Hey everyone I am in Segovia!

Hey how's it going? I am in Segovia and I saw snow on the mountains on the bus ride in. We had a very distinct Christmas, and had a great week. No, Elder Gunn and I aren't on a vacation to Segovia.

I got emergency transferred! Wow, what a crazy Christmas present. Basically that means I had to pack up and leave today and get here in Segovia with a new companion arriving at 5:45 pm. What a crazy day. My carry on bag that has a broken off handle was a pain to haul around, along with 2 other very large bags that took a beating for the amount of weight they were carrying. We had to navigate the metro lines with our huge bags, and I came out the other end with a broken wheel on my bag. I still had to get to the bus station, and then from the stop to our awesome piso here in Segovia. It has an all in one gym, two sweet nice comfy chairs, along with a matching cozy couch, and an awesome kitchen, 2 bathrooms, and 3 bedrooms, and a patio. Wow how sweet is that. It is like living in a 4 or 5 star hotel. I thought we had the Fuenlabrada piso in shape, but I was wrong. I am here in Segovia, which is one of the most picturesque pueblo cities of the mission.

Well, even crazier than all of this, I am with another missionary named Elder Jensen from my same CCM Madrid group. How nuts is this' We are both under 6 months in the mission, and we are going to stress the Spanish study. Anyway, I had a great week in Fuenlabrada, and I am excited for an amazing week of learning about this beautiful area.

Sorry I have to run, cause time is short today. I wasn't sure I would get a minute to email, but I found one.

We had a large Christmas eve feast, and I made the mashed potatoes and gravy, the salad with ranch dressing, and the brownies. They provided the chicken. Oh yeah, it was at Eduard and Francis's piso, and there were 9 of us around the table.

I am sad to be gone, and also happy to be in such an awesome area with one of my great friends of the mission. We will do our best, because that's all anyone can do, and we will leave the rest up to the Lord. I love this work, even when the Lord decides to throw us a curve ball. I have learned to stay on my toes, and to listen to the Spirit, but I know that I have only begun the learning process that will commence here in Segovia.

Much love from Spain, and I hope you all had a very Christ like Christmas. I know that Christ is our Savior and Redeemer. I wish you all a Happy New Year and many goals that hopefully last longer than a week. Anyway, later!

Love,

Elder Miller

Christmas is in the air

Christmas is in the air, even over here in Spain. I am loving it as usual. The most common Christmas decoration is the favorite Santa Clause or the 3 kings hanging off the balcony like they are falling or climbing a ladder. Weird, but you see at least one per building and sometimes up to 10. They celebrate the 3 kings because they are the ones who came bearing gifts, which actually makes a lot of sense. Anyway, they celebrate that on the 6th of January. But of course, they celebrate both for double the presents. Anyway, just a little on what's going on around here for Christmas.

We played some awesome futbol in Mostoles last p day, and it was on fake turf. It was one step up from the normal cement here, but still not real grass. It was a blast though. We gave two blessings this last week to a member whose brother died, and to a lady who is the mom of a friend of a member, if that makes any sense. They both were awesome. Try this if you dare, but I promise it is delicious. Ok, so there is the tortilla de patata over here with the potatoes cooked like hash browns, then you pour the scrambled eggs in the frying pan with it. Do the same, but use bananas as the thing fried first, and you will have a delicious Elder Miller mission original.

It has either been super slow the last week or hopping, but not just middle ground all the time. But that's all good. The slow times help you appreciate the awesome spiritual charlas that we are able to teach. I truly love this work, and there is nowhere I would rather be then here serving in the Lord's vineyard at this special time of year. I love this saying that my Grandma Linda has on one of her Christmas sweatshirts, "Remember the reason for the season." Don't get caught up in the present receiving. Be the giver, and feel the real spirit of Christmas.

We have been teaching lots of people, new and old. One new one is blessing who we taught while she was braiding another Nigerians hair, and her daughter Victory was crawling around. I love the people here, and believe me, this is a melting pot of cultures. We are getting lot's of our investigators to progress when before, they were just coasting and not keeping commitments except to keep the teaching appointment. Anyway, I can see the Lord's hand in this work daily, and I love it. We had 3 investigators in church, and that was awesome to see. We took Francis to church, and then after, we were invited over to eat at a member's house and they invited her too. It was a great opportunity to share a message in the member's home to our investigator. We are trying extra hard to go through the member list even more than ever. Hopefully, we will continue to see great things like we have been. Teaching lessons is not a problem anymore, but now we need to get those investigators to walk into the waters of baptism. We are going to have the elders from Leganes living with us starting Friday, and that should be good but a little crowded, but not much.

I love it here and hope you all have a great holiday season.

Much love from Spain. Don't forget what this holiday is really about.

Love, Elder Miller

5 months

Hey guys what's up?

I am doing just dandy as usual, and I hope the same to you all. We had dinner last Wednesday at the Moro's who fed us the delicious Thanksgiving dinner, to introduce them to Elder Gunn and to have more great food. Of course it was great. Elders Peaden and Silver from Talavera stayed Wed. night, and so did Elders Cavanaugh and Clack from Badajoz. We had zone conference the next day that was absolutely brilliant. Pres. Johnson of the 70 and also the Europe west president spoke and presided. He was amazing!!!!! Also Elder Camargo (I don't know how to spell it) who I think is a 70, also came and spoke to us. Pres. Johnson spoke for the majority of the time, and really helped us know what we need to do to utilize our potential as missionaries. Tons was taught and learned. Pres. Johnson mentioned, and I also love what is says, about prayer in the bible dictionary... I would strongly suggest looking it up.

Thursday night we taught Jenny and her husband Manuel and their two little daughters, the first charla. One of the girls is 9 and not yet baptized. It went great. They are menos activo and we will see what happens with that. Also we went to Pres. Murillo's and he fed us as usual. Some people feel so obligated to feed the missionaries, I feel bad, but you just have to eat it whatever they put on your plate, which I don't mind, but I just feel bad sometimes always eating their food. If that made any sense.

My companion was looking at my family's Christmas card for this year, and said "your brother looks a lot like you." He thought the two guys in the picture were my brothers, but in reality he was pointing to me when he said I looked a lot like my brother..... if that gives you any idea how different I look. I don't even look like myself.

Friday and Saturday were super foggy all day and you couldn't see past the next piso building while walking around, it was pretty cool. It felt like we were living in a cloud.

We taught an awesome second charla with Francis and set a baptism date with her for the 19th of January, the day after their wedding on the 18th. It should be awesome. Also we taught at their house again to teach the other people who live there and their visitors. We taught them Sat. night and it was 8 people we were teaching a third charla with brownies too. It went awesome. They cooked the brownies in the oven we had set to preheat, but someone had put chicken in the oven to cook at the same time as the brownies. p.s. they found out that it is a bad idea cause all that came out of the oven was burnt, uncooked brownies. Oh well, they got the gospel message. All in all it 'twas magnificent!!!!!

Sunday during the leaving prayer at church, my belt decided it had had enough. It was one of the reversible JC Penny kind, and the little part that it pivots on just broke. I guess it was tired of cinching up the pants that are huge on me. I have punched 6 holes in it and, have moved down 8 belt loop holes. Wow. Anyway I had to grab out my other one and wear it. It was too big, but better than nothing. Thank goodness I brought two for some reason... but after church I had to punch 5 holes, one extra for the future. The reversible belt went around me one and a half times, so it was probably time to get a new one anyway.

We had an awesome charla Sunday night with some people we contacted on the streets near a park. we didn't expect to get in, but we did. They are a couple from Ecuador with an 8 year old. It was awesome, and they both said that they knew everything we said was true. It felt just grand!!!

We got 16 charlas last week, and it was awesome. This area has been really built up these last two transfers with Elder Van Dyke and I, but I know none of this would have happened without the Lord's help. I love this work, and we are seeing the fruits of our labors. This week so far has been great. We were teaching at the Peruvian Tienda, and had the most awkward baptismal commitment ever. It was just one minute of silence, and then "no's" all around. But we got out there doubts and answered their questions.

I want to wish my friends Mike and Ike good luck on their missions. They leave next week. If you write or email me, I will write back as soon as I get a chance. Have a great week!

Much love from Spain.

Elder Miller

It's December!

Hey guys what's up?

I am here with my new companion named Elder Gunn from Thousand Oaks California. He is an awesome missionary, and just an all around great guy. He is a surfer, and has 3 months until he will be back surfing in Cali. Elder Van Dyke got called on Saturday to be a zone leader over in Alcalá. Pretty neato I thought. That area and one right near, nicknamed "the cake" by missionaries, are the sweetest in the mission. They have barrios of 150 to 200 members, and the whole deal. Their capilla is supposed to be absolute paradise. I hope to serve there one day. But I love it here in Fuenlabrada, and I wouldn't trade my time here for anything. Transfers were Monday, and I found out Elder Gunn was coming here Sunday night. We visited him and his companion in Toledo a while back, and I got to know him then. It has been smooth sailing. We have had success so far this week, and have been in the right place at the right time a bunch of times. Like today at the beginning of email, one of our investigators that I haven't been able to get a hold of just walked up behind me at the computer and said hi. We are seeing miracles daily, some larger than others but none the less miracles.

We have zone conference tomorrow, and went to the temple today as a companionship. Zone conf. should be sweet because Pres. Johnson, I believe from the Europe west presidency, is coming to our conf. It should be a day of spiritual enlightening. I am so stoked. Anyway, last p day Elder Van Dyke and I had to clean the piso because we thought some elders were going to be moving in. They didn't move in, but the mission president came by Thursday during weekly planning, so I am so grateful those elders scared us into cleaning the piso. We finished up the deep cleaning stuff Wed. night, and then he came Thurs. It went great, and it was good to talk to him and show him what we have done. It looks great by the way, and my mom has some pictures coming soon of the before and after shots. It is crazy to be In my 3rd transfer by the way, and during this week I will have been on my mission for 5 months. Wow, how time flies.

