God Bless Us! God Bless Us Everyone!

I hope you all had an amazing Christmas!!

Mine was awesome. :) First, we went to church and sang in the choir and heard the cute little primary sing as well. :)

Then we visited some people and then skyped our families! It was great seeing my family. :)

Then two less actives invited us over to their homes for Christmas dinner, which was great, and it really helped them too. Hopefully we'll be able to see some good progress with them.

We also received a lot of media referrals this week, which I love, and we started teaching one of them! Her name is Evalyn and she is a sweet heart. :)

The weather this week was in the 60s to 70s. :) Smiley face.

I can't think of a better time to spend my last week as a full-time missionary than during the holiday that celebrates the birth of our Savior. I know He lives and guides this work. I know He loves His children and has the perfect plan for them. He continually calls us to come unto Him and as soon as we take that step of faith, He will lead us. I know that as we continuously read His word, pray for help and guidance, repent, and renew and keep our covenants, we will have His spirit with us, which guides and changes us. I am so grateful for it.

I am so grateful for this gospel and for the opportunity I've had over the last 18 months to share it with others. It is priceless, and the things I've witnessed and learned are priceless. I know this church is true and is led by God through a prophet today.

Sister Miller

Jaelyn's Baptism!!

Hey! Guys! It's almost Christmas! What?!

And guess what. :) There's still no snow here.

This week was pretty eventful! We found two new investigators (one was a former who went to church quite a bit when she was investigating a year or so ago); we went on exchanges and I went with Sister Robinson, one of my MTC companions!; we traveled down to Logan County (the epitome of coal-minin' West Virginia) for a district meeting; and hmmmm, let's see, what else.... oh yeah! Jaelyn Chatterton got baptized! :D She was an unbaptized child or reccord. She is 11, and her mother wanted her to be baptized so we taught her. :)

So, as every missionary knows, things always go wrong when there's a baptism. Our headaches started promptly at 12:10 pm that afternoon. :) Jaelyn's Grandpa was going to baptize her, but was going to be late because of other things that went wrong, so we had to call everyone who was a part of the program and make sure that they were all ok with pushing it back. They all were, thank goodness. Then everything was going wrong with the Chatterton family so they were 20 minutes late, the person who filled the font turned on the cold water instead of the hot water (poor poor Jaelyn), there was miscommunications about who was going to print the programs so there wasn't any, and then there was no paper for the printer when we finally got some made up. :) There was a good turn out from the ward though, but unfortunately Jaelyn has social anxiety and almost didn't go into the font when it was time to be baptized!! Sister Donahoo and her mom and I were in the bathroom with her trying to calm her down, and we said a prayer with her. Then her Grandpa came up her stairs and led her down and gave her a little pep talk in the font to help her. She had to be baptized twice too, poor thing! When it was all done, her mom was crying she was so happy. :)

I know that God was so proud of her for making that covenant to follow Him, and I know that the Gift of the Holy Ghost will help her so much in her life. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that He will lead and guide us along our way. There's some stumbling blocks, and a lot of things will go wrong, but everything will work out. :)

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!

Sister Miller

I Know That My Redeemer Lives!!

This week was Zone Conference with our Mission President! Every year for Christmas for Zone Conference his little treat is we get to watch a full length film as part of it (last year was "Meet the Mormons") and this year we watched a movie about President Monson's life. I love how seriously he takes spiritual promptings. He is an excellent example of what can be done if we just do what the Lord wants us to do. So many lives can be blessed and so much joy can come from it.

The week before, our Zone Leaders called us and started out by saying, "Ok, we have a proposition for you.... just... hear us out..." :P President wanted there to be a musical number at all of the Zone Conferences so the Elders were asking us to sing at it. We sang "I Know That My Redeemer Lives."

Jaelyn is doing really well and is on track to be baptized this week! We're super excited for her. She is such a sweet heart and I hope she and her mom will work to go to the temple together after she turns 12. :)

It snowed for the first time on friday!!!! Ah!!!! I need it to hold off for another two weeks! :)

We have been working a lot more with the auxiliaries in the ward and they are becoming much more involved, which is awesome. :) Using the Christmas initiative like crazy and Sister Donahoo and I both bought ear-warming headbands. :) Brrrrr

Only two more weeks until Christmas! If you all haven't seen the Christmas initiative yet, check it out RIGHT NOW! It has a fun count down of service that you all should do!

