June 28, 2011

this week we met with a a really anti-mormon dude who was all about physical evidence and stuff like that and we sat down and talked with him for about 2 hours and it was really annoying and we weren't able to explain everything to him but we just told him that by faith we are able to experience more blessings.

But anyways this week has been an OK week. We are teaching alot of people but we don't really have any baptismal dates at this moment. I think i told you that i have a new companion now. His name is Elder Lanier and he is from Florida. He is a really cool guy and I really enjoy serving with him. He was actually in this area 6 months ago and now he is back and it is a relief to actually have a companion that actually knows the area quite well. But anyways one girl that we are teaching right now seemed to be pretty golden, but then we found out that she was just really wanting to become a member because she wanted some welfare, and she hasn't met with us in a week. Which kind of sucks but we will still meet with her.

We also happened to pick up another investigator this week. She is a lady and she is in her 60's probably and we were just going out on visits with one of our Ward Mission Leaders and we he wanted to see who lived in one of the trailers so that he could be able to add them to the ward Map and so we did that and she happened to be a non-member and she was willing to meet with us and she has a friend down in Salt Lake who is a member who supports us alot, and yesterday we were able to have a lesson with her and it went really well and we weer able to pick up a baptismal date with her and it was really really awesome! So that was a highlight of the week.

But anyways things are going pretty good out here, we are continuing to see the work progress out here.
Love

June 21, 2011

 this week we had a baptism of this guy named Mike who has investigated the chruch for about a year and finally he has become a follower of Jesus Christ, but it was really good for him to get baptized! But this week we ended up running over a Moose the other day, atleast it was a chihuahua named Moose. yeah we ran over a dog yesterday and it died on impact, it was really sad and it make me think what would happen if jack got ran over, but he would never get run over... because our street isn't really busy. but anyways transfer calls are today and i am staying another transfer out here, but Elder Law is getting transferred because he is one my favorite companion's but i am getting another guy named Elder Lanier so hopefully he is cool, he has served in this area about 4 months ago so hopefully he still knows the area because i don't really like introducing another area to another missionary, but anyways are are going to go play some basketball, hopefully i can beat them in that, but i highly doubt it. but thank you for everything. hope your week goes well.

Love

Elder Miller

June 14, 2011

 this week was a really good week for the missionary work in our area, especially for the Willard Stake. We ended up teaching a lot of people in the Willard stake this week and we were able to find a new investigator and we have another baptismal date for July 9th. which is really cool, but it is kind of funny how somethings take time to fall into place. For me i am fast pace kind of guy, i like to see results fast when you work hard, and when we were working hard the results weren't coming as fast as i would have liked them to come and that was why i was so ticked a couple of weeks ago, but anyways now we are seeing a lot more stuff happening, and we are really pleased with the progress, and we are actually waiting for some more things to start happening. but this week is going to be a good week. we are going to have a baptism of this guy named Mike Mann, i think i mentioned his situation before, he has been investigating the church for the past i think 11 months now, but anyways he is going to be baptized this weekend. He was supposed to be baptized this last Saturday but he wasn't because he hadn't quit smoking for a week, so that kind of sucked and then last p-day we were going to have him interviewed by our mission president, President Olson, and then we waited for him for about 30 minutes and then i called him and then he said that he forgot about the interview and that was the first interview he has forgotten about so then we changed the interview for friday, and i called President Olson up earlier in the day, jokingly reminding him about the interview, but anyways things are going really good and thank you for the e-mail. Hope you guys kill all the mice in the house.

Love

Elder Miller

June 6, 2011

 this week has been pretty good, last weeks e-mail i kind of sounded whiny because I was a little frustrated with the missionary work out here because it really wasn't going anywhere, and it really sucks when you are always teaching the same people that aren't really progressing towards baptism but this week has actually been pretty good, we started teaching this 14 year old girl named Presley, who has a friend living in our area so we started teaching her in her friend's home and the first lesson went really well and she really wants to be baptized but her Mom won't let her but her Mom was fine with letting her have the missionary lessons so it was really cool to teach her because for a 14 year old girl she was really interested in the gospel and it was a really cool lesson.


but this week we kind of had a miracle in the Willard Stake, the reason being is because the Willard stake has kind of been a really boring stake because we haven't really had any work going on in the Willard Stake. But our mission President has been really pushing splits every night in our areas and the Farr West stake has kind of been sucking on splits and Willard was really good on splits this week and we have seen a lot more set up lessons in their stake and we have picked up 2 new people to teach in Willard which is really exciting because like i was saying before, the Willard stake has really been sucking. but this next week is going to be exciting, becuase we are going to start teaching those new people, but anyways i am doing fine.


Love


Elder Miller

May 31, 2011

the weather has been crazy. i was talking to one of our ward mission leaders out here and he was saying that the average rain fall in the months of march, april, and may are 6 inches. and supposedly we are already up to 12 inches of rain fall march, april, and may. but it has been pretty crazy. we live kind of down in the flats and alot of places are flooding, in fact, there is this one road down in plain city where the water was gushing out of this river and there was about 3 feet of standing water in the road...and that was all from rain and people are saying that it just floods from the snow coming off the mountain and most of the snow hasn't even come off the mountain so that is going to be some bad news bears.anyways for as the work is going, it is going pretty slow. Elder Law and I are actually working and we are kind of getting mad at the people in this area. the reason being is because they aren't really helping us out a ton. for example we are trying to get a couple of kids to church whose parents are inactive. and the parents don't want to go to church and they don't care if their kids don't go to church and we have talked to their neighbors and we have asked them several weeks in a row if they could invite them. and every week when we check up on them they have told us that they didn't invite them....which is super lame. i dont get it. but that has kind of been one frustrating this week that we have had to deal with and also we set up 22 lessons this week and 9 of them cancelled, which has been super gay. but i hate to be a whiner, but this area is slow and the less active people are really mean, they don't want anything to do with the church, and i feel that some of the people that we are meeting with are just meeting with us like it is a chore and i feel that they don't have a desire to meet with us... but for the good news, our one ivestigator named Mike who has been taught by missionaries for about 10 months, has finally accepted a baptismal date for june 11th! which is awesome and his newly married wife is going to be baptized next month, so that will be exciting! but i love my companion, Elder Law, he is one awesome dude. he is way into asian food and he also likes to have the apartment clean, and he is smart but anyways hope everything goes well with you this week and that it doesn't rain too much!


Love


Elder Miller