Sister Ellaina Vernon

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July 29, 2019 This week was my last week on my mission. We had a great week. There is a woman named Carol that we have been trying to work with since I came to the area. The first time we met her she was kind of rude so we did not try to stop by again. Her friend invited her to a Relief Society Activity and she actually apologized to us. We went by this week and were able to set up an appointment and then have a lesson. When we walked up to the house there was a sales woman talking to Carol. We waited until she left. It turns out that the saleswoman is a member of the Church and she saw that Carol had the Come Follow Me Book. Carol said that she did not think it was a coincidence that she came right before we did. We had a great lesson with Carol she even took notes.  President Hammon had each of us that are going home write a miracle that we saw on our missions. This is what I wrote. "I hoped to see many miracles on my mission. I expected them to come in certain ways, b

July 21, 2019- COMPLETING MISSION-WHAT I HAVE LEARNED! Next week I will complete my 18 month mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a full time representative of the Lord I have learned and gained a lot of new experiences. This post is a list of 18 things that I have learned during the past 18 months. 1. Jesus Christ is a real person with a real personality just like any of us. I knew and accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior before my mission. I have come to learn that yes he is perfect, but he is also understanding, compassionate, joyful, patient, and human. I understand, know and love Him better.  3 Nephi 27:27 "Therefore, what manner of men ought ye to be? Verily I say unto you, even as I am." 3 Nephi 27:27 John 11:36 "Jesus wept" 2. Repentance. I have learned how to more fully access the healing power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.  "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him str

July 15, 2019- We did service at a thrift store this week. We organized the donations coming in. It was pretty fun. One of the bags I got had a bunch of fancy dresses. Like ones you would wear to prom or something.  A week or so ago we visited someone and they said they needed to work on weeding their yard. So we went and weeded it this week for them, which was fun. They were surprised that we actually came over and helped. It was fun to surprise them. We started teaching two kids that are already members. They are twins and are nine years old. We are teaching them to get practice teaching and to help them understand the gospel. They are pretty wound up. We ended up doing our object lesson with them while they jumped on the trampoline.  One funny thing that happened is that we always try to talk to everyone about the gospel. The problem with that is we do not always remember who we have talked to before and we also end up talking to members and trying to teach them we had t