Week 34 - Week of Miracles

July 14, 2014
So this week was definitely a week of miracles, amazing things continue to happen. We've got 3 potential baptisms for the next 3 weeks, and more to follow after that, it's inspiring to see what the Lord can do. We met this really cool guy Kenny on Thursday, and he is showing amazing potential, and he absolutely loved church yesterday. His friend Brother Purpur brought him, and he's getting ignited with the missionary spirit. The Maysville branch is very promising, and we had 98 in attendance yesterday, which is going to start becoming a normal occurrence here. If we can get it up to 120, it'll become a ward. Which would be sweet! That's our goal, and I have complete faith that I'll be here to see it happen. We are teaching a lot of people right now, and things just keep getting better. My companion is a really good teacher, and he's just a great missionary all around, and since we've been together lots of good things have been happening. When you do all you can, God truly does the rest, and miracles will happen. Kentucky rocks!!!

      Haha, so a funny story this week, we go out to contact a young couple we met a week or two ago, and they are super nice, and we had a great discussion, and we're going back tomorrow. We went with the ward mission leader, Brother Jones (he's super cool) and as we're leaving, I was trying to guess their age (I forgot why, but I swear I had a good reason for it) and asked if they were in their mid-30's or something, and the wife just gave me the worst death glare ever! She's only 24! but he's 37, and they have a teenage daughter, so I was trying to be polite by not saying she had a kid when she was 15... But that didn't really work. Bad backfire. Luckily she got over it, but Brother Jones shared the story in opening exercises of Priesthood and the branch won't let me forget it,,, haha, so yeah. That was fun. :D 

      Oh yeah, and a chihuahua peed on me! I was picking it up to put it back inside this member's house, and Elder Goss (my companion for the day) told me to look at my shirt... and there was a big yellow spot. Maybe I shouldn't share this story because its super gross... And they wont let me forget about this one either. Haha don't scare chihuahuas.

       Sorry if I'm really bad about responding to e-mails sometimes, there's just so much stuff to do, and there's never enough time to do it!! I'm trying to petition for a time turner, but we'll see how it goes. Anyways, I love you all!!! Keep being awesome! :D

-Love Elder Ellis

                                 Photo taken at transfers June 25, 2014 

                                  Elder Ellis crashing a sisters pic

Week 33 - Woot!

July 7, 2014

Hey everyone!!! sorry, I don't have too much time to e-mail, but this week has been awesome!!! It's been so good here in Kentucky, I absolutely love it! Miracles happening all over the place, it is amazing. I will try to write more next week, but know that I love you all!! Have a great one!! :D

-Elder Ellis

                               Muncie, Indiana flood photos I found on his camera card

Week 32 - Kentucky!!!

June 30, 2014
WOOT!!!!! Guess who got sent to Kentucky??? Elder Carter!!!! Ha ha just kidding, I did!!! I'm serving in the Maysville, Kentucky Branch!!!!! OH YEAH!!!! I'm so excited to be here. My companion is Elder Rose, and he's from West Jordan, Utah. AND I LOVE HIM TO DEATH!!!! Ha ha oh my gosh, we get along so good. We both had to make an effort to get along with our last companions for the first little while, then became best friends with them, and now we get along just absolutely great with each other. He's a fantastic missionary, obedient, diligent, and lots of faith. He's been here for 4 1/2 months in Maysville, and he's built the area up really well compared to what it was before. He's been out about 9 months.

     We're also serving with the Littles, a senior couple from Morgan, Utah, and they are the coolest people ever!!! Man, I just love Maysville. Kentucky is so green, it's so beautiful, and we've seen a lot of success just in this past week. and we have a truck, which is pretty cool. I wish I could go into specifics, but don't have enough time. One person to watch out for is Rusty Gordon, we just put him on date this past week for July 19. Also Amber, Juanita, and Jackee(male) who are pretty close to having a date, two of which we just started teaching this past week. So things are going great! Best of wishes to all of you! Thanks for the support and love. I Love you all!!! :D

-Elder Ellis

P.S. Our address is 10 Highland Hollow, apt #11, Maysville, Kentucky, 41056.  Feel free to send stuff!!

