Sister Elly Rex: Anchorage Alaska Mission 2020-2022

Tom the carrot farmer called us to come pick 3 thousand carrots for him to donate to families in need. I was in heaven!!  The famous artist Megan Riker, came and talked to the women of our church. We invited 2 our friends that we street contacted into, to Megan's paint class with us. When we arrived, we were informed that they got there 30 minutes early! I sat with the two women and Sister BB sat with our other two attending friends. After a while, all of the tables were full. Except for ours. I reached out to a couple of women in our ward asking if they would come and sit by me and our friends. They all declined and stayed where they were comfortable. Which was normal. I was just hoping for the best! After 30 minutes of us being alone at the table, a Sister stands in the doorway and searches for a place to sit. This sister was very popular and could of added a seat at any table to join her friends. I prayed to Heavenly Father to PLEASE help her feel the spirit leading her to sit w...

The long dark nights are creeping into Alaska. Which means, we park at safe locations, aka the church. There are like no street lights here!  We pulled up to the church in our Black RAV4 and Elder Lambert ran up to us carrying a dog. He tells us that he found a very heavy, blind and deaf dog in the parking lot and can't find its owner. So we offered to go tracking for him haha. We knocked on 2 doors who lead us to the owner of the dog. We drove back to the church and carried the very thiccc dog ALL the way to the woman's house laughing our heads off. We learned the pups name was "Mister". Fitting!  We drove to an apartment building hoping to find an inactive member of our church. We realized we didn't know which apartment number he lived in! So naturally, we said a prayer and selected the room with carved pumpkins outside of the door. We knocked and it definitely wasn't who we were looking for. BUT! I said, "hi! We are missionaries.... would you be intere...

The darkness is creeping back into Alaska! One evening I was driving in a neighborhood that we renamed, "sketchville". We turned a corner and there was a horse that almost jumped into the road. Then we turned the next corner and there was this ghostly white old woman standing in the middle of the road. It was super creepy. I'm still creeped out by that horse and woman.  This week was one of the saddest weeks. ALL of our friends that we were teaching dropped us overnight, no joke. Each one of our friends texted us in their own way, "No. I don't want to read The Book of Mormon and I don't want to join your church". Me and Sister BB had weekly planning that morning, which is where we set personal goals for our friends to progress to come closer to Jesus Christ. We sobbed our heart out to God in our closing prayer to watch over our friends even if they were rejecting the truth. It's sad to know of the truth, all the blessings that come from living a cove...

  Best pick up line yet! The man that I asked to take a picture of his carrots, gifted me with 5 huge Alaskan carrots. #blessed This week me and Sister 'BB' found out we were staying together for a third transfer. At first, we thought why would God need us to be together for 6 more weeks? Then the miracles started trickling in! The first miracle was Sister 'BB' losing her phone on our preparation day hike. We were halfway down the mountain when she exclaimed that she couldn't find her phone. After a couple worrisome prayers and searching, we still couldn't find it. We were both ready to spend the whole day looking for the device, knowing it would be impossible to find. I told her we needed to say a kneeling prayer. We knelt on our knees onto the side of that very steep mountain and prayed specifically that her phone would be facing up with the sun reflecting off of the screen for us to find it. I opened my eyes, took one step, looked down and there it was. Faced...