Hey everyone! This past week was a great one for sure! It was also the last week of the transfer. We found out on Saturday if we were getting transferred or not. I am now in Mission Viejo! My new companion is Elder Fuiava and he is just the greatest. He is from California and he plays college football. He redshirted a year at USC and then transferred over to BYU where he will start playing when he gets back from his mission. I am also finishing his training and am super excited about it!
So many experiences to share but the email would be way too long and I just don't have enough time haha but the couple of things I have to share should hopefully be awesome! First things first, I hit my 10 months as a missionary just a couple of days ago, so that's always exciting. Time as a missionary is pretty weird haha. This past week some birds tried to come nest on our "porch" light out back. They weren't super successful and they didn't have a ton of space, so we decided to help them out. We taped a Granola Bar box on top of the light to provide them with better living conditions. 
They are starting to nest there, so that's awesome haha.
Anyway, on Saturday or Friday maybe, or whenever it was, we were stopping by some people in these weird apartments that were pretty nice. Anyway as we were walking down one of the streets we saw this young couple walking a dog. Perfect. Easiest street contacting approach ever. Before we could day anything the guy said, "Hey Elders!" We had no idea who he was and I thought that maybe he just hadn't been to church in awhile. Turns out he was from Kansas and he comes and visits his girlfriend in California every weekend. Dedication. Haha but anyway he asked if we were giving out Books of Mormon and we said of course. I went to hand him one but he said that it was for her. The thought came that maybe she wasn't a member, turns out that was right. We started talking about the Book of Mormon and then Johnny (the guy from Kansas) told Ladan (his girlfriend) what we did as missionaries and then said how he did the same thing in Korea. Kind of cool. Then we tag team taught her the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and man, it was super cool. We got her information and will be teaching her in the future (or whoever is in Aliso Viejo)!
God is so good, and He loves each of us. He ALWAYS keeps His promises and truly makes more out of our efforts than we ever could. I love you all!
-Elder Shockley
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