Pictures 11.23.15

11.23.15

Last week we had Tali's baptism, and it was great! He is doing well this week and as he says “be a part of this great family". I am so glad that I was able to grow up in this Gospel, because it truly is a big family. Even if you don’t necessarily love your ward, anywhere you go, there will always be people there with open arms to help you and to worship alongside you. So ya Tali is doing awesome, and is talking to his sadly now ex (as a few months ago :/) about letting his three kids be taught by us and hopefully 2 of them being baptized. (a 5yr girl, 9 yr. boy, 11boy)  He really wants them too, and they already love coming to church. Tali says one day he’d like for his sons to serve missions. 

The first half of this week we’ve been teaching Nicki a ton, but she went to Chicago for a few days so we haven’t been in great contact. But she’s doing awesome and has her baptismal interview tonight J we are soooo excited for her. I know I keep saying this but she is so amazing and we love her. I honestly think I’ve learned more from her than she’s learned from us. Her baptism is this Saturday! This is #3 for us already! It’s such an amazing experience to be a part of one that it is a blessing each time we've had one. She has asked her (kind of sister/friend person that she calls sister but is not related, but is not Rosa, [Rosa is in our ward who has cancer.. ya that person] {who is back in the hospital this week:( it’s been sad} anyhow haha if any of that made sense, she is asking her Tongan "sisters" son who just got home from his mission to baptize her J hahaha hope you guys can decipher all that. It going to be really special and we are super excited.

We didn’t have much time to proselyte this week, because we had a ton of meetings and such. The big one was a 7 hr. Car Conference. The Church is putting these "black boxes" in all the mission cars. This box tracks speed, braking, and seat belts. It gives you a warning at first but if you don’t immediately slow down, or put your seat belt on you get a mark. If you get like 5 marks president calls you and just warns you, but I think 10 you get you’re driving revoked. It’s interesting. Oh you also have to log in every time you get in and out with a little card. That’s the worst part ha-ha. But ya so it was all about teaching us how to use it and such, and then president griffin talked about some stuff. It was just really long. 

We also had my last Trainer Trainee meeting. I’m just about done with my first 12 weeks in the field. And as this coming week ends, president told us that one of us will be transferred. So I have officially started to worry inside hahaha. This area and this companion is all I’ve known so the thought of changing any of it is kind of scary ha-ha. And on top possibly leaving all the investigators and members is going to probably be the hardest. UGH. I guess it just part of the mission right? And this is only 1 of many.

So ya that’s going to happen on Dec 2 so we have a little time. Oh which also means I won’t be able to write until Tuesday and by then I will know if I’m staying of leaving. Ya we'll see

We are having a Turkey Bowl this week. Actually Turkey Cup ha-ha because we are going to play soccer on Thursday morning. To get the word out, we made a video about it ha-ha. I’ll send it to yall. I actually have a bunch of stuff I’ll send because one morning we did some service for our ward mission leader (who happens to be 1 or the 3 white guys in the ward ha-ha) but ya they had some "perfect timing" on some of the pics. I look pretty goofy hahaha. But ya I’ll send those, as well as Talis baptism.

Oh and my food hahaha always got to send some food ;) we’ve actually had some awesome food this week. It’s pretty awesome. This area, members feed us 95% of the nights since I’ve been here. It’s so nice of them, and it’s been really nice not having to think about making stuff for dinner. This week we’ve had some great food. We had amazing mole last night, we had tacos for weirdly the first time, and we had some homemade enchiladas, where she made the tortillas by hand. It was a good week for food J ha-ha I wonder what we'll get on Thanksgiving?? Probably not rolls and turkey and stuffing ha-ha

