Hey everyone!
Crazy week this week. It's helped me see once again that everything depends on you and not the situation around you. I'll give you guys a little glimpse into the week.
Tuesday I had the big zone leader meeting. It was weird because it was sort of presidents last teaching and everything. All he's doing now is preparing for the new president. so we learned some pretty cool things. Something that I really liked was sort of his last line to us he said- "There is no other way to measure your love for god then how you treat others around you." I thought it was cool. God says if you love me keep my commandments. When you think of the 10 commandments it's all about others around you, and then the second greatest commandment is love your neighbor as you love yourself. Idk it all kinda clicked for me so I thought it was cool!
Then later that day I met with two men from salt lake and the mission president about a service project that the 12 apostles were behind and pushing for it you could say. My zone was to go help and be apart of a "prayer breakfast" for police and fire men, where there would be leaders from 5different churches and each talk and pray for these service men. So it was pretty cool to be apart of. It was held in the Grand Canyon university basketball stadium with over 800 people in attendance.
The catch was we were to be there ready to go at 5 am... so we were up Wednesday morning at 4. Wow I was tired haha. So we have now all been up since 4 so we are all a little on edge, and we receive the news that our friend elder Wyatt was going home that day. He hadn't told anyone but he wrecked his hand on his bike and was going home for surgery. The worst part is he might not be able to come back because of his medical history. He is 7 feet tall and has had some really big struggles with his health. Anywho we were all just so sad it was awful. So ya he went home.
Then Thursday was elder wyatts companions birthday and he was really down so we tried to do something fun. I ended up making a pretty sweet piñata (if I do say so myself haha) and that was fun. In spite of the sadness, we also had Jesus's baptismal interview and prepared his program and everything so that was awesome! He was so excited!!!
Then Friday during district meeting, we held a funeral for elder clough, who went home this morning. It was pretty funny I'll send pics.
Saturday tho was awesome. It was Jesus baptism!!!! IT WAS THE BOMB. He was so ready. He couldn't stop smiling. And the whole ward showed up! It was beautiful 😊 He worked so hard to find his answer, and the lord has blessed him so much. He knows so much and has truly begun his path to conversion.
Sunday, he was then confirmed as well as received the aaronic priesthood! Then to just put the cherry on top without anyone saying anything, he went up and bore such a sweet pure testimony of the Book of Mormon and his feelings of the church. He's such a cool kid. June will be one of the biggest months of his life haha. He was baptized and confirmed, it's his birthday, and he began boot camp. That was hard tho to say goodbye to him. He started boot camp yesterday in Oklahoma.
Then we learned that a great lady in our wards daughter died. She had been battling cancer, and she was pretty sad. Her husband isn't a member and it was super hard on him. They asked us to come to the funeral Friday, and I kinda feel bad that we were joking about the "else's funeral" and now we have a real one. But it was very special to see the hope the sister had and the way she talked about how she was happy for her, no longer suffering and being in a better place.
Then Monday comes around and elder clough actually leaves and that was hard too. I have been around him for over 9 months of my mission. He's a super cool dude.
And now today is transfers and we've had to figure out a ton of stuff that went wrong with transfers and I'm now district leader because ZL don't really exist anymore in our mission, but it's whatever. I'll now being doing a lot more, and hopefully be able to help the missionaries more, doing exchanges and what not. But I am staying to finish off in la Joya and the ysa so I'm pretty happy about that.
So ya pretty different week, lots of ups and downs, but then I listened to a talk that just brought the whole week into perspective.
It was elder Holland and he said "trouble and discouragement have no relationship to each other. Discouragement is a germ of its own."
I liked that line. We control our outcome. How we feel each day is truly up to us. Do we get up and be positive and smile or do we whine to ourselves that we are tired. Do we look at the bad and wonder why we aren't happier or do we go on an what sometimes feels like an excursion, (but one worthwhile none the less), to find the positives. Not only that, but when we turn to the lord, he will bless us, and help us through the hard times.
Keep being amazing. Heavenly fathers purpose for us is to be happy! So smile
My aunt taught me to S.M.I.L.E
S.ee M.iracles I.n L.ife E.vereyday
Love you guys!
Elder Miller
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