Sister Ellaina Vernon

Mom’s note- We just got Ellaina's release letter and she will be home the end of this month.  Her mission was just changed on her last month so now she is in the California, Riverside Mission.  She is actually living in the same place mission boundaries just changed. Here is her letter. July 8, 2019 EARTHQUAKES! On the fourth of July they did not have us proselytize at all. We did studies, cleaned our apartment, and had our mission President interviews. While we were studying Sister Welker was talking about signs of the second coming of Christ, that there will be earthquakes in diverse places and a bunch of other stuff. As she is talking about it we felt an earthquake. Everything just shook for a minute and then just stopped. I think it was a funny time for it to happen. We then felt another pretty big earthquake the day after and I have felt several small ones. It is good they are not big or close enough to us to be a problem. One lady even called us to make sure that w

June 24, 2019 Sister Stoddard left to Escondido and and Sister Welker came to Morgan Hill. Everything went well with transfers and I went with another Sister while I waited for Sister Welker to get here. We saw a man carrying boxes and offered to help him. His family then visited with us and gave us food. We had a meeting to meet the Riverside Mission President. It is interesting to see how he does things differently than President Thomas.  A few weeks ago we gave a woman a copy of The Book of Mormon. She did not want to set up a return appointment and would not give us her phone number. We came back this week and she was not home, but her husband was and he said that she has been reading it. He sees the Book mark moving through the book.  We were biking to an appointment and we stopped to talk to a man named Kevin. He was not interested, but thinks we are very well traveled and experts on good places to visit.  Love,Sister Vernon June 31, 2019 We were asked to teach