Hello again, family!

Yet another weekly email has landed in your inbox. A lot has happened this week, but I’m kind of unsure about how to describe it all. As I told Mom a short while ago, I’m kinda frazzled by everything which means this email MIGHT not be completely stellar. We shall see!

First up, we had a good district meeting this week. I went in with an entirely different attitude thanks to last week’s exchange with Elder Dixon (our zone leader). I enjoyed the experience and left with a smile. I’ve never been much of a fan of meetings. I’d much rather be out working than inside a stuffy chapel.

In other news, I’ve started teaching piano to a young boy in our ward. His name is Joshua. He’s a really cute kid who’s about nine years old. His mother plays flute but doesn’t really know how to teach him to read music or play with his left hand on the keyboard. I’ve only had one lesson with Josh, but he seems like an avid learner who actually wants to play piano. I’ll obviously have to tone everything down for him and teach in short segments, but I see it as good practice for teaching kids the gospel sometime down the road of my mission. Cool, huh? I’ll keep you posted on how things progress.

We had a service opportunity with a less active lady in our ward the other day. She lives on the Indian reservation. Her wood pile was starting to get a little low, especially in the kindling department, so we offered to help her cut some pieces into smaller chunks to help her start fires more easily. It only took us an hour, but it was quite the workout because she didn’t have a chopping block for us to use. When you have to precariously balance the wood on the ground and tap it with an axe instead of wailing on it with an axe (which is what you can do when the wood is balanced and raised off the ground), things are much harder. Against all odds, however, we succeeded!

We’re still working on setting up yearly mission plans with the members of the Wells ward. We’ve only visited two members thus far, but the two we’ve talked to have spread the word and people are beginning to see that we know what we’re doing (at least to an extent). Do you all have a mission plan? What are you doing to be more spiritual and open to more missionary opportunities?

The only other news I had was that of how our investigators are progressing. Hallie and her boys are loving the Gospel and everything about the Church. They’re set to be baptized on the 22nd (in one week) and are very excited. We’re excited too! Salvador has a few concerns and is hesitant about setting a date, but we asked him to pray about January 28th and he said he would. Those are the main investigators we have now. I’ll tell you more about the area in later emails as things progress.

I love you all and am incredibly grateful to know I have you as my family for eternity. That’s an incredibly comforting thought. Enjoy your week! Life is good!

Your missionary,
Elder Millar