Have an awesome week!

Sister Miller 

White Christmas!!

This week we finished the White Christmas Book of Mormon reading for our mission! It was one of the greatest experiences I've had reading the Book of Mormon. I decided to mark two things: whenever it talks about covenants/baptism/temples, and anything that could relate to missionary work. I marked way more than I thought I would!

From marking covenants/baptism/temples I found:

-the temple is mentioned way more than I thought it would be! Something I thought interesting too was that several times, when people would gather, they would gather at the temple. It was the heart of the city.

-The Book of Mormon is proof that God keeps his promises.

-God made a promise to everyone who will ever live in the promised land (the american continents) that if they would keep his commandments, He would prosper them. That promise is fulfilled over and over in the Book of Mormon, and still applies to us.

-Baptism is so important!!!!!

From marking anything that could relate to missionary work I found:

-Nephi was a master goal-setter, and he taught me a lot on how to be one myself.

-Captain Moroni taught me how to be a leader, and would have made an excellent Mission President.

-Alma the Younger was a Preach My Gospel Missionary. (I'm pretty sure that when the apostles wrote Preach My Gospel, they just read what Alma the Younger did and put it in a book.)

-Charity is crucial to this work.

-Never give up hope. If you give up hope, you're giving up on Christ. Even Moroni didn't give up hope.

-Faith is a prerequisite to miracles.No miracles could happen without faith.

-If you follow the Spirit, you will always succeed.

-The scriptures teach so much better than we do.

-And so much more!!!!

The Pulley family also invited us over to watch the Christmas Devotional. I thought it was fantastic! If you haven't seen it, go watch it right now! If you have watched it, let me know what your favorite things were!

This week was also the ward Christmas dinner. My first one on my mission! :P Last year I was transferred a couple days before the branch's dinner, and the ward I transferred into had already had theirs. :) It was fantastic. :) The ward gave us lots of leftover cake. My goodness. #cakefordays

This has just been a very Christmas-y week! I hope you all have a great one and good luck with whoever has finals!!

-Sister Miller

Thanksgiving With A General Authority!

Ok, so I didn't eat Thanksgiving with a General Authority. I'm not that cool. But I did spend almost a whole day with Elder Meurs a couple days before Thanksgiving! :D

Every year in this mission a General Authority comes and does a mission tour where he does kind of a devotional of sorts with half the mission, then the other half the next day. So I got to see a bunch of the Sisters that I've served with that are currently on this side of the mission. :) Elder Meurs is awesome and I am so glad that I got to learn from him before I went home. :) We talked a lot about finding people to teach, about rising in our might, and he really emphasized the power of prayer. He also talked a lot about how members can be involved in missionary work (which I will be applying very soon as a member :)) which I loved. He had great insights and the spirit was so strong there. He is so sweet too. He has such a soft heart and a very calm disposition about him. Plus it was fun listening to his Australian accent all day. :)

I think the main thing I got from our day with Elder Meurs was that the Lord will do His part, if we do ours. Just do your part. It really is small in comparison to what He does. But do your part with all your might. I know that that is how we show God that we want His help, and the more we work, the more He will bless us. And I know that prayer is so essential in everything we do. It says time and time again in the scriptures to pray always. Do it! All the time! Involve the Lord in everything! That is how we will be successful.

Thanksgiving was awesome too. :) We were invited over by our Bishop's family and the Wolfe family. We were sooooooo fuuuuullllll. :) Oh my goodness, the Bishop's wife makes this dessert she calls Pumpkin Love and it is the greatest thing I have ever tasted oh my goodness yummm. I am going to get the recipe from her. It is so good. :) I'm very grateful for the members' generosity to invite us over to join their families for the holidays. It was so sweet of them.

We put two more people on date for baptism this week!! We're very excited. And it hasn't snowed yet. Fingers crossed it stays in the sky until December 29th. :P

I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving and are having fun getting ready for Christmas!!

Sister Miller

Elder Meurs!

The Trio Reunites!!

THANKSGIVING!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!🦃🍽

It's crazy that this is my second one on my mission. :O It doesn't feel like it's been that long.

This week a lot of great stuff happened. :) We got a finalized date for Jaelyn's baptism so we can really make sure she's prepared for it. And she and her mother came to church! Her mother even had a migraine, bless her heart.

