Nov. 17th, 2014
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I am
happy to hear that you are all doing well with FHE and family prayer! One thing
that I am grateful for in the in mission has been my excitement to read the
scriptures and have meaningful prayers. I have developed a good habit that I am
excited to use at home. It feels like after the mission I am not really going
to have too many spiritual experiences or have many opportunities to serve
others, which I love doing out here. I trust that once I am home I will be able
to see things like that if I desire to. I love the mission. I have learned so
much. Although I really feel like I am being molded and broken down and
pressured down into something else. It has been hard this past week to feel
like I have had success out here. I feel like I have been doing to same thing
these whole two years. Contacting, teach a couple lessons, lose a couple
investigators, contacting ahaha. I guess that is all apart of the work though.
I really want to feel like I was able to make a difference out here for these
people. I have made a definite difference in myself.
Fuaah,
my Spanish has been struggling lately. My tounge is getting lazy and tired from
speaking it with my comp. I have been fore focused on saying things the way
they should be and it has led to me speaking with more of a gringo accent.. I
always hope that people can understand me. I still maintain that ´theta´even
though my comp is Ecuatoriano.
This
past week was good. It rained on us a lot. My shoes are soaked every day. If I
were to know for sure if I was going to stay here longer I would have bought
some rain boots! The heaters at night do a good job of drying them off though.
We found a cool Dominican family whom I hope has some good potential. We found
them knocking doors and we set up another appointment. We come back a couple
days later and were able to teach them the Restoration and leave them with a
Book of Mormon. Junior, is name, seemed a little distracted. The spirit was
there but I hope that he was able to feel it!
The
Book of Mormon is true. I have been enjoying reading that everyday and then
sharing it with others. I am in Alma 20 por ahí and I love reading it for the
story. There is so much that goes on all at once and it is fun to figure it all
out!
Well
I hope that you have a great week! Let me know how the hot tub is working. I am
going to try and keep as dry as possible.
Love
you all!
Your
email really took me home for a minute. I had to look around me to realize that
I am in a library here in Spain, still kind of weird sometimes. Thank you so much
for your wonderful emails and support every week Mom :) They mean the most to
me. I love hearing about the day-to-day things that go on at home. Visiting
grandma and grandpa, the tree man, Jenna’s first dance! She sure has grown up a
lot! I picture the family like it is on that blanket that you gave me for my
19th birthday. I am glad that the family is doing well!
Well
this week was good. We had Zone Conference in A Coruña. It seems like I am
never going to get out of the city! haha I am going there again this week for
another intercambio. We played soccer in some icy rain for a couple hours for p-day
as the zone. Luckily I didn´t get sick or anything. Zone Conference went really
well. It is always really good to see President and his Wife. They talked to us
about listening and being representatives of Jesucristo. I was the oldest one
there along with another Elder that has the same time as I do. Weird... We
stayed in a hotel and had a delicious breakfast there. I ate a croissant with
jamón and some fresh orange juice. There was also some tarta de Santiago that I
had to have a piece of for breakfast :) We finished up conference with pizza as
usual and then we caught the train back to Santiago.
The
rest of the week was contacting. We luckily were able to get our usual amount
of lessons even though we were out of town for 2 days. We have been working on
teaching more when we stop people in the street. Lately we have been stopping
people and introducing ourselves but we only get their number or they just run away.
But we have been able to teach more lessons in the street which I actually
really like doing. It is cool to meet someone random on the street and testify
to them about the Book of Mormon. I don´t care if they look at me weird or if
they don´t really have interest, the spirit still testifies of the truth and I
hope that is what happens every time.
Thank
you for telling me about our cousin M. Josh. That inspired me to be more
grateful for this opportunity to be about here. I love how he tried really hard
to be able to serve a mission. It really touched my heart and made me realize
that I need to kick it up a notch, raise the bar. It has been hard for me to
measure if I have been having success out here on the mission. I feel like I
have been doing the same thing everyday. I have read talks about missionaries having
great success. I just hope that the Lord will tell me, “Well done my good and faithful
servant." If I can feel that by the end of my mission, I will be
satisfied.
Elder
Molina and I are getting along. He is a really hard worker. Sometimes I feel
like I am the younger companion and he is training me haha. I have really had
to push myself everyday to work hard. I never thought that that would be a
problem but I am always trying to focus harder and push aside my pride and
work. I am grateful for your prayers at home.
I
love you Mom and family! Hope that you have a great week! Loved the pictures
that you sent me. Sending pictures here in this area has been kind of tricky. I
am at a library right now, which is free to use, but the computers are pretty
slow, so I will go to another locotorio to send pictures in a little bit.
Thank
you so much for sending me a Christmas package Mom. I hope that you didn´t
spend too much to send it. I am really excited to recieve it :) Love you!
Travel
plans sound great! I am excited to discover a new city with you and Dad
:)
Que
tingui una molt bona setmana (Catalán)
Elder
Jayden Miles
