Strawberries

The area im currently serving in(Plant City) is famous for its winter stawberries. since winter is over they let the public come in and pick all the left overs cuz the demand for them is gone due to the strawberry market picking up in other parts of the states. so we went and picked strawberries. we ended up with about 20lbs even after we gave some to the senior couple here.

bike accident and the emergency room

well this week was a horrible one. thursday night i got into a bike wreck and cut my leg open on the teeth of my gears. it was pretty bad so we went to the emergency room cuz it was like 9:00 at night when we got a ride there. we spent three hours there and came out with three stitches. thats just a portion of what happened this week that made it horrible but ive already vented about it and am done with it.

Randy's Baptism

Hey Yall, i finally had a baptism. It was my first since june. His name is Randy Kloko. He had a friend out in Utah that referred him but our referral secretary forgot to save the phone number so when we got the text on our phone there was no contact info. We were bummed cuz it sounded really positive. well i guess randy was waiting for our phone call that day and never recieved on so he called the office a couple of days later and we finally got some contact info. it was really neat. we talked to him, setup an appointment for the next day and commited him for baptism for the 7th of march at the first lesson. he accepted and we saw him progress in the gospel very quickly. He had been prepared by many members when he lived out in Logan, Utah. Thank goodness for members that were good examples. Anyways im really excited and hopefully we will have a few more baptisms this month.

Mission Update

so i thought i would try and start a blog to let yall know how im doing down here in florida. I figure this would be easier then trying to write yall each a letter. this saves me time and money for stamps. So Im curently serving in Plant City Florida in the Florida Tampa Mission. I love it here and i am having so much fun serving the people of florida. I am on the down hill portion with only 7 months to go. We are having great success here in Plant City with a baptism coming up on saturday and more to follow soon. The lord is blessing my and my comp. greatly. For the past two weeks we have had people just show out of the blue to church and we have started teaching them. We havent had much success in finding people through tracting but we have been obedient and diligent and i really believe that it is because of that, that we are having great success. Its a testimony to me that the lord will bless us as long as we are doing what we are supposed to do. It may not be how we think but it will work out. I have learned so much out here and am so greatful for the oppurtunity that ive had to serve a mission. Before we all now it 7 months will be up and will be back reaking havoc Foster Style but for now ive still got a lot to do. It would be great to hear from yall once in ahwile but i understand that life is hectic and busy. I still love ya anyhow.
Love Elder Foster
"Foster's...... Southern for Missionary"