Well its been a pretty rough first week, to say the least. We're like 5 minutes out of hardcore downtown Cincinnati, and it's a super City area around here and stuff. The area we live in is pretty ghetto, it kills me inside to see how terrible and miserable people's lives are. I really wish I had a less rough area as my first, but I know its cause the Lord is making more out of me then it could be otherwise. My address is 2928 Burnet Avenue, apartment #10, Cincinnati, Ohio. If you guys want to send me letters or anything, that would help out a lot.
My first area is the Cincinnati YSA branch, and we proselyte on the University of Cincinnati campus. President Porter said only the most energetic, outgoing, friendly people get assigned to campus, so the fact that I'm being trained here is pretty cool. He says I have lots of potential, which has helped me out to hear that. I've only been here a few days, I really need to be more patient with myself. There's so many people out there that have never heard of our church, but its really cool teaching lessons and stuff. We have an investigator with a baptismal date for the 28th of December, and I really hope that holds through. My trainer is also the district leader, Elder Davis, and he's from St. George, and he's one of the coolest persons I've ever met. He's just real with everyone, he loves everyone, and he has a really strong testimony of the gospel and this work. He's helped me out quite a bit.
I know the gospel is true, I know Christ lives and that he died so that every single one of us can repent of our sins and come to live with God again. I want you all to know that I love every single one of you, and that you all are luckiest people on earth to have what you have in life, and to be raised where you've been raised. Be grateful for all that, cause you could have ended up in a place like this. Thanks to everyone for all the support you guys have given me, and bear your testimony a lot, it really helps. Again, I love you all, I hope you all have a fantastic week, and God bless!!
Elder Ellis
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