We also found four new investigators this week! Two of which are Millers. Obviously. The other two are great and we're really excited for them. One, Sister Green, was taught by the Elders about 5 months ago but then moved to live with her sister (and whenever someone moves out of the area, we throw the teaching record away, so there was no record of her in the area book) but then she moved back three months later! The only reason we found her was because we decided to go through the phone and make sure we knew who all the people in the contacts were. There were a few who didn't have records in the area book, she being one of them, so we called her and we got to meet with her! She has read all the way to Mosiah and went to church several times while the Elders were teaching her. She is awesome and hopefully we'll be able to help her finish her journey. :)

And Sister Smith came to church yesterday! We met with her Saturday night and were trying to help her come, but she wouldn't do it. She was too nervous and her car was in really bad shape so she wanted to wait another week. But Sunday morning she texted and said that she was coming! :O We were shocked. But she came and it was awesome. :) An 8 year old was getting baptized right after church too so she decided to stay for that and watch it. :) How inspired is that?

Funny thing too, so we have our mission coordination at our Bishop's house on Saturday mornings. Well, this last Saturday was the day of someone in the ward's wedding that was going to be happening at the church (just a small little ceremony) and the Bishop's wife was asked to be the photographer. She didn't know very much about photography though and she knew that Sister Donahoo was a professional photographer so she asked her to help her at the wedding. So we went to a wedding for lunch. :)

Whenever I think of Thanksgiving, or just being grateful in general, I think of the story in the Bible of the 10 lepers that Jesus Christ healed. Ten lepers asked Him to heal them, and He sent ten lepers to be healed. But only one came back and thanked Him for this miracle. May we all remember who gave us our blessings, and never take them for granted. May we all remember to thank Him with an attitude of worship not just this week, but every week. After all, doesn't He bless us more than once a year?

I am so grateful for the opportunity that God has given me to serve a mission on His behalf. I am grateful for all the experiences I have had and the people that I have met who have strengthened my testimony and my love for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that He is our Savior and I will never be able to thank Him enough for His Atoning Sacrifice.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!

Sister Miller

And then there was ONE TRANSFER LEFT!!

But we won't talk about that.

This week was eventful. :) I like those weeks.

Our most progressing investigator is Sister Smith and she said she can't put down the Book of Mormon. :) And she said she would try to come to church on Sunday. She's super nervous but we're going to try to bring a member to her house before so she knows someone. :) She is such a sweet heart.

One of our other progressing investigators came to church on Sunday! She is the 11 year old daughter of a less active family who are trying to come back to church and they want her to be baptized. :) We're so glad they finally came. They are wonderful and we love them to pieces.

I also went to Ashland, Kentucky this week on exchanges!! Which was super fun because I have had two companions who both were trained there. :) And now I can say that I have served in FOUR different states! 😎

Ok, and I've decided that I am going to convert every Miller in this area because there are so many people with my last name so I go and talk to them, obviously, and then they totally want to go to church! Millers are elect. :) And there's a less active family named the Millers and we're working with them too. :) It must be meant to be.

Today for P-day we went to the Marshall University campus (in the Elders area (had to get special permission :))) and took pictures with the Marshall plane crash memorial fountain that they turn off every year on the anniversary of the plane crash. They also place roses down for each person who died. That was on November 14th so the roses were still there which was cool. I'm going to have to watch the movie when I get home. :)

Have a great week everyone!!!!

Sister Miller

The Bishop's wife here works at a student housing office and she has a movie poster for the Marshall movie in her office. :) 

We went to the marshall memorial fountain and the roses were still on there from the memorial ceremony that was on the 14th. That's the day the plane crashed. They turn off the fountain and put roses on for each person who died every year. And we went to Chipotle. :)

We went by the campus today and I took what pictures I could. :) The two are of the football stadium

Share The Gospel!!

Hey Y'all!

