Oh man. I literally don´t even know where to start. So last week, after p-day we had to go to Alicante to sleep over so Tuesday morning we could head to Murcia for Tri-zone conference at 7am! Oh man. But before we left Benidorm, we had one more cita, but since everything in our area is so spread out because our area is huge, of course we had to catch a bus to go like a half hour away. Hahaha so, we leave the piso, we´re trying to head towards the bus stop, but we weren´t exactly 100% sure where we were headed, so we kept asking people to direct us there. So we were just running around, trying to get there, when suddenly we come to this huge road, and see the bus we need on the other side of the road. Well, since I am a fool, I was like, ´´Hermana, we can make it, we just have to run after it.´´ Haha and we were on the opposite side of this huge busy street, and we were stopped at a cross walk. Well, once it turns green, we book it, but like, straight up run as fast as we can. With our bags full of scriputres and such, and in our skirts, wearing our tags, looking like fools. Hahah but i was just so determined to catch that bus, because we were running super low on time as it was, and we weren´t even sure where this ward member lived. So we are booking it, but the bus is also driving at the same time, so everytime it stopped at a bus stop, we´d run up and come close to getting it, but just not close enough haha. So we´d run, and it´d go and stop, and then take off and we´d just keep running! Hahaha it was hilarious! But oh man, Hermana Grant was just like, ´´ i am not chasing this bus on this huge street on these side walks crowded with people´´ and it´s true the people were all looking at us weird but i was just like, ´´No Hermana we´ve gotta catch it´´ haha it was so funny! Seriously we ran like the entire huge main street thing, but, al final, we didn´t catch it and we just ended up sitting at one of the stops and waiting for the next one. But oh wait, the night´s not over yet.
So then we get to the member´s house and we´re just like, literally, if we wanna catch the tram to Alicante we can only be here for like, a few minutes. But we had arrived like, and hour+ late so I felt bad...ah, it was rough. So then it gets to be late and we´re just like, we gotta go and we were like 100% sure we were gonna miss the tram and we didnt know what we were going to do to get to Alicante, and we started stressing thinking we might miss the entire zone conference! So the member was like, we´re gonna drive you, so we get in their car and just fly down the roads, praying the whole way that we´ll make the tram. So they take us to our piso, and we grab our suitcases and get back in the car and fly to the tram station and literally get there minutes before the last tram leaves. We were just on there, thanking Heavenly Father for helping us to make it, and we´re headed to Alicante, glad our worries were over...well pretty soon we´re the only ones on the tram, and as we come up to this little pueblo like 20 minutes outside of Alicante, the tram slows down and then just stops and a lady comes on saying, ´´end of the line.´´ but we´ve ridden this tram like 100 times before and i know it goes all the way to Alicante. So then the driver comes over and is all, ´´you have to get off.´´ and we´re like, ´´but we don´t even know where we are, and we´re supposed to go to Alicante.´´ and he´s like, ´´i´m sorry you´ll have to take a taxi then, this is it.´´ So after talking to him for a minute we were just like alright we´ll get off. So here we are, okay, it´s 11 30 on a Tuesday night, and we´re out here in the middle of some random spanish pueblo, literally there was nothing around. Like homes and stuff, but no stores, no cars, no people. So I start panicking a little, i was like, ´´Hermana, what are we gonna do?¨¨ And she was like, ´´We´re going to do what we tell all of our investigators to do. We´re going to pray.´´ Ah, that really hit me and I knew everything would be fine. So we stood on the side of the road, said a little prayer, then just started walking in a random direction. Haha, then of course we stopped for a photo, because come on, we´re part of the generation that wants to tweet everything, but since we couldn´t tweet our funny experience we just snapped a picture and laughed instead. Well then randomly a taxi drove by, and so i start jumping up and down, but there were people in it. And we didnt see the number so we couldnt call it, but thankfully a few minutes later it came back for us! Then as we got in we realized the taxi rate was a little high, and we only had 20€, so we were just like, ´´Just take us 20€ worth and then drop us off wherever we are.´´ And we started talking to him and his wife had known mormons a long time ago, and it was so nice, we told him where we needed to go, and we were like 5€ short of it, but he was just like, ´´I´ll just take you all the way there, it´s fine.´´ And it was such a blessing! Then one of the ward members in Alicante kindly picked us up and took us the the Alicante Hermana´s piso, and we spent the night there!
And then we had to wake up at five the next morning to make sure we´d get to the bus by seven to go to Murcia. Well the Hermana´s just moved into this new piso, but they thought their piso was probably only 15 minutes away from the station, so we start walking there, and turns out they realized we were really like 40 minutes walking distance away from the station! They were pretty sure we were gonna miss the bus, so we did what we do best, and we ran. And ran. And kept running. It was so hard and took forever but thankfully we got there at like 7:02, but it had waited for us! Oh it was such a tender mercy, and so fun to show up in front of all those missionaries disgusting and sweaty but whatever haha. So yeah we went to zone conference and I saw tons of people I know and love and it was so much fun! President Deere is literally the best and when he talks you can feel God´s love through him. AH, it was so great! Then my comp had to go to Málaga for residency, so I got to spend Tuesday night and all of wednesday with the Alicante Hermana´s in their area and it was super fun!
Oh and also something else super funny! We were on the tram, heading back from citas, and these two 25 ish year old drunk men were sitting on the tram, smoking and drinking, and you can not do that! But anyway, they call out to us, and they´re just like, are you mormons? and we told them yes and then they just started saying all this weird stuff and it was really awkward. And then one was like, ´´It´s his birthday.´´ so i am just trying to be nice and i tell the other one, ´´feliz cumpleaños!´´ and then, just seriously as naive as ever, i was like, ´´do you have any fun plans for tonight?´´ but it spanish it just sounded so much less awkward and my comp was like, dont ask him that. and then they all laughed and i´m pretty sure they thought I was asking them out. Ha, yeah. My awkwardness just extends beyond language barriers, it´s quite impressive.
But really, things are going so well here, the work´s not easy but we´re working hard!
I also got to give a talk yesterday, and I gave it around Ether 6. It is an incredible chapter and ah, I just love it! Go read it! I know the Savior lives, and although we may feel the winds strongly at times in the seas of our lives, we have His light and if we are faithful He will always deliver us!
Love, Hermana Miller
Mormon 7:5-10
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