Joshua Ellis will be giving his homecoming address this Sunday:

9:00am

 

Beaverton Stake Building

4195 SW 99th Street

Beaverton, OR  97005

All are welcome to attend.

Josh is home!!!!!!!!  Yay!!!!!!!!!

April 2, 2012

Hello Everyone!

Well this week has just flown by! My companion and I have been doing everything we can to see as much success in this area before we leave. We have had quite a few tender mercies and blessings given to us. This week I had the special opportunity of going to the temple to see one of my converts who has been a member for a year, go through the temple for the first time! It was such an amazing experience! After the temple session she came up to me in tears and kept saying thank you over and over, she was completely overwhelmed with joy. I think it is a moment on my mission that I will never forget. That was also pretty special because it was the last time I got to go through the Newport Beach temple on my mission. It is such a beautiful temple and it will always have a special place in my heart and have a lot of good memories. This week we were able to teach our investigator Vivian and Kyle. We had dinner at a members house with them and then we taught them afterward. We taught them a really powerful lesson about eternal families and how our church has the restored priesthood power and keys to seal families and spouses together forever. It was a great lesson. This week we were also able to teach a new investigator from China named Amy. She is such a great person and this week we were able to go meet with her member husband and she and her daughter. Her 5 year old daughter is so cute, and she was teaching me Chinese the whole night. I have found that the little kids are such a great way to learn Chinese from, because there Chinese is pretty good and they are always willing to help. We had a lesson with Amy about who God is and who Jesus Christ is. We had to teach very very simply, because she has no religious background at all and the idea of a God is really foreign to her. After the lesson we invited her to pray and her prayer was amazing! We are excited to teach her again this week, and we will see where things go from there.

Other than all of that, I have been working hard, and living every minute i have left to the fullest. I loved Conference this weekend! It was amazing!

I love you all, I hope all is going well. Talk to you all in next week's email!