Ellis, Lexi PT

Week 16, Transfer 2 Area: Corning (Olive Branch) Comp: Hermana Tate Buenas tardes a todos! I am now a master pickleball player. And by master, I mean I cannot win a game to save my life. But lowkey, it's way fun regardless! There's a member who has a private court and lets us play there in the mornings! This week we met this guy named Armando. He responded to a Facebook ad about what happens after we die. We cold-called him on Tuesday and set up a lesson for later in the week! Well, we had our lesson and a great discussion. He's had a crazy hard past and is just trying to find peace right now. We invited him to a baptism and to church. He said he'd be at both. Turns out, he keeps his word! He came to both, loved them, and felt the spirit. He's a pretty genuine guy and seems golden. Please pray for Armando! Another miracle of the week happened on my exchange. I was with Sister Houston for the day—she's one of my favorite people and is such a good missionary! I wa...

Week 14, Transfer 2 Area: Corning (Olive Branch) Comp: Hermana Tate Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/UtFZf4erpztBvg7x5 This week was my first transfer! I'm staying up here in Corning in the Olive Branch, but I have a new comp and my second mission mom, Hermana Tate! Hermana Tingey is going to the Sacramento mission, so I'm being split-trained and leading out our area, which is crazy!! It's been super fun so far. It's definitely going to make me think a lot harder about the friends we're teaching, but it's also awesome because we get to know a lot of them for the first time again since I've only been here for one transfer and Hermana Tate has never been in this area. We are going to grind these next 6 weeks! (Backstory on Sacramento: There's a new mission being created--the Modesto mission--so surrounding missions have to send missionaries to Modesto and missions around the "feeder" missions, aka Sacramento, had to send missionaries there to ev...