Elder Zach Fillmore

Hi everyone! This week has been filled with so many emotions with the 2nd anniversary of my sister Maddie's passing, her 25th birthday, Christmas, and missing family.  As I shared in my last email, without trusting God, I would have a tough time getting through some of these rough potholes. Super grateful for my fam and I know there are always there for me. Family is so important and I'm so glad I have the best one hehe, yep said it again!   There is also one other thing that got me going through each day. The mindset of one day at a time . This mindset is so important and I can't express that enough. Until this point in my mission, I have been looking a week or two out, planning and scheduling over and over, and thinking about all we had each week and it was giving me very little motivation to get up in the morning. But once I got over worrying about what's gonna happen tomorrow or the next day I had to remind myself that I need to get one day at a time. As I've be...

Hi everyone! This past week was ok, I say okay because I had to say goodbye to two of the OEMs best, my trainer Elder Nelson and Elder Willoughby. The other Elder Nelson and I are staying in Klamath. We four are the OGs in Klamath and we clicked from the beginning. We all rocked at service, teaching, and all things wood chopping, loading, moving, and stacking. My new comp and follow-up trainer is Elder Kjar, a good guy but not the same as Elder Nelson. He has been out for 15 months and I am his FIRST trainee, curious I know. He is also going to be our new district leader. But, woot woot I am now designated as the primary driver and phone contact for our area.   As the full week began, I knew we were going to have our differences and that's okay as I knew from day one and the hour-and-a-half car drive back to our area that he was going to be a tough cookie to crack lol. We spent some time talking about communication and trust. Grateful that this month's family meeting (OEM-wide ...

Hi everyone these past couple of weeks have been very snowy and slow with the holidays coming up. Even with the super bad weather we've been meeting with a lot of non-members. But we Elder Nelson and I have been contacting a bunch of people to set us up for a successful next transfer!   A couple of days back we had a guy call us from a Facebook post. We talked to him for a little bit, he was wanting to learn more about God and how he was really struggling to find the true church.  He said right after that that he wants to get baptized and learn as much as possible. We learned that he is homeless and living in an abandoned Sizzler restaurant, which is a big difficulty. Yeah, so in order for him to even be considered for baptism he has to have a physical address. Anyway, so I guess we will see how that all pans out when we first meet him this upcoming week. This week, we (Nelson and I and Willoughby and Nelson) had a trip planned to the Medford temple, but both Nelsons got the f...