So this transfer I decided to focus my personal study mostly solely on the Book of Mormon and it has been really nice. I’ve read it alongside the institute manual and been learning a ton. And it’s been really cool to see, but I feel like every chapter I read is specifically for me for that day. Like whatever is going on or like things that are going to happen, it is in the chapter I’m reading idk its cool. And I don’t know if that’s how it is for most, because sadly this is the first time I feel like I’ve truly been studying and pondering the scriptures, but it makes such a difference. Few days here and there we haven’t been able to have time for studies and I have seen such a difference between the days I read the scriptures and when I don’t. The scriptures are incredible and I am so thankful that we are able to have them. I’m also incredibly thankful to be out here on a mission. The things I’ve already been a part in such a short time has already made it so worth it. I love this work, and I love this Gospel. It’s awesome being out here and being a part of all this! J

Love you guys!

Dont Freeze 

Elder Miller

11.16.15 Pictures

11.16.15

What's up everyone

We had Talis baptism on Saturday!!! It was awesome. Sadly I forgot my
camera with pics soo I'll send those next week but ya it was
incredible. I had the opportunity to baptize him and it was amazing.
To be in the water with him helping him complete a saving ordinance
was like almost nothing else. The spirit was so strong and he was so
happy. He has changed so much since we started teaching him,(aka my
first day haha) it was so awesome. And know Nicki has hers on the 28
th and she is soo excited for that. Sadly nothing has changed with
Jennifer and her mom. We're thinking we may just have to help her wait
until March when she turns 18. Thanks for all the pics and stuff this
week it was perfect. Saturday was incredible but this week has been an
off week and it was super nice to get those 😊 But it's all good,
because the baptism was awesome and it was like a reset for me and so
the work goes on! Haha

Our week has been just been super focus on Tali and getting all ready
for the baptism and then with Nicki, because she is actually going to
Chicago for a week so we've spent a lot of time with her trying to get
her ready as well. She is so ready it's incredible. She's really been
such an inspiration, and has been such a blessing meeting her, and
every time we talk to her I feel like my testimony just gets stronger
and stronger. It's awesome. Haha speaking of stronger I've gone back
to crossfit in the mornings and its super fun. I pave hated running
every morning so this has been a really nice change. My companion and
roommates think I'm nuts and take pics of me all the time haha but
it's fun. My companion ca,e out of the shower the first day I started
and I was doing handstand push-ups, and was so confused and took pics
haha

I do still have to go walk with my comp because he likes running but
it's all good. And I know I can't complain compared to snow haha but
the morning ps are like 50 and I freeze with shorts and a super thin
shirt/hoodie haha. 6:30 feels so early sometimes haha so add cold it's
not always the funnest to try and wake up to. Not sure y but I took a
pic right when I woke up and I look dead and that's sometimes how I
feel at that time haha I'll send it. Nothin too special with food this
week. I made a breakfast sandwich one day haha I'll send ya a pic of
that. But that's this week.

So in two weeks we have transfers and I'm getting pretty nervous. I
feel like I just got comfortable and adjusted and now it all might
change blah but that's in a little while so I won't worry too much
right now.

Love y'all
Don't freeze 😜
Elder Miller

Kaylor with his rice and beans!

11.9.15

Hi Everybody 

So Rosa ( the one who has cancer) is doing better this week, as well as her daughter. They ended up not having to do surgery which was awesome, because now she has a week recovery rather than a 6 week recovery. Sadly though we have not been able to talk to Blanca the grandma. She has sort of gone into hiding. haha so we'll have to try again this week. We actually also had dinner at quinteros it was super good rice beans and some tender chicken and sauce idk what it was but it was good. Then Nicki came over, and we talked and talked