We taught Celedonio in his house, where he has tons of his paintings. We found out he also teaches painting for money, even though he is for the most part retired and really old, at a school along with helping the members out with there works of art on Wednesdays. We taught Francis and Eduardo, and then Marco and Erica who also live in there piso and came to church a week ago with them. It was awesome. We taught a spirit-filled first lesson using the restoration video. Everyone in the room was wetting the floor with tears. Anyway, things are going great with our investigators and our area. Also, we committed Francis to baptism that night, and we are still working on Marco and Erica.

I thought I would make a list of all of the brands of cars here that are rare in the states, I think. Anyway, here goes: Seat, Peugeot, Citroen, Renault, Alfa Romeo, Opel, Skoda, Fiat, Ssanyong, Rover, Iveco, M.G., Galloper, and Dacia. I have heard of Fiat and Alfa Romeo, but never had seen one. Anyway, they have most of the cars we have in the states, but then throw in the mix all of these brands, and think of what the streets look like here littered with cars, cars, cars. We taught Miriam Friday morning, using a talk in the new conf. edition Ensign, and it went awesome. We taught at the Peruvian tienda also, Johnny, David, and Miriam (a different Miriam). Also, here is a little update on the fashion sense of the teenagers to middle agers here in Spain. The mullet is officially the most popular hair cut I think. But they call it the casco romano (roman helmet), how sweet is that?

We had a baby blessing at church on Sunday, and it went weird but ok. Elder Van Dyke and I were 2 of the 5 priesthood holders, so we participated in the blessing and the sacrament. In the middle of Sunday school, Mimi and here family walked in, and they haven't been for like 3 weeks. It was awesome, and they brought Enrique, the non member dad, which is totally crazy and awesome. He used to be super mad at the missionaries for pushing baptism so hard. Also, right before the sacrament, Hermano Marquez came in. You have no clue how hard we have been working on him. He is an inactive member who hasn't been of 8 years, cause he was super offended. It was nothing short of a miracle. Hermano Marquez bore his testimony and so did one of Mimi's twins. It was awesome. I was so happy then and now, I feel like if it was all over now I could be satisfied.... but thanks goodness its not, because I am going to tear it up for another 19 months out here and "thrash" (d and c scripture reference) Spain. Anyway, much love from me to you. The church is true and God loves you.

Love,
Elder Miller

Greetings from Fuenlabrada

Hey everyone how was Thanksgiving?

It was awesome here, and we even got 2 Thanksgiving dinners. Well, they weren't just dinners they were feasts! We had a slow Wednesday night, and then a super slow thanksgiving day. Our thanksgiving entailed a 3 hour planning session, and some lessons that didn't happen, and some contacting.

We did go by and see a referral from some of the Hermanas in our mission though, and it was a gold mine! We found an inactive returned missionary, but we will work on that, and then his girlfriend who we already committed to baptism. Also, there are 4 other investigators living in the piso. They are all from Venezuela, and they all came to church on Sunday, how sweet is that! We are teaching them tonight, and I can hardly wait. The returned missionary knows one of my old neighbors, the Hamby family. He served with Jessica Hamby on his mission to Venezuela I think, but either way she had told him to look for me when she heard he was moving to Spain. Lo and behold, Elder Miller knocks on his door a couple of weeks later. This is such a small world.

We had a dinner appointment on thanksgiving that was just to die for. Homemade ribs,that were made by the loving hands of one of our members from Venezuela, Hermana Moro. She and her husband are awesome and feed us sweet stuff always. They asked the first time, what my favorite food is and I said ribs, they were delicous. She made them exactly like my grandma, mom, or Tony Roma's would, (which by the way they have here in downtown Madrid). It even had American bbq sauce that she got at AlCampo, Hunts brand.

That night, we had Elders Peaden and Cochrane stay over, and then, Elder Cavanaugh and another Elder Clark we have in our mission (they serve in Badajoz, part of our zone). It was fun to have them all over in our newly remodeled piso. We had zone conference the next day from 9:30 until 4:30. It was long, but much needed, and I learned so so so so much. Afterwards, we booked it as a zone to go to the mission home. Oh yeah, our zone conferences in this mission are 4 zones in each of 2 conferences, so just our zone was over at the mission home on Friday night. It was some good times, with delicious food and great conversation and Christmas/Thanksgiving spirit. We had some of Hermana Farnsworth's delicious lasagna.

Saturday we found Luis, a really nice guy visiting from Honduras. We taught him the whole first lesson. We invited him to church and went to pick him up at the park where we taught him. He didn't show up, but hopefully we will see him around before he goes home in 3 weeks. He is super interested either way, and we will give his address and phone number to the Honduras mission if we don't see him before he leaves. Oh yeah, we have transfers on Monday, and we find out what's going on Sunday afternoon. But we got a new assistant to the president on Monday. They announce it a week early so they can start studying the driver's hand book, because only the assistants and the office elders ever put there foot on the gas pedal or the steering wheel. The new assistant is Elder Manning who I had my awesome day with in October. It is sweet to know him already, because I haven't really gotten to know the others. The two that were here when I got here, are already back to normal missionaries, and so they are both new since I have been in the field.

Saturday during medio dia, we set up the Christmas tree that was in the piso. Somebody must have given it to the elders a while back or something. It is sweet. We taught a couple of our investigators at their Peruvian tienda on Saturday night. On the way to church Sunday, Elder Van Dyke almost got hit in the crosswalk. The cars here always have to yield to the pedestrians unless there is one of the walk/don't walk lights. Whenever there is a crosswalk, you just go for it and the cars have to stop unless the situation I said above. Anyway, this took some getting used to, but it always works out, except this girl was texting, and my companion didn't see she stopped like 2 inches from his leg. Call that luck... or call that divine protection whatever you like, but I prefer the second.

I had splits with Elder Cochrane on Monday, and he is only one transfer ahead of me... somehow we taught 2 lessons in Spanish. How sweet is that? It felt great to have that test of my Spanish. I was scared, super scared, but then they worked out and we were able to communicate just great. Oh yeah, I saw a castle on the bus ride back from district meeting on Tuesday, and we also saw a golf course. Anyway, it was a great Thanksgiving week.

Becky the inside of the temple is beautiful. That is sweet about the blog with Matthew. Thanks!

Well thanks Grandma Judy for the spiritual thought, I am going to pirate it. Thanks also for sending the package. English rings are just dandy. The people here will love them.

There was a good thought on the back of the Church News the week after Conference entitled "Edified and Uplifted." The article stated: "It will be another six months before Church members assemble for the next general conference. In the meantime, we may continue to bask in the glow of this past conference as we accept President Hinckley's counsel to read again and again its messages. These talks can serve as a spiritual oasis in a parched world where blow the winds of war, conflict, discord and all manner of temptations and challenges. The conference messages can refresh and revitalize the soul and mind as effectively as water in a desert freshens and enlivens the body. The challenge for us as Latter-day Saints, is to apply the principles we were taught, and do our part in helping the glorious work of the gospel to fill the earth, to bear witness of Jesus Christ, the Savior and Redeemer of all mankind."

Much love from Spain! The church is true and god loves you.

Love, Elder Miller

Happy Thanksgiving part 2

Hey, I got time to type some more about this last week...

we went back to finish up the Calle Constitucion where we found Celedonio, but all we found was a dog. We were knocking doors in a building, when out of one door ran a border collie that is all black with a white spot, and its name is Luna. How small is this world that all the way in Spain, I saw the exact dog that we have at home with the same exact name.

We taught Mimi's family on Saturday, and they fed us hotdogs American style, but they also had this interesting mixture to put on them. It made them like Chicago dogs, but they are from Paraguay so I don't know how that works out... anyway, we keep getting back to back dinner appointments, and we went to Mirella's right afterwards. We literally took the train straight from Mimi's to eat another meal. We found out that she is moving to Germany where her husband lives, which is very sad because she really wants to get baptized. But, we got her info in Germany and we are going to teach her one more time before she heads off to Germany on Monday.

We had Stake Conference in which a member of the Quorum of the Seventy spoke, Elder Viias, and also our Mission president and his wife spoke. She has learned all her Spanish here and he served a mission in Argentina.

We had splits from Sunday afternoon until Tuesday morning before district meeting, and I was here with Elder Peaden. We had a great time, and saw lots of success. We also got very creative and made some delicious meals.

I would strongly suggest looking at the talk by Elder Bednar about the pickles in the April 2007 conference. We taught Miriam about changing your life using this talk. I hope all is well, and I hope that you all have a very grateful Thanksgiving. Thanks for all of the support and love.

Happy Thanksgiving from Fuenlabrada! P.S. I forgot to thank Hadley for his email.

Love,
Elder Miller

Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow!

Hey guys, how's it going?

It sounds like everything is going great. I am in Toledo today, in the library on top of the hill you can see from most of the pictures of Toledo, emailing right now. It's the building that has four pointy corner towers and is in the middle of the famous hill area. It is awesome. We have been to the Elder's piso here, and it was built in the times of Columbus. It has way low ceilings and is super, super old. We have been to the huge capilla on the hill also. We also went to the Lladro store that sells the Missionary Lladro and the one of the Christus. The only catch is that you have to mortgage your house to buy one piece of that stuff.

