June 27, 2016

Hey everyone! Things are getting VERY warm out here in Valencia and
the work is great! We are working hard and things are going well for
us. This week I had some interesting things go on to say the least!
We started off the week with an companion exchange with Elder
Lightfoot, who is from my group and so that means he has the same
amount of time as me in the mission, so we worked hard and did a lot
of finding! Later in that day we were contacting down a street, and
started talking to a gypsie man, who goes to an Evangelical gypsie
church and he was super interested. We ended the contact short because
we had a lesson and we were late, we knocked the mans door and he
wasn't there so we went back to teach the man a little more, but turns
out he was starting church or "culto" as they call it, so we asked him
if we could see and we talked to his pastor and they invited us in! We
gladly sat down in the pews, in this beat down evangelical church and
they started blasting music and gypsie scream singing(it sounds weird
but gypsies sing like they're screaming always haha). Later in the
meeting the pastor announced our visit to the congregation and we
continued watching as they blasted music and scream sang and said some
weird prayers......it was definitely an interesting experience seeing
the way that the gyspies worship to say the least. And we've been
approached by lots of gypsies asking us about who we are and what we
do! So it was a pretty good finding activity if I would say hahaha.
Our investigators, Monica and Franklin from Ecuador are doing really
well! We taught them the plan of salvation this week, and it was super
good! They are really changing and you can just see the difference in
them from the time we've met them. They came to church and now have a
TON of friends in the ward and really enjoy it. Anytime we invite them
to do anything, the wife Monica looks to her husband and says, "Do you
want to do this? because I really do!" And Franklin always tells her
okay, and at first he didn't seem very excited but now he really wants
to do everything. He can't read on his own(it's not so uncommon here),
so we downloaded the Book of Mormon audio onto a usb-drive and he was
sooo excited to be able to read the Book of Mormon! I'm sooo excited
for them!
Hope everyone has a great week! Love you!
-Elder Miller