Happy December!

Happy December to one and All!

 

What a blessing that it doesn't feel like December yet.. Let's just keep it that way and pray that it stays some what warm. I know that I would be extremely grateful for that!

 

Well what a week it has been. Let me first say that I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY! It is so great to go about teaching the message of the restored gospel.

 

This week we had an amazing experience. We had picked up a potential investigator a few weeks ago on trade-offs. Sister Larsen and I found her. We had texted her and she said, she couldn't meet because she was going in to have surgery on her ACL. We said okay no worries, we will stay in contact and see if there would be a better time. We texted her again and she said she is still not up to moving again. Well we waited another couple weeks and last Saturday we texted her and she said that she is feeling good enough and would love to meet. So we asked her where and gave her some places. She chose to meet at the church so we went to the church and had a wonderful lesson with her. We ended up watching the video, Joseph Smith prophet of the restoration with her. She felt the spirit so strongly and said that she just relates to him so much. She wants to keep meeting because she wants God to be a part of her life. We are so excited to keep meeting with her. She has such a sweet spirit. She also has started reading the Book of Mormon and doing Light the World! It is so great!

 

Wiley is still chugging right along. We are planning on having him get baptized on December 9th! Hopefully, all will work out and that we will be able to help him make that date! He is still nervous to tell his parents that he wants to get baptized but they know that he is meeting with us. It has been so amazing to see him open up to the gospel each and every time we meet with him. He wants to make sure that he understands what is truly different between the Mormons and Catholics and that he has a belief in that.

 

Jaylen is still Jaylen. We are trying so hard to help him. He has a desire, but loves the details. We are trying to help him build the foundation first. This week his homework is taking a Hypothesis and experimenting. His hypothesis is I believe that God is Real. Then he is going to find evidence that backs up his hypothesis. We are praying very hard for him as he wants to learn and has been studying a praying every single day.

 

I also have to give a shout out to little Violet! She gets baptized today and I am so happy for her! Make sure you write and tell me all about your experience! 

 

All is well here in Kalamazoo . Oh transfer calls happened! I will be staying here with Sister Larsen for one more transfer! Then 99.9% positive one of us will leave after this transfer. Partly because president told us he won't white wash STL hah so one of us will have to leave. I get to stay with her for the Christmas season and we are so excited. We also are going to be working with a lot of new sisters which is exciting as well.

 

I hope that all of you were able to check out Light the World and have been participating in the first few days! It is such a wonderful opportunity to serve. I love serving and know how much happiness it can truly bring into our lives. I love you all. Stay warm and enjoy this wonderful Christmas season. Know that I am praying for you each and everyday. I love you!

 

 

Love Always,
Sister Milar

Light The World!

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all. I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving because it is such a wonderful time to reflect on all of your wonderful blessing. I just have to say that I am so thankful for all of you. For your support while I am out here, for your desire to help me with any and everything. I truly do love you.

This week has been an interesting one if I do say so. Tuesday and Wednesday were jam packed with lessons because of the Holiday. So we were teaching a lot those first couple of days. Our investigators are still just chugging along. I think they are all doing great.

Thursday we went out to do missionary work. There was only one slight problem with this… we are on campus. Campus was closed and literally NO ONE was on campus… So we decided to be creative. We got sidewalk chalk and walked to campus talking to the few souls on campus we got to play with SIDEWALK Chalk! It was great. All over campus we wrote down things like, “Want to Serve, Help #Light the World.” “In a world full of darkness help bring out the LIGHT!” and “Because I have been given much I too must give. #Light the world”.

Funny story of the week. Most of you know how much I truly enjoy Chemistry. Every-time I am here on campus and we walk by or through the chemistry building I say, "I HATE CHEMISTRY!" (The funniest part is I will probably be taking more classes when I get home. Yay for me) Anyway, usually after we leave the building we start playing the periodic table game. I ask them an element and they tell me what it is.  We were playing this week and I asked, what is O in the periodic table, and Sister Eisert yells, "WATER!" Oh it was so funny, Sister Larsen and I busted up laughing. In case you are wondering water is H2O.  It gave us a good laugh. 

Our investigators overall are doing pretty great. We have decided to move Wiley's baptism to this next weekend because of the holiday. We are so excited for them and are praying for many more miracles this holiday season.

We had a surprise baptism this weekend though. It is one of the elders investigators Savannah. She is so cute and great. We were so happy for her. She had such an amazing experience. She was feeling very nervous, but her whole family came to support her and after the baptism they took two copies of the Book of Mormon and are wanting to read them. She came right up to us after and gave us each big hugs.

Yesterday church was just amazing. It felt like the whole thing was just centered around Savannah. The whole branch was just lifted up. There was a lot of talk about blessing and things we are thankful for. As I was study yesterday I ran across something really cool. It started with at church, President Volz was talking about the gift of charity. He was quoting the scripture that says, "If ye have not charity, ye are nothing." That started to make me think. As I was doing my personal studies later I was studying Christ-like attributes. I came across a scripture in Moroni 8 that talks about the first principles and ordinance of the gospel and these attributes. I decided that in order to truly live by the first principles and ordinances of the gospel we have to be applying different Christ-like attributes. That they truly work together so that we can become like our Savior.

This week is also transfer week! So I will be emailing on Saturday instead of Monday.
I love you all and hope that you start on Light the World on Friday. It seems so fantastic. I can't wait for it to officially begin.  I love you!

Love Always,
Sister Milar

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

 

I hope that you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and eat lots of yummy food for me and watch the Macy's Thanksgiving day Parade and Charlotte's Webb. I think those are some of the funniest Thanksgiving traditions, but I love them!

 

Wow time as usual has just been flying by. This week was a great week.  We had trade-offs with the Sisters From St. Joesph and those went pretty well. I love being able to help them when I can. Then we had interviews with President. Man he is just great. He truly just cracks me up. Sister Eisert went in right before me and they talked about marriage and dating. So when I got in he talked about how I am a strong independent women and I need to find a man who is the same way and not settle for anything. haha it was funny, truly made me laugh as I haven't even thought anything about that life as I have no idea what I am even doing when I go home... Lots of possibilities still up in the air.

 

We also had stake conference this week. It was just great. Elder Snow from the 70 came again and the Brennan's were there as well as the Lunds! I love the Lunds! They are from Midland so I got to talk to them for a minute. Then here I was walking down the hall and this guy said "Milar" and I turned because let's be honest. No one knows how to say our last name. So I was a bit surprised. Well turns out he is Aunt Pattee's nephew. Small world. Anyway, I new that Mike Powell was around here somewhere but I still haven't met him yet. But I have met Zack how knows Mike. We only talked for a minute as I had to run off to a meeting with the Branch President but it was kind of a fun thing. He has a cute little family too!

