Sister Ellie Smith England, Manchester Mission

Where do I even begin?! A week FULL of miracles. I love serving the Lord.  ELIANA! My girllllll is getting baptised!!! We were able to have the most special experience with her yesterday as we extended an invitation for her to be baptized. It is amazing to see the sweet spirit she contains and how much knowledge she has. She is the cutest person ever. I love her so so so so much. So excited for her so stay tuned!! This past week has been slooooowww. We are in a new area and are constantly trying to find new friends. My companion and I have been SO tired. So many people (even random people on the street) have said we look tired. So that's awesome to hear but as we came into this new week BAM. Miracle after miracle. It is amazing to see the Lord's hand in our work, I know our efforts and hard work pay off because we were able to help Eliana to make this first promise with God and we cannot be more excited for her.  Here's one miracle I want to share. It also happened yester...

WazGOOOD! How in the world is it pday again. Fastest week ever! I'm committed to weekly emails so don't be sick of me yet.  This week was superrrrrr. We had so many amazing miracles and experiences! Most days we would stop and be like "wow this is such a good day! Let's keep the streak goin!!!!" Definitely still hard parts but I ain't gonna focus on those. Stupid adversary.  This week we found a man named Jennings. He is so rad. Met him in the elevator when we were taking a photo, super awkward. Oops! He said sorry I photo bombed!!! And then we started talking. Nailed it. We set up a lesson with him and had it on Saturday. He is Catholic and loves God but is struggling to find that spiritual consistency that sometimes he only feels on Sunday. So we helped him of couuuurse. We gave him a book of mormon and a reading challenge and man he was STOKED. He kept saying how eager he was to read and how eager he was to meet with him again. Pray for Jennings!!! We love ...

Helllloooo! I am still alive. Don't even worry, Sister Smith is still getting it out here.  This week was good good. Feels awesome to be able to say that. Who knew, it gets better!!! Finally getting the hang of things by working my hardest AND in return, I've been able to see so many miracles this week and felt the Savior right by my side. BOOM! How lucky are we! Pshhh so good. Always work your hardest it will pay off my friends.   Had my first zone conference this week ayyyye. It was pretty good but definitely still getting to know everyone. We did our own version of the Olympics and went against each other. OF COURSE I FREAKIN WON BAAABY. That's how we do let's go. But on the real note I have the BEST mission President and was able to learn so much. We talked about how important it is to remember our covenants. We have such a special gift from God. The term for zone conference today was Covenant Conscius. I invite all of you to be covenant conscious this week!! This i...

Wow! Wow. Wow. Wow. I'm in the field. Take me baaaaaack to the MTC!! Haha kidding. Kinda.  Also quick news I am not allowed to have Facebook so if you send me a message I will not see it. But email me! I made it! Time is flying and I can't believe I'm out here in the field. My first area is called Crewe! Look it up if you're curious it is beauuuuutiful. I love it here! Everyone is so so nice which was shocking to me. I was ready for some bold mean English folks but we're chiiiiillin.  My companion is THE GOAT. Sister Taala is Samoan but from Australia. So I am fully immersed with accents all around me all the time. It's amazing. She is the HARDEST worker every she's my idol. And she's so freakin funny oh my gosh. I have been in pain from laughing so hard. She's definitely making this a lot easier!!!! It's the islander blood the best kind. Miss hawaii.   Adjusting to missionary life is REAL. My goodness they weren't lying when they say mission...

What's up!!!! Still in England don't worry.  Can't believe I've been a missionary for 3 weeks already but also can't believe it's only been 3 weeks. The craaaap.   Another awesome week!!! Gonna make this short but awesome okay. This week was full of so many spiritual experiences! I wanted to start off with Sundays. Sundays are the BEST day of the week and especially here at the MTC. They are so spiritual and a great break from classes. In Relief Society us sisters got to talk about our divine identity and read over our patriarchal blessings. It was such an amazing experience reading for the first time as a missionary. The spirit filled that room and I know this is exactly where I am supposed to be!!! If you guys have your patriarchal blessing, GO read it. Right now. We are so blessed with that amazing gift and each of us have are so special to our Heavenly Father. Remember your divine identity!  Yesterday I was sitting in class and staring off into space and lit...

WAZGOOOOD FAM AND FRIENDS! Made it to England and it feels so unreal!!!  This email could be a book long because there are so many amazing things about this place but I will just highlight a few!   The MTC here is so beautiful it's kinda hard to describe how amazing it is. Everything is so green here. The view from our room and classroom is craaazy I will add photos. The weather here has actually been so good. I was expecting it to be raining every single day but it only rained right when we landed. It's been super sunny so ayyyyye. Don't miss Arizona weather right now sorry bye AZ.  Everyone here is INCREDIBLE. MY district is so amazing and full of mostly sisters so it literally feels like all best friends, I love them all so much. I'm so grateful for my whole district. They all bring something amazing to our classes by each of their awesome personalities and insight. There are only about 98 missionaries here at the England MTC which has actually been so fun becaus...

  HELLOOO! You guys are all so awesome. I know this is a wee bit long but I NEEDA SHARE with ya.  First thing I wanna say is I. LOVE. BEING. A. MISSIONARY. WOWEE! I feel sooo blessed it is crazy. The amount of times I have seen Heavenly Father's love for me this week is crazy! Second thing I wanna say is guys guys guys I know how hard it is to read emails but I seriously would encourage all of you to read those friends you have out serving's emails because missionaries hold sooo much amazing insight and have such a sweet spirit with them (aka all my friends out serving right now you guys rock) They can help each and every one of you! I hope throughout the next 18 months something I say will stick out to you because I love you guys! This week has been seriously incredible. I got sick this week which was so stupid. Thanks a lot satan. But I just pretended I wasn't and mooooved on! The amount of powerful things I have learned is craaazy, never filled notebooks so fast. ...