We taught Hamilton on Wednesday, and we had tuna fish with sliced tomatoes on top of rice and then some beans. Tomatoes and tuna fish are my kryptonite, but I scarfed it down and I am still alive. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

The floors were finished on Thursday, and then we moved back in on Friday morning, but couldn't put our stuff on the floors until that night. The floors are spectacular! You can use them as a mirror, they are so squeaky clean. It was fun living in Mostoles for the week, but I am so glad to be back in our sweet brand new looking piso. We are for the most part, finished, with a few odds and ends to finish in the next week and a half before transfers on the first Monday in December, when my companion is pretty much for sure leaving. I am pretty sad, but we have had a lot of fun, and have done tons of great missionary and construction work.

We taught Mimi and company at English lessons and it went really well. We took a member named Hermano Moro to teach a recent convert who isn't a very recent convert at all, but we just haven't been able to teach all of the after baptism charlas that the last missionaries started. Have a great Thanksgiving I will hopefully add more to this back in Fuenlabrada, but if not have some delicious food. Pete and Grandma Judy, thanks for the emails this week.

Love,
Elder Miller

4 months

Hey how's it going this week for you guys?

I am doing great. Last p- day, I had to drop off a suit at the dry cleaners, and the lady had to draw circles all over the suit for like 15 minutes. I guess missionary work isn't very nice to suits. Thursday morning we had the floor people come to give a bid on the closets, but we are going to go with a different company for around 2000. The floors are being re-varnished as I type, and they only have one more coat after this one. We have been living in Mostoles since Monday, and we will be there until Friday or Saturday. It is hard to commute 30 minutes to our area, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

We also had our normal 3 and a half hour planning session last Thursday, and we have it again tomorrow. This is where we plan for 10 days and plan for all of the work we are going to do. We get a ton of stuff done, but it takes quite a long time and amount of attention. We went to Mirella's after medio dia on Thursday, and knew not to eat before hand. We taught her, and she fed us rice with potatoes and meat. We had to book it to English lessons, and then after that we had to run even faster to catch a bus and get to our branch president's house to meet with him. He fed us again as he does every week. We had at his house rice, veggies, chicken, fried eggs, and ketchup, and don't forget the Tang. We went home that night very full if you can imagine.

Friday, we taught Miriam about faith, using Matthew 17:14 - 21, which is amazing about the mustard seed and faith. We also made a new baptismal calendar with her to see if we can't just get her to quit smoking this time.

It is getting very windy, and the leaves are really coming down. We are just getting to fall, and winter is just around the corner.

We taught a member named Maria Paz at her house. She is such a funny lady. She reads with her glasses and then a huge magnifying glass and her face right up against the page. She is an awesome member!

We were on Calle Constitutin, and we found this crazy church with no name, but it had a bunch of triangles with different things in them like faith and the Holy Ghost and stuff. We found an inactive member in the church, and talked to him. He was so scared I think, when he first saw us, but we really reminded him what is important in life. He was at church on Sunday, and started up his painting lessons again that he teaches the members. His name is Celedonio, and he painted all of the paintings in our capilla. (Mom, those are the ones I took pictures of and sent them home.)

Saturday appointments went sour, but we got some other ones. We found an Ecuadorian, and her husband and mother in law, who let us in to share a charla. We taught them the first lesson, and they loved it. We will see what happens with them. Also, we had a potential investigator who gave us the address of their weird church, and we will go by to see if we can't find some more miracles like Celedonio at another church.

Sunday at the capilla, we gave a member a blessing of health. Also one of the members gave us another left over surprise in an ice cream bucket. This isn't the first time, and I'm sure it's not the last.

We taught Avelino during Sunday school and it went awesome. We taught Florin the Romanian, on Sunday who rode his bike in from Humanes, because he wanted a change of scenery for our lessons. I guess he got tired of the park by his house.

Last week we completed the mission goal of 15 lessons a week and 70 contacts. We get the contacts every week, but only average around 10 lessons. It was an awesome sense of accomplishment, but we are in a new week already so just more of the hard work.

We had to do a ton of running on Sunday to get the 5 lessons that we had, but we did it. We taught Fabiola, who we gave the blessing on Monday night using Alma 13:24-26 which is truly fantastic.

We were rushing back to Mostoles for the night, and I did a double leg trip from a drip line in one of the gardens. I landed right in a bunch of dust. Another one bites the dust. I ate it really hard, but it was hilarious. We had companion exchanges yesterday and I went with my second cousin and zone leader Elder Bradshaw. Today we went to Xanadu Mall and it was awesome. It is huge and has tons of stores. It has go carts that we couldn't ride, and an indoor ski slope that we obviously couldn't go down. But it was way cool to see.

Much love from Spain. And Happy Thanksgiving!
Elder Miller

Day in Toledo

Almost 4 months already!

Hey Everybody!

First off, I can't even believe that on the 11th I will have been on my mission for 4 months, absolutely insane...I am having a great time, and loving it as usual with Elder Van Dyke here in Fuenlabrada. Last Wednesday, we had a relaxing p-day. At Dia, our shopping store, I used coupons and really felt like my grandpa. But none the less I will be using more again today. Also, Elder Baxter and Elder Cutler were supposed to move out at 11, but it didn't happen until the office elders got there at 5. We helped them put there stuff in the van, and it has been a quiet peaceful piso of 2 elders ever since. I love it, but it was also way fun with 4 elders.

We organized everything in the piso, and got rid of the last of the clutter. on Thursday we had promised Mimi's family brownies if the kids read 'For the Strength of Youth', and so we made a double batch of missionary special colacao brownies. They loved them. Friday, the zone leaders came to paint again, and President told us to paint the entire day, and get as much done as possible. So we did, and almost finished. We painted the 2 bathrooms, calked it all, and painted 3 rooms except one ceiling. Also, we are going to leave one room that is a disaster until after the floors are going to be refinished next Monday night, Tuesday, and maybe Wednesday. Today we touched everything up and made sure all of the lights were in working condition. We are almost done, and the closets will be done shortly after the floors. It will be so, so, so, so nice.

After the whole long day of painting we were sweeping and mopping the dust that was everywhere, and I spilled the mop bucket. It went everywhere, but at least it was in the hallway where nothing got wet except for the floor that needed to be mopped anyway. Also I burned myself with the iron a little bit on the arm a couple days back, I have been really unlucky, but at least it didn't hurt it just left a little red mark. Also on Friday, I was moving one of the broken closet doors with broken glass mirrors in them, and I sliced a little gash in my toe, a little more bad luck. I just cleaned it out and put some super glue on, it's all good.

Saturday morning at a bus stop, there was this man that was soooo drunk sitting up against the bank behind us. The cops were there tending to him. He couldn't even walk, hardly at all, and was saying funny things. The ambulance had to come and pick him up. It was a little show to pass the 10 minutes while waiting for the bus. We had a slow Saturday morning, and then we ended up getting 3 new investigators, and taught 3 lessons. We also had a Mission fast for baptisms and confirmations starting on Saturday. About the new investigators, Florin is from Romania, and speaks Spanish. He lives in Humanes, but we gave him a Romanian Book of Mormon, so he could understand it better. Then there is Khalid, who is from Morocco, and speaks Arabic, French and English. We gave him an Arabic Book of Mormon and taught him in English. Also, there is Marshall who is from Nigeria, and speaks English, and we gave him an English Book of Mormon. The next day, we met with our new investigator from last week, Mirella from the Dominican Republic, and gave her a Spanish BOM. 4 different languages of BOM's in 2 days, how crazy. I have a list I have made of where all of the people I have met since I have been in Spain are from. It is about 40 countries long and growing everyday. I will put it in an email in the near future.

We taught Primary on Sunday, and taught about Nephi and his obedience. There were 4 kids there. It was way fun. Also, after church they held a correlation meeting with all of the leaders in the rama, and we were invited to come, things are really looking up here. After the fast was over, we went home and had some lunch... well lots of lunch. I made been and cheese burritos, by frying some pinto beans, and adding cheese, and a bunch of taco bell mild sauce that Elder Baxter left me. Also, Dia sells really cheap tortillas, which are usually over 3 euros, but are only 1 euro at Dia. After our meal, we went to teach Mirella. She fed us chicken noodle soup, with tons of chicken in it, and then some rice to go along with it. We were both so full, but crammed it all in there somewhere. Oh yeah, today I put on my jeans for the first time in a while, and they are pretty big. To date, I have lost around 30 pounds or about 13 kilos.

Monday, we cleaned the piso really well, and loaded everything from 3 of the rooms, and about half the stuff from another room all into 1 little bathroom. I don't know how it all fit, but I know that my grandpa would be proud. We translated for Hamilton again, but I don't know where he will be giving this speech. Tuesday, we had interviews in Mostoles again, and it was great. We had more Texas sheet cake, and learned from the A.P.'s and Hermana Farnsworth about the importance of planning and the area book. We are really going to focus on these things now.

Also, we taught Avelino yesterday, and then had to run to the bus stop. We had to run to the piso to get brownie ingredients, and then we had to run to the bus for English classes. We put the brownies in the oven during English classes, and gave them to the members we taught last night. We also had to run to make it to that appointment. We are busy, and I am loving it. Till next week.

Much love from Spain,
Elder Miller

Happy Halloween!

Hey everyone how is it going? I hope you are all going to have a great Halloween tonight! They do celebrate it over here in Spain too. I know that they trick or treat in a pueblo that we visited, but I don't know about the apartment buildings. That would be a quick way to score tons of candy though... Anyway I hope all is well.

