August 11, 2014-Doral South

Guys this week! So many things!!!! SO!!! First off!! A MIRACLE!:)

So we are harvesting one day and we come across this house and it didn't have any cars in the drive way so usually if we are running kind of late we would just skip this house thinking no one is home (because no one here uses there garages for cars, its just extra stoage space, so if its not in the driveway there are usually not home) but we felt like we should just go and knock on the door anyways and this lady comes out and Sister Moffett starts telling her that we are representatives of Jesus Christ and we have come to say a prayer for her, and she starts crying and crying. At first me and Sister Moffett felt super awkward we were like oh man! we are so sorry we didn't mean to make you cry! But she lets us in to saw the prayer and she tells us what happened:)

Her and her husband had both just lost there jobs that morning and she had only been home for like 10 min. and her husband decided to go out for a bit to go look for jobs or something and she had been praying just really frustrated, telling God that she doesn't know why this is happening to her, that shes been trying so hard but that she is done believing in God and if he wants her to believe in him, he has to send her a sign because she is done, and then right at that moment, "Knock, Knock, Knock" She opens the door and its us!!!!:))))

She felt the spririt so strong during the prayer!! and she told us that she had been taught by the elders 11 years ago but that it had just not been the right time, So we go to see her the next day and we were on exchanges with some other sisters so it was me and another sister that she didn't know and this sister asks her to prayer right there with us to know if this church is true and if this is the path that God wants for her right now and she did and guess what??

She gets up (because we were kneeling) and tells us, I think I have to get baptized guys!:))))) ahh!!! crazy! It was amazing!!! She is soo awesome! she reads  the book of Mormon every night!

Then Sunday comes and we go an knock on her door to remind her of church and she tells us. Im coming to church but I need a ride. So we were like okay we got this! you are coming to church no matter what!:) So we pretty much call every sister from the ward list and one after another after another tell us that they cant!!! We were so frustrated! There were only 30 minutes till church starts and it takes 15min. to drive there!! So we say a prayer begging Heavenly Father to help us and an idea pops into our heads of someone we can call and we call them and there return missionary son answers and says Yes!!!! AHH!! Sister Moffett and I were soooo happy!!! ( I have pretty much made a promise now that the first thing I do when I get back home is go straight to the missionaries and tell them, "I will drop whatever I am doing to get your investigators to church" hahaha) So She comes to church and SHE LOVES IT!!!! She had anxiety problems and she said she felt so much peace for the first time in a long time! and she is now preparing to be baptized for next week!!!!!! We love her so much!!!! She loves the fact that we call God, Heavenly Father because she says it just sounds so much more personal. We cant believe the miracle that God has given us with her:)

anyways! This last sunday was just craziness!!! We don't have a pianist in our ward so I pretty much play every sunday, but this sunday I really wanted to sit next to our investigator, so I had to run to the piano and run back to sit with her every time I had to play a song and I had just gotten a skirt from another sister that has little bells on it and you could hear it the whole time! so embarrassing !! ahah but at least I got to sit next to our amazing investigator!:)

Then this member had been after us for her Tupperware (she feeds us every Friday) for WEEKS!! So I had finally decided that this week that we were GOING to give it to her. So we are looking for her all over the chapel and finally we see her car starting to LEAVE the parking lot out side through the window  and I just start running outside and towards her car yelling, "Hermana!! Hermana!!" hahahha I think my companion was a little startled and had to follow me! I think pretty much everyone from church saw me but I was determined! So we finally reach her car and get her to stop and we are like a block down from the church!! haha:) I think we might of scared her a little, but thankfully I was in shape because of the 1 mile that we run every morning:) (I am so proud of myself hahahaha:D) The elders came up to us later and told us, "So Sister Miles I  think we are going to have you do a training on how to give the members back there Tupperware under what ever circumstances for next district training sound good?" -_- whatever elders....

So we were harvesting once again yesterday and we run into this lady and she is super nice and we are talking to her for a good while and then she says, "I don't judge anyone, I love everyone. I would love you guys even if you were Mormons." *me and my companion look at each other* and then I say, "Well actually that's good! Because we ARE Mormons:))" hahahaha I wish you guys could have seen her face! ahha:) but she was super nice after so its all good.

