This week was quite a bit better than last week as I was not so limited by health this time around. We were able to see our investigator Matt in the Saguaro Park Ward on Wednesday. We brought our stake president with us - who is a convert who had investigated the church for many years prior to his baptism. He seemed to be a good match for him as they have very similar backgrounds. With the intentions of reading the Book of Mormon with him, he surprised us by saying he had actually read what we had left with him the previous visit. We’ve been meeting with him for a few months now and that was the first time he had ever made the effort to do so. So we ended up going over what he read and discussing it. It was Mosiah 5:8-15 which talks about Christ being the only head under which we are free. It’s transitioned smoothly into a commitment to be baptized when he comes to know that the Book of Mormon is true. He said that he would once he does. We had been thinking of “dropping” him for a while while, but he has suddenly made a lot of progress.
I got to give a talk yesterday on the Gathering of Israel. Inevitably, it morphed into basically a talk on doing missionary work as members. I drew out a few experiences from my mission thus far. I hope it was of some use to someone who heard it. Speaking has tended to become much easier for me on the mission, as you get plenty of opportunities to be put on the spot. It’s just a matter of listening to the Spirit and saying the things He would want you to, rather than just something you thought would be good.
Aside from that, the Lakeside Ward has a good amount of less active that have taken up a good amount of our time in the evenings. In fact, we got into contact with a new part member Family in our complex who are actually named the Millers. We’ll be going back there for dinner on Saturday, so I’m pretty excited for that.
Hope you all have an awesome week
Elder Miller
Monday, January 22, 2018
Monday, January 8, 2018
Happy New Year!
I know the New Year has been a few days already, but I was never able to get an email out last week. I dropped my iPad on the sidewalk just before Christmas, so I need a library computer now. Anyway, today marks nineteen months I've been out on the mission (but like I've said before, who's counting?). I really enjoy being a district leader and being able to serve other missionaries in this capacity; I just hope I'm not screwing things up too bad.
This past week was very good. On Tuesday we went back to see Afa, who accepted a baptismal date for February 3rd! I don't know if I've mentioned her before, but I'll say she is certainly someone who has been prepared to received the gospel. She's Russian and from a Muslim family, but she wants to turn away from that and follow Christ, and she even asked us how it is she'd go about doing that. It's people just like that the we as missionaries are sent out to find and it's always such a joyous occasion when we do.
We had two investigator lesson lined up later that day, and we even had our stake president come and give us a ride for both, but guess what - they both fell through! We talked to a few people in the streets when President Thies thought it'd be good to see an inactive family he knew - the Alstons. I never met them till then, but it turns out they have quadruplets who are three! I've never seen that before. They let us in and were super welcoming; the dad even acknowledged they weren't coming to church but ought to be. President Thies afterwards said that it was probably a significant to have with them.
Aside from Afa, we have mostly been working with the less and inactive in our wards (since so many of our investigators are flaking out on us lately), but it's alright - whatever keeps us busy.
I'm pretty excited for this New Year; it's always as good a time as any to make resolutions to leave the old things behind and move on to better things. My district decided to start things strong by making a goal to talk to a combined one thousand people this month! I don't know if we're going to get all of them, but you'd better believe just trying is going to have some great results!
Hope you all enjoy your week and are having a great start to the new year!
Elder Miller
This past week was very good. On Tuesday we went back to see Afa, who accepted a baptismal date for February 3rd! I don't know if I've mentioned her before, but I'll say she is certainly someone who has been prepared to received the gospel. She's Russian and from a Muslim family, but she wants to turn away from that and follow Christ, and she even asked us how it is she'd go about doing that. It's people just like that the we as missionaries are sent out to find and it's always such a joyous occasion when we do.
We had two investigator lesson lined up later that day, and we even had our stake president come and give us a ride for both, but guess what - they both fell through! We talked to a few people in the streets when President Thies thought it'd be good to see an inactive family he knew - the Alstons. I never met them till then, but it turns out they have quadruplets who are three! I've never seen that before. They let us in and were super welcoming; the dad even acknowledged they weren't coming to church but ought to be. President Thies afterwards said that it was probably a significant to have with them.
Aside from Afa, we have mostly been working with the less and inactive in our wards (since so many of our investigators are flaking out on us lately), but it's alright - whatever keeps us busy.
I'm pretty excited for this New Year; it's always as good a time as any to make resolutions to leave the old things behind and move on to better things. My district decided to start things strong by making a goal to talk to a combined one thousand people this month! I don't know if we're going to get all of them, but you'd better believe just trying is going to have some great results!
Hope you all enjoy your week and are having a great start to the new year!
Elder Miller
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