Ella's Mission Florida Fort Lauderdale

  Have I mentioned before that I LOVE being a missionary!!! I was thinking this week about how we as missionaries see the most out of pocket things haha! And we had some tender experiences this week lol, so let's get to it!  First off, Charles FINALLY went to the temple for the first time this week!!! YAYYY! I don't know if I explained it before, but right after he was baptized, we were teaching him about baptisms for the dead in the temple, and he went online and searched it on google... first mistake. And he got a little scared off! But we have been praying a lot that he would start to grow a stronger testimony, and now he's back! Prayer works, and God is in the details! I was reading in 3 Nephi this week, and something that stood out to me as Christ was teaching the Nephites was that Jesus had to descend below all things before he could ascend above them! That is definitely something that is useful for me, and can be for everyone today! We have to be cut down before we c...

  ALOOOOHAA! I hope everyone had a fantabulous week! This is going to be a shorter one, so you're welcome:) Fun fact: this week's temperature is record breaking for Florida in July! It was SO HOT this week! And when I say it was so hot, I mean you step outside for 5 seconds and you are completely drenched. ONE: because the humidity percentage is at 80%, and TWO: because the temperature is at 98, and it feels like 104. It's been just fantastic hahaha!  What made this week even better is that we found out our unlimited miles became limited this month lol so we were trekking on our bikes! We found the cutest little old man named Richard! He was riding on his bike and was like "umm yeah I want to hear about jesus!" Haha ALSO this is crazy! So we were on our bikes of course, and we made a goal that day to say hi to literally every single person we could! (We were yelling hi left and right lol it was great) anyways, we were riding by these 2 guys giving their car, and S...

  Hey hey!! Happy Monday, again!! This week was busy busy, just like every other week haha, but we had the coolest miracles!  First, we are teaching the cutest 14 year old girl, Francesca! We love her so much, and she will be getting baptized soon! Anyways, we were trying to call her the other night, and it said that the number wasn't working, but we just tried again anyways, and it went through! Her brother Esteban picked up the phone instead and we asked him if we could share a little scripture with him and say a prayer, and he was so excited! He said that he would love to start learning more about our church because he knows his mom and his sister go to church, but he has never heard anything about it! Crazy right??! Sister Stevens and I literally screamed for like 5 whole minutes after that one! It was so cool!  Something also very similar happened with our friend Ricardo! First of all when he picked up the phone he was all not interested and was saying that he alread...

  Hello! Happy Monday! Some weeks on the mission feel like seconds, and the days feel like years. Well this week was one of those weeks. Let me tell ya.  I feel like we had to go film everyone and their moms this week! The camera was constantly charging, and we were constantly on the go! Every day! But there are perks to being able to travel around the whole mission! One example is that we get to eat the food in different places! drumroll please... WE WENT TO RAISING CANE'S!!! We have been dreaming of a raising cane's 3 piece chicken strip basket for a while now! And God answered our prayers. He is just too good to us haha.  Okay, also... We started teaching this person named Omar... He sent in a referral a while ago, and wasn't responding, and then just out of the blue on Friday he texted us and asked if we baptize, and said he wants to be baptized. That's literally all he said. Nothing else. Yes, we do in fact help people get baptized Omar. We showed up at his house, ...

  "Anotha week, anotha spiritual dolla!" @sisterarlint HEY HEY!! I hope everyone had a fabulous week! It's been another wild one! So... It was transfers!!! We have a new mission president, President Cluff, and his wife, Sister Cluff! They are quite literally the cutest people ever! Seriously! And we had no idea, but we were the first missionaries they met in Florida!! Crazy right??! Yep! We spent literally 2 days just trying to set up all their mission phones and computers, and it was on the more difficult side because they forgot all their passwords... hahaha... let's just say one minute of being locked, went to an hour really quick! That's right folks! We locked the new mission President's phone for an hour! It was great! So we decided to come back to that one, and go eat lunch and then come back and grind again lol. I love them to pieces though! At our zone conference, they just knew exactly what to say, when to say it, and what to do! I will be honest, it ...