September
2, 2014
This
week went so fast I don't even know what to write! It's all a blur! I guess I
will start out with a cool miracle though!
Hermanas Carlson & Miller
About
a week and a half ago we went to a Greek Festival for dinner (Hermana Carlson
and I love exploring the world through food-we probably have the most exciting
meals in the entire mission. We also hit up an Italian Festival this week, and
we will be going to a German one soon! It's such a great experience because you
get to enjoy your passions and talk to a ton of people! We are gonna get a
world map and start marking off every country we have "traveled" to!)
At that festival we talked to two really nice ladies-Christiana and Nancy. We
talked to them for quite a while about the Church and didn't think much else
about it. Well that festival was put on by the Greek Orthodox Church here in
town, so this past Sunday we felt prompted to go to their service before
we went to our own. (We are trying to go and do a bunch of church swaps to try
and understand the people we meet better.) So we went! It was such a beautiful
and wonderful experience! (Especially as a Humanities nerd, being surrounded by
Byzantine art was a dream come true.) It really helped us understand the
experience our investigators go through as they experiment coming to our church
for the first time! It was a traditional liturgical service-a lot of chanting
and singing in response, about 50% Greek and 50% English. It was a lot
confusing at first, but a lady in front of us turned around to help and lo and
behold it was Christiana! She was so happy to see us! She talked to us
afterwards and was so pleased. And then they had a "linger-longer"
sort of deal and Nancy came up to us and was so excited that she started
introducing us to everyone nearby as "the Mormons!!" And then she
told them all about missionaries and what we do! Turns out she was raised in
Utah and has fond feelings towards the Church. We talked to her for about 20
minutes and she asked us for all of the Church's info out here and our info as
well, she wants to have us over for dinner! Amazing! That was a great
experience.
We
have Spanish Conference tomorrow, I
am SO excited to see everyone! All of the hermanas will be performing that song
that I wrote a few months ago when I was with Hermana Buhler. Keep tuned to see
how it goes and please pray I will get over this cold by tomorrow!
I
got to give a training today in District meeting. It was all about personal
revelation and how personal worthiness affects our prayers. Make sure you
repent daily and that you are praying sincerely. Don't live below your
privileges. If you get a chance, read the chapter in Teachings of the
Presidents: Joseph Smith book about
Prayer and personal revelation! It's beautiful!
Love
you all!
Have
a great week,
Hermana
Miller
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