Hey Everybody!

Hey Everybody!
Pedidos were at the Stake Center on Monday. We will be at the Mission Home for Mission Council again on Friday, as they are the first Friday of the transfer for the zone leaders. It will be weird with Elder
Van Dyke not there, but Elder Peterson will be there. He was made a zone leader this transfer in Aluche. Thanks for sending that stuff with the Ivorys. That was so nice of them to bring it over to Spain for me. I will get it Friday at Mission Council or Monday at the Stake Center for Pedidos.
Elder Brown got transferred to Salamanca to take Elder Bradshaw’s place there with Elder Cummins from England. I got Elder Sewell, also from England. He is way awesome and we get along so, so well. I can’t believe how lucky I have gotten with companions still, maybe a challenging one will come eventually, but I have been way lucky so far. Elder Sewell is 20, and is one transfer ahead of me, so in his 8th transfer. He is from a village in England called Puckle Church. It is near Bath and Bristol, and in the bottom right of England. He is a surfer and likes all the same music as me. We get a long way good. He is from a family of 15 kids, all from his one mom and one dad, holy cow! The youngest is 11 and the oldest is 36, so all in about 25 years. There are 5 sisters and 10 brothers, and he is number 11. Wow, wow craziness! His parents were converts after they had 3 of the children. His family pictures are huge. So that’s background on Elder Sewell, and I am super excited for this transfer. He has also been companions with Elder Brown earlier on, and they lived with Elder Van Dyke – so just a web of companions. All of the 7 areas in the zone switched up, and so there are 7 new faces. We have interviews next Tuesday, and so I will start to get to know them all. Elder Glad went to the Temple zone and so the other Elder Brown’s new companion is Elder Fairbanks. He is originally from Page, Arizona, and then from Phoenix. He is a blast as well.
Christina is doing great, and progressing little by little. We are going to teach her tonight with Wilson, the recent convert from Ecuador. She is making us a Romanian meal that I am super excited for. Also, we are making peanut butter chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies for dessert. It is going to be great. We took Christina along with Paul, another Romanian who was recently reactivated, to the Fireside on Temple Square. Paul drove us all in his car, and it went great. The talk was a little over an investigator’s head, well, way over an investigators head, even though the point is to bring investigators... so anyway, we were worried Christina would just get confused with all of the knowledge and doctrine and stuff thrown at her. I don’t think she understood it but loved it. I think because of the spirit she felt more than anything. So that was great. She wants to go back to the temple, and so we are going to the Joseph Smith movie this Saturday. I haven’t been to see it again since I have been in the mission field, and the Fireside or Charla Foganera was my first.
It is awesome having these tools and being able to use them. Especially members, they are so important. All of you members try and help the missionaries with lessons. You will feel an amazing spirit, and have the opportunity to teach and testify. The missionaries would love it if you just told them when you are available for a lesson for 1 hour of the week. It’s a blessing to the members, the missionaries, and to the investigators.
The work continues over here, and we met an awesome 11 year old to teach on Sunday. We just went over to give her a lesson yesterday and it went great. Her family is not active in the church, soon to be, I hope. The family was baptized 7 years ago in Chile, and have been here in Spain for 6 years. The parents can’t make it to church, and I don’t know how long it has been exactly since they came, but a long time. The 11 year old daughter picked up the Book of Mormon in their home and read to Alma 42. Then she reactivated her 17 or 18 year old sister to come to church with her. She was in church Sunday and asked the bishop is she could be baptized. So we will keep working with her. She is pretty much amazing. I am so blessed to be here on a mission, and love it so much. I love you all, and have a great week. Be a missionary.

Love,

Elder Miller