Halloween last week was special because the people we went to go see were within walking distance so we walked around with all the little trick-or-treaters. :P Some people asked us if we wanted candy, but we didn't think it would be good because we weren't technically trick-or-treating. :) Next year I'm getting three years worth or candy though, so no worries. :)

We are still trying to meet all of the members in our area and we were able to meet with a couple less actives this week. Very very few of the less actives are less active because of a lack of a testimony, which I find interesting. Anyway, one that we met is Brother Ball and we just talked to him a little on his porch because he lived alone. We told him to read 3 Nephi 18 (about the Sacrament) and he said he would "forget to do it" so we wrote it on a sticky note and gave it to him and told him to read it before Sunday (which gave him four days). He said he would put it on his fridge so it would "tempt him and make him feel guilty for not doing it." We told him he had to do it before Sunday and wouldn't leave until he said he would. We also promised him blessings. :) He finally said he'd do it. Silly man.

We also met with the Lambert family and I love them so much. :) She is less active but knows she needs to come. They invited us to dinner and we talked about the Sabbath Day and they came to church!!! Happy day. :)

We also met with an investigator we have named Delores and she is progressing!!!!! Happy day! She read 7 chapters in the Book of Mormon and said she would get baptized if she knew it was true. :) We're excited.

I love how much being on a mission has strengthened my testimony in church, the Sacrament, and the Sabbath Day. I know they are all so important for our salvation and that we literally would not be able to do what we need to do in this life without their blessings. I know that the Sacrament cleanses and renews us each week and that it is so essential for us each week. I know that the Sabbath is a gift from God that will bless us greatly on every other day of the week. And I know that the church is the House of the Lord and that we are blessed for keeping the commandment of going and worshiping our God there.

Have a wonderful week!!!! Share the gospel with someone this week!!

Sister Miller

HALLOWEEN!!

Totally poured on us when we didn't have an umbrella. :P

Hello!

Me and Sister Donahoo!!!

All of us together with our pumpkins. :D Sister Ward, me, Sister Van Tassle, and Sister Donahoo. :D

"Mormon"

A GINORMOUS bug flew in the car and we freaked out and I had to push it out with an umbrella! It took like 10 minutes.

Stake Conference and Exchanges!!

Hey Y'all!

This week went by super fast as well and we're starting to get to know the area better. The people here are very accommodating when we tell them we're lost and ask for directions. :) Lovin the south.

We were kind of struggling with miles this week so we decided to walk a bunch. Well, one day we were walking to a neighborhood close by with a couple referrals to contact and the people we passed kept telling us to hurry so we wouldn't get wet in the rain.... but it didn't look too bad and we're not too scared of rain so we kept going. :) We contacted the two referrals and it started to rain harder, but not too bad for us to turn back because it was more like misty rain... so we kept going to contact a potential a couple houses down.... but before we got there it really started to rain so we stopped under a huge tree and it was poooouuuurrrrring down and we're were just like, "Well shoot." 😄 I was laughing a little more than Sister Donahoo was, but guess what happened! Two houses down was a less active part member family (who hadn't come to church in years) and the member had seen us walking and knew that we were going to need help so he grabbed some umbrellas and came over to us while we were under the tree. :) Then his wife (the nonmember) drove us home and we even taught her a kind of lesson on the way there. :) #sacrificebringsmiracles

We also had exchanges with the Sister Training Leaders this week! I stayed in Huntington with Sister Harrison. :) I may or may not have made her walk in the rain as well.... maybe I should stop doing that. We found a lot of potentials and got TONS of return appointments. Which makes me VERY happy. :) We should be very busy this week.

And we had Stake Conference. We went with a less active (woot) and the Stake President told everyone about a big initiative he wants to do that will help the stake be a light on a hill. President Salisbury was obviously very excited about that too. :) We could always use a little more light here. :)

Happy Fall Y'all!!!

Sister Miller

Sister Copeland Got Baptized!

Haha! So my last area's apartment never had any food and we were always eating bread and rice... (notice the empty cupboards behind them) :P So I asked Sister Willis if she was still having a hard time and she said yes so Sister Donahoo and I bought them a bunch of food and sent it to them. :)

the box was one that was already in the apartment left over from an Elder's girlfriend who has sent him a box with pictures of them together. :) #doubledintoanElder'sapartmentproblems

We are the Shepherds in the Lord's Vineyard!!

Hello!

This week was super busy, I loved it. :) We have been inviting people to learn like crazy and have received TONS of referrals. We have a couple potentials but actually getting in the door is the struggle. We'll get in one way or the other! We are completely unpacked now and have been cleaning a lot. :)

We put three people on date for baptism this week! And of them came to church and totally participated in the classes and even volunteered to help take down the trunk-or-treat later this month. :) It was so funny too because he came to church (I was laughing so hard after) and both of the talks and both of the classes talked about commandments and other doctrine that we have not taught him yet (baptisms for the dead, coffee and tea, missionary work, etc). He was like, "Wait, what?" And we explained a little but told him we would tell him more when we met with him later. :) Oh geez.

