Megan and Luke

Hey everybody :D hope all is well and i hope you all did something fun this past weekend and enjoyed some fun time for a change! I always find out that when i go and have a bit of fun every now and again it just makes doing all of life's stuff so much easier to handle and go about! Anyway this past week has been pretty good. We were able to get in contact with a potential family finally!! Their names are Megan and Luke and they have two kids, a boy who is 6 and a little girl who is 15 months old. The only sad part of this whole thing is that there little girl has cancer!!! how sad is that! 15 months old and has cancer. We brought up the plan of salvation with them and they really enjoyed what we had to say. Also the wife, Megan, asked us a lot of other questions that we were able to answer and she really likes the sound of how the church of Jesus Christ functions! So anyway were hoping that they turn into investigators sooner rather than later. Saturday we were able to go to SALEM witch town USA! it was pretty cool. We changed our p-day to Saturday and ended up working on Monday. We were able to see some pretty cool costumes that I never thought would be doable, but people out in Salem have a wild imagination. So we had a fun day out there and when we finally got home at 9P.M. I hopped into bed and crashed I was out! Then E. Clark said that he got into bed at 930 and he was out as well haha :) so we had a good day just walking around and looking at stuff, we were going to go into some museums, but there were too expensive! o well next time I come out here when I got a bigger income I'll be able to check those out! wow my hands are starting to hurt from typing! Anyway let's see what else happened. We were able to talk with Paul and Mary again. We were going to teach them about the gospel of Jesus Christ but after the first principle they started asking us all sorts of questions which ended up taking up the entire hour :) so it was good though i felt like we were able to help them out and we left them with 2 Nephi: 31 and asked them to pray about baptism, so hopefully they get a good impression from God while there praying so we can set up a baptism date next time we meet with them! Well that's it for now :) I hope you all have a wonderful week!! much love!

Love

Elder Camron Foust

Hello

Why hello there people around the world that mostly live in Utah and Wyoming and other places that I may not know of, how are you?  Probably just swell!  Things out here are going well for the most part :) a bit slow but that's more then ok.  It's kind of nice when you don't have something going on all the time and you feel super rushed and feel like you don’t have enough time to do all that you had planned on doing!!!  That feeling is no good I must say, so I like it out here where we got enough to do but not so much that were running around like chickens with our heads cut off!  Well let’s see what happened this week that i should tell you about that I can remember.  O so funny story, Sunday night we went over to a member’s house for dinner.  Her name is Sister. Kokernaker.  She is CRAZY, but a lot of fun to be around. So when we got to her house, she hadn't even started dinner so we were like alright sounds good we will help you make dinner then :) so we did.  I cooked some gravy and green beans while she cooked a roast and E. Clark did something, I’m not to sure what he did but he did something.  Anyway dinner was over and we went outside to talk for a minute and then we came back inside and helped her clean the dishes.  The phone started to ring so they told me to answer it, so i did.  It was pretty funny cuz I said hello but in a deeper voice then she said hello?  And I said hello (deep voice) who is calling please.  She then said Holly and i pulled the phone away from my mouth and i asked s. Koker who is holly and she just started laughing and told me to tell her that she would call her in a bit, so i told her that then she asked me "May I ask who is call...I mean answering the phone" and I said in my normal voice " O just an elder" and she was like "O" then i hung up haha it was pretty funny.  Rite after that sister Koker splashed me with water for some reason so i splashed here with a lil bit of water then she tried to get me again so i jumped across the room and stayed clear of her.  Then all of a sudden she had a big cup of water and splashed E. Clark all over his chest!  It was hilarious and E. Clark was like what the heck!  I didn’t even do anything and Sister K said sorry you were behind me and I was just laughing my head off.  Then i knew that she was going to splash me and i was just waiting for it and staying as far away from her as possible.  Then she asked me to through something away and i was like dangit i cant say no and if i go get it I’m going to get splashed!  So i had to go get it and get splashed my self haha :) it was a lot of fun though soon after we were done helping her we left and went home after.  Alright well my hands are starting to cramp up!  So i think ill leave you with that good story :) I hope you all have a wonderful week and HAVE FUN!  That is the most important thing you could do is HAVE FUN!  Alright that is my commitment for all of you this week go out and do something fun WITH the family or if you are away from family get some friends together and do something fun!  I love you all!

Love 

Elder Camron Foust 

STAR VALLEY IS GETTING A TEMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So you would not believe how happy I was when I herd president Monson

say that Star ValleyWyoming was going to get a Temple. Now I know that it won't really benefit me since S.V. is like 4 hours away or something like that, but the fact that WYOMING is getting a Temple just makes me happy L( and i love the face the Prez Monson gave when he announced Wyoming haha I found it quite hilarious.

Well this week has been pretty good I guess. We were driving back to the Oxford church yesterday after a bit of hiking and there was this beaver that started bolting to the road! It almost got hit by one of the cars in front of us and was like O CRAP I COULD GET KILLED so it pulled the fastest 180 i have ever seen and bolted the other way back into the woods! It was pretty funny to watch actually. E. Clark and I were like "Was that a beaver?!?!" haha yup so i have now seen a bob cat and a beaver out here, i might even see a deer after 13 months O.o how cool would that be ;) haha ok so not the most amazing thing but i would think it ta be pretty cool. So just like E. Foust JR said, if you have not watched all 5 sessions of conference THEN STOP READING THIS AND DO SO!!! http://lds.org/general-conference/sessions/2011/10?lang=eng

Alright so this week what happened! O so like I was saying about yesterday. So we went to this place towards Oxford that had a chasm and it was actually pretty cool. I got a good amount of pic's i think and will hopefully be sending them your way here shortly, 4gb sd card is kind of hard to fill up so I have been shooting as many videos as possible since that takes up a lot of memory :). Before we went hiking though we were in the Oxford church recording :) how cool is that huh. So E. Clark has a couple of songs that he made up and one of them was for last transfers district. So we went to the church so we could record the songs that the other missionaries wanted and i recorded them on my camera as well cuz there actually pretty darn good songs :). Then we went hiking and after that we just went to subway and had some lunch/dinner kind of think cuz it was like 330 when we ate haha so a late lunch I guess. So yesterday was pretty fun to say the least. On Friday we were able to go to Paul and Mary's house. Paul is a Less Active and Mary is our new investigator!!! It was a pretty cool lesson. We talked a little bit about the Word of Wisdom and a lot about the Plan of Salvation. She has two adopted handicapped children one with autism and I'm not sure what the other one has. So they were really curious about the hole baptism thing with handicapped people so we told them and let them know about the entire Plan of Salvation. Afterwards we asked her if baptism would be something she would like to do and she let us know that it probably would be but that she would need to learn more before making that decision :) so that was a pretty cool lesson. So looks like that's about all i got for now :) anyway i hope you all have a wonderful week and have a lot of fun :)

Love

Elder Camron Foust

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.