and talked for like 2 hrs hahaha. I don't think we're really supposed to do that but it was incredible.She's absolutely incredible. She's from Georgia. She's definitely a black lady, but she loves the Hispanic people. She speaks fluent Spanish and just loves the people. She has been through soooo much and still has a faith and trust and love for Heavenly Father. So she had a Tongan friend who's family was Mormon and she had studied a little on the church but never with the missionaries. Then she got back with rosa about 6 months ago and had seen the change in her life and the joy she had and Nicki said it wasn't a coincidence that she was running back into the Mormon church. She said she had been super depressed about 6 months ago and then she found rosa who she calls her sister because they grew up together through high school. And ya so now she's meeting with us and knows a ton and has awesome questions and she's just awesome I love her. So as were sitting there I get this strong feeling to have her pick a date for her baptism. This is only the second time we've even talked to her. But the spirit was really strong and I brought it up and was like I feel like we should pick a date and she was like aight lets do it! So I opened my iPad and she picked the 28 of nov! It was sweet. im So excited for her. She's been a single mom with two kids, they're now older. The daughters 24 and the son is 18 but ya. She's 41 and I like love her o my gosh. Her and Rosa have fibromyalgia and it's been super hard on them but theyve been so strong and is such and inspiration to always push hard and have faith.

We were able to talk to Jennifer again. we had a pretty good lesson with her. She has asked her mom again for permission and this his time she didn't get a no but kinda just listened. We thought

it was good and shes just gonna keep talking to her and push her, and

show her how much this means to her. So we're hoping. And we might

invite a member named Hermano Alonso to talk to her mom again because he's been the

only one to really get through to the mom. It's crazy but worst comes

to worst she can get baptized in March! So we'll see.

Tali is getting ready to be Baptized!! He had his interview this morning and passed with flying colors :) He getting super excited. Its this Saturday. He ready and says he can hardly wait.

so ya thats been this week :D

So I keep getting asked about what i do for food so here it is haha

For breakfast the first week was cocoa pebbles haha. but i got sick of those after like three weeks. Then i went to pancakes for a while and would put on different things like peanut  butter or different kinds of jelly, Different fruit or put in chocolate chips it was fun. but i got sick of those, so i now im going back and forth between oatmeal with apples and cinimon, and doing stuff with eggs. i put different stuff depending on the day. Sometimes a few of these sometimes all haha: tomatoes and peppers and onions cream cheese, bacon, or sausage. Then I put some salsa, sometimes my homemade salsa :))) and then sometimes i put it in tortillas or sometimes on bagels. so ya :D idk what im going to do this week haha. for lunch it used to be hot dogs and sandwiches, things that were easy haha. now ive been doing more healthy haha, so i do steamed vegetables  with chicken or tuna or white fish. actually this week i did rice and beans and sausage and vegetables. we also will have our leftovers if we go out to eat for dinner. For dinner we almost always eat with or at a members house. haha its funny probably 5 out of 7 days of the week we have rice, chicken of some kind, and tortillas haha. but its always good and different so it doesnt get too repetitious haha. but ya thats kinda how its been with the whole food situation :)

Hope you guys all have a great week 

Elder Miller

Elk Burgers!

11.2.15

What's up UTAH😁

I hear the weathers goin down for ya. Any snow? Definitely none here
haha. It still 90s some days here. So It is really frustrating when
people cancel our appointments. 😕 haha that's what most the week has
been, getting ready to go to a lesson then 5 min before, they call
and cancel. Except one family has had good reason to cancel. It's been sad.
So they are the Quinteros, I talked about them last week a little.
Rosa, the mom, has cancer, and she was in the hospital twice this
week. Then her daughter had something rupture near her stomach, so she
was in the hospital, and then had to go back the next day for surgery.
It's been so hard for them. But hopefully we can go see how they're
doing tomorrow and talk to Blanca, the grandma, and pick a baptismal
date😊.

We also have Julio tomorrow. He is the investigator we just found,
that seems super solid. We didn't get to talk to him this last week
soo hopefully we can talk tomorrow.

