Transfers!!

I totally forgot to tell y'all that transfers was this week so I wouldn't be emailing until Wednesday.... oops. This week was awesome!!!!

But, first thing's first, I'm getting transferred Christiansburg.... I don't know what state that's in but that's ok! We totally spaced asking where Christiansburg even was but I'll find out tomorrow when I get there. :P My companion is going to be Sister Farnsworth. It's another Sister Training Leader area so I'm still going to be a Sister Training Leader and will see Sister Cutler at Mission Leadership Council meetings. :D Yay! It will be an interesting transition to another zone because the zone I'm in right now is tiiiiiny (like, 8 companionships total) and the zone I'm going to is laaaarge. I'm totally sad to leave Buckhannon. :'( It's awesome. I wonder what lies in Christiansburg. :)

In other news, I ate bugs this week. :D They were actually really good. The member we have in this ward from Thailand loves the locusts here because they are actually super expensive in Thailand so she loved that she could just go outside and catch as many as she wanted for free! She boiled them, fried them, and put soy sauce, salt, and pepper on them. Yum!! I had to not look at it while I ate them though because... they look like bugs.

The Ordanez family came to church again!!! Oh my goodness, adorable story: one of their sons, Angel, who is eight, saw that everyone was going up there and talking into the microphone (testimony meeting) and wanted to do it too. So our member fellowshipper brought him up there and he stood up and he was about to say something, when he froze and he couldn't think of anything to say. So he just went back to his seat. :P His dad (the less active member) was so proud though!! He was smiling so big, it was adorable. I don't know if he ever imagined his children going up to bear their testimonies in church one day.

Remember my story last week about Maria? We picked up her husband yesterday. He's the best!!! I'm so excited for them and am so sad that I won't be here for their whole process but that's ok. I love them so much!!! And we saw Maria's mom again and she was telling us about some other concerns like if she'd be with her sons again or if she wouldn't because they weren't very religious. We gave her a plan of salvation pamphlet and will hopefully see her again soon. I love her too. :)

We had Mission Leadership Council this week and Elder Perkins of the seventy was there!! It was awesome! He told us a bunch of stories about his experiences with the Prophet and Apostles, because he's with them basically every day. 

Then he taught us about how to help different kinds of missionaries that we're over and what being "bold" means. Which, I'm really glad that he explained that because everyone has been saying that we need to be bold... but not overbearing... but didn't really say much on how to do that. So now I know!! Being bold means asking someone to do something because you are confident in THEM and in the LORD. Being overbearing means asking them to do something because you're confident in YOURSELF as a missionary and are just telling them what to do. But if they see that you're confident in THEM and in their abilities to do the thing that GOD wants them to do because we are confident that it's GOD asking them to do it and that HE has provided a way for them to do it, then we can show them our love for THEM and the LORD. :) Boom.

The Elders' investigator is getting baptized tonight!!! We have invited so many people to it and I am sooooo excited. :) I love baptisms.

Aaaaaalright, letter's long enough. Love ya'll!! Have a fantastic week!!

Sister Miller

 John the Baptist ain't the only one!!!

 Sister Cutler, Me, Sister Rogers, Sister Marsh, Elder Adams, Elder Crook, Elder Hollawell, Elder Pappenfuss, Elder Wilkinson, and Elder Spinks.

We need to learn how to take funny pictures... obviously none of us know quite what to do when we're taking a "funny" picture.