Siempre en la Lucha!

Im still getting ajusted to writing on thursday and kindof sad that im going to finish my mission writing on a thursday not sure how it will all work out but hey it is what it is.

Theres always someone that could use a little help!:)

Well the week just flew by like crazy i really dont belive that ive now been im my area for 2 weeks. Well i have to say its a good area i like it quite a bit its not all that nice like my last area which was really heaven. Here i sweat a ton im back to a lot of rice in beans and sometimes i think what would happen if a zombie apocaplis broken out would i be on the safe island? Haha just kiding i love the area though even know it may be small and a little rough with work and everything i have that felling like i was ment to be sent here you know.

Fish soup anyone!

This week well i contiuned to know all the members and also the island i can offically say that i have made the whole loop of the island its pretty big. I made the trip with my companion and some members it was a lot of fun seeing all the sites and beaches and other things there. On the back side of the island there really isnt much but some small little pueblos but it was cool getting to see it all.

Sunday was a good experience it was there on the island and in our house ahha which is the church and it was good the adverage assistence is about 20-30. We had 25 so that was pretty good. Weve been working pretty good but not too much luck yet weve found a few familys but the same problem that there not married. So were going to keep going with them and see how it all goes.

On tuesday we had the oldroyds come down there a senor couple in charge of housing and everything. Were working on getting our selfs into a small apartment close by then turn the church just into the church there going to knock out a wall too so that we can have a bigger sacrament room so that should be all going into the works and everything soon im excited for that.

A good way to see the day close up!

Other then that not too much that i can tell you about i did finally get to eat shark and then just alot more fish haha thats pretty much it. Well i hope you all have a great week i miss and love you all and well talk again next Thursday!

ELDER FO$TER

Bienvenido a Amapala!

WEll its been a week super full of many things and im a little tired and i also cant belive that yeah a whole week has passed by. The wierdest thing is i dont know if its maybe because i know im in my last area in the mission or if its because im on a island or something im not sure but i still feel like im still getting use to the area and everything. Normally its like you get to your new area and then in like 2 day you already feel in the grove and everything. But regardless all is going well and im starting to really like the area.

Let see well i dont remember too much of what i told you as far as my new area but heres some of the details its called amampala its a island in the mission just off the southern coast of honduras. The church was just newly established there roughly 2 years ago. Theres a decent amount of members but a majority is inactive. The thing is the church is just a little larger house there on the island. And the biggest thing we live in the church ahah. Its a little wierd i guess that we live in the church but its cool. Were in the process of getting us in our own little apartment.

On my way to the area in boat!

So we got to the area like thursday in the nightish. Its was cool we went to one cita then with this one family of members that the lady is like our cook i guess you would say we pay here for lunch and dinner and she cooks it and everything. It works out a lot better for us and everything in the end for us. (Im not a good cook even two years into the mission) So its kindof a big mixed family with alot of people that live within the two houses there. Its been good though because in this week i have been blessed on my first night to have been giving lobster to eat. Then we also eat fish and shrimp in diffrent meals so im not complaining too much.

I guess thats the benefit of being close to the ocean. As far as seafood goes its a little cheaper. But the bad part of being on the island is everything is alot more expensive. The nice thing is that the member that cooks for us her sister lives there as well a older lady. And she works at one of the hotels on the island so thats how we got the lobster she brought it for us!! The members that ive been able to meet so far are real nice.

Me and my companion Elder Ordoñez!

Dont think that im in the riches its still honduras and there still house of brick and sticks and metal. And its still really hot and you know with the terrible power systems they have here every day the power goes out. (Were going to fix that dad after the mission;)) The other problem is theres no water on the island like water to bath and to clean. You have to buy and like i said were on a island so its $$$. But the mission helps us a little because were on a island and far away.

Well ive talked alot not too much about the work because its rough. The people dont want too much from us. And if they do want something its money they ask us for we tell them we cant help with money. Then were not normally received the next time. BUt its going little by little were getting things in line im hopeing to get it going little by little.

Hey im just walking in my area on the way to a cita!
How about a quick photo?

Well i love you guys and miss you all a bunch. I cant belive that were in november now it just blows my mind the time is flying before we know well all be in the airport together. I am a little baggy ex missionarys will know what that means! But im still going to work. Well thanks for everything you guys be safe and have a great week! Talk to you next Thursday!

ELDER FO$TER

ELDER OAKS Y MUCHO MAS!

Well i imagine that alot of you are thinking why are you writing on a thursday. Well let me asure you im not planching or anything haha. So here the deal real fast to tell you what happened the past few days then youll kindof understand it all.

So on monday we recieved the changes. My new area is called Amapala its a island that is in the mission its down in the south. My new companion is named Elder Ordoñez. He is from Guatemala. Hes not real new hes still a little under a year! The last 24 hours that ive known him he seems pretty cool.

Anyways on Tuesday we just spent the whole day saying bye to members packing my bags up and just getting everything ready. It was a very lond tiring sad day haha. Anyways the santa maria or zone valle de Angeles was awesome the members my converts and everything im going to miss them and the area and all that.

