Also we went to Alicante for district meeting the next day, so we were on a train for six hours total in less than 24 hours, which was fun! And we went with our district out to lunch Tuesday and got Dominoes all you can eat, which let´s be honest, that´s the last thing I should be eating right now #missionweightgain but it was really good and we don´t get pizza that often haha so we enjoyed it!
And oh man I´m obsessed with Spain! It´s literally the best. So many funny things happen here all the time...a.k.a. like right now at this internet cafe there´s some pakistani lady skyping some guy and saying the funniest things I´ve ever heard, saying like, ´´You´re so gorgeous baby, I saw you changed your status on skype to ´in love´ when are we going to be official, why dont you love me?´´ But anyway, other funny things, there was a fútbol game between the two Madrid teams the other night, and we were at a park reading scriptures with this guy and I started to say why I loved one of the verses and suddenly there was this huge, loud roar coming from literally all around us, then people started opening up their windows and yelling out and people came running out of the bars and we´re just so passionately joyful because I think a goal was made or something...but man it was just so funny, and there we are reading scriptures and trying to ignore all the noise! It was great.
Also we had a milagro! So one of the Elders I was in the MTC with called my companion a few weeks ago and said his great aunt lives in our area and she´s not a member and that we needed to go visit her. Well she lives far away and we walked a long way to get there, and we finally come up to it and she was outside cleaning. Well we started talking to her in Spanish but she speaks english! Then she saw our name tags and got really excited and invited us in! It was the warmest invitation I have ever seen! We talked to her for a while, and then it got to be lunch time but we were just thinking, it´s worth it to be late for lunch to get to talk to her, but then she was just like, ´´why don´t I take you out to lunch?´´ then she took us to this nice little restaurant and it was so fun! We got to know her a lot, and as she was driving us home she was like, ´´Will you come back to visit me?´´ We don´t get that a lot so of course we assured her we´d be back! She´s wonderful and hasn´t ever been married but has had some awesome experiences...so we are very grateful now to know her and we´re excited to see what happens!
Also I gave my first real talk in Sacrament meeting! The branch president texted us about 2 hours before church while we were getting ready and asked us both to give 12 minute talks...I would freak out about that in English, but in Spanish?!?! I was like hahahaha...oh shoot he´s serious. So we hurried and tried to get ready and write talks and it was a crazy morning..but we did it! I can carry on a fine conversation in spanish, but a talk is just you. There´s no break so it was a bit of a mess, i didn´t have my notes organized like i would´ve liked to..and I´m also pretty sure I said ´´wine´´ at some point accidentally...but hey, for short notice I was just like, I did the best I could. Hahaha. And there were only 29 people there, and I don´t know what´s harder, talking in front of hundreds of people of talking in front of 29. But it was a funny experience and something tells me it won´t be the last time, so I´m gonna prepare another talk just in case.
I´m so happy here and all is going well! We´re working hard and having fun and living in a beautiful place with beautiful people and laughing a lot (especially with our ward mission leader and his wife, they´re wonderful! Hahaha and yesterday I just found out I was calling him ´Hubo´and his name is ´Hugo´ so we died laughing about that but he´s nice and patient so it´s all good...haha). Also I just love Hermana Roan..I´m learning so much about scriptures I´ve known my whole life with her, it´s the best! Thanks for the letters and prayers and support!
Love, Hermana Miller
Alma 37:38-47
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