Hey family,
Wow, where do I begin. This week was interesting. We knew on Thursday that Sister Mecham was getting transferred so we have just been saying good-byes and preparing for all that. I will be getting two new companions; a trainer and a greenie. This should be really fun to see how everything will work out since Sister Mecham burnt the bed that was left over from the last three-sum that was here. We are scrambling to find a new bed for the new sister.
Last night we had dinner and a lesson with the Neas' and Nick. That was fun. We had a lesson on Alma 23 and 24 about burying your weapons of war. I realized that I have some really big shoe that I have to fill once Sister Mecham is gone. She has touched so many lives. Everyone here loves her.
We tracted into this couple last week that is so golden it is unbelievable. He is related to like half the branch. He sees how there could be so many churches and that there is a need for a restoration. When we knocked on their door it was like they were waiting for us or something. But there is a down side. They are moving out of our area. Yeah, we went over for our first lesson and they told us they had bought a house and that they would be moving, but still wants to hear the lessons. Sister Mecham knows that Elders in the area they are moving to. She said that they are really good missionaries and that they would take good care of them.
Last Sunday there was a couple there that hadn't been there before. At the beginning of the third hour Pres. Strout pulled us out to meet the wife. Her name is Sallie and she wants to start the lessons again and get baptized. I was thinking ok lets fill the font. She wants her husband, who is a member, to baptize her, but he has some word of wisdom issues to work through. The cool thing is that when we went over for our first lesson he was the one who acknowledged the fact he had a problem with the word of wisdom.
Nicole, the one who just got married has a request, could you get the scripture mastery scripture stickers? She has been hounding me for them. I guess I said that I would get them for her wedding present or something.
Love you all,
Sister Foy
Monday, August 25, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Letter form 8.18.08
Hey family,
This week has felt like an eternity, but it flew by. Sister Mecham and I went to the oral surgeon in Bangor on Tuesday to get checked out for her root canal. The doctor didn't think that she needs to get the root canal done as fast as the dentist thought. He said that it could wait till she got home. So no more trips to Bangor for teeth.
We went out to dinner with our ward mission leader on Friday. The restaurant had ESPN on doing a recap of the swimming events. Man it was hard not to watch.
So what is this host dinner thing? Is it for less actives or something? I love working with our less actives. Yes they need a kick in the pants every once and a while, but they are still good people.
The weather right now has been kind of crazy. It has been unseasonably cool and wet. It is humid, but I think that i have gotten use to that. The weird thing is that the leaves on some trees have begun to change colors. I guess that is has been cool enough at night to make them change.
I had to speak in Sacrament meeting on Sunday and then we taught the gospel principles class. That class was a very interesting class let me tell you.
We have a good week set up this week. I think that we are eating dinner at the apartment twice. I can't wait there are some good cooks out here.
All is well here, I hope all is well there.
Love you all,
Sister Foy
This week has felt like an eternity, but it flew by. Sister Mecham and I went to the oral surgeon in Bangor on Tuesday to get checked out for her root canal. The doctor didn't think that she needs to get the root canal done as fast as the dentist thought. He said that it could wait till she got home. So no more trips to Bangor for teeth.
We went out to dinner with our ward mission leader on Friday. The restaurant had ESPN on doing a recap of the swimming events. Man it was hard not to watch.
So what is this host dinner thing? Is it for less actives or something? I love working with our less actives. Yes they need a kick in the pants every once and a while, but they are still good people.
The weather right now has been kind of crazy. It has been unseasonably cool and wet. It is humid, but I think that i have gotten use to that. The weird thing is that the leaves on some trees have begun to change colors. I guess that is has been cool enough at night to make them change.
I had to speak in Sacrament meeting on Sunday and then we taught the gospel principles class. That class was a very interesting class let me tell you.
We have a good week set up this week. I think that we are eating dinner at the apartment twice. I can't wait there are some good cooks out here.
All is well here, I hope all is well there.
Love you all,
Sister Foy
Monday, August 4, 2008
Letter from 8.4.08
Hey there family-
Yes last week was a very interesting week. But this past week was fun. I got to eat two things that I have never had before. We had lobster at the Neas'. It was John's (the dad) birthday and he likes sea food. I think I like lobster. The tails are tough, but the claws are better. Well... let me back up a bit. This was Friday so we usually have dinner and a lesson with the Dow's so we had two meals that night. At the Dow's we had deer. There is a family in the branch that has a dear farm so it wasn't as gamy as wild deer. It was like having a piece of beef.
This probably not making much since but all this happened the same day Nick had his baptismal interview. At like 5, we had lobster with the Neas' then we booked it to the church for the interview then ran over to the Dow's for dinner and a lesson. It was a busy day. Nick passed his interview so he is getting baptized on Saturday. My first one, I can't wait!
Next p-day Sister Mecham is getting her cavity filled so we will be picking up our e-mails, but expect a letter in the mail again. Sorry p-day is only really 10-6pm. That is not a day that is a time period. So we won't have time to write our e-mails. Then on Tuesday we get to go to Bangor again so Sister Mecham can get a root canal. She is sooo excited, let me tell you.
