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
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
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