Elder Shields in Carlsbad, CA

Hey everyone!  Awesome week this week.  We had some good progress with April and Juno they are still looking good for their date on Feb 16. Love them so much they are awesome!! Chris is struggling with the Word of Wisdom but we think he will he able to quit coffee.  We got to make a video this week for zone conference. We did some role plays to show missionaries how to best put people on date for baptism. It was super fun. It was us, the assistants and the zone leaders in the Carlsbad stake. I will send it out when it is finished all the way.  We played ultimate frisbee for Pday today and it was sick! Got super bad turf burn diving for stuff but haha oh well.  Not much else love you all! Elder Shields

Hey everyone what is up? This week was a super awesome week! We had a zone welcome meeting to start it off to get the new zone introduced to each other. We also introduced our theme as a zone which is being one in Christ. Unity was something we spoke a lot on. We used a section from the talk One in Christ from the past conference by Elder Soares. We were able to find a few new people to teach this week! Jose and Adella is a couple with young kids we started teaching and April and Chris is another couple. April and Chris have a daughter named Juno who is about 10 who we are teaching with them. April has a lot of family that are members and has taken lessons in the past before and has come close to baptism but has never made it. We have been trying to get in contact with her for a while and we finally were able to! She has a really strong desire to be baptized and also for the rest her family to be as well! April and Juno came to church but Chris couldn't because if work unfortun...

Hi everyone!!  So I found out that Elder Norman will be getting transferred to Murrieta and my new companion will be Elder Medina! I am excited I know Elder Medina and he is a great guy and an awesome missionary. I am excited!  We got to give a blessing to Tanya this week which was super awesome she loved it! We had a few solid lessons with them but Jason is still not progressing very well.  Me and Elder Norman got sick this week so that wasn't very fun. We are pretty sure we got it from a guy named Brandon that we did service for last week. Bummer but we got through it.  Have an awesome week!  Elder Shields  The Milnes Sister Romigs Dying Pics

Heyy!  This week was pretty sweet!  We had a mission conference with Elder Pearson of the Seventy and it was super awesome!! We also got to have him join our MLC which was on the same day and he shared some amazing things there too. He talked on many things but one that stuck out to me was the what he shared on unity. We need to be aligned with Christ in order to demonstrate His attributes and to share his light. But if we aren't even able to be aligned with our companion we really can't be aligned with Christ. He invited us all to be more united with our companions and then with Jesus. Me and Elder Norman get along fine so I wasn't to worried about that haha.  Unfortunately Lukas got some cold feet and said he wanted to take a break from the lessons. We haven't totally lost touch with him, but it might be a least a month before he starts meeting with us again.  For Pday we are going over to a member in our wards house to play pickleball and ping pong and stu...