This week was great. Last Wednesday we had an appointment in a pueblo that didn't happen, because they had to re schedule for Monday. It was awesome. They are members who attend our rama, but live in a pueblo about 30 minutes bus ride outside of Mostoles. The whole town is chalets and houses, and is way, way nice. My companion and I felt like we were in the states. We didn't have their address or a map of there pueblo, Arrollomolinos (but I am not sure if I spelled it right). So once we got there we called them, and they came to pick us up in there brand new Audi A6. It was awesome. They are Spaniards, and have an 11 year old son, a daughter around 5, and a 1 year old baby girl. They are Quini and Javier, and are awesome members. It was our first time, other than at Miriam's, eating in a Spaniard's home. We taught them using Nephi's story, and used 1 Nephi 3:7 & 15. We also tried to use the primary song about Nephi going and doing the things the Lord commands, but we couldn't get the cd to play. Oh well. It was awesome none the less.

We taught a nice Muslim man named Khalid in the streets during a huge rain storm last Wednesday, and then we went to Loranca to teach Avelino. Miriam's grandpa went home yesterday, so we can't teach in her house anymore unless we get a member to come with us. We teach in the locutorio, but only when a man is there, but it isn't as good of a spirit as in the comfort of her piso. No one came to English class last Thursday, except for the 20 or so kids who come to play basketball. Afterwards, we went to the member English student's house, Mimi's kids, and helped them with English homework and then taught them a lesson.

Friday was a blank schedule, and we did lots of contacting. We went to the largest park in our area I think, which is Parque Oliva. It is basically an olive vineyard that is about the size of 4 football fields. It was a cool park, but not many people to contact.

It is starting to get cold, and the leaves are turning to yellow and falling to the ground. Autumn better hurry up and finish because winter is just around the corner. We found out our holiday meal at the mission home is on the 23rd, the day after Thanksgiving. They have each of the 8 zones over one by one in the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas for a holiday meal, and it should be way delicious and fun.

Saturday, 4 of our 5 teaching appointments canceled for one reason or another, so we did lots of contacting. Our appointment that went through was with Mimi's family, and we ate lunch and taught them about 'For the Strength of Youth' pamphlets. We committed them all to read it, well the 4 kids.

The rama was back to normal on Sunday with 29 at sacrament meeting. We had lunch at the Muro's on Sunday afternoon. They are a husband and wife who recently moved here from Puerto llano. They fed us delicious food, but the absolute best part was the stuffed red bell peppers. They had hamburger, cheese, and sauce that was delicious.
We are going back on the 6th of Nov. for some more delicious food, and to teach a lesson.

Sunday, Avelino couldn't come to church so we went to Loranca to teach him. It went really well. Tuesday we went to Talavera for district meeting, just like last week. It is an awesome train ride, and fun to meet with Elder Peaden and Elder Cochrane. Elder Baxter and Elder Bringham, who live with us, are moving out of the piso as I type this email. We are going to go help them load up the mission van, and then the office elders are going to drive their stuff to their new piso in their area. It will be easier to finish the piso renovations with only 2 in our piso, but it is really big for just 2 people. Thank you all for everything, and I hope you all know the church is true, and God loves you.

Much love from Spain,
Elder Miller

Hi from Fuenlabrada

Hey how's it going?

I hope you're all doing great. This was an awesome week for me here in Fuenlabrada. Thursday we had a normal but way helpful weekly planning session just like every Thursday morning. We painted again on Friday but with Elders Manning and Ladner, because Clark went on splits with Ladner's companion. Ladner is awesome, he is from Mississippi and plays defensive end for BYU. He did one year before his mission and just red shirted. He has lost like 20 pounds, just like me and everyone else in this mission, and will have to bulk up afterwards. He is a way fun guy.

Saturday we taught Larry, a Nigerian man who is way cool, and has lived here for 15 years. He has great Spanish and English, which isn't always the case with Nigerians. We taught in English the second lesson. It was awesome and the spirit was amazing. We committed him to baptism and are going to set a date on Saturday. Miriam's baptism isn't going to happen as planned because she is still hooked on smoking, but her testimony is amazing and we are going to keep on working with her to help her quit.

We went to the capilla on Saturday for about an hour, and cleaned with some members to get the capilla looking spiffy for the rama conference. The conference went awesome. We had 15 in priesthood meeting on time, which is usually 4 or 5. During Sunday school, Elder Van Dyke and I taught Avelino in our investigator's class, one of the things we are doing to try to get more charlas weekly. We taught him about the Book of Mormon, and the atonement. It went very well. In sacrament meeting, the stake president was there and one of his counselors. There were some people from the stake, no more than 20, and at church there were 71!!! Wow how crazy is that? It was awesome to sustain the leaders of the church in Spanish.

The big thing Sunday night at the end of transfers is the transfer call. I can't believe it has been one transfer or 6 weeks in the mission field. Elder Van Dyke and I are here in Fuenlabrada another transfer, and I am thrilled to continue to work hard here. Oh yeah, I just finished Alma 36 in the Book of Mormon- probably the best chapter about repentance in the scriptures. Take a look. It is awesome. Anyway I will probably be here for another transfer after this one also, because Elder Van Dyke has 4 transfers left and will probably go somewhere for 3 transfers to finish his mission. Elder Cutler got transferred to Puerto llano to be the Elder who is the Branch President's companion.

The new missionary in the piso is Elder Bringham- a way cool guy from Reno, Nevada. Also Elder Ladner is now a zone leader in Alcalá, and Elder Clark went to Cuenca to be Branch President. To replace Elder Clark as one of my zone leaders, will be my second cousin, Elder Bradshaw- kind of crazy huh? Elder Sanuy got to stay at our piso Sunday night, and it was awesome to see him one last time.
Till next week, much love from Spain.

Love
Elder Miller

email from Mo

hey there guys whats it like in salt lake city, im a thousand miles away but man today fuenlabrada looks so pretty. anyway this week has been awesome. we have been throwing away so much stuff, and it feels great to de-clutter the piso. also we finished painting our large common room, and the kitchen. we should be done with the bathrooms, but the ceilings are having some trouble because it is such a crappy surface. today we moved our bedroom into the common room, so that we can paint it on friday along with the hallways. we got locked out again, while taking trash out. we had to wait until the other elders returned from zone conference. it was crappy. we taught english lessons again, and this time we taught the third charla to the 2 members who came, and there friend. we made brownies, and compared the recipe to brownies to the things we need to do to return to our heavenly father. also we taught them the different english words necessary to cook the brownies. we also taught the lesson to miriam later in the week even though she has already heard the 3rd lesson before, the brownies were an added twist. we just had fast sunday this week in our rama, and next week is like ward conference and the stake leaders are coming. saturday everyone cancelled on us, and we were left to imprivise the entire day. i made a delicous hawaiian pineapple pizza with a generic pizza base, tomato sauce, swiss cheese, sliced ham, and fresh cut pineapple pieces. it was delicous.

we find out whats going on with transfers this coming sunday, and then the transfers occur on the following monday. i hope to stay here with elder van dyke, but anything could pretty much happen except one of us will almost for sure stay here. but other than that we dont know what will happen. we had an awesome noce de hogar, family home evening, with an inactive member and her husband and 2 daughters. we sang choose the right with them, and gave the girls HLJ rings which are the spanish version of the CTR rings. also we showed a picture show of temples, which included there temple at home in ecuador. it was awesome, and spiritual. hopefully it will motivate her to come back to church with her family. one of the daughters is 6 and the other just turned 8, so we are going to start and teach them the charlas and get the 8 year old baptised. here there was some crazy doce de octubre festivals with people showing pride for their home countries all over the place. mostly in madrid there were huge parties, but that left fuenlabrada a ghost town. also there is some crazy flooding going on in valencia, which is not in my mission but in the barcelona mission. oh yeah, when i mentioned about the mozzarella sticks and fries and frie sauce, we also translated a government document that i dont know if i mentioned. but anyway about the document. it was a summary of the guys research, and he gave it as a speach during a world conference in italy. The conference was all in english, and included NASA and many other scientists from around the world.... its pretty crazy that a 20 year old and a 19 year old missionary translated his speech. but he said it went well. also we read it for him into a tape recorder so he could listen to our pronuciation and immitate our voices. monday we went to loranca, and taught avelino, and there were some kids wrestling on the grass near by. we teach him outside cause his house is pretty busy most of the time. anyway the kids came over, and i talked to them as my companion taught the lesson. they were asking all about america, especially WWF and Prison Cage. i guess the kids here are way into our american profesional wrestling, and know like all of the different wrestlers. it was so fun to talk with them. after the lesson we played some futbol and were on our way.

yesterday was absolutely awesome. monday night we did companionship exchanges cause the zone leaders have to work with the district leaders for a day. so i went with elder manning to there area in mostoles, and my companion stayed with elder clark in our area. its pretty close to fuen, and was only about a 20 minute metro ride. i had already been there for interviews and the zone pday last week, but i got to see more of the city yesterday. so then elder manning and i were companions all yesterday until last night we switched back. it was the best day of my whole mission, and elder manning who has been here for over a year said the same. we planned very well, and also trusted in the promise of proverbs 3:5, which says trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths. he directed our paths yesterday. we taught 7 lessons, and had 37 contacts. we were finding people to teach everywhere we went, and also people for them to teach in the future. the whole day we kept to our plan, and back up plan, and had continual success in preaching the gospel the entire day. we wore ourselves out serving the lord, and he blessed us immensly. last night i had never been so tired, and i had never been so happy. i truly love this missionary work, and loving bearing testimony that my redeemer lives.

i love wearing the name of christ on my jacket daily, and doing his work here in spain. i hope you all are doing great back home. dont forget to read up on conference.

much love from spain, and thanks for everything. the church is true, and god loves you.

love
elder miller

p.s. i hope someone caught that the opening sentence was from the plain white t's on "hey there delialah"

its 3 months now

Hey everybody, how’s it going?

