Elder Shields in Carlsbad, CA

Hey! Had a very busy week this week. We had trainer follow up on Tuesday, and we had a mission wide talent show on Friday. Both of which ended at 4 in Vista so we had to drive in traffic for like 2 hours to get home both times, it was pretty awful! But the talent show was way fun!! I got to meet a lot of people and see a lot of random talents, one Elder got really good at saying words backwards so we would give him words and phrases and he would tell us them backwards, super random, but cool. I got to accompany two singers which was a lot of fun!! I also had to accompany someone on Thursday night so I got to play the piano a lot this week which is awesome since I don't get to play nearly as much as I used too. And I missed it way more than I thought I would.  Completed Christmas Countdown We did a lot of service for the neighbors of one of the members in our ward (the Phippens), we helped them move, and Sister Phippen sent a whole bunch of pics I'm pretty sure so that ...

Hello everyone how are you!?!?!? So this week we were not able to meet with Richard and his family, it is unfortunate but they really aren't as interested as we had originally thought. We will continue to stop by and serve them the best we can and teach them when available.   We did have a solid lesson with Shaelee again this week, her mom sat in with us during the lesson. She expressed some of her concerns with the church, one of them being why the Prophet and the Apostles and the Seventy are treated like celebrities. She thinks that we should all be equal (which we are). We were able to resolve most of her concerns, but there is still a long way to go to get that family active again and getting Shaelee baptized.   This week was zone conference! And while zone conference goes on our cars get inspected by other missionaries, so when the Escondido zone conference was going on on Tuesday, me and Elder Snyder got to go and help inspect the cars. It was pretty borin...

Hey what is up everybody!! This week was pretty good! We spent a lot of time this week inviting people to the Nativity that happened over this weekend. We went around to a lot of less actives, former investigators and part member families with cookies and an invitation to the Nativity. The cookies was an idea from one of the members in the ward (sister Bradshaw) and she provided us with cookie dough as well which was super clutch. And people were a lot more friendly to us when we had cookies in our hand hahah.  Also got into a super bad Bible bash this week, it was just with some guy who was doing some work out in the front lawn. It just started out us asking him if he needed help with anything, and 45 minutes later the guy was reciting all these scriptures on the trinity while I told him to explain Acts 7:55-56 if the trinity was true. I was so mad from bashing that I just turned to Elder Snyder and said we were leaving and left without saying anything else to the guy. It w...

Hello everyone!! This week was really good! Me and Elder Snyder have been getting along really well!! He has started to be a little more talkative now that he isn't a total deer in the headlights like he was when he first got off the plane haha.   We got to go to the temple this week!! That was so much fun I had the best time ever! I have really started to appreciate the temple since I've been out here because we go so few times. I don't think I took full advantage of just how nice we have have it in Utah to have 5 temples within 40 min of my house. I should've been going way more often!! But as much as I have missed going to the temple, I know that it is not my main purpose as a missionary. I am here to do the work of the living, not the work of the dead (someone told me that so don't quote me on it haha).   Unfortunately, we really haven't gotten anywhere with any of our investigators this week, had a lot of cancellations. But we have started working with ...