9 months left

Hey everyone! Wow let it snow let it snow! I can’t believe it snowed there already. We were pretty hot here today so far.
Dora couldn’t come to church due to work again on Sunday, but we have another cita on Saturday, and are going to reset her baptism day for the 15th, I believe. Ana Maria is doing great and we had a great Plan of Salvation lesson yesterday with Luis in the capilla. She is still on to come to church on Sunday and for a cita Friday, and then her baptism the 15th of November. She is doing great.
We have a new investigator named Patrick. He was a referral from a month or more ago, and then the address and phone numbers were wrong. Elder Reid (from Mesa) and I were on exchanges Thursday night and found Patrick and his girlfriend on a bench. We taught him on Friday with Elder Dubray on exchanges and baptismal challenged him for the 15th of November. He is on for that date, and came to church on Sunday. He is from Ghana and his girlfriend is from the Dominican Republic. He has been here 3 years and they are both about 30 and 35. He is awesome, and we had another lesson with him on exchanges here with the Zone Leaders, Elder Jones (from Mesa) and me in the capilla. It went great.
This week consisted of planning Thursday morning, then exchanges with Puerto llano for 2 days to go with both elders here in Ciudad Real. On Saturday night, Elder Haynie and I were back together again. Then Sunday, we had 2 dinner appointments. The first appointment was after church, to eat cocido which is soup with noodles and garbanzo beans, and then meat and garbanzos that were cooked in the soup and are served separately on a plate. It is chicken, beef, and jamon (ham) that are in there. It is way good. Then on Sunday night, we had fish, potatoes and tomatoes/green olives in olive oil (like on a plate as everyone just grabs more olives or pieces of tomatoes when they want a bite of them. We finished that meal with lemon pie American style. The first meal was with Ana who has a daughter Anita, who is 21 and is thinking about serving a mission. The second meal was with a couple who is from Alcalá where there are a ton of members. The husband is in the District Presidency. They were on a vacation for 3 months, and so Elder Ott never even met them his whole time here, but they are a great addition to the branch. They have 2 little boys, so now the Primary is 8 strong, and it is awesome. There were 24 at church this last week as compared to the last two of 12 or 14. Last transfer, with 4 elders we were averaging 25 or so weekly.
On Monday we had a dinner cita with Nieves, and we had something I don’t even know what it was. It was like mushroom, chicken and potato soup, but the mushroom thing was definitely not mushroom, but still delicious. There were also gambas or shrimp, but with heads on, and then green olives. I love green olives, and you just pop the heads off of the shrimp and some juice comes out all over your hands, and then they taste like normal shrimp. We are going to get 4 dinner appointments this week with those 3 plus President Pedraja of the District Presidency is getting home from a Uruguay trip. He is a pastelero, and makes pastries and gives them to us by the bucket full, literally- a 5 gallon bucket. We are glad to have him back.
The work is going great. We found a family of 7 this week at paseo playground, that’s what Elder Haynie and I call it.
Elder Jones and I had our companions in Getafe, where the Zone Leaders work, and then we were here and we taught 4 lessons. It was great. We had piso checks, and we went to Valdapenas last night. Mom have Elder Baxter’s mom send you all of the pictures of the angel statue because we ran there this morning at 5:45 and then ran back, and then went to Alcazar, and then our companions went to Puerto llano. They are coming to meet us here in Ciudad Real. We have run all day long. It was 6 kilometers to the angel statue, and 6 back. That was the longest I have ever run. Well, I’ll talk to you next week.
Much love from Elder Miller in Spain.
Oh yeah, the Zone Leaders were doing piso checks today. That’s why we ran all over the place.