#18

Hey heyyyyyyyyyyyy.

This week was good. Really good.

We had specialized training with Presidente Deere in Granada, and we got to take a train there! Ha, it didn´t get us there any faster but it was fun for a change.

It was so great, because to be honest this past week, more than ever before I have thought, ´´Oh man...I still have 14 months left...I seriously don´t think I´ll ever be done.´´ Haha, it was a weird feeling, I don´t know, usually I feel like, ahh i don´t have any time left, time is just flying by! But for some reason I was just like, man...I´m gonna be on this mission forever.  Haha. I guess maybe it´s just because I feel like there´s so so much to do and I feel like I don´t have time or capablility or capacity to do it all.  But President Deere said exactly what I needed to hear and oh man it was great.  He talked about how the Lord has expanded his capacity to do what he needs to do, and I know the Lord can do the same with me! The thing that stood out to me the most was that he said, ´´Estoy cansado. Estoy cansadisimo.  No importa.´´ -- I´m tired.  I´m really tired.  Doesn´t matter.

This meant a lot to me because even though this past week has been good I just kept thinking, man, i´m exhausted, I don´t know if I have it in me to do this for another 14 months...but I can and I love it and I´m honored to have this opportunity.  I truly do love it.  And if President is tired then it´s okay that I´m tired, but we all just keep pushing on and serving!

Also funniest thing happened! So Hermana Andrew and I were walking around Aguadulce, and we had just had a really awkward experience with a menos activo (a less active member)  haha so we were just walking down the street, and we were really just needing a good laugh, and what do you know! This guy walks up to us and, in spanish of course, is all, ´´Do you have the picture? Show it to me?´´ And we were just like, what is this guy talking about??  And so we just are like, ´´A picture of Jesus?´´ And he never actually said yes, but he just kept saying, ´´Show me the picture´´ so we just start pulling out all the pictures of Jesus that we have, on pass along cards, in the first pages of the Book of Mormon, pamphlets...and he just kept saying, ´´Nope´´ to every one we tried to show him.  Finally we just had no pictures left to show and we were just like ´´Sorry that´s all we have´´ and he´s all ´´No, it´s okay, I know it´s hard, I know it´s hard...´´ and keeps mumbling as he just walks away!  Hahaha it was the funniest thing ever! We just stood there in shock and laughed for a while...it was the funniest thing ever!

Also!  I had such an incredible experience this week.  I see the Lord´s hand in my life every day, but this experience is a very obvious example that the Lord is ever mindful of us:

So this past Monday night, as I was kneeling down at my bedside saying my nightly prayer, I suddenly had the strangest feeling come over me.  I looked around, and I kinda felt a little nervous/uneasy.  This was weird because I have always felt good in our piso.  So I really tried to shake it off but I just couldn´t.  I tried to tell myself, ´´Just lay in bed, you´re just being paranoid..´´  but luckily the feeling persisted.  So then I decided to go check the locks on the door.  I was pretty sure they were locked but I got up anyway and checked them.  Just as I´d thought they were locked.  So I pretty much told myself I was just being nervous for no reason.  Just as I was about to turn back and go to bed I looked over at our washer room, and thought, ´´Okay maybe I should try to lock that sliding door..´´ which doesn´t make sense because we´re on the third floor and I don´t even think the sliding door locks.  But yeah, so you have to walk through the kitchen to get there, and as I was about at the sliding door I just glanced down and saw that the oven was still on!  The oven was broken for the first 2 1/2 months of my being here, so I´ve only used it a couple times.  Just that day I had been cooking something and I guess I forgot to turn the oven off. It had been on for several hours, but I can´t even imagine how bad it would be to have it on all night long!  I don´t know what happens when you leave it on too long, but i do know that I, myself, would have never thought again to go turn it off.  I have never ever felt uneasy before going to bed, I usually say my prayer, lay down, and go to sleep within minutes.  I absolutely know it was the Lord looking out for us.  I know it wasn´t a coincidence-- it was a tender mercy from Him.  Miracles happen everyday!

Also this week is the Semana Santa!  Spain, especially in Andalucia, has all these processions/parade things, apparently some people have told us it´s a lot bigger than Christmas!  Lots of our investigators are going out of town though, which is a bummer, but I´m excited to see what this week brings!

Love, Hermana Miller

Alma 37:36