It's October!

Hi Everyone!
Zone Conference went just great. Elder Gorts was awesome, and helped us out a lot. There was a workshop where we had 3 different stations of teaching skills in chapter 10 of "Preach My Gospel". I learned a lot.
I'll tell you some things about Elder Haynie since mom asked. He is from Escondido, California, or in English "hidden." He is way cool and we get along great. He played soccer in high school on the defense. He played in the Turkey Shoot a couple times and his team is the Rancho Bernardo Renegades, if James or Ian ever played against that club in the turkey shoot. He is from a family of 4 sisters. One is older and married and has a baby. He has one brother who got married just before Elder Haynie came on his mission. That brother served here in the Spain Madrid mission as well, but we found out he didn't serve in La Mancha. Elder Haynie had already been to Spain to pick up his brother, and even to the mission home, Toledo where his brother served, and Sol and Valencia and all over the place. His dad is a Stake President and he is just an amazingly prepared missionary. He got a 35 on the ACT so he is way smart as well.
Elder Lambert went home at the end of last transfer, and his family came to pick him up because they planned it without him knowing. He wasn't super happy about it. He just wanted to go back to Gunlock and ride the wakes. I would imagine he is back by now.
Today we had a lesson with a member referral from Puerto Llano. The woman's name is Maricruzes and she is a way nice 37-year-old Spaniard woman. It was so hard at the end when she didn't want to hear more or have another lesson with us. It was really sad, because the spirit was there so strongly, and then she didn't want to hear any more. Oh well, I guess this isn't her time.
We taught Dora last Thursday and then again on Monday. We challenged her to baptism on Thursday, actually Elder Haynie did the actual challenge and it went really well. She accepted for the 1st of November. In the district there are 4 other baptismal dates coming up. The district is catching the vision of baptismal challenges weekly. District meeting went well on using scriptures and teaching to needs. I did a practica with asking hard investigator questions and then everyone would search for answers and then we would hear one of them and then get a bunch of scriptures to answer some hard questions. It went well, even though I made it sound really confusing.
We also had a paella dinner appointment with Nieves and family and it was delicious. We also had a noodle paella dinner appointment with Ana and Anita, members of the rama who were in the other elder's area that we get to visit and teach now. The work is going great and we are getting a good base of teaching the members from both areas. I like it a lot here, and am really excited for General Conference. The spiritual thought will be whatever you learn in conference this weekend.
Love,
Elder Miller