So spike is a dry Mormon now? Did you tell him that is a sign that he needs to get working? No, I understand that he needs to work all this out at his own pace. George, the one that his wife moved to South Dakota, we dropped him because he said he needs to work out the Book of Mormon out on his own, but he will continue to come to church. And when he is ready he will give us a call. It was a good thing that he came to that decision on his own. We were feeling that same way.
Everything is going good and I hope all is well back home. Are you keeping all my e-mails? If not tell me so I can print them off so I can keep them.
Love you all,
Sister Foy
Yes last week was a very interesting week. But this past week was fun. I got to eat two things that I have never had before. We had lobster at the Neas'. It was John's (the dad) birthday and he likes sea food. I think I like lobster. The tails are tough, but the claws are better. Well... let me back up a bit. This was Friday so we usually have dinner and a lesson with the Dow's so we had two meals that night. At the Dow's we had deer. There is a family in the branch that has a dear farm so it wasn't as gamy as wild deer. It was like having a piece of beef.
This probably not making much since but all this happened the same day Nick had his baptismal interview. At like 5, we had lobster with the Neas' then we booked it to the church for the interview then ran over to the Dow's for dinner and a lesson. It was a busy day. Nick passed his interview so he is getting baptized on Saturday. My first one, I can't wait!
Next p-day Sister Mecham is getting her cavity filled so we will be picking up our e-mails, but expect a letter in the mail again. Sorry p-day is only really 10-6pm. That is not a day that is a time period. So we won't have time to write our e-mails. Then on Tuesday we get to go to Bangor again so Sister Mecham can get a root canal. She is sooo excited, let me tell you.
So spike is a dry Mormon now? Did you tell him that is a sign that he needs to get working? No, I understand that he needs to work all this out at his own pace. George, the one that his wife moved to South Dakota, we dropped him because he said he needs to work out the Book of Mormon out on his own, but he will continue to come to church. And when he is ready he will give us a call. It was a good thing that he came to that decision on his own. We were feeling that same way.
Everything is going good and I hope all is well back home. Are you keeping all my e-mails? If not tell me so I can print them off so I can keep them.
Love you all,
Sister Foy
Monday, July 21, 2008
Letter from 7.21.08
Hello family,
Sounds like you are all on the move! this week has been... I don't know exactly remember what has happened everything has begun to blur together. Oh, ok I remember something. We had lunch last district meeting with our district. We were invited to come and have lunch with the Elders and we think we know why. Our senior zone leader is very sure of himself and the district leaders companion totally has a man crush on him. So all through lunch it was ego petting. It was interesting to see that. Sister Mecham and I are really happy we are sister missionaries because we don't have to pet any ones ego to feel really special, we are not trying to be APs. Hehe
I have been really tried this week so it has been hard to focus. There was a time that I could have my brain on and my body just go through the motions, but alas I am getting old and that does not happen any more.
You wanted to know about Nick, the one that kicked out his girlfriend. He is on fire. We taught him last night about the law of tithing. We were kind of scared that he would not want to because he is already paying child support and alimony, but he was totally for it. He has been our saving grace this past transfer and now. We know that he is all in and just can't wait till he gets baptized on the 9th of august.
We had a cottage meeting at the Neas' on Saturday. They are a recent convert family. we invited Nick and George and we all played jeopardy. It was fun. Bro. Neas has a major chewing and drinking problem and both Nick and George are giving up one or the other. It was really good or them to see that they can give it up and that life can happen with out them in their lives.
We are trying really hard to find some new investigators, but the summer time is really hard because people are out camping or doing things with the family. We got a referral from a sister in the branch that seems promising. She has been introduced to the Book of Mormon and has read for it a little and wants to have us come over. she is a nurse so it is hard to catch her. And there is another lady who we tracted into that is interested, but she is a cardiac nurse in Bangor and is going to school at the same time so she is really busy.
I think that I won't get transferred for a while because of the length of time that sisters have served here before. I don't have a problem staying here for a while. I like it here.
I hope that all is well on the western front. The only thing here is the heat and the humidity.
I love you all,
Sister Foy
Sounds like you are all on the move! this week has been... I don't know exactly remember what has happened everything has begun to blur together. Oh, ok I remember something. We had lunch last district meeting with our district. We were invited to come and have lunch with the Elders and we think we know why. Our senior zone leader is very sure of himself and the district leaders companion totally has a man crush on him. So all through lunch it was ego petting. It was interesting to see that. Sister Mecham and I are really happy we are sister missionaries because we don't have to pet any ones ego to feel really special, we are not trying to be APs. Hehe
I have been really tried this week so it has been hard to focus. There was a time that I could have my brain on and my body just go through the motions, but alas I am getting old and that does not happen any more.
