Howdy partners! How’s the New Year treating you all?
The mail up here is pretty slow, and we haven’t gotten any for the 3 weeks I have been here. But unlike Elder Ott, I made it through the emergency transfer and the real transfer unscathed. I am still up here, and didn’t have to do the whole crappy moving packing thing. There is another emergency transfer this week coming up, so that makes it 5 transfers in a 9 week period. If that’s not crazy I don’t know what is.
I am loving this missionary work stuff. One interesting note about Segovia is that we find a ton of Bulgarians here. I don’t know why, but we find them at least 1 a day, and usually more than that. They are always blown away with our sixth month Spanish, but Bulgarians take to the Spanish language not very well -anyway, just a little weird side note.
Last week we made some delicious Oreo milkshakes in a bowl with a hand blender. They were scrumptious indeed. We have been eating really healthy and running daily, other than Sundays of course. I wasn’t being sarcastic about the healthy eating thing. I probably downed 20 apples this week, so although we made the exception of Oreo shakes one day, our diet is going well.
We had a day trip to Avila this last week, which has an awesome castle wall, but no castle, just a sweet cathedral. Castles and cathedrals from ancient times are a dime a dozen here. I love it. Anyway we went to Avila to visit the 5 members we have there that are inactive, and mostly are inactive because of the inconvenience a 1 hour bus ride to church is, and then another 1 hour back. We also found an awesome 12 year old Chilean member there in the Avila bus station that contacted us. He gave us his phone number, and told us that he moved here with his family and they couldn’t find a church so they stopped going. We will see if we just can’t get them to our capilla. We had 6 in the capilla including my companion and me 2 weeks ago, and this last week there were 11 of us. I made some rice crispy treats for family home evening with the ward, and they loved them. There were 12 of us there, including 3 of our investigators. It was awesome to share a message with the members’ testimonies to back us up. I love this rama and this area and this piso, and just about everything about this work!
We have seen snow 2 times now, as in it has snowed on us... how sweeeeet! Also, we made snow balls with some snow on a car one night that must have driven down from the mountains.
Anyway, we made this awesome contact this last week. We were walking up a super steep hill and we saw a family of a lot of people (turned out to be 9) watching tv on the couch. It was a site to see for a missionary, and our insides got warm with the chance it would be to teach a family of that size. Anyway, we rang all of the pisos on either side of the window and couldn’t get a hold of them. We weren’t going to give up, so my companion knocked on the window. We made a nice little window contact, in which we got their information and made an appointment for the next day. We went back and they were there, and we were able to teach them. It was awesome. They are all Bulgarians, and one speaks better than the rest so he kind of translates and helps us teach. It is awesome that the book of Mormon is in Bulgarian, but we don’t have any other pamphlets or church resources to work with the language barrier. Oh well, we will see what the Lord will help us do.
This last week we had an awesome fast to start out, and were guided to many new people to teach. We found 8 new children of our Heavenly Father to teach this week, and I am soooooo excited about the potential this city has for growth. We have been so blessed with understanding this language in the contacting and the speaking and teaching. I love this opportunity I have to be a servant our Savior and fight his battle on the front lines over here in Segovia. A super awesome scripture is in 2 Timothy 2:3 about being a good soldier for Christ. I just love the scriptures and the power they have added to our lessons as we have really focused on using them more and more. The spirit is amazing, and I love the opportunity to live so close to the spirit and to have that constant companionship. I know that if we live the right we can have the Holy Ghost as our companion to lead and guide us to do the right. Oh yeah and the Lord can’t do any emergency transfers with our companionship we have with the spirit, if we do his will. Zone conference was awesome as usual and I love this learning that we are able to do everyday in study
Love,
Elder Miller
The mail up here is pretty slow, and we haven’t gotten any for the 3 weeks I have been here. But unlike Elder Ott, I made it through the emergency transfer and the real transfer unscathed. I am still up here, and didn’t have to do the whole crappy moving packing thing. There is another emergency transfer this week coming up, so that makes it 5 transfers in a 9 week period. If that’s not crazy I don’t know what is.
I am loving this missionary work stuff. One interesting note about Segovia is that we find a ton of Bulgarians here. I don’t know why, but we find them at least 1 a day, and usually more than that. They are always blown away with our sixth month Spanish, but Bulgarians take to the Spanish language not very well -anyway, just a little weird side note.
Last week we made some delicious Oreo milkshakes in a bowl with a hand blender. They were scrumptious indeed. We have been eating really healthy and running daily, other than Sundays of course. I wasn’t being sarcastic about the healthy eating thing. I probably downed 20 apples this week, so although we made the exception of Oreo shakes one day, our diet is going well.
We had a day trip to Avila this last week, which has an awesome castle wall, but no castle, just a sweet cathedral. Castles and cathedrals from ancient times are a dime a dozen here. I love it. Anyway we went to Avila to visit the 5 members we have there that are inactive, and mostly are inactive because of the inconvenience a 1 hour bus ride to church is, and then another 1 hour back. We also found an awesome 12 year old Chilean member there in the Avila bus station that contacted us. He gave us his phone number, and told us that he moved here with his family and they couldn’t find a church so they stopped going. We will see if we just can’t get them to our capilla. We had 6 in the capilla including my companion and me 2 weeks ago, and this last week there were 11 of us. I made some rice crispy treats for family home evening with the ward, and they loved them. There were 12 of us there, including 3 of our investigators. It was awesome to share a message with the members’ testimonies to back us up. I love this rama and this area and this piso, and just about everything about this work!
We have seen snow 2 times now, as in it has snowed on us... how sweeeeet! Also, we made snow balls with some snow on a car one night that must have driven down from the mountains.
Anyway, we made this awesome contact this last week. We were walking up a super steep hill and we saw a family of a lot of people (turned out to be 9) watching tv on the couch. It was a site to see for a missionary, and our insides got warm with the chance it would be to teach a family of that size. Anyway, we rang all of the pisos on either side of the window and couldn’t get a hold of them. We weren’t going to give up, so my companion knocked on the window. We made a nice little window contact, in which we got their information and made an appointment for the next day. We went back and they were there, and we were able to teach them. It was awesome. They are all Bulgarians, and one speaks better than the rest so he kind of translates and helps us teach. It is awesome that the book of Mormon is in Bulgarian, but we don’t have any other pamphlets or church resources to work with the language barrier. Oh well, we will see what the Lord will help us do.
This last week we had an awesome fast to start out, and were guided to many new people to teach. We found 8 new children of our Heavenly Father to teach this week, and I am soooooo excited about the potential this city has for growth. We have been so blessed with understanding this language in the contacting and the speaking and teaching. I love this opportunity I have to be a servant our Savior and fight his battle on the front lines over here in Segovia. A super awesome scripture is in 2 Timothy 2:3 about being a good soldier for Christ. I just love the scriptures and the power they have added to our lessons as we have really focused on using them more and more. The spirit is amazing, and I love the opportunity to live so close to the spirit and to have that constant companionship. I know that if we live the right we can have the Holy Ghost as our companion to lead and guide us to do the right. Oh yeah and the Lord can’t do any emergency transfers with our companionship we have with the spirit, if we do his will. Zone conference was awesome as usual and I love this learning that we are able to do everyday in study
Love,
Elder Miller
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