La Familia Vallecio (converts)
"There awesome and two werent there"

Well then came changes but it was a little crazy. We had changes in the morning we got our new companions and everything. The thing is that the whole mission was there at changes. Because then in the afternoon we all went to a church next to the temple and we got to hear from Elder Oaks! Yes one of the 12 Apostles! It was really cool to hear from him and other leaders!

La Familia Bertand (Alan and Mirian)
"One of the best familys ive met im my whole mission"

Anyways after that we got on our busses divided by area of mission that you were going to go to and we headed off with our bags and everything in the back. Well after a few hour bus ride we made it to the south but it was like yeah 6 at night already. They told me no from this main road you still have to take over a hour bus ride then you have to take about half hour boat trip to get to the island of Amapala. And the last boat takes off at like 5:30. So your going to have to stay the night here in whats called san lorenzo where the zone and all the other areas are.

Brother Lopez (Wife was Working)
"Love this guy has a bean business and speaks perfect english"

So we stayed the night here with some other elders. The thing is that normally we come up to san lorenzo on thursday my companion told me for district meeting. Then after district meeting we write and then we have to buy food here in this town then take it all the way to the island because its alot cheeper and also theres not much there on the island. Also theres no internet on the island so thats why we write here in the bigger iner town!

Ill tell you the truth im just going with the flow and what im told for all i know there taking to sacrfice me or something im not sure. I trust my comp and what everyone else is saying. Just hope that the island is dope and that im going to eat some shrimp or fish or something when i get there then ill be happy.

Anyways thats the run down as far as i know. While everyone else is in there new area, im still making my way there! Well just remebers THURSDAYS i write now for the rest of my mission because im finsihing here! Well i love you all miss you hope you all have a great week and a happy halloween!

LOVE ELDER FO$TER

Adiós a La Santa Maria!

Well i officaly only have 12 p days left thats kindof crazy when i think about that. A good week filled with a lot of rain and the truth the week before changes nothing super special that i can tell you guy!

The begging of this week we ha plans to get and go to el chimbo where we had the recent converts and everything. The thing is i dont know what was up with this week but it just rained and rained. Today and yesterday i think were the only day i saw the sun and evrything.

El Chimbo River!

The thing is i was pretty sure that this was going to be my last week here in the santa maria. So me and elder judd just took advantage of saying good bye to all the members and everything and all of our recent converts and all that good stuff. We continued to see if we could possible have one more baptisim before the end of the change but things just didnt line up in the end.

The week has been kind bad on my stomach still. The problem is that i think i can only eat a little but in the end im kindof obligated to eat a good amount! Well this email i think for this week is going to be a little short and more borning.

Cool guy in our area named Maraca!

Today was fun we watched a movie and then headed up to valle de angeles! There we just looked around ate lunch and all that good stuff. The only other thing is that we did recieve changes and i am leaving the santa maria! Yeah its sad but at the same time im a little excited and nervous and everything. I dont want to give out too much where im going. Ill talk more about it next week! The only hits ill give is that i am going back down south. In this area misionarys only stay a max two changes (so ill be finishing my mission there). Lastly its a small group and lets just say its a little difficult to get there.

Thats all the hits im giving and everything next week on the blog youll get all the details and everything because its going to be a crazy week i can only imangine! But im excited for these lasting months! Well im super tired but hey you gotta just keep on pushing.

I love you all miss you all i hope that next monday you all have a Happy Halloween and i look forward to seeing all the pictures and everything. Love you all and be safe!

ELDER FO$TER

Los Buenos y Los Malos!

Another great week in the books. The days just keep turning into weeks then the weeks into months and very shortly like 3 months shortly all the months will have turned into 2 years!

This was a good week though i cant complain. Beside the fact i think some type of stomach bug hit me good. On monday after we went and ate at a resturante i felt terrible the whole night and couldnt really sleep. But we had a few baptisims planned so we had to get some visits and everything done so i just pushed through it everything good.

Well Wensday came and everything was good we actully had divisions with 2 other elders from the zone i went to another area called el sitio. Its a interesting and little bit of a scary area haha but i survied no worries. Other then that all was good i was with elder baller we had fun and everything well Thursday morning i woke up somehthing just didnt feel right. I got back to the house and felt bad. We had some real important lessons though. So we did divisions with members i just stayed in the house with the other member i couldnt walk nothing my stomach was killing me. Well the notice is that unfortantly after 21 months in the mission with out puking well the streak ended haha i dont know what i ate but it was probably something from the calle as they say or a street vender haha i learned my lesson. I normally am good but not this time.

Im good now though no worries friday was chill and everything i went to district meeting and i finally ate pizza! Hondueran pizza though not that good. Ahhh what i would do for a papa johns pizza its on the list. So yeah then we came back from our meeting and everything we were with the district leader so he could do some interviews for us and it all went well. Then we got the baptisim pila ready because we did the baptisims in the morning because there was a church wide activity where they were planing 33000 trees in one day here in honduras. We were going to go but in the end couldnt make it.

Well as you can see above everything turned out good and we had 3 baptisms on saturday. These young men Christopher, Jerling and Marcos and awesome and i know that when they grow up they are going to do awesome and great things for them and there family which the majority is not member.

