A Great, Crazy, Miracle-filled, Cold-fighting, Amazing Week.

What a week! It has been a great, crazy, miracle-filled,

cold-fighting, amazing week.

First off, Ojai. What a town. So not only is it like hippie central,

but we also found out this week about all of the celebrities that live

here. Not to brag, or anything, but I had dinner two doors down from

John Krazinski, and two streets over from Channing Tatum the other

night. I died. Just a little bit. Okay, a lot a bit. I will meet them

before I leave this town. Even if it takes my whole mission!

Okay, so now back to more focused things...

The work here is awesome. One of the Elders from our district served

here about a year ago, and this week, he and one of the Zone Leaders,

came up and worked in Ojai for a night, finding a bunch of old

investigators and contacts that had been lost over the past year. They

had some amazing success, and found us some awesome investigators, and

saw some awesome miracles, all while I was passed out sick trying to

sleep off a cold. It was so neat though, because even though we

couldn't do a lot that day, the work still went forward. Talk about a

miracle. I was so tickled about that. (Is tickled even the right word.

I don't know. Pretend like that fit.) We also saw an amazing miracle

yesterday. This man walked into church about an hour before it

started, and came right up to us. Hermana Zarate and I just happened

to be there getting some things together for the day. He told us that

he was baptized when he was stationed in Germany with the Army

probably 40 years ago, and he was really active for a long time, but

after a while, fell away, and had his records removed. He showed up

yesterday though, because some things have happened in his life, and

he wants to come back, and be re-baptized! What?! It was crazy. And

amazing. He couldn't stay for church, but we exchanged phone numbers,

and we got his address, and are going to go by tomorrow to visit him.

It was such a miracle.

Our other awesome miracle this week is S. She is the

awesome investigator I have talked about a couple of times. She is

from the Phillipines, and is totally deaf. Her husband is a returned

missionary, and can barely hear, and mostly relies on signing. So this

week, we went over, and took them a "Stories of the Book Of Mormon"

book, for Shirley. Since English is not her first language, it was

easier for her to understand. Last night, we went over, and not only

had she read the chapters we had assigned her, and explained them to

us in detail, she said that wasn't enough, and started reading from

the beginning. She is so amazing. She is going to be baptized here

really soon, we are just waiting for a couple more things to fall into

place first. I am so excited for her. She is one of my favorite people

in the world. I love her so much. I am so happy to get to be part of

her life right now.

So you see what I am saying.... AWESOME WEEK!

One of the ladies we are doing service for this week kept quoting a

Psalm, that I think perfectly applies to how I am feeling right now:

"My cup runneth over." It is so true. I feel so blessed this week, and

am loving this work. It has been such an incredible week.

I love you all. Stay awesome.

Hermana Courtney Miller