Wednesday, February 12, 2014

#8


Okay so this has been the best week of my life!!!
So for starters, last Sunday night, like a little over a week ago someone in our ward introduced us to a family that his family is friends with.  The mother is a convert to the church but hasn´t been active for over a decade, and the father and two kids aren´t members.  So we went over that Sunday and had a family home evening with them that went REALLY well. So we made an appointment to go back and teach them Tuesday.  Then on Monday, the next day, when we were grocery shopping we saw the mother and said hello to her.  Then Tuesday we taught them the Plan of Salvation and COMMITTED THEM TO BAPTISM for the 22nd of Febrero!  How amazing, they just soak everything about the gospel up and they are amazingly prepared by the Lord.  Then on Wednesday, they all came to the english class we have at the church, and the Bishop happened to be there and gave them a TOUR OF THE CHURCH.  How incredible is that?!  Also the two kids met their primary teacher who comes to english class and she told them she would get folders prepared for them for church and got them excited.  Then Thursday we taught them the Restoration, and oh my it was unreal!  It went so well and the spirit was strong and wow...Also i want to share an experience about that night.  Please please please do not misunderstand and think i am boasting in myself- TRUST Me i´m not.  I´m boasting in the Lord and His goodness and mercy and okay, so anyway.  As we were teaching I decided i wanted to wait until the end to bear my testimony of Joseph Smith, we hadn´t taught about the Book of Mormon thoroughly yet, but suddenly i could see the lesson was wrapping up, and i saw my chance to bear my testimony quickly fleeting.  So i hurried and was just like, ¨Is it okay if i share my testimony?¨ But i said that and all of this in spanish so i´m sure it was more like. ¨To share testimony of me okay?¨ Or something gramatically incorrect like that.  Haha, anyway so I went on, in the most broken spanish this poor family has probably ever heard, to say that I know with all of my heart and soul that Joseph Smith truly did see God and Jesus Christ.  And i told them that i know that the Book of Mormon is true, and that´s because I read it, and got on my knees and prayed and asked Heavenly Father, and He answered my question and this knowledge has changed my life and I told them i knew it would change theirs.  All of that took a long time to say in spanish and i know tons of it was incorrect and it was a struggle, but that´s what i tried to say, and when i said it i felt the spirit burning inside of me because i truly believe with all my heart that these things are true.  But anyway, i couldnt fully tell if i had conveyed my testimony in a way that they could understand...but afterwards as the member of our ward gave us a ride to our piso he told us that he had went into the kitchen and talked with the father and he said that it was his favorite lesson, and also he said that he had felt the spirit during my testimony.  Now please understand this: that was probably the most gramatically incorrect testimony any missionary has ever shared.  I am not perfect and i really dont know Spanish all too well, but i opened my mouth and tried and the Lord allowed the Holy Ghost to testify of my words.  The Lord can work with anything, Brothers and Sisters.  Even with me, one of THE most imperfect vessels. Heavenly Father can use even just our simple testimonies and can send His spirit to the hearts of others.  Even if that testimony is small, or imperfect, He can work with that.  He can work with anything!  So trust Him, because wow i´ve never felt so much joy than i have in trying to be an instrument in His hands. 
So on with the story of this family, then they came to our family home evening at the church the next night, gave us a ride to the hospital to go visit someone, and then had us over to their house for pizza and to share a scripture.  Then Sunday they came to church!!! This family is incredible and they have shown us so much love, I can feel Heavenly Fathers desire for them to know the truth, because as they´re learning about the truths of this gospel they´re embracing it full heartedly, which is such a good example to me and what i want to do!
Also yesterday we went to the Alhambra, I´m so lucky i got to go my first transfer, oh man. It is gorgeous!

And i got the best news of my LIFE that one of my best friends is coming to Málaga!!!!!!!!  Seriously the Lord is so good.  What a tender mercy for me, and i´m so excited.  Ha, it has helped me a lot because now i´m trying even harder to be even better, because she comes in five months and will be in the field in six, that gives me time so if it´s the Lord´s will i could potentially train her!  Not saying that i think i will, but i want to be prepared if the Lord would let me!  So great.  Hahaha.
And I also got 2 packages from home, thank you mom!!!  Full of delicious american food and yeah that has been the best!
I love this gospel and i love you all, thank you for your continued support!

