Ellie Serving in Ventura: {Letter #51} YELLOW CAR!!!

February 9, 2026

Hello!
Since I've last written....(sorry)
I have left Ventura (after 6 lovely months)
I LOVE Ventura a whole lot.
Now I'm in Lompoc!!!!

Lompoc is incredible for many different reasons

Here are some highlights
-we have a truck
-we cover Solvang (a weird little Danish town 30 mins away from the rest of our area)
- 🦅I LIVE IN AN APARTMENT WITH ANOTHER SET OF SISTERS 🦅
-The Ostrich farm!!! (100% I would win)

-It's colder here so I get to wear my sweaters

- On occasion there is a big boom and everything shakes ( it feel like a bomb/ earthquake) don't fret it is just a sonic boom, we live like 10ish mins from a rocket launch place.

-Hermana Bradway who is from Texas and is an Icon!

A brief story to explain how cool she is

We're at the church after Sacrament meeting, the Elders' friend comes up to us shakes our hands and says "Guapa como siempre!" {translation: "Handsome as always"}

I was getting ready to awkwardly say thank you and walk away then laugh.
What happened instead is Hermana Bradway pointed at him and yelled "Period" in a lovely Texas accent and preceded to run down the hall! Icon.

-There are lots of cats and weird little dogs that wear jackets and will attack your ankles!

-Members here are so sweet.

-I got to go into a barber shop and we were asked to pray over all the people there!!

-We had a couple slow weeks but we now have so many cool friends that I'm so excited to keep meeting with

Spiritual thought:
This is a quote from a BYU speech I loved this week :)

"To Act in Holiness Before the Lord." By Brad Neiger

Someday, when we look back on mortality, we will see that so many of the things that seemed to matter so much at the moment will be seen not to have mattered at all. And the eternal things will be seen to have mattered even more than the most faithful of the Saints imagined.

Remember the things that really matter