Monday, March 30, 2015

Heyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!

So my life this week was not too bad. Had some good crazy experiences. We were contacting in the morning and we found this lady who let us into her house and told us we're sinners because we were wearing make up!!! Hahahahah it was terrible. I was getting so fired up. Then we went into this other ladies house and she kept touching our faces and kissing us and it was so ridiculous. Hahahaha but so funny. 

On Friday we have lunch with this hermana who is crazy. Haha she has problems in her head like she's not all there. She was telling my companion she didn't like Chileanos and stuff like that and she was saying that her son doesn't like the people from the United States and I tried to tell her I wasn't from the US but she didn't believe me. It was weird. She thinks that everyone in the church is evil. We had to teach the 5th Sunday lesson and she was like yelling in the class saying don't lie I know everything. Weird stuff like that. She's a character. hahahahha 

Oh and so Natalia is totally active now and she is coming to church WITH HER WHOLE FAMILIA!!!! It's a milagro. Remember when I told ya'll that I'm so stressed out trying to find her. Well seriously she has changed180 degrees. She reads the scriptures every day and is praying. Also her husband left her because he's been cheating on her so she really has just found joy and comfort in the gospel. Which is awesome because it's really changing her life and the life of her family. I hope that it continues to change it.

But ya that was my week not a lot has happened. I've been struggling a lot with my companion. This week she has just thrown fits for no apparent reason. To the point where she is like throwing the phone around and falls into her bed at night without planning. So it's been fun. Today we had capacitacion and she was just so mad and just pouted the WHOLE ENTIRE DAY. and cried and she won't even talk to me to tell me what's going on. So that makes it even more difficult. As I write this she is sitting there crying and I don't even know why because she never talks to me. But I've definitely learned how to work with companions so I just got to keep going!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Pray for me! We have transfers this week. So we'll see what happens….I want to leave. But the Lord knows what I need eh! 

Love youssssssssss 

Hermana Miller

xoxoxox

birthday selfies

I made gravy

the wedding

and baptism

and my bday party

and we got AN EGG ON IT'S END 

i was not going to sleep until it happened.

my comp and I

and THE FAMILIA CARDOZA.

BEST DAY EVER

that's my 2 weeks!

lots of pics eh

Monday, March 23, 2015

Heyyyyy!! 

Thanks for all the bday wishes!! Seriously can't believe I'm so old. It sucks =( hahaha

For my birthday we ate together with the Elders and then we went to Natalias house and she had the cutest little fiesta set up! Decorations and food, it was so much fun! I seriously love that family, they are so great!!!!! They even all came to church on Sunday which was awesome!!!!

Oh also I got those pens and the cards from gma and gpa Cook and gma Bourne!!! Thanks so much! Means a lot! I loved how gma Cook was like gma Bourne has asked me like 5 times if I've gotten this letter sent! Tell gma Bourne I love her and miss her! And thanks for the card!!

So this week we found a few menos activos!! Which was way good! A hermana que se llama jorge soto, he lives with his mom who is in a wheelchair. Their house was so sad, just so dirty, flies everywhere, poop smell, stuff everywhere just so dirty and the mom can't walk. Jorge is having problems with addiciones and it's just a really sad state that they're in. But they came to church on Sunday so that was also a milagro.

On Thursday we had a lesson with a family menos activo that we just found like a week ago from the carpeta de area, and they had made cake and had pop and it was so cute. Then we got talking, she had a few friends over that are evangelics and then the talking kinda turned into arguing, I was just sitting there. I've learned that they just need to talk and then we can tell them what we believe, but my companion was getting all fired up. To the point where she stood up and walked out of the house. I was like are you freaking kidding me. They're like that is not what missionaries should do and it was so true. I was livid. Then she goes and sits on the corner of the street and cries for an hour. It was sooooooooooooooo stupid. 

So, John update. Our menos activo who is from Peru. We went to his house on Friday because we had a lesson with him. He wasn't there and his senora comes out of the house, really mad, saying that we aren't allowed to pass by anymore. She's like you're calling him at 10 o'clock at night and that is not ok. I want to live with him in peace. You need to respect my religion, I will never get baptized in your church. So leave me and my family alone. Really really rude and I was like alright chau. Fun eh?

It's super sad when people just reject the Lord like that. They're not rejecting us but the Lord, Jesus Christ. But I mean in the end they'll figure that out, right?!.

This Saturday our ward had 5 baptisms!!! It was wayyyyyyyyyyy cool and such a milagro! A family got baptized and someone who just came from Buenos Aires. The parents got married on Friday and then they got baptized on Saturday with 2 of their kids. They have 5 but only 2 are older than 8. It was so cute. I just love seeing baptisms, they make my heart so happy!!!

Also thanks for mentioning that I have 87 days left in the mish. hahaha Can you believe that? It's so crazy. But I'm just trying to enjoy it as much as I can because it's flying by. Only 2 more weeks left this transfter than 1 more transfer plus 4 weeks. I hate it. haha It flies by.

Oh also just a heads up the mission presidents homecoming is the 2nd week in July and I totally wanna go! Would that be possible??

Also dad you can respond to my acceptance to BYU-Idaho! Decision made. ahhhhh Big kid things. I hate. haha But hey love you all.

Have a super good week! You're always in my prayers!!!!!

Love, 

Hermana Miller

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Hey family, 

Thanks so much for the pictures and videos this week! And all the birthday wishes!!!

Do I ever have a week for you guys….

