To be honest, emailing is so stressful hahah. I just love all of you so much and I want to tell you every thing that is happening and everything that I'm learning but that would be utterly impossible. Just remember, if I don't have time to email you back individually know I love you so much but sometimes on a mission you have to give up things or people you love for god. But hey, please keep emailing me even if I don't respond. It is strengthening for me to be able to hear about the miracles in your lives.
But I just want to start of by saying sorry for last week. I wasn't able to say all the things I wanted in the group email and I only had time to email my mom and the mission president individually. This week I hope I get to more of you.
So the first experience that I would like to share with you all is an experience my companion and I had with our investigator's Ricardo and Daniel. They are 10 and 14. Their mom really likes us to teach her boys the gospel so they will grow up and be good men. We are trying to teach her as well but she is more difficult sometimes because she is busy allot. But anyway, we walked up and we saw Ricardo and Daniel playing a football game with all of their friends. So I went running up and was like " allright! Who's team am I on." So my companion and I were on separate teams and we played a quick football game with them. It was fun because all of them would have to try so hard to tackle my companion and I!!! It was super fun. But it got dark while we were plating and when we were done I realized my name tag was gone. So we enlisted Ricardo and Daniel to help us find my name tag. We could not find it for about ten minutes and we were about to give up but my companion and I had the impression "teach them about prayer." So we called them all into a circle and we asked them. " Do you want to know what I do when I really need help with something?" They said yes, and we told them "we pray!". We all sat in the circle and I said the prayer for god to help us find my name tag. We went back to look for it, couldn't find it for a little bit longer and I was getting worried because I wanted these kids to have a stronger testimony that prayer works. So I said another prayer in my head, I said "Heavenly father, I don't care about my name tag. I'm not worried about my self and what I want. But I love these kids and I really want their faith in prayer to increase." I opened my eyes and I looked up and there was my name tag!!!!! Hahahah it was so awesome. We were blessed with the experience to be able to teach them in a way that they would remember. I know that was a small experience but I felt so happy. I know heavenly father works in mysterious ways, most of the time it is through small and simple things as it says in Alma.
So for each of you. I feel impressed to tell each of you something. As we are going into general conference, don't watch it to hear about big prophecies and grand huge things that the prophets may or may not tell us about. Listen for the small things, the small promptings, the small stories and count your small blessings. If you do this I promise you that all these small things will multiply into something grand and something great. Brothers and Sisters, I know this is true. If you want to find more happiness don't wait for something big to happen, go pic up all the small things and create something big out of it. Build it line upon line, Brick upon brick, precept upon precept, rep upon rep.
Family and friends I am doing so well, so many things out here are so out of my comfort zone and scary but the lord never fails to strengthen me when I need it. :)
Enjoy conference and you better watch it!!!
con amor Elder Fuller
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