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!