a great week in favorita

It´s been awesome here in the favorita. We found 8 new people to teach this past week and taught lots of lessons considering we´re washing. The members here are amaaazing!!! Tonight a sister is going to take us to a reference of a part member family that is really interested in getting to know and coming back to church. 

It´s been great to be with Elder Castillo. Sometimes as older missionaries i feel like we fall into just routine mode but with a new elder it helps to go back to the basics, have a lot more excitment for the work and it´s great becuase he already takes a ton of iniciative. It honestly hardly feels like i´m training him which is nice!!! It´s been great to really focus on the specific needs of each and every investigator. There are tons of people in the favorita that need the gospel. We´ve been talking to tons of people as well. 

It was a little difficult on sunday morning when non of the investigators we had invited, including those that we talked to and said they were coming on sunday morning and those that we had gone to pick up made it to church... But another old investigador and a less active couple that we´re teaching showed up so we were really happy about that!!! At church yesterday morning i had a few unexpected stomach problems. I think my stomach is just about spent haha. 

One thing that really stuck out to me as I reviewed my notes from elder christofferson was that we are and always will be indebted to God. That as missionaries, when we finish the mission we have more debts than we did when we started. That´s one thing that I didn´t really understand a year ago but that I´m a witness of now. I love the mission and I´m soooooooooooooo thankful for the opportunity that I have to serve here in the Mendoza Mission!!!

Have a great week!!!

Love, 

Elder Fullmer

[Lots of photos from Christian this week. Don't have a lot of details on all of them, but I'll include what he did offer.]

wasabi, etc. with the Kim family. 

Elder Castillo, Christian's trainee from Chile

Chilean hot dogs!

La FAVO

It´s been a great week!!! It was hard saying goodbye to Rivadavia but it´s been amazing getting to know and starting to train Elder Castillo from Chile!!! I´ll try to send some fotos.

The new area is wayyy cool! I love the favorita. The members are really really nice and willing to help us. And we´ve already found a few people to teach. The first lesson we had was with a lady that´s heard the missionaries on and off for several years. She is very receptive and actually comes from the same small town where Elder Castillo is from #besttwoyears. The spirit was very powerful and she accepted a baptismal date for the 29th of November. She feels like she hasn´t ever recieved an answer so we´re helping her to search with more diligence and faith to recieve one. She also committed to coming to church on sunday... but didn´t make it. A member went by but she was sleeping...

Saturday was awwwesome!!!

Elder Christofferson came to speak as well as Elder Gonzalez of the seventy. We all had to get there before 8:30. Our apartment got there at like 7:45. It was one of the most peaceful experiences i´ve had in a chapel recently. The missionaries that were already there were sitting down quietly studying the scriptures, and we were able to be there till about 9:30 listening to prelude, studying and pondering. Elder Christofferson spoke about how Christ always did things that pleased the Father. He really spoke very little and then left it up to questions. One of the questions was how his conversion went. He said that there wasn´t one specific moment but rather many different levels and experiences where he had gone growing in his faith and testimony. He spoke about how in a family trip where they participated in the palmyra pagent, he had gone alone to the sacred grove taken off his shoes as he entered and knelt down to pray for an hour to recieve an answer of whether the Church and everything was true. And what was his answer??? nothing!!! But two weeks later he was studying his scriptures and got an answer. 

He talked to us a lot about the Book of Mormon and about bring all of the doubts back to that keystone. He bore a powerful witness of it and invited us to all use it and study it and recieve revelation through it. It was amazing to hear him speak. When the time was about up he started talking more about his testimony of Christ. The spirit was so strong. I just wanted to stay there. 

I really felt the confirmation that he´s one of the Twelve Apostles and a special witness of Jesus Christ. 

I know that the Church is true, that the Book of Mormon is convincing evidence of that. 

I love you all!!!

Love, 

Elder Fullmer

good bye Rivadavia, hello the Favorite

Hello everybody!

It´s been a great week here in Rivadavia!!! We´ve found lots of people and we´ve been teaching more and more with the members. 

One sister in our ward started talking to a lady at a bus stop last week and gave us the referral to visit the lady. We went and visited her and had a great lesson!

Last week a lady outside her house beckoned for us to go talk to her. We did and she had gone to the church with her sister in Chile who had been baptized several months ago. She had listened to the missionaries a lot there in Chile and is interested to listen to us. She came to a baptismal service on saturday in a different ward and to church on sunday!

We also started teaching two part member families!!! 

And I was pretty sure I´d be leaving the area to train but had no idea where!!! But last night we got transfers and I´ll be going back to the mendoza zone!!! I´ll be washing and training in an area called La Favorita. We´ll live in like downton mendoza and then take a 30 minute bus everyday to get to a, from what i hear, somewhat dangerous part which will be our area. I´m wayyy excited! I´ve been thinking these past couple weeks of things to do to start out well the whitewashing as well as train the new elder the best I can. 

Even though I knew I was leaving it is really hard to think about leaving Rivadavia. I´ve loved it hear! It will be an adjustment going to a new place. It´ll be different not being zone leader as well. A good different. More time to focus on the area and help my companion out. 

Also, this week, Elder Christofferson is coming to the mission!!!!!!! We´ll have a capacitation with him saturday morning! I´m way excited. 

I hope you all have a great week!!!

Love, 

Elder Fullmer

Lost my plack!!!!

So on Saturday we were getting ready to leave the pench, and for the first time in 20 months... something happened for the first time, I couldn´t find my place [name tag]. I lost it. I looked through my desk, on my bed, on the counter, in the fridge, and i had no idea where it was! Then the idea came to me that I might not have taken it off of the shirt i had put in a bucket to soak the night before. I checked on the soaking shirt, and there it was!!! 

Although most of those that will read this don´t put a plack on every morning, I hope you all remember to be missionaries every day!!! Each one of you is called to serve and to help others know about the restored gospel.

It´s been a great week here. We´ve been going out to work a lot with the youth lately which has been way fun, but we didn´t see a huge increase in lessons with member. We really need to find some new people to teach!!!

One of the highlights of the week was doing an exchange with an elder half tongan and half mexican, elder apodaca!!! A few weeks ago i printed off the talk, ´the fourth missionary´ for him and in our exchange he said it changed his perspective on the mission and has helped him a ton! He´s a great missionary and it was way fun to serve with him for a day. 

Another highlight was giving a capacitation on teaching to the hometeachers and visiting teachers in the ward. 

Things are going well here, learning lots and loving it!!!

Have a great week!!!

Love, 

Elder Fullmer