Hola familia e amigos!
Como voces estao? Estou bom e tive uma normal semana haha
So this past week we had a slower week, and sometimes I honestly don't know how it can get much slower haha but we have been seeing our usual people but on Wednesday we had some teaching training from a senior couple in the mission (yes, older people can go on missions too!). The best thing we got out of that was how to use good Bible scriptures when explaining things to people and also, what i thought was most helpful, was about asking good, inspired questions. Questions that make people think and ponder and wonder about what we are sharing with them. Like "why do you think we should have this today?" or "Do you want eternal happiness?" and "why do you like what we are sharing with you?" and there are many more examples, some better haha but the point is, I have started to learn about how to ask simpler, yet more effective questions when teaching, and we have been using this more with the people we are teaching and it has been going great! Right away it invites the Spirit and a lot of the times we ask them how they feel, and they always describe these good, peaceful feelings. It's so cool to see it work with people and we can bring them closer to their Heavenly Father. Best one was when we started asking some good questions to the mom of the Panama family, and she was almost tearing up, and then she said she was just feeling really peaceful and good and she didn't really know why. It was really neat to see that in someone. We are going to see them this week as they were out of town for a wedding in their extended family.
Probably the next most exciting thing that happened (if none of this is exciting well then sorry, you are the one who subscribed to my weekly journal blogs. haha) was that we went Christmas caroling as a Branch activity. We split up into groups and drove to go visit people and sing to them and everyone we saw just lit up and smiled, one lady teared up because she said I had a voice of an angel haha just kidding, but she did tear up, not lying about that! It was really cool to go see those people, and then after we went to a member's home (who is 70, but acts like he is 30, it's really funny) and had a huggee bonfire, hot chocolate and donuts so it capped off a good night. One funny part was when we were going to go see this lady and the guy in the passenger seat said, "yeah it's just a block up the road" and there we went again...drove for 30 minutes down some back roads into Sasquatch country almost to the Georgia border...one block?!? How about 30 miles! I just kept thinking to myself as we drove further and further into the Sasquatch's traps, "I don't wanna die I don't wanna die I'm too young I can't die now..". Luckily the story ends happily as we were able to sing to her and visit, make her smile and gave her a donut, and drove off to safety.
So tomorrow we are having transfers which is where every 6 weeks they move people around, or they don't, it all depends. They give us a call in advance to let us know if we need to go the meeting or not, and if we are leaving. My companion is staying and he is getting a new missionary, fresh off the Utah press, the MTC, and then they said "Elder Miller, you're leaving". I'm like, ok, I wonder where I'll go. 30 seconds later I get a call from my mission President:
"Elder Miller?"
"Yes."
"You will be in a tri-companionship (3 of us) between Oxford (my current area) and Jacksonville (the neighboring town north of us). We will be getting some more visa missionaries and we will try to get one who will be going to your mission in Brazil so you two can do Language Study together. Pack your bags but leave them there and come down to the meeting on Tuesday."
"Oh ok will do. Wait, so how is that going to work?"
*pause* "We will talk more Tuesday..you are a good man Elder Miller. Good-bye."
"uhh ok, bye". hahaha
I always kind of smile and laugh when President talks on the phone because he is not a man of many words unless he is talking about the Bible or other church doctrine. Gotta love the guy though. So yeah, that is what would kind of be happening but, again, "we will talk more Tuesday" haha so I will see what happens but to me it looks like I will be the traveling lone wolf between two areas haha I am excited though because I will still be teaching the people here, especially the Panamanian family, so I am pretty happy for that.
Eu acho que esta semana no passado, eu apprendi mais sobre paciencia e humilidade tambem. Eu amo este tempo do ano. Precisamos ser com nossas familias e amigos e lembrar nosso Salvador Jesus Cristo. Estou feliz estar aqui para ensinar as pessoas aqui, assim que eles nao gostam de o que nos temos compartilhar haha, mas eu sei que esta igreja, este evangelho, e' verdadeiro porque eu via as bencaos que ele me dava. Tambem estou animado para ligar com minha familia este domingo! haha Nao posso esperar! Eu amos voces e obrigado por seu apoio. Tchau e Feliz Natal!
Elder Spencer Miller
the photo is of the Waffle House that I went to last week, thought it was kind of cool (p.s. this picture was taken while driving so para-bems para mim!)
