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
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
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