I already have a favorite family... the family quipse... i hope you will get the photos that i attach to this file that has pictures with me and there kids! i love them they just melt my heart! they love to listen to me speak English it is just so intriguing to them! and the just laugh and smile at me when when i try to speak Spanish! Saturday my companion and i cut out little people of paper and colored them and gave it to them and they play with them all day every day! just so amazing how much we take for granted! if you ever send a package i don't need anything please just send stuff you think little kids like 15 and under would like! the best news of this letter is.....
WE HAVE A BAPTISM ON THE 11TH... FRIDAY AND ANOTHER SATURDAY! Rosa Merceles and Jamilla mollo! i dont know much about them cause its all in Spanish and they talk so fast it all sounds like one word and my companion has been working with them fort the past 3 weeks but i am so excited ill take lots of pictures.. we are working with 6 more investigators right now!
i thank heavenly father everyday for all my blessings in the language because as long as we are talking about the gospel i understand almost everything... but as soon as it gets even a small part away from the gospel i lose it!! and every thing i say i have to repeat or my companion repeats for me... hahaha but it is SO much fun to speak this language and i am so excited to use it as a tool to teach these people! The church here is beautiful! it has a 12 foot fence because it would get vandalised but wow it is beautiful! and they do the meetings backwards because 9 is too early to have sacrament! nobody would come! these people are so so so so lazy! they sleep till 12 and have siesta time from 3 to 5! honestly nobody is is awake they all take naps!!! so then we have priesthood and sacrament is the last meeting of the day! Testimony was so so so good! i could understand the basics and wow they are so much more grateful than we are! we had only 1 investigator at church which made me so sick....
But my person favorite to teach is Fernando because he has 14 and is pretty much a dad! his mom is a hor and sleeps around and has 8 kids under the age of 14 and just drinks and works so much she just sleeps when she is home so he takes care of all of them! and he does such a good job... there house is literally about to fall apart because it is so rotten and you know with that many kids it is literally they are gonna break the house! but he is gonna be baptised in 2 or 3 weeks and he is such a capo!
Honestly i am in awe right now as i write this!!! i cant believe i am here! i am doing the missionary work i have been waiting to do for the last 19 years!
Tate WOW O WOW O WOW!!!! i can not believe you right now! i only ever squated 320 and i don't even remember how much i power cleaned or squated... wow i am so so excited to here how you do! congrats you are such a hard worker!!!! ahh and it is all gonna pay off! Mom also told me you and McCray go to go with a different group of friends this weekend and that is great! Hang out with those that make you happy when your doing what is right! Those kids are hilarious!!! I'm glad McCray and you are working at rodeo and i know your hard work will pay off! hahaha you know i am not a farm boy and i know nothing about horses... but I'm glad you will get a horse that does all that cool stuff you want it to! All that matters to me is if the horse has a cool name haha!
SHAD!!! i hope your rugby practice goes good! i bet it is going to be tough but it will be so much fun! you will have to let me know how it goes!! I hope your rugby ball came!
McCray your gonna be 16 in like 3.5 months! and you will be able to practice being the ladies man that you are! I'm so glad you and Tate are having such a fun time together i wish we all could have had that much fun together in high school but it was my fault and I'm sorry but when i get home i promise that you and shad and i will have so much fun and you guys can come stay with me at college and then when we are all married with little kids we can have so much fun doing old man things like going golfing and what not!
I love President Benton so much! i don't remember what i have said and not but he is amazing.... so straight forward and and so loving! just like the scriptures say we should be... i guys he is way successfully in life work as well... he has been the CEO of 2 multi billion dollar corporations... and he dropped it all to do the work of the lord!!!! what a capo!!
I am in the same District as Elder Good worth and and we will see each other every Tuesday and maybe live in the same house or even be companions some time during the mission! i am very excited he has always been a happy out going kid that i have looked up to and it will be good to work with him! I will see him tomorrow!!! Tell his family hi from me and from him and that there is no better place for us and he honestly sounds so happy when i talked to him.... we are super lucky! we have cell phones... every companionship... crazy huh! only rich people here have cell phones! but we are so far out they have to be able to get ahold of us... obviously I'm not the one who carries it because if i answered it i would here too much Spanish and be super confused and wouldn't be good!
Well my time is running out i have to write my letter to the President in the next 40 min. but i want you guys to know that i am absolutely loving it out here and i know with out a shadow of a doubt i am suppose to be here with these people to share the lords perfect work! Please don't worry about me one bit! I am excited to hear back from you next week and tell you about my first 2 baptisms! Keep it REAL! Keep it CLEAN! Keep it Sexy! And may the lord bless you in all you do the next week! Con mucho Amor Elder Foster!!!
Elder Foster!!! look at you! I love hearing about your experiences! Keep them coming. Love ya~ Da WA Hawkers
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