Week 4 (MTC/Beebe, AR)

Hey there's a family here that's absolutely obsessed with the blues brothers you should send my blues brothers tie so I can show it lol if u ever get the chance also were in car and my mailing address:

910 Crestwood Dr

Beebe Arkansas 72012

Do you know where my captain America Frisbee is we play Frisbee golf for p day usually so it be cool to have. How's the blog going I haven't really been good at sharing so I doubt anyone follows it. No one else really emails me, I was thinking one treat I miss is the Elsworth's rice crispy treats. Hope things are going well back home and I am sorry to hear about Dolly dog she was a good. I will miss her. Tell Grandma and Grandpa I am sorry for their loss. Hey it's going good Beebe is a really small branch that was just made in September of last year and it has an average of like 40 to 45 attendance but Beebe's kinda just a bunch of small town rednecks and a bunch of sweet and humble and down to earth people. Last week before I got here the Elders baptized a guy around 60 named Jimmy who is awesome and is literally just exact definition of the south. Right now where trying to get his 13 year old granddaughter Anna ready for baptism she agreed to want to by the end of the month, so where gonna go over some of the lessons with her this week and Jimmy is gonna start over in the Book of Mormon with her every night. Jimmy was raised a Baptist but has really seen the truth of the Book of Mormon and how it adds to the bible and knows the restoration of the church to be true. We've also been teaching Ma and Pa Bradford there grandparents of a family in our ward Brother and Sister Bradford but everyone just calls them Ma and Pa Bradford. Pa Bradford pulls up a chair and really gets excited whenever we go over to teach him it's really such a pleasure, he already goes to church every Sunday now and has already born his testimony in church. Ma Bradford is the sister of Jimmy so Pa Bradford apparently went to his baptism and has told the whole family of how he wants to get baptized which is great to hear Beebe is defiantly growing now even though it did start out as just a small break off branch. We really look forward to going and stopping by Pa and Ma Bradford tomorrow and talking to him about a Baptism date for the 15th he's been ready for so long, so where excited and he's already talked about making us squirrel and rabbit for Friday night lol so I definitely can't wait to try that !

I've had the best 2 Sundays back to back last Sunday before I left the MTC we had an awesome surprise talk devotional by Donny Osmond who told us about perseverance for our mission and told a funny story about how he had to persevere to get his song solider of love to play at Tampa by going and arm wrestling the radio host there at the time cause it was the only place that wouldn't play it when it opened at number 1 so he persevered called up the radio host there and accepted his challenge for an arm wrestling contest down in Tampa he won trough perseverance and the radio had to play is song at least once and it became the most requested number 1 song there so he said no matter what always persevere on your mission even though will here the weirdest Mormonism statements like how someone said in order for a Mormon woman to marry in the temple she has to climb and jump off the salt lake temple and make it into the salt lake lol. This past Sunday I gave the opening prayer and got to go meet with the branch president that night for a welcome to the area blessing. He's an awesome spiritual giant a really cool and fun guy that has a entire farm on his back property of where he lives so Elder Goaslind and I got to go milk a goat and try goat's milk for the very first time which I sent a video of to the family it was so much fun and entertaining lol we got to go get eggs and then feed the goats after all that the branch president President Sherwood gave me a blessing that really testified to my being here and how Lord really does listen and answer to all of our prays sometimes we may not see it but the Lord provides whenever there was a tornado warning or a so called tropical storm, there was always a loving family to take us in I'd like to share part of 1 Nephi 1:20 which stool out to me this week. "But behold I Nephi will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen because of their faith to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance."

Dinner tonight at Zaxby's here are some pictures,talk to ya next p day.

Elder Miller with President and Sister Wakolo

Elder Miller and his Trainer Elder Goaslind

Elders having to much fun as they prepare to leave the MTC