Letter from November 24th

We had our baptism on the 8th, I don't know if I told you that. Bill, Dan and Samantha were baptized, my first family! It was so awesome.

I do have a new companion since sister fox went home. Her name is sister richins. She is from northern California. I don't know why president put two Californians together during the winter. We complain about the cold. If it was an Olympic sport we would totally win the gold. She is awesome and exactly what the area needs right now.

I did get a new coat,also some boots and some ear warmers, but I don't know how good it will be for keeping the thighs warm. if you by any chance see a down full length coat on sale somewhere think of you daughter who is a frozen sister,but if you don't that is ok I am only here for one winter. Thank heavens. No matter how many layers you put on most of the time you are still cold.

I do have somewhere to go for thanksgiving. We are having a meal with our district and then going over to a member's home after so we will have to see how much I can fit in my stomach.

Oh I am almost forgot. We are having a baptism on Saturday. Rachel and her two daughters are getting baptized. It is so cool! The only thing that I am worried about is that this next week WILL be a hard one for her. Keep her in your prayers, if you would. I will tell you how it goes next week.

I love you
Sister Foy

Letter from 11.10.08

Hey family,

Sounds like you had a very interesting week. Ok you wanted me to answer questions. Yes I voted and got it in on time. I heard while we were out tracting about the ACLU going after the church, because some of our members in California were going around talking to people about the gay marriage proposition. I think that they should just build a bridge and get over it. But hey that us just me.

You wanted to know about my companion. Yes when I came to Gloucester I got a new comp. Her name is Sister Fox. She is from Magna, Utah. She will be going home next week, so I will be getting a new comp next Tuesday. She is sweet, but a complete stress case about going home. She has said many times a big factor for her coming out on her mission was to get a way from her parents and she is afraid that she will fall back into the same old patterns again. She has gotten some good advice from very wise people on going home, so I think she will do just fine. Thank you for allowing me to grow up and dealing with it very well!

We had zone conference this week. Yeah...so we were an hour late. There is a difference between Farmington and Farmingdale, Maine and it is about and hours drive. The rest I really don't want to go into detail.

Ohhh I almost forgot. So last weekend Bill and the kids had their baptismal interview and past. So this past Saturday I was able to stand font side like a proud Momma while all three were baptized. We had our golden investigator Rachel there with her three daughters. She was a little afraid of the water and full immersion thing, but after she was able to witness one herself she has set a date of Nov.29. Her two older daughters are old enough to be baptized and are planing on being baptized with her. I can only see the estranged husband putting a monkey wrench in the whole thing, but we have to see what happens.

All I am doing here it seems is baptizing my teaching pool or letting people go, so we are going to have to find some more people to teach. Ok tracting here I come.

We were out tracting last night and I could see into someones window that they were watching the Nascar race and I could tell that they were at either Phoenix or Lowes because it was a night race. GO JIMMIE! I don't have my investigator that loves Nascar here like I did in Newport to keep me as updated as I was there.

I love you and miss you bunches,

Sister Foy

Letter from 11.3.08

Hey there family,

This week was full of walking and weird weather. I just wish mother nature would make up her mind!

Lets see what happened... Halloween was an interesting day. We plan every Friday from 10-1 then have lunch so that puts us out the door at 2. We worked for 2 hrs then came back home for packing and cleaning. We are not allowed outside our apartments on Halloween after 4pm. Needless to say I got a little claustrophobic. We packed all our stuff in our bags so we can "dejunk" and do a thorough cleaning of the apartment. Well this whole two wardrobes we need for summer and winter is not conducive to the two bags we are allowed. But if you sit on the bag long enough it will close. We cleaned pretty good last p-day so we did some touch ups and then had plans for a good dinner. I tried to make the soup that we saw on Rachel Ray, but our potatoes froze during the week and went bad so we tried substituting frozen french fries, yeah that didn't work. I thought it turned out fine, but I will eat anything and since I have just gotten over my first cold of the mission couldn't really taste much. What ever.

I am really glad that the transfer is almost over. I love my companion, but I think that if I had to stay much longer with her I would do something that I could get sent home for. There is always something to learn here on the mission.:) Ooohh, I almost forgot Bill and the kids (the Covney family) past their baptismal interview and will be getting baptized this up coming Saturday! I am soo excited that they are able to do this. we had to set back their date for different reasons, but they are so ready and can't wait.

That is all I can think of that happened this week. I hope that all is well.

I love and miss you all,

Sister Foy