May 24, 2011

this week we had one of our investigators married. they have been living together for about 7 years and now they are finally married. Their names are Mike and Julie and they have also been meeting with missionaries for about 9 months so this week we are going to try to get them baptized because the only thing really holding them back from being baptized was the marriage issue so now that they are married they have no excuse!!

but nothing much really happened this week. but we have been trying really hard to find more people to teach and so far we are successful, we have been teaching a lot more lessons and we are getting some more leads on some kids who are unbaptzied, but i really like my new companion, Elder Law, partially because he actually works, but he is an awesome dude. but we are really working hard to get some more progressing investigators and I feel that we are doing pretty good on it.

but sorry this e-mail is pretty short, i really don't have alot to report on other than those things, but i really hope that everything goes well for you and that the weather starts to improve, but anyways love you

Love

Elder Miller

May 17, 2011

things are same old same old. this area is kind of slow but things are starting to pick up, we had a baptism this week of this kid named daniel. and it was a good baptism service. but we are kind of in the stage where we are just trying to find people to teach and it is a slow process, but we are starting to pick up on some more people and we are trying to get into their homes, but we have been teaching some lessons but it has been kind of slow. but hopefully things start picking up soon. we mowed a single lady's lawn this saturday. we mowed her front yard about a week ago and so we just went back and mowed her lawn again and in the back yard she had grass and weeds about 2 feet tall and so i spent a quite a bit of time mowing that lawn down, and but the end of it i was super tired and also she actually had a back yard!

 

but this week our eternagators mike & julie are getting married, mike and julie had been taught by missionaries for almost a year and they have also been living together for about 7 eyars and so now they are finally tying the knot and getting married but i am pretty sure that mike is going to be baptized right after he gets married, i don't know about julie but i know that they know that the church is true and mike is an awesome guy if you can just imagine a really hard skin head guy who has arms full of tattoo's.. that is him, but he is an awesome guy and goes to church every sunday for all 3 hours, and when we were talking to him during the last lesson he said, well we need to get married to get baptized! so that is awesome! but that is all i really have this week, i hope that you guys are doing well.

 

May 10, 2011

but this week we had 2 baptisms. i was able to see this guy named Ed Province get baptized on friday and then the next day i went back to centerville to baptize this kid named Taran and it was really awesome to see Taran get baptized. i don't know if i told you about Taran but Taran is a 12 year old kid who i taught back in Centerville and he has Cerebal palsy, so he is mentally and physically handicapped and when i left he was planning on getting baptized but he needed to be taught some more lessons, but when i left he was really sad because i was the first missionary that taught him and he really liked me so when the missionaries in centerville asked who wanted to baptized him he said me! which was pretty cool, so i went back down to centerville on saturday and baptized him and it was really good to see him get baptized. and this next saturday we have another baptism happening, so that will be really cool. so the work so far is going really well and we are really excited to see some more things happen. But this week we have another guy who has been getting taught for awhile by missionaries and the guy who is going to baptize him is back in town so we are going to set something up for him to be baptized, which is awesome.

May 3, 2011

This week has so far been good and kind of crappy. the good news is that we actually picked up 4 new investigators this week and that we actually taught them really good first lessons and they were super receptive to the spirit. We picked up a 9 and a 12 year old boy. and a 27 and a 30 year old womn. but the first discussions went really well with them and we all hope to see them get baptized. but now for the bad news. We had a baptism all set up this week for this guy named Ed. and Ed had been a member of the church when he was younger except his Dad somehow got offended and took everybody in his family's records out. so he his dad self-excommunicated his whole family. and he hasn't been a member for about 20 years and he has been taught by missionaries for about 3 years I think and now we are finally sealing the deal. but he flaked out the night before. the reason why was because his step-son's baby died that night. so it was going to be pretty hard to do a baptism when a death just happened. but he said that he would be baptized this week so we have a lesson with him on wednesday, so hopefully we can clear somethings up so that he can be baptized.

 

April 26, 2011

But things have been pretty good this week. we have a baptism this saturday of this guy named Ed. Ed was a member of the church when he was younger and his dad got offended by somebody/something at the church so his dad pulled all of their church records a.k.a. self excommunicated his whole family. which was kind of lame and selfish. but anyways ed lived the rest of his life not a member and he married an lds girl and then started to take the lessons and now he is being re-baptized this saturday!

 

But this week we were visting people in this one ward and there was this one culdesac out in plain city that happend to have all less actives and nonmembers living in it. so we decided to go see this less active family and some non members and both of them didn't happen to be home and there was this house that had the lights on and i just felt that i should go knock on the door, to find out about their neighbors. so anyways i went over there and some girl named sophie answered the door and she happend to not be a member and she works out at the airforce base in clearfield and she is from san deigo and she is a catholic and we were just talking to her about the church and she said that she didn't know alot about mormons but likes to have an open mind so she said that she would like to meet with us again. but anwyays it just shows that the lord has things planned for us as long as we are willing to listen to the spirit.

 

but another story this week was that we were tracting in this trailer park in our area and we found this one trailer and i ran into this lady named april and she is a pentecostal and she is from texas. but we started talking to her about the bible and we started to bible bash with her a little bit and we were like this is kind of pointless so we just kind of beared out testimony about the book of mormon and we were going to leave but then she suddenly was like, "i'll make you a deal." and we said,  "what is that?" and she said, "if you come to church with us this sunday, we'll read and learn more about your church." and we were like, OK! that is an easy trade. so this sunday we went to a pentecostal chuch out in clearfield and lets just say. have you watched the movie borat where he goes to church. im sure james has. but that is what it was like. just alot of music and priaising jesus at random times and saying halelujia and amen alot. but afterward when we were getting a ride back the husband was like, since you guys came to our church, we'll come to yours next week. so we said that would be awesome! so today we are probably going to go visit them and talk to them about the restoration of the gospel, a.k.a. the truth!! haha.

 

but other than that my week has been pretty good other than the rain. but things are going really well here and we hope to see alot more baptisms to come up.

 

Love

 

Elder Miller