I Live in Paradise!

This has been a great first week here in Ojai. The area is great!

There are so many awesome people here. It really is a fun area. Super

quirky too. Hippies for days.

I live in Paradise. Enough said.

We have some awesome investigators, and I am excited to be working

with them. One of our investigators, S., is absolutely amazing.

She is deaf, and her husband can barely hear, so sometimes

communicating with them can be a struggle, but through the spirit all

things are possible. Her husband is a member, and a returned

missionary, so he has been able to really help us, and make sure that

she is understanding what we are teaching. We are looking into maybe

learning a little bit of ASL to be able to help her learn, but we will

see. That might just be getting a little too crazy. We will have to

see. But anyway, last night we went over, and they told us that they

had prayed about the baptismal date that we had committed her to,

November 22. They said that they had gotten an answer, and that

Shirley was ready to go forward with that day. We are excited to work

with her towards that date, and for her to be able to be baptized. It

is something that she wants so much in her life, and I am so grateful

to be a part of her journey. I am so happy to be here, with her, to

help her make these first steps in her journey towards our Heavenly

Father. She is so much fun to be teaching.

Hermana Zarate is great. I am loving serving with her. She is a super

fun missionary, and a hard worker too. That is my favorite

combination. :) We are going to have an awesome transfer. I can

already tell. Plus she kills the spiders that apparently love to crawl

all over me. It is a win-win situation. (Yes, this is a situation we

have been in more than once.)

Hermana Zarate and me

I love this work, and I love this area. It really is a great time to

be a missionary.

The district

I am so sorry this is such a short post, but hey, it's something. I

hope to have more to report soon. I love you all!

Hermana Courtney Miller

Awkard pictures for days. (Last P-day in Santa Paula)