Câtan is really crazy! I woke up three 3 nights to gun shots, watched 5 fights, and we are living super cramped out of our suit cases! But you bet your bottom dollar we are having a blast and I'm still living my sacred dream as a missionary!
We found a little house that is right in front of the zone leaders to live in but it wont be finished for another 2 weeks so we are going to continue living with them! ITS SO MUCH FUN!!! We spent this week with them getting to know our new area!
What happened was the missionaries got in a fight about 15 years ago and when that happens in an area like this you have to leave because everyone knows who the Mormons are and the next elders got robbed and robbed and robbed... so they took them out to let things settle down and now Pres. Carter feels its safe to open it up!
I feel safe for now but we have to work differently! We have to knock doors and do our contacts all in the morning and from like 6 to 9 we have to be in homes for appointments whether it be investigators or members... because it just isn't safe! Catan is known for being dangerous because it is the hood and rich people don't exists! But it is also know as the heart of the mission because this zone always baptizes more than other zones!
We are in the same ward as the zone leaders Elder Johns and Mathers from Utah and Colorado.... But the object now is to divide the ward... We went to visit my new Bishop Miosko who honestly was impressing! He had a mission plan set and was ready to call a lot more ward missionaries to re teach those who are being baptized to keep them active!
Pres. Hinckley taught that the most important time for a convert is their first month after baptism! He has goals and plans to meet the goals, he expects a lot from us and we are here to help him 100 percent! The overall goal is to split the ward and get them their own church! If all goes well in the next 6 months we should be up and rolling!! The members here are INCREDIBLE.
Elder Johns is on his last transfer and I love the kid so much! He told me you will not find a better ward in all of the mission! So I feel blessed! Elder Johns and I get along really well... He has taught me more than any other missionary so far... except Elder Quackenbush! He has a way with people to make them feel comfortable that I am trying to develop and I am excited to work more with him! We were together 2 days just doing short lessons finding new investigators.
The people are so humble, but rough! All the teens have at least 3 piercings and at maximum like 12 on their face! But there are lots of people who look for away out of it all and they find it through two white kids who try to speak Spanish! The lord blesses lives in the craziest way!
Elder Gomez is a great missionary... really quiet... he doesn't know how to work with people but teaches really well! We are working out the bugs in our teaching but he is really chill and we get along great!
We had a lot of culture shock things happen this week! We got chased by mean pit bulls, on every corner the kids ask us if we want their beer or cigarettes and jokingly ask us if they can come to church, we saw some crazy full on fights, woke up to gun shots to find out a man was killed six blocks from the apartment! And got yelled at for 10 min... by 3 guys who thought we were from the CIA... haha its all just new!
But we also found some incredible families who want to change their lives and came to church on Sunday! We are going to deal with a lot of word of wisdom and law of chastity problems but when the people want to change nothing really matters! I got a letter from Lindsey this week which was really really nice. She is doing great and loving life! I just focus on my mission and I know the lord will do the rest!
I'm in the middle of a big change in my life....I feel myself changing.... part of me wants to hold on to who I was and the other part is open and ready to change! It feels really weird I liked who I was but I love who I'm becoming so I'm just going to throw my hands in the air and let the Lord take control of who he wants me to be!
I love the spirit and have a great relationship with him and feel so good knowing that he is there for me! I love my Savior and his perfect example of all things! I love to serve... As I serve I feel closer to him than anything else! If he were here, I like to ask myself... Would he do what I am doing? It makes me happy and smile when I can say yes, and the times I say no it makes me want to change and better myself! I love starting each new day over... New and refreshed after consulting with my Heavenly Father how to be better! I know he lives because I have a personal relationship with him through prayer! I know this is the only true church on the earth today and it was restored by my brother and friend Joseph Smith!
I love you all and look forward to here how your first real week of school went! Especially the football game!!!!! Take lots of pictures Mom, Cheer hard everyone else, and Tate leave it all on the field!!!
P.S. I didn't have many photos because we cant have our camera out or we will get robbed and we all are doing perfect push to keep up on our figures, UGH I want to be healthy!!!!
Love Elder Foster
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| Elder Johns from Ogden, Utah One of my zone leaders - I love this man! He is on his last transfer and leaving soon. |
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| Elder Gomez from Costa Rica He is quiet - but a great teacher. |
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| Our tight living quarters for two weeks while our apartment is being built. |
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| Our house is being built so we live with the zone leaders. Elder Mathers and Elder Johns |
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