Foster, Luke

One more week in the mission went by. This week was defintely one of the slowest week here in the area so far, but still ended up being good. This week we found a family of 7 that lives next to our member that is 15 years old. They're his cousins so we were trying super hard to get them to church. We had a soccer activity this Friday and wanted to take all them. The last second their mom said they couldn't go which was kind of annoying. We ended up finding one of our members friends and took him instead. I talked a lot of trash on him walking to the soccer activity so then I had to back it up. I won 3 games in a row and then they wouldn't let me play anymore and I had to ref. Nows the part where I say that I won against a bunch of 15 years old, but they're Brazilian so I still feel pretty accomplished. I also had a division this week. I went with Elder Godfrey which was super cool. He's got about 6 months in the mission and is super cool. He was actually supposed to...

Hey everyone. Its been about three weeks since I wrote an email, but things still have been going good.  Since the last email a lot has happened.  We had transfers three weeks ago. I stayed in Moreno and got a new comp Elder Numbers. I got my first american comp in the mission and we're pretty similar. He's from Utah and plays soccer. He's on his second to last transfer and Ive been learning a lot from him before he leaves the mission. This week we were able to baptize Rafael. His mom and brother were baptized the week before I got here. We have been working with him for a little over 8 weeks now. Despite having a ton of challenges and doubts he finally made it to the baptism day. It was a super awesome experience. The day before and even leading up to the batism he was a pretty unexcited, but as soon as he came up out of the water it was like a switch flipped. He started to talk with all the members, asked about being in the ward group chat, and became a lot more involved ...

This week the was the last week of this transfer which flew by. Also it ended with the general conference which motivated us a ton to be able to help people listen to the prophets and apostles. We started off this week focusing on a family that we had marked for baptism. I have pushed more for baptism with this family than anyone in my entire mission. It's gotten to the point were everytime I show up they ask what more I going to teach them about baptism. Unfortunately they weren't baptized this week, but they did watch general conference so hopefully they got some answers and will be ready soon. One other family we found this week is a family of inactives that has 4 people that aren't baptized yet. They live in like the middle of the jungle, but the are super cool só were going to keep teaching them. There has been a ton of cool things I've done this week. 1. I was on a division and my comp for the day went to take a shower. When he went in he shut the door to hard and...

This week was super awesome and we ended with the best pday of the mission so far. This week we have been preparing a family to get baptized and helping them to stop drinking coffee. As we have continued to go to their house, they have been more willing to participate in the lesson. The first week we were there the kids didn't participate much and their parents made them come listen, but after a week or two they are always the first ones sat down ready to hear the lessons. Its been super cool to see there progress and I hope we can help them be baptized this week. I went on a division this week to the lzs area again. I was able to talk to some of the people that I taught there last time which was awesome. The goal of the division was to mark as many people as possible for baptism. So the entire day the only lesson we taught was baptism, which worked. We were able to put six people on a dates for baptisms and one of them even got baptized the next day. In this division we were prett...

Definitely forgot to write an email this week so this ones gonna be a little longer. That being said let's get into it. This mission this year is focused on finding families. We had failed to do so unitl last week when we found three in the same day. We found a family of 5, 7, and 3. Its been super cool to teach them and to show them the blessings their family can receive. One of these families went to church this week and the other two promised to come next week, so we marked all three of them for baptism. The last 2 weeks we've been teaching them the commandments and following up on how its going. So far everyone has been keeping the commandments despite some severe coffee addictions. Besides the families weve done some other things that have been pretty dope. #1. I went on a division with the LZs. I went to a different area for a day and learned quite a bit. We were able to mark a ton of people and practice new strategies that President wants us to try in order to find and m...

What's up everyone. I'm one week older in the mission, which means one more email. We're starting to get into thw rainy season here so everyday is either really hot or really haha. This week we focused on reactivating recent converts and tries to find people that had been to church before, but weren't baptized. It was really cool to talk with the people and help bring them back to church. This week was kinda a normal week in the mish but a few cool things happened. #1. THE VAN On Friday we had a division with the other Elders that live 35 minutes away. We didn't want to pay a lot for an uber so we decided to try public transport. We were waiting in line for the bus and some crazy Brazilian pulled up and said that he would take us there for half the price in his van. We then got in his van and 32 more people got shoved in as well. So we put 34 people in a 15 passenger van for a 45 minute drive. Not to mention that its 90 degrees outside and the van didn't have an...

What's up everyone. I'm one week older in the mission, which means one more email. We're starting to get into thw rainy season here so everyday is either really hot or really haha. This week we focused on reactivating recent converts and tries to find people that had been to church before, but weren't baptized. It was really cool to talk with the people and help bring them back to church. This week was kinda a normal week in the mish but a few cool things happened. #1. THE VAN On Friday we had a division with the other Elders that live 35 minutes away. We didn't want to pay a lot for an uber so we decided to try public transport. We were waiting in line for the bus and some crazy Brazilian pulled up and said that he would take us there for half the price in his van. We then got in his van and 32 more people got shoved in as well. So we put 34 people in a 15 passenger van for a 45 minute drive. Not to mention that its 90 degrees outside and the van didn't have an...