First Week of my Second Year!

From: Morgan Miller (elder.miller@myldsmail.net)



How are things?

Interviews went great yesterday. We do them every transfer; one zone at a time. So like all of Madrid Sur would come here to Móstoles, and then we would have interviews here. Then they do that same thing through the 7 zones on different days throughout the transfer. But instead of in the zone this time, they were at the mission home. So our zone all went to the mission home and it just was amazing. We had interviews with President Farnsworth. The assistants talked to each companionship about the area book, and then Elder Sewell, Hermana Farnsworth and I taught each of the 3 districts about question´s of the soul in “Preach my Gospel”, chapter 5. It all went really well. That took 4 hours in all, and Hermana Farnsworth had a ton of veggies and ranch dip, cheese and crackers for everyone in the down time between the rotations. It was awesome. Then after that, at 6 o clock, we started bbqing and it was delicious! We had 2 cheeseburgers a piece and all the fixins, and chips, and tons of good stuff. And then for dessert we had s’mores and Texas Sheet Cake with ice cream. It was awesome. Such a great day of good teaching, learning and eating.

We went to Tony Roma’s here in Móstoles on Friday to celebrate my year mark as a piso. We went at medio dia and it was just delicous. Elder Sewell and I both got Carolina Honey ribs and fries and Elders Ogden and Fairbanks got burgers. It was a great time.

Wow, so today was a great day of emails, and earlier we played soccer and basketball with the elders from Fuenlabrada, Alcorcon, Talavera, and us in Mostoles. So there were 10 of us elders at the capilla here, and we had a blast.

This next week I go to Badajoz on exchanges with Elder Ogden, and then with the Extremadura district, including Elder Lambert, who was my awesome dist. leader in Segovia. And then Elder Aranda, who is Colombian and I are going to Merida. So I am way excited. Also we did exchanges with the assistants on Monday after pedidos until interviews. Elder Porter from Alta High School and I had a great time, and made some good contacts and had an amazingly powerful lesson. We read 1 Nephi:8 with him and the chapter really was what the guy needed. So that’s the scripture of the week. Read chapter 8 in first Nephi. Its way good. I promise.

So this last week was just dandy. I really had a blast. With exchanges and interviews the week flew even faster than normal. We are going to go mini golfing at Xanadu mall in a second.

We had a great lesson at Julio’s, in which he fed us, and it was delicous. Julio is a menos activo member who has to work every Sunday, and was baptized 2 years ago. He is from Mexico, and met his Spaniard wife when the two of them both lived in North Carolina. Way random. But he has lived there for 5 years and loves the Carolina Panthers. He is about 30 and so is his wife. He is a member and is just awesome. They feed us every time we visit them, and this time is was just delicious. We ate loaded hot dogs with nacho cheese and all the fixins. Julio is a about 6´4 and about 270 pounds. So that is just a little rundown on one of my favorite members in Móstoles.

We had an amazing experience this week. We have a new finding activity that Elder Sewell and I got from a member. We pray and separately look at our area maps and then pick 10 streets. None of the 10 matched. We realized 7 were in the same area, so we decided to each pick 3 of the 7 streets and then we would pick the one that matched. We picked exactly the same ones, and so we went and knocked doors on all 3 streets. It sounds kind of cheesy but it worked. We did have to work really hard, and got one person to listen at the first door. Then on building 4, we had a crazy old man pull a bread knife on us, so we got out of that building. Then we knocked doors at the other 4 buildings of the 8. On the last door, when we were sick of knocking, and fed up with the street and the test of our faith, we knocked at the door of an amazing Colombian guy and were absolutely shocked when we he let us in and we taught him the first lesson. Dad, he lived in Cartago for a year, and his mom lives in Medellin. So that is really cool, and he liked your Colombian money that I keep in my book.



Much love,



Elder Miller