Buenas Dìas Familia y amigos
First off, wow what an amazing blog! Probably the coolest thing I`ve ever seen haha Thanks Mom and Kerstin.
Today is the 28th of so that means I`ve been a missionary for 7 months. Pretty exciting I know. ha Actually in my 7 months I`ve learned that time is not important at all, so I`m not really counting but I did realize it was the 28th today. You can be an effective missionary from day 1 till the trip to the airport if you`re willing to put in the effort.
Anyways this was a quick but very rewarding week for Elder Crellin and I. We started the week off with a couple investigators that weren`t showing too much promise, but we decided we were going to change that. As of now we are looking at 10-12 people that we are really excited about. We even had 7 of them show up to church. In that 7 was the Solano family, a young single mom named Marcela and a U student named Carlos. I think we were able to have a good Sunday in Church because of the 20 or so phone calls we made at 7 in the morning to everyone. We were determined to get people in the chapel.
On Thursday I had a pretty cool experience. We did a switch around and I went to Los Yoses for the day with Elder Hernandez from Honduras. Los Yoses is a pretty big city area. We had one lesson planned the entire day and the rest was spent on looking for families. Talk about a lot of contacting. I feel like I really improved on my street approach and knocking doors. It was tough but I think Im over my fear of tracting in the big city. We ended up finding 5 nice families.
Saturday the b-day! haha Not exactly the greatest day ever but very much enjoyed. We had every single one of our lessons and back up plans fail us. We covered our entire area walking and It rained for the first time in about 2 months. Needless to say we ended the day with subway where my comp sang to me ha No cake and no package but I was still very content at the end of the day because we worked hard.
Last story. Sunday night we went to follow up on a contact we made earlier in the week. We weren`t expecting much but what we got was more than we could ask for. Meeting Carlos Montenegro was one of the greatest experiences I`ve had in the mish. When we started talking he immediatley broke into tears and told us his whole life story. He told us he has felt alone his whole life. He lives in a house by himself and has no friends or life dreams. He can`t sleep because he is always depressed. He said us coming over was an answer to his prayers. We felt he was an answer to our prayers as well. He was incredibly prepared to hear our message and recieve and read the BOM. We left him with a blessing of comfort and told him to start reading from the front cover. I know his life is about to change dramatically and I`m so grateful that we decided to talk to him.
Now that these things are goin on a blog I have some incentive to make them good haha jk but i can`t promise the`ll all be this long, but I wanrted to share some special stories that we had this week. I love you all and I know the gospel is true. Thanks for everything.
Pura Vida
Elder Miller
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