#12

This week has, again, BEEN THE BEST WEEK EVER. 

Oh man, I say that every week, but literally I always think the weeks can´t get better, and there´s no way i can be happier, but some how the weeks get better and better and I get happier and happier!

What has made the biggest change is I read Elder Tad R. Callister´s talk about Becoming a consecrated missionary.  My dad sent it to me several weeks ago, I printed it off but never got around to reading it.  My companion, Hermana Andrew, told me it was amazing and that I should read it. Well i did and it has changed my mission, and not to sound dramatic, but it´s changed my life.  I now know what I need to do to be successful out here.  Not only what I need to do, but what and who I need to become!  I don´t want to go home the same person I came out here as, I want to be changed, and be a better and more loyal disciple of Jesus Christ, and I´m not gonna lie, that talk had a few wake up calls for me.  I needed to change a few things, and I´m continually changing and trying to become better day by day and a level that I have never before tried in my life.  I am so far from being a consecrated missionary, but the progress I´ve made over the last few days has been leaps and bounds past what I have previously been and done.  I´m so excited! Ah, I want to read his talk every week, so I don´t forget, and slow down on my progress. 

I went through my planner, and at the top of each day wrote, ¨What can I do to be a better missionary?¨ Seeing this, and asking myself several times a day, ¨What can I do to be a better missionary?¨ has changed everything.  In his talk, Elder Callister talks about changing our thoughts, and this has helped me so much! Instead of entertaining thoughts, I have made an active, conserted effort to fill my mind with good things, obviously I´m not perfect but the difference this makes is astounding! I feel burdens lifted off of me and strength through the Savior! 

Also, this past week Hermana Crockett has not been feeling well, Saturday it was so sad, she could barely move, and we didn´t go out at all Saturday night, and Sunday she was so strong and we went to sacrament meeting even though she was so week she really should have- but it was nice because we got the opportunity to take the sacrament thank heavens!  But after sacrament meeting we went back to our piso and got to have several hours to read El Libro de Mormón!!!!!!!! Ah, I´m so in love with that sacred Book.  Seriously, I just love it! And oh man, did you know other languages don´t have quads (the Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Docterine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price)? Uh, yeah so that made me start a gratitude journal- I LOVE THE SCRIPTURES. And I´m so grateful I can hold them all, right there in one hand! Hahaha sorry if you´re reading this and are wondering why I´m so weird. My comp´s thought I was weird when I freaked out with excitement yesterday about having a quad in our language and how much I love the scriptures.  Hahahaha oh man, we have such good times. These Hermana´s are the best, we seriously love each other so much, and ahh, i´m so grateful to know them, they´re wonderful.  Today we spent the day at the medical clinique so they could try to figure out why Hna Crockett isn´t feeling well, it actually was a great way to spend p-day!  Haha we were there for several hours, and i tried to read Jesus the Christ, but my progress in that book is slow because I have to re read sentences over and over again to grasp the concepts (James E. Talmadge is a genius)! 

Oh yeah, and last p-day we watched Legacy! We quote it all the time...not sure if that´s okay or not but hey, we´re missionarys, we basically can only quote the district, legacy and the testaments, I don´t remember anything else!

We also had zone meeting in Granada which was fun!  They talked a lot about the importance of contacting in the streets, it´s given me a lot of confidence! I really do try so hard to talk to people on buses, and my companions arent really big fans of talking to people in the streets and on buses and stuff so I really try to make an effort to just do it.  I´m getting way better at having conversations with random people, i love the people here, for the most part they´re so kind and ah talking to them just puts me on a high!  But i do need to get a lot better at keeping conversations going and bringing up the gospel more and trying to get their info so we can teach them! But poco a poco...

But yeah, life is so so good!  Heavenly Father is so merciful, the scriptures are amazing, and the Atonement of Christ reaches out to us all! He is my best friend.  He loves me regardless of my faults, and even though there´s progress to be made, I know with His help I can do it!

Thank you for the support, the prayers being said in my behalf are being recognized, i can feel them! Thank you!

Love, Hermana Miller

Alma 7:23-25