It's March

We went to El Escorial today and it was awesome. It is a palace in the northwest part of Madrid, near the huge cross I went to a few months ago. It was so sweet. It is huge and has tons of paintings. It is right up next to the mountains in the north of Madrid and has some great views. Then after, we went to Mi Wok, an oriental buffet. It was so, so good and you could have tons of prepared food, desserts, and then pick your own ingredients to get cooked wok style. We ate a lot and then traveled home an hour on bus.
Eva and Juan Carlos have a situation update. They are going home to Paraguay this week because Juan Carlos lost his DJ job, due to not having residency papers. So they just bumped up there flight from the 1st of May until now and are headed out. It is a blessing in disguise because they will be able to get married and baptized faster. They are so strong and are way excited for baptism. Manuel’s baptismal date got pushed back. Unfortunately, in his week to quit, he couldn’t do more than 24 hours. It’s great though, because he was able to get down to 5 or 6 a day, from 50 about 4 months ago. He has a job that he got on Monday this week, so that is really great for him.
This last Sunday was a great week in church, and there were 5 investigators. It was a great Fast Sunday, but Saturday, night Elder McBride got kind of a scary call from President Farnsworth. He found out his dad was getting heart surgery number 4 tomorrow and that he went into the hospital yesterday. He was way nervous. It was an awesome experience to give him a blessing with Elder Weinert on Saturday night. What an awesome opportunity to help Elder McBride. He wanted the blessing to help him focus on the work, and he has been as focused as ever. Keep his dad in your prayers, and please put his name on the prayer roll at the temple when you go tomorrow. The surgery is to put in 2 pig valves and replace old ones. It is going to be 5 hours.
At church as I was saying, Manuel, Alcides, Julia, Augustin, Gisela and Agustinito were all there. It was awesome. Alcides went back to Paraguay about a month ago to pick up his wife. He was waiting to get baptized with her, and their son has already been baptized. He is with his grandparents in Paraguay. They are related to Bernardo and all of the other Paraguayan members and investigators here. So that’s great they have a bunch of friends already. Both Alcides and his wife have had all the lessons already and we are just way excited to help them get baptized. Agustin and his family were back at church after not going for about 4 weeks. It was great to see them again. He has been to church 5 times now. We just need to be able to teach them more regularly, which is hard to do with the crazy schedules they have.
This last week I was on exchanges with Elder Garcia. His home is near Barcelona, and we were working in our area. He serves in Villalba, and my companion was over there with Elder Cardon. On Sunday, we received a call from someone named Thomas on a Czech Republic phone number, and the guy tells us he is from India and wants to meet on Monday. He went to church in one of the barrios near the temple, Barrio 6. The elders there gave him our number because he lives near us. He is about 40, and we thought he was a member. He isn’t, but wants to be, and we had an awesome lesson in English. He has a crazy story. He was born into a Catholic family in India. He has lived in England, Hong Kong, mainland China, Mongolia, Maldives, and now he is here for 2 weeks. He has been searching for this his whole life, the true gospel of Jesus Christ, and has now found it. On Tuesday, Elder McBride and I set a baptismal date for him on the 21st of March and Thomas wanted it sooner, so we are doing it the 20th. By the way, they are usually scared of a baptismal date, or at least hesitant, but he was like, “can we move it up any sooner”.
Well I love you all a ton. Have a great week. Much love from Spain.
Love, Elder Miller

PS. Tell Grandma Lois Happy Birthday, and tell Elder Brown, Grandma Judy and Evan thanks for the emails. I was way bummed to hear that Evan broke his arm. That's sweet that Elder Brown went to Sunday dinner. Also, daylight savings isn’t until later in the spring here.