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...

Helloooooo everybody!! Howzit.  This week was wonderful. Got to go to the temple today and I just feel so lucky to be there on such a beeeautiful day! Also saw my MTC teachers Sister Chapman and Sister Wade!!! Goodness I love them so much it was so good to see them.  This past week we had Zone Conference and I was lucky enough to go to both days to film it. And MAN it was so gooooood. We learned all about teaching as the Savior would. What a powerful teacher the Savior is. Something that really stood out to me was how the Savior asked questions. Crazy fact. Jesus Chirst asked about 300 questions as he taught and has only answered 3. Whaaaat! The importance of questions. They bring so much power into every conversation and that's where the spirit comes into play.  Not going to lie this week was hard but recently I have just felt so grateful and reflecting a lot on my Savior and how close I have been with him recently. I never thought I could love someone so much. I had int...

Howzzzzit everyone. Happy Pday. Hope you are all well and swell.  This week rocked. I am now the videographer/social media sister in the mission with SISTER ROWLAND SHEEEE IS GREAT. I remember when she filmed me coming in Day 1 and I loved her immediately. Look at us know. Filming together.. So good.  Because of this new assignment we are so lucky and get to go to everything to film it. So this week we were able to go film all the incoming missionaries and see them get their trainers which are my bestest friends from the mission so it was sooo much fun. They are gonna be the BEST. Trainers in the world. Love you sisters. Also got to go to Lyme park for missionary graduation for those who just finished training and WOWEW it's beautiful.  Being able to film the incoming missionaries was so fun because it was like I was back to day 1 and got to hear everything President told me when I first came, AGAIN. There were so many things I needed to hear again. Something that re...

Where do you I even begin. God is sooooo so so so so good.  First of all. Im getting transferred again. Shocker but I'm stoked. Going to Stretford and I'm the new EMM videographer what the flipppp! So good. Gonna be the best. With such an amazing companion. Here I come!  I felt an immense amount of joy and had an endless amount of expereinces from Heavenly Father this past week. We were struck with how many ways God astonished us so I want to name just a brief few! 1. We said God would astonish us by 6 friends at church. 30 minutes in...no one. Then SEVEN friends come flooding through the door!!! We hit all of out Key Indicators this week. What a blessing! 2. On Friday we had another miracle. We were street contacting in town and met a man named Daniel. We had a really great conversation with him but he wasn't too interested. He then said, "But my coworker Jimmy is super religious and would love this!" REFERRAL! We had all aligned (mission zoom call) that morning ...

Heeeeey! Super great week. I flippin found a superhero on the bus. 1. Because his name is Marvel. 2. Because he is the most elect person I've ever met.  Met Marvel on an exchange on Saturday and we were just chatting it up and laughing on the bus cracking jokes. Then he said this year he wants to more fully commit to God and wants to be baptized with his WHOLE family THIS year!!!! I knew 2025 would be a good one. Booooya. He's so amazing and we are stoked. God is so good! I'll add a screenshot of his amazing fam.  Happy new year!!!! It's been such a great start to the year. Made some goals and I'm so excited to commit to my Savior. D&C is going to be so good.  Let me know what your goals were!!  Last week of the transfer which is sooooo wild. Pray that I stay here with Sis Hanks! THANKS! Psh that rhymed.  Love you all! Keep rockin over there in the USA or wherever you may be.  I think I might start sending my favorite scripture a week. I promise I'...

HEYO turkeys!!!! It's almost 2025??? That's amazing and flippin weird. Happy new year everyone. So stoked to have a new year and set some new goals. Let me know some of yours!  Saturday was one of the most incredible days on my mission so far. God astonished us ALL day. We walked around with huge smiles and were so grateful for the opportunities Heavenly Father provided for us. We met SO many people. Lots of them came from knocking on member dots. 3 different times it led us to other people who were interested in building their faith in Christ. The last door we knocked happened because a lesson fell through so we knocked on a dot nearby. It wasn't the member we thought but a woman named Madi. We chatted with her and she let us in! She was the nicest lady and had the biggest smile the whole time. She is from Bangladesh and we were able to teach her a lesson and are going back on Thursday! We also decided last minute to talk to this other lady who was walking into her door. W...

How annoying was that title? That's how I feel though. Merry Merry Christmas to everyone!! It's the best time of the flippin year.  Been doing so great over here. There's been so many Christmas acitivites and it's been a blast. I'll add some photos. I love love love the birth of Christ it's such a special time. Its been such an amazing time to reflect of what the Lord has done for me. An experience this week when the Lord assisted us was on Wednesday. Sister Hanks and I emphasised the importance of alignment prayers and were saying them consistently throughout the day. Prayers of gratitude, strength, and forgiveness after EVERY little thing we did. We went to visit a random member dot family that we have never heard of. We felt prompted to go and knock on their door. They didn't answer so what did we do? Alignment prayer! In the middle of the prayer the mom called us and said please please come back on Saturday! She sounded so happy and so excited. Then we s...