What Kind Of Car Would You Choose?

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 was leading out my area again, which meant that I was the only Spanish-speaking hermana in Corning on Friday (Sister Houston is an English missionary!). I was a lot less terrified than last time haha. For whatever reason, I felt peaceful, and by the end of our first lesson, I understood why.


Halfway through this lesson with the sweetest abuelita you'll ever meet, Consuelo, I realized that I had understood EVERY word that she said. I understood every idea she expressed clearly and easily and LAUGHED when she made a joke because I understood it! This kept happening all day, too. On phone calls, at dinner with our branch president and his wife, and during English class.


My whole mission I've been able to speak SO much more than I can understand, but this week was the first time I was able to (confidently) understand more than I could speak! I've felt this before in the past couple of weeks, but this time I actually understood more than just the basic idea of what was being said.


God is in the details! Watch for the little miracles this week—the "stepping stones" so to speak on the way to the biggest miracles!


With love,
Hermana Ellis :)


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