Sept. 5, 2016

Hola todos! This week has been super good! We've been working more
with Emilio and he's making progress little by little. We've been
working hard but this week has been filled with lots of canceled
visits and street contacting! But it's great, I'm really enjoying this
time I have with Elder Morley, we get along well and we are improving
and working hard!
So this week we've been meeting with Emilio, our investigator who
lives in the street and he's been giving us a little bit of a hard
time. I believe he has some social problems, so he's been saying rude
things to me and some other members but we're being patient with him
and just loving him no matter what, plus he really seems to connect
with Elder Morley so that's good! He had a baptismal date for last
Saturday but he wasn't ready so we decided to set a date for the 24th!
We're super excited for him and we hope he can make the right
decisions that will help him become prepared for that day!! If you
could pray for him to be able to stop smoking and to find somewhere to
live that would be greatly appreciated!
We have a couple other investigators were meeting with but it's a
little tough because everyone is working 10-12 hours a day, everyday
during the summer here in Ibiza to support the tourism until October
or November, so we have about 15 investigators just waiting to have
more time so they can meet with us, so we've been spending a lot of
time finding and working with whoever can right now.
So I've set a goal for myself that I want to reach before the new
year, I've set the goal to lose 10 KILOS or 22 pounds! I'm super
pumped to do this, I'm working out hard and eating healthy(no soda or
sweets)! I'm super pumped for this new goal and I've lost 5 pounds
this first week. We'll see, may I can lose more before the new year!
I've really come to realize that there's ALWAYS going to be
tribulations or hardships, during my mission and for the rest of my
life and that it won't ever be easy, and that I just have to find the
joy in whatever situation I'm in! Before I used to feel super anxious
leaving apartment knowing we were just going to go contacting all day
or sad when people rejected me, but now I just have come to love the
work! I remember on Wednesday we were just walking for like 4.5 hours
straight just talking to people in the street and I thought to myself,
"This is great!". Honestly the mission is just the best, I've really
learned to love life, whether it be hard or easy. In the words of
Joseph B Wirthlin, "Come what may and love it", I've come to see that
that's so true. We can't control whether or not we have trials BUT we
can control how we react to these trials. And that as we positively
react to our difficulties the Lord will bless us much more. Life is
not meant to just be endured or tolerated, ITS MEANT TO BE ENJOYED!
"Adam fell that men might be, and men are that they might have joy"2
Nephi 2:25
I invite you all to find the joy in your personal situation and to
look at the positive side of things. I promise you that you'll see a
great difference in your life! I hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Miller