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September 19,2011
Hey what`s up guys??
My apologies for the deleayed email this week. We just found on Sunday we`d be going to the temple this week. So our pday was moved to Wednesday again. Nevertheless it has been an amazing week!
First off we`re teaching an amazing new family. I believe I told you about Jason and Tatiana last week. Now that we have had a few lessons with them we`ve realized just how really chosen they are. They have accepted a baptism date for the 17th of this month. They will also be married on the same day. I`m super excited because this is the first family we`ll baptize since my first area. I`m blown away every time we teach them because of how prepared they are.
Jason is a baker and wakes up at 2 o`clock every morning to prepare bread, so he is even more hooked to coffee than the average Costa Rican as you can imagine. Yesterday we had a quick lesson with them on the word of wisdom and he accepted it right away. He even gave us all the coffee they had in their house. He also said if this is the purpose God has for me I need to follow it. Truly an awesome guy. Seeing their testimonies grow like small seeds of faith has been amazing to see, and helped mine grow so much more. I`m so glad we were able to find them and be a link to the gospel.
I was also very grateful for the opportunity to attend the temple today with the zone. President and Sister Galvez showed up last minute and were a part of the session with us.
Our district was also changed around with transfers so now Belen (the area where the temple is at) will be apart of our district. In other words we`ll have weekly district meetings there and see the temple every week. Pretty cool!
Anyways I`m super stoked. My Mexican companion is way rad and we have fun together. Hope all of you are well. Love you.
Pura Vida
Elder Miller
My apologies for the deleayed email this week. We just found on Sunday we`d be going to the temple this week. So our pday was moved to Wednesday again. Nevertheless it has been an amazing week!
First off we`re teaching an amazing new family. I believe I told you about Jason and Tatiana last week. Now that we have had a few lessons with them we`ve realized just how really chosen they are. They have accepted a baptism date for the 17th of this month. They will also be married on the same day. I`m super excited because this is the first family we`ll baptize since my first area. I`m blown away every time we teach them because of how prepared they are.
Jason is a baker and wakes up at 2 o`clock every morning to prepare bread, so he is even more hooked to coffee than the average Costa Rican as you can imagine. Yesterday we had a quick lesson with them on the word of wisdom and he accepted it right away. He even gave us all the coffee they had in their house. He also said if this is the purpose God has for me I need to follow it. Truly an awesome guy. Seeing their testimonies grow like small seeds of faith has been amazing to see, and helped mine grow so much more. I`m so glad we were able to find them and be a link to the gospel.
I was also very grateful for the opportunity to attend the temple today with the zone. President and Sister Galvez showed up last minute and were a part of the session with us.
Our district was also changed around with transfers so now Belen (the area where the temple is at) will be apart of our district. In other words we`ll have weekly district meetings there and see the temple every week. Pretty cool!
Anyways I`m super stoked. My Mexican companion is way rad and we have fun together. Hope all of you are well. Love you.
Pura Vida
Elder Miller
September 12,2011
Hey what`s up guys??
My apologies for the deleayed email this week. We just found on Sunday we`d be going to the temple this week. So our pday was moved to Wednesday again. Nevertheless it has been an amazing week!
First off we`re teaching an amazing new family. I believe I told you about Jason and Tatiana last week. Now that we have had a few lessons with them we`ve realized just how really chosen they are. They have accepted a baptism date for the 17th of this month. They will also be married on the same day. I`m super excited because this is the first family we`ll baptize since my first area. I`m blown away every time we teach them because of how prepared they are.
Jason is a baker and wakes up at 2 o`clock every morning to prepare bread, so he is even more hooked to coffee than the average Costa Rican as you can imagine. Yesterday we had a quick lesson with them on the word of wisdom and he accepted it right away. He even gave us all the coffee they had in their house. He also said if this is the purpose God has for me I need to follow it. Truly an awesome guy. Seeing their testimonies grow like small seeds of faith has been amazing to see, and helped mine grow so much more. I`m so glad we were able to find them and be a link to the gospel.
I was also very grateful for the opportunity to attend the temple today with the zone. President and Sister Galvez showed up last minute and were a part of the session with us.
Our district was also changed around with transfers so now Belen (the area where the temple is at) will be apart of our district. In other words we`ll have weekly district meetings there and see the temple every week. Pretty cool!
Anyways I`m super stoked. My Mexican companion is way rad and we have fun together. Hope all of you are well. Love you.
Pura Vida
Elder Miller
My apologies for the deleayed email this week. We just found on Sunday we`d be going to the temple this week. So our pday was moved to Wednesday again. Nevertheless it has been an amazing week!
First off we`re teaching an amazing new family. I believe I told you about Jason and Tatiana last week. Now that we have had a few lessons with them we`ve realized just how really chosen they are. They have accepted a baptism date for the 17th of this month. They will also be married on the same day. I`m super excited because this is the first family we`ll baptize since my first area. I`m blown away every time we teach them because of how prepared they are.
