¡HOLA! ¿Qué tal familía?
This week has been great!! It feels like I was just emailing you guys yesterday. Things are really starting to speed up around here, I finally understand the phrase "Days are weeks and weeks are days". We have had some crazy long days that have been physically and mentally tiring (more mentally from the endless classes) but they have been amazing! I´ve learned soo much and felt the spirit so strong. I actually got to go Proceliting in the Park this week and I LOVE PROCELITING!!!!!!! This week I got paired up with an Elder from England (Elder Robertson) and an elder from Ukraine (Elder Hryshanov), they´re bothing going to the Moscow Mission and currently are leaning Russian. We handed out 4 Book of Mormons, got 4 Referals for other missionaries to go and teach them (Most people don´t get any and the lucky ones get only one maybe 2), and made a bunch of contacts (an MTC contact is when we stop and talk to someone). I was able to talk to and teach TONS of people from all over the world. Some of the countries people were from that I taught were: Ecuador, Peru, Romania, Ukraine, Portugal, New Zealand and one Spanish lady on the train back. One of the people I talked to and taught was Susana María from Santo Domingo, Ecuador. We ran into her when we first walked into the park. She said it was a mirracle we came up to her and started talking to her because she had just started reading her bible maybe a minute or two before we walked over. She said it was a sign from God and she was super interested! We ended up having a 20 minute conversation(Which somehow I miraculously understood everything she said) and I was able to give her a Libro de Mormon and share Moroni´s promise in Moroni 10:4-5 with her. Missionary work is AMAZING!!!
This week I spoke in our MTC Sacrament meeting in Spanish! So in the Spain MTC we have a Sacrament meeting with the entire MTC (A whopping 60 missionaries) and throughout the whole week we are given a certain topic to write talks on. Everyone writes a talk and then after Sacrament the MTC President calls up 6 people to speak, so Sacrament meeting is always a pretty tense experience for the missionaries learning languages (we give the talks in the language we are learning). When we got to the meeting and somehow I knew that I was speaking, so it was no surprise when I got called up to Speak. The talk went really well (it was about Repentance) and I spoke about how repentance helps us become better day by day. Literally when I got up to speak my heart was beating out of my chest but I did well and got lots of compliments on my talk and my Spanish, so I felt pretty good! We´ll have to see how I´m feeling about my Spanish in a couple weeks when I´m out in the field LOL
All is well here in España though! I´m back to 100% health, I´m sleeping well (which my district hates me for because they say my snoring is so loud) and my practice "investigators" are doing well. I´ve taught about 20+ lessons now in Spanish and me and my companion are starting to get into the swing of things.
This week I´ve really come to find out that this is truly a labor of love. We are all here because our Heavenly Father loves us and missionary work is fueled by love. If this love didn´t exist nothing would really matter and our lives would be pointless. Love needs to be at the center of everything we do and most importantly our love needs to be centered on our Savior Jesus Christ. When we love as he did our problems seem to fade away, our relationships with other become much more meaningful and life just seems to work out so much better! He is in every step of this work and he loves each one of you more than you could ever imagine! I know that he does and I love you all soooo much!!!
Con MUCHO amor,
Elder Miller
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