Challenging week

This might get the record for the shortest blog post ever.

I have had a stomach bug most of the week.

I learned that the ceiling of our apartment has a lot of funny shapes.

My companion and I have watched The Testaments. A lot.

I am ready to eat something other than saltines and toast.

This is about all.

Keep being awesome everyone.

Love,

Hermana Miller

New Companion

Happy Transfer Week Everyone!

I suppose before the suspense kills you all, I should tell you what is

happening.

I am staying! I am so excited about that. (As long as I don't sweat to

death.) However, Hermana Martin is leaving me. She is going to Oxnard,

and I am getting a new companion, Hermana Hardy. She trained Hermana

Martin, and was companions with Hermana Ah Mu a few transfers ago. It

will be weird to have a new companion, but change can always be a good

thing when you set your mind to it, so I am so excited about what will

come. Here is to hoping we can find a ride to transfer meeting! Oops.

Let the missionaries loose in Target, and weird, matching combinations will ensue.

Hermana AhMu and me.  (This girl keeps me [in]sane!)

Other than that, this week felt slightly like the last week of school.

We kind of had a feeling that Hermana Martin would be leaving all

week. It was a good week, and a frustrating week. Welcome to

missionary work! There was a lot of work done, just not a lot to come

of it. It is all good though, like I said, change is coming. I am so

excited about everything that will be coming up. :)

It is still hot here. Surprise, surprise. This is going to be an

awesome transfer. And a short one (did I mention that this is a 5 week

transfer? If not I apologize. Because the Castros are leaving we will

have a five week followed by a seven week so everything balances out

with the new President.) Other than that, life is good. Wish there was

more to say, but alas, missionary life remains the same. And I still

love it. Every day there is something that makes me so happy, because

this is such an amazing work. Even the hardest days have the quirkiest

things. Paso sure is a unique place.

All of us decided to add "make friends with a dog" to our weekly goals list, courtesy of our Branch Mission Leader.  This is the dog we made friends with.  He fillowed us around for like 20 minutes, and played with us a bit. :)

Looks like this will be another short post. I suppose this might

become the norm. Sorry about that. (Kind of.) I will try and

compensate with pictures.

A nice, warm summer day in San Miguel, CA

Have a great week everyone.

Do great things.

Hermana Courtney Miller

Mother's Day Call, and Shout Out to Elle!

So, anyone who knows me will not be surprised, but I forgot my camera

chord. Again. But tender mercies are real! Hermana Ah Mu's chord works

on my camera! So you all are in luck, there are pictures!

This post will be a lot of pictures, and not a lot to say. Other than

yesterday's phone call home, it has been a pretty uneventful week! It

has been really windy here. That's cool. (Oh no, I am talking about

the weather... Looks like it is time for some pictures.)

Here we go!

So this terrifying gem, we found while making copies in the church

library. I wish I had more to say about it, but really, it is just one

of the weirdest things I have ever seen. It may or may not be out of a

horror film. We are not sure.

The only acceptable way to eat mac and cheese: out of a champagne

glass. We are just classy like that.

This my dear friends, is the great city of Shandon, CA. 

This photo was taken at fourth and center street. Keep in mind, this city only goes

up to 8th street. This is literally the middle of town. Yeah. I just

laughed. A lot.

I got this amazing treasure this week from the great Elle McCall. 

It is so perfect, and I love it so much. I will for sure wear it all the time. 

(For those who don't know, Alma 29:9 is my plaque scripture.)

We had a service project this weekend out in the field/farm area of
Paso. It was a ton of fun! We had to park down the street, and there
was a field with a horse right next to the car, and when we came back,
the horse trotted right up to us, and let us pet it, and feed it some
grass.

This set of photos is entitled "Selfies With a Horse." Enjoy!

Okay everyone, so maybe that wasn't as many photos as I thought it was

going to be. Sorry!

It really has been a good week, just not a lot to write about it.

Phone calls yesterday were amazing. It was so great to talk to

everyone, and I am sure they loved hearing me butcher some Spanish. Oh

well, it is a work in progress.

I hit my four month mark this week, and that is TERRIFYING. Time is

going by ridiculously fast. I can not believe it. Next week, I will

have some updates about transfers, so I will be sure to let you all

know. I am sure you are just sitting on the edge of your seat! ;)

Make sure if anyone sends anything this week, it goes through the

mission office. Just in case. I mean, I guess you could send something

today or tomorrow, and it would probably get there before I leave, if

I leave. After that though, probs should use the mission office. This

is all.

Wow. e-mails after calls are boring. Yeah.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Hermana Courtney Miller

It's HOT Here!!!

Wow. This week really flew by. I can not believe it is already Monday.

However, with Mother's Day being this weekend, I feel like this week

might drag by. Only time will tell!

So first, oh my goodness, IT IS HOT! Okay, so it isn't the worst. But

it was 105 in San Miguel on Wednesday. And it will just keep getting

worse. Got to love it. I am eternally grateful for air conditioned

cars.

We had exchanges this week. So fun! I went out with Hermana Shmidt,

who was Hermana Martin's companion here in Paso before I came. It was

awesome to finally get to meet her. We met some amazing people, and

braved the heat together. Quality day.

This was truly a week full of Miracles. I don't know if I have

mentioned him before, but we are teaching a 9 year old named Y.

His parents are both members, and now we are teaching him. It is so

much fun getting to teach him. He knows so much already from Primary

and his parents, and getting to teach him is a blast. We get to use

things like white boards, and little games, and all kinds of fun

stuff. He is truly a miracle in our lives. Last Sunday, we also met a

man named C. On exchanges, Hermana Martin and Hermana Higgs got

to have a lesson with him, and they asked us to come back the next

day. We have had three lessons with them since, and they are amazing.

We hope to see some more miracles like them soon! Great week!

So here is another fun story from this week: I can no longer eat any

seafood. So I have had fish/shrimp about 4 times on the mission now,

and every time it makes me more and more sick. This last weekend I had

Shrimp pasta, and we had to run home so I could take bennydryl. Thank

heavens we had some in the apartment! But anyway, after a fun night of

locked jaw and bad breathing, there will be no more seafood for me! I

am sure my Dad and Brother will be proud.

Well, I wish there was more to write, but other than that all I can

say is it has been a great week. I can not wait to see what this week

has in store!

Hermana Miller.