Love, Hermana Miller 
2 Nephi 22: 2-3

Monday, February 3, 2014

Our last day at the Parque!!



Ah my incredible CCM district!!! (I´m the ginger at the back not the ginger in the front!)

It was a WIN when Hermana Johns and I accidentally matched! I love her to death.

Best friends in the CCM.



what my cute comp did for my two month mish birthday!


us at the mall on pday, i love my district! (Hermana Crockett, Me, Elder Vosters, and Elder Church!)

The gorgeous street that i get to walk everyday, I absolutely love Almería!!!

Us eating lunch with a member and her adorable daughter!

My first real ¨meal´´ i made here! Hahah okay so maybe i just had to boil some pasta and heat up some sauce...and maybe it had no flavor. Hashtag IWasStillPrettyProud

#7


Oh my goodness this last week was the best week of my life!!! I seriously am in love with my life here.  I have hard moments, but every day i go to bed thinking ¨today was the best day of my life!¨ Really though.  I love it.
This week I learned so much!  I am more dependent upon the Lord here than i ever have been in my life...and i have never felt stronger! Literally, my heart is turned to him constantly in prayer.  Ha, when I wake up in the morning I say a prayer and ask Heavenly Father to help me, because literally I´m thinking, ´´I don´t even know if i can wake up, let alone go outside and jog!¨ But I pray, and Heavenly Father literally helps push me along the streets of Almería at 7am. I seriously feel His love strengthen my steps.  Especially when we´re speed walking to our next appointment, and our legs are burning and we´re forever away from our destination, I just pray that Heavenly Father will help me, try my best to lengthen my stride just a little bit more than i think i can at the time, and wow...I have seen God work wonders in my life every single day. 
This week was super fun!  Last P-day Hermana Crockett and I went with Elders Sharp, Church, and Vosters to a pueblo called Roquettas and went to the mall there.  Oh man, the Elders in our district are hilarious!  Seriously we had such a great time.  And Hermana Crockett is amazing!  Seriously she is so patient with me.  She also has taught me so much about following the Spirit! She is so in tune and is constantly listening for the Spirit, and following it.  One night it was super close to our curfew, and we wanted to knock just a few more doors.  So we went up to this building and the door was already unlocked, I was so excited about that that i just waltzed right on in and went straight to go up to the elevator.  Then as we went to push the elevator button Hermana Crockett said, ´´I don´t have a good feeling about this building, let´s go.´´ And it completely caught me off guard! I hadn´t felt anything bad about it, and that kind of worried me.  Later she told me that the prompting to leave the building came to her three times, so on the third time she knew she had to listen.  I realized that i need to always be seeking counsel from the Spirit and always follow the promptings, or even just good thoughts I recieve.  I want so badly to be receptive to the Spirit.  I know I´m worthy and with practice, I will get better at it.  I am so grateful to have a companion that´s so in tune.  I don´t know what could´ve happened in that building, and i´ll probably never know, but I do know the Lord is watching out for us constantly and is guiding out steps!
Also this week we went to that lady´s house that i talked about last week, the one where we knocked, she let us in and then we saw members of our ward.  Yeah, so we went back, without an appointment and they were all there again!  It was so funny, we walked into the family room and Good Luck, Charlie was on! Hahaha, so of course i freaked out, and then me and the eight year old daughter talked about disney channel shows we love, and my 24-year-old companion just laughed at me and it was awesome! Hahaha, the shows here are called like, Buena Suerte, Charlie and Austin y Ally...haha i mean i guess i am in Spain but I still found it funny.  And it reminded me of my baby sister so i loved that!
I also learned another lesson that meant a lot to me.  Thanks to a letter from one of my super good friends, Elder Woodfield, I learned so much more about one of my favorite scriptures! It´s Ether 12:27. I have always loved it, but i realized this last week so much more about it.  It is the scripture mastery that talks about weak things being made strong in the Lord.  We were on a bus, and i suddenly gasped because I finally realized that my weakness don´t necessarily need to go away for me to be made strong from them!  Okay, I don´t mean i just want to full on embrace my weaknesses, obviously i still want to strive to overcome them with the Lord´s help.  But what I realized, thank you Elder Woodfield, is that our weaknesses make us realize we are not perfect.  Time is constantly a struggle for me, and I´m constantly asking Heavenly Father for forgiveness because I´m not perfect with managing it.  But that is the beauty of it! Although i´m still trying to be better, and trying to learn how to better manage my time and the Lord´s time, everytime i mess up I turn to the Lord in prayer, awknowledge my weakness, and ask for forgiveness and help.  And everytime i do well with time, my heart turns to Him in gratitude, because I truly know that it is through Him that i´m learning to become better!  So although i still struggle and am weak, i am strong because my heart is constantly turned to Him in prayer!  What a beautiful thing.  I love this gospel, and my Heavenly Father with all my heart. 
I am so happy here, happier than i´ve ever been!  I love my ward, I love these people, I love these missionaries, i love my companion, and I love my Savior and His atonement-- I just am in love with missionary work!  And i still wanna work so much harder and do so much better with many many things, but poco a poco....esta bien. :)
Thank you for all your prayers and support! 
Love, Hermana Miller
2 Nephi 26: 23-25

