6-10-09

From: elder.miller@myldsmail.net
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009

Well, another week has flown by too fast! I need to slow down time. Thanks Ginny and Joe Shaw, Becky, Abbie, Grandma, Mom and Dad for the awesome emails. I loved seeing the photos. It was sweet to see Evan's hair so long. It will be interesting to see it short again. Also, I liked the ones of the little cousins. Please thank Grandma Linda and Doug for the birthday card and the letter. It was so very much appreciated. I especially was touched by Grandma's comments on Memorial Day and the specialness of it. Thanks to all the grandparents for their support financially as well.

As far as President and Hermana Farnsworth, they are headed out between the 1st and the 4th of July, and we have one last Zone Conference with them on week 4 of this transfer, and then a Zone Conference week 5 with the new Mission President the week after that I think. We have interviews on June 18th at the mission home with a bbq, which should be just delightful and awesome. Hopefully the birthday package comes by next Monday and if not, it will come eventually.

By the way, Elder Matthews is living in a piso with the other Elder Miller.

So last week, I didn't give details about the District. Elder Murga the Peruvian, left to go to Valladolid, and Hermana Cachari (p.s. Hermana Cachari told me I look like Oscar de la Hoya. Correct her if she is wrong. I can't remember what he looks like, so you will have to be the judge.) left to go to the Barcelona Mission. The new-comers are Hermana Ball, a trainee with Hermana Lester, and then Elder Gerrbo from Sweden is with Elder Read. Elder Gerrbo is 6´4, and blond, and looks way Swedish. He knows tons of languages and is a Taekwondo black belt. He is way funny and off the wall. One interesting fact about him is that the Cammans live in his Ward in Sweden. Brother Cammans and Elder Gerrbo were both Ward Missionaries together. Brother Cammans is way close to Elder Gerrbo's sick dad, and visits him all the time. Also, Patrick Cammans was in Young Men's with him and they switched from doing it in Swedish to English when Patrick arrived. We are going to send over a letter with a picture to the Cammans with the two of us together. What a small world.

Like I told you last week, I am now with Elder Jeppson. He is way interesting. He is struggling with the language, but we work on it daily and we are teaching a ton of members, and practicing the missionary lessons which is helping him open-up. I´ve decided he is a mix between Sean McPharlin that went to Olympus with me and is in our Stake, and Diego, the kid that was Evan's age and came to our ward for awhile. Elder Jeppson played football in high school and at Dixie State. He also did drama and lots of stage crew stuff. He is big into computer games, but bigger into Halo and video games. He is from a way little town in California, and is the youngest of 8 children. He´s the only red head. His family is spread all over from Missouri, North Carolina, Idaho, California, Arizona, and none in Utah. He´s a way big country music fan, and I only know one Rascal Flatts song, and one Garth Brooks song. Our common ground is football and missonary work. So we just work our tails off. Elder Jeppson has had some interesting moments, and often looses his train of thought during lessons, always leading to funny moments. After his first lesson, he fell down the stairs while a member and I both watched helplessly. I love Elder Jeppson. He keeps me happy and having a great time.
Well, we will keep making funny memories and working hard. Have a great week.

I love you all so much.

Much love from Spain.


Love, Elder Miller