Also one last embarrassing and awkward story just to finish off this super awesome week!:))

So we were harvesting (once again)  and this young girl opens the door and then we see this little 4 year old boy just running as fast as he can down the stairs and he practically runs into us and gives me a HUGE Hug!! (around my stomach because he cant reach any higher) and then he gives my companion a hug! and we were super surprised and then we were like, that's cute!! So we say a prayer with his mom! everything is going good and then the little boy comes and hugs me again and starts kissing my stomach like I am his mom or something and then his mom trys to pry him off but he wont let go!! Most awkward moment of my life hahahaha, He was acting like my child but he was not my child. Anyways all you can do in those moments is just laugh your head off:)) with your companion...in the pouring rain...with no umbrella because you forgot it in the car like always....

anyways I love you guys!!!!!

Love

Hermana Miles

P.S. Sister Moffett started driving and she was going sooooo slow!!!!! and I asked her, "So sister moffett how long have you been driving?" (Thinking it would only be a little bit) and then she says, "Five years" and then I was like ," Oh...okay, nevermind" ;)

P.S.S. Also I found out I have the same birthday day as Fidel Castro...Great...this is the perfect place to be for my birthday! Little Havana!

 

 

 

Sister Moffett wrote this for me!! so nice!! on our bathrrom mirror

a member sewing these super legit purses!!

At Javier's Baptism

 

August 4, 2014-Doral South

So guess what?? this week was soooo awesome!! So many good things happened!! Javier got baptized!!! It was so good!:) and his whole family came to support him so that was really nice!:) We are so excited to see if his family will progress and want to learn more. During the interview that Javier had to get before getting baptized we were just waiting in his home with his family and his Dad comes in with this GINORMOUS! TV!! and it was curved!! It was so fancy! The elders where there too and so were all looking at it while he was setting it up and it was so beautiful!:) All the missionaries where just in awe with this tv! hahaa and then super sad thing happened Javiers sister who is 11 came into the room crying:( She said that her bird had died! Siser Moffett and I had no idea what to do! We felt super awkward we didn't know how to comfort her so we went to go see the bird... and it was dead...and we didn't know what to do....( imean what are you supposed to do when that happens?? Start teaching the plan of salvation and explaining to her how I'm pretty sure the bird went straight to the celestial kingdom? Well I didn't think she would understand that so I just told her that the bird is probably super happy right now in heaven because he actually can fly all over now instead of being stuck in a cage) so we went back into her pink room and I started asking her all these random questions to try to get her mind of the dead bird in the back yard like "Whats your fav. color?" and "Who is your fav. Disney princess?" and pretty soon she was super happy and talkative so 1 for the win for me and sister moffett:) We officially got Javiers sister on our side. She invited us to her birthday party in 8 months so we are for sure best buds now:) Anyways:) the next big news is that MY SISTER HAD HER BABY!!:)))) He is the cutest:)) I was so excited about it all week I was like telling my companion everyday in the morning, what if my nephew was born right NOW?? haha:) I think she got tired of that one pretty soon:) but anyways:) I love you guys sorry its not that long this time but ive got pictures to make up for it:)

Love

Hermana Miles

P.S. the photo of the empty parking lot is a bunch of visitor parking spaces that are empty which is a missionaries dream!! No for reals I actually have dreams about this!!:) haha

p.s.s. sorry my camera ran out of battery I will send the other pictures next week:)

p.s.s.s. and of course the only pictures that i had enough time to send you before my camera died was a picture of a frog i found outside:) ahaha your welcome

p.s.s.s.s.s welcome to florida:)

July 28, 2014-Doral South

So!!! Guess what guys!! We got a member referral! FROM THE BISHOP!! and he is the coolest person ever!! His name is Javier and him and his family are awesome! They came to church and they loved it so much! we should be going over to see them tomorrow and we are soo excited!! Javier has been having some health problems lately and the bishop told him about the church and taught him the plan of salvation (I know our bishop is a boss!) and he loved it!! So he has been listening to the discussions and he got a priesthood blessing and he has been gettign better!!:)) We are so excited for him!!!

