aloha! sooooo ive gotten some great letters from y'all this week. Thank you mucho! Sounds like the company meeting went well, sounds like that was fun. Hha i'll definitely be there for the one in 2 years. So i got some great pictures of Hallie. She's a cutie. and really chubby. haha It kills me not being able to hold kids. Its the hardest one to keep, cuz kids are always jumping on me and asking me to hold them and stuff and i want to cry cuz i cant! haha o well.. small price. ;) So sounds like charlie is just a champ in the water and the rest of the kids are just crazy and having fun. Thats great. I miss those little guys. I decorated my planner with their pictures and i show people were teaching and they love it. And mom told me the NH house will probably still be there when i get home. hahaha i already had an emotional goodbye to that house when i left! bunk house for life!
So anyway, we had an amazing week. really great! So i have been in this area for a long time and im petty sure im going to get transferred this week. So if your sending me letters or anything, it would probably be best to send them to the mission office. 23504 Lyons Avenue #107, Santa Clarita, CA 91321. I'm not sure im getting transferred but i think i will. i find out saturday. I love this area so much and i've gotten to know the people here so well. It will be hard saying goodbye and starting over somewhere else. Ugh i had to say bye to Juan Chavez cuz he took a trip to Mexico for awhile. that was awful! i hope i can come see his baptism if i get transferred. We've also been teaching this really great girl named bianca which has been fun. Laltely we've just been so blesed with so many people to teach. And its amazing talking to these people because when you get to know them and understand their stories its so easy to see how the lord has prepared them their entire lives just to be in this situation to hear and accept the gospel. I love that. We are teaching some amazing people. people who have been through soooo much hardships and trials in their lives. And somewhow they still have a positive outlook on life. Almost everyone were teaching live to work so tthey can just survive and provide for their families. And their always JUST getting by. i dont know how they do it. Its a completely different world.
being a missionary is very weird. i cant remember life not being a missionary. its just so bizarre because were constantly doing random things and in crazy situations. i also think i could be a part time mover. haha but one of the things i love about the mission is the crazy and just bizzarre situations we find ouselves in every day. now its like crazy things that used to shock me before dont faze me. haha i dont know how to explain it. The other night we were in tejuanita and it was kind of a crazy night there. But we ran into one of our investigators who was searching for her teenage daughter who snuck out and was hanging out with bad kids. hahaha and so there we were, in sketchy tejaunita looking for some teenage girl with her mom. It was kind of too bad though cuz the Bryant street gang saw us talking to the mom and we totally lost our street credit. haha we were on the cool side for awhile with them but now were just back to dorky white kids. o well. haha I feel like were part of tejuanita now.
But anyway we had some great lessons this week. I'll tell you about one i really liked. We taught this girl named Rocio who we've been loking for for awhile. We had a really good lesson with her and i loved it because shes really smart and asks really good questions. She's like 21 and from El Salvador and her familiy hates us. Her dad started laughing when he saw us and at first her grandmother didnt like us either but by the end i think she did and she even made us Tomales! haha anyway, At the very beginning she told us shes not doing this to convert. usually if thats not in their sights at all, theirs no sense in teaching them but we felt like we still should and we did. At the beginning we explained the spirit and how we can feel it and recognize it and then promised her in the name of Jesus Christ that the spirit would be there during the lesson. right after the first vision she got really quiet. We asked her how she felt and she didnt answer and finally she said i feel like a want to cry. We explained she was feeling the spirit and that it was testifying that these things were true. Shes going to read and pray about the LDM so im really excited to meet with her again.
We had some other great lessons too but and im out of time. i love you all and i love to hear from y'all !
o! ps! we contacted a guy in Korean! (gift of tongues)
pps. somebody tell j to write me haha
love you!
love, Elder Foulger
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