I love to write you guys, and hear what’s going on back home. First off, if anyone is going to see or has seen the “Bourne Ultimatum”, look for the renfe. I hear part of the movie is set in Madrid, Spain and he uses our public trains or renfe. Anyway, last p day after email I got a hair cut to look good for general conference, cause we were going to be seeing and meeting lots of missionaries. Also we went shopping as usual. But this time we took our grandma cart, but the bus driver wouldn’t let us on the bus with it. It is just a simple rolling bag to put groceries in for the walk home from the store. But the driver wouldn’t let us on, so we hid the bag in the bushes near by and ran back to catch the bus without the bag. A couple of the ladies were yelling at the driver for discriminating against us. It was awesome to see them defending us, and to see someone on our side. It is weird because everyone takes those bags on, but oh well. The bad part is that we had to carry our groceries back, and then someone had rummaged through the bushes and stolen our grandma bag. Oh well. We contacted a Russian lady in Humanes last week named Olga. She was looking into a
corner, and crying. We walked past and then went back to contact her. She had been praying and then we showed up she was so happy to see us, and to know that we are representatives of Jesu Cristo. She just needed someone to listen to her, and no one would. We are going to teach her and see where it goes. We went to Talavera last week for district meeting on Tuesday. It was awesome. It was a 1 hour train ride through rolling hills, and vineyards. It was incredible scenery. It was a lot like the view you see when driving in Utah from Nephi to Beaver. Along with the many amazing talks this weekend I would also suggest looking at a particular one from may
2007 by Neil L. Andersen. It is only 2 pages, but amazing. It is called "It’s True isn’t it? Then what else matters?" It is awesome and about how important this gospel is.

My mom wanted a little explanation of Fuenlabrada so here goes. We have a McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, and the most delicious is Telepizza. Also we have this gorgeous white library that I am currently emailing from. There are tons of farmacias, pastelerias for pastries, and lucotorios for email and usually like a gas station like store in it. There are lots of pisos as you can imagine. And there are many parks. I love the parks, because they are good for contacting families. Also they have a funny aspect also; almost each one has the kid section and the grandpa and grandma section. The grandparent section has like funny things for them to
work out on like during a walk or something, they are pretty hilarious. Also there are some biking trails. We have a good bus system here that gets us around our area, and we have about 4 metro stops in our area including one in Loranca. Also we have a newly remodeled Dia grocery store in the building next to our piso. It is awesome and they let us take the cart back to the piso with our stuff and then we return it, so that kind of makes the loss of the grandma cart less painful. Miriam’s grandpa is visiting for a month so now we can teach her at her house when she has to watch him. It is awesome to have the spirit so much stronger then it was at their locutorio
she and her husband own. We set her baptismal date for the 27th, I’m not sure if I said that last week. Mimi had us over again, and we are meeting with the branch president again tomorrow, so that also means dinner. We had 2 people at English class last Thursday and 4 this Tuesday. So maybe I just need to say how they aren’t working, and they will continue to be a better finding method every time... We start painting on Friday and Saturday with the zone leaders. One of which is elder Chase Clark from my high school. It should be fun to do some work. The Talavera elders stayed on our couch for the last 4 days since Saturday. They were here for conference, and then for zone conference yesterday, and then we also had a zone p day with soccer and bring your own sandwiches that we just got back from. I am sad to see the Talavera Elders Cochrane and Sanuy go back home. Elder Sanuy is going home
for real in 2 weeks, and we said our goodbyes. I got to know him pretty well through splits with him on Monday, and then district meetings throughout this transfer. It is my first transfer and his last, crazy. We saw an American who has lived here for 15 years from Pittsburgh. It is the only non missionary American I have seen here in Fuenlabrada. He was a little weird, but all and all a nice guy and a die hard Pittsburgh Pirates and Penguins fan. He was telling us about the Penguins first game, so I guess back in the real world the hockey season has started. General
conference was amazing. It is a one hour travel to the temple square where we watched conference, and with a 30 minute train ride and 2 different 10 minute metro rides, and then the walking in between. We took an investigator named Alexander to the first session and it was awesome. He will now begin to progress now that he has seen the churches organization and leadership, and gained a testimony of it. He has been hard to teach with his many questions, and hard questions at that, but I see good things in his future. So I watched the first session in Spanish with Alexander,
which was very hard and frustrating. I understood some but not all. I got to talk to all of the Elders I knew and meet more. Also we took a member, Mimi’s son Adolpho to the Priesthood session and the Saturday afternoon session, which was on Sunday
morning along with the priesthood session. He loved it, and being around the missionaries was cool for him to. He is an awesome 13 year old. Then we took him back and went back to conference with Mimi to watch the Sunday morning session. I only watched the first one in Spanish, and then for the others President Farnsworth okayed a switch so I could watch in English. So we had 6 hours of travel and 8 hours of spiritual nourishment. It was an awesome conference weekend, I absolutely loved it. Also I forgot to say that Elder Sanuy is from Barcelona, and will probably come back and visit another time or two while I am in my mission. Anyways things are great, and now you are caught up with what’s been going on here in Fuenlabrada. Hope all is well. The church is true, and God loves you.

Much love from lovely Fuenlabrada,
Elder Miller

hey yal

hey how is everyone doing out there. i am going to try this whole email thingy again, and see how i do. this will be about the last three weeks, or the first 3 weeks in the mission field.

Here in Fuenlabrada we have an awesome capilla. (church) it is a little out dated, but very nice and has a baptismal font. also it has some carpet which is awesome. we have had a total of 7 eating appointments with one on friday and monday in the near future to make it 9. it is awesome! we don't eat very well in the piso (apartment) , but i try to eat cheap and healthy. i usually have eggs hard boiled or cooked, toast is a favorite with jam or cheap fake nutella, hotdogs on pieces of bread, random condiments that garnish the foods are a must to add a flavor, cheap soups that run at about 10 euro cents and you just have to add water, cereal and milk and juice usually for breakfast is always sweet now that i am used to the boxed milk, my dads favorite breakfast for lunch is a must also with some delicous fryed ham and some canned halfed peaches. anyway its missionary life, and i hate doing dishes so i avoid them like the plague but always do my own and then some of the others piled in the sink. our branch attendance has been 32, 26 and then 31. this is tiny if you couldnt figure that out. especially since it once was a ward of over a hundred. the inactive list is 5 and a half pages and the active members fill almost one half page. we have lllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooooottttttttttttttttsssssssssss of work to do here. we are trying are hardest to get miriam our beloved ,prepared, and diligent investigator to quit smoking. she has tryed with our help to quit many times. i think she will do it in the near future. we have given or let her borrow these things to aid her in quitting: himnos on cd, loads of pictures of christ, true to the faith which we assign assignments like addiction to read, and of course love kindness and support, and the book of mormon which is all of the above and much much more. the capilla also has a basketball court and we are trying to plan some sweet branch activities, and put the fun back into attending church.

our daily schedule is different from other missions. we rise at 7, which just sounds a million times better than 6 30. we excercise for 30 minutes which is almost always running. next we have 1 hour for showers, breakfast, ironing, getting dressed, and whatever else needs to be done before we leave the piso. next is personal study for an hour from 8 30 to 9 30. 9 30 to 10 30 is companionship study, which is followed by a 30 minute language study until 11 when we are out the door. we leave right after language study, so this is why you have to get everything ready to go before study. when we leave we say a companionship prayer every time we leave. but when we leave the house in the mornings for the first time we recite our missionary purpose, found in preach my gospel, in both spanish and english. we are now out the door and have proselyting time until 2 30 which marks the start of medio dia (siesta). this is our combined lunch and dinner hours into the least productive time in spain from 2 30 to 4 30. we have lunch during this 2 hour break and also a 30 minute language study, and whatever else needs to be done. we leave again and have proselyting time until 9 30 when we are supposed to be home, but if we are in a charla or discussion/lesson we can be home at 10 but not a minute later. we get home and plan for the next days events in there entirity. every minute give or take one or two is planned with a back up plan if the primary plan goes sour. what happens if both primary and back up plan go sour? missionary work and thinking on your feet and making the best out of every situation you are put in. we have to other little areas that arent very little, attached to the fuenlabrada area. one is a metro stop away, loranca, and the other a train stop away, humanes. we have found success in all three places and are spread very thin. we taught a new investigator in english, named rosi. she is from columbia and lived in new york for 20 years. we taught her the first lesson, and i will report on the second.

we have had p days that are not relaxing at all, so the goal today is to get relaxed and rested for the next week. we are fixing up the piso, and doing an almost complete remodel. you can imagine how many missionaries have lived there in the last 7 years. there are about a million holes in the walls, and a crappy floor, and everyting is broken. we are doing our best to make it a home for us missionaries. it will turn out nicely. i took before picures and am going to take after pictures and you can decide for yourselves how we did. laundry is interesting, but not to bad. we have a clothes line, and 2 drying racks, and then we just make sure different missionaries clothes expire on different days and we are set. it was fiestas over one of the last weekends and they were started and ended with midnight fireworks. it was hard to sleep those nights when it felt like a war was being fought in the next room over. also we saw the running of the bulls course, and an awesome fair that was almost as cool as lagoon, and then a bull fighting arena that we walked past during a fight but couldnt see anything. oh well. we had a way sweet experience with food at a member's house. they fed us like appetizers while we translated some madrid government documents for this awesome guy named hamilton. they gave us bottled coca cola and orange fanta, which chased down the 2 heaping plates of fries and mozzarella sticks dipped in fry sauce. i am so glad they know about that wonderful invention here, or at least this member did. we ate and ate and ate, and we were full fulll fulllll. they just kept bringing out more and having us eat it....

