Walker, Ellie PT

Hello everybody! I'm kind of sad that I have to write this, but the time has come, and it's my last email. :( Funny enough, I feel like this has been the most hectic week of my whole mission. For the whole week, I only spent 2 days in my area, which has been so crazy! I got to go on an exchange in Bristol, and it was so fun! Sister Boamah is afraid of dogs, and when we were tracting, most of the houses had dogs... so that made me laugh. Also, for district council, we had a fried rice competition! We took the L big time. Then I got to go to the temple because I'm going home. But the temple was so beautiful, and it has been a year and a half since I got to go to one, so it was such an amazing experience. I really loved the temple, and I learned so, so much. Then, when I came back from the temple, the next day we went on exchanges with the sisters in Weston-Super-Mare! So, I got to go back to Weston! I think my favorite part was when we went to this one returning member's ...

Oh my goodness, this week was just too good. So many crazy things happened, so get ready, hahaha! Also, you'll get an email on Saturday because of the King's coronation. Okay, so on Tuesday, we got to go on exchanges with the sisters in Yate! I got to stay in Bath, and Sister Parkinson came with me! It's always so fun to bring sisters to Bath because they remind me how beautiful the area is when they take a ton of pictures. But the craziest thing happened! So the week before, we were tracting and met this guy named Julian who let us share a message at his door, and then we left him with a Book of Mormon and a pamphlet. He wouldn't give us his number, so we told him that if he wanted to talk, then to give us a call. And he actually gave us a call! So we set up a time to meet... I'll get to the details of the meeting later. Then we went for dinner at a place I've never been, but it was Thai. I told Sister Parkinson I've never had pad Thai, and I'd try it. ...

Helloooo everyone!!  This week went by so fast and so many great things happened!!  So we got to go on exchanges with the sisters in the Forest of Dean. And their area is sooooo pretty! There's so many trees and everything was just gorgeous. I got to go with Sister Aluesi who is from tonga!! She made me some REALLY yummy rice and taught me how to introduce myself in Tongan and how to do a Tongan dance. I'm basically Tongan. Jk but it was such a fun day, and she's such a spiritual giant. Also, while we were tracting this lady asked where we came from.  So not even thinking I told her I was from the states. And she said " no no no. Like what organization are you a part of." That was really awkward and Sister Aluesi made fun of me. But I don't really know how she expected me to answer any differently. Oh well.  But then later that day when I was back in Bath We went tracting again and got rejected so hard. It was probably the worst rejection I've gotten. But ...

Hello everybody! I hope you all had an amazing week! I have no idea what all happened this week; it was all a big blur. No baptisms this week, and one of our friends, David, who we were teaching and then sent over to the elders, asked if we could move his date back so he could feel more prepared. So we are currently working on that one. Our other recent converts, Lewis and Joseph, are both going to be getting the Aaronic priesthood next week! So that will be really exciting! We did have a ton of meetings, which meant we got to be in Bristol quite a bit. Also, one of my funniest tracting experiences: we were knocking doors, and this one guy opened the door and immediately yelled at us, telling us there's no way, and then as he was slamming the door told us to f off. So that was definitely entertaining and made me laugh. But luckily a pretty cool miracle followed. We knocked on this girl's door who actually is friends with one of our members and has talked a little bit about the ...

Hello everyone! I hope you had a great Easter weekend!! This week was seriously so good! We had so many fun things happen. So the transfer news is that I get to stay in Bath for my last 6 weeks!! I'm so beyond excited that I get to stay here and work with our amazing members. LEWIS WAS BAPTISED!! It was seriously so amazing. It's been amazing to watch his testimony grow from the minute we knocked on his door to when he received the gift of the holy ghost. He really is incredible, and it was such a memorable experience.  So super embarrassing story- we had a YA institute kind of thing and one of our members- deon- tells us that he's bringing 2 nonmember. So as a joke we reacted with this guy sprinting to show that we would be eager to talk with them. It was actually really funny, and doesn't make much sense when I explain it. Anywho, we are still institute and we had a pretty good convo with the 2 people. One said they used to be on baptismal date, and would like to be t...