Ella's Mission Florida Fort Lauderdale

  Merry Christmas everyone!! It really is the best time of year!! Let me tell you why!  1. It's the time of year that we get to celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ!  2. Everyone has a little more love and joy in their hearts around this time of year!  I know it's kind of weird to think about it that way, but it's true! The amount of times I said hi to someone, and they said hi back is insane! Usually people just look at me funny and keep moving... it's the best! Haha jkjk Well we had a crazy miracle this week! It hit 43 degrees in Florida!! Weather said it felt like 38 because of the humidity and wind! All I have to say is no. I did not pack clothes for this kind of weather! It's supposed to be sunny 24/7 so I don't die!! I'm pretty sure I did die when we walked out the front door one morning because I just wasn't mentally prepared to be that cold! I don't think I'm going to be able to survive when I get off the plane in Idaho and it...

  Holy guacamole!! Another week for the books! First off I just want to say how much I love it here! Being a missionary is one of my favorite things in life! AAAHH I love it more than acai bowls; and that's saying a lot!  Which brings me to the first subject... we made homemade acai bowls this week for dinner and all I have to say is *chefs kiss* if you haven't made or tried them yet, run. That's all:)  Also something amazing happened this week! Well a lot of amazing things happened this week! It started raining A LOT so we jumped in the puddles and made rain angels:) why you ask? Why not?!! It was so fun! That's another thing you need to do asap! It's better than snow angels:)  Okay so for the first miracle we have Fernando! He's a member of the church, but he comes every so often and we decided to give him a call one night and see what's up and how he's been and when we told him we wanted to read a little scripture with him, he said he had to run to hi...

  Alright, so it was an interesting week to say the least! But guess what?! I had my loop day (meaning the days from when I started my mission match up with the days I have left) 😭 now I'm on the downhill slope so that's just great... where do I even begin for the week?! Oh I know, let's start with King Flex... Okay, so Sister Arlint and I decided to go downtown, and I don't know what was in the air, but there was something and it was making people weird. Let me explain. First, we met this lady Carmela at the Bodega quick stop store:) she was super nice, and just randomly gave us some shell necklaces because we were being nice, but we still had to pay for the $5 parking lol. While we were in the store she insisted on taking a picture of us, and right as we were about to take it, a man walks in with his dog and gives us his dog to be in the picture with us. "Okay now smile really big and say CHEEEESECAAAKEEE." Those were his own words haha he said he was a pro...

  Can we talk about how it's December already! Like Christmas is 20 days away! AAAAHHH It's insane!!  Anyways, so pretty crazy story... transfer day... the day I met my new trainee... all the trainers sit in the chapel and all the new missionaries sit up on the stand in front of us! And at this moment, we still don't know who our companion is going to be! Well I watched all the missionaries walk in, and when I saw one sister the vibes were just good:) she was all smiley, and I just new! And turns out I was right haha! My new companion is Sister Arlint, and she is AMAZING! A literal superstar, and a firecracker for sure!  Let me give you an example haha so we were teaching a friend, and the first thing that she says is, "so were you even happy? How does that story effect you now? What are you going to do about it?" And then she shared the story of Alma the younger... and if you don't know that story, go read Alma 36! It's AWESOME!  Anyways, here are some ot...