Hello Family! Jan 19, 2010

Hello Dad, Mom, Reece, and Remi,

It was great to hear from you Dad and Remi. Mom, I hope you are enjoying your stay with Grandpa and that he is doing better. I got your letter and will send you a reply soon. Remi, thank you for your letter as well! I will reply soon. I hope you are having a great time at school. Reece, I think it is great that you were on MTV Cribs. Tell me when the episode comes on and DVR it so I can see it in August. I loved hearing that Beau was reading the Book of Mormon on camera! Dad, thank you for sharing your family home evening lesson with me. I am going to print it out and hold on to it to use for future reference. How's the house coming? It was great to see your displays and I will keep an eye out for them in the stores. I love you all!

This is a very exciting time in the FOM[Florida Orlando Mission]! I am so glad to be a missionary at this time in my life and I look forward to seeing the blessings that come from working continually to achieve the lord's battle plan (our mission goals). I love sharing the gospel! I can see how the Lord has shaped me and sculpted me over the past year and a half and it brings me joy. This week is going to be an awesome week for the Cocoa zone and for the mission! One Lord, One Faith, 100 Baptisms! GO FOM!

Saturday we had Mario C's baptism and it went really well! The service was in Spanish but I can now understand about 80% of what I call "contextual Spanish" so I understood most of the talks which were very well given. Mario was definitely "golden" and he is so happy now. I am grateful to have played a part in his step of baptism!

Lately we have really been working with the members. Dad, remember how I asked you a while back about how to seek referrals? Well we have been having a lot of success and I even used some of your suggestions in a training I recently gave. Our members in the Viera ward are awesome!! We will be teaching a member referral tonight who came to church with his friend. We also began teaching the Gonzolez family who were referred by their member friends. There are 6 in their family and they look forward to our further visits. I am excited for them!

Yesterday we had our zone p-day at the beach. Cocoa beach is very nice! I took some great pictures and I will try to send you some in another e-mail. We had a spiritual message and a prayer and then watched the sunrise. Afterwards we built sandcastles, took pictures, and played Frisbee. I look forward to going to the beach with my own family this summer! After the beach we went to Ron Jon's Surf shop, a huge surf shop just off the coast. I almost continued my tradition of getting a sweatshirt like I did at Pancho's, but their sweatshirts weren't cheap and the least expensive ones were bad quality. I'll try again next time though and see what they have.

I hope all of you have a great week! Love you!

Love,

Elder Miller