Weeeellll...this is Sister Fouts' negligent father. She fell behind on letters then I fell behind on posting them up. Here, for your reading pleasure, is a two month update. SORRY!!
On April 25, 2016 Hannah Fouts wrote:
WOW HELLO EVERYONE!!!!
Here's a
big old shout out for everyone who made my birthday soooooo
good! You
all make me happy enough to hug a hobo, and there are some
pretty
nasty smelling hobos out here. If anyone thinks they have the
coolest
family and friends, scratch that (unless you're related to me
because
same family) because I actually do. Sorry to burst your bubble
there!
Shout out
to Carol for being the most beautiful artist
Shout out
to Barb for fitting so much in such a tiny box
Shout out
to Dad and Co. for finding 20 of so many things
Shout out
to Mom for having the best taste of clothes
Shout out
to Sister Landaverry and Hunter and Meri for nailing my
style on
the dot
Shout out
to Bountiful 31st ward for being real good note writers and
fudge
makers
Shout out
to Grandma and Papa and Nana for being the best grandparents everrrrr
Shout out
to all of you cool people for loving me even though I'm a
weirdie.
You all rock my church socks!
Well
you're probably wondering what happened this week! If you're not,
I don't
know why you're reading this email. Anyways, let me tell ya!
Here are
20 things about this week because 20 is a good number.
1. Many
cancelled lessons, no advance notice equals much travel on
public
transportation.
2. I. and
M. didn't answer their phones or texts all week.
Neither
of them came to church. M. didn't keep our appointment on
Wednesday.
Boo! The adversary needs to get out my face.
3. A.
from Nigeria is the coolest! She wants to be baptized so badly
but
doesn't know where. She's been looking for a long time. We're
stoked to
help her make that step by the proper priesthood authority!
4. We saw
a plethora of cops and cop cars and police tape this week.
That was
neat.
5. Earth
Day means Prospect Park for lunch hour and dirt trails and a
carousel.
I rode the lion!
6. I ate
Dominican food for the first time since leaving Sister
Peguero's
dinner table back in Lynbrook!
7. T.
took us to a ritzy BBQ place and it was delicious.
8. A
cockroach came at me while I was in the shower. I screamed and
then I
squashed it.
9. A
member got us a birthday cake and we had a party.
10. We
found feather masks and party hats so we ate our earth day
breakfast
of funfetti pancakes with those on.
11. It's
hard to see with feather masks.
12. We
ate burritos and I was happy happy happy!
13. We
had stake conference and it was so good!
14. The
stake conference was held at a super flash (New Zealand term)
hotel
right by the Brooklyn Bridge. No big deal.
15. I
translated the last two talks and even though I didn't know
"boat"
it went well!
16. An
elder translated the closing prayer from Spanish to Creole, and
I was
impressed until I remembered he doesn't speak Spanish and was
just
making it up. Next time I translate I'll just read an old
conference
talk or ensign article and call it good!
17. I
almost bought a cactus because there was an earth day sale but
remembered
how the last time I tried to take care of Megan's cactus
Carter
got lots of cactus needles in his face. I didn't buy a cactus.
18.
Referring back to number 10, I actually just tried to make
pancakes
out of funfetti cake mix and it didn't work that good. They
were
pretty burned and our house was pretty smokey.
19. I saw
a limo at a gas station that probably had Taylor Swift or
Beyoncé
or both of them inside of it.
20.
Grandma S. She's a cute Philippino lady in our ward and we
ate the
Dominican food at her house. She told us how she met her
husband.
(This might be long so if you hate fun and stories and
upliftment
then feel free to skip on ahead.) Back in the Philippines
when she
was 17 you DID NOT go on dates without a chaperone. Well once
she was
invited by her brothers friend to go to his cousin's wedding.
Her
brother was going with his girlfriend so they were going together.
The
wedding was really far away and her brother and his girlfriend
left the
wedding without Grandma S.! So she had to stay the night
at her
brother's friend's family's house. Naturally they were in
different
rooms, but it looked bad so she had to marry her brother's
friend or
else she'd bring shame on her whole family. So she married
him when
she was 17. And it turns out THAT WAS THEIR PLAN ALL ALONG.
