Yokwe and Hola!!
This week flew by! We were on exchanges almost all
week this week! I think Elder Putnam and I were only together for about 2 full
days! Lots of exchanges! I'm learning the area better now and I'm getting
better at speaking English to people. haha which sounds like a joke, but it was
a real struggle at first. I still cant hardly spell.. But that's alright. My
Marshallese is still really bad! Hahah I know just a few basic phrases, like,
"I'm very hungry". "Hello, I'm doing well", and "They
call me the great white chief". Haha People like that one. But I love
working with the Marshallese group. They are great! We also get to travel out
to Tustin and to Huntington beach because the Marshallese group covers out
there! Its really great.
We haven't been able to get a hold of Collin since
last Monday because he works so much, but I hope that's not the end of the
miracles. :) We also have a family of 3 on date for the 12th of December!
Something I've learned this week is how
important it is to give correction and constructive feedback when it is needed.
Being a Zone Leader is really hard because you want to be nice and fun, but
when Missionaries are being disobedient, you also have to be the ones that talk
with them and help them. I was talking to President Orgill how that's been hard
for me, and he told me that when its done with love and with a eternal
perspective, it wont feel like they're being corrected or called out, it will
feel like they're being loved. That's something that I need to work on more, and
I've had a couple opportunities to do that in the past couple days, and I am so
thankful for that advice!
OH! And
Thanksgiving was great! We had two dinners! One with a Marshallese family, The
Mackroros, and one with an English family, the Browns and the Blairs. It was
great! We ate lots.
Anyways, I hope you all have a
great week! Love ya!
Con amor,
Elder Fuell
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11/23/15
Hola, Yowke, and Aloha!
It was such a great week this week! And it flew by! Which
is kind of a shame because it was so good, but that's alright, next week is
coming real fast! The Marshallese group had a baptism this Saturday. A young
guy named Dominik. He's super cool! He's 18 and has a really strong testimony
about keeping the commandments! I was able to talk in the Marshallese group
yesterday! But they let me do it in English. Haha and that was fine with me. I
spoke on Obedience. I love obedience. Its such a blessing to be able to be
obedient and receive the blessings that come from that. It was like an Ether
12:27 moment for me, being obedient used to be one of my biggest weaknesses.
Especially before the mission, but I can say now, that its one of my biggest
strengths. I may not be the best teacher, or have the gift of tongues, but I
can always choose to be obedient and I think Heavenly Father has blessed me and
my companions with a lot of success because of it. I wish I could help all
missionaries and all people understand that. Anyways, sorry for that tangent.
This week, Elder
Putnam and I decided that we needed to set some time to go tracting and
contacting. We've been teaching a lot and we decided that we need to have more
of a balance. So on Wednesday night, we planned to go contacting from 6 to 9. I
was just joking around and I said, "Lets call is Miracle time!". So
we labeled it miracle time in my planner, and so did he. That day was full of
meetings. We had a Zone training meeting, and a Christmas initiative kickoff.
and that took up until 5 o'clock. We ate some dinner, and we were out the door
to contact. Traffic was really bad, and it took us about 40 minutes to get to
our area. Elder Putnam felt prompted to go to a certain neighborhood, and I was
cool with it because I don't know the area very well haha, so we went and I
offered the prayer so that we could have the spirit. In the prayers, I told
Heavenly Father that we planned miracle time and that we were ready to receive,
if it was his will. And then, we started knocking doors. First one, No one
home. Second one, no one home. Third one... we couldn't find the door. It was a
weird house. And there was a big window with a family sitting at a dinner
table, and they were staring at us really awkwardly, so we decided to just move
on. But then I felt like we needed to show Heavenly Father we're diligent, so
we turned around, and marched back to the house to face the scary awkward
family that was probably going to yell at us.. On our way back to the house, we
saw a kid walking. We talked to him, and he told us how he knew some kids who
deferred a scholarship to play college football to go on a Mormon Mission and
he wanted to know why. And then He started to ask us super golden questions
about prophets, and other things. So we told him that we'd like to share lesson
with him, and he said he'd like that. So we walked to a nearby park, and sat
down and started to share the Restoration with him. His name is Collin. He's
18. He was really receptive to the spirit, and we started talking about the
Saviors earthly ministry, and he started asking us about repentance and how he
could feel clean again. And I felt the spirit prompt me to invite him to be
baptized. I was like, "No way spirit! We haven't even taught him about
Joseph smith, or the restoration or anything!" And the prompting came
back, and I pushed it aside again. And then it came back and kind of slapped me
around a little bit, so I invited him to be baptized on the 12th of December.
He accepted. We were super excited!!! He started to tell us how he never walks
down that street, and he felt like he needed to be outside and all this stuff.
We finished the lesson and invited him to pray. He prayed, and the spirit was
so strong. When he finished, he was speechless and asked us what he was
feeling. We explained it was the Holy Ghost and he told us how amazing it felt.
It was sooo cool!! Whoo, that was a lot of typing. Well! That was one of lots
of great miracles that happened this week! I hope you all have a great week!
Love ya!|
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANAYE!!
Con amor,
Elder Fuell
