Elder Shields in Carlsbad, CA

This week was an interesting one. We as a zone had to clean out all the things in each missionaries apartment that had signatures from past missionaries. To get rid of the "traditions of the fathers." Me and Elder Medina had to get all the missionaries their supplies provided by the mission to get rid of everything and we then had to inspect 12 apartments to make sure they did it right. That took a long time Haha.  We also had zone conference. The whole of it was focused on repentance. Teaching it and doing it ourselves. It was great!  We also had to watch a video series called the safety zone. Which is a bunch of safety videos that teach us just that, how to be safe. Since in missions around the world there have been some missionaries who have died in accidents they required all missionaries to watch these. It took about 4 hours...  Tanya and Jason are doing well. We had a good lesson with them and we showed them the new Rome temple. And Chris is still working on quitt

Hello.  We had a police raid in our apartment complex on Wednesday morning so that was interesting. Walked back in after a run and heard the cops banging on someone's door and yelling "open up!" Hopefully no drug deals are going on in Bonsall.  April got her temple recommend this week so we should hopefully be going to the temple with her soon! And Chris is improving on quitting coffee!  Also went on exchanges with Elder Haslam in the Vista 5th ward. When we got back to the apartment at the end of the day he had lost the keys Haha. So we just went to a taco shop by their apartment complex and got some late night tacos before the other Elders picked us up it was sweet!  Love you all  Elder Shields

Hey everyone!!  So this week was great!! first week of the transfer so we had a zone welcoming meeting where we introduce the focus for the zone this transfer. Me and Elder Medina decided to have the topic be do the little things right. The doctrine we used to support it was Alma 37:6-7, "by small and simple things are great things brought to pass". When we do the little things right every day through our obedience's it will make a powerful difference for good in the future, same if we make little disobedience's each day it will be a powerful diffrerece for evil.  Chris came to church for the first time on Sunday!! That was awesome! and at church we had this choir from Maple Mountain Choir in Utah perform for us because they were on a field trip there. They did super good! one of the songs was in Russian so that was weird though haha.  Love you all so much  Elder Shields! Frog... Rainbow... Sunset...