Well hello family,
Its been great to here from you all, thanks for writing. I've come to the conclusion that im never going to get those family pictures from you so i'll just stop asking. haha Brigg, Happy late Birthday!!!!!!! MAN your getting old. haha
Well we had another great week. It seems every week is just bizarre in its own way and every day is so different from the last. Its so funny. Every day we get put in some sort of crazy positions, its always entertaining. Wanna hear some awesome news! there was a shooting in Teuanita this week ! ten shots! yea! its about time, i've been waiting for some action. Unfortunately we werent there when it happened but im still waiting for my chance to get shot at. haha just kidding mom... But teuanita is actually awesome and its where we spend like all of our time. ALL Latinos and poor. Which is like the best mix ever. haha but dont worry all the bad stuff there goes on super late at night. And thats where Juan Chavez lives. We had some awesome lessons with him! we had a lesson with him and Hermano chavez haha a member and it went really well. We talked to him about baptism and he said he wants to go to church before he decides to get baptized. I totally agree but it was good that we were talking about it. he said when he was eighteen years old all of his friends had changed and started to do bad things. He decided right then to never do bad things but to be the best person he can be. haha he's soooo awesome! and hes always smiling. he says we walks down the street and says hi to everyone and no one else says it back! haha he sounds like a missionary. he said he's been more of a loner his life because its hard for him to find good guys. and all of his life, he's never gone to church. He said he's been a few times just with his wife and her family but thats it. haha he's just an amazing, humble, happy guy whos just worried about his family. He's the man, i love that guy. Well anyway, he came to church yesterday! its was the best thing ever! the only thing was he could only go to the first hour, which here is priesthood. but he totally loved it. People Were saying hi to him and being super nice and i think he loved being around other good guys like him, just trying to do their best. At the end of the class he looked at me with THE iggest smile on his face and just goes, Excellente! haha it was awesome. And i think next week he will go to the whole thing. Im really excited. So then theres Norma, whos this lady that lives at teuanita too. She's great. i found her with Elder longhurst. I remember it was the last door we decided to knock that day. So we've been trying to teach her for awhile but like its always chaos over there with all her kids. And one of them has down syndrome and is crazy but SOOOOO cute. So this time we tried something new. I played with the kids the whole time while my companion taught her. It worked soooo much better! I mean yes, i got bit, punched, spit on, juice poured on my head, action figures thrown at me(one drilling the back of my head), and one of the kids pooped his pants, BUT IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT! haha they read 3rd nephi 11 and it hit her really hard. We've taught her the first lesson and what the Book of Mormon is, but when we read it with her it was much more powerful. She said shes going to fast and pray to know of its true! im so excited! we didnt even think of fasting but she brought it up and is way into the idea! so... yea! that was great.
So yesterday we were knocking and met this one guy. He said no at first but the prayer knocking system got us in ! So we talked to them for awhile and were kinda just having a good time with them and then they told us their daughter is really sick and they dont have health insurance. it got quiet and serious real quick. So we talked a little bit about blessings and offered to give the daughter one. The daughter came in, 14 years old and we gave her a blessing. It was very powerful. at the end of the blessing the daughter and parents were crying. Especially the daughter. the Spirit was SOOO strong, it was really cool. We explained that a blessing works the same way as it did with the miracles of christ, by faith. Im anxious to go back and see that family again, really humble people. It is amazing to me how the spirit just leads us to the places we need to go, And these amazing spiritual experiences that we have with complete strangers. Its soo cool.
So last tuesday, Manuel passed away. We went over there just after it happened and there was a lot of family and stuff. At first we walked up and his step brother who doesnt like us came outside and told us its not a good time and to leave, then Manuels brother and Dad came out and gave us hugs and brought us inside. We've gotten really close with them, they treat uslike family now. But it was really hard to see the family like that. Even though they knew it was going to happen it was a huge hit for them. And i think a huge part of it is because they dont understand whats after this life. They kinda just see it that he's lost. That would be so hard to see things like that. We are so lucky to have the Plan of Salvation and understand it. i think thats something that i have taken for grantid in my life. But we went to his funeral saturday. It was very different. 8 hours. We only stayed for about an hour and a half, and i thik i meant a lot to the family. Manuels brother asked us to come back and teach him. He's really good guy, we've gotten the most close with him through all this.
but anyway, sorry the email is so long this week.
Love you and i love to hear from you1
love, elder foulger
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