December 🎅 (Week 22)

Family and friends,

Not that anyone reads these  but I'll write one anyway. How are you all doing? I love hearing from you all and am grateful for your support! I think I say that every time, but it's the truth! We had a pretty busy week. We have been super blessed in this area to be busy with work. We are currently teaching 7 people and could pick up 11 more (2 families) of God's children to teach the restored gospel to this week! The Lord is truly blessing us. This week I had one of the most scarring experiences of my life  so much so that we can talk about it after the mission. Besides that we have had a pretty stellar week.

 We started teaching this Lady named Janice! She is super nice and also super ready. We met her about a month ago when we were getting haircuts. She was giving Elder Lundgreen a haircut and starting talking about how she knew some "Mormons" and we met with her since then and have a return appointment and she is just super awesome! We also picked up this guy named Jesus. The Spanish Elders passed him off to us. He is super funny and we are excited to be teaching him. This week I also saw Elder Wyatt Mortensen!! He is also serving in the Newport Beach mission. There was a meeting up in Laguna Niguel that we both had to go to and it was so awesome to see him! He is a stud missionary and Aspen Meadows 3rd ward is being well represented here in the West coast. 

The Christmas devotional was amazing yesterday and if you haven't got the chance to watch it I highly recommend it! I love this time of year and I love focusing on Jesus Christ :) Romans 8:37 says  "...we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us." I love this and I know that we truly can become and are so much more through Jesus Christ than we all think we are!

I love you all!

Elder Shockley