Moving...kinda‏

Hello everybody, so this week has been a good one. Mostly because it was Christmas week :). So I was able to call my Skype my family, as a lot of you should know because i got to see a lot of you! That was way awesome to say the least, it was really good to see most of your faces for the first time in 16 months and to kind of feel like I was there celebrating with all of you, next year I will be there with all of you with a friend by my side ;) (that would be Lyndi of course) I was also able to talk with my sister, Syd, on Saturday night which was really good. What else happened this past week, I don't remember because i forgot my planner this week....again sorry...so im having a bit of trouble remembering what happened this week. So yesterday was the first day that E. Knight and I moved some of the stuff in the apartment into the new place which was kind of fun and interesting to do. We got the car packed full and took a lot of stuff over. After that we ended up eating over at Sandy's house and taught them a lesson on Hope. Oh ya I just remembered something, so yesterday we were invited to go over to the Coutcher family's house and that was really good. Sister Coucher has been in a lot of pain and has been through a lot of surgery's in the past couple years. She was baptized on August 1st of last year and quickly went inactive, because of her health. She invited us over yesterday and it was really good. We made the U-Build Connect 4 for her kids and then she invited us over to have dinner on the 7th :) so that was really cool. Well those were some of the highlight's of the week :) that I can remember anyway. So i hope all of you have a wonderful week and enjoy the new year :0 I love you all.

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Love

Elder Camron Foust

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello there everybody! So I almost forgot to send all of you an e-mail! So this might be a short one but we will see what I can do with the time that I have left :). Anyway This week has been interesting to a small extent. Not necessarily because of the work, but because of the apartment moving! So it in confirmed that we are going to be getting a new apartment here within the next 2-3 weeks for sure. Before you all possibly freak out about me possibly getting a letter or package in time, there is no need to worry, we aren't leaving our current apartment till AFTER Christmas, and probably not till AFTER new year's, but I'm not positive on the new year's one. O so yesterday on P-Day was pretty fun. All of the elders here ended up getting some Nerf guns and we had a Nerf gun fight :) it was pretty fun to say the least. I think next week the sisters will be joining us and we will have a bigger fight so that will be intense. O so we were able to meet with a new person who we found in the area book. His name is Steven, and we have been trying to get an appointment with her for the past 7 weeks, and we were finally able to get a time set with him that we could teach him a little bit. We ended up teaching the restoration to him because one of his questions was, "what do you believe" so the restoration is a pretty darn good lesson to get a lot of basic beliefs out to the person. It was good also because we were able to leave him with a B.O.M. which is always a good feeling. Friday was good as well. We had the ward Christmas party that night. One of the things we did is when we sang "The 12 Days of Christmas" every table in the gym had their own part in the song. The table that i was at had 3 French Hens so that was pretty cool. They asked us to do a funny action when we said our part, so our table just bobbed out heads and looked funny :) it was a good time.

 Well that's about it for now :) i hope you all have a wonderful week and............

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!! <---- It's even color coordinated!!!

wow this is my second Christmas, that doesn't feel weird at all.... Love you all :D!

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Love

Elder Camron Foust

Another Transfer Gone....Still Same Place :)‏

Hello everybody!  So T-Texts happened this past Saturday, and i will be STAYING in North Brookfield for yet another transfer.  This area now ties with the longest i have stayed in an area.  I wonder what will happen next transfer....hmmm who knows.  So on Sunday Ursula, her mom and one of their friends came to Sacrament meeting!  That was pretty cool since that hasn't happened since R.J. got baptized :) so that was exciting for E. Knight and I, o ya E. Knight is staying as well.  Well lets see what else happened this past week.  So i just realized that i have the wrong planner on me.  Well its the correct planer, i just started a new one so my old one is back home so i will have a much harder time remembering what happened this past week.  So this month E. Knight and i may be getting a new apartment.  So that may seam odd to a couple of people wonder why in the world would we need to leave.  So the main story is this.  Ever since i have lived here there have been people who smoke in all of the other apartments...not a big deal you would think because there are no smoking signs everywhere.  Well that is quite the opposite of what happens.  So every now and again will see somebody just walk out of there apartment smoking.  Also there is this horrible smell that filters up into our apartment, seeing as we live on the 3rd floor all of the smells come to us.  And now there is a safety hazard.  Don’t get all scared though!  We found this apartment yesterday that is really nice, and in a nice neighborhood.  As of now we have the OK from prez that it is ok for us to move, but the apartment needs to be inspected by somebody first, which is going to happen tomorrow night :).  Well i think that is about all i have to tell all of you for this week :) so i hope you all have a wonderful week and keep happy :)

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Elder Camron Foust

T-TEXT this week!

Well what do you know it's already T-text week! Now that went by kind of fast. So this Saturday I will find out if I am staying in this area or leaving....honestly I really am not too worried as to what happens this time. I want to stay and i also want to go, mainly want to stay because Christmas is next transfer so I would rather be in a place where I know a lot of the members, but at the same time I would like something new. Anyway so this past week I was able to go to the Gardner area for tours. I was with elder Middlestead for half of Wednesday, all of Thursday and then we switched back on Friday after District Meeting. The tour went well I guess, it was nice being able to be in a different are for a little bit :), I always enjoy going on tours when I'm going to a different are haha. Then on Friday after D.M. we went to 99, it's a restaurant, because Sis. Cannon has 99 days left in the mission :) so yes it's a tradition that missionary's do because our 99 always lands on a Friday so why the heck not go out to eat for lunch with the District :). Wednesday the entire Springfield Zone went to the temple. That is Prez. and Sis. Evans Christmas present to us pretty much and it was nice. We were even able to have some temple food afterwards :) which was nice. We have a couple people that we are going to try and talk to this week and I'm hoping that something comes from it. I have talked a little bit about Ursual, and we are going to go by her house tomorrow actually and give her the Polish B.O.M.'s that we ordered for her and her mother. We plan on teaching her the plan of salvation on Wednesday but we will see if we will be able to meet with her :) that's the plan anyway. Other than that things are going slow around here sadly enough, but that's just fine :) we will keep doing what we need to do. Well I hope you all have a wonderful week :)

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Love

Elder Camron Foust

MISSIONARY CHRISTMAS

 MISSIONARY CHRISTMAS

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I skipped the sales after Thanksgiving. The thrill just wasn't there.

