#21

La Semana de Consagracion-- good times.

So this week was great! We saw many miracles and the Lords hand was very emminent!  Where to start...

So we found several people, futuros, that we´ve been looking for for a while!  It was great.  We also had intercambios with the She´s!  I luckily got to stay in Almería! I love Málaga so much, but I´m in love with Almería, Hermana Andrew said I love it more than any healthy person should haha, so it was good to get to stay here.  Especially since I think next week I´ll probably be transferred to another city....ah. I just keep trying to sing, ´´I´ll go where you want me to go, Dear Lord..´´ because man it´s going to break my heart to leave this incredible place with these incredible people!  But yeah odds are I´m getting transferred, so send stuff to the mission home as of tomorrow, or else I won´t get it in time here and it´s possible, but more difficult to get it from piso to piso.  So yeah, anyway...Hermana Grant came here and it was great!  We taught the Noche de Hogar (Family Home evening) at the church Friday, and we taught the Restoration which is my absolute favorite thing in the world! So that was fun, and after we all played Te Gusta su vecino, (do you love your neighbor) which brought back good memories of my extended family playing that game! Then the next day, we taught a couple lessons to less active people, and after it was time for lunch, so as we were walking back we were stopped at this stop light, and there was a man smiling at us, so we smiled back and said, ´´Hola´´ but I wasn´t planning on carrying on the conversation further than that, but Hermana Grant said, ´´Let´s talk to him.´´ So we did, and in the end we gave him a Book of Mormon, commited him to reading the introduction, and meeting us at this one spot to go to church together the next day (since he didnt know where the church was).  It was cool, but you never know with people you just meet on the streets for a few minutes..so the next day Hermana Andrew and I went to that spot- and there he was! It was so great, so we caught the bus and went to church and he said he felt so much love from the members and he loved the service and the classes and he even made comments!  It was great.  And he has read a little in the Book of Mormon, we´re super excited!

Also on Saturday it was cool.  Ah, i just love the mission! Because out here, as we´re trying our best to comply with mission rules, we´re not even close to perfect, but at least you know you´re worthy to recieve revealtion.  It´s incredible.  I´ve learned a lot about the Spirit here, and one of the most important things i´ve learned is that a lot of the time it´s just a thought you have.  It´s not anything super loud or huge it´s just a simple thought.  So we were on our way to surprise visit Manolo and Manuela, and they were the plan we had written down, but suddenly i just looked across the street at a building where we had knocked doors and had one really good potential investigator.  We have knocked on their door TONS the past couple weeks but we never seem to find them home.  It´s been pretty sad, but anyway, so suddenly I just had the thought, ´´Maybe we can check them out first, before going to Manolo and Manuela´s.´´ So i turned and asked Hermana Andrew what she thought, she said she didn´t know.  So we just pretty much didnt even decide consciously we just started walking over there and got in the building, knocked on the door, and HE ANSWERED.  It´s been forever, but this time he was home! And it was so great, standing in his doorway he was just like, yeah you can come monday for a real appointment, but could you tell me more about your church now? So we gave pretty much all of lesson one standing right there in the doorway and it was amazing! Then after we went over to Manolo and Manuelas and ate their yummy burgers(did i mention he is a cook for a living? He is a fantastic recent convert for several reasons. Hahaha).  But it was just cool, because it wasn´t like we had some overwhelming feeling of, ´´lets go try that future´´ it was just a thought, but there´s no doubt it was a prompting from the Spirit.

Also, today, our ward mission leader Julio and his wife Mirta took Hermana Andrew and I in their car and we drove around the coast of Spain and took tons of pictures and had a little picnic right near the ocean and wow it was so fun! I love them so much, they are such great parents to the missionaries out here.  Their daughter is serving in Barcelona so they´re very good to us.  And Hermana Andrew and I are such great friends! Literally we are always laughing and talking and I am so blessed to have he r in my life. She is a great missionary, she teaches so well and her spanish is unreal! She studied it for six years before the mission and man, you´d better believe she knows everything about the grammar! Ah,,,i wish i could just serve with her here my whole mission! Seriously one of my best friends! Love this girl.  But we´ll see what the next week brings.  It´ll all be good, the Lord knows what He´s doing! 

Love, Hermana Miller

Alma 39:14