Victory over death comes through Christ

Hello there people, so ya I understand that I was supposed to e-mail all of you yesterday, but that didn’t happen.  So as I was e-mailing yesterday, I was able to get a couple e-mail off before the server shut down -_- so we ended up going out and doing stuff and decided that we would come to the library today for about 30 minutes and send off our e-mails :).  Anyway now that I got that all out and explained what I should tell you.  So Today has been pretty eventful so far.  We ended up going to Ron's house today at 9 AM and it was pretty cool.  I'm not sure if I have talked about Ron or not but I guess I could give a quick overview of him.  So at one point in his life he was married and he has 2 or 3 kids I believe.  But then something happened and he started to think that he was receiving revelation from God that he was Christ.  So all sorts of things went down and now sadly he is divorced.  Anyway that is a quick overview of him.  So we met with him today and he brought up a scripture in 1 Corinthians 15:29  he asked us about baptisms for the dead :) so that lead rite into lesson two which is the plan of salvation.  

Last week we had interviews with Prez Evans on Friday in Amherst.  It's kinda funny being in this zone again because I know it like the back of my hand it seams like.  If you don’t know I served in Amherst roughly a year ago.  So that went well, he asked me a lot of questions about how the work is going and what not and asked about the new apartment that we have.  Other then that though nothing too special.  Later that day, when we got home, we went over to brother weagles house and helped him build a miniature shelter/garage type of thing.  It's big enough to put a log cutter and a generator underneath it :) so that was fun, I got to use the skills that my father has taught me a little bit and it felt really good being able to know how to do something like that, even though it was quite easy to figure out :).  The member kept asking me all these questions and I was able to answer all of them just because of the experience i have had working on house with my dad :), thanks dad I love you!  Then on Sunday I gave a talk in sacrament!!!!  So 17 months into my mission I finally gave my first talk in sacrament......I was hoping I could make the full 2 years but alas that didn't happen.  The talk was on being spiritually prepared and how, as a missionary, we do that.  So pretty much all I talked about was the missionary daily schedule and how that helps us become more spiritually prepared every day.

So that's pretty much all of the excitement that happened last week :) it was a pretty good week for the most part.  We had a couple people cancel on us, but that always happens, hopefully we will be able to meet with them this week.  Well we will all find out next week if I am staying or going or what :) I’m not sure what I want, I want to leave, but I think I could stand staying for one more, I guess we will find out eh :) anyway I love you all and hope you have an amazing week!

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Love

Elder Camron Foust

New Years week!

Hello everybody! So HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 Wow it's 2012 now and this is the year that I come home.....never though I would see this year come around, but sure enough here it is. So first of all I would like all of you to know that everybody who sent me a letter or package will be getting some sort of a letter from me, it's pretty much a thank you letter but kind of late cuz its going to also be a Christmas/Happy new year letter at the same time haha so ya :) keep that in mind. So first off I would like to tell you all that I AM SO SORE!!! So yesterday was P-Day as you should know and the Zone leaders decided that they wanted to have a zone activity. So we ended up going to Ludlow and playing Basketball and have a Nerf War! It was a blast. We started at 1030AM and left around 330PM. This has been one of the best P-Day's I have had so far in a while. So the Nerf war was a BLAST!!! I never realized how fun shooting people with foam bullets were but it was a blast. I was a sniper pretty much the entire time. So on Wednesday we had School of the Prophets with Prez. Ahburn in Amherst. It was pretty interesting. It went from 9 till 3. I was able to pay attention till about 2 and then I started to lose it haha, that was a long time but it was pretty cool. We talked about a lot of stuff that I can't really explain too well so sorry about that. Other than that it was a pretty normal week. On Friday though it was a pretty decent day. We ended up going to Sturbridge and contacting a couple referrals. The first one turned us down, but the second one was really nice and said that right now wasn't a good time but we could come back pretty much any time because she is retired. After that we ended up dropping by the Young family because they just got home from Texas. When we got there, we noticed that there were way more cars then there were supposed to be so we weren't sure if we should stop by or not. Well when we decided that we should probably leave Brother Young looked out the window so we were like well we have been spotted so let's go on in. Well they were just sitting down for dinner and said that we were going to join them whether we wanted to or now haha. So that ended up being really nice and we shared a message with them like missionaries do. Well that's my week for ya :) I hope you all have a wonderful week love you all talk to you next week.

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Love

Elder Camron Foust

We've Moved

Hello everybody, so you might wonder why i am sending a quick e-mail today, well we ended up moving yesterday unexpected BUT since we moved i am goign to let you all know my new address rite now incase you have something that you are sending soon or today even haha. Dont worry though if you have sent something before today we still have access to the old apartment through January so i will still get it.

Elder Camron Foust

32 Grove ST #2

Spencer MA, 01562

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Love

Elder Camron Foust

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