How are you?

Enoch, LaRue & Andy, are you guys out there? I'm sure all is well and Craig said that you probably don't have internet. Just wanted to let you know we're thinking about and praying for you. Keep up the good work. I've put new stuff on our blog if you want to see the kids. :-)

GOOD TALKIN

Well it was good to talk to ya´ll yesterday. The one thing I didn´t tell you about is that we had another baptism on Saturday. It was a really cool experience, the little boy started to cry after we confirmed him. The spirit was really strong. I honestly think that this is the best baptism that I have had in my mission, and he is only 9 years old. He two older sisters are members and his dad is really interested, but he isn´t married with his wife, and he doesn´t want to because he thinks that she is going to kill him some day. This Saturday we have two more baptisms, the younger brother of Leonel, Gerson, and the other is Kevin. Kevin is 17 years old and his aunt introduced us to him. He told us that he wanted to be baptized before we had even asked him. Next week I will bring my camera and hopefully Jackie will be able to post some pictures on here. I love you all, keeping pushing along, and put your shoulder to the wheel.
Love,
Elder Miles

60! Hip Hip Horray!

We hope that you had air conditioning on your birthday. :-) 60 years well spent, what an accomplishment. Happy Birthday.
Love,
Craig, Michelle, Carson and Victoria

60!

You're the birthday, you're the birthday, you're the birthday boy or girl! I sure hope Ghana gives you the senior citizen discount, you deserve it once you turn 60. Happy Birthday, Grandpa.

Jeff, Camille, Marcus, and Katelyn

BAPTISM!

Well we had a baptism this past Saturday. We baptized Leonel, he is 13 years old and his family is the one that we have been helping out a lot lately. The dad has decided to stay and not return back to Honduras, becuase his wife is so sick. So i am pretty sure that it should be a bapitsm. All we have to do is get them married. They already have all of their papers, we just need to find a lawyer that will hike down to their house and sign the papers. We are going to have another baptism this week, and we are scheduled to have another the following week, possibly two. My comp works hard, but he doesn´t talk to me. He hates gringos, he has had 3 emergency changes because he has fought with his gringo comps.
well, not much more has happened. It will be good to talk to you all again. Sounds like all is well. I love you all take care
love
Elder Miles

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BOY! Now the girls club is out numbered. Oh well, we get what we want anyway! :-) Everything looks good and healthy on the utrasound and the due date is September 9th. If all is well and the baby and I am ready I will be induced on the 4th so that my Dr. is in town and the baby comes before Craig's fall manager's meetings. We are excited! Carson has know all along that he was getting a baby brother.

The first image is a 3D one. You can see his eyes, nose, and mouth with the left side of his face pressed up against the side of my tummy. Looks cramped! The second one is a profile and the third is his arm bent at the elbow with his thumb in his mouth! Looks like we got a thumb sucker.

Cambios

Well we had changes today. It was quite a shock, my comp had a change and I didn´t, which was fine, but everyone thought that I was going to move up to senior comp. But that didnt happen, I´m still junior comp, but oh well more time to prepare myself to be a Senior and learn. My new comp is Elder Cuello from Honduras. I have already heard some things about him and everyone told me to be careful with him, so we will see if i have improved since Elder Nelson and when he pulled out a machette on me. haha. But everything is going really well right now. We have a baptism this Saturday, one the following week, and a date for the one after that. The are finishing the new stake center nearby, so we won´t be meeting in a school anymore for church.
I don´t know if you all remember the family I have talked about before that is really poor and the mom is extremely sick, well we took food to them this past week from the Bishop´s storehouse, when we came in with the food and starting showing her what we had brought, she just starting crying. It was a lot of food, that should last for a couple of weeks. It was a really powerful moment, and we then put a date for baptism with her son, Leonel, who is getting baptized this Saturday. When then had her give the closing pray. It is the most marvillous and powerful pray I have ever heard, there wasn´t a dry eye in the room. I love this work so much and I love this people, they really try your patience, but that is something I really need to learn. As for these last couple of weeks, I chose a Christ-like attribute to focus on from Preach My Gospel. I chose Humilty. After really focusing on it, I have found it is extremely hard to be humble, I really am missing a lot of that attribute and I hope to continue to develop it.
I love you all so very much, can you believe it? 9 Meses ya, puchega, el tiempo se fue muy rapido, pero hay que provechar su tiempo en el campo por que uno regrese y nunca va a ser un misionero por tiempo completo jamas. les amo and les extrano mucho. solo quiero que ustedes puedan seguir adelante y aue puedan ensenar sus hijos el evangelio. Que bendicione que tenemos que tenemos este evangelio restuarado en nuestras vidas. les amo a ustedes. dos semanas y puedo comunicarme con ustedes.
con amor
Elder Miles

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Hi! Andy, you know that each family has an individual blog that you can link to from this site. That is why I don't post much here. I didn't want to post too much stuff on this one so I started one for our family. I will still put things on here, but more there. Sounds like you are having a great mission and learning a lot. A couple funny things Carson has done recently involves his imaginary friends. As referred to earlier Jerry (from Tom and Jerry) resides in the heat register in our kitchen. Well, the other day Carson cut what looked like big mouse holes on two pieces of paper and taped them up on the wall near the kitchen. We just laughed and said is that Jerry's house? He said "no, it his two garages for his two cars". Now Jerry drives in and out of them. Today Carson said that he took a picture of Jerry in his car and went so much to say that Jerry had the window down and his elbow sitting on it. Another funny one is when I was doing laundry Carson started freaking out saying "Mom, Stewart is in the washing machine!" (Stewart Little) We had to go and stop it, open it up and he had to go through all the wet clothes to find Stewart. :-) I knew imaginary play was big for 4 year olds, but I was getting a little nervous. I talked to some of my friends and they assured me that this is normal and he is not schizophrenic.

Blessing in Spanish

Not at a whole lot happened this past week, just a bunch of frustration because Guatemalans have no structure and can´t commit to anything, but you still gotta love ´em. They are good people, they just don´t know any better. But yesterday at church, one of the sisters in the ward asked me to give her a blessing, at first I said ¨I think it´s better if my comp does it because I dont know if I can in Spanish,¨ but she insisted that I do it. So, I did. I will tell you what, you really have to rely on the spirit when doing it in another language and in a different form of talking. My fellow brothers and brother-in-law understand that. Talking in tú form and not usted. But, the spirit helped me along and put the words in my head. I was just an instrument in the hands of God giving a blessing to a faithful daughter of God and gave her the counsel, guidance and comfort that she desired from her loving Heavenly Father. I promised her some pretty powerful things, and I when I finished, she was in tears and just told me Thank You, Thank You. I had a testimony before I left on the mission, but I think it was built a little bit on the sand not the rock. But everyday, my testimony has more and more of a foundation on the rock. I love this humbling work. I love you all. I thought we had this to communicate one with another, but I´m the only one using it. But Jeff, can you explain to me again how to use te Brother of Jared and Baptism again. thanks
Love
Elder Miles