Sunday, July 29, 2007

Hi from Elder Miller


Dear Friends and Family,

I am having a great time down here in Provo. We have started to SYL or speak your language. This is the idea that we say whichever words in spanish that we can remember. Our teachers are awesome and our district is great! The MTC is such a busy place that it's hard to find time to write letters. If I haven't gotten around to it yet, I will try to sometime in the next 6-7 weeks. In case you haven't heard yet, Peter Ott and I are companions. We are the comic relief. We got short haircuts. It feels nice in the heat. Elder Ott and I are going strong, but he is much better at the language than me. We memorized the first vision in both Spanish and English though, and that brings such a strong spirit quoting Joseph Smith's words. Teaching in English has gone well, and we have been practicing daily. We each bear our testimony 3 times a day en espanol for practice.

Elder Ott ripped 2 pairs of pants in 3 days, and I had to teach him how to sew them. I still haven't tried ironing, but laundry went more smoothly this week. My first load of laundry didn't go so well. I started out by dumping the soap into the fabric softener hole, and had to move all of the stuff to another washer.
At the devotional on Tuesday, a kid had to throw up so he was running to get out of the room. He got to our row and threw up all over our zone leader. It was impossible to concentrate after that. It smelled horrible!!

We went to the R.C. (referral center) and received calls. Elder Ott talked to someone who said they "got a bullet in their leg" yesterday when they were calling in. They needed him to verify that he was really shot. It was crazy. I talked to a Sudan refugee who has been in America for 2 months, and barely had any English. He agreed to have the missionaries drop off his free Book of Mormon, and he referred me to his friend. His friend also wanted a Book of Mormon. It was an amazing experience.

We did service this Wednesday, and we were assigned to cleaning the main building's 8 bathrooms. We cleaned as a district. Elder Ott and I were in charge of cleaning the stainless steel. We made a discovery in one of the bathrooms. A woman's bathroom had 2 beds, 2 comfy chairs, a tv, and a scale. We were so mad that they had all these luxuries in their bathroom. Well that's this last week in a nutshell. If you want to hear more, write me through dearelder.com, a free mail service. Until next week, the church is true and God loves you.
Sincerely, Elder Miller

P.S. Elder Ott and I leave for the Madrid MTC this Tuesday, July 31. My address there will be:

Elder Morgan Allen Miller
Spain Madrid Mission
Avenida de Espana 17, Local 01-1
E - 28100 Alcobendas (Madrid)
SPAIN

We will enter the mission field on Sept. 11

Hi from Elder Miller

Dear Friends and Family,

I am having a great time down here in Provo. We have started to SYL or speak your language. This is the idea that we say whichever words in spanish that we can remember. Our teachers are awesome and our district is great! The MTC is such a busy place that it's hard to find time to write letters. If I haven't gotten around to it yet, I will try to sometime in the next 6-7 weeks. In case you haven't heard yet, Peter Ott and I are companions. We are the comic relief. We got short haircuts. It feels nice in the heat. Elder Ott and I are going strong, but he is much better at the language than me. We memorized the first vision in both Spanish and English though, and that brings such a strong spirit quoting Joseph Smith's words. Teaching in English has gone well, and we have been practicing daily. We each bear our testimony 3 times a day en espanol for practice.

Elder Ott ripped 2 pairs of pants in 3 days, and I had to teach him how to sew them. I still haven't tried ironing, but laundry went more smoothly this week. My first load of laundry didn't go so well. I started out by dumping the soap into the fabric softener hole, and had to move all of the stuff to another washer.
At the devotional on Tuesday, a kid had to throw up so he was running to get out of the room. He got to our row and threw up all over our zone leader. It was impossible to concentrate after that. It smelled horrible!!

We went to the R.C. (referral center) and received calls. Elder Ott talked to someone who said
they "got a bullet in their leg" yesterday when they were calling in. They needed him to verify that he was really shot. It was crazy. I talked to a Sudan refugee who has been in America for 2 months, and barely had any English. He agreed to have the missionaries drop off his free Book of Mormon, and he referred me to his friend. His friend also wanted a Book of Mormon. It was an amazing experience.

We did service this Wednesday, and we were assigned to cleaning the main building's 8 bathrooms. We cleaned as a district. Elder Ott and I were in charge of cleaning the stainless steel. We made a discovery in one of the bathrooms. A woman's bathroom had 2 beds, 2 comfy chairs, a tv, and a scale. We were so mad that they had all these luxuries in their bathroom. Well that's this last week in a nutshell. If you want to hear more, write me through dearelder.com, a free mail service. Until next week, the church is true and God loves you.

Sincerely, Elder Miller

P.S. Elder Ott and I leave for the Madrid MTC this Tuesday, July 31. My address there will be:

Elder Morgan Allen Miller
Spain Madrid Mission
Avenida de Espana 17, Local 01-1
E - 28100 Alcobendas (Madrid)
SPAIN

We will enter the mission field on Sept. 11


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Saturday, July 14, 2007

the mtc day 3 and a half

Hola familia,


I hope yal are doing just fine on the homefront, and that you got the letter i sent to you. Yesterday I received a package from the petersons that had peanut m & m's, cookies, starburst, and cheese with crackers. I also got the letter from dad, thanks so much for writing that to me because it helped a lot. We are having a great time, now that we have decided to SYL or speak your language. This is the idea that we say whichever words in spanish that we can remember. We have already learned how to pray and bear testimony in spanish, but it just involves memorizing phrases and what they mean. We are saying our prayers in spainglish if we need to say more than we know how, we just switch in the middle of the prayer to english and then back afterwards. Our teachers are awesome as i said before, and the more we get to know our district the more fun we have. Peter and I are the comic relief. Today we set goals as a district to not speak en ingles during language lessons. This will be extremely hard tonight at class, because I still barely know spanish. Peter and i got really short hair cuts today, and i got a #8 buzz on top. it feels so nice in the heat of the day. oh and by the way this afternoon is preperation day, that is why i'm emailing from the laundry room while we wait for my first load of laundry in my life. I started out by dumping the detergent into the fabric softener hole, and had to move all of my stuff to another washer. the dry cleaners was closed at 12 so when i got there at 12:45 it was to late. our next p-day is friday, and that will be the case until we leave for the madrid mtc and then we will get a new schedule. We are so busy all of the time that i don't take very many pictures, but i will send home a camera once i fill it up. also i have already sorted out a bag of things to send home that is rather large. this is in hopes that i will be able to make my suitcases small enough for the plane.


love,
elder miller

Wednesday, July 11, 2007