So first of all, Hermana Grant is a maquina and we´re super good friends! She is a fantastic missionary and her Spanish is unreal! Everyone asks her if she´s a native! It´s so cool! I love teaching with her, and we´ve laughed a lot and seen lots of progress in our area!
Let´s see. So first off we got a couple of great new investigators this week! We got this one girl named Carolina, and her story is super great! So she said she´s seen us Hermana´s on the tram before but hasn´t ever talked to us, but then last week the Elderés from Alicante, our District Leader and his comp came out to help us with the Hawaiian Luau! So on their way back to Alicante they were on the tram with our Branch President, who has a son that goes to the same school as Carolina´s son. So they all started talking and talked about the church and she told them she wanted one of our ´´books.´´So they got her number and this last week we went by and visited her and she is amazing! She told us she has read the bible and the quoran and all sorts of other religious books but she still feels like something is missing and told us she is ´´thirsting for the truth.´´ and that when she finds the truth she wants to bring her mother and her sister and all of her family members to a knowledge of the truth! So when we gave her the Book of Mormon, she got SO excited! She asked us if we had read it, and we told her yes and she was just like, ´´i´m going to read it! I´m going to read all of it!´´ She had more enthusiasm than i´ve ever seen before on my mission! It´s so great because we know that if she really does want to know she´ll get an answer, no question! We´re super content about it!
Also, another man stopped us in the street and said he has cousins that are missionaries, but he´s never been to our church and would like to know more about it! So we got his number and went and introduced him to the Book Of Mormon and we´re excited to see where he goes as well!
And another miracle! This one´s super cool. So the other day we were at this bus stop waiting to catch a bus to go visit and elderly woman in our ward who´s in a residency. While we were waiting, this man from Argentina starts talking to us and says he wants to learn english and stuff and even showed some interest in the church, so we gave him our card and then the bus came and we got on and right as it starts going away we were both just like, ´´dang it we´re so dumb! why didn´t we just miss the bus and talk to him more and get his info..?!¨¨ But we were both just hoping he would call, and we were a little bummed and disappointed in ourselves to be honest. But then we both just stopped and said personal prayers in our hearts that he would call. Well the night went on and we went to our visits and at the end of the night we walked past our piso but it was a little too early to go in yet. So we just decided we´d start walking around and contacting people in the calle, so as we´re walking this huge huge busy street in Benidorm, suddenly that same guy comes up to us and calls our ´´misioneras!¨¨ and we just flipped and we were talking to him and he said right after we left he had the thought that he should call us but didn´t, then he said he wanted to call us later but he searched and searched and couldn´t find the card we gave him and he was like, but i swear i just put it right here! Ah, it was just so cool! Because the Lord´s purposes will be accomplished No Matter What. Maybe we should´ve kept talking to him, but since we didnt the Lord prepared another way for us to have contact with him again that same day! It was just such a testimony builder to me that we just do the best we cans and sometimes we make mistakes but as long as we have that desire to serve Him and to do His will it´s all in His hands and He´ll make sure His purposes are accomplished!
And it was the fourth of July this last week! Aka my favorite day of the year! It was so fun, we wore red white and blue and we had district meeting in Alicante and we hung up a flag and sang the star spangled banner and some people cried, hahaha i swear to you Spain has just turned all of us Americans so patriotic! I love it! Then we ate hot dogs (boiled, not grilled...but still haha) and chips and watermelon and coca cola and it was so american! Haha and we talked about baseball and football teams and it was just so much fun. Also my comp cooked me eggs and french toast! I seriously am just so blessed! We also had english class and taught our two students (everyone´s working so hardly anyone comes) what we do for the fourth in the U.S. and sang them a duet of the star spangled banner hah. And at the end of the night, after working, we went and bought ice cream, Philadelphia cake it was called- it was cheesecacke and it was so good and very appropriate for the 4th of July! haha we had fun celebrating!
And we had an amazing lesson Saturday night with one of our less actives! It was great and usually we really try to invite her to church but this night we comforted her but just didnt press it quite as strongly and SHE CAME TO CHURCH. She took a taxi and paid 7€ and everything and there we talked about modesty in Relief society, cuz it´s so hot here it can really be a problem, and we talked about piercings too. And she has a nose piercing and she was just like, well what about this? And pretty much everyone just told her she really shouldn´t have it in, and even though we sometimes dont understand fully why some commandments are we just do them to try and be obedient, and so she was just like, okay, and just pulled it out! And to get it back in would be hard and expensive and painful and she just pulled it out right then and there! And keep in mind, we visit her lots but she has only been to church 2 times this year and before that was inactive for a long time! It was super cool and powerful and a good example and we just pray she stays strong in her determination to follow Christ and be obedient.
Also today, because I have fat kid problems, we went to a Valor Chocolate factory! Our district came all the way out here and went with us and it was so fun! We toured the factory and ate free chocolate at the end, then went out to eat, and one of the missionary´s started talking to the lady who owned the restaurant and introduced a little bit about our church to her and then they had to leave to catch their tram but we stayed back and talked to her for like an hour just about Christ and God´s plan for us and she´s so spiritual, the spirit was just really strong and it is just very filling to find people of other faiths who just love Christ and want to follow Him.
Life is so great! I love being here! Thank you for your prayers, they are felt very strongly here!
Love, Hermana Miller
Mormon 8:12
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