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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