We Love Bobby!

This week was full of stress as we are trying to get Bobby ready for baptism. It has been really hard due to some of his health issues. We have had to jump through a lot of hoops to get him ready. He has a bed sore that is going to be a big road block in his baptism. He is being interviewed by President Porter today, and so we are going to ask him what the best approach would be. Bobby is very excited for this Saturday!

My favorite miracle of the week is this: we met an investigator the other day, she was the daughter of a former (or who we thought was a former). She said that her mom moved a long time ago and missionaries kept coming back. We told we we would make a note of it, and asked if we could come back and visit with her. She wasn't interested at first due to some social anxiety. We talked to her a little bit longer until she became more comfortable with the idea of having us come back. We were able to go back the next day and teach her the restoration, and her dog even peed on us. Powerful lesson nonetheless. After we asked when we would come back, and she said she didn't know and to text her on Monday to set a time. Monday came and we texted her, and got no response. Then on Saturday while doing our work of salvation sheets we got a text from her. She apologized for not texting back sooner. She said that she wasn't sure if she wanted to meet with us again, but that she prayed a decided she did want to meet with us! We are seeing her Wednesday! Miracle.

All of you will be shocked to know that this week we sang to Bobby... it was hard for me as you all can imagine. We sang keep the commandments which was luckily in my range. But the most tender part was that Bobby sang it to us after. He really loves music and it makes my eyes sweat every time. Yesterday we sang "Master the Tempest is Raging". He said it describes his life well with his difficulty with sin and repentance.

That's all for now, folks! Love you all.

Sista Fultzy Fresh

Miracle Marion in May

Shalom all! 

This week was as killer week for Sister Mickelsen and I. Miracles to the max! Oh also a side note, today is my 8 month mark! Next month I will be half done with my mission! It has flown by so fast. 

This week was zone conference. AMAZING. We talked a lot about repentance and the sacrament. What I loved most about the repentance part is that its not just saying sorry. We had to accept that we have offended God with what we have done. Doesn't that sound freaky?? Admitting that you OFFENDED God? Oh man. Thinking of teaching that to people freaked me right out. But when you think about missionary work... that is what we do all day everyday. Its perfect actually because a few days after we had an investigator who really needed to hear that she was offending God. Follow Priesthood counsel! That wasn't even the best part of the meeting... later we went back to the chapel and President Porter went off on his rant, which is always amazing, all about the sacrament. Then after hearing all this crazy and pretty deep doctrine, we took the sacrament right then and there. It was so amazing! Being able to take the sacrament with my fellow servants of the Lord. It was something that I will never forget. It just testified to me even more how important the sacrament is to us. 

A fun part of zone conference was when we got to eat ice cream. The choices were strange... at one table you could have mint, at another you could have oreo, then at another you could have both. No one really thought anything of it, except Sister Mickelsen. She thought it was a test and was freaking out. After we all ate our ice cream, President stood up and said "Hear ye, hear ye, the parable of the ice cream!" I looked at Sister Mickelsen and she had the funniest look of "I knew it" on her face. President then went on to compare it to how we are getting a new mission president in July. He was saying that we need to take both of the things they have taught us and apply it to our work, and that we would be wise to do so. He wanted to remind us all that we are not "Porter missionaries", but we are both Porter and Welch missionaries. Then he told us a bit about President Welch, and we found out he is the one that makes all the accordion doors in the churches! Pretty cool. 

Bobby was able to come to church this week! He is still preparing the be baptized on the 28th. He is very excited. It was so great to be able to get him out of the nursing home and to church. He loved it and everyone was very welcoming. At the end you could tell he was a little stressed and wanted to go home. Which made sense since he doesn't get out much and he doesn't talk to many people. He has a very sad life. No one in his family talks to him. He tells us about how his parents abused him and his past with drugs. Such a sad past life, and he has been able to find happiness, peace and joy within the gospel. Melts my heart. 

This week we got a media referral for a woman named Regina. We went and contacted her with a member, and the member that was with us was inspired! They instantly clicked and Regina told us about how she wanted answers. We gave her a Book of Mormon and a Bible We went and saw her again yesterday, and we put her on date for baptism on June 4th! Miracles! We have been so blessed here in Marion. 

Love you all! 