 

Well I am proud to say that both of my companions are sick and I AM NOT! Blessings. I haven't hardly gotten sick while out here  which I am so grateful for as I hate getting sick! It is honestly miserable. So I have been healthy as a whip. Taking lots of vitamins. One day this week we were sitting in a lesson with a guy named Jessy. The lesson was going really well, Sister Larsen was talking and in the middle of her sentence he jumped in and said are you okay? You look like you are going to die. So let's just say we went home after that and she took a nice nap.

 

Wiley is still planning on getting baptized on December 2nd. At the KUB we are planning 3 baptisms for that day. We are really excited for that! Jaylen is still chugging along. he is doing well, just still struggling to know if God is truly there. It was really cool though this week we were sitting having a lesson and he was like I have been listening to the Book of Mormon on my phone. I found an app for it. Well we showed him the gospel library app and he totally loved it. He was so excited. it was like a child on Christmas morning. (or even me :))

 

We also found 5 new investigators this week. They are all amazing! As this year is coming closer to an end we are truly seeing the blessing from it!

I love all of you. I hope that you have a real feast this Thanksgiving. Know that you are all in my prayers. Party hard and make good choices!

 

Oh the picture is really crappy. I am kind of sad about it. The photographer must've not really known what she was doing.... oh well. This is a picture of us with President Nelson.

I LOVE YOU!!

Love, Sister Milar
 

 

I know that God Lives~!

What a wonderful week this past week has been. I have been so blessed while serving a mission. This week was extremely busy. We had a lot of fantastic meetings this week. It started off with going to MLC in Lansing. We learned what the new Christmas initiative is this year. I don’t know if any of you participated in Light the World last year, but they are doing it again this year, but even bigger and better.   I encourage you all to participate in it. It starts November 24th.

 

Wiley is doing so great. He is still on date for baptism on December 2. We talked to him about the Law of Chastity and Word of Wisdom this week. He took it like a champ.. In the past he told us how much he loves tea. We weren’t sure how he was going to respond when we told him we don’t drink tea (except herbal), he was really sad to hear about it because he loves tea, but he said if God wants him to do it he will.  He is also very nervous to tell his family. So please keep him in your prayers this week.

 

We also had a couple of wonderful lessons with Jaylen. Oh I was so, so happy. He has been struggling with Faith lately. He just doesn’t know how to believe in something he cannot see. We have talked to him about how it may make him feel or thoughts that he gets. This week we decided to focus on Jesus Christ. We talked about who Christ really is and how he can truly become our friend. We asked Jaylen once more if he would come to church on Sunday. Guess what he did!! We were so happy. There was also a devotional on Friday night that he came to too. President Nelson spoke and it was truly an answer to our prayers. We had been praying for a miracle on how we can help Jaylen find the faith that he desires to have. President Nelson spoke exactly on that.  He was able to talk medically which Jaylen really appreciated, because he just doesn’t know if God and science can really coexist. Once again though, that was an answer for him.

 

Wow, I LOVE PRESIDENT AND SISTER NELSON! Let me just say it was such a privilege to be able to hear, talk to, and shake hands with a living apostle. Who dedicated 2.5 hours just to the missionaries. He is such a lively, funny, happy man. Him and his wife. They were cracking jokes throughout the whole thing. There was a funny story he told. I want to share it with you. It was at the devotional on Friday night. He told us a story about how he and his wife were sitting outside one beautiful summer evening having dinner. When a visitor came over. He was just buzzing all around. President Nelson got his napkin and started shewing the bee, but it just kept coming back again and again. Until finally it found some yummy food that it wanted to devour. THE BUTTER!  He told the bee that it needs to leave, but it kept eating that butter. President Nelson soon noticed that the bee wasn’t moving. It was DEAD! He said I looked at the bee and said, “You dumb bee, you didn’t listen to an apostle of the Lord.” I know that we have a living Prophet on the earth today and living apostles who are here to lead and guide us if we will just listen.

 

He also emphasized on listening to the promptings of the Holy Ghost. That right now we are missionaries, but that is not what we were born to do. We were born to be mothers and fathers. To have families, and that this is God’s greatest yearning. I also learned just how incredibly intelligent he is. Not only with the scriptures and knowing the gospel but with EVERYTHING! I one day hope to have knowledge like him. He was talking about the scriptures and their translations. He is very well versed in Greek, and Latin. He told us recently he was talking to a good friend who is the department chair of Doctor of Egyptian studies at the University of Utah. He told him that he has a book about his people that he should read. His friend became very interested. He handed to him a Book of Mormon and invited him to take it home to read and study it. So he did. His friend came back and was absolutely amazed. He said that he decided to translate it back to Egyptian and he noticed how perfect the translation was. That all those, “ And it came to pass,” are essential in the Egyptian language. He pointed out a verse in the scriptures that has 18 and's in it... his friend pointed out how important those and's are.

 

Anyway, it was such a wonderful experience and I truly enjoyed it.  I hope that you all have a wonderful week and that you go on an adventure. I love you all.

Love

Sister Paige Milar

 

The one of the group is pretty great. Those are all my companions except Sister Heugly.

I love full mission!!

left to right:Hughes, Me, Larsen, Bair, Hymas, Eisert, Garner) Also funny fact. Sister Bair and Larsen served together and Eisert and Garner served together too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Halloween!!

Where does the time go?! I can’t believe that it is already November. These past few weeks have just flown by, I hate to think that next weeks are just going to fly by too. 

 

I hope that you all had a wonderful Halloween! I hope to see some fun happy Halloween pictures, send them my way.   My Halloween was just amazing. It started off by having a zone conference here in Kalamazoo. I absolutely love President Brennan. He truly has been called of God to lead and direct this mission. As a mission we have been trying to involve the spirit more and truly understand how to apply it to the work in finding people to teach and while we are teaching. This has been a very big focus for me as I have been out here. (I am no perfect follower of the spirit, but I am working on it.)

 

As we were discussing, I found that I truly want to always have the spirit with me ALWAYS. Whether out here on my mission or when I return home. I can’t imagine how lost I would be if the spirit left me alone. In the scriptures, it talks about how we have to be worthy of the spirit and always strive for it to be with us. In 2Nephi 26:11 it says, For the Spirit of the Lord will not always strive with man. And when the Spirit ceaseth to strive with man then cometh speedy destruction, and this grieveth my soul. I truly never want this to happen in my life. The spirit is so essential. It is our constant companion that is truly there to inspire, direct, teach, comfort and testify. The spirit only testifies of goodness, and truly directs the light of Christ in each of our lives. When it leaves us, the adversary doesn’t waste any time. He jumps right in to all those little cracks that we have in our armor. DON’T LET THAT HAPPEN!

