Elder Shields in Carlsbad, CA

This week was super awesome!!   Felix from back in French Valley got baptized! It was super awesome to be a part in his conversion process, he totally did a 180 flip from when we had first met him, he is such an awesome person! Unfortunately I was not able to attend the baptism because I had only taught him the first two lessons and to attend a baptism out of the zone you had to be a part of 3 or more of them. But that is okay, he still receives eternal blessings with or without me!!   We had a solid lesson with Tammy and Brian and their son Carson. Brian expressed to us that he really doesn't have any more concerns and is ready to go. Tammy still has some concerns that need to be resolved, most of them about the priesthood, we did our best to resolve them at the lesson, but she said she just needs a little more time to work through them.   Our lesson with the Yabuts didn't happen this week because they had a death in the family, so we haven't been...

Hello family!  This week was super awesome we were able to go to the temple and go to through an endowment session. I freaking love the temple and every time we get to go is precious. Really learn to appreciate it out here.  Had a super solid exchange with my DL Elder Lundquist. It wasn't very solid for him. So we were just done tracting an area and he said he knew of a good place for us to go ride out bikes, it was this little dirt patch of to the side of of the road with jumps. So we started riding around it and not five minutes later Lundquist wrecks his bike super bad and jams his wrist. So he spent the rest of the day in a lot of pain, but it was kinda funny to watch him crash haha.  We started teaching the Yabut twins this week. Their names are Leland and Natalie. They are doing super well and will probably get baptized on May 12th.  Tammy and Brian are doing awesome. They had a chance to go to a child of record baptism on Saturday and they really enjoy...

Hey family what's up?!  So this week was pretty bomb! First and probs best thing is we found this super solid part member family! Their names are the Yabuts. They have two kids who aren't baptized and when we went over there they pretty much asked us to baptize their kids. They want them to be baptized at the beginning of May so we will probably set the date for May 4th, possibly a little later tho.  We also found two other investigators named Manny and Joshua. Joshua is pretty solid but Manny not so much. But we are happy to teach both of them!  Had a super solid exchange with Elder Meyer this week. We had a good time catching up, worked super hard and took some really cool pics so ya, solid.  This week we had a competition to see who could pass out the most Book of Mormons in the zone, me and Elder Phillips were able to pass out 20 in one week! We were super stoked for that and we think we won, no sure yet but I will let you know.  Other investigator...

Hello Hello So this week is one of those weeks where you work your tail off and don't get exactly what you wanted. It's okay though there was still some good that came out of it. We picked up a pretty solid investigators. She is pretty solid, her name is Stacey, and she was actually found by the Spanish elders and then referred over to us. She has a great desire to learn and it is fun to teach her because she is so knowledgeable about religion.  No serious progress has been made with any of our solid investigators. We did have some contact with Brandon and Amber, but we haven't been able to teach a lesson and they didn't come to church. Tammy came to church, but Brian didn't, good news there tho, their son Connor is turning 8 this week so he will officially count as a new investigator which is pretty cool I guess.   Had an exchange with Elder Figgins who is one of the ZLs, and also my companion two weeks ago, it was way fun except for the fact that hi...

This week was super awesome! First off General Conference was incredible! There was so much inspired council given during those two days! And then all those announcements were pretty crazy. Especially that Layton Utah temple, did not see that one coming. My favorite talk was probably Elder Bednar's talk on being meek. So many awesome talks tho.  So it's my first week with Elder Phillips. He's a way cool guy! He is from Lyman Wyoming, which is like 30 min away from Evanston, and he was pretty big into dirt biking back home.  This week we started doing the new member lessons with Don and Kathy. They are still doing awesome! Don is pretty hesitant to get the Aaronic priesthood, I thought he would be excited to get it, but he feels like he doesn't know enough to get it. We'll continue to work with him tho.  We had a solid lesson with Amber and Brandon too this week. We taught the Restoration and it really resonated with Brandon. He said that it all feels like stuf...