so far the new area is going pretty good. I actually quite enjoy it. the area is pretty much right next to the layton area i was just barely in and actually have to travel through the old area in layton to get some parts of the new area. but also about the new companion...his name is Elder Sullivan, he is from texas and has been out for now 7 weeks. so he is pretty much a brand new missionary. but he also has asperbergers and it makes it really hard. he is socially awkward. the first day his bike was broken so we walked and he just talked about anime for the whole day and i was like, well we need to get that bike fixed! but the only reason why i wanted to ride bikes is so i didn't have to listen to him talk the whole time... but we eventually got his bike fixed and the first day i guess i rode him to the ground because he is also over weight and not really athletic so whenever we got up to a little hill he would always just get off his bike and push it, but now we have been riding our bikes for this week and he has been doing alot better, he still is really slow but doesn't get off the bike which is good. but enough ranting on my companion.
we actually have a baptism happening today at 7:30, the person who is getting baptized name is cody and actually his mom called up last night and was like, hey can we do the baptism tomorrow, and so we were like why not? so that baptism is going to happen today so we are pretty excited about that. but things have been going pretty good in this area. it is kind of hard becuase elder sullivan doesn't really pay attention with alot of things like when i first came to this area he didn't really know where anything is, or what our investigators names were or what we were teaching them or how far the investigator has progressed. so it really felt like i was white washing the area....but this experience isn't really that bad because has really forced me to work a little harder to get to know the investigator and also the area a little harder. which i like and it is forcing me to find more investigators to teach. Usually when i see somebody walking on the street i usually just wave say hello and pass them. but now i am trying to get more people to teach so i am just going up to everybody and talking to them, which mind sound weird but i have met some really good people and also some really weird people.
but there was also this weird experience that happened this week. but anyways we were trained by our zone leaders to vision everybody we see as children of god and that our mission is to treat everybody like we would treat our brother's and sister or as Jesus would treat us. so i took that pretty seriously and i was just on fire talking to people and treating them as jesus would treat us. but anyways we went to this one apartment coplex and knocked on this door and nobody was home and across the parking lot there was this Christian church and there was also this band tour bus there. and it was called adams road band and it was actually a pretty nice tour bus and i was going to check it out to see if they were a good band or not and actually when we were right about to check it out one of the band members came out and just started talking to us and he was super nice and he was wearing a cross and stuff and also the other band members came out and then the original guy that was talking to us was like yeah i remember when i served my mission and then the other band members came out and they said yeah we all served missions. they were all really nice also. but in my head i was like, you guys all served missions yet you wear crosses and stuff? so i asked them if they were members and they said that they all grew up members, served full time missions and now they left the church because they studied the new testament, and they said that the new testament says that all they need to do is have faith in Jesus and that the grace of god will save them because of that...which is ridiculous and there are so many ways that we could bash that but we didn't because we remembered that we should treat them as our brothers and we just talked to them. but they gave us one of their cd's and actually took a picture with us, but hopefully they come to the truth and come back one of these days.
Love
Elder Miller
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