March 9, 2009, Elder Milner

Responsibilidad‏

Hey everyone thank you for the emails. I am happy to hear that everyone else but dad is healthy and happy, but I am sure dad is still happy. I am also healthy and happy, aparte of the fact that I am without running shoes. I have lost my shoes. I can no longer admire my shoes, and I would like to be in them right now. We'll see if you can all remember the movie.
So you want to hear about my personal life. I am Elder Milner, and I am working in the area of Ica Central. I am companions with an Elder Rua, also from Ecuador, and we are one of three companionships here in the District Ica Central. I have had a baptismal interview, to answer dad's question, and each week we have a council, where I need to speak for two hours to the district, it is a training i guess you could say. I live in Las Torres de San Joaquin with two other Elders, Elder Fredericksen from Chile, and Elder Lazo from here in Peru. They are the zone leaders. We eat in the pension for lunch and supper everyday, and we eat breakfast in our house. I really don't cook anything, so sorry mom, it will have to wait til I get home.
My mission president, President Francisco Fierro, is a man of grand faith, and a powerful man in the Gospel. I have had the opportunity to get to know him better in the past seven weeks, and I have a lot of respect for him. I have not left Ica for four months and some, and I have not been able to go to the temple in a while. But I love Ica, and I am happy to be here still. My clothing is holding out just fine, but I lost my shoes. I am very sad for this, but oh well, what can one do?
This week we had a great blessing. We had what one calls a Surprise baptism, and we had the opportunity to baptize a really great sister named Merly Lopez. She has been investigating the church for more than nine months, and she really wanted to become a member of the church. She has been preparing and planning for a long time, and we had an interview to see if she had prepared sufficiently, and she had! So that day, Saturday, we had her baptismal service. It was really amazing, and I am so happy for the great blessings of the Lord.
I know that this church is true. It is something I have always said, and I really know that it really is. I know that Our Heavenly Father is guiding a prophet today, and that Our Savior Jesus Christ has restored his Church through His prophet Joseph Smith.

Love you all, Elder Milner