HER
BROTHER AND HER HUSBAND HAD PLA.ED THE WHOLE DANG THING!! And
now,
however many years later, they've been sealed in the temple and
their
family is eternal and they have wonderful children and
grandchildren
and he doesn't have teeth and she takes care of him and
loves him
dearly. There are probably lots of points you could take
from
this, but mine is that sometimes life dishes out poopy things,
and
sometimes at the time of a trial it might seem like we're being
forced to
marry our brother's dumb friend. But it turns out that it's
actually
going to bring us a lot of happiness later on! That's not a
very good
parallel, I'm really sorry. Mostly I wanted an excuse to
tell that
story because I thought it was hilarious.
Isaiah
41:10 is a real good scripture. Go look it up.
I LOVE
YOU ALL SO MUCH!
YOU ARE
WONDERFUL
GOD LOVES
YOU
YOU CAN
DO ANYTHING
MY FAMILY
(immediate and extended) IS BETTER THAN SHARK WEEK🌊
LOVE
sister
fouts
PS I was
going to write this in the form of lots of small haikus but
maybe
I'll do that next week. Maybe I won't. We'll see.
PPS A
stranger man just told me I look sunburned. Nope, I'm just
actually
red. BUT THE SUN IS COMING BACK AND I'M THRILLED.
On Apr 18, 2016, at 5:02 PM, Hannah Fouts wrote:
Just lookin
fly
Please look at the big arch,
not me. I look like a dingus, but the arch is HUGE. it's hard to tell how big
it is in this picture.
This one is for Sylee Baker!
On Apr 18,
2016, at 4:58 PM, Hannah Fouts wrote:
Hey y'all!
(Please say that with a gangster rapper voice, not a Texas
farm girl voice.)
First off,
some shout outs. Happy birthday, Christopher Bare! Happy
birthday, Barb! Happy birthday, Aunt Barbie!
Happy Birthday, EARTH! 🌎
Happy birthday to all you other people out
there who are having
birthdays or celebrating someone else's
birthday! Go plant trees or
something this Friday. (That's my subtle way
of giving myself a
birthday shout out)
We had
another awesome lesson with I.! She asked if she could
change her baptism date to June 12 since
that's when her family will
be able to come. Um yes absolutely! She kept getting ready
all through
the lesson and saying "I feel so happy!
I've never felt this happy
before!" It was SO GOOD.
We got a call from the elders in Staten Island
saying they have a
referral for us and she has a baptismal date
for May 15th. Say what?!
So that's M., and we'll meet with her on Wednesday so I'll let you
know how that goes. SO GOOD.
I contacted a lot in Creole and at made me
happy. Two ladies I talked
to thought I was Haitian, then when I told them
I was from by
California (none of them know where Utah is)
they asked where in Haiti
my dad was from. Then they asked if my dad was
black. SO GOOD.
Then I. texted saying her mom realized it was
the Mormon church,
and she was no longer down for the baptism.
Fortunately I. is 18
but we don't want strained relationships.
We've been praying really
really hard for her mom's heart to be
softened, and I. texted again
today saying that some missionaries in GA
visited her mom and she
thinks that's a good sign. PRAYER LITERALLY
WORKS MIRACLES, PEOPLE.
PRAY ALWAYS.
For the big down, the Alexander family dropped
us. We don't know
what's wrong, but we went over and Sister
Alexander told us not to
come back and she'd call and explain. She
still hasn't called, so
we're just waiting on that.
Also I translated sacrament meeting. TALK
ABOUT SCARY. I used the
fancy headset and everything! I started, and
then a few words in got
stage fright. I couldn't get my mouth to work.
One of the elders came
up and tried to help me get over it, but it
didn't work too well. One
of the members did their talk in creole, so
that was a relief, but
then another guy had the thickest accent I've
ever heard. Translating
that one was a toughy! But I'll get better.
It's my turn again in 3
weeks so I'll let you know how it goes!
