going to be able to see her one last time after I got home.

This past week has been interesting for sure. A lot of crazy things have happened which I can't talk too much about. On Thursday though we had interviews with Prez Evans :) that was great. This happens once every 3 months about and is a chance for us to talk with him about anything. It is also a time for us to get to know him a little bit more on a personal level so I enjoy having interviews :) there enjoyable. After that we had a zone activate and we played a couple games. We played Ninja Destruction, signs, and.....I can't remember the 3rd game but they were all fun :) afterwards we had some pizza for lunch it was a great day. Hmmmm what else to talk about, I forgot my planner this week so please forgive me if this e-mail is a bit shorter then they have been lately, but that's how they use to be not too long ago right :) o well. So we were able to have dinner with Jian yesterday. He is a Chinese investigator. We were able to figure out some of his concerns, that I didn't know about, and we were able to tell him what he needed to do so that he could receive answers to his questions more fully. It was a really good lesson that we had with him and I feel like we made some ground work with him finally. We had a baptism date for the 6th of August and we are planning on having that happen no matter what! Unless he doesn't feel like he received an answer then I guess we will have to push it back. I felt like I was receiving inspiration for him which was really cool. I was having all of these thoughts that I just started spitting out and I felt like it was what he needed to hear and I would never have thought of those things before :) it was a cool experience for me. Well I hope you all have a wonderful week and enjoy your self's :) ill chat with you next week!

Love
Elder Camron Foust

Great Week!!!

Well it was indeed a good week this week. We were very busy and it made this week go buy super fast which was nice :). On Tuesday E. Lystrup had to go do a baptism interview but it was an hour drive away and as you all know we don’t have a car. So we went on splits with the ZL's and E. Chavez came to my area for 3 hours. It was a good little split and we were able to talk to a good amount of people who came into our paths. It was a good experience for me since I have been slowly getting more and more scared to talk to random people after E. Hunter left. Wednesday we had a leadership meeting. Normally I wouldn't be able to go to this but for some reason all of the DL's comps were told to come to this meeting :) I feel like that is how it’s going to be from now on from the way they did the meeting. Instead of having all of the Zl's to all of the trainings they had some of the DL's and their comps to some of the trainings so that was good. Then on Thursday we had service as normal :) I really enjoy service. While all of the other Elders who are there give people the food I go up to the front desk and help "Mommy" sign people in so that they can go and get food and it helps her out a lot. Friday we had DM (I hope you all remember these shortcut names) anyway DM and it was really good. We talked about Knowledge as a Christ like attribute, then receiving revelation through church attendance, then we had a role play on the new member missionary lessons that we as missionaries have been asked to teach every active member. Anyway Saturday we had a Cano-ba-que with the ward it was really fun :) what went down was there was a BBQ and canoeing! Well sadly enough E. Lystrup and I weren't able to go canoeing but we were able to partake of the delicious food that was there and play some volleyball and football with the ward members and get to know them better and hopefully have them feel more comfortable around E. Lystrup and I. Then of course there is Sunday. It was a great day. During sacrament both talks were on Prayer and how it can helps us and they were both amazing talks and I was able to pay attention for the full hour!!! WOW that's amazing for me :) I tend to get a bit sidetracked after 45 minutes or so haha. It was good though and i enjoyed it a lot. So after church happened we were able to go to a baptism later that evening for David (the person Lystrup interviewed on Tuesday) it was awesome the talks were amazing and the cookies afterword just made it all hit home :D haha well not really but they were def very delicious, sister Evans made them ;) (Mission prez's wife). Anyway this week went really well and I enjoyed it a lot I hope you all have a wonderful week and have a lot of fun since it is summer :) I love you all very much!!!

Love
Elder Camron Foust

Sick week‏

Well today I really don't have much to tell all of you about my week. Sadly this past week, as I mentioned in the e-mail from the 5th, E. Lystrup was sick all week. Tuesday we spent pretty much all day in the house so he could rest and start feeling better. Wednesday we were in the house for a better part of the day, but we were able to go a couple places as long as we were riding the bus or T most of the way there. Thursday we had service and E. Lystrup was in good enough health to go to that, we were late though, after getting home we planned for a decent portion which was good for him i thought. Friday we had D.M. then lunch with the Zone like we do every Friday :) it was good. We had a couple appointments to go to with Avinash, and by this time E. Lystrup is feeling better but still under the weather, and had a good time talking with him and answering some questions that he had. Saturday was another slower day with not much to do, but we had stuff to plan at the house so we were there for a good portion of the day again. Yesterday-Sunday-was a good day for the most part. We were 30 minutes late getting to church, that's the first time I've been late to church in 11 months....wow go me :) haha, fyi the bus system on Sundays is a pain, anyway we had a good time at church and a good dinner afterwards at Matt Burdicks house. This week was a good one, even though we didn't get much done work wise we were able to get some rest and plan some stuff out that needed planned, so it was productive none the less :) i hope you all have a wonderful week and know that i love you all :)

love
Elder Camron Foust

i really liked this video off of Mormon.org you should watch it :)

EVERYBODY WHO I KNOW IS A MORMON!!!!!

http://mormon.org/create 

EVERYBODY WHO I KNOW IS A MORMON!!!!! This is urgent! Everybody needs to make a mormon.org profile! if you have one send me your link so i can check it out and if now well then get working on one! its simple all you gota do is take a few minutes out of your day and talk a little bit about what you believe :) simple rite, well i guess ill send a link to my page but dont laugh ;)

http://mormon.org/me/36TW/

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

4th of July fireworks in Boston :) view from the 32nd floor in some skyscraper :) twas legit for sure!

