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Ah! This week has been filled with so many emotions!

So to start off, on Saturday when we went to the park, i got paired with Sister Davis-- and WE GOT LOST IN MADRID.

So we were talking to these men right as we got into the park, and one of them said he had been to our church before, and he had so many questions for us, but he wouldnt stop talking to let us answer!  It was sad and i just didn´t know what to do, because i want everyone i talk with to feel like i am willing to listen, but i felt like we weren´t really getting anywhere.

 So anyway, while we were talking to them (and getting awkwardly hit on) and trying to tell them about the gospel, i realized we were supposed to be at the fountain in the park to sing and i also needed to go to the bathroom!  So i told them i needed to use the restroom, so we went to a restaurant across the street.  When i came out of the one person bathroom Hermana Davis was talking to a 50 ish year old man.  After talking to him for about 3 minutes I realized he was drunk!  But he was so kind though, and even though we were late for singing i felt like we couldn´t leave him because he said he was dealing with depression and we were angels for talking with him and listening to him.  He cried and told us that even when a stranger smiles at you it brightens your day and touches your heart.  He was sweet!  So we stayed and talked with him.

Well long story short, we were too late for singing and everyone was gone by the time we got there!  And as we were walking out of the park we just met all of these awesome people!  So honestly I was so grateful for us being late because it made it so we met awesome people, and even handed out another Book of Mormon to a boy our age!

Then we got lost on the metro on the way back, but luckily a member saw us and helped us out! But yeah we got back to the CCM like 90 minutes late! Everyone was worried and looking for us and for that i felt terrible! But Sis Davis and i had fun, and we knew we´d get back eventually so we just laughed the whole time and had fun! 

OKAY. So Highlight of the week/month/mission-- I SAW ELDER GROVES!!!!!!!

It was amazing! So the 1st counselor in our mission presidency and his wife, Presidente Sullivan and Sis Sullivan organized this singing program for Christmas where us at the CCM and other missionaries around Madrid area sang!  I had no clue if Elder Groves was still in Vigo or not since ive been here. I couldnt wait all of last week, just thinking, ¨What if i get to see one of my best friends?!?!?!¨ So when we walked into the stake center and i saw him waving at me i just broke down in tears! I was so grateful to see him, and i just couldnt even contain myself!  Ah! Then i got to talk to him with my comp for a while, and one of the teachers kept saying you can talk later but you need to go with the other missionaries into the relief society room right now, and im just sitting there thinking, I can see those CCM missionaries whenever (too often in fact haha) I had my amazing Comp Sister B and Elder Groves and i was more than content with that! So i was kinda bad and just kept saying ¨im coming im coming...¨ but yeah anyway it was just wonderful to get to talk to him and he is just such an incredible Elder and person and friend!  Once we stopped talking i kind of started to break down again but Hermana Bennett comforted me-- SERIOUSLY I wish i had time/words to describe how amazing and Christlike she is!  She is such a strong person, I dont know how i could have a better companion, she´s become one of my best friends!

I have the best district in the world! We have six sisters and only 2 elders (Elder Anderson and Nyland), but the elders are the best of the best!  We can all talk about everything, and we´re just great friends! A little too close, because we just love talking and get distracted easily! But they all just have amazing testimonies and i pray we´ll be life long friends!  I feel so loved and beautiful around them, probably more than ever before in my life.  They are uplifting and wonderful and im blessed to know them.

Hermana Bennett and I sang on Sunday!  We sang (in spanish) nearer my God to thee!  It was amazing because at home i would´ve never done that. but sister bennett has such an amazing voice and she gives me confidence in mine! It´s wonderful.  Even though i kinda messed up on the song and sang the wrong verse (haha) i still felt so good about it because we did it!  I feel like here i can do and be anything and i feel like im growing so much! I absolutely love it. 

I feel the Spirit all the time, it is so in abundance here! This gospel is true without a doubt. 

God is mindful of all of us!

He lives!  I love Him and i love being a missionary!

And España is the greatest. Truly.  I cant wait until i can speak this language- i love it!

Love, Hermana Miller