Some people I would have sent you pictures of
if it weren't so dang
hard to take pictures discreetly with an iPad:
The
green lady. Literally head to toe, hair and make up included, this
woman and all her clothes were the same shade
of bright lime green.
The old
woman with purple eyebrows, bright blue eyeliner, and the
reddest lipstick I've ever seen. Also her
foundation was white, so it
was pretty intense.
The guy
at the library that was singing loud and proud to Louisiana
skies or blues or whatever that country song
is by Mel blah blah blah.
I know it's by Mel because he had a conversation
with himself about
it. If you've ever seen lord of the rings, it
was like when golem
talks to himself.
The
little Jewish boy riding a unicycle down the street.
And someone I did take a picture of was the escaped hospital patient
that was sleeping on the church grass.
Some good quotes were:
"Thank you for there being no cockroaches
to kill tonight." -Sister
Taylor in our nightly prayer
"D***!" -also Sister Taylor. It's
not a swear word in New Zealand, but
we get some pretty shocked looks from members
here.
"Why would I kill trees when I can just
use my finger?" -anonymous
lady on the bus, while picking her nose.
Spiritual thought ish:
Just be yourself! Life is too short to not
have fun and love yourself
the way your Father in Heaven loves you. As
Elder Holland said the
other weekend, He loves YOU with all His
heart, might, mind, and
strength. Don't worry about what someone else
will think or say. Do
what you know is right and true and fun and
happy! Lift others and
help them do the same by loving me no matter
what. This message was
inspired throughout the week by lots of New
Yorkers riding scooters
and rollerblading and skateboards and
everything else to get around,
and not just the teenagers and kids. Just do
what brings you joy! I
know this gospel brings true and lasting joy
and happiness. I'm
grateful for the chance I have to be here
serving and loving the
people of the world in Brooklyn!
I love you all!
Have a good, earthy week!
Sister Fouts
On Apr 11,
2016, at 4:24 PM, Hannah Fouts wrote:
Whenever I
don't know what to say for a subject line I think, what
would Glozell say? And then I say that.
First order
of business: my new companion is Sister Taylor and she's
from New Zealand and we have a good time! She
likes Milo, which I only
know is a thing because of the Camerons.
This week I
broke a bowl, Sister Taylor cut her foot because of said
broken bowl, our toilet FLOODED, like serious
flooding, and I set off
the smoke alarm while making dinner. And I
broke a washing machine and
had to air dry all my clothes and got lost in
the subway. HOLLA. Also
I am really good at killing baby cockroaches
but less good at killing
big ones. I tried to set one on fire because
it was chillin on the
stove but I think they're fire proof. Also we
rode a bus that smelled
super nast. Big apple wisdom: if you can't
hold it, at least get off
the bus before lettin it go. Please and thank
you! Or don't.
Apparently that's an option too.
Miracles of
the week: there we are at church, just greeting people
before sacrament meeting, when I see a girl
I've never met before. Her
name is I.. She isn't a member but heard about
the church and
decided to visit to see if she liked it.
WHAT!! It was fast and
testimony meeting, which is always a little
stressful when you have
visitors. But it went really well! It was one
of the most testimony
based testimony meetings I've ever been in!
Afterwards I asked if she
had questions and she said "Well I don't
really know who Joseph Smith
is." Fast forward to 20 minutes later and
she is getting baptized on
May 15th. AND her entire family is flying here
from Georgia (shout out
to the Harrison clan and Sister Lawson) to see
it! WOWOWOWOWOWOW!
Sometimes I forget that this is actually
Heavenly Father's work, not
mine. We're just the tools He uses to make it
happen.
Also a cool
thing that happened is we were
on the subway and we saw
two guys signing at each other. The ASL sisters recently sent out a
video of them signing the address of the
church and everything, so I
was pumped! We showed it to them and one of
them shook his head and
told us he doesn't live in Brooklyn, he lives
upstate. But we gave him
the card and they were pretty happy about it.