Monday 

Pday. We did nothing. Haha our district is so lame and doesn't get along at all. It's kinda sad. So we and the Elders went to this sala de dioramas, where there is all this art and you wear headphones and can look at all the stuff with touchscreen things, it was way cool.

Tuesday

We went to the hospital because Charlie, our menos activo, was in the hospital. He's an alcoholic, and he stopped drinking for 10 days and his body just wasn't functioning anymore. When we got there his whole body was swollen and his skin was yellow, and he wasn't talking. Just there like not looking like him. His family was all there just crying and it was so hard for me. Because we would pass by and visit him everyday! He'd sing to us and we'd laugh and I just really love him so much and it was so hard to see someone you love so much in the hospital dying. 

After we walked an hour to the Natalias house, she's a menos activa and we made tacos. So that actually made me happier and just lightened my spirit because I was so sad.

We got back to the pension and I just cried and cried, it was kinda embarrassing. You know like those good shower cries where you think no one hears you but they really do. Awkward. haha 

But after my shower I had to pull it together because my companion got a call that she was going home tomorrow in the afternoon. So she's crying and I'm crying, it was such a gong show.

Wednesday

We did a lot of shopping so Hermana Hill could take home some recuerdos. She bought some little things and I was just there to help and support her.

Also that morning we went and bought some ice cream and a drink to take to the familia Blancos (parents of Charlie) and we just sat there and ate ice cream and talked about everything that Charlie did that made us laugh. I started to cry when Hermana Blanco told me that Charlie tole her she has to make a cake for me for my birthday. Charlie is kinda an air head sometimes but he was not forgetting my birthday and I was so shocked that he told her that.

That night I stayed with the other Hermanas because my companion left at 5:00, I brought all my laundry and did it there because we don't have a washing machine and I didn't have any clean clothes left so that was nice. 

Thursday

I got my new companion!!! Hermana Sanchez, she's 20 and is from Chile. She had been in the mission for about 10 months, but she went home for depression problems and just got back here a week ago! So it's fun. I feel like I'm training again because she doesn't remember anything. 

Oh also a cool story, Nikki Duce served in her barrio or city or something. The sister in law of Christy Duce. SO CRAZY. She's like ya I remember a sister in my ward who had canadian mittens and I was like oh what's her name. Thinking I would have no idea who it was and shes like Hermana Bohmen. I'm like whaaaaaaaaat I totally know her. Cool story eh.

Friday

Friday we went to filli dei, our super far away area, because it's been like 3 weeks since we've been there and we really needed to go. We ate with Hermana Oty (the president of RS) and then she DROVE us to filli dei, such a blessing. 

We went and taught some people, more importantly our recent convert, Nicole! We went and visited other people and once we came back we stopped by to say hi to her mom who had just gotten there and then a taxi showed up so we got a ride back to Cultral Co. To filli dei and back without walking. What a blessing.

We also taught our investigador, Jorge, who has been to church 2 times, but hasn't had any lessons. It was good. We taught him about the Book of Mormon and invited him to read it and pray. He has till tomorrow, so we'll see if he completed with his compromiso. We also invited him to pray but he just won't do it and it's so frustrating!!! Any ideas on how you can get someone to pray. He needs to know for himself if the church is true. He's also preparing to be baptized on the 28th, so we'll see if he gets there. Because he really doesn't have any lessons and needs them all before his baptism. 

Saturday

We did servicio Saturday morning. Cleaning up a house lot that a family is building on. (I don't know how to explain things in English good anymore) =(  But we just cleaned and moved bricks and stuff and us idiots came in skirts. Thought we were doing servicio in the hospital because that is where we met. Ya nada que ver. I'm all working with a white shirt on and a skirt. So stupid ahaha but I worked igual and we got it all cleaned up for them!!!

That night we went to a menos activas house, her daughter came to church on Sunday and she came to pick her up and sat in sacrament meeting for a bit. So we're hoping they keep progressing. Anyway she made this pasta flora and her daughter dropped it all on the floor. We ate it anyways. Gross, but so good. Argentina.

That night when we were planning I called the familia Blanco to see how they were doing and Charlie ended up passing away at 9 that night. It was super sad to hear. But I already had my cries and I knew he was going to die, so it kinda just was reality then. It just makes me sad when I think about all the fun dorky things we'd do. Like sing and dance and he would be drunk and do funny things. But he's an amazing person, had a huge testimony of the gospel and isn't afraid to share it with people. I remember when he came to our baptism and was sitting in the front row just singing his heart out. I was laughing cause it was so cute, but he really is an amazing person who is doing amazing things on the other side.

Keep the familia Blancos in your prayers! =) They need it!

How's that for a good little journal entry for ya haha.

Oh and yesterday we had interviews with the pres so that's why I never wrote. But I'm good! Just trying to enjoy the mission. To be honest this week sucked and I was just really sad and just felt like my chest was going to blow up. But all is better now!!!

Congrats to Shane who's gonna be a daddy! =)

Love you guys!!!

xoxoxo 

Hermana Miller

PS. The church is true. Read your scriptures.

The life of me:

Steak

 A cake I made

 Natalia

 Pollo al disco

 I hate animals

 Dog named Trucho, haha it's a funny dog

 My fav kids in filli dei - they remind me of my little brothers

 Desert

 Shish kabobs 

 New companion Hermana Sanchez

 Silvia Van Tonder and her son David (Elder Furlanich).  She brought me my package from home!!

 Bug - there's like 5 of them each week in our pension.  They're like cochroaches but grosser.