 

At the end of zone conference President Brennan gave us each copies of the Book of Mormon and invited us to read them in 52 days (10.5pgs a day), marking every reference to Jesus Christ, every time Christ speaks, his attributes, and doctrines and principles. We are just finishing page 66 and it has been a wonderful journey so far, lots of hard work and dedication but what would the point be if it were easy? I know that it is truly another testament of Jesus Christ, I love reading the Book of Mormon. I encourage each of you to study the Book of Mormon each and every day. Follow the counsel of our prophet, it will change your life and I can promise all of you that in the name of Jesus Christ.

 

A couple of amazing stories this week. We have seen so many miracles! I love miracles and they are all around me. The first miracle we found this week is a kid named Andrew. He is a senior here at WMU. He has been studying economics. We met with him and talked about the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. He had so many profound questions and was able to receive answers to all of them. I know that the spirit was truly there to teach and testify to him about the truthfulness of the everlasting gospel.

 

Jaylen, he has been doing really great. We were able to have a church tour with him. This helped him feel so much more comfortable. He is trying so hard and has such a desire to receive guidance and revelation to his life. He just hasn’t been able to figure out how the spirit truly feels or if it is just him feeling something. We watched a short video from Elder Bednar called the Patterns of Light. He felt the good feeling and peace after watching it. For him Slow and steady wins the race  Funny story with him. So I was really tired, and I am not very smart or very bright (hahah). We were having the church tour and we were talking about the different hours of church. He wasn’t understanding why we separated for Priesthood and Relief Society (He’s a really smart kid too!). We tried every explanation (no joke) and to no avail. Then… I looked at him and said, “Okay Jaylen, look I can have babies, you can’t.” Then I paused, and my companions busted up laughing. Well let’s just say my thought was done for…. So I tried to save it and it just went down the drain. But then I did save it after a few more statements and he understood and all was well. Oh the things I do… my companions are definitely never going to let me live that one down. So embarrassing. No one laughed except them… It would’ve been just fine. Hahaha

 

We have also been meeting with Emily. Oh she is so so great! She came to sports night again this week and everyone thought she was a member and came with a girl named Hannah. Soon they found out otherwise. She fits in just great and has loved learning and is preparing for more. We hope to invite her to baptism this week.

 

Wiley is doing so great still! He has been very much involved in the branch lately. He is planning on getting baptized on December 2. We are so excited for him! A really cool experience we had with him was when we asked him why he wants to be baptized. He said he wants to be baptized to get closer to Christ. And I asked him why? He said that he wants to know Christ perfectly, that if he was to come down right now that he could know who he is and be able to recognize him in any instance. It was so amazing to be able to hear him say that. He honestly has such a true desire and pure intentions to get closer to Christ.

 

I just love being able to come out here and to learn from so many choice individuals. I strive to be like them each and every day. I am so grateful for the time I have to serve now. That I am able to help people find the truth. I encourage each of you to find the truth. Find what your purpose is and how you can more fully accomplish it.  Never be afraid to ask our loving Heavenly Father for help, guidance, and direction. He is there. He will never leave us alone. I know that. I feel it every single day out here. If it weren’t for him I wouldn’t be here. I wouldn’t be doing the things I am, because I couldn’t do them by myself.

 

I love you all so very much. Thank you for the inspiration you provide to each of me. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you.

 

Love Always and Forever,
Sister Milar

 

I love being a MISSIONARY!!

I love being a missionary for a plethora of different reasons. First off, I love seeing all the miracles that happen. Second, you have to expect the unexpected. Third, things that would normally surprise someone, don’t surprise us in the slightest. Fourth, WE ARE SO AWKWARD! Okay the last one… I’m not sure that I really love that as a missionary, but it brings a lot of good laughs.

 

Lots of wonderful things have happened this past week. To start off, we got a call last Monday from President Brennan. This took us a bit by surprise as it was early P-day morning. He said, “Sisters, I have a favor to ask. I am wondering if it would be okay if I gave you a third companion? Her name is Sister Larsen and I think WMU would do great things for her.” We told him “of course we would love to have her as a new companion”. He asked us what we would need in order to make this possible. We told him “Honestly, nothing. We have four beds and two blow up beds at our apartment and we have something that would work as a desk etc.” He said, “Perfect, I will let you know when she will be coming your way.”

 

So we continued on with our day preparing her to come. The week started off great. We had a fantastic lesson with Jaylen. Michael came with us again. I love when he comes because he shares so many wonderful personal stories. Jaylen is still improving but it is slow. The best part of the lesson was near the end. He asked a question about why bad things happened to good people. I had the perfect answer. I told him I had a little story to share with him. That morning while I was in my studies a talk came to mind. It is called the Grandeur of God, by Elder Bednar. I hadn’t read the talk for a really long time. I opened it up and read it. It is a very good talk but it is kind of hard to understand for someone who isn’t very well versed in the scriptures. But I kept it in mind. That day we had to print a couple of things off so I decided to just print an extra copy of the talk just in case. That night when he asked the question I knew why I printed off the talk. It answered his question perfectly. I told him this and handed him the talk and invited him to read it. After that I look over and Michael is just chuckling to himself. Jaylen said what’s so funny and Michael said. Don’t you feel that? That’s the spirit and it just makes me laugh because here is God’s proof to you right now that he is real and the gospel is true. I love when Michael comes because you can truly see how much it helps his testimony to grow. To realize that this kid didn’t know God about 6 months ago would just blow your mind.

 

Wednesday, we went on trade-offs’ after district meeting. I was Sister Rhead. I love her, we were in the MTC together. She is training Sister Ott right now. We had a wonderful trade-off. That is when the first miracle happened. We were sitting and teaching our investigator Wiley, when the girl came over and sat down kind of close to us. Sister Rhead and I both noticed her listening in. Then as we kept talking to Wiley, she leaned over and said, “I am so sorry to interrupt, but is this a religion on campus here.” I went over to talk to her and left Sister Rhead to teach for a minute.  Thank goodness she knows how to teach!! I talked to her for a few minutes. Her name is Justice, and she loved what she was hearing. I set up an appointment for the next day with her. Such a wonderful blessing.

 

The day continued and that night at 10:00 we got a phone call from a 989 number, which only meant one thing. Someone from Midland area! I answered the phone and Sister Bair answered! She called because we were getting one of her companions, Sister Larsen, as a companion. I talked to them for a while and we figured out that Sister Larsen was coming in the morning from Saginaw.

