12/16/2013
Hello everyone! Can I just start
by saying FELIZ NAVIDAD?! I love the Christmas season! People are much more
willing to listen to messages about Christ and hope. (Well, the Hispanos at
least. Every door we have knocked that a white person has answered has been
shut in our faces with some less-than-nice words sometimes....also, some lady
told us that Barack Obama is a Mormon now and he wants to kill everyone. So
that's nice! Bet you didn't know that! Hahaha. What a loon.) But the good news
is that I am out here serving Spanish speaking, so you know what they say-
"Like water off a duck." Seriously, though. You learn to get thick
skin out here on the mission. Sometimes people treat us like lepers! In fact,
one lady in the supermarket restroom ran out without washing her hands when she
heard we were Mormon missionaries! Hope she doesn't work at a restaurant.
Yikes. But despite all that, life is amazing. We have been walking a lot this
week, which means we have been talking to TONS of people. (And I have some nice
windburn going on on my poor little cheekies...) I have lost every ounce
of shyness I had! I will walk up and talk to anyone! It's the best! The great
thing about being an Hermana serving Spanish speaking is this: (In the words of
a less active member...) "I don't know about white people, but for us
Mexicans, when you see a beautiful lady standing on your porch, you are gonna
listen to whatever she has to say. It's like 'HEY LADY! YOU NEED SOME HELP OR
SOMETHING?'" (You should have heard him saying all that in broken English
and with his accent and expressions. It was priceless.) Hispanos are so great.
Yesterday in la reunion
sacramental we have about 40-50 people there, which is double our normal
attendance! My heart was so full I thought I was going to die. The sacrament
hymn, although sung by a bunch of tone-deaf, sweet-hearted Latinos, was the
most lovely thing I have heard in so long. I felt like I was surrounded by the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir! God is so good to us. We are working our buns off out
here, and there is still so much work to do, but He is blessing us every step
of the way. We met this family from Guatemala the other day in the supermarket,
and went and visited them last night. They are so wonderful and sweet and
spiritual! Rocio, the mom, agreed to be baptized once she got her answer.
(Which, we know she will.) And she "coincidentally" (nothing is ever
a coincidence with the Lord,) had her brother in law and his family there and
they want us to come teach them too! So amazing! And then this morning I prayed
that we would find a family with three kids to teach today as we were out and
about, and we started talking to this lady and come to find out, guess what,
holy of all holies, SHE HAS THREE KIDS. HALLELUJAH! The heavens really are open
here in Grand Island, NE, and the blessing are just pouring out, so much that
we don't have room to receive them! We just keep having so many great
experiences like that, and we are meeting TONS of people to teach! (And we
haven't even started knocking in the trailer parks yet!) Investigators are just
falling into our laps. It's incredible how when you just follow the Spirit and
listen to every single tiny prompting you have, what the Lord will bless you
with! I can't say it enough everyone, FOLLOW THE SPIRIT. You know, like the
Nike motto, JUST DO IT.
Something else wonderful this
week is we had Spanish training in Omaha! So the wonderful Hermana Pocock and I
took a roadtrip and got to sing to EFY music the whole way! (It is about a 2.5
hour drive. Oh and PS I am the designated driver in the companionship so that's
pretty fun! I won't get rusty! Or maybe I will since we only have a car every
so often...) Oh by the way, Sister Burt, who works in the mission office and is
like my NE grandma, served a mission in Switzerland too, dad! She called me
like two times the other day just to chat about it and about talking to you
haha. I want to hear your side of the story! Tomorrow we have Christmas Zone
Conference in Lincoln, so that will be fun. Oh, and guess what, (you guys are
not going to believe this,) Hermana Pocock and I will be singing! We are going
to sing "Cantan Santos Angeles," or "Angels We Have Heard On
High," for all you Gringos out there. I can't believe how much I am
singing out here. We sing for the people we are teaching every single lesson!
(She studied voice at USU for two years.) I don't even know who I am anymore!
Well, we are going to make
some holiday treats today, we are thinking about making Rice Christpies, or
would you call them Christ Rispies? Hahaha! (Is that sacreligious? How do I
spell that? I am forgetting how to English...oops here comes the lightning
bolt!) And we are going to go caroling to all our neighbors and less-actives.
(And maybe hand out some of those "Happy Birthday, Jesus" bookmarks
too. Haha, thanks mommy!) Anyways, I sure love you all and hope you are
thinking about what gifts you are going to give to Christ this year! I know I
am! But a good place to start would be with your whole heart. ;)
I love you all! I love this
gospel! I love Grand Island! I love Spanish! I love being a missionary!
Todo mi Corazon,
Hermana Miller (Or H Millz,
whatever you prefer.)
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