Elder Miller

Que onda Familia!!!!

To tell you the truth family, I'm a little lost for words right now. I have so many thoughts in my head right now. I just don't know what to tell you guys. I had a very interesting week this past week.  One that was really strange and I have never had a week like this in my whole mission. It was really trying for me in a number of different ways. Let's just say the people in the city are very different from the people on the ranch. I talked to a trillion people this week and knocked on a gazillian doors this week and got a bazillian rejections. Door after door after door! Of course, I kept a smile on my face and kept working to try to find the people that are prepared. There came a point in this week where I sort of just hit a wall. I wasn't sure what I was doing wrong or why I wasn't being successful. It was really hard and I talked a lot with my comp about what we could do to open the hearts of the people? We talked a lot but over the days I really realized that the Lord wants more from me. He wants me to move up to the next level. He has a plan for me and I need to follow this plan. The people are ready we just have to be prepared but in every aspect. If I don't have the spirit with me the conversation cannot happen.  If I don't have the spirit with me, I should not teach. I am not the reason that people change their lives. I am only an instrument and guide in the Lord's hands. I have to be worthy to have the spirit with me, I have to, it is a must. I know through strict obedience and constant diligence the people here will have there hearts opened and the Lord will pour out his blessings over all these people but first as missionaries we need to do our part.

We are teaching a guy named Ceasar.  He is an older guy like 55 and he is awesome. As we were teaching him I really just felt the spirit with him. He is really searching for the truth and he is so willing to listen.  It is like he is just absorbing everything we say. He is reading the BOM and praying. I know he is going to receive his answer soon, I can just feel it. Something very interesting happened with him that I would love to share. I was talking to him and he is a cowboy.  I found out that he has a ranch outside of the city. I was all stoked to talk to him, we talked more.  He told me that he has visited a ton of different countries and ranches like Israel, Australia and the states and that he had visited King Ranch.  I know that ranch my pops talks about it. He went off talking about a bunch of different ranches in Texas and Oklahoma.  I ask him, what do you do for work?  He told me that he worked right under the governor of the state of Jalisco.  He is in charge of all the livestock for the state. This is the reason that he travels all over the world. He does all sorts of business with the livestock, he is way saweet.  The thing that hit me really pretty hard this week is that a part of my setting a part blessing came to pass this week. In my blessing it said that I would bear testimony to government officials. It happened.  I'm really grateful for the gospel I know it's true and I know that we as members of the church receive revelation for our benefit.  We are in the church of JESUS CHRIST and I know it's the only true church on the earth.

Oh and another funny thing mi compa y yo were knocking this week in a place with houses that are massive and I mean massive like houses that are like 10000 square feet. Just big houses. We were in this area because a 70 said that we are missing a lot of baptisms because we are not talking to the professionals.  We started knocking.  We knocked about 5 or so houses and then out of nowhere two security guards showed up and started to give us scruff. Long story short, the people called security on us and so they said we couldn't be there and were hustling us.  I started talking with them you know just like buddy buddy.  They were actually really cool but they didn't want to listen to our message.  I couldn't talk them into letting us knock this area, so we got kicked out!!! haha It was pretty funny.

Well family I love all of you but I need to work!!

Oh my house is pretty dang saweet!!! We live with 2 other elders so it's a riot!!

Don't know where I am in the city it's really big but I can find out!!!

When are you gonna bust the sleds out!!!

Pops what happened with grandpa down on the boulders?

Brady can you do me a favor and eat an extra serving of turkey, potatoes, gravy and biscuits for me this week because they don't have thanksgiving here. thanks bro!!!!

love all of you more than all of you know!!

Elder Miller