Oct. 25, 2011

But the transfer call came in this morning that i was getting a new companion. But Elder Behrmann is going to be my new companion. He is from South Africa but has lived in Salt Lake for 16 years before he moved back to South Africa (because Oringally he is from south Africa) but anyways we actually lived in the same apartment for about 3 months when i was in willard and him and i have actually become pretty good friends on the mission. we are actually serving together! but he has been out for about 21 months so he is just about to go home, which means he might be a little trunky, but hey i will work him hard just like i did Elder Sullivan. 

But anyways this week has been pretty good. We actually have 7 people that are being prepared to be baptized. We have been teaching this girl named Clara for the past couple of weeks and she is going to be baptized on the 5th of November. But this week we helped her and her husband do some repairs on the outside of their house, so i did some sanding on some trim on the outside. But anyways they said that they would make it to church the next day, so on sunday we went to church and they weren't there and i was kind of puzzled. So after sacrament meeting we went over to their house and what had happened was that her husband couldn't find any clean pants, and also a couple of his button's on his shirts came off so he was sewing them, but anyways she was totally ready but they didn't plan on coming because they were so late, but anyways we then told her that she needed to attend church at least 3 times before she had to be baptized and that if she missed it would post-pone her baptism a week. and since she really wants to be baptized she decided to go to sacrament meeting, to another ward, which was awesome. but they are way awesome!

also this week we have been teaching these 2 kids who are brother and sister and they are ages 11 and 9 and we have been teaching them for a while and they want to be baptized except their dad has been in jail for the past few months because he forged a judge's signature. but anyways he has kind of been on like minimum security, because on sunday's he was allowed to get out of jail to visit with his family and his kids so that made it so they weren't coming to church. but anyways we were teaching them yesterday and their grandma mentioned about how their dad was going to get out of jail on thursday night so that would make it possible for them to be baptized! so we are really excited about that. 

Love

Elder Miller

Oct. 11, 2011

this week has been pretty good we have pretty much picked up 2 new investigators, we are going to start teaching this guy named stryder, he just barely moved out here from nevada and he is wanting to learn more about the church and he has a lot of faith in god and also jesus christ and he has been actually chatting with someone from mormon.org and through that he was referred to us so we are going to start teaching him today and hopefully the lesson goes really well. but this area is becoming pretty tough, we aren't really teaching that many people and we are trying to teach more people and we talk to a lot of people and when we set up an appointment they don't answer their phone and then they aren't home during the appointment. but oh well i guess that is just a part of missionary life. but i am going to keep doing what i am doing and hopefully we will find some other choice investigators, because it always seems that when you work hard the lord prepares people other than that you are concentrating on so that you can start teaching them, but anyways you have a good week.

Love

Elder Miller

Oct. 4, 2011

but this week we have been teaching this family of kids who are unbaptized. their ages are 21, 19, 15 and 11. So actually the 21 year old has the same first name as me and he actually has the same birthday as me August 23rd, 1990... i think i might have already told you about this but oh well. so anyways we were teaching and i was like oh you have the same first name as me! and then i found out that we were the same age, and then i asked what month he was born in and then he said august and, i was like....uh what day?? and he said the 23rd... and i was like WOW!! but he was actually born in salt lake and at about 9 in the morning, so he is a little older than i am. but anyways, their situation is that their dad was a convert the the church and then he fell away before they were born and so he didn't want their kids to have anything to do with the church, so they are unbaptized, but anyways we have been teaching them for a while and so i shared with them my experience about how when dad died about how it helped me rely on christ and about how christ always can help us out in times of need. but anyways we had a super spiritual restoration lesson with them and we helped them recognize the feeling of the spirit and so  with that we committed them for baptism, which was pretty awesome!

but another highlight of the week was that we were able to go down to conference for one session. we went to the saturday afternoon session and it was really good.  what i got out of conference is that i need to read the book of mormon more... my studying schedule goes as follow, i have read the book of mormon twice on my mission and i have also read the doctrine and covenats and the pearl of great price and also the new testament twice but anyways when i finish one of thosei just go on to the next one. but anyways i am on the new testament and so i havn't really read the book of mormon in a while and so when a couple of apostles said that we should read the book or mormon more, i was like slapped in the face by the spirit. so i have started again with the book of mormon and also kept on reading the new testament. 

but this week has been an ok week. we are going to be able to work a little better with a car so i am excited about that. but anyways i will drive safe!! and hopefully you drive safe!!

Love

Elder Miller

Sept. 27, 2011

i don't know if you know this, my companion was hit by a car yesterday when we were biking to our appointment and so we had to go to the emergency room yesterday and i got to ride in the front seat of an ambulance. what happened was that we were coming down on the opposite side of the street and i was actually in front but i saw this person turning right and turning left so i started to slow down because i knew that they didn't see me but then elder sullivan just sped past me and kept on going, (he doesn't really have alot of experience on the bike) so the guy that was turning right didn't see him at all and he started to pull out and elder sullivan ran right into his right side and flew over the hood and he landed on the ground... so we went tot he hospital, but anyways we stayed there forever just to find out that he was ok, he just sprained his body really bad and he actually chipped his tooth, but he is not really that pain tolerant, he was practically crying when the doctor was feeling him so we thought that it might be serious but it wasn't. he was practically crying when the nurse was taking off the tape off his arm on the iv. but i am going to have to babysit him for awhile and to have alot of christlike features on this one. it is kind of weird how the lord tests you in situations like this. but last night when he got hit it was scary but i had this feeling that he was going to be ok.

anyways we had a baptism this week. it was really good. we also have general conference coming up this week and i am really excited for that because we have tickets, so i will be down there once again. anyways i have to keep this short, we are going to go play basketball.

Love

Elder Miller