We've only gotten lost 4 times this week, so that was nice. :)

I'm loving being back in West Virginia. :) I'm so glad I'll finish my mission here.

This week in our White Christmas Book of Mormon reading we read Jacob 5 about the allegory of the olive tree. The Master of the Vineyard (Christ) took some of the natural branches from the Olive Tree and put them in different places in the vineyard to see if they would grow and bear good fruit. When they came back, they saw that the branches did bring forth good fruit. The servant then asked the Master why He chose those places to put the branches, because they were a very "poor" spot of land. I thought that was very interesting that Christ would choose to put people in a "poor spot" and expect good fruit. The Master replied "Don't counsel me" and explained that He had nourished it and it had brought forth good fruit. And then He pointed out that He had put one branch in the best spot of ground and it had brought forth only half good and half bitter fruit.

It doesn't matter your circumstances, the people around you, or the place where you live. Either way, the Lord will nourish you in the gospel sufficiently for you to bear good fruit. It is your choice whether you do or not. 

This was especially powerful to me because I remember coming out here and looking at the people around this Bible belt and thinking, "how could the gospel possibly flourish here? There are so many things against it. This feels like a poor spot of ground." But it truly doesn't matter where in the world you are serving. The Lord nourishes and digs and prunes his branches. And it CAN thrive and bear good fruit! And it does!

I know that Christ loves the people in every spot of His vineyard and there can be much good fruit no matter where you are. God loves us and knows how to help us. He is the Master of the Vineyard.

Have a wonderful fruitful week!

Sister Miller

Sister Donahoo, me, Sister Kirkby, Sister Stettler, and Overly. :)

Ma baby came in the day ma mamma went out. :)

Greetings From Huntington!!

Greetings from Huntington!

I'm back in West Virginia! I've had so many de ja vous this last week, it's nuts. :) The ward here is so sweet, I love them all to pieces. Most of them are hard of hearing, which made for a very entertaining ward council meeting. :)

My new baby's name is Sister Donahoo. :) She is from Orange County, California. She went to BYU-I for a year before coming out, and is from a really sweet family. Her twin brother is serving in Arkansas right now and she is a sweet heart. She is not shy at all, which I love. :) And she's having fun with the culture shock and jet lag. :) I'm really excited to be with her. :)

Huntington reminds me a lot of my first area, Ripley, so I'm having a lot of de ja vous moments. :) We've had to do a lot of organizing this last week because....it was needed. :) And we've been meeting so many people, I love it here.

Still getting to know the area and we've been talking to the RS President a lot. She's been super involved and I love it. This ward hasn't had Sisters in a long time so there were all of these single women coming up to us in church who were so excited because they could finally feed the missionaries. :)

I know this is the Lord's work and that He has so many plans for this area. I can't wait to see what they are. :)

Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease,

Sister Miller

Sister Donahoo and me!

I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas!!

I know, it's not even Halloween yet, but hear me out.

President Salisbury has started an initiative called "A White Christmas" for the whole mission. It entails reading the Book of Mormon in unity as a mission until December 3rd, reading 8.5 pages a day. Many other things will be added to this as Christmas gets closer, and the overall MAIN goal of the initiative is to have 28 baptisms each month for the next three months. A White Christmas is something special and rare and fun and exciting and something that we will never forget. And it's a theme of baptism-white and temple-white as well. And that's what we want to have for the next three months.

I am so grateful that I don't go home until 4 days after this initiative ends so I can be a part of all of it. :) I am so excited for all of the miracles that will be taking place.

It was really cool to be in the Mission Leadership Council over the past two transfers because I got to be a part of helping it come to life. :) I'm really excited for it.

And now, my Sister Training Leader days are over. I am being transferred to Huntington, WV. But first, I have to pick up my trainee. 🙋I'm gonna have another baby everyone!! We'll have a fun time getting lost and getting to know the area together. :)

We got a new Ward Mission Leader here in Christiansburg and I'm really excited because he has a lot of experience doing it. Sister Willis is so lucky. :) A lot of our investigators are progressing nicely and I am so excited for them to enter the waters of baptism.