The coolest thing about
this story is HE WAS SPEAKING SIGN LANGUAGE
AND JUST MOUTHING WORDS
AND I UNDERSTOOD WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO SAY.
You can pretend I just
made it up if you want to, but I know that was
the Holy Ghost stepping
in and crossing a language barrier that would
have been impossible for
us to cross on our own. The church is true, my
friends! And I figured
out how to communicate with the Russians. We
have pass along cards
with the Book of Mormon on them in Russian!
Big break through, I know.
We just show it to them and most of them run
away but I'll let you
know if anyone ever gets excited about it.
Quick
spiritual thingy:
This week I've been trying really hard to lift
others burdens,
sometimes literally, if they're carrying
something heavy, and
sometimes figuratively. Yesterday there was a
little girl on the
subway whining a lot. You could tell they'd
had a long day out and her
mom was just done with everything. I
complimented her on her outfit,
and her entire face changed. It just got
happier and she started
talking to her daughter more lovingly.
Sometimes all someone needs is
a happy little compliment or a smile or a text
saying "hey, you are
cool!" Try to be on the lookout this week
for the little things you
can do to make someone else feel happier about
life, even if it seems
like they're doing fine.
Well that's all for now folks.
Kenbe djanm
Don't forget who you are or what you stand for
Don't get a wedgie
Don't pee on buses
Remember I love you
And go rock the world!
Love
Sister Fouts
On Apr 4, 2016, at 4:06 PM, Hannah Fouts wrote:
This is us
and T. my favorite at the Applebee's. I'm going to be
best friends with T. for life.
Oh yeah I met the guy who is Mufasa in lion
king on Broadway. He invited us to the show next March in SLC. dtmif (only a
few of you will get that reference and that's okay)
This is my district. The I love you hands are
for my mom. And whoever else needs a pick me up today.
Because I
love rain and rain boots and Brooklyn
On Apr 4, 2016, at 3:56 PM, Hannah Fouts wrote:
Bonjou!
Hola!
Hello!
Waddup?
Well some
news is the Spanish ward that met in our same building has
been dissolved. And now our ward is Spanish,
English, and Creole
(shoutout to Sister Landaverry who is the only
not Haitian person I
know that speaks all those languages). So I'm
trying real hard to
brush up on my high school español because
it'd be neat to be able to
talk to half the members more than "Hola,
como estas? Byen! Y Tu?" And
also I can ask their names. Go team!
Some great
stuff happened this week! One of the members, T., took
us out in her car so we were able to deliver a
ton of bibles to people
who had ordered them on Mormon.org. It was so
good! Then she took us
to Applebee's and we ate steak. Wow. Also she
bought all the
missionaries snacks for days for General
Conference, which by the way
was FANTASTIC. If you missed parts or all of
it, go watch it because
WOW. So much revelation and inspiration!
We had some
technical difficulties, naturally. The satellite at the
church went out so we could only stream it in
English. One of the
Haitian members was real perturbed about that
and yelled lots and told
us we have no faith, and also asked the elders
to use the priesthood
to fix the satellite. Awkward because it
doesn't work like that. We
just watched in English and loved life. Also I
love having the Spanish
members because we had a straight up feast
after the Sunday morning
session. Apparently Latinos put potatoes in
hard tortillas and call it
a taco? But it was good so whatair. Also a guy
came for the last
session and he asked lots of questions in a
really loud whisper voice
and it was too funny! He really loves
President Faust, he talked about
him lots. Then today we saw him at the
library, and he came over and
did his loud whisper voice again and told us
he couldn't talk to us
there because there were lots of Jews at the
library and if he was
seen talking to us, they'd get suspicious
because he's Jewish.
We met with
J. again this week and it was so good! Two of her
sons have died within the last 5 years, and
that's been really tough
for her. The last lesson, we taught her about
the plan of salvation
and temples! It was so cool to be able to
teach her about how we can
be together as families FOREVER if we live
righteously and do the
things God asks. This week she told us she'd
been thinking about what
we said all week long, and even talked to one
of her friends about it.