 

Sister Larsen got here and we ran to lesson after lesson. Poor sister didn’t even have time to settle in for the first couple of days. We were just so busy. That night, Sister Eisert and I, while on trade-offs’ accidently double booked appointments, so we went on blitz’s with a girl named Nicole in the branch and Sister Larsen and I went to the lesson with Justice.  Justice brought her friend Donnea (say it like da nay a) we had a wonderful lesson with them and I am so excited to meet with them again.

 

Friday continued to bring miracles. We had a lesson with a girl named Emily. Emily is from Michigan and we ran into her a couple of days ago. We asked her why she wanted to meet with us and her reason was, you seemed nice and I think I could learn a lot more about God. We taught her about Joseph Smith and how we can receive personal revelation for ourselves. Then we invited her to come to Frisbee night and she said YES! We were so excited, the best part was she actually came and LOVED IT! We had tons of fun. She got along great with everyone. We are excited to see where the gospel takes her in life.

 

Sunday I realized something. I AM SO AWKWARD! Ha I just can’t help it. I talk like a missionary and it is kind of hilarious. I use words that “normal” people don’t use. Like unto or behold haha I realized that I truly have immersed myself if the gospel. Literally.

 

Also some exciting news. WE found out about a month ago that someone was coming to our mission. We just had a visit from Elder Snow. We knew that this new someone wasn't just any ole apostle but someone big. A few weeks back President Brennan at MLC told all the leadership to make sure to keep President Monson in our prayers because it will greatly affect our full mission conference if he were to pass. Well today we got notification that President. Russell M. Nelson will be coming to Michigan on November 11th. We will have a special meeting with him that morning for a couple of hours. Then the state of Michigan will all hear from him and his wife for 3 hours and 4 hours. He will be accompanied by a few other individuals as well. What a privilege this is. I am so excited to hear from him. :)

 

A quote I would like each of you to think about this week was given in a talk by Carole M. Stephens. I love this quote so much, it helps me see a larger perspective. She says, “God NEVER loses sight of our eternal potential, even when we do.” There is an analogy that I really enjoy. Picture a string, it goes on forever in both directions. Then you get a separate string and tie it in a knot around the forever string. If you look at the knot on the forever string it is minuscule. It is so small in comparison with everything else.

 

That small string that is tied in a knot is our perspective here in life. The forever string is God’s perspective. We truly have to turn to God in order to see the larger picture or as Sister Stephens says, “Our eternal potential.” I know this to be true. As I have served I have learned that I truly know nothing and in order to succeed in life I have to turn to God for everything.  He truly is our light house that guides us through the night. He is constant and never changing. Remember never lose sight of God, because he knows what YOU are capable of.

 

I love you all so much. I hope that you know how much each of you mean to me. Keep being wonderful examples. Thank you for the time you take to write me and to reach out to me. I truly appreciate it. I LOVE YOU!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN AND EAT LOTS OF CANDY FOR MEE!!!! 

Love Always,
Sister Milar

 

Hacked...

Hello!

I hope all have had a wonderful week. I know I have been J

 

My outfit may have been a little bit ridiculous but we were literally going to campus for 30 minutes and my boots were wet from the rain and my toes were sooo cold!! 

 

So random story... this week I went to McDonalds at 9 in the morning with some of our zone as we just left the transfer van. Well I wanted ice cream as everyone else was getting breakfast. So I went to pay with my mission card and it kept getting declined. Well Elder Merritts did the same thing. He decided to call Sister Fredline who watches over our cards etc. Well long story short. She calls me and says, your card has been hacked!! Many of the missionaries cards have been hacked. So don't use your card because it wont work! haha well good thing I have other means of money for the next 3 weeks :)
 

This week we had a couple of great lessons with Jaylen. He just cracks me up. Every week he tells us that he has two sides to his mind. He has his analytical side and his feelings side. His feelings side loves the gospel, but his analytical side doesn’t quite understand. The first lesson we had with him we talked about the plan of salvation. We talked about his questions and he said that he was receiving so many answers to his questions. He told us that earlier that day he was on campus and someone stopped him and handed him a little pamphlet (with a picture of O Jerusalem on the front) that talks about Christ. He said I think that God is trying to tell me that he is really there. We had him read 2Nephi 31 at the end of that lesson to help him find the faith that he is looking for. The next lesson we talked about what he read. We talked about faith and how we need to experiment upon the word of God in order to really gain a testimony of it. As we went over this with him, he started talking and it was so great to hear him analyzing, because he made the connection that if he finds truth in  this message than he will have to be baptized because that would be the next step. I love helping people find the light that the restored gospel brings. Nothing makes me happier. He still is on the path to find eternal happiness but I know that one day he will.
 

Allie: Over the past couple of weeks we have been trying to see what Allie is really truly understanding. When we met with her this week we decided that we better check. So we started from the beginning and talked to her about the Godhead. As we were teaching her we helped her find who God is to her. We invited her to come to institute that night. Later that night we were eating dinner with the Branch and she showed up and to join us. She was able to stay for institute as well! She loved it and is so grateful to continue to learn about God.
 

Wiley: Oh Wiley! How I just love him. He is so great. We met with him this past week and talked to him about the Plan of Salvation. He was raised Catholic and doesn’t understand why there is only a Heaven and a Hell. He feels that there should be more after this life. What a true miracle, because there is more!  We taught him about the spirit world and about the three heavens and degrees. You truly could see his face light up and true joy come over him. As we asked him how he felt about the plan he said, good. I know it is true. One thing I love about Wiley is he is always happy.  He is very quiet and has a very strong spiritual connection with Heavenly Father. He not only came to Dinner and Institute Wednesday night but he came to the corn maze on Friday night too. He is planning on getting baptized on December 3. Please keep him in your prayers as he continues on this journey!
 

Kollin: OH Kollin with a K. That is what I call him because when we first said hi to him he replied, “Hi, I’m Kollin with a K.” He is also a great kid.  We have been meeting with him and as we meet with him he loves to absorb everything. He is looking for as much light as possible. This week we were able to invite him to be baptized on Dec. 9. We are praying extra hard for him because he isn’t able to come to church right now because of work.  We know that he needs to experience the sacrament and that it will truly help with his conversion. I ask for each of you to keep him in your prayers and pray that he can find a new job that pays better or get different hours for work. We know that miracles really do happen!
 

Friday night was great, we got to go with the branch to a corn maze! We also had Wiley come. He was so excited to go and enjoyed it completely.
 

Sunday I got to give a talk at church. I was asked to give one by Brother Griswald a couple of weeks ago. He told me that he wanted me to see about the restoration of the gospel.  Immediately the Talk by Tad R. Callister came to mind. As I read that I was able to receive some insights. I want to share some of my talk with each of you.
 