Sister Fultz

I'm Leaving Montgomery

Sister Breeze and I are both leaving Montgomery tomorrow. SO CRAZY!! Just wanted to remind everyone to send letters to the mission address, which is on my blog http://makenziefultz.blogspot.com/ 

First cool story! A few weeks ago we offered this lady who was smoking a card. When we did she got really mean and snarky and asked if we wanted to smoke. Of course we said no and she said "Didn't think so" and kept walking. Well then!! On Thursday of this past week we were walking down the street with Brittany, the Elders recent convert. We stopped to talk to this lady sitting on her porch smoking, it was the same girl from a few weeks earlier! He started talking to her and I pointed out that we had met her a few weeks prior. She then apologized for being rude. We talked to her a little more, found out that she is Agnostic, and set a time to come back and visit her! Sadly she ended up canceling, but she want to reschedule! The spirit was really working with her and preparing her. :) 

We got a member referral, but were asked not to use her name in the contact. This referral, Anna, didn't have any members or anyone we knew around her. We weren't really sure what to do. Tr acting approach? We had no idea how to do that! We usually/never knock on a door without a name.  We knocked on the door, did probably one of the most horrible approaches ever, and she still said yes! God has been preparing her! The sad part is now I won't get to see how it goes, but the new sisters will be amazing!

This week we went to the dentist. It was kinda funny because one of the hygienists knows me there. We actually a lot of them know me because most of them are members and I served in their ward in Cincinnati. Haha. But this particular woman isn't a member, and I pretty much taught her the restoration with a numb mouth a few transfers ago. She was so excited to see me! It made me feel special.  Before we left we got her to request missionaries on Mormon.org! She is totally going to get baptized. 

Explanation of the pictures... a member in the ward got us these bubble shirts as a going away present, and so we had the elders try them on :) hahaha 

That's all for now, folks! 

Love you all! 

Sister Fultz

Haaaard Week

EVERY investigator canceled on us this week... it was stressful to say the least. We had the hardest time finding people, and no one really wanted to talk to us. It turned into a less active week. Then we have 4 less actives at church! Always a successful week here in the Mont-geezy.


We had interviews this week, which is always fun. Everyone in the mission got new phones! Woohoo! But also kind of annoying to get used to a new phone while doing rapid missionary work. It has been crazy! But the new phone actually gets texts. Yeah!


On Sunday night, MIRACLE! We met an Indian family, and they are interested in learning more and we are going to see them Tuesday! Why that's a miracle is because there are a lot of Indians in the Montgomery area, and none of them are really interested. This family we found is actually Christian! Also very uncommon! It was over the moon happy.


The Elders had a baptism this week! Her name is Brittany and we seriously love her. The Elders ruined most of the pictures so I had to crop them out. Haha!


This was a really slow week, so I don't have much to say . Sorry!


Love you all!


Sister Fultz

They see me preachin', they hatin'

Hello errybody!

WE FOUND AN AMAZING FAMILY THIS WEEK! We were out knocking on doors by a less active that moved, and we found a family of 8! They have 6 boys! So crazy. We tried this new method of contacting by saying that we are offering free church tours on Wednesdays and Saturdays. IT WORKED. We were able to set up a church tour for this Saturday and then also an appointment for this Thursday. Something that was rare was that they actually had a car and could drive it! THAT NEVER HAPPENS. What was even cooler was that I said a prayer earlier in the day telling Heavenly Father that we would find a family that day, and they would be baptized and they would be sealed together for eternity. THEN HE SENDS US A FAMILY. Isn't He just great?

This week we went to a lesson and we were waiting for a member. We were just sitting in our car, and we sat there for 30 minutes and she didn't show up. We texted her and we got no response. We decided she wasn't coming and we had sat in the car long enough. We got out and the person we were going to see weren't even available. We started to walk down the street to try a former, and a police officer drives by. I immediately thought that someone called them on us. We got to the house and we were knocking when the officer pulled up and got out of his car! He asked who we were with and asked for ID. It's actually kind of funny because Sister Breeze and I were both thinking "Sweet! We get to actually show someone our Ministerial Certificate!". We started to pull them out when he said our name tags were enough. BUMMER. We were really disappointing to say the least. He just told us that they have a no soliciting law, but since we are with a religious group we were good. Then he drove off. Somewhat uneventful, but still fun. 

Slow week.. sorry y'all!

Woo ya woo! 

Sister Fultz 

#FuBreeze

Bradi Banner Quotes

So Bradi Banner is a former missionary who served in our mission, but she lives in our mission. She is visually impaired, practically blind. She lives in our ward so she comes teaching with us a lot. This week she said some really funny things:

Sister Fultz: dang it I ran a stop sign (I really did)

Bradi: And I thought I was the blind one.

Sister Breeze: I can't read and walk!

Bradi: Neither can I.

(Talking about Satan)

Bradi: I'm going to take him and beat him with my cane!! 

