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Hey everyone!!!!! Wow, I had an excellent week this last week and I have so much to say!!!

Elder Cruz and Elder Miller

First off, I can really say for the first time in all my mission I got cold but I mean really cold!!! I don't know what happened but Saturday night a cold front moved into Morelia. Man oh man did it get cold fast but I was cold. In all reality, it probably wasn't that cold but I have been just enjoying almost perfect weather for 2 years and this came.  Wow, I was freezing.   When we got home from church to change our suits, I was like I'm putting on my camo!!!  I did i put my camo pjs on under my missionary clothes. haha I also had a sweater and my black coat!! I don't know what was up but I was cold and man if I was cold yesterday, man in a month or so when I arrive in SLC I'm gonna be like Sanka from Cool Runnings!! haha but ya gotta love it!!!

This week I had a very special experience with a family in our ward. This family has become close to us.  We really have gained there confidence because with other missionaries they were a little bit closed to them but they are awesome and we would always tell them if you need anything call us.  They called us during the week with sad news. They told us that their little boy Derek had been burned really bad and was in the hospital. They asked us to come give him a blessing. We dropped everything we had going and went racing for the hospital. When we got there, the family looked tired but were very happy to see us. The people in the hospital let us pass to see little Derek (he is a cute boy he is always smiling and has long curly hair) He was in a little bathtub.  He saw us and smiled even when he was in so much pain. We knelt down next to his little bathtub and gave him a blessing. I felt a great peace in the room and the company of Heavenly messengers. It was beautiful. We thought he was going to be in the hospital for a while but when we got to church on Sunday, in comes running little Derek. I was overwhelmed to see him and his Dad said that his recovery will be very good. Know that the priesthood power exists.  It is real and it is the power that God gives to his worthy sons to act in his name.

Funny story. We were racing to a lesson on Wednesday in the morning. We were walking down the side of the freeway to go teach some guys that work for Catapillar.  We were walking fast to be there on time but the sun was super bright and powerful and I couldn't see so I had my head tilted down and I was walking and walking and boom!!!! I ran into a metal sign that was on the freeway.  It was just right at the perfect height that it just wacked me right on the top of the head!!! I was seeing stars.  I was just like wohhh and then I was like-- hey snap out of it you gotta teach a lesson right now.  I went running to catch up to my comp because he was in front of me and man my head hurt.   I touched my head and yup cut it right open, yup there was blood. My comp was like what did you do and I just chuckled, it's not that bad let's go teach.  He said "ahh crazy miller" so that was a highlight. haha and yes mom, I am fine don't worry.

We were teaching a lady this week named Araceli. She is pretty cool.  We were in a lesson and she just broke down and told us everything that is going on in her life. It was sad but I knew there was hope for her there is always hope. We were talking about the family and how the gospel can help us be happy and be a family eternal, if we live by the principles. I was prompted to take out the pic of Mike and his family from my scriptures. I did so and I shared with her what a great example Mike is to me and to many. It was a special moment. I told her the relationship Mike and I have and what has happened ever since we met. His example is fierce. I love it and I know that the gospel has blessed him greatly in his life for I have seen it. I don't remember everything I said but it had me in tears. I am so grateful for Mike Eager and for the example he sets. He is a great guy and I consider him as one of my brothers.

This weekend was really great!! We had two baptisms. Brisa was baptized and Carlos. 2 days before the baptism of Brisa, she was unsure if she was going to get baptized.

Elder Cruz, Brisa and Elder Miller

She said that she hasn't felt what she needs to be baptized.  We talked with her for a very long time and left her with homework. The next day Friday we watched the Joseph Smith movie. It was great. After the movie, we bore pure testimonies to Briza of the truthfulness of everything that we do. The spirit was incredible, so strong!! After we closed our testimonies, Brisa said, "miller, I did what you told me to do, I prayed like I have never prayed before and I felt different. I know these things are true, will you baptize me tomorrow!!" It was such a beautiful moment and it is moments like these where your happiness goes to a state of joy just like it says in the Book of Mormon where there was a separation of the body and spirit--- for so great was there joy!! I love my mission and I love being one of the Lord's Representatives. We had the baptism. It was great.


I baptized Hermano Carlos.

