the parts I saw haha, it's a little harder to watch conference here in
Spain when we are 8 hours ahead of Mountain Standard Time in Utah, so
the morning session starts at 6 PM and the afternoon at 10 PM. So we
still have a couple sessions to watch!
This week has been great and very long! We started off the week doing
service for a family of investigators, Noemi Andres and Nicole! We
were told that they were doing some painting of their new apartment,
but as we walked into their apartment it looked like a construction
zone....walls with holes in it, everything was covered with drywall
and dirt and the apartment was pretty much completely gutted(I'll send
a picture). They told us, "Welp get to work, we gotta be moved in by
Friday!". So we got down to business, picking up a kitchen full of
broken tile and moving broken furniture and bags of broken tile down
to the dumpster. Luckily they had people working, because we weren't
able to stay for more than a couple hours.
We also continued teaching our Jehovah's Witness family, Andres and
Teresa. The lesson this week went really well, we taught the plan of
salvation and although they didn't see eye to eye we taught it in a
way that wasn't threatening to them and brought the spirit! I love the
clarity of the gospel of Jesus Christ and how it really is just so
simple.
We went to visit that family we found miraculously last week at the
end of the week and as we went to visit them, we knocked on their door
and a man answered. He said he was one of the sons of the mother of
the family, he said the family wasn't there so we tried to set up
another time to come back and teach everyone. He told us, "Well I mean
you can come in and teach me if you would like?" We readily excepted
his offer, taught the restoration and invited him to be baptized on
the 30th!!!! He is very excited and we are anxious to get to see him
and his family again!
We also received a reference from the Hermanas in our ward and we went
and taught her this morning, and she has committed to be baptized on
the 23rd!! Her name is Ximena(sounds like Himena) and from Ecuador.
She is literally the perfect investigator and were super excited for
her too!!
Things are going absolutely great here, we've started teaching
probably like 5-6 new families and have three investigators right now
who have baptismal dates! 5 of the families live in a city south of
Terrassa, called Rubí and we are suspecting that they'll be able to
open up a branch pretty soon if these families can get baptized!!
The harvest is great my dear family! This area has sooo many prepared
people and I am loving it! I know that this work is the Lords and that
he is with us every step of the way. I can feel it as we experience
the good times and the harder times, I truly know that my Savior loves
me and that he loves ALL of his children regardless of how many times
they may reject him. I've really tried to imagine the Savior
physically being with me in everything we do throughout the week, and
I sadly feel that we would still see some of the hard rejection we see
daily even if he was here beside us. I've really come to feel some of
the sorrows of Savior has felt and understand how he feels when we
choose to ignore him or reject him by some of the things we do or the
choices we make. But I know he loves us nevertheless! As we live the
gospel we can feel that love, the love is always there but it's
dependent on what we do to if we feel it or not! Remember that you are
a child of God and that we have a royal heritage, God is literally our
Heavenly Father. Don't let the world make you forget who you TRULY
are, we are heirs to the kingdom of God, don't sell yourself short!
Love you all, have a great week!!!
Elder Miller
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