2/3/14
Sooo
guess who is now in a tri-panionship?! This
girl! That's right, Hermana Pocock and
I have decided to adopt a baby. A
little 21 year old English Speaking Sister Missionary baby! Haha! One of the English sisters in our area had
to go home due to illness, so sweet Sister Beers is now our third companion! We are having so much fun! (And stress! Haha!) We call ourselves an "oreo." Two Spanish-speaking cookies on the outside
and a sweet gringo cream in the center. Jajajajaja! We now have double the work-we do all the
English and Spanish Sister work! But
we are trusting the Lord and His plan and working our butts off. (We are shooting for 38 lessons this week.
Pray for us!)
Heavenly
Father answered one of our prayers in a really weird way through this - we now are the proud owners of a full-time
car! Since we don't have to share with
the English sisters, we now get it every day! What a miracle and blessing! We keep being blessed.
Another
massive blessing of being in this companionship is that I am becoming a pretty
decent translator - it's really testing my Spanish! The Lord is truly blessing me with the gift of
tongues. I sincerely feel like what my
setting apart told me, that my tongue "would be loosed" is truly
coming true. Am I fluent? Not even close. But I am so comfortable speaking Spanish now.
When we speak English I honestly miss
Spanish. And my English is garbage
anyways now, it's all Spanglish. It is
such a blessing to be learning this language and having the opportunity to
improve it so much more through translation. I really feel that when you have to switch
back and forth between the two it makes you learn it better, faster, and in a
more functional way.
Another huge
blessing is that we all get along and that we are all learning so much from one
another. We each have special gifts and
talents that we use to strengthen our lessons and each other. Sister Beers is an incredible listener and
asks such inspired questions! Hermana
Pocock has a gift to discern how people are feeling and thinking, and always
addresses concerns so wisely. And I love
to be bold and loving and testify and invite to baptism every chance I can! We feed off of each other so well and we are
all learning to develop these other traits more too! I am very grateful that Sister Beers will be
with us at least until the end of the transfer! (The end of this month. I
can't believe it is February!)
We
had an amazing experience this week with a woman named Kathy. The sisters
had dropped her off a Book of Mormon a few weeks ago, (She was a member referral,) and so we wanted
to go back with Sister Beers and follow up. This woman is about fifty years old, has
investigated every church, and was a preacher. Well we asked if she had read anything and she
said she was halfway through. We thought
she meant the Restoration packet. No...THIS WOMAN IS STARTING INTO 3 NEPHI. SAY
WHAT?!?!?! That just doesn't happen. We
asked if she thought it was true and she said yes. We asked if she thought Joseph Smith was a
prophet and she said yes. We asked if
she thought the Church was true and she said yes. We asked if she would be baptized and she
said YES! That's legitimately how it
went! Easiest lesson ever! We have been
very blessed to set quite a few baptismal dates lately -the work is truly
spreading here.
I don't have favorites,
but one of our dearest investigators is Jose. He is 24 and the wisest, most spiritual person
I have ever met. He needs to be a
missionary NOW. I really could see him
being a General Authority one day! He has been reading quite a bit in the Book
of Mormon and came to church yesterday. He and his sister have baptismal dates for
the 22nd of this month. I love them!
When
people read the Book of Mormon, they progress. It is the key to everything. My goal in life is to never skip a day. If we sincerely search it every day, I
can promise that we will be faithful and continue to grow closer to our Heavenly
Father each day. You can't help but to
read that book and feel something. I
cannot deny the testimony that I have of it. I KNOW the Book of Mormon is true. I KNOW Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. I KNOW
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the restored gospel of
Christ. And I KNOW that Jesus Christ is
my Savior and God is our loving Heavenly Father. Everything builds and grows from the Book of
Mormon.
I
love you all! Be good! Read the BOM!
Love,
Hermana Miller :)
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