She came to one of the sessions of conference,
and we've been calling
to read the Book of Mormon with her every day
since then. It's amazing
how most people don't have real answers to
life's biggest questions,
like why are we here, where did we come from,
and where are we going.
But because of modern day revelation, WE do
have those answers. I love
it sooo much! It's ridiculous how much comfort
can be found in knowing
exactly what happens after death, and in
knowing that no goodbye is
permanent.
Well in
other news we got to the church to email and there are lots of
suits and ties and shoes and nametags all over
the foyer, but no
elders. We're afraid to go find them so we're
just pretending it's not
happening. Told ya my life is weird.
Oh also I
was called to train again! This time I'll be training in
English because there are no Sisters coming in
who are learning
Creole. It'll be a bumpy ride and I'm sure
we'll get lost a ton
because I still have a hard time understanding
bus maps, but I'm so
excited! I've been studying a lot on
Christlike leadership. There's a
lot of thoughts there so if you're interested
go ahead and email me.
I hope you
all have the most wonderful week ever and that you do
something new. New things are good. If you
haven't done something for
the first time in a long time, go change that.
LOVE YA SO MUCH.
Sister Fouts
PS Shout out to Sister Brenna Lawson for
reading these emails and also
because whenever she writes about Sister C and
her 12 hairless cats I
actually crack up out loud, instead of
laughing in my brain or through
my nose. Stay classy, stay sassy.
On Mar 26,
2016, at 1:06 PM, Hannah Fouts wrote:
Hey there
best beloved people!
My life is weird. Let's move on.
Have a great week!
Love,
Sister Fouts
Just
kidding. But my life is weird. Here are some reasons:
* While we were waiting for the bus, there was a
flower shop + bar
that was giving away free flowers if you did a
dance. You know we did
it! And then we were stuck carrying really
tall carnations with us all
day long.
*We were going to go to the temple with our
recent convert D.
today (hence the Saturday email. Did you all
review my list of reasons
why an email wouldn't come on Monday? I hope
so.) but we realized my
comp is going to the temple next week for her
departing trip and we
can only go once a month and so today is just
a regular preparation
day. Sorry for that really bad run on sentence.
* I tried to speak Creole to a Jamaican man and
it was so
embarrassing that I just pretended I didn't
speak English and my
companion covered for me.
* we woke up at 5 AM and rode a bus for an hour
to get a family
ready for church. And we were only 15 minutes
late! Woot woot! Shout
out to my mom for teaching me how to iron!
* There was a giant fish head on the sidewalk
and I almost tripped over it.
* We had the BEST lesson EVER with K.. She'd
ordered a bible,
so we delivered it! She told us her dad just
went into the hospital
and she's been having a lot of struggles
lately. She'd talked to a
Visitor Center missionary on the phone and she
told her about the Book
of Mormon. K. told us that after that phone
call, she was able
to sleep. She hasn't been able to sleep in
months. We invited her to
be baptized, and she said yes before we'd even
finished the question!
The next day she texted us saying her dad was
much much better. Ever
since then she's been reading from the Book of
Mormon! Then she asked
if her daughter could get one. It was so so
cool to see all the peace
and all the blessings that come from doing
simple things, like reading
the Book of Mormon and drawing closer to God.
I'll keep you all
updated with her!
* We just paid to print a Moroccan man's job
application at the
library. Best 35 cents ever spent!
Awkward. He just said he needs to print lots
more things. We'll see
how this turns out.
Update: it
only cost .25 more and we may have broken the computer. I
told you my life is weird.
* My favorite Jewish holiday happened. One guy
called it Jewish
Halloween and I don't know if it has a more
official name but it was
FANTASTIC. We passed one house and there were
Hawaiian shirts and
sparkly red vests and karaoke and dancing.
Nobody was really wearing
costumes, they mostly were just wearing weird
things that didn't make
sense. One kid was wearing a clown Afro and a
ninja suit. #goals
* V.. We met him as he was coming out of the
hospital. He was
88 years old. We helped him zip up his jacket
and get on and off the
bus and he is Jewish and Russian. He and his
whole family were in the
Nazi concentration camps for 4 years until
1944 when they were
released. WOWZA.
