WELL there is so much that has happened since I have been able to send off an actual email! So I will try to remember what has happened over the last two weeks.
First big thing: November 19th, 2016 I was able to meet with Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve of The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-Day Saints!!! Woah! I shook his hand! It was kind of cool. He talked about a lot of stuff. One thing that he said that most of the missions do around the world baptize just to baptize. But our mission does a really good job at baptizing converts. People are converted to the gospel before they are baptized. And that our retention rates are above average. And we are good at it because we teach repentance. We help people feel the spirit and want to change. Then he told us some things that we can work on. But it was really good.
For Thanksgiving we had two appointments for dinner. The first one was with the Marlors. He is in the bishopric. It was a little different just because there were a lot of people there and we just felt like we didn't really fit into the group. And they barely ate any food. But they wouldn't let us stop eating. Even after they were done they told us to keep eating. Even after we told them we had another dinner. And we were late to it because it took forever to get out of their house. So we show up to our next appointment, and he loads our plates with food. I maybe ate half of it. Barely. Then had to lay on the ground because my stomach hurt, haha. Then I felt like he was shoving pie down my throat. He made it himself and told us we had to finish. Then at 6 we were supposed to leave, but he again wouldn't let us leave. So we just sat there and had small talk until 7. Then we were just exhausted the rest of the night. That was my Thanksgiving experience haha. Kinda rough but I know I won't forget it!
Johnathan is still doing well. Douglas surprisingly came to church two weeks ago. But didn't come this week. Our bishop is a little hesitant for us to keep teaching him, just because he would have to be babysat if he was going to be active. And we can't set him up for failure. So we will see. We dropped Anthony. He doesn't respond to us. And we are still looking for some new people.
So Maycee will hit home with this one. Doc McStuffins, the cartoon of the black girl and she fixes her toys and pretends to be a doctor? The voice of the girl lives in one of the wards in Murrieta. She's a member..... and she's white haha, thought that was kind of funny.
Other than that, not a lot has changed.
https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2016-03-0019-being-an-agent-to-act?lang=eng
Thought this video was a good one. Worthy to share. Anyways I will talk to you all next week! SEE YA
Elder Ethan Miles
Elder Miles & Elder Phillips (photo courtesy of @nitehawk92027)
