: )

Week 33, Transfer 5
Area: Yuba City (Tierra Buena Branch)
Companion: Hermana Park

Highlights

We have translation set up for the English ward this Sunday! This will hopefully help many more people be able to come to church, progress toward the covenant path, and come closer to Christ. Thank you for your prayers!

Junior's baptismal date is now in December!

More bash sessions. Got told we’re being fed lies immediately after testifying that we’ve worked long and hard to receive personal confirmation and answers to those questions. Super lit.

Service for a SayLove function. Got to spin a sign on the side of the road.

Got a screw in our tire. Took five years to get it figured out and fixed, but we’re all good now!

Hermana Park is quite literally the best. Shoutout to her for the best advice and for being the most patient, diligent missionary. She’s seriously amazing!

I’m so deprived of dad jokes that I quite literally asked the elders to give me the cheesiest ones they’ve got. They did not disappoint. (“Where do dads find their dad jokes? In the dad-a-base.”)

Spiritual Thought

Our dear prophet, President Nelson, in this last conference said:

“Come unto Christ and ‘offer your whole [soul]’ to Him. This is the secret to a life of joy!”

Come unto Christ and find joy. This is the Church of Joy (also an incredible talk by Elder Kearon!), so come and find out what it’s all about!

Remember that God loves you, always and forever,

Hermana Ellis

P.S. Please send me any and all dad jokes stored in your dad-a-bases. I beg of you.

Fotos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/UtFZf4erpztBvg7x5

Notable Quotes

Hermana Horton to Hermana Leatherwood: “Do you want a gringo KitKat or a you-after-soccer KitKat?”

Elder Peterson: “I went to a biker gang member’s funeral after-party one time.”

Gio: “I run on water and my past trauma.”





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Man, Some Men Are Weird

Image
Week 9 Area: Olive Branch Comp: Hna Tingey Tuesday Had some fire lessons, almost put two people on a date, and had cookie night with the Lequia's! Wednesday Went to district council! We talked about what life would be like without the gospel (hint, it'd be super sad). We talked about how, as missionaries, our line of work is saving souls. But we don't have the power to literally save souls, so our work and glory is to direct others to the One who can (Jesus Christ)--to the One whose "work and glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." (Moses 1:39) Because of Christ's gospel, we know what's to come in the next life, so we've got to be bold in declaring the good news of the gospel. Despite what the world may think, our goal as missionaries isn't to force people to join this church--our goal is to help others feel loved through the love of Christ, prepare people a little better for eternity, and live life with a little more jo...
Read more

A Functional... Ward?

Image
Week 50, Transfer 8 Area: Auburn (Auburn 2nd Ward) Compañera: Hermana Griffin Anyone who makes it to the end of this email deserves a fist bump in six months. Highlights: First week in Auburn! It is a crazy busy area! I asked my mission president for one thing this transfer—to go somewhere where I could just work. And boy, did I get my wish! Three people just got baptized recently and all got confirmed yesterday! The gift of the Holy Ghost is such a blessing! We made the goal to put seven people on date this transfer. Your prayers for the people in our area and for us would be much appreciated! The ward is so... put together here! Everyone just knows what to do and... does it? I never thought I'd be able to serve in a ward because after the mission split last summer, the only Spanish ward got put into the Sacramento boundaries. But here we are in Auburn, integrated with the ward, doing translation every Sunday, trying to start a Spanish group! The Lord's truth is marching on! H...
Read more

The Goats Look Like People Coming Outside After A Natural Disaster.

Image
Week 52, Transfer 8 Area: Auburn (Auburn 2nd Ward) Compañera: Hermana Griffin Highlights, Lowlights, and Rollercoasters JOANA HAS A DATE FOR BAPTISM!!! Please keep praying for her; she's going to need some extra strength these next few weeks! Our friend Alex MOVED. She got notice two days in advance. She'll be gone for work training for 14 weeks, BUT she gets one call every Sunday, and since she doesn't have much family, she asked if we could call every week and have lessons over the phone. The missionary heart in me was SOOO HAPPY! She is the elect of the elect. PLEASE KEEP PRAYING FOR ALEX!! Had our first lesson with our friend Valentin!!! He had some crazy good questions. He wanted to know the differences between our church and his church, and we were able to testify so strongly of prophets and apostles, eternal families, life after death, the spirit world, and the three kingdoms. At the end, he asked us, lowkey out of the blue, "Why are there so many churches, and ...
Read more