Saturday, February 1, 2014

#6


AHHH. So much has happened this week it´s crazy! I don´t do well at writing in my journal so I hope I can remember some of it (I need to get better at journal writing!).  Oh man, so first off this last week for p-day we went to the mall and shopping and it was a blast!  They have fantastic stores here...anyway. Also I need to mention that once a week, every Wednesday we teach an English Class!  It is the best thing ever!  We teach the more advanced people, so they know english fairly well.  Also most of them aren´t members of the church, so it gives us a great opportunity to talk about the gospel and show videos of church humanitarian projects and share scriptures, and all in the language i know! Ha, i joked that it´s the one hour in the week where i feel completely comfortable and know what´s going on. It´s great!    Also we got to go out to a pueblo called Aguadulce, we have to take a 30 minute bus ride to get there and ah- it is breathtakingly gorgeous! It is right by the ocean (well i´m always right by the ocean, but in Aguadulce the whole place just feels more beachy/touristy) and wow...it´s just amazing.  As we were walking through the streets and up little hills and looking over the ocean searching for some people on an old ward list we had one of those ´´We´re in Spain preaching the Restored gospel and assisting in the work of SALVATION´´ moments.  We´re so blessed in every sense.  Also we got a few new investigators- one experience was absolutely hilarious! I hope i can convey the feelings of awkwardness and hilariousness over email. Probably not.  Ha, but i´ll try.  So this last friday night ALL of our citas (appointments with people) fell through and so did all of our back ups.  So we had goals to meet and we just went to a building in our area and started knocking doors...well we got denied a lot and it was funny to hear people´s excuses as to why they couldn´t talk to us now or later..like old old ladies telling us they´re taking care of their sick mothers and i was just like, Is your mom even alive still?! But haha, anyway we knocked on this one door, and i had knocked and the door was more hollow than i thought so the knock was unintentionally loud and rude.  But a lady answered and Hermana Crockett gave the door approach saying we are missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had a message for her about Jesus Christ.  Well she said come in- MILAGRO! Ha, so we were kinda surprised and happy and as we walk in I saw one of the little girls from our primary and she jumps up to hug me, i was so confused! Then we saw her mom...then her dad. Haha we had knocked the door of the mother of someone in our ward! I dont know why but it was just hilarious!  And she´s actually not a member!!! So we taught her and their family and set up another cita and yeah, it was awesome!
The members here are so amazing and feed us so well and often!  It is a blast going to their houses and eating their amazing food and attempting to understand what they´re saying and trying to respond to the questions they ask me!  Their gospel insights are awesome, and i learn so much from them.  And i´ve really only had one sketchy experience with food...and it wasn´t even that bad i just didnt really know what i was eating! Which is fine i guess..i need to get out of my comfort zone.  I even found myself loving their bacon (which i usually dont like) because i actually recognized what i was eating! Haha..and my ¨no soda¨ streak got broken a couple weeks ago.  Almost went four years. But it´s worth it and i´ve only had to drink it 5 times, most of the time they have water also! 
Oh and for the last month I have been sleeping without a pillow.  People in the CCM told me it´s better for your back, so that night i ditched the pillow and haven´t gone back since...but someone should google that since i can´t and tell me if it´s true that it´s better for you. Hahah.
Okay so hard experience this last week.  It´s been a way weird week actually.  So many odd things happened.  We got a call from an unknown number of someone saying they wanted to be baptized, so of course i was a little skeptical and wondered if maybe it was anothere missionary in our district, but then i thought ´´Hermana Miller don´t be immature, this is missionary work, no missionary is gonna call during prime proselyting time and go on with some story about wanting to be baptized and give us fake info...´´ so yeah he mentioned that he had met our district leader before, so we called him and told him to go look for this address and he went and looked for an hour and a half, and found nothing. So then later our zone leaders called and long story short iit was them! They didn´t mean for it to go so far as to waste peoples proselyting time...but it did and it was a weird experience.  Next weird one, a missionary in my district went home.  We just got a call one day and his companion told us he was back in the U.S.  Then another companionship in our district had a baptism the next day and avoiding all the crazy crazy details it got cancelled and i´m not sure if or when the baptism will happen.  I felt and kind of still feel a pain about that that is up there with some of the hardest times of my llife.  I can´t even describe it,  i felt like i got hit by a truck.  Oh man, i just desire so badly for this young man to have all the blessings Heavenly Father has for him...Agency is such a hard thing, it is so sacred but it´s difficult because whether or not we choose to accept and live by the gospel principles, these principles apply to us, and to everyone else in the world. I can´t even imagine how desperately our Father in Heaven wants us to choose the right and return to live with Him.  The best part, the greatest thing about this gospel is that hope is never lost!  We are never too far away, and can always turn back to our Father in Heaven, no matter where we´re at in our lives and choices.  His arms are always extended towards us, and He is always right there beside us.  We just need to turn ourselves to Him, by doing small things to show Him we want Him in our lives, like simply praying or opening up the scriptures.  Last night as i was thinking about this young man and was kind of sad about it, i just said a little prayer in my heart, and asked Heavenly Father to help me feel better.  I sat up in bed and looked at my amazing blanket Hannah (one of my very best friends and the one updating this blog for me) me.  She wrote scriptures and inspriring quotes from prophets and other awesome people on it, i read over some but still felt empty.  Then my eyes went to one that talked about the Saviors love and healing touch (i can´t remember it exactly but i´ll write it on here next week) and my heart just filled with love and gratitude and knowledge that the Savior loves me, and all of us.  It just showed me that we only need to take a few simple steps, saying a small prayer in our hearts, and the Savior is right there, always willing to comfort us. 
I am grateful for this gospel, and for my Saviors love for me, the people of Spain, and all of us.