Eugenia had to work again this week so she couldnt come to church but we stopped by and she was so excited to see us!!! I think that you dont really value a smile at the door as much as you do when you a missionary:) haha:) but anyways her mom was there and her mom was awesome!! She asked us a bunch of questions about how the church started and about Joseph Smith and we were able to teach her and we gave Eugenia a magazine about temples with pictures of them inside and she was so excited for it she practically yanked it out of my hands. 

So this week we had interviews with President Richardson and its the first time i have ever had an interview with him and it was so good!:) We love his wife and him they are so personable!! ITs awesome!!! I walked in and he asked me to say a prayer to start off the interview and then after he asked me, "Are you a little bit nervous?" and I was like, "Yeah maybe just a little bit..."  and then he said, "Yeah I noticed when you called me President Anderson twice in the prayer and when you greeted me." oops....but anyways hahaha things are going super good here:) Sister Moffett is doing  awesome!!! President asked us to only talk spanish one day and then only speak english the next day and yesterday we spoke only in spanish. Lets just say we really didnt have anything much to say yesterday haha:) sometimes i would forget and start speaking english and then like an hour later go, "Dang it! Espanol!" haha:) 

So I asked president if I could bring my ukelele and he said no:( saddest day of my life! But its okay no big deal...

So yesterday we went to go give a random guy on the street a card and he seemed super awesome and nice at firs and then he started talking about how 4 aliens have come to the earth and how they one of them looks human and how we are all born with a third eye and how his father was born in the same village as fidel castro and other crazy out of this world (no literally out of this world) stuff it was crazy. My companion sister moffett still have a hard time understand cubans so she didnt really undersatnd anything he was saying and just nodded and smiled the whole time and i am super bad at cutting people off so we stood there and listened to him talk for like 20 min! But he said he already had a Book of Mormon and we asked him to read it that night so hopefully he will read it:)

Anyways I love you guys!!:) The Gospel is True. Heavenly Father loves each on of his children. And the mission is both the hardest and the greatest thing!:) 

Love Hermana Miles

p.s. Everytime anything crazy happened I yell, "Its an apostasy!" and then sister Moffett finally asked me after like four weeks of that, "Do you actually understand what that means?" and I was like "yeah.....kind of...I guess not...." then she said, " you probably mean abomination because i dont think that you mean that everything thats bad means that christs church has left the earth...." hahahahha oh man! I love my daughter!(In the missionary lingo terms)  

July 21, 2014-Doral South

So this week was sooo awesome!!!! I have so many people to tell you about!! So, first off Eugenia!! She is sooo awesome!! This week she sent us a bunch of texts telling us to call her so we did and she was so excited to tell us that she had just learned that the temple in Fort Lauderdale was our temple! She told us how she is always passing the temple and she is just so drawn to it and she was especially drawn to the angel moroni on top. She says that she knows that God is trying to tell her something and he sent to angels to help her out:) We love her so much!!! and We took an awesome member with us on Saturday and they are like best friends now. And she said that she went to her work and said,  I have to get sunday off next week, two mormon girls came to my house to pray for me and they invited me to church so I have to go!:) Man!:) How I love  being one of those mormon Girls;) haha:)

Next!! Sarah and Mateo!! Man they are awesome!!! One of the mother and the other is the 12 yearold son who is AWESOME!!! (I might use the word awesome a little bit too much for this post but that is the only word to describe them) Mateo has such a desire to feel the spirit and we said a prayer with them and we asked him how he felt after the prayer and he said "fresh" :) My all time favorite answer I have EVER received haha:) and also they had been taught by missionaries before and Mateo said he rememerd them and felt like he could trust them and felt like they really knew there stuff ahha:) Oh man I hope he thinks we really know our stuff:) He even waves at us when he is playing soccer with his friends which I LOVE when that happens because it means hes not embarrassed to know us which is always an awesome thing to feel ahha:) but anyways...

Next!! Maibalis! She is so awesome! she started crying during the prayer and she asked us to come back before we even said anything which is pretty awesome words for a missionary to hear:) We taught her a bout the book of Mormon and she is sooo excited to learn more!:)

We have been seeing so many miracles in this area and I know it all comes from my Heavenly Father. I am so grateful for his kindness and his love for me and for each one of his Children.

