Another busy week!

Thanks for all you guys do, and for the support and the updates. Well, this week was a good one.
Elder Fairbanks and I went on splits last Friday. He is our district leader. He is from Arizona, and we had a great day. We met with this amazing member named Nikolas. He is a waiter, and he is so nice and always loads us up with the left over food. It’s always good, but the last two times it has been fried fish. This is not American fried fish. It still has the tail, head and all, just coated in something and fried, and you can make out all of the characteristics. It’s in the freezer and will soon be in the trash because we don’t really even want to try it.
Then since Monday I have been in Badajoz with Elder Ogden. He is way lucky because he already had learned Spanish before coming, since elementary school, so at four months in the mission he is a Spanish wiz. We get along way well and he makes me laugh a lot.
We had district meeting in Caceres on Tuesday and that went awesome. Also I exchanged with Elder Strickland on Tuesday, as we do with the district leaders. He is awesome. He is a convert to the church from Washington, and is a Polynesian. He is a way fun guy and we like just about everything the same. We had a good time in Elder Jensen’s old stomping grounds. We taught with some awesome member, his name is Airless, and we cut his son’s hair. The lesson was a Noche de Hogar with a Brazilian who has a baptismal date named Christina. She is awesome and her brother was there who heard from the missionaries for 6 months in Sau Paulo. They loved the 4 Brazilian bills I have, and it was just a great lesson.
Last night Elder Strickland opened up barbershop for Elder Ogden, and he cut mine this morning before we left at 8 to catch the 8:30 bus to Merida. Yep, that’s right. We actually went this time. It is amazing. We first walked along an ancient Roman bridge, past a castle, past the Temple of Diana that has pillars like the Parthenon, then over to the Coliseum, and to the theatre, and then over to a crypt underneath the Santa Eulelia Catholic Church, and then to the aquaduct and back across the new bridge that is way cool. It was quite a lot to do and capture in pictures but we pulled it off and caught our bus 3 and a half ours later. Now we are back after 13 hours in buses over the last 3 days. Merida is amazing I would highly suggest to everyone to look it up on the internet. It was the 75th anniversary of the Merida Festival, which is like the Shakespearian Festival times 100. The coliseum and the Roman Theater were all set up for the plays that are going on tonight.
This week I had gazpacho, 2 times. It was actually the first two times I have had it. It is a cold vegetable soup, but almost like over blended salsa, or a vegetable shake. It is really good, but would be really good to dip corn chips in. I might try that in the near future. A crazy thing was realized at District Meeting in Caceres, when Elder Korongo was talking about his family. Elder Korongo is the huge elder from Ukraine, and then from Malaga that I took a picture with. He lived 10 years in both places. Anyway, he was baptized by Elder Ogden’s brother in-law 10 years ago, so that is just insane.
Last week, while on exchanges, Elder Weinert and Elder Sewell taught a guy named Paullino. We have been trying to teach his brother Nilton since I have been here, and Elder Brown taught him like 3 times before I got here. So they were passing by for Nilton and his brother was home (they are from Peru). They taught him about the Book of Mormon, and then Elder Sewell and I went back this week and taught about the Restoration of the Church. It was just awesome, he has way good questions and really wants to learn and know. I am excited for his potential. On Sunday in church, I had to teach the Sunday school lesson about the millennium. I have never taught that in English or Spanish, but I was told to give the lesson 5 minutes before class. So I just stood up with the manual and taught the lesson. It went well, as well as any lesson on the millennium to recent converts and investigators would go. The scripture study of the week is to get out your “Gospel Principles” manuals and study the millennium lesson so it won’t catch you off guard when you get called on at the last minute to teach about it someday.
We had some great meals this week: pork chops with delicious gravy, and gazpacho at the Yague’s; ham sandwiches, chorizo sandwiches and tuna salad sandwiches, with some chip things covered in chili sauce (I was kind of doubting it at first but Julio really pulled through on this spicy Mexican treat), and then at the Jabonero’s, delicious roast chicken with gazpacho, and grape kool aid. So, thanks to the members we had some delicious grub this week. Our investigator, Jesus is doing just dandy, his son actually is learning from the missionaries in Colombia as well, and he is going to church there. So it’s pretty amazing. Thanks for everything, and have a great week.
Much love from Spain.

Elder Miller