Love, Hermana Miller

Monday, January 20, 2014

#5


Alright, hey, so it´s been a while since i´ve written, but I´m in Almería, Spain!
 
It is absolutely wonderful here, i am convinced we have the best ward in Spain. For reals, i absolutely love everyone!
My companion is Hermana Crockett, she is from Arizona! She´s super nice and patient, she´s been out for seven months so she knows the language quite well..which is good because I still don´t know it at all!  I have been having a blast here teaching! We walk a lot, which is nice because in the MTC  i complained about never getting fresh air, so i´m appreciating it here!
 
Leaving the CCM was so hard, i met the most incredible people there! I know part of the reason why i got my call to be in the CCM at that specific time was so i could meet some of the people i did, they impacted me so much!  It was super hard to leave Hermana Bennett...we cried a lot- but I´m glad because she´s one of my best friends, so I know we´ll keep in touch! But yeah, the first few days after leaving Madrid were a little hard because i missed her tons!
 
So anyway, we left the MTC at 5 45, and took a 3ish hour long bullet train to Málaga!!!! Ah, Right as we were coming into it i could feel something stir inside me, this place feels so much like home! I know without a doubt this is where i´m meant to be!  So we got to Málaga and missionaries from the office, and the Deere´s were there to greet us!  They are absolutely incredible, I feel so close to them already and seriously...they are amazing.  I´m so blessed.  So we got to have an orientation at the mission home (there were 8 of us from the CCM), then later that night we met our companions! It was super cool also, because i got to see Elder Farrell, who I´ve known since elementary! He´s training one of my best friends from the CCM, Elder Nyland- talk about a power companionship! We also spent that night at the mission home.
 
The next day Hermana Crockett and I got on a bus and headed for Almería!  Ah...i had a lot of mixed emotions, but i was pumped! On the way to Almería, as we were talking on the bus i got super car sick, and there was a point where i was thinking, ´´yep, i´m going throw up. where´s the best place..´´ So i turned to her and was like,´´i´m so sorry, i´m not a dramatic person i swear but i am so sick.¨  And we went silent, and i said a little prayer, and suddenly my stomach was calmed, i turned to her and she had said a prayer for me too. Ah, i mention that because I just want to tell everyone how involved the Lord is in our lives! Like really, i see His hand out here every single day, several times a day. I wish i had recognized it more when i was home, because really every single one of us could, we just have to look a little.
 
