8.1.16

Hi guys

I hit my year mark on Friday. Its kinda a weird feeling. Time is such
a weird thing on a mission.  It feels like it's been long, but at the
same time has gone by really fast. We had a little fun at district
meeting, the sisters made some brownies and they sang happy birthday
to me haha. Then I got a fun package from my parents with a cool hump
day shirt haha. Thanks Mom and Dad.  We also burned a shirt as
apparently tradition. Mom don't worry it wasn't mine it was elder
sultans since he goes home in a week haha. Which I'm pretty sad about.
This is the second time I've lived with someone who I really like and
then they go home after one transfer with them.

But ya so even on top of all that it has been an awesome week, full of
awesome blessings!

It all started 2 Sunday's ago when Rosa came and was super pumped
about the church and started coming to church. She has now been twice
and is dong awesome. Then on top of that this week she brought over
two different friends while we were teaching her, and they really
liked the lesson and asked us to come to their house. And so we did
nod inn our first lesson with each of them, we both felt very strongly
to bring up baptism, and ended up making goals with both of them to be
baptized in a month! It was super cool. The spirit is so amazing. It's
always hard to know when it's talking because it's so quiet, but when
you follow it's guidance and everything works out, it feels so cool.
And rosa referred us to another family yesterday and we are going to
go by this week and see if they are interested as well.

Then out of no where a lady in our ward who hasn't been super active
stared coming back right when I got here, and then this week brought
two of her friends to our branches family home evening and they really
liked it. Afterward we were talking to them and they asked us if we
could come and teach them more about the church! Their names are
Stephanie and Lupita. A daughter and mother about 30 and 50 years old.
So then we went by on Wednesday and had the lesson in the members
home. The spirit was really strong and after explaining baptism a
little bit we invented them to be baptized when they received an
answer to if this is true. And without hesitation Stephanie said, of
course I will still pray and ask God, but I believe everything you
guys are saying so I can work towards a goal. So we set one for about
a month as well!!
The mom didn't seem quite as strong, but none the less agreed to a
goal for sept 3

Then to make this week even better, Rosa, Stephanie, Lupita, and
Clemente all came to sacrament! Sadly we didn't have many members come
this week but it was really cool to see all of them come. It was a
really good 3 hours as well. The classes were really good and fit
perfectly for the investigators, and the talks were pretty good in
sacrament, partly because it was me and elder clough but ya they were
good haha.

We went by Clementes this week and sadly had to take him off date for
baptism. He came in super high and was same some of the weirdest stuff
I've ever heard on my mission. It's was so weird. So ya, he doesn't
seem to quite get the concept of the word of wisdom, and we are
realizing he really isn't as there in the mind as we thought he was.
And that's without the drugs.

The branch seems to be struggling more than I thought, and now there
are rumors of it being dissolved into a group that would meet with the
English ward and just have translation, which I think would really be
hard. I think we would loose the few people we have, personally. No
one speaks English, so they wouldn't be able to really talk to anyone
and I thin it would be a littl bi of a pride thing as well of them not
wanting to be apart of a different ward. But we'll see.

So ya that's been this week! It's been super awesome and big answers to prayers.

Hope life's going good for everyone!

Love you guys
Elder Miller