 So I was talking to one of our members (sister consuelo!! WE love her to death!! she is Nicaraguan and she is so nice and awesome!! she also is like the best member present ever) about how much i miss mexican food and then she asked me what I liked best and then wanting to sound super cool I said Menudo and then guess what she calls us a couple of days later and says, I have your menudo!:) SHE BOUGHT US MENUDO FROM A MEXICAN RESTAURANT!! MAN was I happy! I had my companion try it without telling her what it was and you should have seen her face when it went into her mouth hahahaha:) man she was a champ for swallowing it and not spitting it out:) such a proud mother (in missionary lingo that meeans mother=trainer) anyways...so yesterday we went to a members house and she has a less active living with her and they started arguing about something to do with a tv falling on sombody and cleaning under the tv or something like that and Sister Moffett and me were right between them and it was soooo awkward...We just kind of looked at each other and tried our hardest not to laugh while they continued yelling at each other(with kindness of course) ahah:) 

So Sister Moffett was telling me a story about how in the MTC(missionary training center) she always mixed up Mujer and Mejor and I was like ohh how cute!:) and then we were talking to a member and I start saying how "Dios quiere lo Muje-" And I turn to my companion and I can just see her trying her hardest not to laugh! hahaha and I was like OH NO!! So now when ever I try to use the word Mejor it just comes out Mujer, yes, every. time. Great.

So Sister Moffett and I were in an area and we were harvesting and this lady from on of the apartments that we were kind of far aways from yells out hi!! and sister moffett looks behind her and around her and sees no one and goes "...Hi...." and then she yells to sister Moffett "I love you!!!" and then Sister Moffett does the same thing, looks all around her sees no one and says back "...I love you too!..." hahahha anyways we are going to go knock on their door this week and they are getting baptzied for sure! I mean they already love the missionaries!!

Well thats all folks!! The work is hastening, I feel like I could sleep for a year and feel like dancing and singing all at the same time!

anyways...

Love Hermana Miles

P.S. A member comes up to us and hands me a botttle of hair stuff and says "here I bought this for you" I guess my hair was gettign a little bit too out of control hahaha the quote on the box says "Makes Scalp Feel Good" hahaaha Sounds good to me!

P.S.S. Sister Moffett has been getting eaten by mosquitoes!!! She had 30 bites on ONE LEG!!! 

July 14, 2014-Doral South

So I got my new companion!! she Is AWESOME!!! Her name is Sister Moffett!!! she is from clearfield Utah!!!! I was super scared at the transfer meeting and I couldnt even go and meet the new trainees so i just sat down and waited until it started and they told me who i was getting!! MAn was i nervous! and also two of my old companion (sister johnson and sister Hansen) finished there missions and went home during that transfer meeting so it was so heart wrenching to tell them goodbye! Man I love those girls! But the good thing is I willl be living close to them when I go back to school!:) But anyways My new companion is so chill! I love it!! It is exactly what i needed because sometimes I just become the worst stress ball ahha:) But anyways things are going to good with me and her!:)

Also SOFIA GOT BAPTIZED AND CONFIRMED!!!! It was an amazing experience!!! Her mom went all out for the baptism!! (I am including some pictures) and it was so cool! So many of her family and friends came!! It was a big event!! and Sofia was soooo excited:) She had the hugest smile on her face the whole time!! and when she came out of the water she had this amazing smile on her face!!! I hope I never forget that moment! so i tried to take a mental picture of it!:) but anyways Her Dad was able to baptize her so it was such a good experience for the whole family!  We all love Sofia so much!!! Anyways not much else to add sorry but I am positive me and sister moffett will have a story to tell next week:)

Love Hermana Miles

P.S. GERMANY WON THE WORLD CUP!!!

P.S.S. All the Argentinians here were so sad!

P.S.S.S. I added all the pictures of the little reception after the baptism for you Mom!! I thought you would appreciate it:) haha:)

I think i took more pictures of food than actual people....my bad...

July 8, 2014-Doral South

So!! We finally met the new mission president and We LOVE Him!!! He is sooo awesome and he is exactly what this mission needed!:) We are so excited to see how much the mission is going to progress with him!!! Also he said that our mission will be getting Ipads by the end of the year!!! Crazy!! We are all really excited for that! We feel like it will really help us our alot to have the ipads to show investigators videos and to have a map online of the members! We are excited!!!! 

