Elder clough and I hit standards again so we're doing pretty good up
here. we also had our highest sacrament attendance in a long time
apparently. We had 39 people (that's with kids, but still haha) but ya
we were happy about that. This week is going to be sorta weird. So an
elder we lived with elder Sultan left this morning to get back for
school. So for this week we will be in a trio with his companion elder
Townsend. Not sure how we will do this with having potentially 5 wards
to cover, but we'll figure it out. Probably lots of splits haha.
This week I went on splits with elder Townsend, so I was a lone to
teach for that day, which wasn't bad (which makes me happy that I felt
good without a companion). I had a super cool lesson with Stephanie
and her mom on the plan of salvation. It was really cool because they
would make comments about how they'd never heard this or that, or
never thought about it that way, but every time would say they
believed it, and liked it so that was cool. Sadly for some reason they
didn't come to church this week, but Rosa did!! It was awesome because
we weren't able to have much contact with her this week and so we
wondered if she would, but Sunday came and there she was. She really
likes the church and the feelings she has when she's there. She wants
to be baptized, but still can't 😔. They are having problems with
getting the divorce all done in Mexico which means she can't get
married here, which means we are still waiting😕 but I know it will
all work out.
And Rosa was at it again this week. She's a better missionary than our
whole branch! She was talking to some friends who have been going
through some rough stuff, and told them all about us and our lessons
and the church, and convinced them to let us come by some time. So we
stopped by on Wednesday and met Maria. Maria is probably around 50 and
with the first question just broke down and let out a lot of hurt. A
big one was that her parents had both just died within a month of each
other and was very sad she wouldn't see them again. The plan of
salvation was perfect and you could see brought so much hope to her.
She was very thankful we came by, and asked us to come back. Right
before we were about to leave, I had the feeling to bring up baptism
and ended up asking her to be baptized on the 17 of September. She
said yes without hesitation, and said she would like to learn more. It
is super cool to be apart of moments when the spirit touches peoples
hearts and you see them change, in such a small amount of time, the
spirit gives them just the thing they need for that moment in their
life.
So transfers are next week, and we have no idea what is going to
happen. The mission right now has 20 Spanish missionaries, 4 are going
home, and only 1 is coming in, so that's 2 areas just without
missionaries haha, so there may be some major changes. I hope I get to
stay 1 more. I really like being with elder clough, and we are doing
pretty well. It's interesting up here tho. It definitely has its only
problems that Phoenix didn't have. A huge one is keeping the sabbath
day holy and coming to church. Everyone in the branch or that we are
teaching, works at these hotels up in Sedona and they all work on
Sunday. It's so annoying. And the thing is, our branch isn't super
converted as a whole, and no one seems to have the faith or some just
the desire to try and change to be able to come to church. So that's
our push right now is to help them to grow their testimony.
I don't know if I want to stay much longer than a transfer tho because
then I'll be here for winter with snow and I have nothing to wear
that's warm haha, so we'll see how that goes .
Hope you all have a awesome week
Have fun and good luck for everyone that started school or is just about too.
Love you guys
Elder Miller
Discover something new.
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