March 29, 2011

I was kind of surprised that James got his mission call to Korea, but that is still really good. He willl have a good experience there and I also feel that it might be more successful than Japan for a mission. He will probably be able to use Korean very well since he knows a little Japanese and by using Korean he could probably strenthen his Japanese. But it will be exciting to see how the work goes over there and I am sure that he will do great in Korea.  He will probably eat alot of kimchi and probably some dog.....haha but i guess now he gets to tell us how dog tastes.
But I am also really excited for General conference, if I had stayed in this area i would have been able to go all 5 sessions...yes it kind of sucks, but i am getting transferred. I am pretty sure that i am going to Farr West. But I am kind of disappointed that i am getting transferred, but i guess that i am going there for a good reason, but anyways Farr West is where Elder Wayment (my first companion) is from. So i might be able to go see his family, which will be pretty cool. But I am kind of bummed that i have to leave Centerville because i got along really well with Elder Kay but i guess everything happens for a reason. but this week was a pretty good week. We had  3 baptisms this week. There has been a family who the mother, Rebecca, was taught and baptized a year ago by Elder Kay and now the Dad, Sam and the 2 kids, Alissa, and Taylor got baptized on Saturday and it has been a long journey for the family, becuase Sam and Rebecca both grew up in polygamy and they ran away from it becuase they didn't like what it was doing to their live and also becuase their parents wouldn't let them be together so they ran off together, and it was a really spiritual experience to see them get baptized, but i know that the gospel has been a big part of their lives and now that they are baptized they ahve a goal set in 1 year that they are going to be sealed in the temple as a family for all time and eternity!

But other than that things are going really good with me. I am really looking forward to General Conference and i hope I get to go in my next area, but if i don't, that will be cool becuase I will be able to watch it also. But things have been really good for me this transfer, we saw alot of success together and I hope that i do well in my next area and continue to have success on my mission. But anyways I remembered to refill my prescription without you reminding me!! haha! but hope everything goes well with you. James still has a bunch of time before he goes in the MTC so i guess he will be able to do most of your spring and Summer gardening for you..haha


Christopher Winston Miller to me
acactually i am going to willard. so scratch that about going to farr west.

March 22, 2011

But this week was pretty good. We baptized this guy named Sean. Sean is a way awesome dude and it was really good for us to see him get baptized. But Seans baptism day was kind of filled with drama. So we just wanted to say Hi to him that day and to talk to him about his baptism because we werent able to meet with him the night before. But he was like really mad at us and sent us this kind of mean text. So we were kind of confused. So we went and talked to the fellowship and he said that he went and talked to Seans parents to invite them to the baptism because Sean said that they didn't feel welcome at the baptism because they were non members, and it turned out that Sean didn't even tell his parents that he was getting baptized and his parents were in full support of him being baptized except Sean didn't want them to know about it for some reason. So Sean was kind of mad about that for some reason and told our fellowship that he didn't even know if he wanted to get baptized. But our fellowship went and talked to him and calmed him down and we got him baptized later that evening. So that was a miracle. But it does show that Satan doesn't really want people to follow Jesus Christ and will do anything to stop them.

But this week we didn't teach as much as we did last week. But we did teach a fair amount of lessons. We would have taught more lessons than last week but we didn't becuase most of our lesosns ended up cancelling on us this week. But we have set some pretty good goals for this week.

But our one really solid investigator Lance has kind of hit a dip in the road of his life and to his baptism. But anyways he was doing really well and since we have been meeting with him he has been super happy and has been really solid and has been seeing alot of blessings in his life. But just one lessson later his whole attitude towards everything changed and he just seemed really depressed...and we didn't really know why. and the family he was living with didn't really know why his attitude changed really suddenly. But Lance really wants to be a fire fighter and he was going to school to be a fire fighter but he didn't have enough money left so he had to drop out and his friend who he is living with said that the class Lance was in just barely graduated, so that might have been one thing that made him depressed, but we set up a lesson with him tonight and we are planning on taking him to General conference, so that should hopefully give him some guidance.

But this has been kind of our week so far. Last night we met with this lady who has an anti husband and everytime we go over ther he always tries to change the subject and ask about anti mormon stuff and everytime we are over there he is like I don't want to change your views on anything but did you hear about ... So anyways Elder Kay kind of had enough of it and was like, are you trying to change our opinion about the church, and he was like well, yes. But anyways it is kind of dumb.
P.S.

our mission office address changed. so make sure to put this address out to anyone who wants to write to me

4380 S Orchard Ave.
South Ogden, UT 84403

March 15, 2011

This week was a pretty good week. We actually had a really busy week. My companion and I ended up teaching a total of 33 lessons this week. So that included us going on splits just about everynight of this week. but other than that things have been going really well. We have been teaching this guy named Sean who is going to be baptized this Saturday and I will let you know how that goes in my next e-mail.

