I'm a Grandpa!

Hey!

Things have been going well here in Jacksonville, we have a few people in the works who will hopefully be baptized this transfer, a kid named Payton who Elder Baird and I started teaching, he's the boyfriend of one of the members. We're going to one of his playoff soccer games tomorrow which should be fun, hopefully we can meet some people there. Also Riley, that should be happening, all we need to do is get the parents to set up the baptism for the Bishop and it should be good to go. Elder Heidrick is doing well. He's a convert to the church and his family doesn't support him being out here so thats rough. He's a good guy.

Love Y'all!

I'm a Grandpa...Elder Tyler is training!

Last Transfer...

Alright so more details on the robbery, they were biking home in a decent neighborhood and a man runs them of the road, gets out of the car with a gun and takes Elder Fraughtons wallet and their phone. They came to our place to use our phone and call the cops.  They sleep over because the police need to be able to call us back. They call us back at 2am.  Elder Fraughton and his companion then left to go identify the guy and he gets caught and everyone got there stuff back, except for the phone.

Transfer news I will be staying in Jacksonville and Elder Hiedrick will be coming with me. Elder Baird will be in the Wilmington 1st ward so he's not going to far.  He's going zone leader as well so he will be my zone leader which should be fun. Our zone leaders are Elder Mcconkie and Baird; I've been comps with both so it will be a good time!

Yes, please sign me up for winter semester; general classes with aviation stuff. I got the package and the cookies were clutch!

Love y'all!

Veronica's Baptism...

Things are still goin' well over here. we had a supa elect person we found on base and he is getting transferred to California so that was disappointing, but we passed on the referral to the elders in Cali and they should get an easy baptism from it.  He isn't going to Camp Pendleton in Matt's mission, it is the Redland Mission.

Haha fun story, the j3 elders got robbed at gunpoint so we had to help them get police reports and such figured out and they had to go identify the guy in the middle of the night. It was pretty crazy.

Here are some of the pics from the baptism; turns out Friday the 13th is lucky after all! We had a nice service.

Military Base Sacrament Services...

Hey Fam!

Friday the 13th veronica will be getting baptized! We're excited for it.

We go to the military base and do sacrament services there on Sundays, there were some nonmembers who came who are really interested so we have started teaching them. We've been having lots of success working with the part memeber families around here.  The sound lead to more baptisms in the future!

Love yall!

Ospreys and Cobras...

Hey Fam,

This week went well, went on exchange with President James and had a grand ole time. Not much new this week, continuing to find and Veronica should be good for her baptism on the 13th. We should hopefully be getting more people on date soon. Here are some pics of us on the flight line. We also got to get in Ospreys and Cobras!

Focused on Missionary Work...

Hey, this week went well! Veronica and her family came to church and is progressing well toward her date.  The  bishop came on splits with us and we had a great time with him, he is very focused on missionary work and improving it, which is awesome to see.  Since this is a military ward there are tons of prospective elders who their parents transfer their records in but they don't want to come to church. Like 226 of them, so we are working on contacting them and getting them active then baptizing their friends; that's our goal. We are going to the beach for p-day today and going to the flight deck for Lejeune so that will be a good time! I will send pics love y'all!

Classic North Carolina done car...they are everywhere here.

I Love Jacksonville...

Hey Fam!

This week was great I love Jacksonville.  It's a military town so there are lots of young marines here that we teach, My companion is Elder Baird, he is from Fremont, Utah, he loves basketball and is a sporty guy overall. We've served around each other before and we get along great he is a solid missionary. We had a killer week this last week found lots of solid people; the ones we put on date are, Veronica and Bruce. Veronica's husband is a convert but lost touch with the church two years ago, we found them street contacting, she will be getting baptized on October 13th, her husbands birthday. When went to teach them the second time their uncle was there and we challenged him to be baptized the same day. I will let you know about everyone else as they progress. There are lots of part member families that we will be working with as well.

We have a pretty big district, two senior couples, the Browns and the Scotts, Elder Hancock (who was my comp in the chapel Hill area when we found Al), and Elder Larsen who are in Wallace.  Other Elders are Fraughton and Whitmer.  The Sisters are Sisters Smith, George, Weaver and Coburn.

Love y'all and hope things are going well.

Elder Shields

Elder Baird and Elder Shields