Oh my goodness this last week was the best week of my life!!! I seriously am in love with my life here. I have hard moments, but every day i go to bed thinking ¨today was the best day of my life!¨ Really though. I love it.
This week I learned so much! I am more dependent upon the Lord here than i ever have been in my life...and i have never felt stronger! Literally, my heart is turned to him constantly in prayer. Ha, when I wake up in the morning I say a prayer and ask Heavenly Father to help me, because literally I´m thinking, ´´I don´t even know if i can wake up, let alone go outside and jog!¨ But I pray, and Heavenly Father literally helps push me along the streets of Almería at 7am. I seriously feel His love strengthen my steps. Especially when we´re speed walking to our next appointment, and our legs are burning and we´re forever away from our destination, I just pray that Heavenly Father will help me, try my best to lengthen my stride just a little bit more than i think i can at the time, and wow...I have seen God work wonders in my life every single day.
This week was super fun! Last P-day Hermana Crockett and I went with Elders Sharp, Church, and Vosters to a pueblo called Roquettas and went to the mall there. Oh man, the Elders in our district are hilarious! Seriously we had such a great time. And Hermana Crockett is amazing! Seriously she is so patient with me. She also has taught me so much about following the Spirit! She is so in tune and is constantly listening for the Spirit, and following it. One night it was super close to our curfew, and we wanted to knock just a few more doors. So we went up to this building and the door was already unlocked, I was so excited about that that i just waltzed right on in and went straight to go up to the elevator. Then as we went to push the elevator button Hermana Crockett said, ´´I don´t have a good feeling about this building, let´s go.´´ And it completely caught me off guard! I hadn´t felt anything bad about it, and that kind of worried me. Later she told me that the prompting to leave the building came to her three times, so on the third time she knew she had to listen. I realized that i need to always be seeking counsel from the Spirit and always follow the promptings, or even just good thoughts I recieve. I want so badly to be receptive to the Spirit. I know I´m worthy and with practice, I will get better at it. I am so grateful to have a companion that´s so in tune. I don´t know what could´ve happened in that building, and i´ll probably never know, but I do know the Lord is watching out for us constantly and is guiding out steps!
Also this week we went to that lady´s house that i talked about last week, the one where we knocked, she let us in and then we saw members of our ward. Yeah, so we went back, without an appointment and they were all there again! It was so funny, we walked into the family room and Good Luck, Charlie was on! Hahaha, so of course i freaked out, and then me and the eight year old daughter talked about disney channel shows we love, and my 24-year-old companion just laughed at me and it was awesome! Hahaha, the shows here are called like, Buena Suerte, Charlie and Austin y Ally...haha i mean i guess i am in Spain but I still found it funny. And it reminded me of my baby sister so i loved that!
I also learned another lesson that meant a lot to me. Thanks to a letter from one of my super good friends, Elder Woodfield, I learned so much more about one of my favorite scriptures! It´s Ether 12:27. I have always loved it, but i realized this last week so much more about it. It is the scripture mastery that talks about weak things being made strong in the Lord. We were on a bus, and i suddenly gasped because I finally realized that my weakness don´t necessarily need to go away for me to be made strong from them! Okay, I don´t mean i just want to full on embrace my weaknesses, obviously i still want to strive to overcome them with the Lord´s help. But what I realized, thank you Elder Woodfield, is that our weaknesses make us realize we are not perfect. Time is constantly a struggle for me, and I´m constantly asking Heavenly Father for forgiveness because I´m not perfect with managing it. But that is the beauty of it! Although i´m still trying to be better, and trying to learn how to better manage my time and the Lord´s time, everytime i mess up I turn to the Lord in prayer, awknowledge my weakness, and ask for forgiveness and help. And everytime i do well with time, my heart turns to Him in gratitude, because I truly know that it is through Him that i´m learning to become better! So although i still struggle and am weak, i am strong because my heart is constantly turned to Him in prayer! What a beautiful thing. I love this gospel, and my Heavenly Father with all my heart.
I am so happy here, happier than i´ve ever been! I love my ward, I love these people, I love these missionaries, i love my companion, and I love my Savior and His atonement-- I just am in love with missionary work! And i still wanna work so much harder and do so much better with many many things, but poco a poco....esta bien. :)
Thank you for all your prayers and support!
Love, Hermana Miller
2 Nephi 26: 23-25
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