Monday, February 23, 2015

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

First off the cruise looked like so much fun! I loved all the pictures and the videos!!! The one of dad, oh my gosh, I seriously died! With his dorky pants and that monkey mask! Seriously died laughing and I couldn't even hear the music. Hahaha those pants. Oh my gosh!!! Hahahahhahaha

Ok so transferssssssssssss =( Hermana Bailey se fui! =(((((((((((((( She went to Allen! I was seriously just the saddest little girl! We both just bawled when people heard about it! It was so hard. Idk why, because man I've said goodbye to how many people? But with Bailey it just hit me. Maybe because she's my hija, no se. But man I'm just really really gonna miss her. =(

My new companion is Hermana Hill. Her first name is Kaylee and she's from Orem, Utah! 

So cool things that happened this week - we had 2 menos activos come to church on Sunday! We took Alan to this activity on Saturday, it was really fun. The ward had a BBQ type thing! He came and had so much fun! We played futbol, it was really awesome except I totally fell on my face!  A lot! After the activity, we kept bugging him asking if he was gonna come to church and he would say nooo (he's 13).  So we get to church on Sunday and his mom calls us and asks if we're going to come get Alan?? We're like OH MY GOSH YES! =) His dad ended up bringing him but it was so awesome! His mom is a member too inactive and his dad is not but they're not married, that's the family we've been working with. We think Alan is the key so he can get the priesthood (had to ask my companion what sacerdocio was in English haha) SO EXCITED. Hopefully they can get married and the dad will chose to be baptized and it'll be so awesome.

Also John came to church on Sunday too! He came to sacrament meeting and it was just so amazing! I loved it! =) Just seeing him there! Wow seriously I was soooo happy. I can't even explain the happiness you feel when you see someone you've been working with walk into the chapel. It's like YES I'm doing my job! It's awesome!

But I'm really out of time, sorry but just so many milagros happened this week! I'm really enjoying the mission and giving it my all. I have to finish strong you know!!! =) Man so great the obra misional! =) Love you guys. Know that I'm happy and I didn't get sad looking at your pics but just loved it more. What a blessing you have to have a daughter in the mission so you can have blessings....like cruises hahahahha

Also thanks for all the school stuff that you're doing dad-it means a lot!

Also you guys, don't forget to do family prayer and find some time to make family scripture study a priority! Because como representante de Jesús Cristo puedo prometer que van a ver mucho mas bendiciones y felicitaciones en su vida si lean!!! So read haha!!

Love you 

Hermana Miller

xooooooooooooo

Here's some pics. 

There's some with some fams and with the Elders is the classic Bailey pose. Haha man I'm going to miss her so much!

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!

Things are really good in Cultral Co! We've seen seriously so many milagros these past few weeks it just blows my mind. 

On Saturday we stopped by an investigadores house and we got talking with her husband. We've talked with him once and got to know him a little bit but this day he seriously poured his whole heart out to us. He's from Peru and he knows so much about the gospel, and his whole family are members of the church. He told us about the Elders that were always at their house and the love he had for all of them. But the family ended up leaving the church because something happened with the bishop. He was stealing money or something from the church and blamed it on the Nube family. Something like that, but anyway they ended up leaving the church. He was crying and just pouring out his heart. Saying he loved the church, he even had received his mission call to serve in Columbia and was never able to serve. He kept saying, "I just wanted to be a missionary." He also said his family was preparing to go to the temple, but they just dropped everything. It was so cool to hear about his testimony and everything that he knew. He is so smart. We just told him that he can start over now and that he can forgive the people back in Peru, and that his family that he has now can be baptized and one day they can all go to the temple. He really has a lot of potential and were excited to work with him!! 

We also have a member who just became active, she now has a calling and she is preparing to go to the temple in June! It was so amazing to hear this from her! She had a son who died a little over a year ago and she is going to bring his work to the temple to be done! So amazing!

Also this Sunday we had 3 inactives in church! We were feeling really down Sunday morning because we had worked so hard to get the investigadores to come to church, but once we got to church we just saw all these inactives coming in and it was seriously so overwhelming. Hermana Bailey said something I really liked, something like "when I was in the church and saw them come in, this may sound silly, but it was like the happiest I've ever been. Maybe not the happiest, but just to see all the work we did come together." I loved that because it's true! It's like the happiest you really can feel throughout the week. Just to see those people you love so much act on the little particle of faith they have and come to church.

