Sister Elly Rex: Anchorage Alaska Mission 2020-2022

  The Alaskan term for when the Autumn leaves fall + the peaks turn white with snow = snow will be here in a week or 2... Picture this... September 25th 2020, 8:57pm... Sis Wilhite & Rex driving home from the church. They drive by a dog mushing team carrying a 4 wheeler. We squealed to the heavens and rolled down windows screaming for literally 5 mins. JOY FOR DAYZ.  Kinda cool that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is promised to grow until it fills the whole earth and it can NEVER be destroyed because it's the truth and it will live forever. [Isaiah 2:2-3] -> Let us climb up towards Jesus Christ by enduring the steep hike of life. This church IS the right place to be.  I am commonly asked by other missionaries-"Sis Rex, why are you not wearing shoes? It's cold!" Taught my first training for our district about the light of Christ! I know that the light of Christ is brighter than the sun soooooo during the long months of winter darkness, I am goin...

 I am SO in love with everything to do with Wasilla, Alaska. Like seriously. I am absolutely living the dream.  Also I am SO thankful because I was gifted with THE best trainer a new missionary could ever ask for. Me and Sister Wilhite have been tight since day one. I live with another set of sistas and they are amazing as well. We all naturally strive on positivity so its always a party of good laughs.  HAHA jokes on all of y'all who thought I would be eating whale blubber for meals. We actually aren't allowed to eat at members houses due to it being the prime time for finding and contacting our "new friends". So far all meals have been fish freeeeee. SCORE!  Due to COVID:/ We have to always wear or masks, no matter if we are outside, with the district, or any circumstance. If we are teaching people in their houses, they have to wear masks as well. At church, no one wears masks but us. We teach lessons on zoom, phone calls, or while maintaining  a social distan...

 Week 2!! I fly out to  Alaska in 5 days !!! I am so hyped to get out into the world far away from online zooming. I have begun to love my district and soon we will all be spread across the USA:( I do have hope to be companions again, one day, in-person, with Sister Edwards.  This week has been full of SO much enlightening knowledge centering around our loving Savior, Jesus Christ. I know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only church which Jesus Christ Leads on the Earth that has the fullness of  TRUTH . The Lord never improvises! He has had a plan for each of us from the beginning to the end. People around us need the hope and  JOY  that Jesus Christ brings. Share Christ's  LOVE  this week by being kind to someone this week:) Our friends need the  HOPE  that Jesus Christ brings. The more we learn about  FAITH  in Jesus Christ, the more we gain faith in Christ.  I am learning that keepin...