Hello everybody HAPPY 4TH OF JULY! Alright I know it's the 5th but the libraries were closed yesterday so you're getting that today :D. Anyway yesterday was quite a good day. For the first part of the day it was quite normal. We went to the stake center and played some volley ball with other missionaries and had a grand ole time. Afterwards E. Lystrup and I decided to go home because he wasn't feeling to terribly well. I was fine with that though because I wanted to eat some food then take a nap I was quite tired from volley ball! Around 630 we both got up and he was still felling kinda bad but we had this plan to go with the Zone to a building and have the chance to watch the fireworks from the 32nd floor of some building that some member works at who attends the Arlington ward. So we got there then E. Godfrey decided that E. Lystrup had to go home and so we went on splits for the night. I was kinda bummed that those two elders weren't able to watch the fireworks so I did what I could and took pictures. Sadly enough though my dang camera died on me after I got like 10 pictures, o well at least i got some pictures rite :). It was really cool though that we were able to stay up and watch the fireworks and stay up past curfew. As for the rest of the week well let's see. We had a good day on Thursday! That was transfer day. So all of the missionaries went to this meeting because it was the two missions joining. it was cool to see all the new missionaries from the Connecticut mission. Anyway that took pretty much the entire day we didn't get home till around 5 and normally we would get home around 2 or 3 but it was good :). We have a new sister from Connecticut in my District and then a couple new elders from there as well in the Zone. It's been good to get to know them and see the difference in their mission from ours. Anyway it's been a good week can't complain :) i love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!!!

Love
Elder Camron Foust

This transfer

Hello there everybody so I am still in Somerville Mass for another 6 weeks :). This transfer is going to be fun and very interesting i think. I'm sure not many of you know this but this transfer the Hartford Connecticut mission got closed and joined with the Boston Mass. Mission. We are gaining around 70+ new missionaries and will have a grand total of 220 missionaries in the Boston Mass. Mission! WOW that is a lot of people to watch over if you ask me. Anyway i was really hopeing that i was going to get sent to Connecticut, but like i said above im staying here in Somerville. I'm not going to lie but when i found out that i was staying (E. Lystrup is staying as well) I was a bit pissed off, and im using those words because that is exactly how i felt. After a few minutes though of being mad at the world i stopped and though for a second, i can either be depressed this transfer and be in pain for the next 6 weeks or i can just thank God for the opportunity to change for the better and enjoy my self for the next 6 weeks. So thats exactly what i did i changed my attitude and am enjoying my self instead of being depressed :). This really is a good area to be in and the ward is amazing and im learning to enjoy it more every week.

On to other things though, so Avinash got Confirmed last Sunday and it was great :). It was really cool to watch him receive the holy ghost and officially become a brand new member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints. We had a good rest of the day but not too much to talk about. Monday was a good day, kind of slow because we didnt have our p-day like we normally would haha but thats alright we made the best of it. We had a dinner appointment with Kendell and it was a good one. He made up pizza and we had some ice cream sandwiches for desert, they were delicious! After words we were able to go help a member, who had been in Germany for a month, move into his new apartment and help him set up his bed, which by the way is quite intense. By then it was time to head home, we ended up going to Harvard T station to get on a bus so we could get home on time. A funny experience happened there and it might shock a lot of you but keep in mind that this is Harvard T station, this is where ALL and i literally mean ALLLLL the crazys hand out. Anyway we were waiting for the bus and there was this guy who was sleeping on the bench and you could tell that he was just waisted, not to mention the wisky bottle that was on the floor rite below his hand. Then he randomly wakes up.....kinda.....and starts saying all sorts of weird stuff and dropping the f-bomb every other word. At this point im kind of laughing because im so amazed at how wasted this guy really is. Then out of nowhere i hear some water hitting the ground so im looking around and what do you know this guy was peeing on the floor while he was laying there on the bench! I was fortunate enough no to see anything disturbing, but i was just so amazed at what was happening to this guy from drinking some liquor. It just made me think of how amazing God really is in giving us the Word of Wisdom so that stuff like that wont happen to us because we arent consuming anything to make us lose control of our thoughts.

So all in all it was really a good week :) some interesting things happened and i even had a cool experience with prayer. So the other night i decided i would test this out and ask god to help me remember a dream that i had that night when i woke up. now the reason why i asked him this is because i hate knowing that i have dreams, but not ever being able to remember them ESPECIALLY when i know i had a good dream and i cant remember it for the life of me. So i figured id give it a shot and what do ya know i could remember what i had drempt for the most part. It was a great experience even though it was a very small one, but it did strengthen my testimony of prayer just that much more. I hope you all have an amazing day and week and i will talk with you all again on Monday :) i love you all and shall talk to you soon!!!!

Love
Elder Camron Foust