Since the beginning of time inspired men have been called to speak for the Lord, testify of him and to make known God's will. Each of these men were ordinary people. They all had their own struggles, temptations, joys and sorrows, but through faith in the Lord, they each were able to overcome their weakness and become advocates of the Father. 
 

These men are known as prophets. Like prophets of old, prophets today teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They speak boldly, clearly warning each of us of dangers. How do you know that each of these men have been called of God? Do they really have the authority to receive Revelation from God for the World? In the scriptures we read about how we can know if a prophet is truly called of God. It talks about and by the fruits ye shall know them. IT warns us of being aware of false prophets. I want to testify to each of you that I know that President Thomas S. Monson has been called of god and is here to lead and teach and testify to each one of us. I encourage you all to follow and heed to the counsel given by each of the apostles this conference. I can promise you all in the name of Jesus Christ that as you do that, you will see miracles happen more abundantly in your lives. 
 

I love you all so very much. I want you to know that I pray for each and every one of you every single day. I know that you are all so loved by your Father in Heaven, because I can feel his love for you.  You are all such an inspiration to me. Never forget that you are choice sons and daughters of Heavenly Father and because of his son Jesus Christ we are all able to return to live with him again someday. Keep working hard. Don’t worry, one day it will all pay off J
 

Love Always and Forever,

Sister Milar  

Corn Maze with the Branch and Investigators!!

 

Rainy Day!! Transfers...

Good Morning!

Today is such a rainy day and I absolutely love it. It is honestly down pouring so hard as well as thunder and lightening. It has rained a few times this week actually. Most of the time we try to stay pretty dry but... then again it doesn't work out too well. The worst part about this week. I pulled out the tights and... the coat. How awful is that! I just pray that it will be a bit warmer here in a couple of days.

This week has been a pretty great week. We had a zone P-day on Monday. We were going to do a Sister P-day and have all the sisters come to K-Zoo but then the Elders got really jealous and called us and said well what if we could get a zone P-day approved? We told them go for it and ask! So as it turned out President approved it. So we carved pumpkins and played games. In the middle of the pumpkin carving, Elder Morris and Merritt decided that instead we were going to have a fight... They picked up the pumpkin guts and started throwing them. I did really good about staying out of this messy nasty fight until Elder Morris snuck up and nailed me in the shoulder. I get way to competitive sometimes sooooo I had to get him back. We just laughed and laughed and had a jolly good time.

We have also picked up a couple of great investigators.

The first one is Jaylen. I think I have talked about him before but he is so awesome. We met him a few weeks ago. He really hasn't believed in God. Well we had a great lesson with him this past week. He finally was able to open up to us. He is so scared that because he has never really learned about God and if there is a God and he doesn't believe in him, then he is going to go to Hell. Well he doesn't want that to happen. He truly is a great kid.  So in the lesson we decided to talk to him about the Plan of Salvation. The biggest problem with him is that he has thousands of questions. This week those questions started to change from what if there is a God, to well how can God help we accomplish things. He absorbed the plan of salvation like a sponge. He is moving along and I am excited to see where things go with him.

The next is Wiley. Wiley is very, very shy and awkward. I just love him though. He is 18 and isn't even sure what in the world is going on here at college. He kind of just goes with the flow of things. He loves movies. He is going in to graphic design and just is so great. He learns by feelings. We have taught him a few different times. This last time we invited him to be baptized on Dec. 1st! We hope and pray that he keeps progressing and that it will all turn out.

Tom Nelson. Okay so the funny thing about K-zoo, you would think that you were in Chicago or Detroit. There are so, so many black people here. In fact Jaylen is black too. I love black people though. They are so happy and just fun, fun, fun :) Well Tom Nelson has the whitest name but is so black. He is 17 and loves hearing about the gospel. We have taught him a couple of times and he wants to know the truth and has been praying a lot.

The hardest thing about campus is that you have so many great investigators, and then no where out of the blue they just drop off the face of the earth. We hope that we can keep meeting with all of them though as at this time in life they are really searching for the light.

My thought this week comes from an article that my friend Nicole printed off for me. In the talk it talks about how we need to 'Doubt your doubts, before you doubt your faith'. When questions of faith arise and doubts begin to plague you go back to the basics. You can get caught up in the superfluous stuff. You can absolutely get caught around the axle about some of the things church leaders have said or members have said. Yes those things can affect you, but they shouldn't. We all make mistakes. Those weaknesses that we all have don't lessen God's works. "Moses disobeyed, Jonah disobeyed, Peter disobeyed. Disobeying does not make you less of what you are called to be. It means you need to repent. We shouldn't hold people up to higher expectations than we hold ourselves." 

Mark 2:17 "When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

Let us all turn to Jesus Christ who is the master physician. He will heal our wounded hearts. He can be our friend, he can guide, lead, and direct us. He is the reason that I am out sharing the message of the Restored gospel. He lives. He has prepared the way for us. Doubt our Doubts before we doubt our faith. Search for God. He is the way the truth and the light. If we have doubted our faith, which I know that we all will sometime in our lives, I encourage you to pour your heart out in prayer and ask for guidance. Seek the answers.  They will come. It takes time. God truly does have a plan for each and everyone of us. None of our plans are the same. This time we have on earth is a preparatory state and very short. A time that we are ALL preparing to meet our maker. We need to be doing our best to put God first, to turn to him ALWAYS and seek his divine guidance.

I love you all so very much. I hope that as you go through out this week that you truly turn to God and ask, "What more can I do.". He is there as a friend, a listening ear, but most of all a loving Father in Heaven.
Have a wonderful week.

Love,
Sister Milar

P.S. Sorry about the lack of pictures. The SD card I had in my camera is not any good... So.. it deleted all my pictures. Good thing most of them were backed up.

Miracles!

Well I am sorry to say I am the worst person in the whole world and have come short of time once again. A couple of amazing things happened this week though.

To start off. Campus is a hoping place. There are students every where and you never know who is really truly prepared and who is just wanting to ignore you. Actually the ignoring part isn't very hard to figure out. It is just trying to figure out where the Lord needs you and who he is wanting you to talk to. Well this past week we are walking onto campus. We decide to stop this girl who. Looked at us and saw we were trying to talk to her but then she signs to us. Well this took me by surprise and I signed that I know a little bit of sign language. Which is truth but not very much at all! So She told me that she has met with missionaries before and her name. I said would you like to meet again and she said yes. So we got her number and picked her up as a potential. This truly was a miracle because Heavenly Father blessed me with the gift of tongues and was able to help us communicate with her.