So this week we have been having a Lot of rain and man! is it humid or what!!!! Sometimes I feel like i cant even take in a big breath! It just feels like im drowning a little bit inside every time we step outside but thats okay! hahha no big deal. Anyways So This week we will be baptizing Sofia!! the ten year old of a family who are members! We are so excited!!! We love her so much! She is just so excited to learn about church and she is so excited for her baptism this Sat.! The only problem is that my companion wont be there because we just got transfer calls and we just found out that she is leaving and Im staying!! oh and also IM TRAINING!!!! AHHH!!!! I cant believe it!!I I am so scared and excited and nervous all at the same time!!! We will be meeting them tomorrow so I will tell you all about my trainee next monday!

So our house has been having a bit of a cockroach problem (its bad...its really bad) and we have been spraying the house a lot trying to get rid of them and we thought we had finally won the battle but today one of the girls that we live with was walking into the house and starts screaming hysterically and we were like, "come on sister, we have all seen cockroaches a lot already you shouldnt be making that big of a deal about it..." and then all of us went to go see the cockroach and we all ran out of the house screaming!!! It was the biggest cockroach i have ever seen in my life!! None of us could face it! Finally one of the sisters got a can of spray and just started spraying in the general direction of the cockroach getting insecticide EVERYWHERE!! IT was a mess but it finally died!! (after a couple of seizures from the poison...poor thing)

Anyways  back to  missionary work :) This week we were really praying about trying to find someone that would be able to come to sacrament and we werent finding anyone. But me and sister lightheart were not to be discouraged! We continued on in faith and during sacrament this random family walks in!!!! We had to idea who they were! Turns out that they had been someone we had a said a prayer with but we did not remember them one bit!! We tried to play it off all cool just greeting them with "Hermana How are you??" hahaha but it was awsome they said that they loved church and we are going to try to meet with them some time this week! Also later on we finally remembered who they were!!! They were this family that we had prayed with TWO WEEKS AGO!! and they had said they wouldnt be able to come to church this sunday but next sunday for sure. and we were like, "yeah sure, everyone says that" BUT they actually came!!!:))) Man!! God is Good!

Well I love you guys!!!!

Love Hermana Miles

p.s. Pray for me that i dont get eaten by cockroaches....

June 30, 2014- Doral South

First off Guys guess what! WE HAVE A NEW MISSION PRESIDENT!!! haha:) We get to meet him on wednesday and we are so excited. So lately my companion and I I have really been trying to build up the ward and just trying to strengthen them and usually we get like 50 people to sacrament but the last few weeks we have been getting about 74is people!! We have been so excited. We have been working with less actives (people who dont come to church as often) and trying to help them get back to church and it has been amazing to see the miracles that are happening. I played to organ for the first time for the ward and I dont think they had ever had anyone play the organ for them because they dont have anyone that plays the piano so if they dont have a missionary that knows how to play the piano they have to play acapella... so yeah, but it was amazing!! They were singing so loud and the spirit just filled the room. and then the last hour we were all together because it was the last sunday of the month and it was amazing! this ward is really just building itself up its amazing and the spirit is here to help!:) We love this ward so much now! So lately we havent had enough miles on the car ( we only get a certain number of miles we can drive with the car each month) and we decided to start riding our bikes a little bit. So we started on this bike ride that we thought would only take fifteen minutes...it didnt take fifteen minutes...it took us 50! mintues to get where we needed to be -_-! It was horrible and I guess my companion didnt know that we shouldnt ride through huge puddles of rain water and she got this huge!!! Line of mud water down her back! I felt so bad but I couldnt stop laughing!! haha:) anyways it was disastrous!! haha:) but i guess thats the only way we learn! Anyways I am sending you some pictures in this one so its not goign to be that long:) love you!

Love 

Hermana Miles

P.S. Ill let you know how the new mission president is! the first question me and my companion are going to ask him is "can we mail our ukeles to us on the mission?? We could use it as a prosetlying tool! We could knock on peoples doors and ask them would you like us to sing you a song?"  Couldnt you imagine it!??? *knock Knock* Hello?      "Hi:) Would you like us to sing you a song?"     "Sure!"    "Give said the little stream! Give oh give! give oh give!" haha:) anways bye!