Another Great Week in California!

Hola!

    I hope everyone had a great week this week! Everything was good here! Elder Ortiz finished his mission and went back to Idaho, so Elder Halling and I got Elder Wilkerson back as our companion! Its nice to have him back so that we can do Zone Leader stuff without having to do any exchanges or anything like that. Also, now we are covering our whole ward! We cover San Clemente, San Juan, Dana Point and parts of Laguna Niguel. Its a lot of work and we've just barely started to scratch the surface of the things we have to do and all the people we have to visit! But overall, it was a good week.
      We had our zone training meeting, and Elder Wilkerson and I trained on Ministering with Power and Authority. It was nice to study and learn more about that topic. I thought a lot about The Sons of Mosiah and their example of ministering with power and authority. They focused a lot on others and never on themselves. We talked about having what we know, what we feel, and what we do, in harmony. That's what brings happiness and the authority and the power to minister in the way that The Lord wants us to.
     We have a couple of people we're working with, but nobody that is progressing super well. So, we're mostly working on the Finding part of Missionary work. It's been pretty fun and I think that Heavenly Father is pleased with the effort that we've been putting into finding his Children. We're excited to see the blessings that come from that.
   I hope you all have a good week this week and I love you all!
 

Con Amor,

Elder Fuell

"When you can't do what you've always done, you only do what matters most" -Elder Robert D. Hales

Hola Familia!

Its been a great week! I'll start out by telling a story of how my week started! So, Exactly a week ago, on Tuesday morning, I said to my companion, "Hey, Lets go run in the morning." And my companion, being a distance runner, was very excited about that. So, we went on a run at about 6:20 a.m. and started running down a street, we get about 1 mile down and I'm starting to get tired, and we keep going for about another mile, and I can't seem to find the street that takes us back to our apartment, so we just take a left on a road called Crown Valley Parkway, and started to run up that. I told my comp, "Hey, Elder Halling, I think we're on the wrong road!". Elder Halling also thought that is was a ways back to our apartment, but we both just assumed that we would be fine, and kept running. 3 miles later, we end up at the street called Golden lantern, which is the street our apartment is on, but its a bout a mile back... up a HUGE hill. I was exhausted. We ended up running like 6 or 7 miles. We didn't get back to the apartment until about 7:30, and I have been sore all week. So, I have made a decision that I will not be running with Elder Halling anymore. Hahah he's crazy.
   Everything else about this week has been good! Lots of good experiences, and lots of hard trials. But I've just been thinking about Elder Bednar's talk in the last session of Conference, and how he said he was talking with Elder Hales, and Elder Hales told him, "When you can't do what you've always done, you only do what matters most". It has made me think a lot about what matters most. If I couldn't do, what I've always done, what would I do? If health prevented me from doing all the active things that I love doing, what would fill my time. It also went hand in hand with President Uchtdorf's talk about simplifying the gospel. I love it. Lately, I've been finding a lot of joy in the simple things that we are asked to do. I love reading The Book of Mormon, I love baring my testimony, and I love talking about the Gospel. I guess I could say that If I couldn't do anything else, The one thing I would do is Missionary work. To me, It makes me feel closer to the Savior. It helps me to feel the Spirit. It brings me so much peace and joy.
I hope you all have a great week! I love you!

Con muchisimo amor,

Elder Fuell

I guess thats where we needed to be!!

Hola Familia!

 We had a great week this week! So, on Tuesday, we had transfer meeting, and it goes from about 4 to 7:30 and its up in Irvine at the Lake Building. We moved apartments, we still live in Laguna Niguel, but now we have roommates! And that s the best! Our roommates are Elder Ortiz and Elder Wilkerson. Elder Ortiz goes home in 10 days and then we get Elder Wilkerson back as our companion! And we keep the big apartment. ;) Haha its sweet. Back to the story, normally after transfer meeting, Missionaries just go and move into their new apartment and clean and stuff like that. But we decided that we were going to try and show Heavenly Father our diligence by being out and working for the rest of the night. It was 8:00 when we got back to our apartment with our bags, and it normally takes 15 minutes to get to our area, so we weren't going to have much time. But we had already decided that we were going to be diligent, so we went out to teach Marco about Holy Ghost now that he's been baptized. But we got to his apartment and no one was answering.. Haha so we were pretty bummed. But we decided that we were going to go do some contacting, and as we were walking to go talk to people, we ran into an old investigator named Getsei, she isn't in our area, but she is in the Dana Point area that still attends our ward. She has been taught for 2 or 3 years now and she's 19. I've taught her a lot on exchanges and stuff, so I know her pretty well. So we got talking with her, and she told us that she had a dream that she was going to church and that she felt happy. So we told her she should probably start going to church then! Haha and she said, "Yeah, that's what I was thinking to, so, I started reading The Book of Mormon again, and I'm ready to be baptized". We went crazy. The Dana Point Elders went over to her the next day, and set a baptismal date for the 11th! Her baptismal interview is tonight and we're all super excited! It was just a huge reminder to me that The Lord has asked us to be diligent. He asks us to go the second mile because that's where the blessings are. When we are where we should be, when we should be there, The Lord can use you as an instrument. We're super excited for Getsei to be baptized! Woohoo!

Love you all! Hope you have a great week!

Con muchisimo amor,

Elder F

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