Thursday, August 30, 2007

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

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