Sorry I didn´t email last week, we had a crazy day and all final we didnt have time to finish emailing! It was an awesome day though! Last week on pday we woke up and cleaned and then hurried and walked to meet up with some other missionaries. We met up at the church and then walked up a little mountain like thing and it was the most beautiful view! Ah I have to send you pictures! But yeah, we did our studies up there, and it was a really fun and cool experience. It was a cool thing to look out over Málaga and the ocean and just reflect on what lead me to this point, being in this place at this time in my life reading my favorite book (the Book of Mormon...just in case there was any doubt there haha). But yeah. I just felt very grateful. Then we went with the other missionaries to the Frosts, a senior couple missionaries house, and one of the Hermana´s from Bolivia made empanadas and we talked and ate and it was way fun! It was a good pday.
ALSO Before I forget! Uhmmmm...so my companion and I are obsessed. Have you all heard the 2015 EFY cd?! EMBARK. Que fuerte! We just love it so so much and it´s basically always on when we´re in our piso. It´s just the best thing ever and if you don´t have it you should download it on LDS.org.
Oh man but so much has happened since I last wrote! We had another concilio! It was way fun and we had a good time! Then on Friday we gave a talk in zone meeting, and the zone leaders asked us to do it in english! Uh yeah you don´t have to ask me twice, so that was kinda nice! We spoke on Hermana Deere´s talk, and she talked about not being shaken. She talked about what we need to do when faced with opposition, specifically anti mormon literature and things like that, because people are constantly attacking our beliefs and we talked about how to react to it. It was really powerful, and I really appreciated this message. That we need to go to the right sources, pray, and decide to leave some questions behind. One elder brought up that some questions are ´´dead´´ questions, because we just won´t find out the answer until we´re dead, and also some questions just lead to nowhere, so it doesn´t benefit us to dwell on them or allow them to shake our faith. She shared the scripture in Jacob 7:5. It´s so powerful, and really this is our goal, to build our faith until we too can say, ´´I can not be shaken.´´ My faith is getting there. I´m not perfect but everyday I can feel my base of Jesus Christ getting stronger and stronger and firmer and firmer and I cannot deny the testimony I have recieved! I definitely have moments of difficulty though out here. Mostly brought on by my own weaknesses of planning time poorly. That day we had a musical number and I was just so stressed out with the talk and the song and just everything and I had a mini breakdown and was just like, ´´I don´t want to be here!´´ Meaning the zone meeting, ha, not the mission. But God is so merciful that He has surrounded me with angels out here, and one of my good friends Hermana Knowles was there for me and really helped me out. And it all worked out really well in the end! Also yesterday I had another breakdown. I just get frustrated with myself sometimes, because I feel like I struggle with the same things over and over again, and it´s no one´s fault but mine and so that makes it even worse. But when we got back to our piso, I just went to my bed and hit my knees. I poured out my heart to Heavenly Father and I felt a very calm feeling come over me that I can´t get overwhelmed with all of my weaknesses, I just have to go little by little. Poco a poco. I´m so grateful for this gospel because honestly I felt really down, and the gospel of Jesus Christ and the love of my Savior is the only thing that helped me to get up off my knees and get to work again.
Also, on January fourth, Isel got baptized! The woman who had been recieveing the lessons a couple years ago but moved and lost contact with the church but continued to gain a testimony of the book of Mormon and just showed up to church one day! Yeah, and her baptism was beautiful. Thankfully, since our last one was kind of a struggle, we really worked hard to prepare this one well. And it did go well, except for a few loose screws. Hahaha as always. So we went hours early, because the baptism was sunday at 5pm, and we went to turn on the font and get the water filling up, and we thought we had plugged the drain (you see where this is going) and we went to another room to do the program. Well about 30 minutes later we go in and it´s at the same water level as before. Que fallo. Hahaha it hadn´t plugged. So we got it plugged up, but we didn´t have enough time to just let it go, so Hna Bangerter and I started getting bowls to fill water up in the bathrooms and kitchen and dump it in. Well the elders came and these poor elders...2 of them are the assistants to the president and they have so much to do, the whole mission to run, but they started grabbing buckets and heating up water in pots on the stove and all the members were helping too and we started like a half an hour late but it was a great and fun experience and Isel felt really special. Then hna bangerter and I sang ´´I feel my saviors love´´ while she played the piano and a boy in our ward played the cello. The spirit was very strong and Isel has a testimony so strong it brings me to tears. I just am so honored to know her. I love this mision and life! I love my Savior!
Also my new comp is Hna Jones! I´ve heard great things about her so I´m excited! Also Hna (Rachel) Merrill is going to serve in ward 2, and we share a church building with ward 2, so i´m super pumped cuz I´ll do intercambios with her and see her lots! It´ll be a great transfer!
Love, Hermana Miller
Alma 45:7
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