So Jennifer the girl who had the date for this Saturday didn't get
permission from her mom, and she didn't come to church either, no one
did! It was sad. Tali, our investigator with a date for next week,
didn't come either. But if he comes next week he can still get
baptized. I'm super excited for both of them because I have been able
to be here to see the spirit change them. They are doing super good
with everything we've given them and they have been relying on the
Lord for strength with their trials. We have a lesson with both of
them tomorrow so it should be good. Well "I" have an appointment with
them tomorrow haha. We are doing another exchange tonight and I'm
staying in the Spanish area again😳. We are changing with the new
district leader named elder green. He seems cool, I just don't know
him and I'm really nervous again because I'm the only one speaking
Spanish haha so we'll see how it goes.

So this week was fast Sunday, and I love it here. Before the bishop
even sat down there were people in line behind him hahaha. And this
week was the first time I feel like I understood almost everything
people said in sacrament. It was cool. And they have some powerful
testimonies. It's amazing. I already love these people, and I am so glad
I am able to teach and serve the Hispanic people. They are very loving
and love to help and serve, but it's kind of frustrating because they
are stubborn and don't want us to help them. Haha idk, we try but they
never need help with anything, well until they move and we are the
first ones called haha.

So one of our like 3 white members went hunting this past week and
shot a massive elk, and had a ton of meat so he gave us some haha. At
first I was a little nervous. I've just not ever have it, but it was
hamburger kinda stuff so that's what we did, we made hamburgers! They
were awesome. They were super tender, I really really liked them. One
I did kind of a normal style and the other I put some jerk sauce stuff
and it was soo good. We kinda wished we had more. We told him if he
goes hunting again anytime soon to hook us up.

How was Halloween for everyone?? It was super boring here haha. We
went back and got some donuts and hot chocolate (because that's our 

tradition, which turns out is also elder wells tradition also

haha) and then just sat in the house haha. It was quite a long night.
Oh but I did get my first package 😊 thanks fam! I love u guys. It was
fun getting it, and having those jokes haha. I saw some of ur pics,
looks like some of u guys had fun.

That's my week 🙂
Talk to y'all next week
Elder miller

Kaylor loves letters!!!!

Elder Kaylor Miller

ARIZONA PHOENIX MISSION

18001 N. 79^th Ave., Ste. C50

Glendale, Arizona 85308-8394

kaylor.miller@myldsmail.net

Glorious!

10.26.15

Hey everyone :)

So this week has been fun but really long haha. there has just been a ton of stuff going on.

So first off we had transfers on Wed. Like i said i stayed with my trainer Elder Wells. I'm with him for 6 more weeks. Hes cool, I'm glad I'm with him, he's a good missionary and has taught me a ton, I mean technically everything i know haha. but ya, transfers did affect us though. We got a new roommate. I haven't been able to talk to him much but he seems alright. The other elder is really excited because i guess he was his trainer so they're like long lost friends so their having fun. We also lost our district leader elder Nicholson. I'm actually really sad about losing him. He was elder that i did the bike jumps with. He was an awesome guy. I really hope i get to serve around him again. We got a new elder named elder green. He seems pretty cool. I haven't got to be around him much either but hes been out for 15 months so he knows what hes doing and I'm excited to learn from him.

We found some new investigators this week.
We found Julio, and he is awesome! Hes been taught by the missionaries before, but some stuff just happened and he kinda faded away. Well now were back, and hes super excited! We are going to teach him tomorrow and we already feel like we could ask him to be baptized. Speaking of baptisms we don't know much more than we did last week with Jennifer. We haven't been able to talk to her this week so we don't know if shes talked to her mom. she sadly also didn't come to church so we may have to push her date back :( but its okay because she is so awesome, and so strong and so ready, that a few weeks will be okay.

We have been teaching a old lady named Blanca ,actually the mother of a recent convert named Rosa, ( the one i gave my first blessing to, who we found out wasn't feeling good because she has cancer 😔) but she is so strong and keeps telling us that shes okay, that this is just a trial from God, to test her faith in Him, and says that He will help her. Its incredible to see how strong her testimony has become after only a few months of being a member. So ya that's Rosa shes awesome. but we've been teaching her mother. She has been accepting everything we've been teaching she comes to church with her daughter, and says she believes everything. So tonight were hoping to give her a baptismal date ! We may have 3 possibly even 4 baptisms just this month! Its super exciting to see the spirit really work on these people, that sometimes you don't think would want to hear the gospel. This work is amazing.