She is pretty much the best member missionary ever. She was called to serve for 6 weeks in Indiana, and she ended up serving for 6 months! She didn't want to leave, but she needed to. It's pretty cool though, she went home "late" ;)

That's all for real this time! 

Sister Fultz

Up's and Down's

Shalom Shalom Shalom!!

I found a Fultz headstone in South Lebanon this past week while on exchanges with Sister Sly... 

I also got eaten by a hippo! 

It's been a busy week, so we were very exhausted 

Chrystal has been weird this week. She fell off date for the 23rd, and we didn't see her for a few days. Then we finally saw her and put her on date for May 7th... now we can't get in contact with her. What the heck Chrystal??? She is driving us nuts! But it's okay, because everything is in the Lords time! We are starting to wonder if she really is crazy... hmmm. 

I'm getting sick... again! I just got over a cold not too long ago, then I thought I had an ear infection, and now I'm getting a cold again. Ugh :( 

The less active I used to always talk about that went to rehab came home early. The hospital he was in wasn't doing a good job and it wasn't worth the money. I was really worried when I found out that he would come home and go right back to doing drugs. BUT HE DIDN'T! We met with him a few days after he got home, and he is still clean and wants to work on being temple worthy and he is thinking about a mission! MIRACLE. I seriously cried after. I was so overjoyed. He changed so much in just the 20ish days he was in rehab. The next big thing is going to be getting him to quit smoking. Luckily he has been on nicorete gum, but last night he smoked while he was at an AA meeting (a lot of people smoke at those, so it was a major temptation). 

We are starting the 4th week of my 5th transfer. Time is just flying by! Sister Breeze is now driving so she can get to know the area better. Three weeks until transfers!! Ahhhhh!!

I brought my notebook with me today, so I want to share some of my notes from conference :)

President Henry B. Eyring (Saturday morning): How close we feel to the Savior depends on US. We need to ask ourselves what soil we are planting our seed in. If we can see the lessening of our joy and faith, we are more blessed because of our humility. 

Mary R. Durham: I loved the story of the man who had to take off his shoes to be able to swim. It really made me think "What are my weights? What is holding me back?" 

Ronald A. Rasband (Saturday Afternoon): I thought it was funny that he talked about sustaining our leaders right after the vote was taken :) What I thought while we was talking was about how we need to humble enough to sustain them. I loved when he said "I know the risks, but I know to follow Christ". It's sad how following Christ has become a risk in the world today. 

Neil L. Andersen: I feel like he talked about a somewhat difficult subject. I would be nervous to talk about children not having parents and singing about their parents in primary. I really loved that he related it to our Heavenly Parents rather than our Earthly parents. It was funny to hear him in Conference in contrast to when he came and talked to our mission. In conference he was MUCH more professional :)

Thomas S. Monson (Sunday Morning): He looks so sick, but it was good to be able to hear from him even though it was short. The choices we make determine our destiny!! Unlike Alice, it does matter which way we go. 

W. Christopher Waddell: I SERIOUSLY LOVED HIS. The Atonement is my favorite thing to talk about and study. I encourage ALL OF YOU to go and reread this talk!!!! So amazing!! 

Dieter F. Uchtdorf: "The Celestial language". HAHAHA. 

Robert D. Hales (Sunday Afternoon): Only the Prophet can receive revelation for the whole church... sorry everyone who seems to think otherwise! 

Who else just wanted to cry when President Uchtdorf got up after the talk about refugees???

Jeffrey R. Holland: We can escape the consequence of sin and STUPIDITY of ourselves and others if we give ourselves to God. 

I know that this church is true. I know that if we give ourselves to God that we can make it through anything. I know that no matter how far from God we feel, we can always come back through repentance. I also know that even when we feel like we're "close enough" to God, we're wrong. There is always something more for us. That's why we came here. We weren't meant to be stagnant... that's why the Fall was necessary. Every single day of our lives needs to be spent coming closer to Christ, otherwise, what are we doing that is worth it? There is a kind of song that we have been listening to a lot this week, and it reminds me that everyday we need to be doing things worth while, and doing things that we won't regret. I've also been thinking a lot this week about having an Eternal perspective. I encourage all of you to read Genesis 25:29-34. Let us be sure not to Esau and give up something amazing for a stupid bowl of pottage. Don't give up something Eternal for something temporary. When you're going through a hard time, look to the future, have an Eternal perspective. When we are able to do that, it makes it easier to see why our Heavenly Father gives us the things he goes. We are in boot camp right now, preparing to be Gods and Goddesses. I know these things are true in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

I also attached the song/monologue that I love to listen to. It's worth hearing. 

Sister Fultz