(a really quick hello)

Hello family and friends!!!

I don´t have a whole lot of time to write today, but it´s been a great week!!! 

Elder Garcia is way cool and we get along really well. We´re working hard and finding lots of less actives and part member families. The stake is working well and have made maps for us to coordinate all of our work with them. I will explain it more later. 

I read 2 Nephi 2 and it´s amazing. It helped me understand so much better why we´re here on earth and why it´s hard. 

I love you all!!!

Elder Fullmer

Transfers!!!

Welp, It´s been a really good week here in Rivadavia. 

We were heading to visit some one and then felt like we should go visit a less active family. We went and met them for the first time and found out that they had a non member son living with them with his wife who is about to have a baby! We set up an appointment to go back. 

On friday we taught the restoration to the family and the daughter in law who was a little quiet but really receptive. On Saturday the hermanas by chance ended up going to teach them and taught lesson 2. and they were committed to going to church on sunday but didn´t show... Last night we went by and taught a little better about the book of mormon and the spirit giving us answers. She had read the part we left her and accepted to reading 3 Nephi 11. She has been with lots of pain and is really nervous about having the baby because she lost a baby a little while back. 

For a couple weeks now we´d been expecting it, and on saturday afternoon it became official. President called elder garcia and asked him to be assistant. He left on sundayafter lunch. He´ll be a great ap. I verified and recieved transfers with him that night haha. 

I have staying with me a guy from the stake that´s about to leave for his mission to mexico. He´s way excited about going on the mission and is trying to learn everything he can. So transfers were pretty crazy! Lots of areas being opened, areas being washed, people staying in areas that have been there for 3 transfers and people leaving that have been in areas for a transfer. It´s pretty exciting to see everything happening and I feel like we´re going to have a really good zone this transfer! My comp is going to be Elder Garcia. again!!! But this elder garcia has a transfer more than me and is from Chile. It´s the first time that i´ll have a comp with more time than me since elder gibbons haha, but elder Garcia is just going up as zl so i´ll be training him in that. I´ve heard good things about him and am excited to start working with him this week!

So a few months ago, a friend from college sent me a talk and told me to read it. I didn´t read it but then last week a brother in our ward mentioned the talk and then an elder at mission counsel was reading it so i felt like i should print it off and last week at cyber i did. It´s called the fourth missionary by Elder Corbridge of the seventy. He talks about four different types of missionaries. 

The first two, disobedient, don´t help others really, and aren´t changed. 

The third, obedient and worthy, works with all of his might and strength, has success in the mission, does what the Lord wants him to but wants to do other things, the grit and grin method. but he himself doesn´t actually change much at all because his mind and heart aren´t in the work, he is constantly having an internal struggle between what he wants to do and what the Lord wants to do. He works hard for 2 years but goes home with regret. 

The fourth missionary is very similar to the third missionary. He is obedient and worthy, has success, gives up his own desires and gives them to the Lord. He gives his mind and heart to the Lord and that way the Lord can actually change him. Because God can´t work with something that He doesn´t have. The third missionary isn´t perfect and isn´t necesarily the best missionary ever, but accomplishes the Lord´s will with the people around him and in his own self because he turns himself over to the Lord. Anybody can be the fourth missionary. All it takes is to make up your mind. In the long run it´s a lot easier because you don´t have to go through regret and pain. The fourth missionary is happy, and blessed eternally for his mission. 

As i read this talk, sooo many things that i´ve seen and experienced on the mission became so much clearer. And gave me a better direction for what I want to do but more importantly who I want to become these next 5.5 months that are left. I recommend it to all of you. It´s for missionaries but can totally be applied to anybody in your callings and lives. the fourth missionary it´s called. 

I love this work, my testimony grows of it every day. I know that if we can have a soft heart we can learn and grow in knowledge and through that knowledge our faith can also grow and we can become instruments in the hands of the master. 

I love you all, 

Elder Fullmer

enzo!!!!!!!!!!

It´s been a great week here in Rivadavia. On monday night we went to mendoza for mission counsel. It was really really good. We talked a lot about having an excitement for the work, praying and working with faith, and working well with members especially leaders. Lot of zone leaders and sister training leaders are leaving this transfer so it was kind of a good bye fest at the end. President also told us that lots more missionaries will be going up as leaders earlier on and then people won´t be finishing as leaders. In the trainings in provo they said that being a trainer is the most important assignement for a missionary to have, so at the end of the mission, the good missionaries will be training. So a little bit of changes. I´m content that i won´t be ending as a leader, but rather in an area probaly with a young comp or training and working really hard. 

On thursday, we went to albardon to do an interview for a blind lady that got baptized on saturday. I saw the Alganaraz family and also went to see Maria Munoz. She is doing pretty well praying and reading the scriptures but i had to talk to her about her covenants from baptism because she has had a hard time getting to church lately but it was really good to talk and visit and remember old times with elder gibbons and them!!!!

On friday morning we had interviews. We also got to talk to hermana Goates one on one. She talked to us all about covenants and helping the members of argentina to keep theirs and helping converts and investigators know what they are and how and why to make them and keep them. It was really cool. My interview with President Goates was great as well. I love him! We talked about the zone and the success we´ve had, about my family, comp relations and everything. It was really good. Then we left with elder rainock the asistent who came with us for an exchange. We went to do a baptismal interview first in one of the areas. I got to do it and the lady was really prepared. It was cool to talk to her about the coventant she was about to make for the rest of her life. She´s really ready to get baptized. Then we went to eat lunch with the Kim family. I don´t know if i mentioned them before but they´ve gotta be the coolest family in the ward. they always clean clothes and give us some of the best lunches every. For lunch, at the beginning it was just us three and brother kim (from korea). He said with his accent, alright i will present to you korean meat and then argentine meat and you will tell me which is better. The korean meat was a little sweat, prepared with coke, but really really good. The argentine meat was classic asado and he had cooked both of them in their back yard. He had all the meat on a platter in front of him and would cut pieces off and give them to us as we finished up what we had. One of the best lunches i´ve ever had. and desert... fresh brownies with icecream. WOW. 

Then with elder Rainock we went to visit a few other people. Not many people home, but Daniel and Marina were home. We tried to teach them a lesson but then they were making pizzas for us to eat. But we committed them to coming to the baptism of Enzo. 

On saturday morning, Elder Rainock and us talked about how the zone is doing and changes to be made. Some of the areas and districts will be changed this transfer. There will be two new areas including the area of Albardon will be split!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That´s way exciting! i remember talking with elder gibbons about albardon having 4 missionaries a year ago and now it´s going to happen!!!!!!!!! and I´ll almost for sure be here to see it happen. Enzo´s baptism was really great. simple and sweet. Daniel and his sister in law came and loved it!!!!!!! A priest in the ward that he knew from school baptized him. Enzo is 15 but will turn 16 at the end of this month. He´s super solid. He´s been going to seminary this week and has a lot of friends in the ward. I´m confident that within a couple of years he´ll be on the mission. 

Sunday was great. Fast and testimony meeting. The priest that baptized enzo bore a sweet testimony and lots of other people mentioned the correa family in their testimonies. It´s been amazing.

Transfers are next week. I´m pretty sure i´m staying and pretty sure Elder Garcia with be assitent. he´ll do great. I love Rivadavia. 

Love, 

Elder Fullmer