Bye Ancona...Hello Milan

So the cool and exciting thing I want to tell you about this week is we Elder Texiera of the seventy come to our mission and do a mission tour, which meant he did like 3 or 4 conferences around the mission where the missionaries got to go and listen to him talk and teach us. It was a really cool experience! We had the biggest one here in Milan, there were about 130 missionaries which is like half the mission so it was super exciting to see everyone I haven’t seen in a while. There were a couple sisters from my district in the MTC that I had not seen since my first day in Italy so I was really excited to see them and just talk to them! But the conference was really great and really inspiring! He gave a great training on how we are set apart to be missionaries so we need to be missionaries not anything else. He compared it to this awesome Mormon message about this farmer who cut down this current bush when it was tall and healthy because it wasn’t growing any fruit. But the Gardner did it because he knew what the bush could and had the potential to be. And more important this bush was a current bush but had no fruit, so was not doing what he was supposed to. He compared that to us and how we need know who we are and what we are supposed to be. So for me that means I need to know the doctrine of Jesus Christ better! The gospel is really our message and our purpose as a missionary, I teach and preach it so I also have to learn and live it! It really inspired me to want to work harder and just be a missionary. We all have a responsibility in life, but it all depends on what we are going to do with that responsibility. I have a responsibility to teach this gospel to Italy, so I want to do that. He also said that every companionship should teach 21 lessons a week. In Ancona i could do that cause I had a lot of new converts and less actives and I knew the city well to keep me busy. So far here in Milan we have got around 6-8 a week. So me and my comp commit ourselves to strive to get it! Already this week we have 7! So we are on track to get it but it will still take a lot of work. I know that with through obedience and hard work we can do it! I love this gospel! i love this opportunity to be a missionary! I know that this work is important and am humbled to do my part! 

These are all of Elder Miller's new converts from Ancona. He is saying goodbye to them on his last day. 

If this is the "kinda bald guy" Ty tried to explain. This is the ward mission leader in Ancona, Fratello Guiglarelli. He is great!

This is a less active member Ty helped  come back in Ancona. 

This is Augustus. One of the brothers he baptized and his "favorite." They still talk a lot! 

A good friend of Ty's he met at the MTC, Anziano Osterergar. He's also from California!

Duomo in Milan

This is a statue in front of the stock market (wall street kind of) in Milan. Ty says it is "ironic"

(I hope I am getting these captions right) This is Ty in front of Big Porta in Milan

Ty and his companion at "como"??

Switzerland!

Quick Note from Elder Miller

Ciao Tutti

I think its been a while since i wrote the people who follow my blog, which is probably huge im sure! haha but if you didnt know im now living in Milano, Navigli. Navigli has one really famous pretty part that everyone knows about cause it has a canal. but really this part is know as the ghetto haha but i love it so its ok. The people in the ward are great and the people in this area are so open to the gosple and to listen i love it! Right now we are teaching two families that i have alot ot hope for. One is from the phillipines and the other is from napoli. we have baptismal dates with one of the families and we feel really solid about them but the other one we are still working for. We have good feelings about both of them. What else. last week i went to Como... It is beautiful!! like one of the prettiest places i have ever seen. and today i am in Switzerland!!! its realy really pretty also. dont worry both are in my mission so im not breaking any rules. Quick story, yesterday the president told the missionaries in milan that there was a special to buy tickets to the opera near christmas time and gave us all permission to go, but we had to go get the tickets really early. i was really excited because its at La scale which is a really famous and pretty opera house. so all the milan missionaries met at the Duomo at 630 in the morning to wait in a line, we waited for 4 hours and at the end they didnt have enough tickets for us... :( we were bummed. But we ate at a really good Panini place called Luini thats really famous! so not all was lost. We have alot fo exciting conferences and events coming up here that im excited for. Tomorrowsomeone important is coming to speak to all the missionaries, not sure who, but i will get to see alot of the people i havent seen from my district since the begining so im really excited about that. And we have a cultural activity coming up in our ward that everyone is preparing for alot. alot of cutlural dances and food so im really excited! they want the missionaries to cook turkey but noen of know how to, so if you know and easy good recipe let me know! well i love my mission! the gospel is true!! keep living the gospel! love you all 

ciao!