Monday, March 6, 2017

6 March 2017 - Elder Milius Week 36

Hello Loved Ones!

This week has started off kind of like last week ended but it eventually made it’s way to great things and the Lord is definitely blessing us here in the mission field! 
Aaron is doing great things! He was the young man who came to church last month and bore his testimony. We started teaching him and he’s loving it and the Spirit is just amazing. He is so ready for baptism and we are looking forward to April 8th!! If all goes well he will be baptized by his friend Cayden on that Saturday! The biggest hold up and concern he has is bringing it up to his family. They come from a Catholic household and he’s a bit nervous to bring it up. BUT this Sunday he also got up again to bear his testimony on obstacles and how Heavenly Father can help us accomplish things that we don’t think we can do ourselves-basically the enabling power of the Atonement (and he told an awesome story of his past track meet and how God helped him finish his race as well as run a successful race on short notice for one of his friends who hurt his hamstring earlier in the meet). He’s ready, that’s all I really have to say and this week we are hoping to help him bring up the gospel to his parents which we are praying turns out well! 
Another individual we met this past week we actually met last night. We decided to knock on Trish’s door because Elder Harris and I were having an argument about what year this mustang sitting in her front yard was. He said “Well if you really want to know why don’t you go ask?” So I did! And because I was persistent in finding out the answer we knocked three times instead of two and she finally came and answered the door. We then sat down outside on the porch for TWO HOURS as she told us basically her entire life story! Her daughter is a member of the church, Heather, and she was baptized a couple years ago. Heather has been going through some rough times and she has been discussed in Ward Council the past couple weeks and so we just kicked if off and Trish told us about how she was curious about the Book of Mormon, how her and her husband are searching for a new church because the new preacher at their church said things they don’t agree with (and she told us some of those things coupled with her beliefs and was literally explaining to us what our Doctrines are). Also she called us like five minutes ago and had some questions about the Book of Mormon...she’s loving it and eating it all up and we can’t wait to just share with her everything else because she is going to agree to all of it!! By the way this all happened because we decided to walk a totally random way home through the neighborhood because we wanted to avoid this big huge block party where we felt we didn’t need to be--little did we know it wasn’t that we didn’t need to be there but we needed to be somewhere else, like Trish’s home. Crazy story! That’s Trish and that’s why I opened up the email this week made its way to great things and the Lord is blessing us! 
Some other little things you’ll be interested (maybe) to know. We play basketball on Tuesday nights with some of the Youth, some of the YSA, and their friends. It’s becoming a real big success and we are getting more and more people to show up each week and different people coming as well. We were able to teach the Priest about “A Day in the Life of a Missionary” on Wednesday at mutual and that was fun for me to see the differences and really examine how my life improved because of the things I’m doing now like studying for an hour personally a day, not having TV or Internet as a distraction from the work-it’s pretty cool I think. We met a girl named Crissy this week as well tracting out a trailer park that a Prospective Elder address brought us to. She seemed interested in the Book of Mormon and we are hoping to get back to visit with her and her family. We went to a giant Flea Market that happens every first Saturday each month in just North of Wetumpka and we talked to a lot of awesome people there. I think I’ve mentioned before that we do service at the Food Pantry here in Wetumpka and the people there are just amazing! I love working over there because the volunteers are great, and the people whom we are helping are even better to interact with! And with our OHANA theme, our focus on families, we’ve been very blessed to find families. Even though our two focus families feel through on appointments Friday evening, we are still looking forward to trying to work with them and bring them all closer to having an Eternal Family. 
I’m so blessed to have My Eternal Family. They have helped me get to the point where I am today and I will continue to grow and become better because of their influence and examples! This week I hope you all take the opportunity to thank each member of your family for your Ohana. They are going to be with you forever, throughout the ups and downs of this life and beyond. Keep looking for the ways God blesses you and make it a good week!

  • We got a pet fish for our Zone. His name is Stitch to represent our theme.
  • We were given a note that told us not to come back with our Book of Mormon back...naturally we wrote another note and left the Book. 

Much Love,
Elder Milius

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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


 "We were given a note that told us not to come back with our 
Book of Mormon...naturally we wrote another note and left the book.




Happy Birthday Elder Milius


Elder Milius with his Zone

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