* Another random holiday you probably didn't
know you needed to
celebrate is "Save the Florida Panther
Day." According to my wildlife
calendar, that is today.
* there were a lot of things I thought about
sharing with you all,
but the basic message is Jesus is the Savior
of the world. Because of
Him, we can have new life! Yes I quoted the
#Hallelujah video but it's
worth quoting. I've been studying the
Atonement this week and holy
snap! I don't know how to say it better than
that because I'm at a
loss for words. (Weird, huh?) Not only did He
suffer for our sins, but
He made it possible for us to receive strength
beyond our own in order
to deal with the difficulties of mortality.
Next time you pray,
consider asking for the strength to endure a
situation well rather
than asking for God to deal with the situation
right now, please and
thank you. God knows us perfectly. He has a
plan for us. We can
receive some of His strength if we let Him
give it to us.
Well, you're probably all bored of reading
this by now so I hope you
enjoyed my Haitian flag bullet points of joy
and that you have the
best week ever!! Remember who you are and what
you stand for! LOVE YA!
Sister Fouts
PS shout
outs of the week go to Sarah Johnson for that temple
marriage! #eternity4ever
And also Taci Carroll paske li ap aprA. Kreyol
ankò epi nap pale nan
Kreyol tout jou chak jou lè m retounen! (My
cousin is relearning
Creole and we're gonna speak in Creole all day
ery day when I get
home.)
PPS if you
feel you want a shoutout feel free to email me and I'll put
ya in here. Go team!
On Mar 14,
2016, at 4:41 PM, Hannah Fouts wrote:
Sometimes
you don't have a funny idea for a subject line so you say a
lame joke in Creole and feel comforted by the
fact that half the
people on this email list don't have access to
google translate so
they'll think it's probably funny and move on
with their lives.
Shout out
to the birthdays of the week, including my dear father!
What, you're turning like 72, right? Way to
go! Just kidding, my dads
not that old. He's probably like 43. I have no
idea what age he's
turning. But happy birthday! Also shoutout to
Sidney Baker Ward
(because she's married now) and also has a
birthday! Final shoutout to
Meri Pickering, Abby Rawlinson, and Melissa
I-don't-know-your-last-name for giving birth
within the last few
months. Sorry I'm late at the shout outs.
Welcome to the world,
babies!!
Well this
week was great! I don't really know what to write about, so
that shows you I'm getting more diligent
because I didn't think about
jokes to make in the email during the week. Go
team! What team?
Wildcats! (Maybe one day I'll stop with the high
school musical
references, but today is not that day.)
We had some
really awesome lessons and some really terrible lessons
this week. Se lavi. Someone we talked to on
the bus actually came to
church, twice, so that's pretty cool! We set a
baptismal date with one
of our investigators! We're waiting on mom's
permission still because
she's 16. Also she didn't come to church so
we'll have to move it back
a week or two. It would also be neat if we
could get in contact with
her. In our great lessons we taught families
about the plan of
salvation and how their family can be together
forever, which is just
my all time favorite thing to do! It's so
great to help families
realize what's possible for them because of
God's plan. I LOVE IT! In
the most terrible lesson our investigator was
packing up and ready to
walk out without a closing prayer.
My favorite
person we met this week was Brother A. We stopped him
on a side street after dark, which doesn't
sound like a good idea, but
when it's directed by the Spirit even the
sketchiest things turn out
great! He told us about how he used to grow
and smoke his own weed in
Grenada and then he started going to church
with his brother and now
he works 5 days a week, spends Saturday with
his family, and Sunday
with God. Way to go A.! Then he gave us a pep
talk about the work
we're doing and how we need to keep it up and
never give up. Thanks,
A.!
Also on the
bus the other day a man from West Virginia (shoutout to
Sister Robinson) invited us to go milk cows on
his farm. Maybe next
time?
The
spiritual thought comes from A.. He was definitely not flying
straight, and his life was a pot mess (get it?