The second miracle is Allie Ross. I have met Allie a couple of times and we have taught her a couple of lessons. She is really cute. 26 years old and has been through a lot in her life. We texted her on Wednesday to see if we were still planning on meeting, she didn't reply so we showed up to where we were supposed to meet at. Well she didn't come. We texted her another time and hadn't heard back from her. So we decided to just stop trying because we don't want to push her too much. Well Saturday night we had a thought that we should text her and invite her to come to church on Sunday. We asked if she thinks she would be able to make it. She said yes I think so. We get told that all the time and usually they don't show up or something happened. Here we are sitting in the cute chapel at church and I look up and here comes Allie! OH I jumped right up and said hello. We sat by a girl named Paige who just reached out to her and everything. She stayed for all three hours and is planning on coming to FHE tonight.

Conference was so wonderful last week and I want to encourage all of you to listen to this talk and to tell me what you think of it. I truly was so inspired by it and know that this is what the Lord needs and wants us to hear. I encourage all of you to go back and listen to conference again. There are so many blessings that come from it.  (https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2017/10/gods-compelling-witness-the-book-of-mormon?lang=eng)

I just love the work and I am so grateful that I am able to be out here. Thank you for all that you do for me.  Keep being strong and of good courage. Happy Birthday to one and all!! I LOVE YOU!!

Love Sister Milar
P.S P-day is on Saturday so It is a quick week!! I will talk to you in a couple of days!!

 

Conference!!

Oh my lanta! Wasn't conference just absolutely amazing! I loved everything about it and I hope that you all got some things out of it. Heavenly Father truly has a plan for each of us and one way that we can just feel that love of the gospel even more was through conference this week.

This week here in the Zoo has been pretty fantastic. It has cooled down a lot. The weather here is just kind of ridiculous because it is always all over the place. It honestly just blows my mind. One day it is sweltering hot and the next is freezing cold. I love the heat and am not looking forward to winter so much.. But think. It is October so we just need to keep this weather the way it is and life will be good.

 

We picked up this new investigator named Jaylen. He is from Detroit and is here and WMU. He is 19 and agnostic. We have had a few lessons with him. WE have been talking to him just about the basics. He really has never learned anything about God but believes that there is more out there. It is actually very incredible as he keeps all the commitments we leave with them. So this last lesson we were going to recap the 1st vision and share the rest of the message of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We had just got through the great apostasy and we mentioned that after all this time of people searching to and fro for the gospel as it states in Amos, then we get to Joseph Smith but all I say was in the 1920's there was a boy who was looking for truth. He looks at us and says, "Joseph Smith Right" we smiled and said yes... He has a true desire to learn and is coming a long the path. He just has so so many questions. Hopefully he can receive his answers by the spirit. We are meeting with him again tonight and I am excited for it.

 

On  Friday we had interviews with President Brennan. The Brennan's are just so great. I love them so much. We had a wonderful conversation and asked for a whole bunch of opinions from Sister Eisert and I. We most likely will be staying together or I might be taking over the area. We will see what actually ends up happening.

 

Today's thought comes from conference. I loved every bit of conference but one thing I wanted to share was from President Uchtdorf: he talked about How do we know where to go? Are we able to feel the call of Heaven in our lives? God truly knows all, he knows when we weep, he knows us by name, he teaches us to harken to the voice of the Lord. As we do this 1. Our life will be better. 2 God will be able to use us to help other's lives be better. Remember though thtat the gospel wil not remove all of our trials. As it says in the scriptures in Ether 12 We are given weakness to make us humble which in the end will strengthen us. Don't compare ourselves to others. Be the best you that you can be.

 

I love you all and hope that you have a wonderful week!

Love Sister Milar

 

P.S. story of the week. So on Friday night it is Sports night at the KUB. We invite our investigators and nonmember friends to come and play ultimate Frisbee. This is great for a few different reasons. One it is a very happy environment and everyone feels welcome, two people invite all their friends, three it is fun!. So we kill three birds with one stone.  This week we were playing. We had broken up into smaller groups. My team was 4 girls and 1 boy. We were killing it. (yes the girls were killing all the guy teams) Well Elder Merritt, one of the zone leaders, loves Frisbee and is pretty good at it. We were playing against his team and keeping up really well, they always win. The score got to a tie at 10's, next point wins. So here we go we are playing and the other teams are just waiting for us to finish. Well the Frisbee starts coming towards me... except it is over my head and it is for the other team. I know I need to block it  or Elder Merritt will come out of no where and catch it. So I take a good jump up and barely reach it and swat it down as he tries to catch it and misses. I BLOCKED IT! VICTORY!! We won that game and we were all so happy haha The end! I hope you have a great day :)

Purple Sunday!!

 

 

Happy CONFERENCE!

Wow so much to write and let's be honest. I have been very poor about my time today I guess, so I will write as much as I possibly can.

 

To start off, this week I went on trade-offs with Sister Hooper and Sister Gittens. Sister Hooper is 32 and is such a kind loving wonderful missionary. We were able to see many miracles as we went about talking to the students on campus. We picked up 4 new investigators that day. We were so happy about it :) This week alone we have picked up 60 potential investigators and 6 new investigators. We are hoping and praying that we can turn some of these into more solid investigators. We have been finding a lot. Right now many of the students are just looking for the truth so it is a perfect opportunity to talk to them. I am pretty funny when it comes to talking to them. This one boy, was saying how god and science can't co-exist. He told me he is majoring in math. So I decided to ask him some more questions relating to math. He said well we just don't have proof that their is a God. I asked well do we have proof for everything in Math? He said well ya, because they are proving things everyday. Then he goes on a tangent about how everything keeps improving in the world. I asked him how he knows that a line goes on forever. He said well because there are things that show it, and then they keep adding on to the algorithm to keep it going, but we just believe that it goes on forever.  I smiled and said exactly. That is how God is. Your belief will turn into more and more faith. You can see him a little bit each and everyday and then one day you will have your perfect witness. Let's just say we walked away smiling and with a new potential investigator. hahah You could say I'm ruthless but it was funny and God is good and it worked. Everything denotes there is a God.  You just have to look for the opportunities.

Sister Gittens is also wonderful. She is having a hard time out here though and doesn't really want to change anything about it. So that was a little bit of a struggle. She doesn't want any help so we just were able to work a lot and get so many great things done.
Elder Snow also visited the mission this week. We had an early morning meeting with him and about 8 other people. It was great, he talked to us and asked how we found the mission was doing. He told us that President Monson is not doing well at all, his health and memory are failing. He said that we probably won't see him at conference at all. Keep him in your prayers. We received some great training later with all the missionaries. We talked about the different names of the Holy Ghost and how the Holy Ghost really is a constant companion and as members of the church we truly need to use the spirit to our advantage.

