Sister Ellie Smith England, Manchester Mission

Hello! Ummm I'm in Chester! It's wild. This is the most rich place ever. Butttt wow it's beautiful. Staying in a house with 4 sisters and it's quite a party. I love Sister Good and Sister Ware soooo much, GREAT STLs. Wow This week was probably one of the hardest for me but I really understood what it means to rely on the Lord. Sister Chiong and I came into this area with NO information because there was like a freaking glitch in the system or something. I have never been more stressed ever. We were sitting in this random place in huge Chester trying to figure things out and I went to the bathroom, knelt down on the bathroom floor and just pleaded, crying to the Lord to give me soooomething...anything. We decided to just go out and talk to people and boom. Met 3 of the best people so quickly! God really placed people right in our path and knew we were trying our best. So much joy and relief filled me and I was able to enjoy the rest of the day to the best we could! I was...

Bye bye Crewe!  Leaving my baby area and I'm off to CHESTER! So stoked. Sister Chiong is my new comp and she's the bessssst. We were in the MTC together. She probably is the sweetest person in the world.  Woweee I am done training. Time is going way way way too fast but also I'm so excited for what's to come. I have never seen so much change and growth in myself in such a short amount of time. The best part is it's because of Jesus Christ. My heart has changed! I've also learned a lot about choosing. If we want to change, WE choose. Once we choose we have to LET the Savior change us. What a blessing that is. I know that these will be days never forgotten if I choose. That's it? Awesome.  Another thing I really learned this week was God really does choose the weak to do His work. We were sitting in a cafe planning for a lesson for our friend Rosie and she is going THROUGH it. She is struggling with addiction, health, family problems, you name it. I sat there ...

Another week! Last week of training whaaaat the. Everyone thinks I'm gonna train next transfer so send allllll your prayers my way thanks! Something awesome that I've seen this week so many times is how God truly does put people in our path. Here's a little story for ya.  On Thursday a lot of lessons fell through and basically everything failed. So we had like 3 hours to figure out what to do. We prayed for the Lord to help us and decided to go visit a potential friend we've been messaging. We knocked on his door but he didn't answer so we left him a note and walked away. We kept walking and saw a dad with his cute kid and so we started talking to him. Half way in the conversation Sister Nielson said, "Wait are you Carlito?" BOOM there he was. The man we visited, at the right place at the right time. Afterwards we decided to start knocking the doors on his street and absolutely no one answered. But something inside me told me that something is about to hap...

EVERYONE. THE SUN IS OUT. Dreams come true.  We have had sun for 4 days straight. God is really treating us well, thaaaaaanks God! Hope everyone General Conference weekend went well! We got so lucky with some really amazing talks. And QUEEN CREEK TEMPLE! WHAT! So amazing. Elder Karl D. Hirst was FULL of revelation holy moly. Me and sister nielson had our mouths wide open the whole time hahaha it was so good. He said: “If you are waiting for Him to come, might He already be there and within reach?” Those who feel filled with love right now should share it wherever they go. The joy of the gospel is available to all. “We have every good reason to ‘rejoice and be filled with love towards God and all men’” (Mosiah 2:4). Wowwww!!! This week was pretty good though! We chased after so many people this week hahahah. Don't worry we caught them like fish and now one is our best friend who we're gonna baptize. His name's Dual pray for him!!!! He's from South Sudan and he's so c...