August 31st-
Howdy Family!! Well I am sure grateful to have this opportunity to read your guys emails and hear about the great experiences you are all having. First off K was confirmed and it was an awesome experience to perform that oridinance. We are working hard to gather the flock, and to help others hear the good news of the restored gospel.I am eating a lot healthier these days, I eat carrots for snacks and have totally cut out soda and ice cream. I am more into fruits, i always have a banana and yogurt and a protein bar for breakfast! I eat light mini meals. Well mom what stake president M said is 100 percent right! that is what members need to realize is that we should love one another and be like nephi support our brothers no matter who they are. I think that if you step up and set the example people will notice and our heavenly father will notice the efforts in the work of the lord.Well my new companion is elder C, he has been out for 16 months. We get along good. It has been a hot one, of course it is texas, but by the end of september things will cool down and we will have a texas winter,It has been awfully hot, be grateful for having a real winter and fall and being able to have leaves and watch football on tv. I am gonna miss BOISE state games big time! but oh well its not like they will fall off the face of the earth anytime soon. We taught C twice last week and he is solid, he has been looking for the truth for a while now. He has read all the scriptures we have assigned for him from the book of mormon. We showed him the restoration dvd that is 20 minutes long and afterwards we asked him how he felt about it. He said that he can relate to joseph smith when he was a boy looking for the truth. my heart was full with the spirit when he said that, he is a good guy and I know he will be baptized by the end of the month, because he has already taken that big leap of faith by coming to church. Everyone in the ward is really nice to him as well! Well family I hope you know that missionary work is the best thing for me to be doing, i am so blessed to have a family like you all! I love each and every one of you! Thanks for all that you do and I know that Jesus is the Christ and that the plan to return to our loving heavenly father is through him. Remember your covenants and have full faith in our savior. I testify that joseph smith was the prophet visited by the father and the son and was asked to restore the truth back to the earth. I would like to committ you my family to read all of joseph smith history once a week. Thats what i do, and I have benefited from it, please do it! We all need to be familiar with the restoration no matter how much we know of it. I love you all so much, this is the real deal and I am so blessed. Keep praying for the work! Love you all! loveyour son, brother and missionaryElder Miller
August 24th-
Howdy Family! It is great to hear from you all! I am very very happy that you had a great trip mom and dad. The baptism was really good, I will confirm him next sunday. But it was a great moment to see this great guy enter into that covenant with god. Well last week we helped one of my favorite members move into their new house down the street. We helped them 6 hours one day and 6 hours the other day. It was good because I got a great work out and they are great people. Well another good thing happend yesterday, we found a potential investigator, he just was sitting there before sacrament, his name is C, He is 31 and said he checked out LDS.org and found the building and wanted to see what our church was like. He is really nice guy, he stayed for all three blocks and the baptism! me and my new comp are gonna teach him on thursday. Man its so cool just to have someone just show up to church and want to learn more. Well Nauvoo looks awesome, I really want to go on a church history tour someday. But thats in 20 months or so! The pictures of the stadiums are just beautiful! I rode my bike past football practices by the near by high school and it brought back memories... i still get in a center stance once and a while.. Well the other day we were doing service at the thrift store and i bought a tie there, it is a awesome tie that is really sharp, i looked on the back of the tie while determining whether or not to buy it. The brand of the tie is Luis Vuitton! haha I got it for 1.50 and it is my favorite tie now and it is probably worth like 150 bucks. But moving on from that moment. I am so happy you two returned home safely from nauvoo.Well family I love my mission and I am buliding and becoming a great person. The mission is the best thing I have ever been called to do. I believe I was foreordained by god to serve a mission. Well I want you all to know that I know that I am doing a great work and that we are living in a time of greatness. We know that the lord has restored the truth through a living prophet. And that a curious young boy acted on his desire to know the truth and that he was visited by the father and the son to bring in the last great gathering. I know that jesus is the christ and he is the redeemer of all mankind. I know that he was sent by a loving heavenly father who knows us personally. I testify that the book of mormon is the word of god and that Joseph Smith was chosen to translate the plates. I bear witness that Jesus Christ did perform the atonement and did set the example for us to become like him to get to the father. I know this is true and say it in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.