Our new years was kind of boring. i just went to bed really early since we had no appointments. some guy in our stake wanted us to come to his house and shoot blanks out of his gun on new years but i was already in bed and we didn't want to go out. also we have been fed roast 3 times this week........and elder Deming doesn't really like roast so im always joking before every dinner appointment that we are going to have roast. but also transfers is tomorrow and both Elder Deming and I are staying in sunset together for another transfer. but things are going really well with the work.
Mike and Audrey are going to be interviewed for baptism today. and their baptismal date is on jan 22. but that might be a problem becuase stake conference is on the 23rd and investigators can't really be confirmed on a stake conference.We are just going to have to figure things out. They are going to get married pretty soon. That should be somthing pretty exciting.
Also we taught our littler 13 year old named hayden who had a baptismal date for the 15th. He is doing really well. We had one of those lessons yesterday where we talked about the gospel of jesus christ and how where we would draw earth life on a piece of paper and have somebody hold it and then have heaven drawn on a piece of paper and have somebody stand far away from the person holding the earth life and we told hayden to try to jump all the way from earth life to heaven in one jump. and of course he couldn't do it. so then we explained that you just have first faith in jesus christ, then next repentance, baptism, recieving the gift of the holy ghost, and Endure to the end. so we explained all of those to him and made those stepping stones so that he could jump from each one in the room and slowly make it to heaven. but then after that we started to talk about the word of wisdom to him and hayden has a little brother and sister and when we were talking about the word of wisdom they were like yelling, "MOM and DAD do that!!!" "MOMMY AND DADDY STILL SMOKE!" and i just looked at the parents and they had blank faces. but afterwards the parents told us that they were both excommunicated recently, but they still wanted their son to be baptized. and they both have problems smoking but we are just going to teach them stop smoking workshops and hopefully that will get them on the right track.
last week we met this family named the O'Connor's who at first we though we were just going to be teaching the 14 year old daughter named ashlynn and then the 10 year old daughter name alannis. so we get there and we are teaching the lesson and we didn't now if the Mom was less active or not. the dad told us straight up that he had been less active since he was 13. so we were teaching the lesson and we were explaining the feelings of the spirit and the spirit was definitely strong there and when we explained the first vision the mom was like talking to her girls and saying, " did you feel the spirit? i just did!" and then she told us that she was a non-member and that she really did belive that joseph smith did see god the father and jesus christ and that did restore the gospel of jesus christ in the latter days but she wants to keep her mind open to all religions and just didnt' want to stick to one religion. so we gave her the challenge of baptism and also we committed her daughters to baptism.
but thanks for all your support. hope everything is well with you guys and jack! love ya.
Elder Miller
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