Things have been going good considering the work. we had to push back a couple of dates though... the reason why is we had 4 people lined up to be baptized on the 22nd and the 23rd is stake conference and usually when you do a convert baptism you have to confirm them the next day during sacrament meeting. but since it is stake conference that day the stake president didnt' want to do it on that day so we just decided that rather than baptizing and then waiting a week to be confirmed we just decided to push the date back on week. also we were going to baptize our 13 year old kid - Haden - on the 15th but he won't get baptized until the 5th of february. the reason why we pushed back his date was becuase he visits his dad who live up in idaho every other weekend so this weekend he was going to be at his dad's house up in idaho. so he wouldn't have even been there for his own baptism. but we finally worked things out and we are going to make sure that he gets baptized on the 5th! also our super solid investigators- mike and audrey are getting married this weekend so that should be super awesome.
The last 2 days have been quite boring though...Elder Deming has come down with a cold so we didn't do work on sunday or monday. so we stayed in the whole day...which means that i had nothing to do other than read the scriptures a ton and also watch a bunch of church movies...i pretty much watched all the church dvd's...lamb of god, finding faith in jeusus christ, the restoration, joseph smith - prophet of the restoraiton, the testaments, legacy, mountain of the lord. but my Elder Deming is pretty good at quoting alot of those movies and because we watch alot of those movies with investigators, i can kind of quote alot of it. but that is what i have been doing the past 2 days.
the other day i had quite an experience with our 92 year old ivestigator Cliff...the other day he cursed us out and kicked us out of his home!! haha. i mean i shouldn't laugh about it... it kind of sucked but that is what happend. so we started off the lesson by watching this video about the story of Wilford Woodruff, about his conversion story and then we started talking to him about the proper priesthood authority from god. and some things led to another and Elder Deming and him started kind of bashing together and during the whole time they were bashing together i really could not feel the spirit. it was kind of sad and then suddenly Cliff started cursing us out and saying all other filth..haha. but anyways he told us to leave so then when were leaving he started saying that he prayed about the book of mormon and the mormon church and he said that god told him that it was the devil's church! and he started going off on other stuff and it kind of got me irritated so then i asked him if he had ever read the book of mormom cover to cover and of course he said no. so then i told him that he can't say anything about the book of mormon becuase he hasn't even read it i and that he hasn't even prayed about it and that he can't say anything until he reads it and prays about it and that when he does i told him to tell me to face that it wasn't true. so that kind of shut him up. so then i shook his hand and then we left.
but other than being kicked out of someone's home we have been doing a great work here in Sunset and we are significantly blessed for our missionary efforts. but anyways love you all and hope that i get some letters from all of you who are reading this blog! haha
Love
Elder Miller
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