So this week were in the car and we got bored of our music. so im going through the glove box and pull out some cds. they were left by an elder who made them and brought them from El salvador. so we say why not. I throw it in and we start listening. Elder wells was like hey this is good. It was the song Glorious, but it was in Spanish. as we were listening i was like hey wait i recognize this wait this is ...... Oh my gosh its My cousins! it was Seli Desi and Ari ahh it was awesome. So looks like you guys are known down in El Salvador! it was fun. And CONGRATS to Seli on getting your call to Brazil. Thats so cool. You're going to do great.

We did some service this week and it was really fun. we don't get much around here, the Hispanics wont ask for help at all they want to do everything themselves. but anyway we did a huge like half the mission service project. we all got up super early, 5, and drove a ways to a different town, and we all painted houses. it was actually really fun. It always feels good doing service, especially for those that really cant do it themselves. there were a ton of missionaries and we ended up painting i think like 7 houses. it was super fun.

We got Halloween coming up, and its going to be super boring haha. So the morning will be the same, we will have studies till around 1 like normal, and then we will have district meeting that usually ends around 4, we have dinner at 5 and then we have to stay in our apartment the rest of the night :( haha so ya I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do all night in our little place but ya it'll be interesting haha.

I got to give my second blessing! it is so incredible. I know i said it last time, but that feeling of being able to be tool in the Lords hands is amazing. This ward all has some super tough situations and you can really see how much the Gospel has changed their lives, and continues to give them strength. I love being out here, serving the Lord and serving these people.

I continue to see the strength and power of scriptures and prayer. They seem like such little things, primary answers, if you will haha, but it will change you day, your week, your life. I know that if you just take a little time of your day to pray, to really talk with your Heavenly Father, and being reading the scriptures you will see the blessings in your life. It has helped me so much out here, and given me so much strength and help.

Love you guys,

Elder Miller

10.19.15

OK, so my email has been super super lame. Apparently i have been

sending out emails that never arrive. I wrote a letter last week and

pushed "send" and it never went out. I found out that this is not the

first time, and many letters i have written have never been received.

I talked to the mission office and we in a way " rebooted " my email,

and now it should work. So if you have sent me a email that i haven't

responded to, PLEASE let me know. Because I promise I have responded

to every email i have received. it may have taken a little time or not

have been a huge email, but I honestly have replied to every single

one. so please send me a little thing just saying hey you missed me or

something haha.

So this is last weeks. It wasn't very long but I did write, And you

can even see the date and time soo ya

This week has been awesome. First I got a bunch of questions so I'm gonna answer some of those. :)

What time do you wake up at? 6:30  and we exercise till 7:15 we usually jog but ya. What time do you get home at? 9 unless we are in a lesson we need to be home by 9:30. Then we plan and be in bed by 10:30. What do you do in the evenings? After studies and stuff we go and do lesson and go see less actives and just go do appointments. What do you eat when you are cooking for yourself? I have been steaming a bunch of vegetables, and then usually cook some chicken or fish. What are you studying? Right now I'm focusing on preach my gospel, and the Book of Mormon. Do you get to drive? Sadly no I don't because I'm jr companion. But I did get to drive on Saturday during my exchange. What do you do all day? So I exercise, usually jogging. Then we study for 4 hrs, then we go out and go to lessons, have dinner, go finding and ya that's a rap up of my days haha. I have never heard one tracting story? We don't tract. Ya our president says there are a lot of better ways to find so we don't really do that. How is your Spanish? It's ok I guess. I can speak with people but have the grammar of a kid. I can understand most things, I miss things here and there but am ok for the most part on understanding. What do you love about the mission? I love finding people who have been prepared by the lord and is ready to let the gospel change them. I also love seeing the change the gospel brings to people lives. How are you enjoying the ward? Have you spoken in church? I did this Sunday and it was scary but it was okay I guess. I talked about the atonement, and what it really means for us. How much of your day is in Spanish? Usually the second half of the day we do in Spanish, that's when we have all our lessons and stuff. What is Phoenix like for a missionary? Well I'm in the ghetto area so it's interesting haha, because it's definitely still the Us but How much money do they give you a month? Like 130 How much do you use? I'm not sure because we weren't sharing the cost of food then we did and we're back to not sooo ya I'm not exactly sure.

