#13

Oh man! This last week´s been great! 

We went to Granada yesterday for a meeting with Presidente Deere and other ward mission leaders in our zone! It was mostly for them but I learned a lot about how to better work with the ward mission leader and ward councils!  Our ward mission leader is UNREAL.  He and his wife have a daughter serving in Barcelona, and they are unbelievably good to us!  They feed us and go to lessons with us and drive us places...they´re wonderful!  And he is always encouraging my Spanish and telling me not to be embarrassed, what great people!

We finally went back to Aguadulce!  We are hoping to work more out there so we were looking up people from old registros in our area book, ha, but one thing I didn´t realize before coming out in the field about missionary work is that you do a lot of walking and knocking on doors and no one´s home.  I think I´ve heard it, probably many times before, but yeah time just fly´s by as you´re going from house to house searching for people and before you know it it´s been five hours and you´ve only taught one lesson and it´s time to go home! But it´s super fun and we have a really good time, I´m definitely not complaining about getting to walk around this gorgeous place for hours!

Today was super fun also!  We played fútbol at the capilla with the Elderés!  I am terrible at fútbol but I love love love trying!  Ha, mostly I just get in the way and don´t help out much but it´s a blast!

Oh my, and I don´t know how I forgot to tell about this!  So about a week and a half ago we were at a members house, her name is María and her mother´s named María and her legs aren´t very good, so she cant walk very well, she´s probably like 85 or 90.  So I went to go beso them, and the mother María was sitting on the couch.  Well, I bent down to beso María....and my boots kinda suck and they´re slippery...and I think you know where this is going, I slipped and fell into old María´s lap!  Hahahhaa it was hilarious!  Her eyes got huge, and as I looked up into her wide eyes I was just so confused like, ¨what the heck just happened.´´ Ha, I felt terrible!  I asked her like 100 times if I hurt her legs and she just kept asking if I hurt my knees! Oh my it was funny.  Hermana Andrew was laughing so hard she started crying, she´s been out 8 months and said she´s seen some funny things, but this was in the top 5.  Oh my, we didn´t stop laughing for forever!  And even just last night Hermana Andrew randomly started laughing, and we finally asked her why and she said the image of my falling into Marías lap just popped into her mind, and we laughed some more!  Ha...good times.  Things like this happen quite often to me, but this one was just too good.

Ah, I have seen the Lord´s hand in my life so so much.  He strengthens me everyday, and one thing I´ve really learned out here is that the merciful obtain mercy.  I have learned a lot about being patient and praying instead of opening your mouth sometimes.  As I´ve tried to let things go more and give my burdens to the Lord I´ve seen that He truly does take them.  Many things seem unfair about life sometimes. Sometimes we might feel misunderstood or like we were unfairly judged or that people underestimate us sometimes.  I have felt that way many many times out here, but I just take so much comfort knowing that the Lord knows my heart, and all that is unfair about life is made just through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.  And sometimes when it´s hard for me to let something go that someone said or did, I just think about how Heavenly Father is constantly forgiving me, even when I don´t feel I deserve it.  If He can keep on forgiving me as I try to do better, then I can forgive others.  We´re all on the same team, in the same boat, all imperfect, all of us make mistakes and say things we don´t mean sometimes.  But all of us have to try to be merciful to one another on our journey´s to purity.  It´s not easy, believe me, but the Lord is okay with us talking about our frustrations to Him, I think. I sometimes just have to talk to Him and tell Him how I really feel, and what´s really on my mind.  That helps.  And as I ask for His help He really does take the burden.  Partaking of the Sacrament helps a lot too. 

Friday was one of the hardest days, sometimes I let superficial things get to me.  This isn´t easy, I didn´t expect it to be, but sometimes little things can get ya down.  Keep on keeping on, I just try to find rest and solice in our Lord as I try to humbly do what He has asked of me. 

Life´s great and I´m so happy!  I´m at peace with what I´m doing here, and I truly truly appreciate all your prayers in my behalf.  There is real strength that comes from them!  Thank you!

Love, Hermana Miller

Mosiah 5:12-13