Baptism of Hermano Carlos

What a special moment this was for me!! I can't explain it in words but all I know is that the smile that he had on his face was a true smile a pure smile and I will never forget it.  What a great guy.

Elder Miller and Hermano Carlos

I love all of you dearly.  You are in my thoughts and prayers along with investigators, members, and a lot of missionaries but know that I love you and I love you all very dearly. Know that I am safe and that I am at my Father's business. Be kind, be patient, take a pause and meditate the creations of God for they are beautiful, enjoy your surroundings, be positive and look at the good things in life, be happy, show that smile off, make someone’s day, serve, be yourself, love, laugh, enjoy the moments, live life, and love life.

I am grateful to be a child of God, to have a physical body and to be part of a family who loves me! 

love your son elder miller

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Hey everyone!!!!!

Wow, how did everyone’s week go? Well mine was just superb!! Wow, it was really awesome and I had a lot of amazing great experiences this week!!

One the zone of Aeropuerto its our zone, its a good zone but it has been struggling a bit. My comp and I have been working really hard to help the missionaries and get them all excited to do the work of the Lord and little by little we are seeing the changes and improvements. This zone hasn't been the bautizona for the week for oh, I don't know how many months but this week we were the bautizona. We worked super hard the whole week to help all of these people enter into the waters of baptism. 11 children of God were able to be baptized!! Wow, how great!!! fantastic!!!

We baptized 3 this week. We baptized a single mom, Laura and one of her daughters Danna. 

They are great and we had a blast teaching them. Laura has a lot of problems in her life but she really just put her trust in God and started to obey his commandments. Her life started to change little by little. Their baptism was really great and I'm so happy for them.








We also baptized a boy named Johnathan.  He is 8.  His siblings are members but his parents are not. They want to be but they are not married so they are working on getting married so that they can be baptized. They have been attending the church for a year.  They are a great family!!!! Johnny was so happy for his baptism.

Baptism of Johnny

We also went to the baptism of some of the missionaries in the zone. While I was there, I met a sister of the church.  She lives in Traverse Mt, up by Lehi.  They were super awesome this sister and her daughter.  We talked and they were just super nice and very outgoing. They gave their testimonios in the baptism and man o man, I was just really touched by the spirit. Their testimonios were so strong and firm and simple. They are great and they invited me to come to their house to eat Mexican food when I return to Utah.  I also gave her our address so maybe she will be in contact with you.

Also on Sunday, a member of the 70 came to our ward and spoke to us. Elder Lyons. It was super great. I really enjoyed his talk.  He spoke very calmly but always with a big smile and he was always testifying. It was really great, really it was powerful!!!!

This week looks very good. We are going to be working really hard to find new chosen families and it will be the baptism of Carlos and Briza!!!!  I'm super stoked!!!!!

I also went to Acambro this week to work with some missionaries. It was really great. I enjoyed working with them and they were able to baptize this last week so yeah it was just super awesome!!!

My B-day package came and it was awesome, I loved it! I am excited to make the cake!!

Well, I love you all a ton.

elder miller

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Hey everyone!!!!!!!

We had another great week here in my area. My comp was gone for like half the week on divisions and I stayed here in the area and I had one of the youth accompany me everyday. He is actually almost ready to turn in his papers for his mission. He is 18 and his name is Tono. He is a really funny kid.  I get along with him really well along with all of the other youth here in the ward. It was a really good experience for me to be with Tono. I really feel like he was able to grow and learn in the time that we had together.  He said that he was grateful for the time he had with us.  He really liked it and said that he is more excited to get his papers all filled out and sent in!!! I am really happy for him. He will be a great missionary.

We are teaching a man right now whose name is Carlos.  He is an older man like 65 or 70 but he is my bud. I love him a lot and we have a great relationship. He has a little store that he owns on the side of a highway and it is like a half mile from the church.  When we get there, he always greets us with a smile and asks us how we are doing and invites us in to talk for a little while and to drink a pop with him. He reminds me a lot of Grandpa S. 

