Elder Shields in Carlsbad, CA

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...

So we got our transfer doctrine and I will be staying another transfer in Fallbrook with Elder Medina. I am so happy to be able to stay I love it here!  We had MLC and it was a blast. Talked about the new rule allowing us to be in contact with our family over the phone weekly and a few others. April and Juno are still so awesome I love them. We are continuing to work with Chris to help him follow in April and Junos footsteps. Have a great week love you  Elder Shields  Mission Leadership Conference

Super awesome week!!  Highlight was for sure that April and Juno got baptized on Saturday!! It was a super awesome experience! I got to baptize April and Elder Medina got to baptize Juno. They were confirmed on Sunday by the missionaries who first taught them like 10 years ago. They have kept in touch with them for the whole time and they came down from Las Vegas and Salt Lake to be there for the confirmation.  We also had another zone conference with Elder Klebingot there. That was super awesome as well. His instruction was incredible! He is also extremely savage and told us just everything how it is. When we did role plays if we did bad he wasn't afraid to say exactly what was bad about it, but he did offer a lot of good helps because he was so honest it was great!!  We also went to the temple it was great!  love you all hope your week was great!  Elder Shields April and Juno's Baptism

Hey how are you all!!?  This week was awesome!! We did a lot of exchanges this week, three to be exact. First one was with the Vista 9th Elders. I was with Elder Jensen in Fallbrook. It was awesome we picked up two new people to teach, Anthony and Felix.  Next exchange was with the Assistants. We both worked in their area which was way fun! I was with Elder Kiehl who was one of the Zone Leaders in Escondido. We also found two new people for them to teach.  Last exchange was with Elder Van Dyke in his area, Vista 5th. Super awesome guy, he is from Salt Lake as well, he went to east high school and his brother plays for the basketball team at the U.  April Juno and Chris were out of town so we didn't meet with them but we have an appointment with them tonight! Not much progress made with others we are teaching.   Love you all so much!   Elder Shields 18 months down - burning of the pants! Shields and Medina

Hey!!!  Excited for the cookies, thanks!  One thing I should say that I forgot to mention last week is that due to the mission realignment, the transfer cycle for the mission will change. I will for sure be coming home a week earlier, on August 6th. But, if I get transferred to Murrieta or Temecula and finish my mission in the Riverside mission it will move up another week, so July 30. And,  if I finish in Del Mar which will be the San Diego mission it will move up yet another week, so July 23. Craziness! Sorry I should've mentioned that, I totally forgot, I don't know if that changes my homecoming or anything.  I won't know what mission I finish in until about May.  So I guess I'll just put you on hold about my release date until then haha.  We had an awesome zone conference this week. Had a lot of cool discussion on adversity and opposition. How it is an essential part of the plan of salvation.  We had an awesome lesson with April, Juno and C...

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