Wow, I love the work. Cultral Co really is growing and making little changes. I love it. 

Hermana Bailey is so great! Honestly, I've loved the opportunity I have to train her and watch her grow. I keep telling her she's training me because she is such an amazing missionary and has so much potential!!! I always forget she's new because she just goes out and does everything without fear. She teaches, invites, talks, shares, laughs, everything that took me like 5 months to do, she's just doing it like her first 3 months. I get jealous sometimes because I'm like why couldn't I have been like you when I was new. Haha, she's amazing and I'm so grateful we've been together these 6 weeks! Such a blessing!!

Also this week we did 2 service activities! We took out so many weeds at a house and the other we made 11 dozen empenadas!!! =) Dude, I'm so excited to come home and make Argentine food for you all!!! =)))))

Good week we had eh! Seriously I'm so happy about this week. I was kinda sad I didn't get to see any cruise pics, so you guys better send lots this next week ok!!!!!!!! 

I kinda got sad one day and I was like my family is all together on a boat =( Then I got thinking of all the fun things we did, but then it went away and I worked. So disfruten su tiempo juntos porque estoy muy celosa!!!

Also I bought a bag today because we're not allowed to use backpacks anymore! So tanks!!!!

I'm excited to get my package, you're the best for putting that together! G'ma said they might even bring it to me!! We'll see what happens haha 

LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!!

XOXOXOXO

Hermana Miller  

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Monday, Feb. 9, 2015

Hey family!!

This week was super crazy!! We had a baptism!!!! On Saturday! Nicole got baptized, it was so awesome! She's the cutest thing! =) It was great! Hermana Bailey and I were so happy! =)  We sang "I Like to Look for Rainbows" in Spanish and two members gave the talks.  We gave her a BOM with pictures and she told us she wants to be a missionary when she grows up! It was so great.

Also this week we had poop water coming up from the floor and our dueno wasn't home so we couldn't shower or use water or wash any dishes, seriously it was so annoying. It was about 11 at night on Saturday when we're supposed to be in bed and poop water came up from every drain. From the toilet to the shower - so gross. We went outside and the neighbor was  working on fixing his drain and we said there's crap all over our pension. So we're sitting outside for like an hour so he could fix our disgusting bathroom. Seriously it smelt worse than an outhouse. I was like when in Canada would poop ever come up from the floor? But he said it happens about every 3 months in Argentina - it gets clogged from the tree roots. Fun, eh?   He even disinfected our bathroom when he was done, so nice of him.

Also we went to filli dei this week! Where Nicole lives and that's where most of the pictures are from! They had little ducks in their house and Hermana Bailey hates ducks. I put one close to her face and she FREAKED out, it was so funny, we were all dying laughing.

Monday night was awesome!!! We went to do a FHE with an inactive family (the dad is not a member). We played a board game that explains the plan of salvation. It was sooo fun. We were laughing and we created a really good relationship with the family. Then after the game my companion turns to me and said we need to invite him to be baptized. We were both scared and didn't want to but we started talking about what we have to do on the earth so that we can live in the celestial kingdom with our families. Then it lead into baptism.  And Hermana Bailey invited him.  He was a little concerned because he prepared to be baptized before but it didn't feel right.  I remembered a scripture in D&C that explains that he probably wasn't ready then but he is ready now. He agreed and accepted the date to be baptized 7 de March!!! Woot woot! We were so happy. The Spirit was so strong and he even said the closing prayer which is super hard to get your investigators to say the closing prayer! Hahaha After the lesson my companion and I were like running and laughing and screaming and freaking out. We were so happy.

We have transfers in 2 weeks and I'm totally freaking out! Because I would like to stay with Hermana Bailey but at the same time if she stays, I'll be here for 2 more tranfers which means I could stay the extra 4 weeks and finish my mission here or I could go to another area for 4 weeks or if she leaves I'll probably only have 2 transfers here than go to another area for 1 transfer and the 4 weeks. So I'm really freaking out.

How's everything going with the cruise plans! Hope all is well and that things are coming together fine! You guys have to take a lot of pictures and send them to me so I can hate my life even more haha just kidding! I'd love to see all the fun adventues you guys went on! I'm excited for you! and a little jealous. But I guess I am in Argentina, so I can't be that mad.

Love you guys hope; you have a fabulous week! 

Love you 

xoxoxo

Hermana Miller