But this week we have been teaching this guy named Lance and Lance is one awesome dude. We actually started teaching him because he has been living with a member of our area and he has grown up in Utah his whole life and has never really looked into the lds church. but anyways he started meeting with us and he told us right off the bat that he had been through alot of things in his life and we told him to pray about anything he wanted to. And all i got to say is that Lance has alot of faith, and becuase of that faith alot of his prayers had been answered. So for one he has had a really hard time finding work and he has been working for this one guy who wasn't going to pay him but his friend that he is living with now ran into that boss at a gas station and the boss gave his friend the check to give to Lance. so that is one miracle. Also his friend has a son and his son wans't feeling well and he had a really high fever and was just really sick.so we were asked to give a blessing and supposedly when we left the kid was just running around like he had never been sick, so that is another miracle he saw. also he has suffered with depression throughout his whole life and since he has been meeting with us and been praying and reading he said this has been the happiest time of his life. and he told us that he never imaged that he could be happy through religion and god. but he also came to church this week and when we were at church he had read from 1st nephi to jacob, which was a 3 day span. but he is really solid right now and he has a super amount of faith and i can defintly see it since we started meeting with him.

Things have been going really good here. I really like it here in Centerville. I know that the work will continue to go on. 
Love

Elder Miller

March 8, 2011

But this week we have been teaching like crazy. We taught 29 lessons this week, and we pretty much went on splits everynight of this week. We also had a baptism this week. But anyways the baptism this week was a miracle. So Elder Kay had been teaching this guy named Cletus, who is from Benin, West Africa. So when I came to this area here in Centerville, Cletus had a baptismal date for March 5th. But Cletus is also undocumented so it is really hard for him to find a job. But the crazy thing is he has an MBA but he really can't do anything with it becuase he is undocumented. So one of his friends that he knew from school said that there was a work oppourtunity down in Texas at like a rodeo where he would drive a golf cart and shuttle people around. So he decided since he wasn't doing anything here he would just go down there and have to push the baptism 3 weeks because that was how long he was going to be in Texas. So he was down in Texas and suddenly at like 1 am on Saturday he texted us and told us that he wanted to be baptized on Sunday. We were really surprised and we were like, OK. So we got him interviewed on Sunday and he was baptized that night. So that night his friend, Simplice (who is also from West Africa) was asked to say a couple of words at the baptism, and he was saying that Cletus called him at like 12 that night and was like, Simplice, I can't sleep. and then Simplice was like, then why are you calilng me, im sleeping! and Cletus then told him about how he knew that church was true and that he needed to be baptized immediately. So Simplice told him to let us know and to come back and get baptized. And the crazy thing is that Simplice isn't a member of the church but he would be if it wasn't for his wife. But anyways, Cletus then said that he had a dream that night that he shouldn't put God before Money. So he interpreted it as that he needed to go back to Utah and to get Baptized and that was exactly what he did. So that was the miracle of the week.

March 1, 2011

But things have beeng going really well in the Centerville Area. We taught 22 lessons this week, which was awesome (and that also includes less-actives, and recent converts). But the sad thing was that alot of the lessons that we had scheduled cancelled on us. But kind of the Sad thing this week was that we are teaching this guy named Cletus, who is frome Benin, Africa and he wants to get baptized, but his student visa expired and he is now undocumented, and he does have an MBA, but he can't work anywhere becuase of his immigration status, but he was going to be baptized this saturday, but he found a job in Texas for a couple of weeks so he has already gone down there to earn some money but he will be back in 3 weeks and so we should get him baptized by then.

 

Also we have been teaching this guy named Sean and we have taught him 2 lessons so far and he is pretty excited to get baptized and we were talking to him and he has worked on several temples around the United States including the Nauvoo temple, and he did the electrical work on them, but he has a baptismal date of March 19th and we tried to set some more lessons up with him but he hasn't answered the door for us and it has been kind of frustating with him becuase he was so solid and was super excited to get baptized but then he won't answer the doors for lessons and we could hear him inside like playing video games and stuff. but anwyays we talked to the fellowship member, who happnes to be a doctor and he was telling us how Sean is kind of bi-polar and goes into werid mood swings and he kind of isolates himself from the world, but yesterday the member told us that he saw him yesterday at his clinic and he talked to him and supposedly Sean is taking it seriously. So hopefully we can start teaching him again.

 

Also we have been teaching these 2 unbaptized girls that we tratcted into the other day their names are Sierra and Serenity and they are 13 and 10..I think. but anyways we taught them a couple of lessons and they do not have a baptismal date yet but that is only becuase when they were living in Salt Lake they were being taught by missionaries there and the missionaries wanted t hem to get baptized in 2 weeks and that kind of turned them off so we are just taking things slow with them right now. But the sucky part was that all those people I just talked about didn't show up to church, which was a total bummer...but hopefully we can get them to chruch this next week. But anyways hope things are going well with you and hope you guys have wonderful week.

 

Love

 

Elder Miller