Weird Week!

Hello Everyone! Hope everyone had a great week. It has been nice and

toasty warm and humid here. (But then again, I might have just gone

soft...)

Oxnard is doing great. It was a weird week, but a good week. We were

stuck inside on Tuesday due to neither of us being able to drive

(although we got that figured out,) and us not living in our area, and

then Saturday Hermana Garza and I had a 24 hour stomach flu (I don't

know what it is about Oxnard and the Stomach flu... Starting to get

suspicious), so it was an interesting week through and through. 

We got sick. The Elders got us flowers. So tender.

But the rest of the week was so awesome. We kind of inadvertently worked

with a lot of LARCs (Less Active/Recent Converts) this week, which was awesome. There are so many

less actives in this area, and the ward really wants to focus on

reactivation, and retention. We are continuing forward working on

accountability, and trying to get to know all of our LARCs that are in

our book. We had a really cool miracle last night with one of our

LARCs. He was someone we had tried to contact multiple times, and we

decided last night that he would be our "one last person" before we

went in. We finally found him at home, and he is awesome! We found out

that he has been a member for about 4 years, but went inactive when a

members son from the other ward went on a mission (they were best

friends.) He said he was interested in meeting up with the YSA elders,

and was going to try and get in contact with his friends family. (We

were sure to tell him where he could find them every Sunday morning

around 9:00!) But we got in contact with the 5th ward elders last

night, and found out that that son should be getting home in about 10

days, and that ward is going to try and reach out to him to get him to

the homecoming. AWESOME! We are super excited for him. We are also

still working with F. He has a baptismal date right now for the

1st of August, and he is so excited to work towards that date. He is

someone who has truly taken ownership of his date, and is progressing

so well. He really liked church yesterday, and loved the youth class

on temples. The members have really taken him under their wing, and

are fellowshipping SO WELL. It is helping him so much. It makes me so

happy!

Hermana Garza is great. I love working with her so much. She inspires

me to be my best, and we work our hardest every day. She has some

great ideas for finding new investigators that are fun and different,

that we are going to try and implement soon, and I am so excited to

see where this work goes. It is going to be an awesome transfer. I

love her so much!

I am so excited and happy to be a part of this great work. I love

Oxnard, I love the 6th ward, and I love being a missionary.

I hope you all have a great week! I love you lots!

Hermana Courtney Miller