on our remodel the new lights have been put in and the painting is next, followed by the floors and then new closet doors. we ran to the paint store one morning to buy it and to get exercise. it is about a kilometer away. we then lugged the 3 15 gallon buckets of paint back to the piso. it was an adventure i will never forget.
we had interviews with the president and they went very well. they were in mostoles, and hermana farnsworth made us delicous texas sheet cake. it was just our zone, and was fun to get to know people. a very neat city that is a little closer to madrid than us. we also started english classes and have had 3 sessions so far, with a total of 2 people attending. it is a failure and will probably be discontinued by me and my companion. it gave me time to practice the piano i am trying to learn. oh yeah first week we passed the sacrament and the next to we blessed the sacrament. also the first week i was asked to bear my testimony, and last week my companion spoke in church. we are an active part of this branch. i am so excited for general conference. we watch it on a weird time schedule due to time zones, and dont even get to watch the sunday afternoon one. so hopefully you guys will watch it for me. i finished talking about the first two weeks and will talk about two more next week. till then much love from here in fuenlabrada. the church is true and god loves you, and watch conference.

love,
elder miller

first off i messed up on email again... i read all of the emails in 20 minutes, and typed a huge email in the remaining 40. i caught up on everything that had happened in my first two weeks here in fuenlabrada. i saved some time to send it, but it did the same thing to ask for a password and a username. i typed them in and then it deleted my email. i was furious, and absolutely hate myldsmail. so i have to do another short make up session on email.

just an update from the mission. we walk a lot a lot a lot. and i sweat a lot a lot. last night though, the temperature was lower than usual, and it seems to be turning into fall as far as the temperature goes. also we are finding lots of people through contacting old potential investigators. this just means we are re contacting all of the old contacts to check if they remember the missionaries and still want the message we have to offer. we are keeping busy, and i have found that the busier you are the more fun you have and the more blessed you are. thanks for everything, and i will report on the three weeks events that you have missed next week.
the church is true, and god loves you.

much love from fuenlabrada!!!
elder miller

sorry it took so long

Sorry this email is so short. I typed up a long email and lost it, so I will send a long letter next week. We had to call Pres. Farnsworth to get permission to send another email and explain what happened. The email that got deleted was very long and told about what has been going on, along with what we do here in Fuenlabrada. We had a crazy good week, and a crazy preparation day today. It started with leaving the keys in the apartment, and being locked out. We thought we didnt need a lock smith, because it was too expensive. We fought with the door and eventually it won, and we called a locksmith anyway, which is not at all cheap here in Spain if you were wondering. Anyway I am doing great here in Spain, and I am loving my area and my companion. Thank you all so much for everything, and the support with emails and letters and such. The church is true and God loves you. Next week I will tell more about this week, and about the week to come. Stay posted. Hope you all are doing great!

Much love from here in Spain!

Elder Miller

week 10 in fuenlabrada

hey, hows it going?
my new companion is elder van dyke, and i am in Fuenlabrada. elder ott is in salamanca. chase clark is one of my zone leaders, and i saw him today.

I live in a piso with elder cutler from my high school, and his trainer. the piso they were supposed to live in was really run down, so they are living with us in our huge piso. we have a kitchen, a sitting or gathering room, i guess with like 4 couches, and we have 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and 2 study rooms. we are going to have to do some repairs on the electrical work because it is very old, also some painting. but it is awesome! my companion and I get along very well. he is from sky view high school. he has been out about 16 months or so. he is awesome, and i have already learned so much. we went to an internet shop to teach one of our investigators last night. it was crazy, i wasnt even nervous. we just had a little charla, and tried to resolve doubts and give her encouragement. it was awesome to get right out and do real live missionary work with real live people in the real mission field, holy cow!!!! anyway i am doing great, and i hope you all are too. last night, we shared a scripture to mirium in mark 5:36. it is awesome, it basically says fear not only believe. just a little spiritual thought for the week.
anyway i will start with last thursday of preperation day in the ccm, and work my way forward to when we got companions. on thursday the fire alarm kept going off about every 10 minutes or so for around 5 seconds. they were testing the alarms or something. everytime, it caught you off guard, and was very startling. it was also annoying, but it stopped for the night, and resumed the next day. it stopped some time the next day, but we were used to it by then.

on saturday we had an awesome time in the park. i was with a good budy of mine elder winger. he is headed to the malaga mission, and is an awesome guy from viewmont high. we are always hanging out and talking during the appropriate times to do those things. anyway we had some success, but overall the best part for me was that i was understanding and having conversations with the people. it went very well. saturday afternoon we met with president farnsworth. he came to interview the 10 of us and the 1 sister missionary who are all now in the mission field. he is an amazing man, and we had a great conversation. oh yeah, that afternoon we got the ensign for september, and the picture in the first presidency message from president hinckley has a picture of the madrid temple on page 6. keep an eye out for it, it is beautiful. on monday we got to watch "the testaments" and the new joseph smith movie. it was awesome to watch it with all of the elders that we have become such great friends with. it was a great experience right before the mission field. i found out my new companion was there as well. we also had an amazing testimony meeting that was on sunday night. all of the departing elders and sisters bore there testimonies. it was absolutely fabulous.

sunday we also went to the baptism of elder ott's contact. it was awesome. there were also two other baptisms at the same service. on wednesday we left for the mission home at 10 am. we rode in two vans and a little tiny car. we left our luggage at the ccm to come pick up after with our companions after the orientation and stuff. we got the mission home, and it was gorgeous!!! it had a basketball hoop in the driveway, and was very very nice. we had an orientation to the missions fundamental rules, and got to know one another. all of our trainers were there as well. we had some delicious lunch, some taco salad. afterwards we waited a little while, and one by one they announced who was companions with who, and we found out where people were going. it was a crazy process, but now i am here doing the lord's work and loving it. the church is true and god loves you.

much love from spain,
elder miller


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week 9

hey everybody,
hows things on the homefront? i am having a grand time here in spain. we have been very busy lately doing our last minute studying and learning of the language. i went with elder pardoe this week to the park. he is one of the new elders from logan. we did pretty well this week and had some awesome experiences. one was talking to the first man and his teenage kids on the first
bench in the park. they were just hanging out there, and we went to talk to them. they were very open to what we had to say. we talked about the temple, and about or church services. they were from bolivia. there spanish was pretty easy to understand compared to the spanish natives. we taught them about the gospel of jesucristo, and the book of mormon. we told them about 3 nephi 11 and commited them to read it. they were very happy to hear our message. we also got a referral. i was just thinking today, that i could be put in their area in a week and teach them the lessons.... crazy! there were some area authorities and members of the seventy at our sacrament meeting on sunday. it was pretty neat to talk to them and to eat lunch with them afterwards. their testimonies were amazing. they were here to meet about making pass along cards for spain. they would have to make a calling center probably if they made pass along cards.

every day i have been understanding more and more, and getting ready to go out into spain. on sunday night i got a haircut from phil collins.... well there is an elder here named phil collins, and as hard as we try to call him elder collins, it usually comes out phil or phil collins. he gives an amazing hair cut. each sunday he cuts like 8 missionaries' hair. this sunday he cut pres. taylor, and pres. wakefields hair as well. our teacher who has been visiting salamanca for about 3 weeks came home. she brought us each a really good pastry from there. today was an excursion to the royal palace. it is huge, and has 300,000 sq. ft. and over 2,000 rooms. it was pretty amazing, even though the tour only takes you in the 20 rooms open to the public. i would suggest you take a look at some pictures online. there was some amazing craftmanship that went into the building of it. there were beautiful tapestries and all kinds of art. also, we saw the royal armery which was totally awesome to see all of the armor, swords, and everything they used to do battle. the metro to and from was jam packed though, and we were pretty much shoulder to shoulder at some points. i am so excited to be in Spain, and to continue my learning in the real world. until next week, the church is true and god loves you. i will be leaving the mtc next tuesday, sept. 11. i will be in a new area and get a new companion. from now on, i will email on wednesdays. if you mail any packages or letters in the future, you can just mail them to the mission office and they will get them to me. i would still love to get emails at elder.miller(at)myldsmail.net. i will answer you by letter as soon as i can.

Elder Morgan Miller
Spain Madrid Mission
Avenida de Espana 17, Local 01-1
28100 Alcobendas (Madrid)
SPAIN

much love from spain,

elder miller

week 8

wow it is crazy to think how long it has been since i have been gone. i am in week 8, and only have another week and a half until i am in the mission field. this week we got some new elders and sisters. there is a new district of natives, and new district of elders from provo that are headed to the malaga mission. we have had some awesome soccer with the natives. they don't like the contact, but they have amazing foot work. the park this week was with a native companion. his name is elder gamarra and he is going to the madrid mission with me. they only stay here three weeks because they obviously already know the language. we were able to find 3 english speaking families. none of them wanted any materials, but i was able to talk with them and teach them about our beliefs and what i am doing here on a mission. two of the families were from london, and the other was from maine. it was awesome, and elder gamarra could easily talk to anyone.

i gave a talk in church this week in spanish, it was only like 5 minutes though. it is really lame cause one of my teachers is leaving on vacation to visit her mission in new jersey, cherry hill, and then she is headed to salt lake, and then on to St. George.

one amazing thing that happened is that we found out one of elder ott´s (my provo companion and good friend)contacts in the park has a baptism date for the 9th of september. the missionaries followed up on the referral, and taught the lessons, and now the man is getting baptized. we get to attend most likely, and it will be on our last sunday here in the mtc. it is awesome here, and i hope you all are doing well.