                             Elder Ellis & Elder Price with the Sisters & friend in Muncie, IN

Week 31 - Transfers!!

June 23, 2014
So the calls came in this morning... I am officially leaving Muncie!!! After 6 months here, it is time for me to go. Sad day!!! I'll find out who my new companion is and where I'm going tomorrow at Transfers. I thought it would feel really weird, but its not... jk now I'm thinking about it and its starting to feel really weird... Oh well!! I'll find out what goes down tomorrow. I am going to miss this place SO MUCH!!!!!! I Love Muncie!!! This ward is like my family, I'm so close with all of them. It's going to be the weirdest thing ever!!! I really hope my next area is a good one, it's going to be rough leaving here. I have no idea what to expect. I'm guessing I'll go to Fort Wayne, or Kentucky... At least that's what I'm hoping for!!! That would be really cool if it happened. 

      WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN????? No one knows. Except God. And probably President at this point. Well, I'll give you all my new address as soon as I can! The Lord lives and he loves us! Have a wonderful week everyone!!

P.S. Douglas (who's been coming to basketball) came to church on Sunday!! And he's got a date for May 12. Go Douglas!! (even though I won't be here) :D go Elder Price! Get him there with your new companion!! :D

Week 30 - Father's Day

June 16, 2014
Hey, everyone! Hope you all had a great Father's Day!! It was good up here in Muncie, tons of people came to church for it. And church is always amazing. 

   Well, another week in Muncie, Weather is still just jumping all around the place. Life's amazing here, things just keep getting better and better. Lots of people in downtown don't know how to keep commitments, so we're trying to teach more in the rich area's, but the sad part about that is that they're less likely to listen to us. A lot. But Faith and Diligence go a long way!!!!!!! :D

    I never know what to write in the e-mails..... WE SAW A PANDA!!!!!!!! not really. But I wish, it'd be cool. I don't have very much time, we're jumping around getting a lot of stuff done for people. LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS MISSION!!!! Missionaries are so cool. I LOVE YOU ALL BACK HOME TOO!! EVERYONE HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK!!!!!!! :D

Week 29 - YO!!

June 9, 2014

   I always forget like everything that happened during the week the moment P-day rolls around. BUT IT WAS A GREAT WEEK!!!!!!!!!! SO much fun, don't remember anything, but it was great. OH YEAH Sherry's on date for the 28th, so we'll see how that goes, probably going to have to push it back a week or two, but you know, we'll get her!!! GO MUNCIE!!! HAHA life's really good. I need to buy another SD card to take more pictures, so that's a work in progress, but we get paid next week, so I should be able to. EAT MORE SPINACH ITS GOOD FOR YOU!!!! And go talk to some non-members about the church, it does a lot for them! Love you all!! :D

-Love, Elder Ellis

                                         Doing Service in Muncie, IN - May 2014

                                            Sisters Baptism Dec 22, 2013 of Sierra

Week 28 - What's up

June 2, 2014
So guess who got baptized this weekend! Nobody!!! Haha, bet I got you all with that one, didn't I? Don't worry, we'll get someone in the water before the end of the transfer. The Zowd's weren't able to make it to church, which was super disappointing, and most others failed too. Just Chrissy, Paul's girlfriend, was there. She had a great time though!! Maybe she'll be the one we'll get in the water, she's pretty teachable. We just need more Faith, Diligence and Obedience! Nah we're pretty good on all that, and we're pretty humble too. Probably like the most humble missionaries out there. They should give us an award. :D I really hope you all get that joke the right way. Pride's always something we always got to watch out for... So are coconuts, they kill more people than sharks every year. 

    So we're still teaching a lot of people, and still struggling to get a lot of them to progress. Things are going fantastic though, we're working hard and getting work done. and the Ward here loves us, so that's always nice.

   So ya!! Love all of you, wish you a wonderful week!!! :D

-Love Elder Ellis

                                               Chris & Amanda's Baptism Jan 24, 2014