hey there guys whats it like in salt lake city, im a thousand miles away but man today fuenlabrada looks so pretty. anyway this week has been awesome. we have been throwing away so much stuff, and it feels great to de-clutter the piso. also we finished painting our large common room, and the kitchen. we should be done with the bathrooms, but the ceilings are having some trouble because it is such a crappy surface. today we moved our bedroom into the common room, so that we can paint it on friday along with the hallways. we got locked out again, while taking trash out. we had to wait until the other elders returned from zone conference. it was crappy. we taught english lessons again, and this time we taught the third charla to the 2 members who came, and there friend. we made brownies, and compared the recipe to brownies to the things we need to do to return to our heavenly father. also we taught them the different english words necessary to cook the brownies. we also taught the lesson to miriam later in the week even though she has already heard the 3rd lesson before, the brownies were an added twist. we just had fast sunday this week in our rama, and next week is like ward conference and the stake leaders are coming. saturday everyone cancelled on us, and we were left to imprivise the entire day. i made a delicous hawaiian pineapple pizza with a generic pizza base, tomato sauce, swiss cheese, sliced ham, and fresh cut pineapple pieces. it was delicous.
we find out whats going on with transfers this coming sunday, and then the transfers occur on the following monday. i hope to stay here with elder van dyke, but anything could pretty much happen except one of us will almost for sure stay here. but other than that we dont know what will happen. we had an awesome noce de hogar, family home evening, with an inactive member and her husband and 2 daughters. we sang choose the right with them, and gave the girls HLJ rings which are the spanish version of the CTR rings. also we showed a picture show of temples, which included there temple at home in ecuador. it was awesome, and spiritual. hopefully it will motivate her to come back to church with her family. one of the daughters is 6 and the other just turned 8, so we are going to start and teach them the charlas and get the 8 year old baptised. here there was some crazy doce de octubre festivals with people showing pride for their home countries all over the place. mostly in madrid there were huge parties, but that left fuenlabrada a ghost town. also there is some crazy flooding going on in valencia, which is not in my mission but in the barcelona mission. oh yeah, when i mentioned about the mozzarella sticks and fries and frie sauce, we also translated a government document that i dont know if i mentioned. but anyway about the document. it was a summary of the guys research, and he gave it as a speach during a world conference in italy. The conference was all in english, and included NASA and many other scientists from around the world.... its pretty crazy that a 20 year old and a 19 year old missionary translated his speech. but he said it went well. also we read it for him into a tape recorder so he could listen to our pronuciation and immitate our voices. monday we went to loranca, and taught avelino, and there were some kids wrestling on the grass near by. we teach him outside cause his house is pretty busy most of the time. anyway the kids came over, and i talked to them as my companion taught the lesson. they were asking all about america, especially WWF and Prison Cage. i guess the kids here are way into our american profesional wrestling, and know like all of the different wrestlers. it was so fun to talk with them. after the lesson we played some futbol and were on our way.
yesterday was absolutely awesome. monday night we did companionship exchanges cause the zone leaders have to work with the district leaders for a day. so i went with elder manning to there area in mostoles, and my companion stayed with elder clark in our area. its pretty close to fuen, and was only about a 20 minute metro ride. i had already been there for interviews and the zone pday last week, but i got to see more of the city yesterday. so then elder manning and i were companions all yesterday until last night we switched back. it was the best day of my whole mission, and elder manning who has been here for over a year said the same. we planned very well, and also trusted in the promise of proverbs 3:5, which says trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths. he directed our paths yesterday. we taught 7 lessons, and had 37 contacts. we were finding people to teach everywhere we went, and also people for them to teach in the future. the whole day we kept to our plan, and back up plan, and had continual success in preaching the gospel the entire day. we wore ourselves out serving the lord, and he blessed us immensly. last night i had never been so tired, and i had never been so happy. i truly love this missionary work, and loving bearing testimony that my redeemer lives.
i love wearing the name of christ on my jacket daily, and doing his work here in spain. i hope you all are doing great back home. dont forget to read up on conference.
much love from spain, and thanks for everything. the church is true, and god loves you.
love
elder miller
p.s. i hope someone caught that the opening sentence was from the plain white t's on "hey there delialah"
we find out whats going on with transfers this coming sunday, and then the transfers occur on the following monday. i hope to stay here with elder van dyke, but anything could pretty much happen except one of us will almost for sure stay here. but other than that we dont know what will happen. we had an awesome noce de hogar, family home evening, with an inactive member and her husband and 2 daughters. we sang choose the right with them, and gave the girls HLJ rings which are the spanish version of the CTR rings. also we showed a picture show of temples, which included there temple at home in ecuador. it was awesome, and spiritual. hopefully it will motivate her to come back to church with her family. one of the daughters is 6 and the other just turned 8, so we are going to start and teach them the charlas and get the 8 year old baptised. here there was some crazy doce de octubre festivals with people showing pride for their home countries all over the place. mostly in madrid there were huge parties, but that left fuenlabrada a ghost town. also there is some crazy flooding going on in valencia, which is not in my mission but in the barcelona mission. oh yeah, when i mentioned about the mozzarella sticks and fries and frie sauce, we also translated a government document that i dont know if i mentioned. but anyway about the document. it was a summary of the guys research, and he gave it as a speach during a world conference in italy. The conference was all in english, and included NASA and many other scientists from around the world.... its pretty crazy that a 20 year old and a 19 year old missionary translated his speech. but he said it went well. also we read it for him into a tape recorder so he could listen to our pronuciation and immitate our voices. monday we went to loranca, and taught avelino, and there were some kids wrestling on the grass near by. we teach him outside cause his house is pretty busy most of the time. anyway the kids came over, and i talked to them as my companion taught the lesson. they were asking all about america, especially WWF and Prison Cage. i guess the kids here are way into our american profesional wrestling, and know like all of the different wrestlers. it was so fun to talk with them. after the lesson we played some futbol and were on our way.
yesterday was absolutely awesome. monday night we did companionship exchanges cause the zone leaders have to work with the district leaders for a day. so i went with elder manning to there area in mostoles, and my companion stayed with elder clark in our area. its pretty close to fuen, and was only about a 20 minute metro ride. i had already been there for interviews and the zone pday last week, but i got to see more of the city yesterday. so then elder manning and i were companions all yesterday until last night we switched back. it was the best day of my whole mission, and elder manning who has been here for over a year said the same. we planned very well, and also trusted in the promise of proverbs 3:5, which says trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths. he directed our paths yesterday. we taught 7 lessons, and had 37 contacts. we were finding people to teach everywhere we went, and also people for them to teach in the future. the whole day we kept to our plan, and back up plan, and had continual success in preaching the gospel the entire day. we wore ourselves out serving the lord, and he blessed us immensly. last night i had never been so tired, and i had never been so happy. i truly love this missionary work, and loving bearing testimony that my redeemer lives.
i love wearing the name of christ on my jacket daily, and doing his work here in spain. i hope you all are doing great back home. dont forget to read up on conference.
much love from spain, and thanks for everything. the church is true, and god loves you.
love
elder miller
p.s. i hope someone caught that the opening sentence was from the plain white t's on "hey there delialah"
No comments:
Post a Comment