Hey Family! Happy Memorial day! I hope everyone has an enjoyable day. Haha, it's been a rocky adventure the last two weeks but hopefully some things that I write about will be decent to read.
About mid-week we got a phone all from our Zone Leaders, asking us if we would be available to go to the Hospital and give someone a blessing. We gratefully accepted the call and then coordinated a time to go to the Hospital. After about 20-30 minutes of actually trying to find the room where the person was, we were able to find it. We had the opportunity to give a blessing of Healing to this sweet lady named Elaine. She recently had a stroke that put her in to the hospital. That was a first for me and we were glad to be of service to anyone that we could.
Recently we have been struggling to consistently teach people, but we have been teaching our friend Kirk for the past 4 or 5 weeks! Kirk is awesome haha, he is older than most and lives by himself. He loves the Dodgers and the Lakers and we always have good conversations with Kirk. He is starting to read the Book of Mormon, and we are super stoked about it! Kirk is an absolute stud; if you wouldn't mind praying for him that would be awesome. 
On Sunday, as we were standing by the doors and greeting everyone coming, my companion saw someone on the sidewalk and kind of motioned to me to go and invite them to join us for Sacrament meeting. This person payed no attention to me whatsoever, so that was fun. But this idea sparked in our minds to invite some more people. We saw some people across the street at a park who were all kind of just gathered with each other. Perfect. We were going to bring all 6 of these people to church with us and then they are going to get baptized! So we booked it across the six lanes of traffic in our suits and made our way around to them. As we approached we invited them to come join us. Sadly they were all drunk and didn't understand what we were saying 
then this one dude pulled out his phone and started playing some music. Then he started dancing in front of me and my companion. It was quite hilarious and sadly they didn't come to church, but hey, we'll keep trying.
The final thing I want to write about actually happened last week. So earlier in this transfer my companion had broken his foot as we were playing basketball. Sad. He had to go to the doctor and eventually got put into a boot. On Wednesday the 19th, he had a check up appointment to see how his foot was coming along. Elder Fuiava had been playing around on his foot and not been wearing his boot about a week after the injury. Even though I told him he should probably wear it to avoid injuring it further, he said he was alright and continued on with things, haha. At his foot appointment, the doctors had to keep looking over his x-ray again. They were shocked to what their eyes were beholding. My companion's foot was completely healed. No more break in the bone, and that was only 3 weeks after the initial injury. The doctors kept saying how it was impossible. He was supposed to be booted up for 6-8 weeks and the fact that he was walking on it and even playing on it after a week suggests that healing happened even before 3 weeks. As we heard this, my mind was brought back to the night of his injury. I had asked him if he wanted a blessing, and he said yes. I gave him a blessing of healing and know without a doubt that the healing occurred, and fast too! The physical healing power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ through the Priesthood is real. Truly "with God nothing shall be impossible."
-Elder Shockley
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