Hey Mom thanks for emailing me the article about Spain from the Church News. I saw the Avila wall from the article, today from the bus to and from Salamanca. We went up after our exchange with Elder Sansing and Elder Stearns. Elder Sansing and I were here in Madrid, and left today with Hermanas Thompson, Swasey, Wilcox, and Hardcastle to go up and meet Elder Finlay and Elder Stearns, the Salamanca district leader. We had a grand old time and saw the great sights of Salamanca a lot more thoroughly this time, and went to the Roman bridge and up in the tower of the cathedral. It was great.
I finally wrote Elder Brown today and Hermana Thompson wrote him too, so he should be getting that. So anyway, we contacted Jaime in a plaza and he said he knew some missionaries who were probably home by now who served in Villalba. They contacted him in the street and showed him pictures of a ranch. So it’s a small world and Jaime remembers Elder Brown. Elder Brown, you should write him he is a way cool guy.
I talked with President Farnsworth and he said to get online and check out the registration for the University of Utah. I found out that my registration period is the General registration that starts July 27th or June 27th. I guess we won’t be doing this any time soon, unless you can try to talk to someone at the U and change that so I can enroll earlier and actually get the classes I want. I guess it will all work out how it should. So yeah I guess we will just roll with the punches on that. Thanks for jumping through the hoops you have so far.
This week has been a good one. I am not sure what to do with my suits, they are too big to get taken in or used after the mission. My green one has taken a beating but has been repaired good enough to still look alright. It’s just too big. The black one we got at Mervyn’s has a nasty stain on the collar and on both sleeves, where it lost its coloring, and both pairs of pants have oil and cooking and eating stains on them. So I don’t wear that suit any more. I am going to get the black suit with brown pinstripes tailored, and the brown one is great. So basically, I am going to throw out the black one, and then the green one would just be being kept to be a keepsake. What should I do with it? So that was random.
I had an exchange with Elder Glad last Friday that went well. He is working way well with the ward and things are getting done. On Wednesday night last week after we got back from Alcala, we had a great experience in a meeting with Elder Paya and the other zone leaders. He had a talk/presentation planned with a PowerPoint, some hand outs he gave us and didn’t use, and then obviously a talk to go along with it. He started out with Zone reports and put some elders on the spot a little about priesthood not getting to the recent converts, which is a common flaw that happens here in Madrid because it’s hard to get them into interviews with the leaders, and have them take over the recent convert sometimes. Then after those, he had the assistants start a council amongst us about how we can apply the things learned in the mission tour to the mission. This went on for 2 hours of us bouncing around ideas about baptismal calendars, baptismal interviews, progress records to the ward, nightly planning, and some other things. It was way great and we were all able to see how to improve and get better as a mission. Then he stopped the council after about 2 hours and noted the spirit in the room brought by a council done the right way, like they are done in the organization and leadership of the church. He told us he did it as a practice, and that it would help us all as we went forward and served in the church as future Young Men’s presidents, Bishops, Elder’s Quorom presidents, Stake Presidents and wherever else the Lord would have us serve. He got really teary-eyed and emotional, then President Farnsworth bore his testimony tearily, and then Hermana Farnsworth, and then Hermana Paya. It was a great experience and I just loved the amazing spirit that was there.
We had some sweet new investigators this week both found in a “faith” street that was selected by a member, John Freddy (who also took us to Burger King again yesterday). One is Angel. He is a great Ecuadorian man, and he came to church on Sunday and then in the cita (lesson) on Monday he felt the truthfulness of the restoration, and was just in tears during his closing prayer. He is finding the truth he was looking for. Also Mom, there is a girl here as a nanny and she goes to our ward. Her name is Brittany Clark and she is a year younger than me. She went to Uintah Elementary as well. Also, she knows Cami Pendleton and Elder Finlay because she went to Alta her sophomore to senior year.
Things are going really well over here. The members in our area treat us just dandy, and are giving referrals and helping investigators like Thomas come to baptism. Thomas has his baptism on Friday at 8pm and it should be awesome. Andres de Batres, the Spanish recent convert, is going to baptize him. Andres and John Freddy were our heroes on this one for searching and checking habitations with Thomas to get him in the situation with 2 men in his piso that he is in now. Things are going great with him and he is just super prepared. I need to tell Thomas´ story in detail next week, with the hoops we jumped through and stuff and how prepared he was from day one. More next week…
Much love from Spain.
Love, Elder Miller
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