Reece, don't worry about the snowboarding; you will go snowboarding with me in winter of next year, ok? :) And you will get used the bugs and humidity too so don't worry about that either. Actually most of the year here in Florida is very nice! You just happened to come in the worst part of summer.
Remi, I was very surprised to hear that you are Dad's new home teaching companion! I am very happy for you in your new responsibilities and opportunities that will come through serving as Dad's home teaching companion. I am glad that you have made new friends as well. Keep up the great work. I love you, Remi.
Dad, how is everything going at work? (Same old same old I’d imagine.) :) I am so happy to hear that you and our family are taking advantage of the missionary opportunities all around you. Just remember that our responsibility as members of the restored gospel is to, "Invite others to come unto Christ…." All we can do is invite and encourage because of the wonderful gift of agency that we each have. Keep up the awesome missionary work!
Mom, I will keep praying for you and the family for help in finding a new home. I know that Heavenly Father is mindful of your situation and that he will help you as you pray for that help. I learned through personal experiences this week, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." As you pray with faith you will be blessed with strength and comfort in your trials. Your trial is not necessarily taken away from you but you will receive divine help to strengthen you in the challenges you have. I promise you that with a missionary promise. :) By the way I sent my new address in the email before I left Kissimmee (three weeks ago) and hopefully you have been saving the emails because I can't save them because of my lack of a computer to save them to and they will be fun memories (almost like a journal on the computer) and one day I hope to print them all out to have a hard copy journal of all these memories. Plus they usually contain important information like addresses to save. But just in case the office didn’t give you the right address here is my address for Daytona Beach:
[Mom editied that out for safety reasons, and because it is temporary and you never know when he’ll be transferred. If you want to send Elder Miller a package – e-mail me and I’ll give you his current address!]
And with letters (packages will just sit there till the next zone conference or meeting) you can always send them to the mission office and they will get to me even during a transfer when I am moving. Here is the mission address: Elder Ryan J.J. Miller Florida Orlando Mission10502 Satellite Boulevard Suite E, Orlando, Florida 32837-8426 I hope that helps and that you are able to still send the package you have been working on. (I’m excited for it.) :)I actually haven’t received any mail since I have been in Daytona but that’s ok.
[No, it’s not okay! :-( And he just hadn’t got our latest bunch of letters, yet!] No, wait, actually I did receive a card when I first got here from the Palmers in Visalia. That was very kind of them. :) Elder Palmer (no relation to the Palmers from his knowledge) and I were talking about it and after you have been out as long as we have your mail flow slows down, which is fine because at this point we are more seasoned and rely more on the strength of spiritual experiences rather than the support of mail. I am really grateful for the support and strength that you each give me because it means a lot to me and I love you so much. So how was your 4th of July? I am curious to know what you did as a family for the weekend. I had a great 4th of July. There were lots of people to talk to because everyone was outside BBQin’ and everyone was here for the Daytona Coca-Cola 400 race. Did you watch that race at all on TV? If you did and the camera ever zoomed out you probably could see us driving or our apartment because of how close we live to the Daytona speedway. We worked hard during our proselyting hours until dark and then President Darrington gave our zones permission to watch the fire works and be in by 10:00pm. It was a lot of fun and the fireworks were spectacular! I took some great pictures that you will be receiving in the next couple of weeks. I want to share with you some spiritual experiences that we have had this week: Zone Conference was a spiritual feast! I learned a ton and we mainly focused on working with members. I want to send you a cool pamphlet we found in the church about doing missionary work as members. I’ll send it this week probably. Please continue to do missionary work and give the Elders in your ward referrals so that the work can progress. Daytona ward as a whole is really struggling with missionary work and home teaching and we are doing our best to help change that. For Wednesday’s conference I was actually asked to conduct the meeting for my first time. (They always ask one of the zone leaders to conduct zone conference.) I really enjoyed it even though I was nervous at first. Another experience I had this week involved teaching an investigator we call Sister T. She is a nice lady who has a lot of faith. She really enjoyed hearing Joseph Smith’s first vision experience and I could see in her eyes that she felt the spirit. I look forward to meeting with her again.Well, I will tell you more about the work here in my letters. Today is my 11-month mark, wow! I can’t believe how fast it is going by. I love you lots and I look forward to hearing from you later.
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