Jason is a baker and wakes up at 2 o`clock every morning to prepare bread, so he is even more hooked to coffee than the average Costa Rican as you can imagine. Yesterday we had a quick lesson with them on the word of wisdom and he accepted it right away. He even gave us all the coffee they had in their house. He also said if this is the purpose God has for me I need to follow it. Truly an awesome guy. Seeing their testimonies grow like small seeds of faith has been amazing to see, and helped mine grow so much more. I`m so glad we were able to find them and be a link to the gospel.
I was also very grateful for the opportunity to attend the temple today with the zone. President and Sister Galvez showed up last minute and were a part of the session with us.
Our district was also changed around with transfers so now Belen (the area where the temple is at) will be apart of our district. In other words we`ll have weekly district meetings there and see the temple every week. Pretty cool!
Anyways I`m super stoked. My Mexican companion is way rad and we have fun together. Hope all of you are well. Love you.
Pura Vida
Elder Miller
September 7,2011
Hey what`s up guys??
My apologies for the deleayed email this week. We just found on Sunday we`d be going to the temple this week. So our pday was moved to Wednesday again. Nevertheless it has been an amazing week!
First off we`re teaching an amazing new family. I believe I told you about Jason and Tatiana last week. Now that we have had a few lessons with them we`ve realized just how really chosen they are. They have accepted a baptism date for the 17th of this month. They will also be married on the same day. I`m super excited because this is the first family we`ll baptize since my first area. I`m blown away every time we teach them because of how prepared they are.
Jason is a baker and wakes up at 2 o`clock every morning to prepare bread, so he is even more hooked to coffee than the average Costa Rican as you can imagine. Yesterday we had a quick lesson with them on the word of wisdom and he accepted it right away. He even gave us all the coffee they had in their house. He also said if this is the purpose God has for me I need to follow it. Truly an awesome guy. Seeing their testimonies grow like small seeds of faith has been amazing to see, and helped mine grow so much more. I`m so glad we were able to find them and be a link to the gospel.
I was also very grateful for the opportunity to attend the temple today with the zone. President and Sister Galvez showed up last minute and were a part of the session with us.
Our district was also changed around with transfers so now Belen (the area where the temple is at) will be apart of our district. In other words we`ll have weekly district meetings there and see the temple every week. Pretty cool!
Anyways I`m super stoked. My Mexican companion is way rad and we have fun together. Hope all of you are well. Love you.
Pura Vida
Elder Miller
My apologies for the deleayed email this week. We just found on Sunday we`d be going to the temple this week. So our pday was moved to Wednesday again. Nevertheless it has been an amazing week!
First off we`re teaching an amazing new family. I believe I told you about Jason and Tatiana last week. Now that we have had a few lessons with them we`ve realized just how really chosen they are. They have accepted a baptism date for the 17th of this month. They will also be married on the same day. I`m super excited because this is the first family we`ll baptize since my first area. I`m blown away every time we teach them because of how prepared they are.
Jason is a baker and wakes up at 2 o`clock every morning to prepare bread, so he is even more hooked to coffee than the average Costa Rican as you can imagine. Yesterday we had a quick lesson with them on the word of wisdom and he accepted it right away. He even gave us all the coffee they had in their house. He also said if this is the purpose God has for me I need to follow it. Truly an awesome guy. Seeing their testimonies grow like small seeds of faith has been amazing to see, and helped mine grow so much more. I`m so glad we were able to find them and be a link to the gospel.
I was also very grateful for the opportunity to attend the temple today with the zone. President and Sister Galvez showed up last minute and were a part of the session with us.
Our district was also changed around with transfers so now Belen (the area where the temple is at) will be apart of our district. In other words we`ll have weekly district meetings there and see the temple every week. Pretty cool!
Anyways I`m super stoked. My Mexican companion is way rad and we have fun together. Hope all of you are well. Love you.
Pura Vida
Elder Miller
August 31,2011
Hey everyone! How´s it going?
Well transfers went very well today. I'm very pleased with what happened. I´ll be staying in Heredia with my new companion Elder Gomez. He is from Sonora México! I can already tell we´ll get along super well. (what a relief after the last 3 months ha) I´m also very excited for the work will be doing. Were on a mission to baptize a family! Families are a huge emphasis for us in the San José Costa Rica mission, and I´m so glad we have that focus. After all families are the most important.
This week we found Jason and Tatiana; a great new family that´s ready for the gospel in their lives. They were a contact we made one day getting off the bus. Sunday was their first time in church, and they really liked it. In church we also had Miguel and Alejandra who we´ve been working very close with. Miguel has been struggling with alcohol for a while and so were trying to help him get rid of it completely. His weak times are in the morning so we´ve been trying to go out and run with him at that time. His family needs him to drop drinking so they can get baptized. Also, both of these families need to get married first. Hopefully we´ll find some funds to cover their weddings because they are quite expensive.
This transfer I´m determined to do all I can so that we have success. I know we can do it with faith and diligence. Big things are under way if we trust in the lord and work hard. Thanks for all your support. I love you guys.
Pura Vida
Elder Miller
August 22, 2011
Hey eveyone how´s it going?
