New area, Comp, Transfer!

Hello everybody! So haha alright I got a few funny things to tell all of you if I can remember them all! So first of all I was start with last Thursday. So driving to transfer meeting. As were headed to the meeting, we get on this highway and there is a traffic jam, go fig rite. So 30 minutes or so of this I get fed up with it so I tell my GPS to take a detour. It told me to get off the highway turn around and pretty much get onto the other side so I could start driving the other direction. As I'm going on the Up ramp on the other side, I found out that I was going a tad bit too fast and this turn was a lot sharper then I originally thought it was. So I slowed down and turned the wheels but I was still going a bit faster then I should have been and the car went into a drift!!! IT WAS SOO COOL!!! after I corrected myself and got the car going strait again I thought to myself "why did you do that you still had a good 50+ Ft of drifting left you could have done" but it was probably for the better then I didn't try and keep drifting, o and it was raining so that's why I was able to go into a slide. After that we were at the meeting itself and they were announcing the new companions. They called E. Lystrup and some other guy. The other elder started looking around and was pretty confused as to where his new comp was so he kept looking on the Right side of him then he finally decided to look to the Left and BAM E. Lystrup was one person away from him. His body kind of shook and was a bit surprised and you could tell that he felt a bit awkward and everybody ended up laughing after that happened :) it was pretty funny. Alright let's see that was Thursday, I'm not completely sure if anything too funny happened on Friday or not. Anyway moving on to Saturday.......WE HAD A BAPTISM! So Saturday Sandy got baptized. Now I really don't know anything about Sandy other then she is in her 60's and makes a good truffle. O and on Saturday mornings we do a service for this ranch type of deal where handicap children and amputees come to ride horses for 30-60 minutes. We are there to either lead the horse or stand on the side to keep the people from falling off :) it was really cool and I'm excited that we get to do a service that is so unique. Heck I might even come home knowing how to work with horses a lot better then I did when I came out, which wasn't that great ;) but good enough that I know how to act around horses for the most part :). Sunday was church and it was testimony meeting because of conference this up coming weekend. So there was this black women that started walking up and before she even got to the pulpit she started singing and clapping!!! It was pretty cool to say the least and it sounds like that happens all the time! So it was pretty unique and her testimony was a very good one after she finished her song :) it was a pretty cool experience for sure. So those are the experiences that I have to tell you for this week.

As for the new area, I'm enjoying it a lot considering I have only been here for about 4 days give or take. I am serving in North Brookfield and it is quite in the sticks to say the least, but i like it a lot :). I dislike the city feeling and i love the sticks feeling, so i am a lot happier out here because of the environment that i am in :). It's nice not feeling like you are cramped and have things all around you at all times. There are only about 85 active members in my new branch, but the all act like there one big happy family. E. Clark told me that they all know everything about everybody and love them all just the same and help everybody out as best they can. This Sunday when i was there i found that to be quite true. Everybody was just chit chatting away and moved from person to person, and i have never had soo many people come up to me and say hello, i was taken back for a minute and didn't really know how to act cuz i was so surprised! So these past couple of days have been quite nice for me :). My new comp, E. Clark, is quite an awesome guy. he is easy to get along with and he has an amazing talent of being able to make up songs on the piano with lyrics. Well i think that's about all i have to tell you for this time around :) have a blessed week and SAY YOUR MORNING PRAYERS!!!!! (maybe if i say you all need to it will help me be able to do that as well haha) Love you all ;)!!!!

Love

Elder Camron Foust

Transfer

Alright everybody it's been another 6 weeks Crazy huh!!! Anyway this past transfer has been pretty good. I was able to go to a wedding and gain some new friends once again. But all good things must come to an end sooner or later ya know, and as for me its already ended here in Franklin. I will be moving to North Brookfield Tomorrow and my new comp will be Elder Clark. This past week has been good. Few lessons were taught but the few that were taught went well :). I wish i had more information to tell you, but i don't have my planner with me and i don't remember what really happened this past week. I'm trying to think of something funny that happened to tell all of you but nothing is coming to mind at the moment. Anyway all i can tell you is that tonight i am going to be having chicken and dumplings for dinner!!! WOOT I'm excited for that one of my favorite dishes that my mom makes back home. Anyway sorry for being so bland this week :) hopefully This coming Monday i will have lots more to tell you. Have a wonderful week and have fun!

