It's Miller Time!

It's Miller Time! (Is that missionary appropriate? Not totally sure,

but it is how we have been answering the phone when other missionaries

call us all week!)

The struggles of trying to take pics with a tall companion are real.

What a crazy, insane, awesome, exhausting week!

This cutie left me this week! She will kick butt in Pennsylvania, though.

Elder Moser, and a baby picture of us. I will let my mom type in the rest

of the story. (If she doesn't remember, things just got really

awkward!)

**see story below**

Having all of Ojai is awesome. We have so much work to do, and so many

different people to see every day, that there is no time to be able to

stand still. We love it! Hermana Miller is so awesome. We are so

excited to work with the members here, and to help this work explode.

(More than it already is!) Some days we have felt a bit like chickens

with our heads cut off, trying to meet all of the new people, get this

apartment cleaned and set up (Nasty elders!) and trying to get

everything else done that happens in missionary work. We are loving

it!

The previous elders had managed to destroy the beds in our apartment

in just 3 transfers! So we got new ones delivered by a whole slew of

Elders. It was quite the funny sight!

 

My cutie companion, and our vegan burritos! You just have to have the

full Ojai experience! I am still not sure how I feel about cashew

cheese. I will get back to you on that one.

Hermana Miller is so fun. We have come up with all kinds of funny

slogans and nicknames this week. We are going to have an awesome

transfer. I can't wait.

Another Selfie, just because.

What happens when the elders abandon us for district lunch. (No

worries though, they came back... 30 minutes later….)

We had Stake Conference here in Ventura this weekend. It was an

awesome experience! We had to laugh though. Saturday night conference

didn't end until about 9:10. We were talking to President and Sister

Felix after, and they asked us how long it would take us to get back.

They didn't believe us when we said that it would be about 30-40

minutes. So we head out, get on the 101 only to hit some good ol'

Southern California traffic. An hour later, we rolled into our

apartment complex. It is always an adventure. Sister Felix got a good

laugh out of it the next day.

With everything going on this week, we were not able to do a lot of

service. However, we were able to help our investigator, D., as she

is getting ready to move. Sometimes it is frustrating, because it felt

like she was not appreciating what we do, and didn't have any desire

to progress. I was feeling like we had kind of hit the end of the

rope, and was praying the whole time we were there about what we

should do. At the end, right before we left, she stopped us, and just

expressed how incredibly grateful she was for everything that we were

doing, and for the love we show for her. She expressed the desire to

start taking the lessons more full time after the move, and that she

wants to better her life. Heavenly Father truly answers prayer. I was

so grateful for that experience.

Finally though, our apartment is cleaned (that only took a few HOURS)

and organized, we are all planned for the week, and ready to hit the

ground running! Ojai is such an awesome, beautiful, incredibly quirky

place. You never know what you are going to find. I love it so much. I

love being able to serve here! The work is crazy awesome, and we are

looking forward to what this transfer has to bring!

Ojai, CA. Home of hippies, tree huggers, and LOTS and LOTS of bikes.

This is the most Ojai restaurant I could think of. It was yummy

though!

"Wait, what's that" -- Caramello and Audrey

I love you all so much, and love getting to hear what you all are up

to! It sounds like everyone at home is doing great too! I love you all

so much! Keep doing awesome things!

Hermana Courtney Miller

**Mom's sidenote**

Denise and Gary Moser were some of our first 'married' friends as a newlywed couple.  When Scott was in grad school, and I was working, Denise was Courtney's sitter.  The picture Courtney is holding in the above pic was taken during that time.  It turns out, all these years later, Courtney and Mike were serving in the same mission!  They were in the same mission for exactly one year, but never met until this week, when Mike (Elder Moser) was on his way home, having completed his two years.
They had a mission Christmas activity that involved baby pictures, so I figured, what better picture to send?