Sister Eisert and I were grateful by the end of the week to be companions once more. We love each other so much. Both of us have such a strong desire to work together and be diligent missionaries. We got the giggles about 30 times last night. Then we were talking and said that was probably the hardest we have laughed our whole missions. Let's just say... Toes are a weird thing hah.

We've each other so much, We have found some new investigators. One in particular. His name is Jaylen. He is great. He is agnostic, but is very curious and secretly you can tell he wants to know what God means to him. He is just scared that he will have to act once he receives the answer. Which to be honest he will. We have met with him a few times and he is progressing really greatly.



Kate's baptism!



Saturday we got to go back to Cadillac. KATE GOT BAPTIZED!! It was so great to go back and be a part of her baptism. She was so very happy :) We showed up just in time. Sister Hughes is doing so great and is a whole new person up there.

We got back to K-zoo just in time to get ready to go to women's conference. It was so fantastic. For all the men out there, you've got to go and watch it. The talks were so inspiring. My heart just melted as the spirit was so very strong. I loved all the talks but one quote that I absolutely loved was by Joy D. Jones. She talks a lot about comparison. Comparison is the thief of Joy. We are bound to Jesus Christ through eternal ties. If the pull of the world is greater than Heavenly Father, we need to evaluate and change. The Savior will lift us to higher ground where we are safer. SO KEEP CLIMBING. We never want to reach a plateau in our lives, when that happens there is no climbing occurring which means we aren't improving at all.. So as Dori would say, just keep swimming.

I love you all so very much. I hope that you have a wonderful week and I can't wait to hear about all your conference experiences. Keep working hard and being the best people you can be.

 

Love Always, Sister Milar



Sister Eisert Hughes and I



Sister Hooper and I

 

Welcome to Kalamazoo!!

Welcome to Kalamazoo!!
What a busy week this has been. Well I have officially left Cadillac and have started a new adventure in K-zoo. My new address is 232 Lake Ridge Dr. Kalamazoo Mi 49006. So I hope to hear from you all soon. I love my baby Sister Hughes in Cadillac and she is doing so great! She is having a baptism on Saturday and I am so proud of her and all the hard work she is doing. So much improvement has happened.

My new companion is Sister Eisert. She is from South Weber. She will be going home in December. We are opening the Western Michigan University Campus area for the sisters. The zone leaders have been serving here but since missionaries were down the shut the sisters area down during the summer. So we are up and running. :)

It has been a good week though. Lots of wonderful meeting with the Mission president and stake president. We do a lot more paper work than I use to. We are like the parents of the Kalamazoo zone so everyone calls and talks to us when they need anything. So to be honest I have been very short on time lately. We usually just barely make it to bed by 10:30 and a few nights later than that by the time we get everything done. I love it though. I love being able to serve the missionaries I am out here with.

The best story this week. Since we are serving on campus we don't have a car. It only takes about 5 minutes to walk and then there are students everywhere. So yesterday we decided to walk to church which is about 40 minutes away. It was a beautiful day and the sun was shining. We serve at the KUB which is the Kalamazoo University Branch. So we got in there and sat down after visiting and this girl walked in that none of us knew. I looked at her and stood up to sit by her. Her name was cash and she is just looking for a friend. She was really quite. Sacrament started and she was out cold. In a deep, deep sleep. My heart melted as I think she might be homeless. I tried to poke her awake for sacrament but to no avail. So after the meeting she followed us to gospel principles where once again she fell asleep. Then I ran to the restroom after that class and she was gone... We are hoping that we will be able to see her again. After church we ran over to a members home for lunch. On our way back it started to sprinkle but we all know what happens in Michigan. When it rains in pours. So with in 5 minutes we are completely sopping wet. So we walked back to the KUB just dripping wet. We walked inside and just got the giggles. We looked like disasters and still had to walk 45 minutes home to change. Life is so great. We were happy the whole time because we love the rain and as a missionary that is the best thing that you could possibly ask for!

This week is going to be crazy busy. Elder Snow is coming to visit on Wednesday, Sister Eisert and I have to be there early for a meeting with him and then we will be with him all day. We also have trade- offs with sisters that are serving in Three Rivers and St. Joseph. I am excited to see all of them and meet the ones I haven't met yet. Then I hopefully can head back to Cadillac for Kate's baptism!! Happy DAY!

I just want to close with one of my favorite scriptures found in 2 Nephi 31:20. It says, "Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life."

I love you all so much.
I hope you have a wonderful week!

LOVE SISTER MILAR

 

 

Transfers!!

Where to even begin. These last couple weeks have been hmmm kind of weird....Last week, Richard Marvin (49 years old), a guy that I have been able to reactivate called just crying and told us, that he can't do it anymore and that he won't be at church or anything... Uhh....

 

We tried asking him what happened, if someone had offended him or he doesn't understand something etc., but to no avail. So we left it at that...

A couple of days later, he called us back and asked to talk to Sister Hughes, anytime people call though we are both on the phone. So through the tears he confessed, "I am invested with Sister Milar. I am in love with her."

Let's just say I almost died right then and there uhhh.... WHAT IN THE WORLD!! So awkward. So now days I feel super awkward all the time, he texts and calls like no exaggeration, about 15 times a day. The latest worst thing is that he wants to move to Utah....He keeps asking where I live and every time Sister Hughes replies she either ignores it or says, "someplace outside of SLC."  That leads us right into transfers. Bless our dear mission president. President Brennan. I love that dear soul. He called though on Thursday night which only meant one thing...

 

I am getting transferred to Kalamazoo, Western Michigan University and I am being a Sister Training Leader! I am kind of excited, but I don't know how I feel about going back to college town. It will be great. My new companions name is Sister Eisert. I have met her before. She was Sister Garner's companion at one time. Sister Hughes is going to be heading up the area and will be just perfect here. I know she will do so great.  We are also having some visitors here in the area.

 

Elder Steven E. Snow was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on March 31, 2001. He previously served as a member of the Presidency of the Seventy from 2007 to 2012. During that time he had supervisory responsibility for the Utah Areas as well as the North America Central Area. He has also served as Executive Director of the Priesthood and Family Department and as President of the Africa Southeast Area of the Church. He is currently serving as Church Historian and Recorder and is the Executive Director of the Church History Department.

They will be coming this next week and we will have a conference with them. It will be so great. I can't wait for the counsel that we will receive from them.
 

Well I just want to end with a quote this week that I loved. It says,

"Only when we fix our gaze on the Heavenly things do we begin to understand the eternities. Only with the help of Christ can we fully overcome tragedy. It is necessary to develop our faith in him as the Redeemer of the World, In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."

