The Key to Being Happy

Ahoj! Where to even begin. This week was one of the most incredible weeks
EVER. I love the work. I love being happy. It comes from heaven! I am so
grateful to be working alongside with my Savior.

So we met with a new friend of ours. He is actually trying to start up his
own business and is asking for English help. So we teach him English and
then we share a spiritual thought at the end. It has been amazing to see
somebody who does not beleive in God, feel His love. As missionaries we get
a little extra dose of the love that Heavenly Father has for his children.
We prayed at the end of our meeting and asked that God bless him to have
success. He got very emotional and thanked us for helping him. He expressed
to us how much it meant to him that someone he had just met recently
already cares so much for him and his well being and success, that they
pray for him. It was a very heart touching moment, and I am excited to
continue sharing him our beleifs and joy that come from our faith in God!

I also have been blown away by the simplicity of joy. If that makes any
sense? Literally we can be happy because of so many things! I love the fall
season! Not biased at all hehee. My companion and I literally get giddy by
looking at the leaves changing their color. It is something so beautiful,
and always brings a smile to our faces. I love that when we look at the
little things, they can make the brightest impact on our attitudes!

We were driving home from a meeting and looking at the beauty of Gods
creation, and talking about the lesson we would be having once we got home.
We met with a person who was an investigator in the past, and he told us
that he wants to be baptised. We asked why and he said so that I can be
clean. We are very excited to keep teaching and help them understand the
great importance of the path to heaven.

We had an absolutely amazing lesson with an investigator that we have been
meeting with for a little over a month now. He is from Slovakia and
extremely difficult for me to understand, but the spirit always carries us
through. We were able to show him the video, Hope of Gods Light. It was
such a powerful lesson. he has gone from being very mad at God, to finding
that He really is still there for him. It is amazing to see the spirit
soften hearts of Gods children. I understand his concerns. He has had a
very rough past, and he believed that God was no longer there to help him.
But we testified of so many experiences and scriptures of how we can
communicate with our Father in heaven and make things right. He will help
us. He gives us these challenges because that he knows we can overcome
them. That is where the role of the Savior comes in. We must rely on him.
At the end of the lesson, he prayed for the first time in eight years.

I have found that the key to being *happy* is by *loving* others.

One day it was pretty quiet outside, not many people. I thought to maybe
try walking through a little neighborhood to see if anyone was out, and if
not we could knock on a couple of doors. My companion and I were talking
about our favorite parts of the gospel. Mine was that we have a loving
Heavenly Father, and He gave His Son. I love how much we refer to Jesus
Christ as our rock. I love that He is always there and we emphasize how to
feel His love and become His friend. Then down the road on the corner I saw
a man in a wheel chair. He was very disabled. I knew I needed to tell him
that God loved him. I walked up to him almost as if I knew him. And he
could not speak. I told him that we had a Heavenly Father and that He knew
him and loved him. I gave him our card and he had a huge smile, I shook his
hand and he struggeling said ahojjjj in a very crackling voice. He could
only moved one hand. Then he resumed to looking up at the sky smiling. I
love that experience. Something so little and simple. I knew he needed
that. I know that I was prompted to meet him. I loved his attitude of being
at peace and looking happy even though it is probably a really hard life
for him.

I also got to give a CTR ring to a sweet little ten year old girl that we
are teaching. She was so excited and jumped for joy!! How fun! To see
someone with some much hope in God. She told us that she prays whenever she
is nervous and always feels better.

We also got to go to a training in Brno! Drove all the way across the
country for it! What fun. Long long drive for me, but it was really good.

We also got to meet with a new investigator. It was so wonderful. He
believes in nature. he told us the he did not believe in God. We shared
scripture and our message powerfully. The spirit was so strong. I shared my
experience of finding God and in the end his heart was softened and he told
us that we would think about God existing and talk to us more this weekend.

I love this work. I love the gospel of Jesus Christ. It brings the greatest
joy.

1 Nephi 18: 21, 22 Nephi is a great example of saying prayers of faith and
adjusting the sails to the Lords way. Prayer is so powerful and the Lord
truly knows the way. We must trust in Him.

S laskou,

Sestra Miller

*Beautiful Czech Republic*
*Country Riding*
*Our church building*
*Yes we are matching *
*We rode across the country this week*
*Made Slovak Halušky!*