I would like to know some stories of my ancestors, maybe to use in teaching or something. also i would just like to read about them, and how they found the church, and who were the pioneering members of the miller, bradshaw, juhlin and brown families. i think i recall a story about grandpa miller in the Korean war, it was like a whole band of Beaver resident soldiers, and they were surrounded. i don't know, i just remember hearing some cool story, but maybe i am up in the night.
today in the temple we did baptisms for the dead after our temple session. it was awesome. we were able to do everything: baptize, be baptized, be witnesses, confirm, do the paper writing thing in the confirmation room, and i didn't have time to get confirmed, but it was awesome. once again, i am writing letters as fast as i can when i get the time on p-day. sorry for all those that i haven't responded to. the church is true and god loves you.

much love,
elder miller

hey everybody hows things around home?

this week has been awesome. i hope it is the same for you at home. i wanted to give a little more about the ccm here in madrid. probably the best feature is that there is a hostel on the 3rd floor (which is really the 4th floor but they do there floor numbering different here). anyways,members from all over spain travel to the temple to come and attend sessions or do baptisms. they need a place to stay and so they stay in the hostel. at nights from around 8-9:30 we practice in the sala grande (just the meeting room for the mtc, the name is a lot cooler than the place).these members who have traveled from across spain come to let us teach them during this time. it is an awesome experience teaching members rather than the same missionaries day in and day out. visas here in spain only last for 90 days, so as missionaries we have to apply for residency. this is along an complicated process that takes immigrants 7 months to complete. we do everything in 4 hours or less as missionaries. its not what you know,its definitly who you know. our mtc president has connections that hook us up big time. but we still had quite the adventure applying. we drove in a van, a very european van, to the police station. we drove through some awesome freeway tunnels for about 15 miles. when we came out of the tunnel right on the side of the road was the Real Madrid stadium. it is massive!anyways, that was cool to see, once we got to the place the secretary had to parallel park a van.... not an easy task, but he did and we were on our way we thought. we walked in the police station with a police escort, past the line. we got up stairs and they weren't ready for us because they just got back from vacation. so we went back to the ccm, but not before checking out the egyptian temple that was across the street. it was carried stone by stone up to madrid for some reason or another. it was a neat little field trip. the next day we had to repeat the same steps, only instead of being turned away at destination 1 we were successful and signed some papers, and dotted some i´s after crossing some t´s. it was another drive to another police station. this was more of a headquarters place.this time we parked around the back of the building after sweet talking the police, actually they just know they are supposed to let us in. so at this place we cut in front of at least 500 people in line waiting just to get into another line inside the complex. once they waited in the line inside the complex it was another line of around 100 people. we walked past all of these people (i felt really bad for cutting in line), and then we went into a building to a line of about 10 people. this was the final line, and the only one we had to wait in. it took about 30 minutes, and then we were back to the ccm after a 45 minute drive. it was an interesting experience. i just wanted everyone to know that i have begun my ironing career, and for the 2 times that i have had to iron it has gone pretty well. also i learned the Windsor tie knot, and i highly suggest it to anyone who struggles with small knots as i have been.

the park on saturday was a struggle. i was with elder brinkerhoff from spanish fork ( he was the 5A mvp a year ago as he lead his team to the championship as star pitcher). just a little back ground info. we had a rough time as almost everyone denied us the privelege of teaching. we werent able to place but one folleto, and teach 3 lessons. you cant enjoy the good without the bad though.

on sundays here we have district meeting and then priesthood and then sacrament and then lunch. all in a row, and then we are done by 1. it is an awesome schedule as apposed to provo mtc church. they would scatter the three meetings however they wanted throughout the day, and then you just studied in the gaps. here we just have a nice planned day, and a 4 hour block of study. i much prefer it here. that is crazy about grandmas nose! tell her sorry from me. choir is ok, but the best part is that they make us learn to lead the music. i didnt like it at first but it will be a good talent to have. i am already disapointed that i didnt ever stick to piano lessons, but i cant do anything about it now. sunday after the singing i was talking with some of the elders and an elder bradshaw came up and was talking with me. he is one of my second cousins from beaver, utah. this is a crazy small world. the french elders left, and the bilbao elders left, and it was very quite. we recieved more elders the next day from spain and from the provo mtc. i am having a great time as you can see. and i enjoy hearing from lots of you. i am doing my best to answer emails and letters. till next week the church is true and god loves you.

love,
elder miller

after 5 weeks

hey everybody it is wednesday here in spain at 1 50 pm. we are emailing today, because it is a holiday here on the 15th of july, so our CCM changed the p day to wednesday while the teachers take a day off. it has been amazing here in spain. i have been having an absolute blast. today we had a general authority (area authority over europe i think). he spoke to us about conversion and baptism, and just missionary work in general. actually he spoke to us for over 2 hours, and the meeting was 3 hours total. it was crazy hard to pay attention after the intermission, because the heat had been turned up and we were all in our suitcoats.

saturday was an amazing day in the parque. my companion for the day was french and going to france on his mission. he knows spanish very little, and his english is also limited. it was amazing to work with him, and have amazing spiritual experiences. we found an older woman while she was picking up little pebbles and gathering them in a bag, very weird. but she was amazing. first she spoke english which was an absolute blessing for me.It was absolutely amazing to be able to teach in english. i can teach in spanish, but it is so hard to understand and comprehend the native spanish speakers. We taught her the entire first lesson, and she was very open to our lesson. we gave her a book of mormon.

Elder del bel was able to share his own experience of reading in the book of mormon for the first time. also he was able to share his conversion from being agnostic at around age 21. he is now age 25, and an amazing district leader here at the mtc in spain. it was awesome to hear his testimony and learn from him as we taught this wonderful lady. he truly was blessed. several times the woman complemented him on his english, and how impressed she was that he had no french accent. Every time i have talked with him it has been in very broken english with a french accent. also we were able to talk to another man about the statues in the parque. elder del bel was able to speak amazing spanish, and also understand what the man was telling us about. they conversed about the history of france and the history of spain, and about their lives. they talked about catholicism, and about the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. it was way beyond my vocabulary that is limited to the lessons and disscussion of the gospel. i know that it was beyond elder del bel's vocab also. we also gave this man a book of mormon. he was amazed that is was free. these two conversations took up an hour and 15 minutes, which was the entirety of our parque experience. my companion elder finlay had a funny experience, looking back on it though it was really a pain in the neck. he was getting up out of bed and did something funky to his neck. he wasnt able to get up because it caused him so much pain. we did exchanges and searched for the doctor, and then the presidente because we couldnt find the doctor. we couldnt find the presidente either. all we could do was wait until someone found the doctor. i just sat around in my missionary attire, and read "our search for happiness" (a very quick read, and a book that i have really enjoyed). it took 2 hours for the president to come, and he sent me down to study with my district. the doctor showed up eventually to help elder finlay, and it turned out that he pulled a muscle in his neck. the doctor compared it to pulling a hamstring, but just not quite as painful. it was all and all an interesting experience. because he hurt his neck we couldnt go to gym the next day and decided to go to the mall. it was a short walk away, maybe 15 minutes. it was neat to see the selection of shops in the mall, but none of them were useful. we wanted to get ourselves each a pair of indoor soccer shoes to use outdoor on the soccer court... anyways the two shoe stores, and one on the way were all closed, for no good reason except that August is the vacation month in spain. we heard an amazing song at a devotional, it was "come thou fount of every blessing". it is amazing, and i suggest you look it up. thanks for all the support, and the letters or emails. the church is true and god loves you.

love,
elder miller

Madrid MTC

Hi Everybody!

I found this slide show on youtube and it was so fun to watch,that I thought I would share it. It was filmed 6 months ago at the MTC and Temple square in Madrid. The link is below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fByMBB7uCes

Laura

hey guys

The Madrid mtc is amazing!!!!! i am having a blast. we went on an excursion around down town Madrid today. we saw the plaza del sol, and the plaza mayor. it was absolutely awesome. Also on Saturday we went to Retiro park to contact people. it was so hard to talk to people, let alone in a different language that i don't know very well. anyway the food in the cafeteria is prepared by Spanish cooks, and is awesome. We eat like kings. it is awesome living right next to the temple. there are only 31 missionaries here. 6 are sisters, on going to Madrid 2 going to Bilbao and 3 going to France. of the elders there are 2 going to Belgium, 4 going to France, 4 going to Barcelona, 6 going to Bilbao, and 9 going to Madrid.... that should add up to 31, and if it doesn't, oh well. we have gym every day except for Wednesdays (service) and Sundays. it is awesome. we played basketball one day, and the rims are a couple of inches lower, so tons of kids can slam dunk the ball. and the court is a European court with different lines. Also we can go to the store if we need anything during gym. i had to go once when we didn't have companions yet so elder Ott and I went there. they didn't have any face wash for come reason, the eggs were all brown eggs that were not kept refrigerated, their 2 litre bottles are tall and skinny, and they had an open air meat market that took up half of the small stores floor space. it was an eye opening experience! Every other day during gym we have gone to THE PIT. I guess its just a cool name for not such a cool place, but i love it. it is like a tennis court hard surface for playing fútbol on. it is like an amphitheater that is sunken into the ground, hence the name the pit. there is graffiti everywhere on all the walls. also there are three outdoor Ping-Pong tables to play on the perimeter of the pit. you can play that if you don't feel like soccer. soccer is awesome though. we have been having a world cup lately playing with the people who are going to our same mission. it is such a cool place to go! We haven't gone to the cage yet, because I've heard it isn't as nice, if you can imagine that. Anyway, i love it here. my companion is elder finlay, and he is an awesome guy. he went to Alta, and lives in sandy. we are in a class of 7 elders, 5 going to Madrid and 2 going to Barcelona. This is also our district, and our leader is elder brand, an awesome kid from bountiful. our teachers are awesome, hermana benito teaches in the mornings and hermana suárez teaches in the after noon. they both are natives, and served missions in the new jersey cherry hill mission (benito), and the London England mission (suárez). they are awesome teachers, and we learn so much from them, also it is awesome to listen to their true Spanish. the mtc president is awesome, and he is from the Olympus area. his kids all went to oly high. it is weird cause mail can only be sent on Friday and Monday mornings, and we receive it at 5 o'clock on weekdays. we have an hour for every meal, and so there is always a little bit of free time.

