But things have been really good here in sunset, Utah. the work here is going well, even though it has been a slow week. but this morning i found out that i am getting transferred! I am going to be in Centerville Utah now. So that is just North of Bountiful and just south of Kaysville. So I am going to be serving there now and i am excited that i am moving on. I also at the same time feel really bad for Elder Deming because he wanted to leave sunset a while ago and felt like he was and he sure thought that he was going to get a transfer call today, but now i am leaving...so that means that he will probably be here 7 1/2 months... but his new companion was his MTC compaion and they get along pretty well. so in that case, things should be OK. but my new compaion's name is Elder Kay and that is all I really know about him. But i have talked to some other missionaries in the mission today and they have told me that we are likely to get along and we should have fun together, so I am looking forward to the adventure and challenge.
This week has been kind of slow regarding the work. We have been kind of teaching the same people. We are still teaching our 18 year old kid named Jordan. Jordan is one of those kids who we have taught for awhile but is just not willing to make the commitment of baptism... We have probably invited him to be baptized atleast more than 10 times... He kind of feels that if he gets baptized and when he leaves foster care that he will just go back into the wrong crowd and that when he moves away to a new ward that he won't be accepted anymore. But he knows for a fact that the church is true and we taught him a really good plan of salvation lesson and he was really into the lesson and he loved it. but he just doesn't feel ready to be baptized. but i really hope that when i leave that they will get him baptized.
Also we have been consistently meeting with this lady named Cindy. But the story about Cindy is the first day I came into this area we tracted into her and she kind of seemed uninterested but she still let us in and let us talk to her. and she was in some desperate need of help and the whole time I just felt like she was one of those welfare cases. So everytime i went over to her home to help her out, such as with getting some things like she needed, such as a bed and food orders i kind of felt like it was a waste of time, becuase of what I had seen in Missouri with people abusing the church for their welfare. So was kind of bitter about her and we kept on going over and she really kept on progessing. Also she said that she had taken her name off the record so she wasn't a memeber. and at first she didn't want to come to church becuase she kind of has this twich in her leg and she just sticks her leg out straight and she was kind of hesistant about learning about the church, but the more we started to meet with her the more she started getting into the discussions. and finally we got her to come to church and at first she just wanted to go to sacrament meeting and she went and she said that she loved it! and for the past couple of weeks she has gone to the whole church hour and she even attends choir practice and she absolutly loves church and can't wait to go everyweek! but the otherday her sister died and she was really sad and we went over there and explained the plan of salvation with her and it just cleared up everything for her and she started feeling alot better. But also she was telling us last night that when we invited her to come to church she felt like all the church was going to talk about was Joseph Smith and she was kind of afraid of that but then when she realized that wasn't the case she was really happy. but i have definetly seen a big change in her and she is awesome and it is kind of hard for me to leave her. but i guess that is what it is when you are a misisonary.
Also the O'Connor girls got a ride to church with our ward mission leader, so they were at church for the whole 3 hours and that was awesome to see them there. but they are getting baptized this saturday and they wanted Elder Deming and I to baptize their daughters but now I am leaving but I should be able to come back to the baptismal service on Saturday.
but tonight i guess i have to say goodbye to everyone in this area. i really like this area. Anyways i am looking forward to serving in Centerville and I am hoping that I can also see success in that area.
Love you all
Elder Miller
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