Ebbert, Alia

Hello! This week was pretty normal. We had interviews with our mission President. I think it taught me that no matter how much you think you're failing or letting God down, God and Jesus Christ's first feeling towards you is a major expression of love.  The members in these wards are AWESOME. We are well loved as missionaries here.  Transfer news comes in a week. I think Sister McCoy is leaving to the valley, and Sister Bunderson and I are going to split the area into two parts and each lead out a half.  I can successfully translate a whole conference talk live while listening at full speed (headphones playing English and speaking out loud in spanish at the same time). It DESTROYS my brain but it's a pretty cool skill.  Until next time, Hermana Ebbert 

We planted cacti this week! It was low key really fun. 10/10 would do again. I got to speak to some people in spanish this week and it made me very happy :) We had a district blitz and it was miraculous! The missionaries in neighboring areas came to ours for a night and we found as many people as we could who are looking for greater joy and peace.  We had some incredible monsoons and we got to do some biking too. Great week overall! Until next time, Hermana Ebbert 

Our members out here in Coolidge are INSANE! We've gotten several referalls this week, and many have given out copies of the Book of Mormon or invited their friends to church.  We spent some time during weekly planning scrolling through our MASSIVE ward directory for both wards (We're talking probably 1200 records). We picked a list of names that we felt like we should ask for referalls. Many of them we'd never heard of before. It's hard to tell who's active and who's not in wards that big.  Miracle time!! We met with a sweet little old lady from the list. Turns out she's the ward organist and she used to live in the Mormon Colonies in Chiwawa Mexico, and still knows a little Spanish. We started to tell her that we felt that there was someone in her life prepared to recieve the missionaries, and before we finished our invitation she told us that her friend next door neighbor is the one! Her neighbor speaks mostly Spanish and a little bit of English. So she w...

Hello all!  This week we tried really hard to find new people to teach. Every day we set aside time to find . . . NOTHING.  BUT.  Sister McCoy came up with a sick idea to get the members to find people for us. Competition at its finest. So next week will be better. We also put someone on date that we weren't expecting so that was a crazy miracles.  This week I read in the scriptures that when we act on the knowledge Christ gives us, we can have peace like a river.  Not much else to say. Good week. Learning a lot.  Until next time, Hermana Ebbert

Sorry for the lack of email last week. I was packing and playing gatorball ;) I moved to Coolidge! It's a small town 30 minutes east of Casa Grande. There is nothing here but a lot of drugees and members of the church. And a Dairy Queen.  I'm serving in two ENGLISH wards so I literally got the worst culture shock I've felt in my life. It legit feels like a whole new mission. EVERYTHING is so different. I feel like I'm being trained again. Rip.  Some adventures: - Sister Toner went home and left me a couple shirts that I always wore when we were comps, a name tag, a note, and a posterity mug. Literally made my whole mission. I love her so much.  - I gave a talk on Sunday last minute, cried about my brother and Jesus Christ - Got a flat tire and changed it (shoutout to Hermana Toner for teaching me how to do that in the church parking lot - Had dinner with a member who lived in Europe for 10 years and couldn't stop talking about how terrible of an idea a particular po...