Haha, like hot mess.
Ha. Ha.). But when he turned to God everything
worked out. It doesn't
matter to Christ who you were or what you've
done. He wants us to
become like Him, and we can do that through
repentance. Thank goodness
for that!! Not to mention what He does for our
weakness! "Everything
that is unfair about life can be made right through
the Atonement of
Jesus Christ." Fact. The church is true
and God loves you!
I love you
all and hope you have a grand old week! Stay strong and
enjoy the spring rain and crocuses because
they're beautiful. ✌️
Love
Sister Fouts
On Mar 7,
2016, at 4:22 PM, HA.ah Fouts wrote:
This is
Brooklyn! It was a cold day so not many people were out, it's usually way more
packed.
How much
sister Lamah and I love America is ridiculous
Our district
by a cool mural next to the Caribbean market, where you can buy all things
Caribbean. SO FUN! Also reppin the Aggies!
Coconuts.
Not quite Philippines level, but still good.
On Mar 5, 2016, at 3:48 PM, Hannah Fouts wrote:
Hello
friends and family and returned missionaries and current
missionaries and random people who check out
this email on the blog my
dad is in charge of! How the heck are ya??
Catch up on Birthday shout outs:
PAPA!!! Happy birthday! I love you so much!!!!
Sister Paget! Wow! Way to be old and adulty!
Getting out of the teen years!
I think half the world had birthdays in
February so
I know, it's been a while since I emailed.
It's because email crashed
and also temple trips that got cancelled, so
we moved our preparation
day and didn't end up going to the temple
anyway. If this happens
again in the future, here are a few plausible
explanations (not
necessarily in order of most likely):
1. The
Avengers didn't have enough district unity and let Brooklyn get
destroyed because they were too focused on
Manhattan
2. Godzilla hits NY 2016 (can that be a
hashtag? Do hashtags even still exist?)
3. King Kong
4. MyLDSMail crashes about as often as lessons
get cancelled
5. Zombie Apocalypse (where you at, Will
Smith?)
6. Alien invasion
7. Sharkicane
8. Random preparation day changes midweek with
no advanced warning
9. I was devoured by R.O.U.Ss, which do exist
and actually live in
Brooklyn. I have seen them and they almost got
my foot.
10. Hit by a bus, taxi, or other angry driver
11. Temple trips!
12. I died because I ate too much halal food
So if you
don't hear from me you can guess it's one of those reasons.
Well I made it to Brooklyn! The little Haiti
of the mission! Our
teaching pool has been English since it began,
but we're trying to
change it to Creole. The difficulty there is
we don't have another set
of English sisters to take all our people, so
we'll continue teach
everyone in our pool until we baptize all of
them or get more sisters,
and just start adding Haitians onto it. We're
not currently teaching
in Creole, but we are finding lots and lots of
Haitians! My favorite
thing is on the bus we'll be talking to
someone in Creole and I'll
look around and tons of people are just
staring at us with awe and
wonder in their eyes, and then we just contact
the whole bus. SO FUN!!
Some interesting things: if you are a parks
and rec fan, I live right
by the pit Andy fell in. Not really because
that one is in Pawnee
Indiana, but there is a pit. I won't fall in,
don't worry. There are
Russian grocery stores and Indian and African
hair places all over
instead of Hispanic delis and Dominican hair
places like Lynbrook. So
fun!
Basically we're teaching lots of awesome people
and we're going to see
so many miracles this transfer!
Oh my companion is Sister Lamah and its not
pronounced like llama,
even though I wish it was.
LOVE YA BYE
Oh yeah spiritual thought. Peter walking on
the water. When we think
of Christ asking US to meet Him on the water,
we will be afraid and
probably won't make it too far. But when we
think of CHRIST asking us
to meet HIM on the water, we will succeed. The
bottom line: make sure
your focus is on Christ and His abilities
rather than yourself and
your own inabilities and all will be well.
Okay have a great week!
Talk to you later!
Love,
Sister Fouts
Sometimes you find yourself in a subway car all by
yourselves so you take lots of selfies
