Week 5 Dec. 14, 2015

¡Hola todos! Wooohooo Christmas is coming up! How was ED(Elizabethan
Dinner)????? I want updates from anyone who was there or in choir!
This week was pretty jam packed! We had transfers on Tuesday and I'm
still in Barç 3 for the next 8 week transfer!! My companion was sick
this week and so from Wednesday-Saturday I was either going on
exchanges with one of the other Elders in my District who is being
trained too and yeah....that's been so fun! We have been covering both
of our areas, probably like a 3rd of Barcelona and it's been nuts!
Everything from missed trains, to getting yelled at in lessons by
Africans and setting baptismal dates! We honestly had so many miracles
just in the past few days, and I'm really starting to fall in love
with the work and missionary life.
This week we got a new district leader and he is super fired up and
ready to work! He challenged everyday for the next month to challenge
one person to baptism and to find one new investigator. Crazy huh? I'm
super pumped and Elder Winsor(the other trainee) and I have had the
opportunity to commit two people to baptism!!
One was the man who beso'ed me (by the way he's not gay, he was just
being friendly, the gay guy was the contact after that!) and he seems
very excited. He is a Catholic, Moroccan....a little strange haha. We
committed him on Saturday and then he came to our ward Christmas party
that night, he is loving the Book of Mormon and reading his copy in
Arabic.
Another one was a lady I invited at 9:57PM(we have to be in our
apartment at 10). We realized we had not invited to invite anyone to
be baptized that day and so we stopped right by the exit of the Metro
and tried to make contacts so we could invite someone to be baptized.
I tried like 5x but I just kept chickening out, finally Elder Winsor
said this is the last one and I contact her and ask her if she's
religious and she says "I don't understand you!" Then I ask her if she
has faith in Jesus Christ and she says very enthusiastically "Yes!"
So then I invite her to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be
baptized under proper priesthood authority and she says "Yes!" Or
"¡Sí!". I try to set a date with her and turns out she's going to back
to her home in Cuba but she said she would love to meet with us when
she gets back next month. MIRACLES!!!
I know that goal of one invitation to be baptized a day seems a little
number heavy, but when you think of what our purpose is as
missionaries is to "Invite others to come unto Christ" and the key
word in that is Invite! If we are not inviting others to act on their
faith we are not doing our job as missionaries. We are not there to
condemn or change people or convert, missionaries are there to invite!
I hope you all are getting excited for Christmas! I love you all so
much and I'll talk to you soon!
Con amor,
Elder Miller

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