Also we got to see another baptism here on Saturday. So spiritual and amazing.
This week is transfers and that is really crazy because I feel like I just got here. My companion is good and we've gotten along so well these past few weeks. She also had lice and I was super scared I was gonna get it.
Also an Elder here burnt his face this morning lighting the hot water tank. He has no eyebrows left and I laughed so hard when I saw him this morning because he looks so funny. Then I found out what happened and I felt really bad. I thought he was trying to trim his eyebrows and shaved them off. Poor guy =(
Anyway, love you guys
xoxoxox
Hermana Miller
PS. 32 days till christmas. =)
We celebrated American Thanksgiving!!
This is Javier.
Note from Juli: So I've been asked to talk this Sunday (Nov. 30) for 5 minutes about Hermana Miller and her mission. So I asked her 4 questions last week for her to think about and answer me back today. Once my talk is written I'll post it below. K, so I used most of her letter for my talk but not all of it. So I'm posting her letter instead of my talk. :)
OK the most spiritual experience was probably when I had my first baptism. Two of our investigators got baptized this day. Our ward had a total of 7 baptisms this day. Which is super rare, the president his wife and assistants even came for this day. I remember seeing my converts enter into the waters of baptism and not being able to stop the tears. It was so amazing. Then I realized my whole purpose here as a missionary. After that I felt the spirit in every moment as I watched them progress. Receiving the priesthood, blessing and passing the sacrament, giving a talk in church, and preparing for a mission. It's so amazing to see your converts progress in the gospel. I received a letter from Aldana, my convert in Plottier, saying how she's so grateful to have the gospel in her life, and that she wants to serve a mission too. It really is an amazing experience.
Most memorable experience, idk there's lots. All the times I got bit by dogs, hahaha one time when I ate cow stomach, when I fell and bruised my leg so bad that I couldn't walk for a day and it's still not healed, it has this huge indent haha only in Argentina. Or the one time it rained for like a week in Roca and we couldn't leave our pension for like 3 days because the roads were rivers. Our pension had a lot of water too, crazy. Or when we were in the CCM and would leave to proselyte for the day, without knowing one word of Spanish. Then all these Argentinas would kiss your cheeks haha super awkward for a newbi missionary. Haha now it's normal. I'll probably be kissing everyones cheeks when I get home. Another experience was when we were at an investigators house (Marisol) and her 3 yr old daughter dumped a whole bottle of rubbing alcohol on their new 2 month old puppy. Haha, it almost died. It took us forever to even untie his collar because the alcohol was so strong, it was burning our nose and eyes, the poor dog didn't know up from down. But it was sooo funny once we knew he would live. hahaha.
Most challenging experience is probably when we would be out contacting doors for hours in the cold and no one wanted to talk to us. It sucks when people just rechazar (forget the word in english) us. It sucks. It's hard almost everyday. There's always something that can get you discouraged! But I've learned that the mission is what you make of it. You can hate the mission and not do anything to love it. Or you can love it. Even the hard days, when your comp walks a block in front of you because she's mad and won't tell you why, or when you feel like the only person in the entire world because you can't follow a conversation in this other language, or when you get the door slammed in your face all day, or when the investigator you've been working with for months doesn't get baptized on the date you planned. All those hard things are hard, but it's how you handle them. The mission definitely isn't easy. I never really understood dad when he said the mission will be the hardest thing ever, but it really is. Just depends on how you handle it. I honestly love the mission and am so grateful for the opportunity I have to be out here as a representante de Jesucristo. I LOVE THE MISSION!!!
Scariest experience puede ser when I had to use outdoor washrooms. Idk if you can even call them bathrooms. They're terrifying. I remember this one bathroom was like a shack, I had to duck through the door to get into this little bathroom and there was this cement hole, horrifying. Hahahah or the odd time a car almost hit us, that's scary, happens lots too. Haha but I've definitely felt the Lords protecting hand out here in the mission. I haven't really had any scary experiences. I know the Lord is protecting and watching over me.
The mission is amazing. Never would I have thought that I would have the opportunity to serve Gods children out here in Argentina. I'm so grateful for everything that I've learned out here in the mission field. I've definitely changed, it wasn't the mission that changed me but the gospel of Jesus Christ that changed me. I know this is the true church on the earth today that was restored by Joseph Smith. That we are all children of God who loves cada una de nosotras muchisimo. The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, that we should read everyday. It was written for us and we need to do everything we can to apply it in our lives. I'm so grateful for the Savior and his atonement, without it we are nothing, and I'm so grateful that God could send him here to atone for our sins. This is the true gospel. I know it's true with all my heart.
Thanks mom and dad for everything you've done for me and for teaching me the gospel. The things I need to do, and for raising me with a better understanding of everything. I'm so grateful to have known the gospel all my life. I would be completely lost without it.
Also thanks to the ward, for the bishopric, for our home teachers and stake president, How lucky are we to have our stake president as a home teacher (they really are amazing, Timmy will be an amazing missionary). Thank you to my loving visiting teachers who always went out of their way to visit me, (especially Angela, she helped me more than she knows in preparing me to leave on the mission, leaving me notes on my computer to read my scriptures, hahaha love her so much) for my visiting teaching companion and her example to me. for my teachers and leaders who taught me everything growing up. Love them. This ward is so special and I'm so blessed to be a part of it. And to all those missionaries who are preparing to leave I wish them the best. There's nothing more important or a blessing than serving a mission at this time.
Hope that helps mom, it's a long one.
Love youssssssss
Good luck on your talk hehe
Love Kenziiiiiieee Hermana Miller
