Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Rubik's Cube and Yoga


Ciao Tutti!!

To be honest this last week wasn’t to eventful, but it was still a good week and I am still having a lot of fun on this Mission. The first cool thing I learned this week, and i call it a miracle, is that i can now do a Rubiks Cube! its pretty great! some missionaries use it to give an object lesson about the loss of the church and authority on the earth after Christ died, and how through Joseph smith everything was restored and we now have the Authority and Church on the earth again today. Its actually a pretty cool object lesson, but I didn’t want to learn it for that reason i just wanted to learn it cause it seemed like a cool thing to learn on the mission. So Italian and Rubiks Cube, those are the two things I’m content with learning on the mission. To prove i can do it ill try to attach a video of me doing it, i hope it works!
(The Video did not come through yet...I'm excited to see him prove it)

 The other cool part is that we will have another baptism this coming Saturday! Her name is rose and she has a really strong testimony of this gospel and the Book of Mormon. It was weird how she even came to this point of baptism. It started with the last baptism we had of the young men, Augustus and Dennis (both are still awesome by the way). But when we gave both of them the Holy Ghost Rose, the person getting baptized was there. And i had never met or seen her so i thought she was family of the boys, but she wasnt!... so we got her number but I didn’t think much of it, then I tried to call another person in our phone that week named Ruth. But I called rose by accident and didn’t know it till she picked up and I didn’t recognize the voice. So we met with her that day and she told us how and why she came to church. She said that she just woke up that morning and said I’m going here, (our church) and I don’t think she had ever been to our church before, but anyways she just decided to show up that day! so that was a cool miracle, but the next really cool part was when we gave her a Book of Mormon, we told her to start from the beginning, so she did but she said she didn’t understand it. so she closed it and decided to pray, and after she prayed she just opened the book to a random page and started reading. She opened to Alma 7, which if you don’t know is all about the atonement of Jesus Christ. It pretty much is the most important thing! But she told us that she instantly started crying and instantly understood the purpose of this book and knew of its importance! And then the next Sunday was fast Sunday and as an investigator she decided to stand up and give her testimony on the Book of Mormon! so hat the short version of her conversion story. I feel like I haven’t done much during this whole process except watch the spirit and the power of this gospel work in her life! She is a great lady with an amazing testimony. So this Saturday I will baptize her, it will be exciting for her! I’m excited.

But anyways thats my mission life for now! write me so i can know what all of you are doing, i love you all and always pray for you! the gospel is true! the Book of Mormon is true!!

Ciao! Anziano Miller
“This is our yoga activity! our ward mission leader puts it on, (this is our second yoga activity) its pretty sweet! Us missionaries tend to suck and to not take it serious like our ward mission leader.”



“this is our primary and our one young women at cultural night. we played uno”


Sunday, September 22, 2013

"Have Faith!"


Ciao Carrissimi!!!!

First the missionary life and Italian life are really great! I suggest both ways of life to everyone, you learn so much and have so much fun! So first what have I learned this week... well I learned that regardless of your abilities with faith and hard work God will provide a way! I’ve been trying to work really hard and push myself, even if my companion doesn’t want to, to at least talk to someone. I really want a new investigator! and I want them to be Italian! so I have been praying and really expecting to find someone new to teach. So as I have been working and talking I have really found a lot of interesting people but no one really interested, then this last week we received a referral from another city of a lady. so we set up an appointment, and I think it was one of the best lessons I have ever given. First she was really interested and understood everything we were saying, so that was awesome! but the cool part was she felt the spirit and she just kept talking about it, and saying this is how she know when things are good and true, when she feels like this! It was a really cool lesson, and then she wanted to know a lot about genealogy! so we gladly explained and helped her get started! Soo how does that relate to hard work, well I felt like I worked hard! and as a result God blessed my efforts with an Italian referral, so to me that’s an answer to a prayer! I didn’t find her with my physical work but I feel like it is a huge blessing from the work I put in! so yeah the gospel is true!

what else... I’ve been into gelato lately!! I eat it alot and have tried a lot of new flavors! that’s a random thing but yeah I love gelato.

Oh and we have 2 new Anziano in our branch and in our house! Anziano Lovvett from California and Anziano Warnick from Utah! Its a great change of pace to have Americans to talk to, also its a great help to our branch and to Ancona! Now we have new young mens teachers and a new teacher for the youth! I know they will be a big blessing to me but more importantly to Ancona!! 

Ok not much else! we have some baptisms coming up so pray for those investigators! Ill keep praying for you. Have faith! Trust in the answers we get! and respond!

ok ciao!

These are solos I did at the monument in Ancona! pretty sweet I know, also i don’t know if you can tell but the pants I’m wearing are really Italian haha meaning super tight!