We have a very fruitful week:) We found 5 new investigators! We taught a less active lady named Betty on Tuesday and all of her house mates joined us. All the ladies in the home have mental disabilities, like mild retardation I think. We went and taught them a lesson by playing Jenga. They loved it and usually we only see Betty but this week they all joined us! It was a really fun lesson:) They all got really loud when the Jenga would fall over. Haha. They were able to learn some basic principles about God, Jesus Christ and the Restoration of the Gospel.
When we taught Karen this week, we brought a
member of our congregation with us. It turns out that when Karen was going
through a really hard time with some deaths in the family, she had a grief
counselor.This was about 15 years ago. It turns out that the lady we
brought was her grief counselor! So they clicked right away and it helped me to
realize again that Heavenly Father loves us and He knows exactly what we need.
Karen was also able to make it to church yesterday:)
A family we had dinner with on Wednesday gave
us some extra cookies. We wanted to keep them but we knew we shouldn't keep a
plate of cookies all to ourselves and we prayed about who we should take them
to. We thought of a less active in our ward who we stopped by often but he was
never home. When we went by, he was there and he was grateful for the cookies.Wwe were able to teach him and give him a moment of peace in his stressful life.
He takes care of his wife who has really bad MS, it was a really great
experience.
I got my last set of "trunky papers"
this week. Those include a piece of paper to write down my goals, and a piece
of paper to write down my most spiritual experience on my mission. I wanted to
share with you what I put for my experience.
It was about halfway through my mission and I
had just moved from Cypess to Huntington Beach. If you don't remember, I was in
the same ward for 9 months and it was really hard to leave. When I got to my
new ward, everything was in disarray. Nothing was the way I wanted it to be.
Not only that but it is one of the more wealthy parts of the Long Beach Mission
which means that the work was very difficult. We talked to everyone on the
streets but got rejected most of the time. They would say "I have my
Lamborghini, I don't need God." haha just kidding, they never said that.
Anyways, I started to have doubts, concerns and questions. I didn't know what I
thought to be true anymore. So I did a lot of praying, studying, and soul
searching. We had only one investigator left and we went to his house for a
lesson with a member from our church. I could tell the lesson was going
downhill and that he was going to tell us that he wasn't interested and didn't
want us to come back anymore. In desperation I opened up my Book of Mormon to
the third chapter of Nephi when Jesus Christ comes and visits the Americas.
Usually as missionaries, we stop every couple versus to discuss what it is saying
but I just kept reading almost the whole chapter from beginning to finish. With
tears streaming down my face I felt in my heart at that moment that I knew the
Book of Mormon was true. I wanted so badly for him to know it too. Sadly, he
still ended up telling us that he wasn't interested. But I am grateful for that
lesson because I needed it. I needed to feel the confirmation from the Holy
Ghost which testifies of all truth. I can testify to you that I know that Book
of Mormon is true. I have gained experiences, and spiritual knowledge that
tells me this is the true church of Jesus Christ.
Well I love you guys, I hope your finding joy
in every stage of your life and I hope you are looking to good in all you do.
Love, Sister Miller
This was a picture of us and the Elders in our
ward on Halloween!
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