Hola familia!This week has been stinking CRAZY. GUESS WHAT. This girl may be getting transferred to a native-Spanish speaking district this week! That means I would change houses, change companions, changes branches and districts, and be surrounded only by Latinos all the time. But here is the kicker-I would be getting shipped out of here in TWO WEEKS. That´s two weeks early....uhhhh say whatttt?! The gift of tongues is real, people. Seriously. All the elders in my district offered to push me down the stairs so I would get brain damage and be able to stay with them-they are always so thoughtful. I would be really sad and kinda scared to leave but if it is what I am supposed to do I will do it. "I will go and do," right? I have made friends with all the workers in the Comedor (cafeteria) and all the janitors. I know them all by name and they always get so excited to see me because I just sit and talk and laugh with them. Your shy little girl is GONE. I say hi to more people in one day than I do in an entire month at home. (Which is a huge blessing.) My favorites are Leticia, Rosa, Nancy, and Emilio. They make me laugh so hard. And let me tell you-I LOVE LATINOS! Holy smokes they are hilarious! They are so loud and always laughing and they just kill me. They always get a kick out of it when they can´t think of a word in English and I just look at them and roll my eyes and say "Gringos...." They bust up laughing every single time. Here is an example of why I love them-some of the Latino elders in our District´s apartment grabbed the big jug of water we drink from (we can´t drink unfiltered water here,) and they filled up a massive bowl and handed it to our elders and they were confused so they took it back and dumped it on poor Elder Whitehouse who was in the shower. It was freezing cold water apparently and he screamed like a little girl! (I was not present for this obviously but all the elders told me the story haha.) Then the latinos ran out and in broken English said "Dees, dees eez berry berry funny!!!" Hahaha so now that is what our district says whenever things are funny.So I should clarify something-the "investigadores" of mine are mostly all members, except for TRC time. But they are pretending to be real people in their lives and so the need for revelation and prayers are real. Carlos accepted to be baptized this week! YES! I was so happy I could have kissed that man on the cheek. (Except that is entirely inappropriate for an Hermana so I never would have haha.) We also got two new investigators-Rosana and Juanita. They are lovely people and we have loved teaching them and feeling the spirit. It has definitely been a growing week for me spiritually, some things have been really frustrating. But every day is still the best of my life. My latina hermanas headed out this week, I will miss them a lot. But I got their contact info and a picture with them so I feel good about it. The night before all the missionaries left everyone was in the Comedor for dinner and singing "God Be With You Till We Meet Again," in Spanish which was amazing. Speaking of singing-I am happy to hear some of you guys are in choir now! I expect a performance when I get back. And that is funny because I have started singing again too. (Miracles DO happen!)There were some amazing spiritual experiences this week, but my favorite was either watching the Joseph Smith movie (SO GOOD!) or hearing from Elder Allen, who is the director of the MIssionary Department of the Church! I saw him before devotional and did not know who he was at the time and just said hello and started talking to him and had a grand old time. He is so funny and sweet! His son is a stake president in Fort Collins! He lives right near CSU. Well after we talked for like ten minutes he told me who he was and asked what I wanted him to speak on....uhhhhhhh talk about pressure! I just told him that I was sure whatever the Spirit told him to say would be perfect and that if he wanted to suggest getting more of the yummy fruit popsicles to Presidente Pratt that would be great. (You know me, I can never be completely serious.) He laughed and said he would get on that. Let me tell you though-his talk was AMAZING. Life-changing. He is so funny but so powerful. He said so many things I needed to hear, specifically about "Turning your loved ones over to the Lord." That gave me a lot of peace because I have been worrying about everyone a lot this week. (Satan knows what buttons to push with me and he has been trying really hard to get me to go home I think. Too bad I know better and he sucks at persuading! Take that!)Two other interesting things before I write the funny things this week; Elder Bernhard is AMAZING at art and typography and he personalized my Libro De Mormon with my name inside in Art Deco style! It´s SO AWESOME. I will have to get pictures on Flickr when I get to Nebrasky. Also, I met an Hermana Mitchell this week from St George and I asked if she knew the Moffitt´s or the Fish´s or anyone and guess what.....she dated cousin Brendan Moffitt hahaha. Such a small world. (She´s a sweetie though so maybe Elder Moffitt should get back in touch with her when he gets back haha!)Okay, funny time!1.) Our district has developed an interesting way of saying we are annoyed with something: "That really chaps my khakis." I don´t know who started it but it cracks us all up.
2.) We are surrounded by Spanish so much I am starting to get a Mexican accent and speaking Spanglish when I want to speak English. (I cannot tell you how many things I have had to re-write in this email because they were Spanish.) But the best visual I can give you of this phenomenon is this:
Elder Jensen: "Guys, I am forgetting what English looks like!!!"
Elder Bown: "Well yeah, Elder. You are holding your book upside-down."
We all were rolling.
3.) Hermana Buhler: "I am getting awful blisters!"
Me: "Let´s get you some moleskin girl!"
Hna Buhler: "I would rather live with blisters so the poor moles don´t have to die!"
Me: "You do know it is not really skin of moles, right?"
Hna B: "Ohhh.....of course....."
4.) Elder Robinson discovered he can fit in the cupboards in the classrooms....yes, he is an 18 year old boy, how did you know? So naturally the next step was to go hide in the other district´s cupboards. When they all came back for language study which is just the districts and no teachers, he waited for like ten minutes until they got really settled in, and then popped out of the cupboard and just strolled out. We could hear the screams and laughs from all the way down the hall. Hahaha we all died! He just was so casual about it too. And the best part was that Elder Jensen was sick at home that day, and so when they came in to talk to us about it, we asked them where Elder Jensen was, and they all ran back and checked every ounce of their room and were so frustrated that they could not find him. We were cracking up so hard. Then one elder ran back in and was like "Wait a second! He is sick in bed! You guys suck!" And we just lost it. I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. This district is so entertaining (and frustrating) since it is full of young men haha.
5.) Found out this week Elder Mendivil used to have shoulder length curly black hair before his mission. I cant even believe it haha. But I bought a church art book at the tienda and when I opened it up the first page I got to see was Nephi with his long dark hair and a headband on and I ran back to show Elder M because it looks just like him...we both bracked up over it for like 20 minutes. Seriously, doppelganger for realsies.
Anyways, I am doing amazing and loving every second out here. I am realizing that I am not doing anything, and all these amazing these and opportunities and the power I am being given should all be credited to Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. They are wonderful.
The Church is TRUE. Yo se que la iglesia es verdadera.
Love, Hermana Miller
Oh, and HAPPY ALMOST BIRTHDAY TO LILY! I sent her an email.
PS-Elder Mendivil´s brother is on a mission right now in SPOKANE WASHINGTON! Speaking Marshallese, if Grandma meets and Elder Mendivil, tell her to tell him that her grand-daughter knows his brother.
LOVE YOU GUYS!
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