Hello family,
Well this week has gone by so fast. In the moment it feels like the days are so long, but when you look back at the week you can't believe all the things that happened.
We had a shake up in the district. A set of Elders was taken out of our district and set down south area. That now leaves us with the district leaders and us. Now we have to have the zone leaders come to our district meeting so that there isn't the same amount of elders and sisters.
This past week I had to teach at district meeting, which at first I was totally alright with it. I was actually excited. Then I found out that the APs were on splits with our zone leaders. I got a little scared, but our APs are the best. They made us a chocolate pie last week. The most busy missionaries in the mission and they made us a pie.
Yesterday was a really busy day for us. We had a missionary Sunday. Pres. Huntchens the first councilor in the mission presidency came and spoke in Sacrament meeting. Then that night we had a fireside. We had 5 or 6 people tell their conversion story and we watched a movie about member missionary work. It was good. But in between that we went to Brittany Neas' birthday party. The Neas family was baptized right before I got here. They are amazing. Always full of questions. John, the dad, has read all the way up to the middle of Alma.
You wanted to know where all the women are? Well, two of our three investigators are married or getting married to women that are already members. But finding more women to teach... I don't know. A lot of the times the husbands don't want them to be taught even though they are interested. But we are out there trying to find them.
We had been playing phone tag with the APs and we finally got a hold of each other last night. We were kind of scared that something was wrong, but that was not the case. The president had been looking over the number of the different areas and we had been the most successful and wanted to give a pat on the back. It is strange that that happened, because we have been feeling that we could be doing so much better. Tomorrow we get more miles so now we can go to the more lying towns. There we will find some new investigators.
I can't really think of anything else to say. I am going to print off some pictures today so look for them in the mail.
Love you all,
Sister Foy
Monday, June 30, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Letter from 6.23.08
Hey there family-
Ok I know that you all would like a personal e-mail, but I have only 30 minutes to write so if there is something that you want answer understand the whole family will see it or i can write you a letter.
I would love to hear from Johne, but I cannot write back to him so I think that I will have to attach a letter to you guys or write him a letter and mail it to you mom and dad.
Y'all want to know what has been happening here. Rain. No, really, there has been a lot of rain. Sister Mecham and I won a competition to see who can get the most new investigators. Wow writing that out makes it sound bad, but we are moving the work forward. We had 6 new investigators, but I think the Lord gave us that awesome experience so that we could know what He really wants us to focus on this transfer.
This week has been very interesting. All but 2 I think have dropped us or we have dropped them. That was a little discouraging, but there is some light. We have three solid investigators that are men that are wanting more from this life. George is married to a woman that was baptized last transfer. He has seen the change that has occurred in her life and wants to know more. Mike is engaged to a less active member. There has been missionaries that have tried to teach him before, but he didn't go very far. After he learned that he could be sealed to his family forever he got interested again. Nick is a guy that has been through everything that you could think of since he started to hear the lessons, but he feels good when he comes to church and when we teach him. I also think that he wants the best for his boys.
Dad we were tracting yesterday and we came across a man that was watching the race. He was a total Nascar fan. Flags of Casey Kane and old posters of Dale. It was cool.
We have a car that we use here. If we didn't we would not be able to get to half of our area. I don't know how big it is mile wise, but it is big and the houses in some of the towns are very spread out. We have a branch here in Newport. I think that we get about 60 people to church. They are awesome here. The branch mission president Brother Hewnis make sure that we are fed every Sunday. Brother and Sister Dow are like our parents, and the Raats love to spoil us with gifts.
I don't know if you received this information, but if you send a package to the mission home I will not get it until Zone Conference. So send it to my address in Maine. 190 Elm St. Newport, Me 04953. I think that I will be here for at least another transfer, but you never know. transfer is in the middle of the July.
I love you all and hope that you are doing well. I love it out here and love to serving the Lord.
- Sister Foy
Ok I know that you all would like a personal e-mail, but I have only 30 minutes to write so if there is something that you want answer understand the whole family will see it or i can write you a letter.
I would love to hear from Johne, but I cannot write back to him so I think that I will have to attach a letter to you guys or write him a letter and mail it to you mom and dad.
Y'all want to know what has been happening here. Rain. No, really, there has been a lot of rain. Sister Mecham and I won a competition to see who can get the most new investigators. Wow writing that out makes it sound bad, but we are moving the work forward. We had 6 new investigators, but I think the Lord gave us that awesome experience so that we could know what He really wants us to focus on this transfer.
This week has been very interesting. All but 2 I think have dropped us or we have dropped them. That was a little discouraging, but there is some light. We have three solid investigators that are men that are wanting more from this life. George is married to a woman that was baptized last transfer. He has seen the change that has occurred in her life and wants to know more. Mike is engaged to a less active member. There has been missionaries that have tried to teach him before, but he didn't go very far. After he learned that he could be sealed to his family forever he got interested again. Nick is a guy that has been through everything that you could think of since he started to hear the lessons, but he feels good when he comes to church and when we teach him. I also think that he wants the best for his boys.
Dad we were tracting yesterday and we came across a man that was watching the race. He was a total Nascar fan. Flags of Casey Kane and old posters of Dale. It was cool.
We have a car that we use here. If we didn't we would not be able to get to half of our area. I don't know how big it is mile wise, but it is big and the houses in some of the towns are very spread out. We have a branch here in Newport. I think that we get about 60 people to church. They are awesome here. The branch mission president Brother Hewnis make sure that we are fed every Sunday. Brother and Sister Dow are like our parents, and the Raats love to spoil us with gifts.
I don't know if you received this information, but if you send a package to the mission home I will not get it until Zone Conference. So send it to my address in Maine. 190 Elm St. Newport, Me 04953. I think that I will be here for at least another transfer, but you never know. transfer is in the middle of the July.
I love you all and hope that you are doing well. I love it out here and love to serving the Lord.
- Sister Foy
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