We´ve made it to the final week of the transfer here in Heredia. Next week you´ll hear from me on Wednesday the 31st.
So this has been one of the longer transfers in my mission, but definitely the one where I learned the most. I´m very grateful to be where I´m at and I wouldn´t trade the experiences I´m having for anything.
Well there´s not too much to report this week. I feel bad because there was a couple funny things that happened but they´re not coming to me right now. I need to be more prepared when I write home haha
Today we have been in San Jose all day tying to work out some civil papers for a couple we´re trying to marry soon. (Not the most fun pday). Their names are Eric and Esmeralda, and we found them last Sunday contacting in the street. He was actually baptized in Nicarauga and now they live together here.
You find those situations a lot because many people are baptized in Nicaragua and then come to Costa Rica to find work or for family reasons. It´s very similar to the U.S. and Mexican immigrants.
They are kind'of our last hope for baptizing this final week in August. We are also still meeting with Gilbert, but he´s been super busy of late.
Anyways I´m sorry to be short again but my time is up. I love you guys very much!
Pura Vida
Elder Miller
We´ve made it to the final week of the transfer here in Heredia. Next week you´ll hear from me on Wednesday the 31st.
So this has been one of the longer transfers in my mission, but definitely the one where I learned the most. I´m very grateful to be where I´m at and I wouldn´t trade the experiences I´m having for anything.
Well there´s not too much to report this week. I feel bad because there was a couple funny things that happened but they´re not coming to me right now. I need to be more prepared when I write home haha
Today we have been in San Jose all day tying to work out some civil papers for a couple we´re trying to marry soon. (Not the most fun pday). Their names are Eric and Esmeralda, and we found them last Sunday contacting in the street. He was actually baptized in Nicarauga and now they live together here.
You find those situations a lot because many people are baptized in Nicaragua and then come to Costa Rica to find work or for family reasons. It´s very similar to the U.S. and Mexican immigrants.
They are kind'of our last hope for baptizing this final week in August. We are also still meeting with Gilbert, but he´s been super busy of late.
Anyways I´m sorry to be short again but my time is up. I love you guys very much!
Pura Vida
Elder Miller
August 15,2011
Hey guys what´s up?
I have a few shoutouts first,
Congratulations to Nate and Rebecca on the wedding!
Happy Birthday to Elder Austin Taylor!
It seems like alot of things happened this week at home. I can´t believe summer is already coming to an end. That went by way too fast haha Time seems to be running along quick here in the mission as well.
This week was not really what I was hoping for, but what can you do? haha
Soo we weren´t able to put goals with our 3 progressing investigators. In fact we had one of them drop us instead of us dropping them. Carolina (the part member family) told us to stop coming by because shes going to do some, "Bible Investigating" on her own.That´s never a good sign haha. However that was after the powerful lesson we had about authority with her and her husband. We just gave her every scripture there was about the apostasy and laying on of hands that we knew. Her evangelical background is holding her back. An interesting aspect about the mission is that you really learn a lot about other churches at the same time as your own. I´d like to say that learning about others has helped strengthen my testimony on the church I´ve belonged to my whole life.
We have also been meeting with a new family that we found in the area book(A challenge Elder Hinckley gave to us when he was here. Find families and individuals that have fallen through the cracks of the area book)
Their names are Miguel and Alejandra. They are a cute family with 3 little boys. We took Alejandra and the kids to church but Miguel couldn´t make it.
We´ll also continue our focus with Carlos and Gilbert this week and see if one of the two can be set up with a baptism goal.
That´s about all from me today. Sorry if it´s short. I love you all and appreciate your support.
Pura Vida
I have a few shoutouts first,
Congratulations to Nate and Rebecca on the wedding!
Happy Birthday to Elder Austin Taylor!
It seems like alot of things happened this week at home. I can´t believe summer is already coming to an end. That went by way too fast haha Time seems to be running along quick here in the mission as well.
This week was not really what I was hoping for, but what can you do? haha
Soo we weren´t able to put goals with our 3 progressing investigators. In fact we had one of them drop us instead of us dropping them. Carolina (the part member family) told us to stop coming by because shes going to do some, "Bible Investigating" on her own.That´s never a good sign haha. However that was after the powerful lesson we had about authority with her and her husband. We just gave her every scripture there was about the apostasy and laying on of hands that we knew. Her evangelical background is holding her back. An interesting aspect about the mission is that you really learn a lot about other churches at the same time as your own. I´d like to say that learning about others has helped strengthen my testimony on the church I´ve belonged to my whole life.
We have also been meeting with a new family that we found in the area book(A challenge Elder Hinckley gave to us when he was here. Find families and individuals that have fallen through the cracks of the area book)
Their names are Miguel and Alejandra. They are a cute family with 3 little boys. We took Alejandra and the kids to church but Miguel couldn´t make it.
We´ll also continue our focus with Carlos and Gilbert this week and see if one of the two can be set up with a baptism goal.
That´s about all from me today. Sorry if it´s short. I love you all and appreciate your support.
Pura Vida
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