letter numero 23.

Dad, HAPPY FATHERS DAY! hope you had a great one there.  Thanks for writing everyone!  those pictures of hallie are pretty awesome.  The ones of her sleeping are hilarious.  But thanks for the letters. Its been great to hear from you.  and meagan sent me some pictures, thank you!!!!!! I also got some awesome pictures of lauren.  That one of her with the sunglasses is priceless.  She got REALLY cute. haha Mom, your letters are sooooo funny... every time. i love em.  o btw verlan, "drop it like its hot" hahah.  Meagan told me about that i about died laughing.  it sounds like everything is awesome there.  Good to hear.  Candace, congrats on quitting! im so proud of you.  btw, whats the due date again? im so excited.  Is alex nervous? hahah jeeze im gonna get back and your all going to be parents...WEIRD!    Lindsay got married?? crazy.  I got to meet him haha, seems like a nice guy.  And when is jonathans wedding? in NH? wow, i cant believe he is getting married.  What a stud.  except actually hes not that great cuz he hasnt written me yet. haha THANKS JAY! and this ben guy is going? jeeze this guy is no joke huh? Price, will you write me and give me the laydown on this guy? dont sugarcoat it. haha ...but seriously i wanna know.  Rumor has it that jay loves him but i dont know if thats a good thing or not. haha   So i wrote a letter to the Aaronic priesthood holders and i recorded it.  I think im going to use that recording thing today and talk to all of you! that will be more fun than a letter i think.
        So everything has been so great here.  We've had an interesting week.  And its been really funny.  We got a flat tire this week! so that was fun! but its ok, we changed it !

     So fun week, we had two exchanges though.  I like exchanges but not that much cuz i would rather just be with my companion.  But it was fun and it gives you the chance to see how other elders work,  I had this one exchange with this really funny kid from mexico.  His english isnt all that good so it was a funny day.  We taught this new guy named josue.  It went really well, it was fun.  haha we also had this one lesson with this lady named Marisol.  every time we go to her apartment its crazy! there are kids and toys and stuff EVERYWHERE!  anyway, it was a really intense lesson and during it, she was talking and her little 2 yr old comes out of the kitchen, holding a bottle of beer and starts crying for the mom to open it for him.  and she started to! then she realized what it was and stopped.  i looked at my companion and we both started laughing. haha it was sooo bizzarre.  i didnt really know what else to do.  I also had an exchange with this kid in my district who cant speak ANY spanish.  haha so that was a funny day.  We had some great lessons. Especially one with this lady named lily and her daughter.  Their from Peru. We read 3rd nephi 11 with them and they loved it. 

           So we've got a couple investigators right now who are kind of just waiting on their answers.  Its hard cuz we've had some great, powerful lessons with them but they cant recognize their answer.  So we've been doing this thing lately that seems to be very effective and helps people recognize their answer during the lesson. We start out the first lesson about the holy ghost.  We read john 15:26 and then john 14:26 and talk about what the spirit does and how we can feel and recognize it.  And how it only testifys of truth.  then we promise them, in the name of Jesus Christ that the spirit will be threre during the lesson and they can know these things are true through the Holy Ghost.  Then during the lesson when the spirit is strong (usually after the first vision or something) we just stop and are like, "we can all feel the spirit right now, and it is testifying to you that what we are saying is true." It is very powerful and effective and is starting to help people gain their own testimony. So thats been great, were working at getting better at it though. 

       So yesterday Juan Chavez came to church again! and stayed all 3 hours! he loved it.  That guy is the man! i love him! it is seriously a huge blessing to teach him.  Then yesterday we taught lewis.  We taught him on the steps outside in teuanita and taught him about the restoration.  he said that it all sounds familiar and he doesnt have a doubt in his mind that it is true. We asked him what the BOM was and he said "the adventures of Christ in the Americas"  haha it was awesome. We were like, "uhhh... yeah! " hahah Then we read 3rd nephi 11 with him to hep him understand the BOM and at the end he was like, "wow everyone needs to know about this."  hahaha we were like I KNOWWWW! THATS WHAT WERE TRYING TO DO ALL THE TIME!  haha it was funny.

   So anyway there were some other things this week but i dont have time.  I'll do the recording thing and tell you ! love you all ! be safe!

ps.. price im totally expecting that letter.  and one from j too! hah

love, Elder Foulger