You wanted to know about Nick, the one that kicked out his girlfriend. He is on fire. We taught him last night about the law of tithing. We were kind of scared that he would not want to because he is already paying child support and alimony, but he was totally for it. He has been our saving grace this past transfer and now. We know that he is all in and just can't wait till he gets baptized on the 9th of august.
We had a cottage meeting at the Neas' on Saturday. They are a recent convert family. we invited Nick and George and we all played jeopardy. It was fun. Bro. Neas has a major chewing and drinking problem and both Nick and George are giving up one or the other. It was really good or them to see that they can give it up and that life can happen with out them in their lives.
We are trying really hard to find some new investigators, but the summer time is really hard because people are out camping or doing things with the family. We got a referral from a sister in the branch that seems promising. She has been introduced to the Book of Mormon and has read for it a little and wants to have us come over. she is a nurse so it is hard to catch her. And there is another lady who we tracted into that is interested, but she is a cardiac nurse in Bangor and is going to school at the same time so she is really busy.
I think that I won't get transferred for a while because of the length of time that sisters have served here before. I don't have a problem staying here for a while. I like it here.
I hope that all is well on the western front. The only thing here is the heat and the humidity.
I love you all,
Sister Foy
Monday, July 14, 2008
Letter from 7.14.08
Hello family-
I hope that you all got your letters. Last week I went up to Bangor to do some shopping, like mom said I was born to do it.
Any way this week was awesome. We got to meet with all of our investigators which sometimes doesn't always happen. Nick was our miracle this week. We pulled up to his home and we noticed that his live-in girlfriend's car was not there. When we walked in the lights were all on and there was music playing, which that never happened before. we sat down for our lesson and he announced that he was no linger living in sin. He has a word of wisdom problem so I just assumed that he had stopped smoking. I am very naive. He kicked his girlfriend out! That was the change that we noticed when we walked in. There wasn't a shade over the house. The light was shinning forth. The next thing that he announced was that he wanted to move up his baptismal date two weeks. I was so happy from last week when he actually set a date that I really didn't quite understand the cool factor of having the investigator move up their date. I am still learning all this stuff still.
We also got to teach Mike who we have to move slow with because he is dyslectic so he has to go really so when he does his readings. He seems to be moving along pretty good we just wished he saw the importance of keeping consistent each week instead of every other week.
George is having a hard time getting an answer to his prayers about the Book of Mormon. We are still optimistic because he came to church yesterday and he still does his readings and wants to meet with us for lessons.
Saturday we had a mission wide conference call. That was cool. Pres. Jensen wanted to implement a new way of reporting numbers and thought it would be faster if he did it then instead of waiting for zone conference. It was cool because I had to say the opening prayer and an elder I came out with that is on the other side of the mission said the closing. I had been wondering how he was doing and I am sure now that he is doing just fine.
Last night was transfers. No I did not get transferred or you would have gotten a very short e-mail like last week. Sister Mecham was scared because she has been here 6 months and it is about time for her to be transferred, but we are together here or another 6 weeks. We are glad because the guys are moving in the right direction and a new missionary might throw them off.
Well I can't think of anything else...
Love you all,
Sister Foy
I hope that you all got your letters. Last week I went up to Bangor to do some shopping, like mom said I was born to do it.
Any way this week was awesome. We got to meet with all of our investigators which sometimes doesn't always happen. Nick was our miracle this week. We pulled up to his home and we noticed that his live-in girlfriend's car was not there. When we walked in the lights were all on and there was music playing, which that never happened before. we sat down for our lesson and he announced that he was no linger living in sin. He has a word of wisdom problem so I just assumed that he had stopped smoking. I am very naive. He kicked his girlfriend out! That was the change that we noticed when we walked in. There wasn't a shade over the house. The light was shinning forth. The next thing that he announced was that he wanted to move up his baptismal date two weeks. I was so happy from last week when he actually set a date that I really didn't quite understand the cool factor of having the investigator move up their date. I am still learning all this stuff still.
We also got to teach Mike who we have to move slow with because he is dyslectic so he has to go really so when he does his readings. He seems to be moving along pretty good we just wished he saw the importance of keeping consistent each week instead of every other week.
George is having a hard time getting an answer to his prayers about the Book of Mormon. We are still optimistic because he came to church yesterday and he still does his readings and wants to meet with us for lessons.
Saturday we had a mission wide conference call. That was cool. Pres. Jensen wanted to implement a new way of reporting numbers and thought it would be faster if he did it then instead of waiting for zone conference. It was cool because I had to say the opening prayer and an elder I came out with that is on the other side of the mission said the closing. I had been wondering how he was doing and I am sure now that he is doing just fine.
Last night was transfers. No I did not get transferred or you would have gotten a very short e-mail like last week. Sister Mecham was scared because she has been here 6 months and it is about time for her to be transferred, but we are together here or another 6 weeks. We are glad because the guys are moving in the right direction and a new missionary might throw them off.
Well I can't think of anything else...
Love you all,
Sister Foy
Monday, June 30, 2008
Letter from 6.30.08
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
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 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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