So this week was great.

On Wednesday we had zone conference. That is were a couple of the zones all meet and president Griffen talks to us. It was really cool. I learned a ton. It was a lot about making a good culture within our zones and mission. He talked about a culture of service and how that's really what Jesus came here and did was serve us in every way possible. I got to talk to him a little after and I love him he's such a cool guy.

Thursday we had a great lesson with a new investigator named Nicky. She is awesome.  We were invited over to a newly baptized part member home. I say part member because the wife and kids were baptized but the husband and the grandma did not . So we have still been teaching them but they are stubborn. But any way back to Nicky she is the wife's sister and she was there and she sat in the lesson with us. She has never been taught by missionaries but pretty much testified to us of the Book of Mormon and the spirit. Like what?!? Hahah and in the middle of the lesson elder wells straight up asked her if she was already a member. Haha so we are super excited to continue to work with her and hopefully soon baptize her😊

Saturday I had my second exchange. But this time I stayed in my area!! It was scary. I was with our zone leader elder ashby. I love him. He is an awesome guy and is super smart. He taught me a ton, especially about Christ. But since he's an English missionary I had to do everything! It was intense I was freaking the night before, but it turned out pretty good.. I assume, haha because no one seem to surprised or shocked at anything I said. We had a few lessons and a dinner, and it was kinda intense having all the conversations directed just at me but it was good, and I learned a lot of what I didn't know haha, and learned a lot about just missionary work.

Sunday I had a talk. Holy crap. Hahah I was freaking out inside. At first there was like no one there( because they're Hispanic and being on time isn't a thing) but then it was packed we had 7 investigators attend which is the high since I've been here, and ya it was just way full. So that was fun. I got up and did ok I guess. Idk everyone said I did good but you never know how good it really was haha.

Oh I'm getting hit on by a gay investigator haha it's really quite weird. He sends me good morning face book messages and made us dinner and was really weird ahh but ya hahaha idk we'll see how it all goes we have a lesson with him tonight soo ya. Oh Jennifer the 17 who is on date for the 7 came to church this week! And we have a lesson with her tonight. We are going to find out if she has gotten permission from her mom. Her mom is just very set in her religion and doesn't like Mormons much because I guess there are some pretty similar thing we believe in, so they don't like that because they say we've change the doctrine but whatever. That's one thing we really make sure of is respecting everyone's religion and their feelings and stuff. She's a cool lady just sorta harsh on the outside but on the inside I bet she's a squishy marshmallow hehe. Wow I'm tired hahah, but ya. So we're praying for all that.

So that's been my week😄 I know I've probably missed a lot of stuff because sometimes I forget you guys aren't around here with me haha, and sometimes I tell one person something but forget to put it in my main email and just assume everyone knows. Sooo if I've left stuff out or just have questions let me know I'd love to answer them!

This morning I re listened to a talk from this conference by Elder Larry R. Lawrence of the seventy and he talked about becoming better. About asking the lord on ways and things to work on to become better. The question was the question to ask was "what lack I yet?". Being out here I've asked for thing to become better on and have really had my weakness slap me in the face a little, hahah but I know that it's just to make me better. I know that if we really want to improve our selves as better fathers mothers kids student whatever, i know if we ask he will let us know, and then On top he will help us grow stronger in those things.