I know this is the full church of Jesus Christ and that He guides our work every day. We just have to listen.

He also guides every one of you in your daily lives. He is there, and He loves you. What a glorious plan He has for each of us.

Love,

Sister Miller

Exchange with Peterstown Sisters! 

Reunited with Sister Cutler at MLC for last time. :)

Hello!!

Last Zone Meeting as Sister Training Leader. :)

Sister Van Tassle, Sister Johnson, Sister Gale, Sister Gardner, me, Sister Willis, Sister Mortensen, Sister Berger, Sister Fonua, Sister Christofferson, Sister Shoemig, Sister Rowley.

The Reward is not Usually Behind the First Door!!

Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry this email is so long. I always start emailing like, "I don't know what they heck I'm going to write about this week" and then I remember lots of stuff. So here's a summary because, let's be honest, no one wants to read this long of a letter.

Summary:

*We had a lot of people come to church and are feeling the spirit and it makes me very happy. :)

*General Women's session of Conference was awesome and everyone should watch it.

*A member made us Cafe Rio because God is good. :)

I hope you all had a great week!

Really Long Letter Version

This week was a great week for the whole zone. I love being a Sister Training Leader because I can know about how the whole zone is doing and even the whole mission. :) Sister Willis and I are getting better at planning (it is a skill Brothers and Sisters) and we are seeing rewards from diligently striving to get better at it.

This week we saw Sister Hopkins who looooves her church and her pastor. She lets us teach her because she "hasn't felt that she should say no to us yet, so we may have something that God wants her to hear." :P We taught her the Restoration and she thought it was incredible.... and the spirit told us to teach her the Word of Wisdom... which we don't usually teach so early on. Well, she did not like it. :P We told her to pray about it and read the pamphlet. We came back this last week and she said she read the pamphlet and it made a lot of sense. She also said that she thinks we're probably right because in church last Sunday her pastor actually talked about keeping our bodies as well as our spirits pure and clean by watching what we put in them. :P Loved it. Now she just needs to read and pray about the Book of Mormon.

We picked up an awesome investigator this week named Brother Waddell. It's difficult to meet with him (sigh) but he loved the Restoration and has read some of the Book of Mormon and wants to be baptized. :D

The Shepherds are doing awesome!!!! We taught tithing and they're going to try to figure out how they can pay it. And they came to church again. :) Sooooooo happpyyyyyyyyy.

We met with Sister Breeden again too and it went well. She came to church as well. :D

BROTHER DAVIS IS GOING TO THE TEMPLE ON WEDNESDAY!!! Finally!!! I'm telling ya, getting to the temple is the hardest thing ever for everyone ever. Geez louise. We are very excited for him.

And we saw our other recent convert, Brother Martin! He totally bore his testimony of the truthfulness of this church and I loved it. :) He came to church too!!!!!! It was the first time in forever! And his parents came(who are members as well) and it was such a sweet thing to see.

I have a new goal in life: I am going to bear my testimony every fast Sunday. Even if I don't go up there and bear it vocally, I'm going to write it down in my journal. But getting up there and bearing it is a great thing too. :)

We also taught Brother Angle the stop smoking workshop and before teaching anyone the workshop, they have to crush all of the cigarettes that they have in their house to show their commitment. It's a very difficult step. And Brother Angle had two brand new packs of cigarettes in his house. He crushed them all!!! Like, took out the cigarettes and broke them all in little pieces and put them in the trash can!!! I could not believe my eyes. He sat down and was like, "Ok, my blood sugar is really high right now..." :P Wish him luck everyone!!

And one of our members did the sweetest thing this week! She is from Provo (everyone in our ward is from Utah except like, two families, so it's kind of like home away from home :)) and we were talking last week about how much we missed Cafe Rio because it's sooo good and the closest one is 3 hours away. Everyone always gets it when they go to the temple in DC because there's one there. :P And she invited us over for dinner and cooked Cafe Rio for us!!! :'D I just about cried. She was like, "Everyone needs Cafe Rio!" :)

General Women's Conference was the best!!!!!!! I loved the talks, they were so helpful with what I needed. I know faith, hope, and love are crucial attributes for our lives here and in eternity. We can't afford not to have them. And I loved President Uchtdorf's talk. He's the greatest isn't he? I know that he, and all the others that speak in General Conference are chosen by God to lead His church. I know the President Monson is the prophet and that they are telling us what we need to know right now. We are so blessed to know that there is a prophet on the Earth today. Everyone needs to know this!!!

