March 17

¡Hola!

Well this week has been great. Wayyyy hard but great all the same. 

On Wednesday we had a really sweet zone conference with President and Sister Avila, and the assistants. Sister Avila talked a lot about the importance of teaching through the scriptures, the sources of truth and about us focusing our studies on the lessons in chapter 3 of PMG. President talked about how we need to be teaching more lessons, teaching lessons to members, teaching members how the share the Gospel. The assistants talked about teaching very simply. Like we did a practice where they taught the restoration in 3 minutes switching back and forth every like 2 sentences. It was impressive. The zone leaders talked more about simplifying the work. It was a great zone conference and we all left excited to get back to work. President also left us with the challenge of reading the Book of Mormon in 66 days. why 66 days? cause Joseph Smith translated it in 66 days, so we better be able to read it that fast haha. I love it! I´m marking scriptures that help build my faith as I read really really fast. Also one thing i liked was a quote from Elder Ballard in english something like this "the missionary handbook isn´t full of rules, it´s full of instructions that we give to missionaries so that they can have success. 

The work this week has been really really hard. A couple of the days and evenings were used up with meetings and stuff and then the days we did get more work weren´t that fruitful. But we´ve kept our spirits up and are planning to have a much better week this week. We´ve also been talking to lots of people which always feels good. 

It´s amazing how fast the time is going by! President also talked about the urgency of the work and how we need to work with haste! but in control as well. That made me think about D&C 9 where oliver cowdery could have translated, but then it was too late. in spanish, ya fue. So do it! There isn´t time to do it later! 

I love this work and I love my Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ. 

Love, 

Elder Fullmer