Hey yall!
Well this week was really fun! Haha. For the past few weeks
my foot has been kind of sore and eventually my companion made me talk to the
mission doctor and she sent me to get Xrays. Well apparently my foot was
fractured.
How? I don't know! So know I'm using crutches for a few
weeks or however long it takes to get better. Yes, I'm using good shoes. No, I
didn't fall. Yes, i'm fine! That should cover all the questions haha!
This week I also got sick... My poor companion... She's had
to take care of me this whole week. But I'm almost all better now. The ward
here has been very helpful! I think once the word got out that a Sister
couldn't walk all of a sudden EVERYONE was offering to give us rides and teach
with us and have us over for dinner. This week was proof that member missionary
work works so much better than what we missionaries can do! Of all the members
that invited us over, three families introduced us to a friend or a family
member who was not a member. Of those three references, all of them are now
marked for baptism and are progressing fantastically!
We met one woman from Angola this week named Joana. She
lives with a member and told us that she's always been curious about the Book
of Mormon. Turns out she had read half of it before we taught her the first
lesson! As we shared the First Vision with her she started to cry, holding her
Book of Mormon close to her. She told us that she knew it was true. As we were
leaving she gave each of us one of those big grandma hugs and said, "I've
been waiting to meet you two for the last 50 years."
We met another kid named Isaundro, who is from Guinea. He is
22 years old and moved here by himself to try to escape his situation in
Africa. We were walking in the road when we found him. I saw some other missionaries
from another church on the other side of the road start to walk towards him and
I told Sister Noguiera that we couldn't let them contact him first. So we ran
(or rather Sister Noguiera ran and I hobbled) to contact him. Turns out he was
thinking about where he could find answers to all his questions about life and
asked God to help him. So Heavenly Father sent the Sisters! Isaundro came to
church and is already best friends with three other boys who came from Africa
and are recent converts as well.
It's been a really crazy week... But I think I would choose
to be a gimp for the rest of my mission if it meant that we could find people
like Joana and Isaundro every week. BEING A MISSIONARY IS SO MUCH FUN!! It
sucks sometimes but in the end, I love it!!
Com muito amor, paz, saude, alegria, e saudades,
Sister Ellsworth
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