October 10

Blog:

Hey everyone! Well this week I was assigned to train.....(drum
roll).........ELDER STEPHENSON!!!!! Elder Stephenson is from Eagle,
Idaho, he's super great!! He speaks Spanish well, is fearless in
speaking to people and is a hard worker! I was super nervous about
training but it's super great! It's weird, now I reflect back on the
beginning of my mission and remember some of the experiences I had.
It's funny Elder Stephenson and I are really alike, we both sang in
choir, we love BYU, he's very outgoing and friendly and I just feel
sooo happy to be able to train him.
He's been being a champ, this last week we had to divide the island
because they split our area and it's been tough. All of the
investigators, except one lives in the other Elders area and actually
we just received the news that our only investigator is moving to
their area this week....it's been hard on Elder Stephenson, because
all we do is contact people and knock doors. I mean I love it, but I
feel bad because it's tough for a new missionary to have to come into
a situation like this. It'll be good for him though and I'm just
trying to help him feel better and learn to love the work, because
it's truly THE BEST!
We did have a huge miracle this week, yesterday it was raining and all
our visits we had scheduled for the day canceled on us at the
beginning of the day, so we started talking to people and teaching in
the streets and that was pretty tough too(people aren't so fond of
having a conversation in the street when it's raining outside), but
after getting shut pretty hard lots of times Elder Stephenson contacts
a lady and turns out she's a Jew from Mexico. Her name was Gisselle
and she told us she had lived with Mormons in Guatemala. She also
spoke PERFECT English so she spoke to us in English, so Elder
Stephenson could understand. She to,d us she had actually just been
dreaming of Jesus Christ and asked God for help in her life and we
showed up! She was super receptive and is super excited to start
meeting with us. I love the mission because we get to see such
miracles like that, I've really learned to come to treasure moments
like that, those moments are truly sacred.
Elder Stephenson is doing great! If you all could pray for him and for
our area that we can find good investigators so we can have people to
teach and so he can start off his mission good it would mean the world
to me. We're working really hard and I know the Lord will help us,
anything is possible with his help! I hope you all have a great week
and PS it's my moms birthday this next week on the 17th, just so you
all know! Love you all, have a great week!
-Elder Miller

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