Miracles from inside!!!

 Hello hello everyone and happy Monday Nov 23rd!! Hope y'all are enjoying all the wonderful things life has to offer, especially the sun and fresh air!! This week my companion and I got exposed to COVID and have actually tested positive so we've been in our apartment this week! A great reminder of just how much I LOVE the sunshine and rain and wind and all the weathers the world has to offer haha. Excited to get back out there in t-5 days! 

Butttttt even though we've been inside this past week we have seen so many MIRACLES!!! I wanted to name a few of the blessings that have come from being inside!!!

1. We weren't able to get in contact with one of our older and super high-risk from Mary last weekend and we were super bummed about it! Turned out to be a HUGE blessing because if she had opened the door and let us in we might've exposed her to COVID and that would not have been good. The Lord works in mysterious ways!

2. We were actually able to do a lesson OVER THE PHONE with Mary this week!! She wasn't feeling great and if we had showed up at her door like we usually do, we probably wouldn't have been able to talk with her but because we called she let us teach her a little more about the Holy Ghost and how she can find PEACE even during this crazy time!!

3. We scheduled more lessons fri+sat than we've ever had! Although not all of them happened we were able to be prepared to help so many of God's children!

4. I was able to study Portugese everyday this week!! Miracles!!

5. Our friend Giovanni finally received permission to be baptized and will be baptized in TWO SATURDAYS!!!!!!! We were ready to wait months for this, but now it's happening before the new year and I'll be able to be here for it!!

6. Zoom church!! Most congregations for the Church of Jesus Christ offer some sort of streaming for their services now so we were able to watch church even though we couldn't go in person!

7. PRESIDENT NELSONS MESSAGE OF HOPE AND HEALING!!!! Delivered Friday WOW what a tender mercy and reminder to be grateful in all that we do!! It definitely lifted my spirits!!! <3333

8. Had a very spiritual zoom lesson with a member of our ward I'd never met. She shared some hard but amazing experiences when she relied on the Savior and how others have blessed her life and it was exactly what I needed to hear to feel the Spirit and remember why the gospel is so important to me and why I came on a mission in the first place!

9-29483901!! I can't list all the amazing things I was blessed with this unconventional week!! Life can still be so good even when it's unexpected, if the focus of your life is on Jesus Christ!!!!

I hope you all had a great week and have another wonderful week leading up to Thanksgiving!!! I encourage all of you to join President Nelson's challenge to flood social media with thankfulness for the next 7 days with the #givethanks!!! I love and miss you all so so much but I KNOW this is where the Lord needs me to be, even if it's for reasons I don't quite understand yet :) look for the tender mercies like dominoes pizza, walmart delivery, electrolyte drink mix-ins, new music, and amazing roommates/family members!!!! I love you but God loves you even more!!!

Te amo!!!

<3 sis mill

Nightly zoom district call because we all got COVID (guys don't take off your mask even if it's to play volleyball. That's how it'll get you haha)

Cute member friend ordered us dominoes when we had to cancel our lesson!

Getting to sit in the car when we got tested. The sun was shining so bright wahoo!!!!

Crumbl opened in columbia!! (pre-corona;))

LIFE IS SO GOOD

 Life is so good and being a missionary can be that because you love people and want to help them so much and all you can do if offer them the gospel BUT THE GOSPEL IS TRULY THE BEST BECAUSE IT'S ALL ABOUT JESUS CHRIST AND HE IS THE SOURCE OF ALL HAPPINESS!!!!!! I encourage you to find some small way to thank your Heavenly Father for Jesus Christ whether that's by having more meaningful prayers or writing someone a more that has helped you become closer to Christ or any other thing you see fit!! So grateful for olive garden breadsticks and unseasonably warm weather and fresh vegetables and good shoes and smiling eyes even when wearing a mask!!! I love you but God loves you even more, keep going you've got it!!!!

Te amo!!

<3sis mill

halloween and happy things!!

 hello hello my people!! i hope you all had a swell halloween day/night and were able to enjoy whatever you like to enjoy in the fall :) 

this week was wild!! i think i say that every week but it's so true!! so many things are learned and so many funny things happen, and it is truly the greatest honor to get to serve as a representative of Jesus Christ every single day as a missionary! for all of y'all that have been baptized, you are ALSO a representative of Jesus Christ, you promised that you would bear his name always so you can experience all these amazing things as well!!!

this week was so very full of tender mercies including but not limited to: revisiting an old friend, making and giving away treats, watching some stellar devotionals, walking around a lake with some sweet ladies, organizing an office, eating mexican food in a garage, using Facebook to talk to so many cool people about hiking and the gospel of Jesus Christ (two of my FAV topics ever:;)), laying peatmoss, going on a run outside, driving out to the countryside at sunset, cleaning an abandoned house, and visiting with lots of people: new and old friends!!!!! this week we also had our ward halloween party that we dropped off lots of invitation for and we actually saw some of our friends in their costumes and it was so fun!! we also had the opportunity to spend a day with another Sister missionary, Sister Sampson on Halloween and to learn lots from her which is always exciting!!

one of the things i learned this week that i wanted to share with y'all is how loved y'all are!!!!!! a scripture story that i studied this week was the woman who was caught in adultery at the end of Luke 8. she has just gone through probably the most humiliating experience of her life, and what does our Savior Jesus Christ call her? He calls her "daughter". that was such a reminder to me that i, as well as each one of you, am a child of God and are SO LOVEDDDDD!!!!!! He also says to be of good comfort, her faith hath made her whole, and to go in peace. it didn't matter what situation she had come from, Christ wanted her to be comforted and to go forward with PEACE!! our faith in Jesus Christ can bring us comfort AND peace, even in the worst of circumstances. i have also been reminded how loved each person on earth is as i have had the wonderful opportunity to become friends with people and see just a glimpse of how much they are loved by our Heavenly Father!! guys life can be hard but it is so good!!! what is one way that you are going to show your love for someone special to you this week? i encourage you to do that one thing and i promise that in return you will feel more loved yourself, not necessarily by the world but by Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ :)

sorry for all the crazy thoughts, hope y'all have a great week and see God's hand in your life through halloween sugar cookies and new laundry detergent and cute stickers and yummy soup and all the tender mercies in your lives!!!!! i love you but Heavenly Father loves you SO MUCH MORE!!!

te amoooo!!

<3 sis mill

pics in no specific order: zone conference with a bunch of other missionaries a few weeks ago, hiking!, halloween, cool yellow statue in front of the regional library, and some other ones too probably!