What a wonderful week Sister Crandall and I had! We started our week with a zone water balloon fight on Monday and that was a blast! The weather is finally warming up here so that's been nice. It was actually almost 90 degrees yesterday! Sister Crandall is dying, I am loving it. On Tuesday we had a lot of lessons that kept us busy, but one of my favorite moments was with a family in the ward who has a son on a mission right now. We were over there doing a Family Home Evening type message and just talking about missions and stuff when the 17-year old daughter asked Sister Crandall and I when we decided we wanted to go on our missions. We both go to talk about what got us out there and we asked Maddie if she'd ever considered going on a mission. She said she'd thought about it, but wasn't really sure so we invited her to come out with us to a lesson we were going to be having the next day with some young girls. She got super excited and we were super excited and so we got it all set up. So the next day we go out to teach these 2 sisters, they're 8 and 9, and Maddie came with us. It was such a fun lesson and Maddie had some awesome contributions and it was just fantastic. Maddie had a ton of fun and the girls we were teaching loved her.
We had several of our lessons cancel on us this week so that was a little frustrating, but we had an awesome specialized training with President and Sister Greer on Friday that just made the whole week wonderful. The training was for all the missionaries being trained right now and their trainers so there was around 24 of us and we talked about the Doctrine of Christ the whole 3 hours. The Doctrine of Christ is such a simple thing. It is faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end. Our path back to our Father in Heaven is laid out right in front of us. We read 2 Nephi 31 together (I encourage everyone to go read that chapter as soon as you can) and Sister Greer just testified of how much she loves the Doctrine of Christ and how important it is. Elder Williams, one of the assistants, talked to us about building our foundation on Christ and specifically on the Doctrine of Christ. That foundation is what is going to get us through any of the storms that blow our way. Elder Fenn, the other assistant, talked about the principle of love and how important it is that we love everyone we meet and everyone we are with because we are all children of our Father in Heaven and we all matter in His eyes. We talked about charity and just truly allowing ourselves to love everyone and as we do that, we'll be able to share with them the things they may need to hear. We talked about how the Doctrine of Christ was given to us because Jesus Christ loved us enough to make it possible to return to live with our Father in Heaven again, what an amazing blessing that is.
Saturday I went over to Kennewick on an exchange with Sister McGhie and we worked in her area. It's hard to not know where anything is again, but we had a great day together and it was cool to meet people that I didn't know at all and already care about them. It reminded me of our training on Friday and just reaffirmed how important being a missionary is and what a blessing it is in my life. Sundays are always wonderful and yesterday was no exception. Sacrament meeting in both wards talked about Father's Day and what a blessing it is and how our Heavenly Father loves us just like our earthly father does, but on an even greater level. It made me very grateful to know that I can go to my Father in Heaven whenever I am troubled, sad, happy, or excited. No matter what it is, Heavenly Father cares and loves us each individually and perfectly. It was a wonderful way to end the week.
Congrats to the Hockenjos family on baby Brynlee!!! She is absolutely beautiful. And congrats to my dad for winning the rib throwndown at work! I knew your ribs could do it. I hope everyone has a wonderful week, thank you all for the prayers, thoughts, and love.
Sister Ellingson
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