Ah, i have had so many incredible experiences!  My first friday we had a zone meeting in Granada, all in Spanish. Ha. What a joke. I just tried to listen and pick up what they were saying generally...but ha i miss the majority, oh well, esta bien.  That night we were teaching some friends of our ward mission leader (who is the most incredible person in the world by the way, he lives his calling and is constantly referring us to his friends and he and his wife come with us and seriously, we´re so lucky to have him!) their names are Monica and Sebastian, and had the opportunity to recite the first vision! The spirit was so strong, ah, it was absolutely incredible! There is power in the words of Joseph Smith. Then i got to invite them to baptism, ah!!! I was nervous, but the spirit was so strong, and they said yes!!! But then they told us they still had some questions...but still, progress!
 
Also, last Thursday we met a man named Jose Manuel, and ah, we feel so strongly he has been prepared for this gospel.  Emilio, an amazing convert in our ward who is literally the perfect example of a member missionary, took us to Jose´s piso, and we also got to meet Jose´s roommate, Paco.  So Paco already said he had a Book of Mormon, and said he found it on the street! And the missionaries had given Jose a Book of Mormon a few months ago, but at that time nothing came of it because he said he didnt have time. So now, his friend Emilio asks if he can bring missionaries by and ah...it´s a lot cooler in real life than it is trying to explain...but anyway, at that first visit they just said they thought it was too many coincidences that just lined up perfectly and they seem so interested! The next night, last Friday, our ward had a  Noche de Hogar (family home evening) and we forgot to invite Jose, so Hna Crockett called him an hour before and he came all the way out to the church to learn about family history!  He even picked up Emilio and some of our other investigators and brought them with him! Ah...so many amazing things happen out here, and i havent even mentioned hardly any but yeah, i just love it out here! I feel the Spirit so stong all the time. I sometimes miss home and family and friends and things, but i realized something a few days ago...
 
I am not here in the mission because most of my senior class is out in the mission field.  I´m not here because the age to serve was lowered.  I´m here because i know with every fiber of my being that Jesus is the Christ, and that this gospel, His gospel, is true.  I know, without a doubt, that it is true.  And because i have this knowledge i have the responsibility to share it. 
 
Jesus Christ has, in a very personal way, manifested Himself to me, by the power of the Holy Ghost (2 Nephi 26:13).
I´m an imperfect vessel.  I make mistakes and don´t always live according to the knowledge i have, but i´m working on it and in the mean time, on my quest for purity, i have a desire, a burning desire to serve God.  Because the thought of going through this life without a knowledge of the true nature of Him literally, physically hurts my heart.  The idea that there are people in this world without a knowledge of the hope, forgiveness, love and eternal significance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ makes me want to cry.  But instead I´m just going out in the city of Almería everyday, and honestly trying, amidst my imperfection, to share Heavenly Father´s message with His children.  The ordinances of this church allow families to be together forever, and eternal life with our Heavenly Father after death.  I´m not trying to be cheesy, but seriously, let that sink in.  What does that mean to you?  It means everything to me.  Don´t ever doubt Heavenly Father´s love for you (2 Nephi 26: 23-25).  He is more involved in every single one of our lives than we can even comprehend.  He suffered to ¨show forth an example ¨ to us, so maybe on our journey to exaltation there´ll be some hard times.  Well Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ know that- that´s why they were willing to follow through with the Atonement, so they could have mercy on us when we made mistakes and they could relate to us when we struggle. 
 
An important lesson I learned in the CCM was this:  i was studying more about the Atonement, and i realized that when Jesus Christ was in the Garden, He asked Heavenly Father to remove this cup from Him.  I´ve always known that, but it hit me in a different way this time. I have done that many times in my life, asked Heavenly Father to heal one of my family members or friends of an ailment or something of that sort.  And when it didnt happen, honestly i kind of wondered what I did wrong. Was my fast not sincere enough? Was my faith not strong enough to make them whole?  But I realized that God is all knowing.  He can see the beginning to the end.  He wants us to be happy, and become like Him.  And maybe, with His perspective, He can see that we need to go through some things, maybe not be immediately healed physically.  But i know that when we turn to Him during those times of trial and change, we can be healed spiritually.  And really, in the end, that´s what matters. 
 