I really do love being out here and am excited to continue to grow and help others to grow as well.

Really really hope this gets sent out hahaha.

Love you guys

Elder Miller

10.12.15

Pico de Gallo

I actually made some dinner one night. I took the inspiration of that
dinner from last week and did pretty much the same thing. I made pico
de gallo, without the napales cuz Idk how to do those, and put it over
some grilled tallapia. It was pretty good if I say so my self haha.

8.6.15

How's everyone doing😄

Missionary work wise, this week has been slower, but I think I'm
getting comfortable enough with everything because I'm back into where
the days are kind of feeling like weeks, but weeks are feeling like
days. Everyone says one day I'll just wake up and have been out a year
and it will feel like it's been 3-4 months. Some of the returned
missionaries in our ward call these two years the twilight zone
hahaha.

So not a ton of lessons this week, but a lot of great food! One night
we had a sister take us out to eat at a place called los Rey's del
Torta. It was soo good. Their kinda claim to fame is the guy from that
show man vs food went there a few years ago. I had a great torta with
steak,guacamole,  pico de gallo, peppers, some really hot salsa, and
queso Fresca (the white Mexican cheese), along with a limonada. It was
a fun night with her. She is a less active from monte Rey Mexico. She
has been a less active for awhile but she says she wants to be coming
back because she says she can tell the difference it makes in her
family each week., so we'll see, we really hope so. We had another
amazing dinner with a family from Mexico City. She made tilapia with a
topping kinda thing(sorta like at sanoviv) with tomatoes queso Fresca
onions and napales, which is cactus. I really liked it. There was also
some really hot sauce that they had on the side but I put it all over
and was sweating pretty good hahah, but it was delicious. She served
it with rice and tortillas and it just made me all happy😋 They are
really cool. She's actually the young women's president,but her
husband and youngest son don't come to church. Hopefully we can get
the son baptized because he is 9, but the wife wants her husband to
baptize him and He hasn't been active for a few years, so we'll see.
Haha but one thing they have kinda a security um phobia. So they have
5 dogs. 2 little white fluffy dogs like high shin height. Their super
soft cute dogs. But then they have a boxer, a huge Doberman, and a
Rottweiler, that has bitten the son twice sooo. Ya it kinda scares me
goin in there hahah.

Conference was awesome! I hope you guys got a chance to watch some. It
was so different watching it as a missionary. I received a lot of
revelation for different people, including a lot for myself. They're
were a ton of awesome talks. They are all so different , I'm not sure
which was my favorite, but I do know I loved elder Hollands talk about
mothers. They really are our personal Angels. Love you mom. If haven't
watched it you should it's awesome.
This week we have been working with a girl named Jennifer. Her older
brother got baptized about 3 months ago. He's been a great influence
on her. She is 17 and really wants to get baptized. We gave her a date
this week for November 7 and she accepted it excitedly. The problem is
her mom she is a Jehovah's Witness and doesn't like the whole idea of
her daughter getting baptized too. We are going to fast this week for
her and finish up  teaching the last few things, so that hopefully
everything will be on track for the 7th!

At the end of our lesson I had this feeling about letting her know
about the power of the Book of Mormon. I wasn't quite sure what so I
started saying something and it just kinda came out, and the spirit
was really strong, and I said, we promise you that if you read the
Book of Mormon everyday, even if it's just one verse on busier days
where you just can't get to it, your life will change. You will
receive the the help to get you through the rough times, and will
start to see so many blessing in your life. After it was all quiet,
and it felt super cool again, sort of like the blessing, that I could
be used as a tool in Gods hands to give light to one of children. I
really love times like that, and honestly they are what make me love
this work and why I stay out here.

I know that it really can change everyone's lives, if we just take a
little time out of our busy schedules and read the scriptures. To put
aside our worries of the day, and bring the spirit into our heart and
homes, I know we can receive many blessings.

