Elder Hamula Visited!

Aloha! Hola! Yokwe! Hi and hello!

This week was great! Also, a pretty stressful week, but it was great! I'm beginning to feel like the rest of my mission is going to be "stressful but great!". Haha which I wouldn't mind, I guess! Elder Hamula from the Seventy came on Friday and we had a zone conference and a Mission Leadership council with him here. The Zone Conference was great! He talked about preaching repentance and the "What? Why? and How?'s" of missionary work, which I also enjoyed. He went on to talk about faith and desire in MLC! I really liked it and it helped me see the places that I need to improve. I think having more of "an eye single to the Glory of God" will help me feel and be more accomplished. Also, one of my closest friends, Elder John John, from The Marshal Islands went home on Thursday. It wasn't on the normal transfer schedule because of his flight back to the islands. He really made a big difference in my mission. He came on an exchange with me when I was a greenie, and he taught me that its really not important what you say, (Because I was struggling with Spanish, and he was struggling learning English), its how you make people feel, and he always made me feel better. Good thing he's moving to West Valley in 6 months!! Haha super pumped about that!

Saying goodbye to Elder John John who lives in the Marshall Islands (Missionary in the front)

Also, another cool thing that happened this week! I was on an exchange with an Elder named Elder Hale, (Great guy), and we were contacting around a apartment complex, and I remembered that we had received a referral in that area, so we went over and knocked on the door, and this Indian lady opened it. We introduced ourselves and she was like, "Oh! You're the guys from the temple!" and we said something like,"Huh?" and she said, "Yeah, the guys from the temple in Hawaii" And then I realized that she probably went to Hawaii and got a tour of the temple grounds and referred herself because she liked it so much! So, I asked her if that was the case and she said it was, and she didn't have time to talk right then, but she told us that she felt something nice about that temple and she wants to learn more! So, that was SUPER sweet! I was pumped out of my mind.

 So, yeah, that's my week! I hope you all had a good week! Love y'all!

Elder Fuell

ps...added a few pictures in last weeks post.  Check it out.  

Dallin picking up missionaries at the airport

Here are some pictures that I grabbed off of the California Irvine Mission Facebook page.  Dallin gets the opportunity to go to the airport and pick up new incoming missionaries straight from the missionary training centers.   He says the experience of doing it is so awesome.  

"We don't have time to be sick!"

Hello Family!

 This week was the hardest week of my mission by far, but I feel great! Its hard to explain, but I'll do my best. We've been re-building a way that transfers can be done more effectively while still being a spiritually uplifting experience for everyone who attends.  We've been helping President with transfers the best that we can, trying to give suggestions on who could possibly go where.. this of course is coupled by lots of prayer and fasting to do our best to discern where the Lord would have them go.  We have been getting all housing, cars, and phones to the area where they need to be in this next transfer.  It's been crazy.  In addition to all of that, we had to do multiple training's this week for the Irvine stake "Missionary Training Experience" which was basically like a youth conference MTC role play thing (That was pretty sweet).  We've been preparing for a visit by Elder Hamula of the Quorum of the Seventy on Friday, and all of this is going on while trying to proselyte in our area. This brings me to the title of this email:

President Orgill told us a story this week about when he was on his mission in Tonga.  President N. Eldon Tanner came to visit and President Orgill was assigned to drive him around the mission while he was there. He told us that as they were driving President Tanner asked him something like "How are you liking it here in Tonga?" and President Orgill went on to tell him that he loved it but when he first got there he got really sick for the first while of his mission that made it hard for him to get out and work. N. Eldon Tanner responded, "Elder, we don't have time to be sick.". President Orgill said how that comment kind of shocked him and that he was thinking, "Its not my fault that I got sick!" but he didn't say anything. He said that now he better understands what President Tanner meant as a Prophet, Seer, and Revelator; as someone who has the plan of the kingdom in front of him. When we really catch the vision of what Heavenly Father is trying to do, we can feel that way. I've felt that way this week. Not saying that I have the plan of the kingdom in front of me, but I do feel like I am so wrapped up in God's work and serving others that I don't have time for anything else! No time to eat, no time to sleep, and there is absolutely NO time to think about myself. And that is the best feeling I have ever felt. Like you always said Mom, "A busy boy is a good boy!" Haha its so true and I love it!
  Thank you so much Mom and Dad for all you do for me! I love and appreciate you! And I hope everyone has a great week this week!

Con amor,

Elder Fuell


P.S.  This is the new mission president and his wife and their bio....They start their service on July 1. 2016.  A factoid about lds mission presidents.   They donate their time for three (3) years.  The church does not pay their way.  Typically they are retired and have no children at home (Not always though).  They can be called anywhere in the world. 








Samuel Wayne Clark Jr., 64, and Elizabeth Barton Clark, four children, Monument Park 11th Ward, Salt Lake Monument Park Stake: California Irvine Mission, succeeding President Von D. Orgill and Sister Sherri Orgill. The Clarks currently serve as area public affairs specialists. Brother Clark is a former Area Seventy, stake president, bishop, high councilor, ward Young Men president and missionary in the French East Mission. President, Dale Barton Agency. Born in Salt Lake City to Samuel Wayne Clark and Ruby Lloyd Maughan Clark.

Sister Clark serves in a ward Relief Society presidency and is a former stake Relief Society presidency counselor, ward Young Women president, ward Relief Society, Young Women, Primary presidency counselor and gospel doctrine teacher. Born in Salt Lake City to Eliot Dale Barton and Mary Elizabeth Moreton Barton.

"When the Lord Commands...... Do It!!!"

Wow! 

This week flew by! Probably the fastest week of my mission. We have been working on transfers this week. A lot. We have been working with President to build a new way to get all the missionaries transferred without having a "transfer meeting" because the missionary department doesn't want mission wide gatherings.. So, that has taken up most of my time trying to figure out all the logistics of that, and President Orgill wants there to be a spiritual side to the meeting too... so we're working on that. :) Also, the actual transfers has been taking up a lot of time, trying to think of different scenarios, companionship's, areas, and everything. But on top of all that, we taught a new investigator this week named Sarah! We taught her the Restoration, but she wasn't able to make it to church this week. We're hoping that she is praying for a spiritual witness of the truth, I know that if she does that, she'll get one. She has a lot of faith. Also, something kind of fun that will be happening, is that Gladys Knight, (Yes, the one who sings 'Midnight Train to Georgia') is coming to Irvine to do a devotional! Elder Ashton and I were able to sit in on some meetings about it, and it sounds like its going to help the missionary work around here. We were able to meet her daughter and talk with her for a while. Its called The Gladys Knight and the Saints Unified Voices choir devotional or something like that! We're pumped for that. Other then that, not much is new! Elder Ashton is doing great and he's helping me a lot.  Although there is a TON to do here, I've been able to keep my stress levels down by reading my scriptures and praying. Looking back on all the experiences I've had on my mission, I've come to know that if you do not read your scriptures often and pray daily. You will lose your testimony. We truly do need that spiritual nourishment. I've also been trying to live by this quote by Joseph Smtih, "When The Lord commands.... Do it". Although its been a tiring week, I've learned a lot, and I am so grateful for Heavenly Father's love and mercy. Also for all the things that you both (Mom & Dad) have taught me, and continually do for me! Thank you! I hope you have a great week! Love ya!

Con amor y besitos,

Elder Dallin Fuell