He is very sincere and calm.  He has a very calm voice.  He always takes his time to answer questions and he answers them when he has thought about it and knows what he is going to say, just like Grandpa S. I remember so many times when I would go down to visit grandpa and he would always greet me with a big smile and a great big bear hug.   I used to love just sitting on the couch or in the lawn chairs just talking to Grandpa S.  He was always so sincere and honest and this is how Carlos is. Hey, he even likes the western look like grandpa did. It is such a joy to sit down and talk with Carlos and to see him progress everyday.  Wow, it is so great and brings me so much joy.  Carlos walks to church every week with his grandson and they do it with joy.  Wow, what a special guy.  We will be baptized in two weeks.

We also had the primary program this Sunday.   It was so great and funny.   I love the little primary kids. They all sang with all the air that they had in their lungs and then all got up to the mic and said there little talk.   They are so cute and all of them just had really big smiles on their faces. 

It is starting to get a little colder here in the morning.   We have to wear jackets because the air is crisp, but I like it.  It makes everything feel refreshed.  Oh, I haven't seen this for a long time but in the mornings sometimes we can see our breath.  It is a little chilly.

This week is going to be a really great week for us. There is going to be many of God's children that will enter into the waters of baptism.   I'm really excited.   We are going to have the baptism in a lake that is called Sirajuen or something like that.   I have no idea how to spell it but it is a place that is super beautiful.  It will be very memorable.

Well, I love all of you very much.

take care

smile

live life

elder miller

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Hey everyone!!!!

Wow, I just enjoyed this week so much.  It was filled with a ton of stuff but it was so great!!!!!

Elder Cruz y Elder Miller

First we had concilios (oh I don't know how to say that in english), lets just say that my comp and I met with president and his ap's this week and as well as other leaders to have a council on how the mission is going. We spent all afternoon with them. President Jesperson is an amazing man.  I know he is called of God to guide his missionaries in this part of the world. He is always so in tune to the spirit and he always talks with great power. He is very inpirational and we were able to learn a lot from him.  We have a lot of new ideas to help out the missionaries here in the zone of Areopuerto. We also had interviews with president this week. They went very well. We were very spiritual fed but we had been in meetings for almost 2 full days and we lost a lot of time.  But we didn't give the meetings a chance to be an excuse for us not to complete with all of our goals. We worked super hard and we were able to complete with all of our goals as well as we baptized again this week. Wow, how beautiful.

Funny, yesterday there was a little mix up with who we were going to eat with.  There were 2 families that were going to feed us and we didn't want to cancel one of them and make the family feel bad so we went to both. haha. The first one went great and we ate mole, which was very good. After we went walking to the other appointment and we got there and the hermana put the half of the chicken on my plate with salad and beans and onions.  Oh, it looked great.  I didn't know how I was going to handle it all, haha, but we went to town. By the time we left, they were rolling us out of the house.  haha Great memories.

Baptism of Eliab

We baptized an old man named Eliab. He is like 60 and is a taxi driver. He is the man.He is so funny and we get along great!!! His baptism was way spiritual.  We even sang for him. My comp and another member played the piano and violin and I sang.  It was beautiful. But the very best part was that Eliab said the closing prayer and it was so beautiful. It was a prayer from his heart.  He really thanked our Heavenly Father for the opportunity he had to be baptized and for the elders that helped him find the right path and many other words.  I was just filled with such great joy!!  Wow, I love what I do!!

We are teaching a lot of new people and they are awesome. Loudra(mom), Dana(daughter) and Briza(friend of Loudra) are super awesome!! They are so fun to teach because they are always on the ball!!! They always say their prayers, read the Book of Mormon, go to relief society activities every week and church.  They are golden.  They will be baptized this next week.  We are also teaching a lot of youth.  Two in particular, named Mane y Leo.  They are brothers and they have been coming to church now for like 2 months but were never taught by the missionaries so we started teaching them and they are golden!!! The gospel has changed their lives!!!  They are going to get baptized this week!!!!

Hey mom, just so that you know, tomorrow we are going to Morileon to have a meeting with our missionaries. Google it and check it out. Also we have missionaries in Salvatierra, Acambaro, Areopuerto and here in the city one area is called Prados Verdes. 

Well, I love you so much.  Have the best week ever

Elder Sargent, Elder Parry y Elder Miller

smile a lot

live life, love life

be yourself

love elder miller