Something  that we are trying to push here in our ward is to pray for
their own "missionary" experiences. Maybe it's actually talking to
someone about the church, or  it could be helping someone out, or
maybe it's just posting something that you liked from conference, and
someone sees it that needed to hear it. Idk haha but I do know that
sometimes God works in mysterious way s we just need to trust Him. So
I challenge you guys to pray for one this week and then be willing to
act, because I know that you will receive them, and I know you will
feel the joy and receive the blessings of sharing your light.

Hope you guys have a good week.

Lots of love 💚😛

Elder Miller

Boiling water, new haircut, blood moon!

1st Baptism!

Hey everyone.

This week was awesome. We had our first baptism. His name is Jesus and he is great. He has taken lessons for about 2 months now, and loves it. His wife was
baptized at 8 but has been inactive most her adult life. She is
awesome though, and talks a lot about her experiences with the spirit,
and how much it has helped her, because she is blind. She became blind
at around 20 because of diabetes. She is always happy though and we
love her and Jesús.

I learned though that something will always go wrong the day of a
baptism. So we got to the church Friday to make sure we had clothes
and make sure everything was ready, and we find out the font was only
spitting out cold water. We had heard that it wasn't working but they
had said they had fixed it. But the day before we had asked him if it
was okay, but he freaked out and said he didn't know how to swim and
that he definitely didn't want it cold because he was scared of that
feeling of not being able to breath when you go in really cold water.
So we didnt know what to do. We were going to try at another church
but there was another baptism, so we didn't know what to do. On top we
He is a bigger guy so we were looking everywhere for a big enough
jumpsuit and couldn't find one bigger than a L. Then we finally did
but it was a XXXL hahaha.

So Saturday morning we got to the church at 8 and boiled water in 9
pots and were dumping them and refilling them till 2 hahaha. It was
warm by then so it worked out.
He asked Elder Wells to baptize him, and he was really nervous all
week that he was going to be able to. Elder wells is kinda , well a
toothpick, and this dude is big. Haha he ended up having to do it
twice because he couldn't get him up and Jesús threw his foot up haha.
But it all worked out. The spirit was really strong. He was super
happy and kept saying how he just felt peace and said he knew God was
happy with him that day. There's definitely a special spirit at
baptisms, I really hope we get another one before we get transferred.

I got a haircut today in this little ghetto shop by a little Mexican lady haha. I was really nervous every at first because I really didn't want another dumb haircut. So I figured she would do better if I just told her to do whatever she thought would look good. So she started going at it and mid way she whips out a straight blade and I kinda got scared haha, but she was really good with it. She did my side burns and what not with it. It ended up being pretty good I think, it was just 20 mins of heart beating because I didn't know how it would turn out haha. Elder wells is makin fun of it o. He said I got the Mexican cut with the pointed sideburns and what not. I just told him I'm trying to fit in better haha.

So I got to do my first blessing on like Tue. I was freaking out inside when she asked me. It was a new convert and she has had a ton of trials since she was baptized and had been to the hospital twice this week and just a lot of stuff. So we went over and elder wells asked, who would you like to give you the blessing. She said she wanted me to, and she speaks English so she said I could do it in English which really scared me at first. So I stand up to go say it and my heart is beating sooo fast. I said a quick prayer, and we placed out hands on her head. At first I was worried about saying my own thoughts or just not knowing what to say at all. Then all the sudden I had all these things co,e to my mind, and the spirit came really strong. And me being a baby started crying haha, but she did too so I didn't feel to bad haha. No but it was amazing that Heavenly Father could use me to let her know how much He loved her and to bless her. 

After hearing her stories and seeing in my own life, the adversary tries to rip you down every time you're doing the things we need to be, or just trying harder and doing better. These are the times when we need to ask for help and have faith that He will help us through the hard times. When we do I know we will be blessed for pushing through them and continuing to do what he asks us.

Hope u all have a good week
Love u guys 😘
Elder Miller