I am having such a great time, but it hasnt been without its struggles- I dont have enough time to go into detail, but I´ll just say that Heavenly Father is always there for us.  And He knows we´re imperfect, and even though i dont even always try my best, he´s still there to encourage me, and push me along.  I couldn´t do this without Him, and it´s making me realize that I don´t ever want to do anything without Him.  What a blessing that we have a free, direct line to Him always- you realize the importance of prayer when you literally have no where else to turn. 
 
I am so grateful to be out here, in Almería, teaching these amazing people this true gospel!
 
Love, Hermana Miller
 Oh! This is my new address:
 
Hermana Whitney Miller
Avenida de Blas Infante
N·2, 3·C
04006, Almería
España
 
Thank you all for all your support!  And sorry i´m terrible at writing, but Happy Birthday Tay, and Ky, Rachel M and Sidney and Max, and my momma! I love you all so much and thought about you on your big day!

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

President and Sister Sitterud and myself! I´m so grateful im at this CCM where i get to know this amazing couple!!!

We love eating hot chocolate (literally melted chocolate, not a drink) and churros! 

so weird and so fun. Haha, I seriously dont know where i´d be without Hermana Bennett, she´s one of the greatest people i´ve ever met in my whole life and one of my best friends!

 
This is us getting ready to ring in the new year with the Spanish grapes tradtion! You eat one every time the bell rings, 12 total, one for each month of the new year to bring you luck


#4


These past couple weeks have been Amazing!!!!
 
So, first off we get to go to the temple every week here in Madrid and let me tell you it is Gorgeous!  It is so incredible, I love the temple so much, the spirit is so strong in there and i feel so at home.  I can´t imagine my life without it now, and seriously remaining worthy to go there is so important to me, it´s worth all of the effort I´ve got! 
 
Also, Elder Tad R. Callister came here!!! He is one of the 7 presidents of the seventy! He has family in Spain he was visiting for the holidays, and we were lucky enough to attend a temple session with him, and have him come speak to us afterwards!  He has spoken in several general conferences, and is the author of ´The Infinite Atonement¨ and ¨The inevitable apostasy¨.  He was an answer to my prayers! Being here and teaching about the apostasy i have realized that i dont fully understand it for myself, let alone be able to explain it to others! But i have just tried to teach it simply, and it´s been great.  But he talked to us all about why the apostasy was needed and why it occured and it made so much sense!  He said many incredible things, but i think the one that hit me the most was when he said, ¨Some may ask, ´why did Heavenly Father wait so long to restore His church?¨.  Which was interesting because i asked one of my teachers that exact question.  He said to think of it like this- what if you were in an airplane, and one of the engines caught fire, you would want to land the plane, right?  But would you want to get it to the ground as fast as you can, just nose dive it straight down to get it there quickly? You want to get it to the ground not only as fast as you can, but also as Safely as you can.  Heavenly father did the same, he got it back to the earth the fastest He could, but many things had to be done to lay the foundation for the Restoration of the true gospel! 
 
Ah, a couple weeks ago we got to watch Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration.  Ive seen it many times, it is so powerful!  I know without any doubt in my mind that Joseph Smith
saw God the Father, and Jesus Christ, and this knowledge will sustain my spirit for the rest of my life! I will forever be able to stand unwaivering as a witness of this gospel, because i cannot deny the witness i have recieved. 
 
Christmas was so fun here! On Christmas eve we watched ¨It´s a wonderful life¨ which i absolutely love!!! And on New Years eve, last night, we watched ¨The Sound Of Music¨ it was my first time seeing it and I AM IN LOVE.  Its wonderful. 
Happy birthday shout out to one of my best friends, Natalie!  And to the best brother and Gommie anyone could ask for! I love you all so much. 
 
Thank you for all your letters, i dont have much time to write today, but i appreciate every one and your support and letters so much!
 
I am so happy and grateful to be a full time missionary, but we are all missionaries! Bear your testimony (DyC 80 verse 4).
 
This is mine- I know that God lives, i know Joseph Smith saw Him and Jesucristo and through him the Church of Jesus Christ was again restored to the earth! And because i know this i can handle anything that comes my way!
 
Feliz Año Nuevo!!
 
Love, Hermana Miller