Tudo bem! Eu estou muito bom porque estou feito com o CTM! Finalmente! Eu achei que e nao fui sair nunca ali haha entao..eu estou em Alabama in the Birmingham Mission but more specifically
serving in the oxford area. It has been a little
bit different then what I'm used to. It's Alabama so a lot of people
speak with a southern accent, that is a given haha I'm in a smaller town
area where there are stores and stuff, just mroe spread out and such so
yeah.
I left the MTC early Monday morning at 5am to go to Salt Lake to the airport
and it was sooo nice being out in the normal world haha I love
it! But now I have a tag and I am a missionary so i was wondering why in
Texas (at our Dallas/Fort Worth stop) people were looking at me. Maybe
because I was wearing a suit when half of everyone
else was wearing Texas Rangers jerseys, and the fact that I had the
black namtag that basically says I am a missionary haha So that was
interesting too but a lot of fun. I mostly ried to sleep on the plane.
On our flight to Birmingham, I was getting on the
plane and at the very front I see, in the first class section, someone
who looked very familiar. I turned back around to one of the other
missionaries right ebhind me and said "hey is that Kanye?" and he said
"dude I think it is!" and i took 4 or 5 more looks
as we slowly walked past those first seats to check if it was him haha
Later on we asked one of the Stuwardesses (i dont know how to spell it
haha) if the guy sitting in the front left row of the first class was
Kanye West (hip hop artist, veryyy famous!)
and she said yes! I wanted to get a picture with him soo bad..but the
two ladies right next to me decided it was naptime so they plopped in
their seats and I was trapped! I dind't get a picture (sadly) but I can
say I saw Kanye West haha it was hecka cool.
Stupid ladies..who sleeps on planes!? hahaha anyways..it was a really
cool experience.
I got my new companion here (Elder Gibson from Las
Vegas, Nevada) in Alabama and he is cool. He knows soo much about the
people in this area and he knows soo much knowledge I feel so
scripturally small compared to him, the only I have on
him is I know more portuguese haha He has already taught me soo much
after only being here for barely a day, so I think I am going to learn a
lot from him and I am kind of scared but excited for what the next week
or so holds haha We taught this family last
night (I know, my first night!) and The dad, who is a not Mormon, grew
up and lived in fremont, 15 minutes away from Pleasanton! So i thought
it was really cool to be able to connect and talk to him, I can't wait
to see and teach them again. He said he loves
the missionaries and respects us, now we just got to get him to stop
smoking haha But he was talking about areas in the Bay Area that I have
been and so it was really sweet to talk to someone from back home haha
On Sunday we had a fireside with a speaker and the
guy who spoke was Stephen B. Allen again but one thing that stuck out to
me that he said is that we are not hear by mistake, we are hear for a
reason. I can totally see how this is true
because I feel that it connected to me because I am a missionary and
sometimes I question about why i am in Alabama or why i am going where I
am going but it is all for reasons, whether it's the people I teach or
who I see or learning new things myself. I
think this is true for everyone because we are all here for a reason,
God didn't just put us down randomly, no. There is purpose behind it and
I can see it with everyone. We are here to learn, to interact, to have
the friends and family we have, all for reasons
that we do or do not see, but there are for the better. It's pretty
cool if you just step back
from the computer screen and think
about why you are here, and what your purpose is, why did you meet that
one person or why are you who you are, it's not by mistake. I really
liked this and I think everyone can get something
out of it. Eu sei que estas coisas e verdadeiro. Tchau!
Elder Miller
P.S. my new address:
Elder Spencer Miller
2320 Coleman Rd. Appt. # 101-D
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