Wednesday, September 26, 2007

first off i messed up on email again... i read all of the emails in 20 minutes, and typed a huge email in the remaining 40. i caught up on everything that had happened in my first two weeks here in fuenlabrada. i saved some time to send it, but it did the same thing to ask for a password and a username. i typed them in and then it deleted my email. i was furious, and absolutely hate myldsmail. so i have to do another short make up session on email.

just an update from the mission. we walk a lot a lot a lot. and i sweat a lot a lot. last night though, the temperature was lower than usual, and it seems to be turning into fall as far as the temperature goes. also we are finding lots of people through contacting old potential investigators. this just means we are re contacting all of the old contacts to check if they remember the missionaries and still want the message we have to offer. we are keeping busy, and i have found that the busier you are the more fun you have and the more blessed you are. thanks for everything, and i will report on the three weeks events that you have missed next week.
the church is true, and god loves you.

much love from fuenlabrada!!!
elder miller

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

sorry it took so long

Sorry this email is so short. I typed up a long email and lost it, so I will send a long letter next week. We had to call Pres. Farnsworth to get permission to send another email and explain what happened. The email that got deleted was very long and told about what has been going on, along with what we do here in Fuenlabrada. We had a crazy good week, and a crazy preparation day today. It started with leaving the keys in the apartment, and being locked out. We thought we didnt need a lock smith, because it was too expensive. We fought with the door and eventually it won, and we called a locksmith anyway, which is not at all cheap here in Spain if you were wondering. Anyway I am doing great here in Spain, and I am loving my area and my companion. Thank you all so much for everything, and the support with emails and letters and such. The church is true and God loves you. Next week I will tell more about this week, and about the week to come. Stay posted. Hope you all are doing great!

Much love from here in Spain!

Elder Miller

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

week 10 in fuenlabrada


hey, hows it going?
my new companion is elder van dyke, and i am in Fuenlabrada. elder ott is in salamanca. chase clark is one of my zone leaders, and i saw him today.

I live in a piso with elder cutler from my high school, and his trainer. the piso they were supposed to live in was really run down, so they are living with us in our huge piso. we have a kitchen, a sitting or gathering room, i guess with like 4 couches, and we have 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and 2 study rooms. we are going to have to do some repairs on the electrical work because it is very old, also some painting. but it is awesome! my companion and I get along very well. he is from sky view high school. he has been out about 16 months or so. he is awesome, and i have already learned so much. we went to an internet shop to teach one of our investigators last night. it was crazy, i wasnt even nervous. we just had a little charla, and tried to resolve doubts and give her encouragement. it was awesome to get right out and do real live missionary work with real live people in the real mission field, holy cow!!!! anyway i am doing great, and i hope you all are too. last night, we shared a scripture to mirium in mark 5:36. it is awesome, it basically says fear not only believe. just a little spiritual thought for the week.
anyway i will start with last thursday of preperation day in the ccm, and work my way forward to when we got companions. on thursday the fire alarm kept going off about every 10 minutes or so for around 5 seconds. they were testing the alarms or something. everytime, it caught you off guard, and was very startling. it was also annoying, but it stopped for the night, and resumed the next day. it stopped some time the next day, but we were used to it by then.

on saturday we had an awesome time in the park. i was with a good budy of mine elder winger. he is headed to the malaga mission, and is an awesome guy from viewmont high. we are always hanging out and talking during the appropriate times to do those things. anyway we had some success, but overall the best part for me was that i was understanding and having conversations with the people. it went very well. saturday afternoon we met with president farnsworth. he came to interview the 10 of us and the 1 sister missionary who are all now in the mission field. he is an amazing man, and we had a great conversation. oh yeah, that afternoon we got the ensign for september, and the picture in the first presidency message from president hinckley has a picture of the madrid temple on page 6. keep an eye out for it, it is beautiful. on monday we got to watch "the testaments" and the new joseph smith movie. it was awesome to watch it with all of the elders that we have become such great friends with. it was a great experience right before the mission field. i found out my new companion was there as well. we also had an amazing testimony meeting that was on sunday night. all of the departing elders and sisters bore there testimonies. it was absolutely fabulous.

sunday we also went to the baptism of elder ott's contact. it was awesome. there were also two other baptisms at the same service. on wednesday we left for the mission home at 10 am. we rode in two vans and a little tiny car. we left our luggage at the ccm to come pick up after with our companions after the orientation and stuff. we got the mission home, and it was gorgeous!!! it had a basketball hoop in the driveway, and was very very nice. we had an orientation to the missions fundamental rules, and got to know one another. all of our trainers were there as well. we had some delicious lunch, some taco salad. afterwards we waited a little while, and one by one they announced who was companions with who, and we found out where people were going. it was a crazy process, but now i am here doing the lord's work and loving it. the church is true and god loves you.

much love from spain,
elder miller


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Thursday, September 6, 2007

week 9

hey everybody,
hows things on the homefront? i am having a grand time here in spain. we have been very busy lately doing our last minute studying and learning of the language. i went with elder pardoe this week to the park. he is one of the new elders from logan. we did pretty well this week and had some awesome experiences. one was talking to the first man and his teenage kids on the first
bench in the park. they were just hanging out there, and we went to talk to them. they were very open to what we had to say. we talked about the temple, and about or church services. they were from bolivia. there spanish was pretty easy to understand compared to the spanish natives. we taught them about the gospel of jesucristo, and the book of mormon. we told them about 3 nephi 11 and commited them to read it. they were very happy to hear our message. we also got a referral. i was just thinking today, that i could be put in their area in a week and teach them the lessons.... crazy! there were some area authorities and members of the seventy at our sacrament meeting on sunday. it was pretty neat to talk to them and to eat lunch with them afterwards. their testimonies were amazing. they were here to meet about making pass along cards for spain. they would have to make a calling center probably if they made pass along cards.

every day i have been understanding more and more, and getting ready to go out into spain. on sunday night i got a haircut from phil collins.... well there is an elder here named phil collins, and as hard as we try to call him elder collins, it usually comes out phil or phil collins. he gives an amazing hair cut. each sunday he cuts like 8 missionaries' hair. this sunday he cut pres. taylor, and pres. wakefields hair as well. our teacher who has been visiting salamanca for about 3 weeks came home. she brought us each a really good pastry from there. today was an excursion to the royal palace. it is huge, and has 300,000 sq. ft. and over 2,000 rooms. it was pretty amazing, even though the tour only takes you in the 20 rooms open to the public. i would suggest you take a look at some pictures online. there was some amazing craftmanship that went into the building of it. there were beautiful tapestries and all kinds of art. also, we saw the royal armery which was totally awesome to see all of the armor, swords, and everything they used to do battle. the metro to and from was jam packed though, and we were pretty much shoulder to shoulder at some points. i am so excited to be in Spain, and to continue my learning in the real world. until next week, the church is true and god loves you. i will be leaving the mtc next tuesday, sept. 11. i will be in a new area and get a new companion. from now on, i will email on wednesdays. if you mail any packages or letters in the future, you can just mail them to the mission office and they will get them to me. i would still love to get emails at elder.miller(at)myldsmail.net. i will answer you by letter as soon as i can.

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

much love from spain,

elder miller