We had another awesome week! We've been praying a lot to find people who are ready to hear and accept the gospel and we were so blessed this week to find people. We had a "Blitz" where tons of missionaries get together in an area and all go knocking together. It was so much fun. Usually we try not to knock too much because its not as effective but we haven't been getting too many referrals so we went knocking a lot this week. It was soooo fun. haha i love knocking because you meet some crazy people. Some people are realllly nice and others just yell at you and stuff. I've learned the only way to deal with stuff like that is just to laugh it off. It makes it more fun and you don't get down at all. So we knocked a lot and we got some great new investigators! hahaha this one guy named Jose Chavez who is so funny. We met his wife at the door and set up an appointment with her but when we came back she wasn't that interested but her husband really is. We had a great lesson with him. He says he doesn't belong to a church and he kinda just goes off of what he personally believes and like everything he said he believed in was so true and so right. Ha his beliefs already completely consistent with the gospel. It was so easy to teach him. And last night the best thing every happened. We got to teah Pierre. If you don't remember hes a 21 yr old kid who's mom and sister are members but hes not. He just came from peru and we've been teaching him for like a month. But we only get to teach him once a week. Hes really smart, always comes to church, reads and prays but just hasn't been receiving, or well, recognizing his answer. So Last night we taught the third lesson. Which is the gospel of Jesus Christ. It went soooo well. At the end we started talking about authority and the priesthood and a little about blessings. He asked us if we could give blessings and we said yes. Then he asked us to give him a blessing of health because he has problems with his jaw and it hurts so much he cant sleep. So we gave him a blessing right then. At the end of the blessing he told us he felt butterflies and he felt really good. We asked him him what he thought that was and explained to him it was the holy ghost. he wasn't quite sure so we asked him if he wanted to say a prayer to know if that was his answer. he didn't even hesitate he was like YES and went right to his knees. He said an AWESOME prayer and asked to know the truth. At the end of the prayer we asked how he felt about it and he said really good. We asked him to be baptized and he said yes. Ahhhh it was sooo cool. He's going to get baptized on the 29th of may. meagans birthday! and that's my companions last Sunday. Ahhh im so excited for him. He's like the coolest kid ever. We've gotten to be really good friends with him. Hes soo funny. Ahh that's going to be the best this ever. Anyway. So this morning my companion and i woke up early and drove and looked at the ocean. It was so cool. Really pretty because it was really early and stuff. And the water was so flat with like some steam coming off it. Reminded me of the Lake really early in the morning. but it was really fun. I'll send some pictures. We never usually go up there because its in malibu and its all rich white people but today we went and it was really fun. So anyway, I got to go but i love you! hope all is well.
-Elder Foulger
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