#19

This week was one of the best of my life!!!!!!!

It´s funny though because looking back there´s not tons to say. 

We went to our pueblo, Aguadulce a couple times, and were able to meet with a couple less active people which is my absolute favorite thing to do!  It was so cool because one of the girls is 16.  Hermana Crockett and I tried to find her a couple months ago but the address we had for her wasn´t right, so anyway, last week she showed up to church for the first time in a long time and bore her testimony, and said her uncle, who´s on a mission, told her that it´s the best thing he´s ever done and that she needed to go back to church, so she did.  So we went to Aguadulce to visit her and it was so much fun!  She is so honest about her concerns and doubts and it was so refreshing! So yeah, we were grateful for that little miracle. 

Also I almost died! Okay, that´s dramatic.  But really, I haven´t seen hardly any bugs since being here and I´ve thanked Heavenly Father for that because I just can´t do bugs.  Oh my. So literally, on Wednesday, we´re on the bus and I told Hermana Andrew that I hate bugs, and how grateful I am to be serving here, where I´ve never even seen a bug in our piso.  Well THAT fetching NIGHT we get home from English Class, and usually I try not to eat that late, but I was super hungry, so I go to the kitchen to get some yogurt and suddenly something moves on the floor and it´s a cockroach and I have chills even just thinking about it now...So of course I let out a super loud shriek and Hermana Andrew is in the bathroom and was just panicking because she thought I was getting murdered...so embarrassing. But yeah i ran out of the kitchen and shut the door and ran to a different room and tried to calm down and haha the situation just escalated very quickly in my mind. Haha but yeah the story´s even longer than all this and got more dramatic but thankfully Hermana Andrew is cool and went in and killed it.  So crisis somewhat averted. Hahaha.

Also I think my Spanish is improving, I´m really putting forth more of an effort to do better and the Lord´s really blessing me!  Haha don´t misunderstand and think I can speak this language, haha, but it´s better than before.  I´m still getting many verbs mixed up and thinking someone´s dying when actually someones moving...haha and everyone laughs because this happens quite often where I misunderstand and I´m pretty off with what´s going on haha!

Also a man who hasn´t been to church in months and months and months came to english class 2x, a baptism, a ward activity and church within the past couple weeks!  Milagro!  We´ve been working tons with less active people, especially this past week! We hardly had any other lessons, mostly just with menos activos.  It´s great, I love working with them.  Most of the time they have a testimony and it´s so great to hear their stories and see their desires to follow Christ and do the right thing. 

Hahaha also the lady who called us out last week for our jewelry...we met with her again and my oh my it was the funniest! We hardly wore any jewelry this time, just small earrings and watches and she just kept preaching to us that if we would read the bible we would know the truth and would quit wearing make up and looking like prostitutes! Hahaha we were like, did she really just say that?! Oh my. It was...interesting.  But we just tried to uplift her and testify of the truth of the gospel and commit her to pray so we will see.

But yeah, this week was Easter/Semana Santa and wow, it was great!  I love Easter, and here it is great, there´s such an emphasis on Christ all throughout the city and even though their views of it are kind of depressing all week it was a great opportunity to more fully reflect on His sacrifice, and most importantly His resurrection!  What a blessing, what a gift!  My uncle works for the church, and his team put out an incredible project ´´Because of Him´´ and it is incredible! It was awesome this week, we had the opportunity to share the video (in spanish!) with several members and several less active people and a few investigators.  It is very powerful and really brings the spirit.  I´m so grateful for Jesus Christ, for His friendship, that He never gives up on me even when I´m about to give up on myself.  He knows how we feel, He knows what we´re going through, and when we pair our strength with His we can do all things!  It´s funny...even with the simplist of things. Hermana Andrew and I have had the goal to go jogging every morning of this transfer (besides Sundays when we have church, Mondays because we clean, and the rare occasions when we have to be on a bus to Granada at 7 30am), and so far we´ve been doing it! It´s so hard because we walk around a ton as it is, so it´s easy to be like, eh let´s just not go today we´re tired, but the Lord has helped strenthen me even in our desire to exercise! There is nothing beyond His reach, and when things are important to us they´re important to Him.

I love Him and I love this gospel, being a missionary, a representative of Him, is the greatest privelege I´ve ever recieved. Thank you for your prayers and love!

Love, Hermana Miller

1 Peter 2: 21-25