Como voces estao? Estou bom e tive uma normal semana haha
So this past week we had a slower week, and sometimes I honestly don't know how it can get much slower haha but we have been seeing our usual people but on Wednesday we had some teaching training from a senior couple in the mission (yes, older people can go on missions too!). The best thing we got out of that was how to use good Bible scriptures when explaining things to people and also, what i thought was most helpful, was about asking good, inspired questions. Questions that make people think and ponder and wonder about what we are sharing with them. Like "why do you think we should have this today?" or "Do you want eternal happiness?" and "why do you like what we are sharing with you?" and there are many more examples, some better haha but the point is, I have started to learn about how to ask simpler, yet more effective questions when teaching, and we have been using this more with the people we are teaching and it has been going great! Right away it invites the Spirit and a lot of the times we ask them how they feel, and they always describe these good, peaceful feelings. It's so cool to see it work with people and we can bring them closer to their Heavenly Father. Best one was when we started asking some good questions to the mom of the Panama family, and she was almost tearing up, and then she said she was just feeling really peaceful and good and she didn't really know why. It was really neat to see that in someone. We are going to see them this week as they were out of town for a wedding in their extended family.
Probably the next most exciting thing that happened (if none of this is exciting well then sorry, you are the one who subscribed to my weekly journal blogs. haha) was that we went Christmas caroling as a Branch activity. We split up into groups and drove to go visit people and sing to them and everyone we saw just lit up and smiled, one lady teared up because she said I had a voice of an angel haha just kidding, but she did tear up, not lying about that! It was really cool to go see those people, and then after we went to a member's home (who is 70, but acts like he is 30, it's really funny) and had a huggee bonfire, hot chocolate and donuts so it capped off a good night. One funny part was when we were going to go see this lady and the guy in the passenger seat said, "yeah it's just a block up the road" and there we went again...drove for 30 minutes down some back roads into Sasquatch country almost to the Georgia border...one block?!? How about 30 miles! I just kept thinking to myself as we drove further and further into the Sasquatch's traps, "I don't wanna die I don't wanna die I'm too young I can't die now..". Luckily the story ends happily as we were able to sing to her and visit, make her smile and gave her a donut, and drove off to safety.
So tomorrow we are having transfers which is where every 6 weeks they move people around, or they don't, it all depends. They give us a call in advance to let us know if we need to go the meeting or not, and if we are leaving. My companion is staying and he is getting a new missionary, fresh off the Utah press, the MTC, and then they said "Elder Miller, you're leaving". I'm like, ok, I wonder where I'll go. 30 seconds later I get a call from my mission President:
"Elder Miller?"
"Yes."
"You will be in a tri-companionship (3 of us) between Oxford (my current area) and Jacksonville (the neighboring town north of us). We will be getting some more visa missionaries and we will try to get one who will be going to your mission in Brazil so you two can do Language Study together. Pack your bags but leave them there and come down to the meeting on Tuesday."
"Oh ok will do. Wait, so how is that going to work?"
*pause* "We will talk more Tuesday..you are a good man Elder Miller. Good-bye."
"uhh ok, bye". hahaha
I always kind of smile and laugh when President talks on the phone because he is not a man of many words unless he is talking about the Bible or other church doctrine. Gotta love the guy though. So yeah, that is what would kind of be happening but, again, "we will talk more Tuesday" haha so I will see what happens but to me it looks like I will be the traveling lone wolf between two areas haha I am excited though because I will still be teaching the people here, especially the Panamanian family, so I am pretty happy for that.
Eu acho que esta semana no passado, eu apprendi mais sobre paciencia e humilidade tambem. Eu amo este tempo do ano. Precisamos ser com nossas familias e amigos e lembrar nosso Salvador Jesus Cristo. Estou feliz estar aqui para ensinar as pessoas aqui, assim que eles nao gostam de o que nos temos compartilhar haha, mas eu sei que esta igreja, este evangelho, e' verdadeiro porque eu via as bencaos que ele me dava. Tambem estou animado para ligar com minha familia este domingo! haha Nao posso esperar! Eu amos voces e obrigado por seu apoio. Tchau e Feliz Natal!
Elder Spencer Miller
the photo is of the Waffle House that I went to last week, thought it was kind of cool (p.s. this picture was taken while driving so para-bems para mim!)
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