8.22.16

More awesome people this week. More blessings and more work!


We hit standards of excellence for a month now. The work is going
great. We found four new people to teach is week that seem pretty
excited. Three are some kids of a investigators we had and they wanted
us to get the kids involved. The other was a yet another referral from
rosa!! It's crazy how many people she has told and got them excited
about the church so we can teach them. She's not even a member yet!
It's been super cool to see.

I don't remember if I have said anything, but we now cover an English
area because a old couple that was there finished their mission. We
are not there full time, just if there are specific people to teach,
but there are right now, so we were excited about that. We went down
for the first time on Tuesday. It's about an hr to hr and a half away
from cottonwood so we won't be there super often, but we are going to
try at least once a week, and then go to the ward once a month,
because it is at the same time as the branch. That being said,
yesterday was the first time I have been to church in English in a
year and it was really weird. It was weird to be in a chapel as well.
Havnt had that in a few months either haha. So ya, it's weird teaching
in English, it's kinda easy to be honest haha I don't have to think as
hard of how to word things and what not haha. They are very different
people tho. The whole town is old retired people for the most part so
they have some different concerns that the Hispanics.

Stephanie came to a English baptism this week, and really liked seeing
how everything was done. We made a new baptism goal for her this week,
partly because we needed a little more time to teach her everything,
as well as she says she likes everything she likes baptism, but hasn't
felt like she's gotten a answer, and wants to make sure this is gods
church. It's been really cool to see her desire to want to know, and
learn and come closer to God. I think she is going to be great and
help the branch a lot. She now has the goal to be baptized sept 10, so
three weeks away.

Rosa is still the same with the divorce. She is still coming and
growing. She really wants to baptized but is stuck until she hears
more from Mexico. She has been doing some awesome stuff with her
friends and is a huge reason for us having some great weeks these last
couple.

The English elder we live with got his new trainee this week. His name
is elder gray. It's made me feel kinda weird, because it makes me
think that it's been a year since I was in training with elder wells.
Elder wells was about 7 months out when he trained me and is now going
home in December. Time is so weird out here. It's so fast and yet slow
at the same time haha.

Well that's it from cottonwood.

Love you guys

Elder Miller