Well i belive satan was fighting with us alot this week for the baptisms to not happen and with it beening hard to really explain the stories of how we found them and the difficulties we had and everything and the changes i just promise you that there great and marvolous and im greatful for having of been a part of the whole thing,

That really all for this week all is going well. Crazy to think that i now have almost more then 4 months in my area and in like 10 days there will be changes and im probably out but enjoying whats left here. Anyways i love you all i miss you all i hope you have a great week and well talk again next monday!

ELDER FO$TER

Otra semana en los libros!

This was a  real good week and now its crazy to think that were already 1/3 the way through october. The time is really flying by.

This week on Tuesday we had a little consejo is what it is called it was for all the leaders it like a meeting we do once a month takes a majority of the day. Then on wensday we went to el chimbo this kindof far part of our area you have to take a 20 min bus ride because its in this other part of the mountains where were seving. The last bus passed by at 6 at night but we got a family that was a refrence of 8 people it was awesome but we have to visit them at like 6 or 7 at night so there all there. Any away a member took us and we got stuck in a ditch because it had been raining a lot and alot of mud well say. Anyways weve been visiting this family and this member has been helping to bring some not all (because some are faster then others haha) to activitys and church some have came like 3 of the boys.

Well on saturday 7 of the 8 came to churchs and the mom just said to us existe los milagros which meens miracles do happen. I dont know what that really means where going to visit them tomorrow 3 of them could be possible getting baptized this saturday if all goes well. The funny part of the story is the member who got his car stuck with us in it. I took pictures i felt bad but it was just kindof funny with the type of guy he is. Good news is he got out and everything thats all that matters.

Then for the rest of the week the only other real thing we did is get this one family ready for the waters. The thing is theres 6 of them only 5 are above 8 years old. The family is moving to new york soon its kindof a crazy story there moving to the states soon the problem is the parents arnt married and they have to wait 6 months at the least because there getting residence and moving to the us its crazy. Well there all real postive the dad works alot the other 4 or 5 with the little one hes 7 years old. The others are real postive but only 2 of them got baptized here on saturday the other one went out of town but there awesome and We could get the other one baptized soon. This family i cant really explain but really awesome.

Other then that weve been just really busy but hey it makes the time go by fast which is good and bad haha. Well i love and miss you guys a ton i hope all goes well in each and every one of your guys life if your family or not. Im glad that you guys can follow my mission story. And i hope all goes well for you all. Talk to you next monday!

ELDER FO$TER

¡Bienvenido Octubre!

It always feels so wierd to be sitting down and writing again every monday just comes so fast and it feels like i was litteraly just writing yesterday!

Anyways another great week i cant complain. Confrence week as a missionary is always so great but well get there in a second. So To start monday night we got a call from the mission president. President Bowler he told us that he wanted to go and do some visits with us so we were like whoo cool sure haha. The thing is if you all remember when i was in the office i was his secertary and i remember planning a very few times for him to go out with missionarys but now that hes going to do it with us its wierd but cool.

Anways we took him to the family vallecio theres 4 of them im pretty sure ive talked about them there a mom her two kids 17 and 19 years old and a uncle that lives there theres also a little 7 years old boy she has 3 kids anyways we found them about a month ago and have been teaching them and everything its been so awesome. Some have progressed faster then others but the goal we put for them a few weeks ago was to be baptized on the 8th which is this saturday. They all went to conference on sunday morning. Well nothings set or anything for this saturday but keep your fingers crossed were hoping that this saturday there all dressed in white well see tomorrow we have a visit with them.

The other thing that happened that was awesome is we have this far part kindof that is in our area and theres a few members there it takes about 15 mins to get there in car or bus. Anyways we got some refrences and everything there so weve been visiting and everything well theres these 2 family up there eaach family is like 7 people some are postive others more or less you know how it is well the member up there set up a big family home evening to take all the investagators up there well we passed by the houses and got 10 investagators! We watched the testament movie and talked a little about the book of morman it was awesome. If all goes well maybe well have a few baptisims for there on the 15th!

Family Home Evening (Everyone you see is investagators with
two more in the corner and the members in the back!

Lastly how could i skip it is about the confrence it was awesome. And also a little sad for me it was my last confrence in the mission so crazy to think. But the talks and all 5 sessions were great. I loved hearing from the profet about the plan of salvacion and from president nelson about how the gopel brings joy to our live i testify of that as well. The thing is through all my confrences ive always watched them in english in another room in the church. Which i did for the 3 session on saturday but on sunday i sat in with our investagators also the last session we had a investagator and we watched it in spanish with him too. It was interesting my last two session of confrence watched in spanish it was like the lord was showing me some things i enjoyed it alot and glad to say that it ended that way. The messages were amazing as i said and just strengthins my testimony even more that we are in the one and only true church in all of the world!

Well i love and miss you all i hope this month of october goes well for you all save some candy for me and keep a few fallen leaves because just a few more short months ill be back with you all. I love you guys and i love the mission. I will talk to you all next monday be safe!


ELDER FO$TER