Love surprise photos!!
Received this photo last week with a message.."Enjoying a banana split. Miss you mom"❤😊❤
Dec. 19, 2016 Drum Rollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll !!!!
Well I guess I will start off with the good news! Drum Rollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll !!!!
Johnathan got permission from his parents to get baptized !!!!! Boom! We still need to get them to sign his form and then we will get him interviewed and we will be seeing a white Christmas! I've been dreaming of it for a while now haha. I am super excited for that and want to thank all of you for your prayers! It payed off.
The sisters in our ward had a baptism this week as well. It was really good. She had been in investigating for almost as long as Johnathan has. And she asked Elder Phillips and I to stand in the circle when she was confirmed which is always a neat experience. We also had a non-member show up to church on Sunday. We contacted him at our booth on Palomar campus and gave him a card and he showed up. I don't remember him so I don't think it was me. But he came anyways and seems pretty interested. We will start teaching him hopefully sometime this week.
So info for skyping: I have church that starts at 11:30 and we are only having sacrament. The family that is feeding us is going to be at 2. So there isn't going to be much time between that. I will probably be calling around 4 to talk to you guys. So be on skype ready for a call.
Well I guess I will talk to you on Sunday! Write down a list of questions that you want to ask so that we have stuff to talk about.
Love you!
Elder Ethan Miles
Johnathan got permission from his parents to get baptized !!!!! Boom! We still need to get them to sign his form and then we will get him interviewed and we will be seeing a white Christmas! I've been dreaming of it for a while now haha. I am super excited for that and want to thank all of you for your prayers! It payed off.
The sisters in our ward had a baptism this week as well. It was really good. She had been in investigating for almost as long as Johnathan has. And she asked Elder Phillips and I to stand in the circle when she was confirmed which is always a neat experience. We also had a non-member show up to church on Sunday. We contacted him at our booth on Palomar campus and gave him a card and he showed up. I don't remember him so I don't think it was me. But he came anyways and seems pretty interested. We will start teaching him hopefully sometime this week.
So info for skyping: I have church that starts at 11:30 and we are only having sacrament. The family that is feeding us is going to be at 2. So there isn't going to be much time between that. I will probably be calling around 4 to talk to you guys. So be on skype ready for a call.
Well I guess I will talk to you on Sunday! Write down a list of questions that you want to ask so that we have stuff to talk about.
Love you!
Elder Ethan Miles
An object lesson....??
This photo came from Brandon Hernandez from the Palomar YSA. Brother Hernandez serves as the Elders Quorum President. He said Elder Miles wanted to try on his helmet before class started....looks like a great object lesson.😊 The Priesthood can SHEILD you like a HELMET!! Brother Hernandez was very sweet to say, "Your son is a great Missionary! You raised him well"😄
Family Home Evening Festivities!!
Elder Phillips makes a mean gingerbread house!!
Elder Miles
is in complete awe!!:)
Dec 12, 2016 We'll be praying for a Christmas Miracle for Johnathan!!
Sorry I don't have any time to email this week. We have had to run a ton of errands today and still have more to run. So I will give a brief update.
Well, I am not getting transferred, which means I will be in Palomar YSA for 6 months! Just like Vista. I will have 6 months left by the time I leave which is also crazy!
On monday for FHE we went to the temple! Took some pretty cool pics there. Johnathan is going to ask his mom to be baptized for his Christmas present. Fingers are crossed!
I am doing good, just wishing we had more people to teach. I will hit my 17 month mark this week. Don't know where the time has gone. Every month gets faster and faster. And that's about it.
Glad to hear things are going well back home! Love you all!
Elder Ethan Miles
On monday for FHE we went to the temple! Took some pretty cool pics there. Johnathan is going to ask his mom to be baptized for his Christmas present. Fingers are crossed!
I am doing good, just wishing we had more people to teach. I will hit my 17 month mark this week. Don't know where the time has gone. Every month gets faster and faster. And that's about it.
Glad to hear things are going well back home! Love you all!
Elder Ethan Miles
Christmas Zone Training Meeting
😄 H A P P I N E S S 😄
This is Liam Armour. We introduced the Christmas initiative to him and then took some pics from his house.
Dec. 5, 2016 "...not just different, but BETTER..."
Man this week was a pretty good week. It was awesome to see how much of an impact the #LIGHTtheWORLD has made on social media down here. There have been a ton of non-members "liking" and "sharing" the videos and posts. We haven't got any referrals yet but hopefully they are on their way soon! So I hope you all are doing your part as well. You never know who you can impact.
We had MLC (Mission Leadership Conference) this week with President and the "First Lady", the AP's, ZL's and the STL's. It was super good. We have had a little bit of a slip in obedience over the last few months. Not just the little stuff. So we discussed what we thought might be the causes of all of it. And after like 2 hours of discussion we decided that we need to go "Back to the Basics." We have become too "relaxed" with everything. The way we talk and act. Which doesn't seem to do much, but in the long run it makes a huge difference. Think of how long it takes to build up to have a healthy body. By missing a day or two leads to weeks then months of not working out. And before you know it, you are back to the way you were before. And in our case, the people we were before our mission. Which isn't really bad. But not the way a mission should affect you. You should come out mentally and physically different. Well not just different, but BETTER. So we need to go back to the basics of the little things. So Elder Phillips and I are going to prepare a training on this for our Zone Training Meeting for this Thursday. Should be good.
The Christmas Devotional was awesome. The music was sweet! I loved President Eyring's talk. I don't have my notes, sooo I can't really remember all that he talked about. But I thought it was good.
Well, some of you asked if it was cold here in California. YES IT IS! I have calculated the temperature that I can't handle and need to put on a jacket or sweater. 65 degrees. Yes. 65 degrees is when I start shivering. When it drops below 50, I dread getting out of the warm car to go knock on doors haha. That's only happened a few times though. I don't know what I am going to do when I go home and it drops below 50 during the summer haha. We will just have to see!
Well, I gotta get running now but I love you all and will talk to you next week!
Elder Ethan Miles
Big "thumbs up" from
Elder Phillips & Elder Miles😊
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