No pictures taken with Santa Claus, my decorating has no flair. His

presents are shoes, shirts, and ties, two suits and socks...no fun. I've

bought him all white clothes because... This year I'm giving Christ my

son. I've spent more time in the temple, my testimony stirred. I've

reread November's Ensign, Felt strength

come from His words. Our family prays more frequently. My tears are

quick to run. Abraham seems closer because, This year I'm giving Christ

my son. I wonder how those Lamanite mothers, gave their sons to war? Or

how the pioneers chose Zion , their sacrifice was so much more. My loss

will be his presence, I'll miss his smile a ton for two years we will

pray for him, I'm giving Christ my son. I stare at his face when he's

not looking. I memorize his eyes, their shine. He's always hungered for

the part of him, that makes his soul divine. The stories and lessons he

always heard, His choice and mine are one. I'll put my faith in God's

hand, This year, I'm giving Him my son. Past gifts have lost their

glitter; I think I finally understand Christ's birth should be

celebrated by giving Him a hand. It's because I know Christ lives and

reigns that all his packing's  done. My gift has taken years to make,

This year... I'm giving Christ my son. I know there's One who

understands, the sacrifice I'm making. Who knows the gift I willingly

give, The toll it will be taking. For He has done it all before Greater

love - there could be none. For years ago God gave to me, His only

begotten son. The hands I washed, the hands I held, The hands I taught

to pray; Now knock on doors to find the ones Who will listen to what

he'll say. Because I know Christ needs him, Until all the gathering's

done, My gift has taken years to make. This year...I'm giving Christ my

son. —         

Turkey Day....

Hello everybody! So as you all know this week was Thanksgiving week! Well sad story to tell. So Thursday started out quite well. First thing we did was we went down to Oxford to play some games with the District. We were there from 10am till 2pm. The first thing we did was we decided to make breakfast, so we made German pancakes (I have had them now mom :) a couple time on the mish, not a big fan but I think I would eat them when you make them at home now) and waffles and I think that was all that we had. After 2 everybody had to go to their respective dinners, but ours didn't start till 6 so we just went back home and tried to think of things to do. We found out that we have tennis racquet so we went to go find a tennis ball. We weren't able to find one so we ended up calling Sandy to see if she had one. She did and then she asked us, so have you had dinner yet. We were like o no it starts at 6. Then she said, o I thought it started at 2. E. Knight and I just froze and we both were thinking o no that's no bueno! So we called the young family, keep in mind it's around 5P.M. now, and what do you know Sandy was right....Dinner was supposed to be at 2! AHHHH!!! O well what can ya do you know :) miss communication. So what did we do, we decided to go to the church anyway and play with the tennis ball and have a little fun before we were hungry and we thought what the heck let's just go get a pizza some chips and a drink and call that good :) so that's exactly what we did. So besides the fact we didn't get a traditional turkey dinner it was still a good day. The rest of the week though was pretty good. We had a dinner every single night this week and it was all good food :) nothing none of you wouldn't know about, but I though it was all good :) When it came to teaching other people though it was a slow week. We were able to teach Mary this week again which was good. We haven't meet with them every since the snow storm, but they decided to come to church last week and we got an appointment with them :) so that was good. Well anyway that was my week for the most part :) i hope you all had a wonderful turkey day! talk to you all next week!

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Love

Elder Camron Foust

Hmmm....Happy Thanksgiving!

So yet another week has gone by. So this week is Thanksgiving! That just blows my mind away thinking that this is going to be my second and final Thanksgiving as a missionary..... that's just weird to me to think about. So we have a couple things planned for that day which I think are going to be great :) so in the morning we are going to get with the rest of the district and do something fun haha. Originally we had planned on playing Volleyball at the Worcestershire church, but those planes have been changed now sadly enough. Later that day though around 6P.M. I will be going to the Young's house for a dinner that they have planned for about 25 people haha! That's a lot of people eh?!?!? So this year will most defiantly be a HUGE difference then last year though both I'm sure are going to be memorable. So News for the week. We lost contact with Paul and Mary when the storm hit, but luckily they came to church this past week and we were able to meet with them yesterday and we read 2 Nephi 31 with them and talked about "The Gospel of Jesus Christ" which is lesson 3 in PMG. Pretty much all we talk about is finding faith in Christ, repenting, being baptized, receiving the gift of the holy ghost, then enduring to the end :). It sounded like they were able to learn something and they are looking forward to meeting with us again :) so that's good news. O yes so on Saturday this week we were able to meet with Ursula. She is from Poland and so is her mother. She speaks English, but her mother only speaks Polish, with a little bit of English here and there. So we were able to teach them a lesson one and it was kind of cool because Ursula had to translate for her mother so E. Knight and I had a had the chance to speak with each other a little bit while she was translating which helped a bit it thought haha. On Friday we went so Sandy's house for dinner and she made us Chicken Alfredo which was AMAZING! Figured id just tell you that bit of information because that is one of my favorite dishes :). That was pretty much my week for you :) so I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and enjoy the turkeys!

Love

Elder Camron Foust