So we went there and met up with Elders Flint and Weenig and I asked Elder Weenig to give me a blessing. I felt a lot of comfort and peace and Heavenly Father´s love, I´m so grateful for worthy priesthood holders and for blssings that I know come directly from Heavenly Father through His authority! Then we start walking to meet up with Hermana´s from our district, Hna Lyons and Hna Carmen, and it starts drizzling rain, and then once we met up with them and started walking it was literally like a movie! All of the sudden it started raining just out of nowhere (it was like when you´re watching movie´s and say, yeah right rain does not just start pouring THAT suddenly- but it did)! It was beautiful! And we had already showered 2x that day but it didnt matter! We just walked slowly and took it all in, getting absolutely soaked! It was one of the most beautiful moments of my life, i was on a spiritual high from having just recieved a blessing, then I was walking down the gorgeous streets of Alicante, late at night, lights glowing everywhere, in the pouring rain, saying ´´hola´´ to everyone we pass, everyone asking where our umbrellas are, thinking we´re crazy! Haha. It was wonderful. Then we got back to their apartment and drank hot chocolate. It was a great night! Then we got up at the crack of dawn, I straightened my hair in vain cuz it rained more before we got to zone conference and I ended up looking like a homeless person anyway, pero bueno. But yeah then we went to zone conference, where we get instruction from president Deere and his wife and the ayudantes! It was INCREDIBLE. I for once knew lots of people there and I just had a blast talking to everyone, especially one of my best friends Hna Merrill! It was so fun, when I saw her I just ran up and attacked her and freaked out, then I saw this Elder and started freaking out to him about random things and Hna Merrill was like, ´´You haven´t changed at all!´´ and I was like shoot well that was a 10 month fail jajaja. But anyway. President Deere talked about the Atonement, and it was amazing. He said that ´´the goal of the Book of Mormon prophets was to teach us about the Atonement.´´ How powerful is that? That should be our goal while reading it, look for the truths there about the Atonement and Christs love. AH, I just love my mission president. I feel uplifted and edified every time I´m in his presence, and even when I just read his words- He is wonderful!
And oh man, we were running around all week talking to everyone we saw about general conference, inviting them to hear the words of living prophets! We had some funny experiences too. Saturday night we were walking home, and there was this staircase that´s kinda steep, and right by it there´s a ramp, well I saw these three young girls and I didnt want to ask them to move so I start going down the ramp and claro I´m a clumsy person so I fall. Haha I immediately burst out laughing and they gasp and start asking me if i´m okay! So they were 14 yr olds and we start talking to them about the gospel and ah, they were so cute! Totally made the fall worth it to get to share a little bit of the message of the restoration with them haha.
Ah, I´ve learned so much this week, but it´s all just in beautiful memories that are hard to express. But things are going well here.
General Conference! Man, I only got to see 2 sessions so far but i´m obsessed! It was weird, there was some confusion and we watched the womens session yesterday and one of our investigators came! The one from Nepal! So that was awesome. Then after our branch president didnt know how to work it or something so everyone (there were like 8 of us from the branch there watching it) went to our ward mission leaders house and ate food (his wife´s from Ecuador so you know it was incredible- I´M OBSESSED WITH SUD AMERICA). Then we went back at 6pm to watch the sunday morning session live. Of course we´re dying to see the rest so we´re using our pday to go to the church and have a conference day to catch up on some of it, so we´re excited! I was in love with what President Uchtdorf said about us putting up umbrellas to block God´s blessings from raining down on us- totally changed my perspective completely! I have told many people on my mission that God is holding all these blessing´s in His hands, and He wants to give them to you but you need to act first. But I realized with the Umbrella analogy that, of course, God loves us and is constantly showering us with His blessings! We ourselves are the one´s who choose to put up our umbrellas, and not allow ourselves to recieve those blessings! Well I watched it in Spanish haha so I might be off on what he said but that´s what I got out of it. Yeah we watched both sessions in Spanish, which I really liked and could actually understand all of it, I thought I probably wouldn´t even though I´ve been here for a while, ha, just sometimes the translations are rough for me. But I understood, but I´m looking forward to watching the rest in Inglés! Lot´s of my questions and prayers have already been answered with the 2 sessions I´ve seen so I´m excited to see the rest!
Love you all!
Love, Hermana Miller
Proverbs 29:18
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