Temple Trip!!

Happy February everyone! It's almost Valentine's Day! 😘😍💑💗💓❤💝💞💍💕💜💖💞💌💟 Woot.

And the church (I don't know if it's just the stake here or if it's world-wide) is wanting to have a missionary activity on Valentine's Day. I don't know why, but why not. :) So we're having a fireside-sort-of-thing and we're going to be talking to members and doing activities about how to do member missionary work. :) So even we get to be a part of the celebration. :)

The mission has a goal of all the recent converts to go to the temple and do baptisms within 30 days of being confirmed, so we're setting up a temple trip for February 26th.📆 Several members have never been to the temple before or haven't been in several years #WestVirginiaProblems. So we hope that a lot of people (especially those who haven't been) will be able to go and will have a great time. :) I can't go #WestVirginiaMissionaryProblems but that's ok. :) We're excited!

We also got a media referral this last week! So, it's kind of funny because media referrals are when someone goes online and requests a missionary to come either to bring something like a Book of Mormon or Bible or to teach them, so they're supposedly "totally ready for the gospel." The funny thing is I've gotten three in my mission so far and all of them didn't remember requesting missionaries online. 😄 But Preach My Gospel says that Media referrals can lead to "totally ready" people in their neighborhoods so we always tract around them. :) The woman who requested us this week is a former and we've visited her a couple times. She was taught a couple years ago. We're still in the process of talking to people around her and we have one new potential so far. :)

We visited a member for dinner last week and she referred us to her mother who was totally active in the church years ago but then married a nonmember and stopped going. The member told us that her mother could use some help organizing her storage and that we could maybe meet her that way if we offered to help. Well, right before we were about to leave, the mother came by to visit her and we introduced ourselves and volunteered to help her with her storage. She was shocked that we wanted to help but seemed really excited to have us come over. We went to go help her with her storage but after a little while, my companion and I realized that the woman really just wanted someone to talk to, so we listened and talked about her and her life and the church a little bit and she looked like she felt tons better. Sometimes the best service you can do is to listen. :) 👂

Ok, that email's long enough. :) Have a fantastic week everyone!

Sister Miller

This photo was taken when the 70 guy came, like, forever ago. :) I am on the far left standing up, second row from the front. I was companions with Sister Anderson at the time, who is standing second to the right, on the same row. Sister Kirkby (first companion) is in the middle of the standing row of Sisters, and Sister Zschokke (who I didn't know at the time) is 4 Sisters from me. :D