Life at the MTC

Cioa!!
hello family, this is the first opportunity i have had to write. I feel like i have so much to tell you, I miss you all so much! So i have officailly been here a week and that is just crazy to me. although at times it is stressfull and frustrating with the language, i do love it here! everyone here is so strong and has an amazing testimony of this gospel. I am so humbled to be apart of this experience. So as some of you know my companion is Anziano (elder) Gneiting. He is 18 years old and from las vegas. we decided it has to be one of the biggest age gaps in history of missionary work, but really i couldnt imagine being companions with anyone else. He is Awesome! hes super tall and into sports so we always play basketball when we go to gym. He is also just a really cool guy. I can honestly say that we are just going to be friends for life. also he is just super super talented. Fluent in spanish, self taught and really good at the piano, and an amazoing singer. I got him beat on age and basketball though, thats about it... but we have alot of fun together. we also study and work hard together so i think it really is a blessing to have him as a companion. We were both assigned to be district leader. That just means were in charge of 6 other districts, about 65 elders and sisters in all. So far we go to other meetings and have all the other people ask us for help. I am humbled to have this opportunity as a leader, and i hope i can be a suefull tool for everyone. Every day is full of so many emotions, first im tired cause i wake up at 630 and go to bed around 1030-11. Then Im stressed cause we are studying language for pretty much 8-9 hours a day. i think im doing pretty good if i step back and look how much i have learned. I can pray, bear my testimony, and other basic conversation in Italian. We have already given 5 lessons in italian.we are teaching a guy named Davide right now, we prepare hard for each lesson, but as i know and kind of expected it never goes as planned, its a good learning experience. they really push you into the deep end here, they say its like drinking water from a fire hose, but that really is a good analogy. it is just so much information to take in a relatively short time. I dont have an ear for the language yet, so keep praying for me, but i know it takes time and i just have to be patient. After we have a series of classes and study times on the computer or in our classroom there is usually some kind of devotional. so far those are my favorite part. it always pumps me up to work hard the next day. We always start with songs, and i always get goose bumps and am just filled with the spirit everytime i hear all i think 3500 people here singing. then after that there is always an amzing speaker. This coming sunday will be awesome because there will be a general authority and choir here to sing. I really do love it here at the mtc. I am just reassured over and over each day that i am supposed to be here. I know i was called by god to serve this mission, and cant wait to get to Italy and in the mission field to bring people this gospel. I pray for all my family all the time and think about you when i can. I dont want to be picky, but i miss those babies more than you adults, sorry. Im a sucker for the kids. tell them i love them all so much. and to keep praying for me, cause i know they do. This gospel is true, and this work is so neccisary and awesome!
io so che questo vangelo e vero. io so che Joseph Smith era un profeta, e perche quel, il libro Di Mormon e vero anche. io so che mediente L espiazone passiamo donare a dio. io ho a testimoniansa la questo chiesa. io so che Dio mi amo, e Dio la tutti amo. Nel Nome De Gesu Cristo, Amen.

side not i want snacks and i want drinks. oh and pictires of the babies.
Ti Amore.

Wish Ty a Happy Easter

Tomorrow is Elder Miller's first "P" day. I would define "P" but I am not sure if it represents prep day or play day? Make sure you write him and wish him a Happy Easter. It is his official first holiday away from the family so I am sure a little message would make his day.




P.S. We got a picture from his the Branch President letting my parents know "your son is doing great and adjusting well to life at the MTC> He's happy and loving it! He'll make a great missionary! Says to tell you he loves you. We're looking forward to getting to know him better while he's at the MTC for the next 6 weeks."

His email and address is to the left of this post.

Have a Happy Easter!

Elder Miller Reports to the MTC

It is official! Elder Ty Miller reported to the Missionary Training Center at 1:00pm today. Mom, Dad and Keri dropped him off at the curb where an Elder greeted Ty and took him away. Just like that...Boom! Such an emotional day for everyone.

Make sure you write and send him your love.

God Called a Missionary

And on the 8th day, God looked down on his vineyard and said, “ I need a caretaker”. So God called a Missionary.

God said, “I need somebody willing to give up all that he has and go to a foreign land, get up at dawn, pray, teach all day in the field, pray again, teach some more, eat dinner at a member’s, and stay out late determined to teach one more discussion. So God called a Missionary.

“I need somebody with a testimony strong enough to teach with boldness, yet humble enough to follow my spirit. Somebody to know the scripture’s and unfold them with power and authority, somebody who will soften the hearts of those he meets and lead them to salvation”. So God called a Missionary.

God said, “I need somebody willing to pray all day and night for a investigator, and watch them turn away. Then dry his eye and say, Lord send me another one. I need somebody who can put off the natural man, an look upon the heart, find those who I have prepared, to do what I would have him do, to be a living modern witness in word and deed of the divinity of this marvelous latter-day work”. So God called a missionary.

God said, “I need somebody with enough faith to call down the powers of heaven, yet gentle enough to comfort the heart of a grieving soul, who will stop to offer service to those need. It has to be somebody who’d walk tall and straight….Somebody to read, ponder, pray, teach and preach, heal and baptize, master his priesthood calling, and bring that one lost sheep back into the fold with his eye single to the glory of God.”

“Somebody who’d seal a family together with the simple truths of my gospel, who would smile and feel the spirit burn within, and then reply, with loving eyes, when his investigator says, “Yes, I will be baptized”. So God called a Missionary."