Favorite things from Conference:

God loves the people around you and helps them to improve. So should we.

Everyone is in need of the same Atonement.

We need to study essential doctrines!!!!

There are more ways to see than with our eyes.

Faith empowers us to act on God's will, trust in His will, and trust in His love.

The reward is not usually behind the first door.

Happy Fall Y'all!!

Sister Miller

Lots of Stuff!!!

Hola!

This week was actually really great for our zone. All of our numbers went up, which is super exciting. :) Progression is good.

One of our less actives, who we've been working with for several months, came to church for the first time in a long time today! She loved it. In Relief Society the presidency likes to announce if anyone is new or visiting and they asked if she was an investigator. When we told them she was a member they were all so excited that she was there. :) They love it when less actives come. :)

Sister Lamb is doing good. Having a hard time seeing her because she's super busy but we told her about prophets and she thought it was "really neat." :P We pray she'll be able to see some of General Conference.

The Shepherds are doing well too. He's doing so much better at not drinking coffee, even though it is so hard for him. We love him to pieces. They are so great. :)

And we finally saw one of our recent converts, Brother Martin! Missionaries haven't met with him in soooo long because he is soooo busy and it went really well. Every time we scheduled an appointment with him it would fall through last minute for different reasons. :( But it happened this week! :D

We also went on exchanges (surprise!) with the Bluefield Sisters. :) I was in Bluefield with Sister Mortensen which was fun because she was the Sister that was in the trio with us about a month ago.

Sister Copeland is struggling to sit at church for all three hours.... maybe we'll have to get her a pillow or something. *shrug*

We had specialized training with President this week too and it was really great. We learned a lot and it was a good boost for the week.

At church yesterday we talked about honesty, which was pretty funny because we talked about how even sneaking snacks into the movie theater was dishonest and everyone in Relief Society was like, "Oh! We're all dishonest!" Haha! :P It kind of turned into a "how much is your integrity worth?" sort of a lesson. I thought it was really great, because it can apply to any commandment. Is our integrity worth that small justification?

La vie es bien.

Sister Miller

Sister Willis and I got Minion pajamas to wear on exchanges. :) Aren't we adorable?

Sister Willis loves taking selfies at random moments. :) So here's a picture of us getting gas and texting members. :)

Exchanges! Sister Mortensen, Sister Berger, Sister Willis, me. :) I'm really not that tall, everyone else is just super short...

our little dvd player is broken and when we were watching the district it froze while this Elder was talking. :) You're welcome world.

Sister Willis and I on our 15 month click day and freaking out because we've been out for fifteen months.

Busy!!

This week was certainly eventful. :) We had Sister Willis's first MLC and Zone Meeting with exchanges right after. Stressed her out just a little bit. :P But everything went well. :) The Sister we went on exchanges with are in a walking area so Sister Willis had to walk all day. :) Nyehehe. The Sister that came here loved having a car for a day. :)

We also gave talks yesterday. :) Mine was on replacing bad habits with good habits and Sister Willis's was on forgiveness. The Shepherds came again and Brother Shepherd joked and said, "I come in and Sister Miller gets up there and starts talking about me!" :P He talked with the Bishop too about getting the priesthood and he really wants it!!! :D The Bishop is going to work really closely with him (fist pump). And we are soooo excited. :)

We picked up Sister Webb's husband! Yes!!! Families are forever!!!

Another cool spiritual tidbit on the Sabbath*:

We were talking about it in Gospel Principles class and the teacher made a comment (don't know if completely doctrine but it's a fun thought) that God probably didn't need to rest the seventh day. He was probably setting for us an example of what we needed to do. Like baptism. He didn't need to be baptized but he was setting the example for us.

Anyway, I liked that thought.

*I don't know why I'm so obsessed with the Sabbath lately. I just love it so much. :)

Have an awesome week everyone!!

Sister Miller

MTC companions reunite at MLC!! Wahoo!!

Good-bye picture with Sister Farnsworth

Sabbath Selfie!

This is my Mission President throwing fruit snacks at us during our break at MLC. :) He's silly. :)