Family and Friends,
How is everybody doing?! We are getting close to one of my favorite times of the year--General Conference! I’m mainly pumped because our Ward Mission Leader is having us all over to his house for Conference, Brother Hamon is the best! But this past week went pretty well, can’t really complain too much when you’re on the Lord’s Errand!
Tuesday we met Joe and Shannon. Joe is a Less-Active member and he is the son of a very popular family in the Wetumpka Ward. But he is married to Shannon who is not a member of the church. We had first heard their names after a couple days of being here in Wetumpka (so about 10 weeks ago) but didn’t have an address or phone number so they kinda just fell to the wayside. But, we got a request from a member-Joe’s father-to go and visit with them! They were happy to let us in and talk to us but they aren’t too interested in being told they need to come to church. We taught Shannon the Restoration the first time we saw them on Tuesday and she accepted the Book of Mormon and all but the interesting thing was that everything we were teaching her was new information. Missionaries have been over in the past but apparently they didn’t teach or she didn’t retain very well...but all is good and we are hopefully going to start working with them more!
Trish and Sunny are doing great still! There is a miracle I wanted to share specifically though. So, thinking back to how we first met Trish-because of the 1969 Mustang okay. We went to visit them but they weren’t home so we started back towards our apartment. There is a Highway that runs in-between our complex and Trish’s neighborhood which usually isn’t too busy so it’s easy to cross. Well this day we caught it at the wrong time because we were standing there waiting for cars and cars and more cars for probably 10 minutes solid, and that’s not an exaggeration. But, as we walked past the Dollar General there was a truck in the parking lot with it’s window rolled down and an older lady was calling us over. Trish was calling us over! She introduced us to her Daughter-in-Law and we answer a few basic questions about the Book of Mormon and the reading she was doing and set up a solid return appointment! EVERYTHING has just lined up so perfectly with us teaching Trish and Sunny it’s unbelievable to me when I actually look at it all. The Lord prepares whom he will prepare and if He has someone ready to receive His message then they are going to receive that message.
Everything all in all this week went well and “as planned” (most of the time). Saturday was a day full of service, which I love to do especially as a missionary! You meet so many good people doing service and make so many good impressions for the Church and for missionaries in the future.
There isn’t too big of updates on anyone else specifically. Aaron is still doing okay, we haven’t been able to see him for a week or so and this week is Spring Break so that’s putting a damper on things but we hope and pray he still has the desire to be baptized! There are a couple New Investigators and Potential investigators we are going to work with more this coming week. Oh, we went and saw Lisa again after a couple weeks and she's doing good-still reading the Book of Mormon! Haha! But we found out that there are 12 people who attend her church, so Elder Harris and I are trying to plan our attack on how to teach all 12 of them and have a big baptismal service for the members of the “Holy Assemblies of Jesus” church! We're also trying to do that with an even bigger church in town because we are getting a Deacon of “Tabernacle” to read the Book of Mormon! We have big plans.
One last significant thing that happened this week, I spoke on Sunday! Sister Haderlie and I were able to introduce the 2017 Wetumpka Ward Mission Plan: Act in “FAITH”! We spoke with President Ford of the Mission Presidency and at least to us it was a great Sacrament Meeting. This is where I have to add again that Brother Hamon is awesome. The Ward Mission Plan was so well put together and organized all (he would disagree) by the hand of Brother Hamon! But, I spoke about the importance and the necessity of Faith using the analogy of a 3-leg stool and Moroni 7--about faith, hope and charity. (That training about Faith, Hope and Charity was given to me as a missionary by President Ford...who I spoke with so hopefully I did okay!) I also talked a lot about the Mighty Plow Horse and how we as members are yoked with our Savior (Matt 11:28-30) which means that we still have to pull our part of the load and do our work. And not only do it, but do it willingly with all our effort. It is “Hard Labour,” but it is His Work! Anyways I’ve grown fond of speaking on my mission so that was a good experience for me and hopefully for the rest of the Ward! We think they are as excited as we were for the Plan!
- The Sisters tricked us into thinking that Sister Haderlie was going home this week.
- We’ve been offered to learn how to carve by a guy in downtown Wetumpka. He said it’ll take him 10 minutes to teach us everything he knows and we told him that it would take us a little longer to teach him all we know but we can trade!
- We did our Chalkboard Finding again...and it was freezing outside.
- A dog was following us around a neighborhood and it face planted after trying to jump up onto the curb.
- I saw a mouse run across the floor, two times, of a home while we were teaching.
- James and Anette, “Investigators” that live in our apartment complex gave me a picture of David A. Bednar that I was raving about the night before.
- We went to an appointment for one lady Sunday afternoon and ended up talking to half the neighborhood because people walked by and wanted to know what we were up to...it was an interesting lesson.
- MY BROTHER TURNED 17 YESTERDAY!
- Elder Harris and I have been laughing pretty much about everything for the past few days. I couldn’t tell you why.
I hope y’all have another great week! If I can help you with anything let me know! I love and appreciate each of you!
Much Love,
Elder Milius
PS: Also a very Happy Birthday to my Grandma Milius and my Grandpa Woods (a.k.a. Papa!) Hope y'all don't feel too old! Thanks for everything you've done for me!
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Godspeed,
ELDER MICHAEL S. MILIUS
ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM MISSION
"Behold I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I have been called of Him to declare His word among His people, that they might have everlasting life." ~3 Nephi 5:13
Excited for BASEBALL SEASON!!!
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