#8

Okay so this has been the best week of my life!!!

So for starters, last Sunday night, like a little over a week ago someone in our ward introduced us to a family that his family is friends with.  The mother is a convert to the church but hasn´t been active for over a decade, and the father and two kids aren´t members.  So we went over that Sunday and had a family home evening with them that went REALLY well. So we made an appointment to go back and teach them Tuesday.  Then on Monday, the next day, when we were grocery shopping we saw the mother and said hello to her.  Then Tuesday we taught them the Plan of Salvation and COMMITTED THEM TO BAPTISM for the 22nd of Febrero!  How amazing, they just soak everything about the gospel up and they are amazingly prepared by the Lord.  Then on Wednesday, they all came to the english class we have at the church, and the Bishop happened to be there and gave them a TOUR OF THE CHURCH.  How incredible is that?!  Also the two kids met their primary teacher who comes to english class and she told them she would get folders prepared for them for church and got them excited.  Then Thursday we taught them the Restoration, and oh my it was unreal!  It went so well and the spirit was strong and wow...Also i want to share an experience about that night.  Please please please do not misunderstand and think i am boasting in myself- TRUST Me i´m not.  I´m boasting in the Lord and His goodness and mercy and okay, so anyway.  As we were teaching I decided i wanted to wait until the end to bear my testimony of Joseph Smith, we hadn´t taught about the Book of Mormon thoroughly yet, but suddenly i could see the lesson was wrapping up, and i saw my chance to bear my testimony quickly fleeting.  So i hurried and was just like, ¨Is it okay if i share my testimony?¨ But i said that and all of this in spanish so i´m sure it was more like. ¨To share testimony of me okay?¨ Or something gramatically incorrect like that.  Haha, anyway so I went on, in the most broken spanish this poor family has probably ever heard, to say that I know with all of my heart and soul that Joseph Smith truly did see God and Jesus Christ.  And i told them that i know that the Book of Mormon is true, and that´s because I read it, and got on my knees and prayed and asked Heavenly Father, and He answered my question and this knowledge has changed my life and I told them i knew it would change theirs.  All of that took a long time to say in spanish and i know tons of it was incorrect and it was a struggle, but that´s what i tried to say, and when i said it i felt the spirit burning inside of me because i truly believe with all my heart that these things are true.  But anyway, i couldnt fully tell if i had conveyed my testimony in a way that they could understand...but afterwards as the member of our ward gave us a ride to our piso he told us that he had went into the kitchen and talked with the father and he said that it was his favorite lesson, and also he said that he had felt the spirit during my testimony.  Now please understand this: that was probably the most gramatically incorrect testimony any missionary has ever shared.  I am not perfect and i really dont know Spanish all too well, but i opened my mouth and tried and the Lord allowed the Holy Ghost to testify of my words.  The Lord can work with anything, Brothers and Sisters.  Even with me, one of THE most imperfect vessels. Heavenly Father can use even just our simple testimonies and can send His spirit to the hearts of others.  Even if that testimony is small, or imperfect, He can work with that.  He can work with anything!  So trust Him, because wow i´ve never felt so much joy than i have in trying to be an instrument in His hands. 

So on with the story of this family, then they came to our family home evening at the church the next night, gave us a ride to the hospital to go visit someone, and then had us over to their house for pizza and to share a scripture.  Then Sunday they came to church!!! This family is incredible and they have shown us so much love, I can feel Heavenly Fathers desire for them to know the truth, because as they´re learning about the truths of this gospel they´re embracing it full heartedly, which is such a good example to me and what i want to do!

Also yesterday we went to the Alhambra, I´m so lucky i got to go my first transfer, oh man. It is gorgeous!

And i got the best news of my LIFE that one of my best friends is coming to Málaga!!!!!!!!  Seriously the Lord is so good.  What a tender mercy for me, and i´m so excited.  Ha, it has helped me a lot because now i´m trying even harder to be even better, because she comes in five months and will be in the field in six, that gives me time so if it´s the Lord´s will i could potentially train her!  Not saying that i think i will, but i want to be prepared if the Lord would let me!  So great.  Hahaha.

And I also got 2 packages from home, thank you mom!!!  Full of delicious american food and yeah that has been the best!

I love this gospel and i love you all, thank you for your continued support!

Love, Hermana Miller 

2 Nephi 22: 2-3