Elder Shields in Carlsbad, CA

Hello!  Christmas was super awesome!! Lots of fun to talk to the family! Love all of them!!  We had a pretty good week. Found a few new people to teach. One was Lukas. He is a referral from a member in the ward who is going to BYU right now. We taught him this morning actually for the first time. He has been to church twice already but we never got a chance to teach him until now. He was really prepared and loved the Plan of Salvation lesson. He accepted a baptismal date for the 12th of January!  Maria was someone we found tracting and she is super awesome! She doesn't know much about God but she has a desire to learn so that she can teach her kids as they grow up.  Not much progress with anyone else :(  We are having an all day Pday today for New Years Eve and we will be playing games and doing a devotional together as a zone. It should be fun love you all!!  Elder Shields

We loved our Christmas call with Elder Shields!  Just so fun hear him talk about his mission and his testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  We loved catching up and just being linked together in various ways as a family if only for one hour.   We couldn't love, or miss him more!!! Hi, this is Sister Geyer and I am in the Fallbrook 2nd Ward.  We have a tradition in our family where we invite the missionaries and friends  and family for breakfast to celebrate the new year coming.  This year we were lucky to have this great group.  I wanted to share with their families. Good Morning Sandi, We loved your 12 days games & gifts.  I'll attach a pic of us with the Elders.  Best wishes for a Happy New Year.  Blessings, Tanya and Jason Missionary Christmas! Gotta love it!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!  Don't have much to say this week other than we had a mission wide talent show and devotional! I played a piano solo and accompanied an Elder singing Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. It was awesome. We also had interviews this week.  Love you all, talk to you tomorrow! Talent Show Kiss the Rain, Yiruma Interviews

This week was super awesome!!  Highlight was a play the stake put on called Savior of the World. They have been practicing for this for a super long time so we were excited for it. And it was awesome!! We were able to bring some of the people we were teaching to it as well so that hopefully made a great impact on them and allowed them to feel the Spirit.  We had an awesome lesson with Jim and Sandy and we committed them to live the Word of Wisdom. They said it is going to be really hard for them but they are willing to do it! We will have to work with them a lot but I believe they can do it.   Not much else to say love you all!!   Elder Shields 14 Days of Christmas! Vista Fam Us and the Van Aaries (senior couple) at Savior of the World

Hey Family what is uppp?  This week was super awesome!!  It rained a ton which was super not normal for southern Califormia, but it was a nice change of pace. The day it rained the most I was on exchanges with Elder Reyes, one of the Spanish missionaries in the zone, we worked in his area. We had an awesome exchange, we found someone new for them to teach and we put one of the people they are teaching on date for baptism on Dec 29. Another cool miracle, Elder Reyes didn't have a jacket, and we were tracking in the rain and it was freezing! Someone we knocked into gave Elder Reyes a jacket to keep! The Lord really does provide.  Jacob went to the temple to do baptisms for the dead this week!! We unfortunately didn't get to go because we had appointments then. But we will hopefully be going with him soon. We were also going to start teaching his mom this week but his grandpa had a heart attack so please keep them in your prayers!!  Scott Lord unfortunately drop...

HEY everyone!!  Highlight of the week for sure was Jacob Garcia's baptism! It was such an awesome experience for everyone. The youth in the ward really seemed to welcome him in to the ward! Afterwards we asked Jacob how he felt and he just said he felt love, he couldn't really even put everything on his mind into words.  We also got invited to young mens to do a little Q and A for the kids that will soon be going on missions. Jacob was there and he had a ton of good questions for us. We also got to talk to the other kids about mission life, give them some advice, and bear our testimony on the importance of missionary work. It was really awesome.  Scott came to church for the first time and he really seemed to like it. Tanya and Jason also came to church!   Love you all so much!!   Elder Shields  Jacob's Baptism Young Men's Fallbrook District