Elder Zach Fillmore

Holy cow guys so once again I been slacking on the whole email every week thing. I,m trying but hopefully i can get this one done haha but ill give a lil recap from now until Nov 20th which was my last email sent out. So we can start with Thanksgiving woot woot! LAST Thanksgiving on the mish thats crazy to say but it's about time haha but it was actually pretty fun we first had a turkey bowl with the WHOLE Grants Pass Stake!! So that was sick and we played some 2 hand touch football and then played some spike ball with the Elders! After that we had a leaf raking service planned for a member so we went to do that.  After we got ready for Thanksgiving dinner withere the Robinsons! We had a sick feast and there was a lot of people there so it reminded me of home! We stayed there until like 9:30pm and then I was like okay we gotta goooo.. So we called it a day and I would say it was a perfect Thanksgiving honestly.   The following day Elder Peterson (AKA SUPERCHARGE...

Hey hey everyone ik ive been slacking on the emails as usual but these past few weeks have been PACKED FULL love you guys and hope you have fun readin' my emaillll :) NOV 4th The first story I wanna share is the Ghost Bustin' story. So we get a referral from this one daughter and she calls us and says hey does your church cast out evil spirits and I'm like uhhh yeah sure (keep in mind I don't believe in ghosts or evil spirits) so me and my companion Elder Checketts go to meet up with these (crazy, but nice) people and we go inside the house and we literally just say my comp just says a prayer to bless the home and the mom goes "uh you did it wrong" and I'm like ohhhhh ok. I give up so we say welp some Elders have done it before ill send their number to you guys and they will get it out for sure. So we leave and the other Elders come and ofc they cast it out so obv there not real. But it was a fun lil experience I'll remember to tell my kids. NOV 7th To...

Hey Hey guys!! Happy Halloween from Oregon!! Can't believe it's the 2nd but final Halloween in Oregon for me!! So crazy to think about!!  This past week couple of weeks have been packed full of mems !! Lil Miracle The 26th of Oct we had a service planed with a less active member so we went over and we knocked and her daughter visiting from Arizona opened the door and she said "oh are you hear for the blessing?" And i was like uhhh sure we can definitely do that, we were just about to start doing some yard work for this older member (the less active one) , but we were able to give this older member a blessing and we found out later after the blessing some scamer almost took everything out from her like almost selling her house and just taking a lot of her money so make sure we are watching out for those types of horrible people! So that whole experience was a really big moment just for my testimony and in was able to see Gods timing being perfect without a doubt, ive h...

Holy these past 2 weeks have gone by super fast and we have been slammed. Through our contacting efforts, we have been blessed to meet some solid people and have had amazing visits and lessons. Very little time to sit down to eattt, but this is what we do. I will hit some highlights from my journal, btw Mom I have only 20 pages left, please send my other journal asap :)  Tuesday, Oct 10th MY ONE YEAR  Woot woot I made it halfway!! Honestly so crazy I've been a missionary for that amount of time and it has gone by so fast and I have met so many awesome people! As the day went on I was just remembering all the fun memories I've been able to have on the mission! It's crazy I only have a year left to teach to the best of my ability and  make some more memories.  An awesome recent convert family took us out to eat at a super nice restaurant for dinner, and the rest of the night we went to go knock on some members doors! Not the most exciting day, but it was just another d...

Another 2+ weeks have gone by and I am preparing to end my 8th transfer in the OEM! So crazy to say that! I will hit my year mark on October 10. I'm sup excited about what's coming up and the great people we have met thru our contacting efforts. Sic!  We have been slammed busy and my comp and I had enough energy to go through each day somehow.  We have had a ton of awesome lessons and visits, plus made time for a few great service appointments. I will hit a few highlights from some of our activities.  This past week, it was awesome to help an older couple in the area clean up their house, and we even did a little painting and hung some new doors. That took us about 4 hours.  From there  we had another service appointment and spent about 2 hours pulling weeds in the heat.   Right after that service appointment, we rushed home to get cleaned up because we had an appointment with a really sweet lady named Cara.  This was our first lesson with her, kind of...