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
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
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