 

I love you all and home that you have a truly amazing week.
Love Always,
Sister Milar

 

 

What a week!

Dear Family and Friends,

This week has been just great!
Once again you never know where or what is going to happen with missionary work.
The Begging of the week started out pretty well. It has been cold though and the leaves are starting to change colors.:(

 President Brennan called us on Monday night and wanted to know if he could take us out to lunch on Tuesday and see our apartment. We went out with him and his wife and their daughter who had just returned to them from serving her mission in Kentucky. She was just staying for a couple of days so they were taking her around the mission. We went to my favorite restaurant here in Cadillac called Herraunduras. It was so delicious I got this giant burrito. Then after lunch President told us to drive safely the next day to Holland and then gave us what he called "love money" to stop and get ice cream on the way home. He is such a wonderful person!

So on Wednesday we took a trip to Holland! I wish it was far far away in a land across the ocean, but this Holland is only about 2 hours away. Only kind of far away. We went to a doctors appointment and got to see a little bit of the cute town. We also had to get our oil changed and tires changed at a place that the church has an account with so we stayed there for sometime as the mechanics were working on the car. We got some delicious Ice cream and had a joyful time :)

Then we met with Kate. Kate is just so great! She was referral from a member just a couple weeks ago. We have seen her at church two weeks in a row. The first time before we had even had a lesson with her! She was put on baptismal date the first lesson and has been truly prepared. She loves church and the doctrine and knows that it is true. We will keep meeting with her but she is scheduled to be baptized on September 30th. However, we are going to change that because it is GENERAL CONFERENCE!! So tonight we are going to change it to September 23rd. Sad Fact, sister Hughes is extremely allergic to her dog and her eyes puff up like balloons every time we meet. No worries, I always make her take non-drowsy Benadryl before the lessons now.

Then a true amazing experience,  Change has happened and it is absolutely amazing! Most of you have known that Sister Hughes has been struggling out here. It has been a constant battle to keep her out here but completely worth the fight. On Sunday, something happened. Both of us aren't sure what happened but I know it is definitely part of Heavenly Fathers Plan. We had an appointment with one of our investigators Bar. Barb has been a challenge from the begging, but has done a complete 360 in the last few weeks. At first Sister Hughes really hated her and asked why we had to go back to see her. All I would say is something good is going to happen and I have faith with in her.

 After a good lesson with her Sunday night, Sister Hughes was asked to give the closing prayer. I started to tear up in the prayer. I had never heard her pray like that before. She had real intent behind it, desire and love. It was so incredible to witness. As we walked out of the room I said, " You love her." and kept walking. Before I knew it Sister Hughes was in tears, but these were happy tears!!! We stopped and talked for a second and I told her that this is the joy of missionary work and she gave me a hug and said thank you. We had a good talk that night. Well things have been improving since. She is excited for the work.
Monday night We went door knocking and she was excited, smiling and laughing even while door knocking. While we were door knocking we found this incredible couple who sat and talked to us for 30 minutes. We gave them a copy of the Book of Mormon and they were so excited to begin reading it. They invited us back and to have dinner with them. Their names are Lindsay and Grant. I would love if all of you could keep them in your prayers and pray that they can continue to study the Book of Mormon and come to know the truthfulness of it.

Lastly, this week everything that I have been studying has been somehow related to family history. It is kind of weird. I know it is a message from Heavenly Father. The spirit of Elijah is speaking to all of us as well to the Prophet and apostles. I have a challenge for each and everyone of you. I want to invite you to all open up family search and do something with it this week. Whether it is to add a story or a picture to someone or find a name to do something for your families. I know that as we follow Malachi's promise that we will be truly blessed. Our families all have people that need to be found and added to. I know that this is one way that we can all contribute to missionary work and that through our Savior Jesus Christ all will be resurrected and we will be able to be sealed to them for eternity.
I love you all and truly don't know what I would do with out you. Keep being so great.

Love Always and Forever,
Sister Milar

 

IT IS TRANSFER WEEK!

So We find out where we are going on Friday and I will be emailing on Saturday! 

 

Consecration

This week has been a very interesting week. It started off last Monday with a wedding at the church for a member named Lisa Judson. She and her Boy Sam have been dating for a few months and decided to get married at the church.

The wedding was supposed to start at 4. She asked me and Sister Hughes to come at like 3:30 to show a church video. I was dying but I said sure, if that is what you want. So when we get there. They had just pulled up and wanted to set up all these things for the Wedding. I WAS DYING! She is just wearing her jeans and a T-shirt to set up in. Then she looks at Sister Hughes and I at about 3:55 and said, so can either of you do my hair... Oh boy so we do her hair and she changes.

Then she hands us a flower and said could you two be my bridesmaids hahah so we walked down this very awkward aisle.. I was dying inside but hey it was all for a good cause.
We also had zone conference this week. Oh It was so great. The whole thing was about how to help the Traverse City District become a stake and how we can be more consecrated missionaries. Sister Hughes and Sister Bair sang a duet and did phenomenal. They both have great voices and did great together, you could say that I am their manager as I told them that they should sing together :)

We also have been able to teach Barb quiet a bit lately. She came to a self defense RS meeting this week and just chatted with everyone. We had to leave early but, rumor has it that she was saying that she doesn't think her pastor tells them all truth and she really doesn't like him. The only problem is that she has promised to take her dad to church each and every week and he won't switch churches. We talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ with her last night. She is coming along very nicely. Please keep her in your prayers as we are hoping for her to be able to come to church with us!

 

"Strength isn't something you have, but it is something that God helps you find." -Emma Smith
Alma 26: 12  Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.

I know that as we put all of our trust in our Father in Heaven, all things will be made possible. That as we try to do things by ourselves they can be nearly impossible. That burdens at times can be heavy and going through life can be a very big challenge if we strive to do it alone. Remember our Savior and the price that he paid for each and everyone of us so that we would NEVER have to go through things alone. This time of year is getting busy, school is starting again, work is probably in full swing, kids are gone and so much to do. I know though that as we take each day at a time that we can overcome the world. That through our faith we can move mountains, calm storms, bless those around us that we love and change the world. I love you all so much. I hope that you all have a wonderful week and remember that you can do all things as you trust in your Father in Heaven and your Savior, Jesus Christ.

Please let me know if there is ANYTHING I can do for any of you. 
Love Always and Forever,
Sister Milar


This cute Colombian gave us Popcorn because she just thought we were the best people in the world!

No point in doing my hair because it rains everyday and it just starts to curl! Supporting Less Actives at a band concert with Richard Marvin.

 

Rainy Week!! With the most beautiful views!