Sister Ellie Smith England, Manchester Mission

Can't believe it has already been a week! Back again with this amazing streak. The start of this week started on a big low. One of the people that have changed my life and many others is my good friend Graham Jarvis. Man he is just absolutely incredible. Sister Hanks and I had the privilege to get to know him last transfer and he became our new best friend. Graham is a recent new member in the Oldham ward and is the most devoted disciple of Jesus Christ I have ever met. If you know the chapter Alma 26 in the Book of Mormon, he is the definition of that chapter. FULL of joy and rejoicing in the Savior any moment he can. Graham had a sudden heart attack and passed away last week. My heart shattered hearing the news but my mind has fully been enlightened by the wonderful Plan of Happiness. I was able to call my mom that night and she helped me realize truly one of the greatest blessings; that Graham will be my angel the rest of my mission uplifting and strengthenin...

Whaaaaats up! How is everyone doing? Hope you had a quick week.  Here's the highlight of mine: God's power is real and this week I realized that we have some of that power to envision! Envisioning really does work!!! On Tuesday during district finding, we met an amazing man named Ade. He was SO COOL. He started talking to us for so long about God and basically his whole life story. He then said, "I actually had a dream about you two coming up and talking to me." !!! He even predicted that I would have twins and told me to write that down. We will see about that. After this expereince I realized that we always envision who we want to find but sometimes they are envisioning to find us! How cool is that?  Saturday was another day full of envisioning. In the morning we planned to find someone specific in each part of the day. In the morning we envisioned a buisness lady and we found her! She was interested in learning about the Book of Mormon and she even had my same firs...

Hi fellow lads. What a wonderful dayyyyyy!  I just love you so much and I hope you know! Even if you don't read these emails. Honestly fair enough I stink at it too. But just know I love ya! This week I had the lowest points of my mission and also some of the best. Love it! My whole life I've grown up hearing that the Savior has healing power through His Atonement and sacrifice for us. That he has the ability to heal us and comfort us DURING our trials. Right? I assumed that's what I was feeling but I honestly never really felt comfort through a trial. How is that possible? Well. I finally experienced what that truly felt like this week and what a special thing. I know it is possible for Jesus Christ to heal and strengthen you in the very time of your trial but only if you trust that He will. He needs you to trust Him. That's how it works. He wants us to come to Him because that's the only way He truly can heal us. By the end of the week I couldn't stop thinking...

Definitely. Kidding. A member just let us use their house when they weren't home. It was so weird. It felt like being home alone again for the first time ever. Looooove it.  Helllooooo! Another week down here in Manchester. This week the Lord just really wanted to magnify our efforts it was SWEET.  One of my favorite days this week was Sunday. It was such a special day!!! 5 people came to church and the past few weeks it's just been 1. It was so happy to see them enjoy the service. And every single thing the members said was just exactly what our friends needed to hear. Don't you just love when that happens. I've noticed that always happens the days I dread waking up and going to church.  The Lord really is hastening his work in Stretford and I am so lucky to have a front row seat. We saw so many miracles this week! I will just share one. One of the biggest things I've learned on my mission is that almost every time visiting yellow dots (online referrals), leads you...