16 months!

First off, thanks for everything you all do. Grandma Judy made it sound like you didn’t like the Christmas don’t send list, sorry. If I could think of other things I would let you know, but none come.
Mom, could you get in touch with Justin Dolan and ask what materials are in Tai for me. Don’t send them; just give me a list of the things that are available. As far as movies we have shown them “Finding Faith in Christ”, and “The Restoration” in Tai. If you could also ask Justin and Steve how in the world they transitioned from Buddhism to Christianity. They love church and have been 3 times and to 2 Noches de Hogar. Takisne is in Mosiah 26 in the Book of Mormon already in her reading and is praying nightly. So kind of crazy!
Patrick didn’t move out of his apartment with his girlfriend last week and he wasn’t kicked out to force him to. Things stalled with his progress towards baptism, but we set a new date for the 13th of December and made a 6 step plan including scripture reading, moving out, getting a job, prayers daily, lessons 2 times a week, and 4 more times at church. He didn’t come this week because he was embarrassed that he came up short on the goal. So we are going to turn him into a “rock solid” convert in this next 5 weeks and be sure he can’t go astray. I think it is better this way anyway.
The bucket of cake that I mentioned last week ranges from a 4 gallon bucket to about a 1 gallon bucket, full of cake scraps that they don’t throw away because the District President saves them for us. So we just eat it like a community bowl of cereal with spoons. It’s great!
I was so, so, so happy to hear that Coach Smith finally quit at Olympus. I am sure getting fired was inevitable and he probably wouldn’t want to keep teaching at a school he got fired from as coach.
I just wanted to make sure the food storage back home is doing well with the crazy times we are in. I am going to have to buy a new suitcase for about 23 euros at a chino, due to the big one loosing a wheel getting here to Ciudad Real.
Our trip to Madrid went well and the events were eventful. I am sure things like Zone Conference, District Meeting, Interviews and stuff like that are really boring to read in my emails. Sorry, that’s kind of my life here. We have 8 exchanges this transfer, so that is going to be nuts. Also, last week went really well as far as our success in teaching. We were able to teach a bunch of lessons and help a lot of people. I really love this city, and the Lord is helping these people come to Christ. One funny thing is that the toilet at the Leganes Capilla flooded again during interviews this transfer just like it did last transfer. So that was pleasant with the water coming out of a storm drain in a closet - way fun to clean up in suits and church shoes.
We are teaching some awesome people. Amelia is one of Hermana Nieves’ friends. She is great. She is from Spain and had a baptismal date back in July, but cancelled it. We picked her back up and are going to work with her. Also, Estefania and Teo came to the Rama Noche de Hogar on Saturday and were fellowshipped great as usual. We took our newest favorite, Ranger Cookies. Elder Haynie and I have made 4 batches in a couple of week’s time to take to people. We substituted crushed Werther’s for Skor bits though. So maybe Grandma could send some Skor bits. That would be great! Then we didn’t do the Werthers after that because it melted and then the cookies were like glass.
We also have a new investigator named Daniel from Brazil and Oswaldo and Luz from Ecuador. So things are going great and people are popping up all over the place.
This week’s scripture is missionary related: Doctrine and Covenants 24:12

Love,

Elder Milller