Hello my Florida Family!
I am very happy for you finding a home and I wish you the best as you fix it up and prepare to move into it in September. I think it is a great choice for our family. I have to admit it is so weird seeing a "Florida Home" as the place where my family will soon reside. In my mind those are the homes I was used to seeing when I was tracting in Clermont and now my family lives in one of them! :) It is a very beautiful home and it's nice that it has a pool, too. How deep is the pool? If there is room you should add a diving board (hint, hint). :)
Dad, congrats on your awesome bowling score! I appreciate your letter and your advice. To answer your question about Teacher’s quorum I think one thing that can really help you is to try to get to know each of the Teachers individually. Know their likes, their dislikes, who they are, where they are from, etc. This will show them that your relationship with them is not strictly a business relationship, but also a friendship and that you are there for them as a leader and helper. I hope that helps a little bit.
Mom, thank you for your updating my blog and making it so nice. I really enjoyed your letter, too. That will be a source of some awesome memories in the future. :)
Reece, I hope you are having a really fun summer and enjoying work as well. I enjoyed your letter and will reply soon. Tell Jeff and all of our friends that I say Hi, too. I am excited that I will have now faithfully served a year (a year on Aug. 6) and I look forward to another faithful year of service.
Remi, I enjoyed your letter as well and I am so glad that you have so many friends! We haven’t had any baptisms lately but we will continue working hard to help people come closer to Jesus Christ through baptism.
Thank you for your letters. I really enjoyed reading them and I appreciated the advice and encouragement you gave me. Dad, I especially appreciated your advice for my current calling and I will do my best to apply what you learned on your mission to what I am experiencing now. Just so you know I am going to try alternating letters to you each week (for example: I will send Reece and Remi letters next and then Mom and Dad the next week.) If I have time I will just do all of them at once but if I don’t I will send them alternating week to week. :) I love each of you and thank you for your support.
My week was stellar. We didn’t get to work in our own area as much as we wanted to due to taking care of some concerns within the zone, but we did accomplish a lot and we will continue to work hard our own area to set the example for our two districts.
So you mentioned the storms in your e-mails. I wonder if you are getting some of the same storms that we are. The storms we had this week were pretty crazy. Elder Palmer and I enjoy watching them because we never saw these kinds of storms back west. But don’t worry or anything because we are well taken care of by the mission and if a larger storm was to create any problems for the missionaries we are very prepared and know what to do. The reason I say this is because we did have some tornadoes touch down in our area, but no missionaries were involved in the damages caused and everyone is safe and sound. Just so you know. :)
Saturday was Pioneer day and the Daytona Beach Ward had a fun activity that we attended. There were a few non-members there that we had the opportunity to teach so it was a great and non-threatening missionary environment. I spoke with two young men who come to church all the time, but have not been baptized yet. We are going to try to work with the Bishop and the family to help Dillon, Jared and Jacob enter the waters of baptism, because they really want to. At pioneer day they had a really neat display of many pictures since the 1960’s of the ward members and missionaries that have helped build the church here in Daytona area. Some of those members are still here! Some fun activities they had include tug-of-war, watermelon eating contests, the stick pull, a water balloon fight for the children (we filled all the balloons), and a “Ward’s best pie” contest. Elder Palmer and I as a joke made a Key Lime Pie for the contest with a very simple yet delicious recipe and framed Elder Hulon as if he had made the pie. And guess what? It won! Ha-ha. I was surprised because there were some really delicious pies there, but apparently our pie had what it takes. :)
On last Monday we had a zone P-day that I don’t think I have told you about yet. We had root beer floats and watched Saturday’s Warrior. That was the first time I had ever seen it and it was quite entertaining. Mom and Dad, I don’t think you ever told us about Saturday’s Warrior, probably because you thought we would have just made fun of it, and you were right. But while on my mission I think silly things have become more entertaining to me and Elders Palmer and Hulon introduced me to the sound track because we work out to it every Saturday. :) So when we saw the Saturday’s Warrior DVD in a member’s home we just had to watch it for a zone p-day. It was entertaining and enjoyable but it is one of those movies you only really want to watch once, ha-ha.
Guess what Remi? We taught Raven Samone from Disney channel when we tracting yesterday! Just kidding. She is not really the Raven from “That’s So Raven” but she does look like she could be and people tell her that all the time. I guess when you have the same name as a famous person it is inevitable.
In efforts to help unify our zone, mainly the Deland district, Elder Palmer and I went ton a double exchange with the two areas that were having the most struggles and I think it helped a little. I went with the Spanish missionaries and helped them teach lessons in Spanish. At our member dinner that night I had to eat two very hot chilies (Jalapenos). One of them fresh off the vine and another that was pickled. I almost threw-up with how hot the fresh one was, but at least I can say I have tried it now. :) Overall though I think the exchange helped us show them our love (like you talked about in your letter Dad) and I hope it helps. Transfers are tomorrow and we are receiving 13 new missionaries this transfer and everyone in my apartment is staying here except for Elder Hulon who has now finished his mission and is at Disney World as we speak.
That is so weird. I still remember when I first arrived in the mission field how Elder Hulon still had one year left. And now he is gone! I wish him the best of luck in his future and I know he will go far. The new Elder coming into our apartment is Elder Bernhisel from Utah (surprise) and he is an awesome Elder. He will be the Daytona district’s district leader and Elder Palmer is very excited for him to live with us since they have served together before.
Guess what I got to do recently? We got to pick out a new mission vehicle. And this time instead of a Camaro we picked a Green 2008 SRT-10 Dodge Viper with 600 horses. Ok, so it isn’t our mission vehicle, but Brother H gave each of us a ride in it and we took lots of pictures. I will send you some soon. :) Dad, I think you will love the pictures since I am pretty sure the Dodge Viper is your favorite car. :)
The Puerto Rican family we are working with is doing well and we had two member dinners with them this week. The dinners went really well and we reviewed the Restoration and taught them the Plan of Salvation. We are going to set a marriage date with them this week and also a baptismal date. Please keep them in your prayers.
Well I love you each so much and I hope you have another awesome week. Let me know if there is anything that I can do to help you out with anything that you need. I will continue to keep you in my prayers and in my heart. Keep up the awesome missionary work that you told me about and Stay Strong!
Love, Elder Miller
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