This Thing Still On?

Hey everyone. Sorry that I've been slacking on these updates. Sam has not stopped writing, and in fact has been doing really well. Below is his most recent email. I'm going to backfill a few weeks too, so look for those posts too at www.eldermillar.com

"What is up everybody?! Basically this week like every week was a mixture of good and bad. Except this week the good was really good and the bad was really bad! But that is what I love is that even as a missionary you get a good mixture of experiences everyday, that is why everybody always has good stories at the end of the mission!

Anyways I will start with the good this week! Tomy got baptized!!! Everything went smoothly this week and he got baptized this past weekend! It was an awesome experience and it was cool because he has such a strong testimony, and he wanted to get baptized so bad! I was able to do the baptism! It was a good to help someone make that covenant with God! But this Sunday he is going to get confirmed and so that should be good! Other than our baptism, the rest of our work this week was pretty pathetic, I got sick. I was throwing up for like 8 hours straight, dry-heaving and all for about 3 hours. It was the worst experience barfing ever! So I felt pretty crappy for a couple days, so we couldn't work that much, then Saturday at like 6 Elder Sureda got sick and threw up. So we were both pretty sick the last few days! We just rested today for p day I took a nap it was pretty awesome! I hope this week, we can have more energy and better health! This food here is not as clean as I would like, but you have to eat what the members give you!

Anyways I think I have about 2 weeks left here in Malvinas. I think I will probably go this transfer! It will be weird because I know this area really well, and it will be weird to have to start over with everything! But it will also be a good opportunity! We are pushing for at least one more baptism this transfer! We had 2 investigators in the church this week! One of them is a 14 year old girl, her mom is less active and we went and visited them a few weeks ago, and the girl wanted to know about the church. So she went and liked it a lot. We are going to try to baptize her the 30th of August but we will see!

Sorry I don't have that much more to write about, thanks for all the emails and support from up there love all you and talk to you next week!

Muddy Waters

"Hey everybody!! So this week was a good mixture of misery and success! So this week it has been raining basically everyday really hard, and by 20 minutes into working my socks are soaked and my pants are soaked! It is so awesome that we still go out and work even in these circumstances! We went last night to visit one of our investigators and she asked us why we are working the pouring rain. I told her we are working because this is the truth haha! No but the other day I fell in the mud when it was raining so that was a bummer, we had to go back to the pension [Editor's note: I think he means apartment] and change! haha but the work continues!

So the work was pretty good this week. We have right now 2 investigators progressing, Tomy (the 9 year old kid) his mom finally gave him permission to be baptized. So we are going to baptize him this Saturday! He is super excited and so that should be good! We also have another lady that is awesome here baptism is in a few weeks but basically everyday she is reading and praying. She lets us in every time we visit her and so that is a nice change! We taught this week about the 10 commandments. She couldn't go to church this week because of elections(even our branch president left in the middle of church to go vote) but we taught her this Saturday so we really stressed the sabbath day. She said I have to vote and it is just going be a crazy day! We kind of got serious with her and basically told her we should not make exceptions for any of the commandments, whether it is don't kill, or keep the sabbath day holy! So she then promised us that she is going to go next week! Elder Sureda told her you are not promising us, you are promising God! So I think she will go haha! No but the work is getting better! Elder Sureda and I work really well together and we are seeing some good results!

This week we also did divisions with our DL and his comp, I went to the other area and was with Elder Nina who has been here for one transfer! It was an awesome experience to work in another area for one day! But by the end of the day, I will say I did miss Islas Malvinas haha!

So today as a zone we made Asado (which is basically bbq) it was awesome, we all got together cooked a bunch of meat and played soccer in the rain! The meat is pretty dang good down here I will send you all some photos so you know what it is like!

Watching the movie The Best Two Years growing up
never seemed as I had thought the mission would be. But I now realize it is exactly like that, and if you put in enough work and do your best The Lord will pick up the rest! My life is awesome and I am so happy here in Argentina! I was reading in Moroni 7 this week and it says no one should be baptized in the church unless they have the will to serve The Lord everyday! I think that goes along with members of the church, that we should strive everyday to serve Him!

Love all of you and miss you!

Let's Go, Everybody!

Hey everyone! This week was really good and really different well because I have a new companion! This week was awesome speaking nothing but spanish! I always felt guilty when Elder Laudie and I would speak english, and well now I cant so it is good! He done speak a little bit of english actually he always says "everybody" and "lets go" he is actually a really funny kid. It is awesome to be with him and to work with him. Even though he has the same amount of time as me on the mission he was in a big "villa" in Capital. (Which is basically a free place to live, so there are just a bunch of houses stacked up on top of each other!) But he baptized a ton of people there and it is good to have that energy here in Grand Bourg! Even though he is from Chile and I am from US we actually have a lot in common so it is good! It is cool that we both only have 3 months on the mission I feel like pres Ayre has a lot of trust in us. When he called us to tell Elder Laudie that he was going to be a ZL, he said "you guys are both new missionaries just work as a power team and baptize everybody in Islas Malvinas!

Anyways with the work, this week we found a lot of great people! We were walking down the road one day and this lady was like "Hola Elderes!" so we went over and she already has gone to church a few times with the elderes like 10 months ago! So we went to visit her and pick her up for church and she fell through haha! We gave this other girl a baptismal date and she accepted but she couldn't go to church so we set up a date for today so we are going to see! But yeah all of these people who we found this week fell through Sunday but when we got to church Tomy was there! Remember him from like 3 weeks ago he is 9 years old and the reason he didn't arrive at his baptismal date is because of his mom! Anyways he shared his testimony and said that he knew it was the true church and that he knows God exist because his parents are getting back together and he prays everyday that they will get back together! So we went after church to visit him, and we taught him the Plan of Salvation, and of course he was a stud! But now that the mom and the dad are basically back together the mom (a non-member) was all excited that he shared his testimony and they are all going to an activity at the church this Friday! So if everything goes well with that we are either going to try to baptize him this Sunday or the Saturday after! But I will let you all know pray for this kid!

It is weird now in my life totally focused on the gospel there is no greater happiness then seeing people feel the spirit and seeing them realize that this is the only true church! Before my mission I always knew that this was all true, but now after sharing my testimony multiple times a day and reading the scriptures and seeing people's lives change, I have no doubt in my mind that this is the truth! I see other people trying to do what is right but they just like the exact truth! I have also come to the fact that fasting is the coolest thing every. Because the 3 times since I have fasted here in Argentina those same weeks we had investigators in church! "THIS IS THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST AND THIS IS THE TRUTH!"