Love

Elder Camron Foust

I know something happened....

Hello there everybody :) so what happened this week....well like it says in the title I know something happened but I don't remember!!!! this gets frustrating sometime but luckily I have my planner with me and that just might help me remember some things :). O so on Wednesday it was E. Pestana's 20th B-day. It was pretty good I believe for him anyway haha. The day is self was fairly normal but we were able to go out for lunch with Jack Danial's! Awesome name huh haha he is a really cool guy. He is 85 years old and has a good amount of money to say the least. Whenever he signs up to feed us he always takes us out to a restaurant because he says "you guys always get fed homemade dinners and never taken out so I believe that you would like to be taken out every now and again so whenever you need a dinner let me know and I will take you out for lunch or dinner your choice". He's an awesome guy to say the least. Once cool thing that he does is he drives from Mass all the way to Utah for Pioneer Day. Anyway for dinner we went to the Cimmino's house. They are recent converts of about a year and they are really awesome. She use to be a Jew, as well as her kids, but now they are members. The only down fall is her husband is still a diehard Catholic, but that's alright, it's better than nothing. O so on Tuesday we were trying to find less active members and we came to this restaurant. This person was supposed to live above the restaurant. So we called the number that we had for her and the people from the restaurant answered the call and they told us that she wasn't there. So E. Pestana walked over to the car and got another phone number and when he put the phone up to his ear he felt something hit his head. I was just walking over and just started laughing cuz he moved his hand through his hair and this black stuff was all over his hand and i just knew that a bird took aim and pooped rite on his head! haha it was pretty funny. We ended up going to a hair salon where Michel (a member) works at and got his hair washed. just before we were going to leave the manager of the place (who is also a member) asked if we wanted to go give a blessing to somebody. So we said sure sounds good. We ended up going to this persons place gave her a blessing and taught her a bit about the gospel, and got a return appointment with her :). So the moral of the story is, because God sent a bird to poop on E. Pestans head we got a referral and a now potential investigator haha :) just imagine God up there going Hey Jesus, Joseph, Elias, Come see what I'm about to do :). Yes he most defiantly has a sense of humor. So that was the highlight of the week I must say. O so this past Friday, was my year mark for entering the mission field :) I was going to call my trainer, Elder Jones, and say high but I never got around to it. So those were the highlights of the week for you :). It was a slow week when it comes to teaching people, but that's alright. We were able to teach a couple progressing investigators, but the main one that we are working with is Cida Rebas. I can't really tell you much about her, not because it is confidential but because she only speaks Portuguese. All i know is that we are having trouble getting her to church because she doesn't think that it is important so we aka E. Pestana is working on that. Well i hope you are all having a wonderful life and hare enjoying everything you do. I'll chat with you all soon!!!!!

Love

Elder Camron Foust

What to say‏

Hey everybody, so this past week was a bit slow. We weren't able to do a lot of work mainly because a lot of people really didn't want us around after the storm that happened last Sunday, but that's alright :). Saturday we were able to attend a recent converts wedding. It was pretty awesome i must say. It was an all day event kinda thing and we were asked by Norbert (groom) to help him get things put into the cars and what not then go with him to the park and help him get everything set up. So we got to his house around 930 and started helping out where we could. We got to the park around noon and had everything set up by 1ish and things started getting cooked and people were starting to show up. So Norbert has kites, now these kites aren't just the one string 1ft small kites. The kite that I played with was 3cubic ft and it had two strings and you could do simple tricks with it, I enjoyed it, I never knew that flying a kite could be so much more than just watching it be in the air haha.

 anyway it was a great day we were able to watch the wedding at 5pm and then we got home around 930 that night so it was an all day event for us but it was a good use of time. We were able to talk with some non members and have a good time :). let's see what else happened, so on Thursday night the other elders in my apartment went on splits and we had elder Guinta for a day. well hmmm it seems like I don't have a lot to say today since I wasn't able to get any e-mails from anybody today, I would assume it's because nobody thought I was going to be able to get on today :) which is understandable seeing as it is a holiday. Today we don't have really anything planned that's special. I hope whatever the family is doing today is a fun activity i know that in the past we would go to raging waters, but last year they went to some new place so I hope whatever it is you all are doing that you are having a great time and by this time next year i would be joining you :) well anyway I don't have much more to say other than that so I hope you all have a wonderful week and enjoy your self's :) love you all and chat with you soon.

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