Ellis, Lexi PT

Week 68, Transfer 11 Area: Chico Bidwell Spanish Branch Compañera: Hermana Morgan! Highlights! Said goodbye to everyone in Auburn and had some really cool "last" lessons (for me) with some friends there. We had transfers on Wednesday so now I'm officially in Chico!! I love it here!! Definitely the change I needed—God always has a way of knowing what we need... He's pretty amazing like that. Shoutout to my cousin Reina who actually served in this SAME mission, in the SAME area, in this SAME Spanish branch a few years ago!! Everyone knows and loves her and it's been so fun that everyone asks about her and making that connection with the members!! I love it so much and being able to share that with her and meet all of her favorite members is definitely a unique experience that I will treasure forever! The Lord has a work for me to do these last few months of my mission, that's for sure. I can't wait to figure out what that is! Had some awesome lessons and int...

Week 67, Transfer 10  Area: Auburn (Auburn 2nd Ward Spanish group & Lincoln 4th Spanish Branch) Compañera: Hermana Griffin This was a week of MIRACLES!! This is gonna be a long one. First off, we got transfer news!! I'm leaving Auburn/Lincoln, going to Chico with Hermana Morgan! We served in the same branch together in Yuba City for 2 transfers so I'm excited to be companions with her for her last transfer! Hermana Griffin is staying in Auburn for her 5th transfer here (!!) with Hermana Scholes, who was here with her right before I came to Auburn. Pretty wild, but it'll be a great transfer! Grinded member work in Lincoln this past week. Our branch President gave us a few names to visit, and we were able to set up a lesson with one of the families in particular for Thursday. We'll call them la familia Hernandez. We texted Bro. Hernandez on Wednesday and tentatively set up a time for the next day. I say tentatively because he never responded to the message and we forg...

Week 66, Transfer 10  Area: Auburn (Auburn 2nd Ward Spanish group & Lincoln 4th Spanish Branch) Compañera: Hermana Griffin This was our first official full week in Lincoln!! We're now double covering the branch in Lincoln and the group in Auburn, and it has been SO fun!! Our first experience in Lincoln was driving through a neighborhood that could've been straight out of a dystopian novel while visiting a referral from the Sisters. There were blocks and blocks and BLOCKS of cookie-cutter houses, peacocks, and the roads had not only a bike lane but a dedicated GOLF CART lane too... when we got out of our car for the first time, there was a guy across the street standing in his yard. We said, "Hi, how are you?" And he just stared at us like we were from another dimension, kinda like we were intruding on this dystopian neighborhood haha. It's been a hard week for finding and lessons with members, and none of our friends came to church on Sunday.... but we were ab...