The other day the president took the new elders to a photo shop further in town, in a huge van. we had to go there to get pictures taken for when we apply for our residency in a couple of weeks. it was neat to drive around for a little while and look at the city around us. one other thing was that we have singing practice, and then perform in front of the temple on Sundays. it is neat to sing to the people of Madrid, both members and non members. Also the missionaries from all of the surrounding areas come. on Sunday there were like 14 or 16 missionaries from the Madrid mission. we had the opportunity to talk to the people after we sang. i talked to some of the missionaries to find out more about life in the mission, and other things. well i hope all is well, and i hope to hear from you guys from letters, and through emails at elder.miller(at)myldsmail.net. feel free to email or write me, and i will do my best to write you back as soon as possible. i hope all is well. the church is true, and god loves you.

love,
elder miller

mtc madrid after a crazy long flight

hey i am going to try this whole email thing over again. the address here is different than the madrid mission one, so i don´t know what to do about all the people i told the address to. the address is:

Centro de Capacitación Misional
Calle del Templo, 2
28030 Madrid (España)

the mtc is amazing here. we are very structured as aposed to the loose and ever changing schedule of mtc provo. the flight was crazy. we transfered just fine in atlanta. we were sitting around when they called our names (mr. ott, mr. miller, and mr. silvers). we went up to the info desk at our gate, and they told the 3 of us that we were bumped up to business class, or first class. we were in denial, and just thought we would have some barely better seats. we were wrong. they greeted the three of us with drinks (orange juice and champagne) of course we chose the orange juice. our seats were the most luxourious plane seats ever. we could get them completely flat, or any other position imaginable. it was awesome. and there was 5 feet atleast between each row to allow for everyone to recline without interfering with the others. we thought that was amazing. and our seats were together. elder was next to elder silvers, david roots friend. i was next to an old grandma who spoke portuguese, spanish, and some english. it was interesting getting to know her, she was as nice as can be, and we had a great time. i took a picture of her, but she looks very angry. i will send it home eventually. she was awesome, and i told her what i was doing and what we teach for the two years living away from home. anyway, the seating got even better when they passed out menus, and we picked our 6 course meal. we even got to eat like high rollers! it was sooooooooooooooooooo awesome. we ate for the first 2 and a half hours of the flight at least. it was all so good, like for example my entre was cheese tortoleni with delicious sauce and chicken. all of the other courses were great to (starter, appetizer, salad, entre, cheese crackers and fruit, and then dessert a delicious sundae with all the fixins. it was soooooo tight. anyways for breakfast an hour before we got off our 8 hour flight we had cheese and egg quesidillas, which were also delicious. mom i suggest you try to make them. if i didn´t tell you my p day here will be thursday, and that is also the day we go to the temple. we are going tomorrow so i will tell you next week how amazing it is. around here there is only 6 sister missionaries, and about 30 elders i would guess. it is awesome. for exercise we are way free and we can even go to the shopping center. for p day we can go anywhere in sight of the angel moroni. on sundays we go on excursions, which just means we tour a few places in madrid. also the rooms are so nice and brand new, and the bathrooms are like perfect hotel bathrooms. it is amazing amazing amazing. the president and his wife a very nice. we are going to do service at 5, and that is every wednesday instead of gym. saturday we ride the metro to the park and go contact people for a few hours and then come back. anyway if you couldn´t tell i am excited, and very tired. i only slept a total of 2 hours maximum. and it is 5 45 here right now. they are letting us go to sleep at 7 though but we had to stay up this whole day which has been oh so hard. life is good, and i hope it is the same at home i will love to hear from you via letter. thank you very much for everything.

love you guys,

elder miller

p.s. i didn´t get elaborate with the punctuation like using ! marks cause the key boards are arranged the same, but have different ways to access more buttons... if that makes any sense


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Hi from Elder Miller

Dear Friends and Family,

I am having a great time down here in Provo. We have started to SYL or speak your language. This is the idea that we say whichever words in spanish that we can remember. Our teachers are awesome and our district is great! The MTC is such a busy place that it's hard to find time to write letters. If I haven't gotten around to it yet, I will try to sometime in the next 6-7 weeks. In case you haven't heard yet, Peter Ott and I are companions. We are the comic relief. We got short haircuts. It feels nice in the heat. Elder Ott and I are going strong, but he is much better at the language than me. We memorized the first vision in both Spanish and English though, and that brings such a strong spirit quoting Joseph Smith's words. Teaching in English has gone well, and we have been practicing daily. We each bear our testimony 3 times a day en espanol for practice.

Elder Ott ripped 2 pairs of pants in 3 days, and I had to teach him how to sew them. I still haven't tried ironing, but laundry went more smoothly this week. My first load of laundry didn't go so well. I started out by dumping the soap into the fabric softener hole, and had to move all of the stuff to another washer.
At the devotional on Tuesday, a kid had to throw up so he was running to get out of the room. He got to our row and threw up all over our zone leader. It was impossible to concentrate after that. It smelled horrible!!

We went to the R.C. (referral center) and received calls. Elder Ott talked to someone who said they "got a bullet in their leg" yesterday when they were calling in. They needed him to verify that he was really shot. It was crazy. I talked to a Sudan refugee who has been in America for 2 months, and barely had any English. He agreed to have the missionaries drop off his free Book of Mormon, and he referred me to his friend. His friend also wanted a Book of Mormon. It was an amazing experience.

We did service this Wednesday, and we were assigned to cleaning the main building's 8 bathrooms. We cleaned as a district. Elder Ott and I were in charge of cleaning the stainless steel. We made a discovery in one of the bathrooms. A woman's bathroom had 2 beds, 2 comfy chairs, a tv, and a scale. We were so mad that they had all these luxuries in their bathroom. Well that's this last week in a nutshell. If you want to hear more, write me through dearelder.com, a free mail service. Until next week, the church is true and God loves you.
Sincerely, Elder Miller

P.S. Elder Ott and I leave for the Madrid MTC this Tuesday, July 31. My address there will be:

Elder Morgan Allen Miller
Spain Madrid Mission
Avenida de Espana 17, Local 01-1
E - 28100 Alcobendas (Madrid)
SPAIN

We will enter the mission field on Sept. 11

Hi from Elder Miller

Dear Friends and Family,

I am having a great time down here in Provo. We have started to SYL or speak your language. This is the idea that we say whichever words in spanish that we can remember. Our teachers are awesome and our district is great! The MTC is such a busy place that it's hard to find time to write letters. If I haven't gotten around to it yet, I will try to sometime in the next 6-7 weeks. In case you haven't heard yet, Peter Ott and I are companions. We are the comic relief. We got short haircuts. It feels nice in the heat. Elder Ott and I are going strong, but he is much better at the language than me. We memorized the first vision in both Spanish and English though, and that brings such a strong spirit quoting Joseph Smith's words. Teaching in English has gone well, and we have been practicing daily. We each bear our testimony 3 times a day en espanol for practice.

Elder Ott ripped 2 pairs of pants in 3 days, and I had to teach him how to sew them. I still haven't tried ironing, but laundry went more smoothly this week. My first load of laundry didn't go so well. I started out by dumping the soap into the fabric softener hole, and had to move all of the stuff to another washer.

At the devotional on Tuesday, a kid had to throw up so he was running to get out of the room. He got to our row and threw up all over our zone leader. It was impossible to concentrate after that. It smelled horrible!!

We went to the R.C. (referral center) and received calls. Elder Ott talked to someone who said
they "got a bullet in their leg" yesterday when they were calling in. They needed him to verify that he was really shot. It was crazy. I talked to a Sudan refugee who has been in America for 2 months, and barely had any English. He agreed to have the missionaries drop off his free Book of Mormon, and he referred me to his friend. His friend also wanted a Book of Mormon. It was an amazing experience.

We did service this Wednesday, and we were assigned to cleaning the main building's 8 bathrooms. We cleaned as a district. Elder Ott and I were in charge of cleaning the stainless steel. We made a discovery in one of the bathrooms. A woman's bathroom had 2 beds, 2 comfy chairs, a tv, and a scale. We were so mad that they had all these luxuries in their bathroom. Well that's this last week in a nutshell. If you want to hear more, write me through dearelder.com, a free mail service. Until next week, the church is true and God loves you.

Sincerely, Elder Miller

P.S. Elder Ott and I leave for the Madrid MTC this Tuesday, July 31. My address there will be:

Elder Morgan Allen Miller

Spain Madrid Mission

Avenida de Espana 17, Local 01-1

E - 28100 Alcobendas (Madrid)

SPAIN

We will enter the mission field on Sept. 11

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