Elder Miller

Sorry I have been the worst at writing these recently, but I need to to better so I thought I would send a little update. I am currently still in the Liberty YSA ward and I am loving it! We have the most amazing bishop ever and great members as well. I am still companions with Elder Wilstead and have been having lots of fun with him! A couple cool things that have happened recently: Coach Andy Reid spoke to our mission for the second time! It was amazing!  He is such a good man, and pretty funny! He talks about being great on and off the field and in everything we do. One thing he says that I love is "Fear nothing, attack everything" Another exciting thing has been that the covid restrictions are being lifted quite a bit. So we are able to go street contacting again! I was on a exchange this last week in KC and we were street contacting in the hood haha. It brought back some good memories to when I started my mission. Gunshots and crazy people everywhere. This week Elder Giff...

This last week was a crazy one!! First off we had a cool miracle with the Ritchel family. The mother of Wendy Ritchel passed away last week so Elder Cruz and I thought we would take them some flowers and some cookies. So we took some over to their house and when we handed the flowers to Wendy she started to cry. Apparently purple was her mother's favorite color and we happened to buy purple flowers.  She then said that they would be at church on Sunday and that would be open to meeting with us whenever. So that was awesome! Next, I found out I am going back to the Liberty YSA. I am going to be with Elder Wilstead. I am so excited he's a stud! It was sad to leave the little branch of Atchison. I met a lot of great people there, but I am really excited to be back in Liberty. 莫長老 Elder Miller

Hey everyone! The last couple weeks have been going good. We have been doing tons of Facebook work and doing some service. We have been working with this part member family. They have been so awesome, and the whole branch is helping out too. We are hoping we will be able to have them baptized soon. We also were able to play some pros basketball with some college kids this week, which was a tender mercy from the Lord to me. We also had a baptism this week! Our guy Brother Hutcherson! We have been teaching him for a while now. He used to be a member about 20ish years ago, but he left the church. Then he moved to Atchison and reached out to us and we started teaching him a little. We were able to baptize him, and it was such a cool experience to see him want to come back. He's a great guy! We also were able to do a virtual tour of the Sacred Grove. It was such a cool experience! I have been studying a lot about the restoration and Joseph Smith so that made it extra special. When they ...

  Hey everyone! Sorry I'm getting so bad at sending these. I am still out here in Atchison.  The last 2 weeks have been so cold. The typical days have been about anywhere between 5 degrees and -6. But the "Feels like" is usually about -18 to about -25 degrees, so cold! Our power went for a little bit one of the days and our apartment got pretty chilly haha. We have been reaching out to a lot of people and been trying to teach them. We were teaching these two young lady's for a while and we invited both of them to be baptized, and they accepted. But now we are not so sure, they will accept baptism super easy but don't really want to come to church. Not sure how that works haha. We had the opportunity to hear from Brother Haws a guy back in Salt Lake. He is a good friend of President Ames, and he did a Devotional for our mission this last week. He gave an amazing devotional at BYU called "Wrestling with comparisons" It is so good, I would invite you all to...

Hey everyone, the last couple weeks have been pretty good out here in Kansas. We have been reaching out to a lot of students at the college here. Sending tons of videos of what we do as well as teaching videos.  President Ames received some revelation this last week and has set our mission baptismal goal for 600. We were all surprised because of how big that number is, but we are all really excited and are motivated to work hard to see some miracles. The highlight of the week: We are teaching this guy named Reese.  He goes to Benedictine which is a catholic school. We invited him to church and he said yes, as long as we come with him to Mass. So on Saturday Elder Cruz and I joined him at Mass. It was in a huge building with a ton of college kids and then it was us. It definitely was very different, and an experience I won't forget!  Luckily in return we got Reese and one of his roommates to join us at church the next day. I've been studying a lot about Joseph Smith lately...

Hey everyone I know it has been a while I am getting really bad at sending these. Update on my mission life I am now in a little town in Kansas called Atchison. Birth place of Amelia Earhart. It is a fun little town.  There isn't a lot of things here but they do have a Catholic College here. My new companions name is Elder Cruz. He is from Las Vegas. He is awesome, he keeps me laughing and we have fun together. We are in a branch with some great members, and we go to church in a tiny multi purpose building. Definitely different then the normal big chapel's I am used to. My first sunday at Church they announced me as "Brother Wheeler" I have never heard someone mess up my name, especially that bad it was funny. As far as the work goes, we do a lot of Facebook finding and are constantly sending videos to people. We do a lot of work to the college kids here. Pretty sure the college is sick of us because we have messaged pretty much the whole school. We have had a little ...

Hey everyone, I hope everyone had a good Christmas! Things have been going good for me. Still visiting lots of missionaries which is a lot of fun!  Christmas was a lot of fun this year! Our foursome went to Texas Roadhouse for our Christmas eve dinner which was bomb of course. On Christmas day us 4 Elders choreographed a dance to "little drummer boy" by Justin Bieber that we performed in front of our zone. None of us are very good at dancing but it was fun. We watched Frozen 2 which was fun and played some games with our zone. We also had the opportunity to hear from Elder Holland on Christmas day. He did a Devotional just to our mission and it was very special. Elder Salmon and I spoke in our sacrament meeting on Sunday. Of course the week I had to speak a General Authority Seventy was there. That definitely added some nerves but I think we did alright hahah. I spoke on how we come to know and become like the Savior. I love that topic and it has been on my mind as of recentl...