Elder Millar in the Best!

 Hi friends :))

I hope everyone had a very blessed Easter! I apologize sincerely for being very bad at writing emails every week. But repentence is REAL! 

So lets get into it! 

I really wanted to write this email to point out some miracles! 

1. Juan Antonio, who we started teaching in January then stopped teaching because we thought he Blocked us...CAME TO CHURCH! OUT OF THE BLUE! LIKE WE THOUGHT HE HATED US! So apparently his phone got stolen and he has just had some prerty hard times going through a divorce and dealing with the loss of His dad, while also dealing with depression. But he came to church and just told us he wants to be baptized. Like what!? We remember the first time teaching him and knowing that he would get baptized. Wow!!

2. An inactive young adult just came to church! No one had reached out, but he was in our prayers. He came all by himself, without his dad. Wow! 

3. We had Zone Conference and President Kotter talked about our divine worth, which I needed to hear. But I didnt know that I needed to hear it! And he totally changed the game on how I view myself and how to move forward from this time forth! 

4. Last Sunday Ruth also showed up to church and told us it was the true church and wants to be taught! I mean people truly are falling out of the sky!!!

5. We had a lesson with Delis and we have only taught her for a few weeks but we asked if she knew the Book of Mormon was true. And she told us she believes with all of her heart! Wow again! 

6. My wonderful mother will always be the biggest miracle in my life! My mom is my most favorite person in the world! She just brightens my life with her Christ-like Charity! If I am even half of what she is, I will be so incredibly happy!

Some....moments to say the least haha 

1. Alexy just dropped her baby on me in the middle of sacrament meeting and ran out. (If you dont know, for the protection of babies/children we can't hold them. It is also for our own personal protection because some false accusations have come out.

2. Someone saw us and asked if we were Jehovahs witnesses... in utah. 

3. We are helping some Arabic people learn English! They are teaching us about their religion and how the write and speak. It is so amazing!!!

4. I almost made Sister Henderson pee her pants because I ran faster than she did to the bathroom hahah! I also beat her in wrestling💪🏻

5. I put my hands and feet through the arm holes of my hoodie and made Hermana Martinez cry from laughter. 

6. There's an old white man in our ward named Elder Plouzek... he is basically my grandpa here and I make fun of him relentlessly. 

7. Hermana Martinez hid a fly in my bag because she knows how much I hate bugs 🤢

8. I talked to someone and accidentally called them the hijo of marisol rather than hermano and it was way more awkward then words can say 

9. Hermana Jimenez's dog died 😪

Spiritual thought: 

“Faith in the timing of God [is] to be able to say Thy timing be done, even when we do not fully understand it”

I read this quote and it struck me so deeply that the key to faith in the Lord is patience and hope. Because if we do not have those, we can not simply wait on his timing. Or hope for a better outcome. But also the word faith strikes me to my core as well. Because faith truly is a matter of action. So when we truly have faith in the lord, our patience is not simply waiting around. But acting, serving, loving, and learning. Faith in his timing, is becoming more christlike, even if we don't know if the future. We hope for a better one. This quote explains it perfectly. 

"I experience the Savior’s tender mercies. My trials may continue, but having taken upon me the yoke of Christ, I find Him sharing my yoke, making my burdens bearable, and giving me hope. I then have strength to endure. I have assurance that all will be made right, not just in eternity but also for eternity. Hope is anything but wishful. It is expectation based on experience." 

And with this patience, hope, faith, we receive peace as directed in John 14:27

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

For humans who need to wear wristwatches to know the time, who are we to dictate the timing of him who created the universe? 

Con mucho amor! 

Hermana Reynolds