12 December 2016

Well hello everyone. I hope you are all good and happy and full of joy. I love you all so much and I am praying for you guys everyday. This week was awesome and so fun. My new companion is Elder Salazar and he is so awesome! We have a lot of fun together and he likes to sing too, so we  are always singing haha! We love to sing the Christmas hymns!

So I love you all so much. This week has been very interesting. We were able to find 10 new investigators this week. We are working so hard to find and baptize. We were able to work with the members a lot and find more people to teach. I love this work so much. It is so awesome and I love finding new people that God and his angels have chosen to accept the Gospel.

The Sanchez family are really awesome. We are planning their baptism now for the 24th of December. We are praying daily for them and hoping they can progress. Their father is Atheist and we finally talked to him. He wanted to know all of the information that we knew and all the knowledge we had. we told him that God doesn't want us to have a perfect knowledge of things. God wants us to walk with faith, not with knowledge. He wants us to show our faith and keep walking. I testify that with faith, everything is possible.

We are getting closer and closer to Christmas! I invite you all to show your faith and grow and remember Jesus Christ. He is our Savior, and I know he came to the Earth. He died for us. He suffered for us. We will overcome the world thanks to him.

I love you all so much. Thanks for everything. I love you all so much. Thanks for everything! I love you all so much! Happy Holidays!!!!!

 

Love from Peru,

Elder McMillan

Baptism of Luis

Elder McMillan and Elder Alcazar

Elder McMillan and his trainer, Elder Volquez

Elder McMillan, his pensionista Gabby, & Elder Alcazar

Monday December 5, 2016

This was a miracle. Brother Luis wasn't sure he wanted to get baptized so me and my companion just figured it would be the next week. We were returning to our room in the afternoon and he followed us home and said that he had received an answer and wanted to get baptized. This man gave up smoking and coffee and kept all the commandments so he could get baptized.  It was a miracle! I had prayed to God so much to have a baptism because my companion was finishing the mission, and I wanted to have a baptism with him. Then this all happened. This picture is testament that miracles do happen. I know God lives. I testify that he answers our prayers, when we pray with faith. I love you all so much! Jesus Christ is our Savior. I know he lives! He lives, he lives, he lives, I just know it with all of my heart!!!

I love you all!

Love from Peru,

Elder McMillan

Monday November 28, 2016

Hi everybody! I love you all! So I wanted to tell you all that this work is so awesome. I love it so much! I testify God lives. He wants us to be happy and he has a plan for us. He wants us to overcome all the challenges that we have. Everything is possible with Jesus Christ our Savior.

We were able to find 10 new investigators this week! It is so fun and awesome being able to find new people to teach. They really are chosen for our Father in Heaven.

We have a baptism this week! The brother in named Luis Enrique Ramirez. He is so awesome and I am so excited to see this baptism. He is so awesome and I just love him so much. I am so excited to see his baptism!

I testify to every single one of you that this work is real. God is real. Please know he is real and he exists. I invite you all to watch the new video by the Church for Christmas. You will feel the spirit I promise you all! I love you all so much.

 

Love from Peru,

Elder McMillan

Hey friends!

I love you guys so much and I hope you all know it! I know this message really will bless your lives. The gospel of Jesus Christ really blesses the lives of everybody. I have seen changes in families here in Peru, and It is all thanks to the Gospel of Jesus Christ! I know the Gospel of Jesus Christ really changes the family. Everything is better with the Gospel of Jesus Christ

We were able to find 16 new investigators this week! We worked really hard and gave it our all. We looked 24/7 to find them, and we met our goal.

President Rios came ot our ward yesterday and told the members we need to work together more. He showed a plan in which we will be able to work together and find more people that are really chosen to accept the gospel!

I love you guys so much and I hope everything is ok I love you all and I testify that God lives and that he literally is our Father in Heaven!!!!

Read 2nd  Nephi 22:2!

 

Love from Peru,

Elder McMillan

Wednesday November 9, 2016
 

Hey family and friends I am writing today because we went to the temple! The temple is beautiful and you all need to go to the temple!

This week my companion and I we had the opportunity to find 14 new investigators! It was such a fun week and we have been working so hard together! We love it out here!

 

We have 2 dates for baptism the 26 of November! Caled and Jean Carlos are going to be baptized! Jean Carlos is a funny dude because he tells me he wants to marry my sister hahaha!  He wants to be my brother in law hahaha!!! He is such a funny dude!

I am forgetting English a lot. When a missionary speaks to me in English it is hard to remember haha! I love you guys so much!

I had the opportunity to finish the Book of Mormon again this week in Spanish! It is true! I know it! I love you all!

 

Love from Peru,

Elder McMillan

31 October 2016

 

Hey family and friends! 

Well it is great and sunny and really hot here in Peru. I am dying of heat hahaha!

Well my companion Elder Alcazar is awesome! He is so awesome I love him so much! We get along so well and we area working really hard. He is finishing his mission this change but we are working so so hard. He is from Tijuana Mexico!

We were able to find 7 new investigators! They are so awesome. We were working so hard to find, and I was able to see that literally the Lord puts people in our way. He helps us find when we do all that we can. It is so awesome. We found a man named Jean Carlos that really wants to have a eternal family!!!! Our goal is to help him get baptized in this month!

I love you guys all so so so much. This work is so beautiful! I love you all!

Love from Peru,

Elder McMillan



Monday October 24, 2016

Hey friends! So, it is a new change and I am staying here in Trujillo ! How fun!  I am really excited to be here. We have 2 baptisms planned for this month, and we are really excited because we think they will happen, we're actually really sure that they will happen! One of them is named Marjoree and the other investigator is named Caled. They are awesome and have huge testimonies! Our goal is to have their baptisms on the 12th of November! We will do it, I promise you all!

I love you all and I invite you all to read D and C 98 it is awesome!

I promise you all that God listens to our prayers. He is always listening to us and he wants what is best for us.  He will help us through everything. He listens to every prayer we offer, I promise you all.

We had a baptism this week! Phiero was baptized! I am so excited for him and will send y'all a picture. I know this work is the Work of God!!! I love you all!

Love from Peru,

Elder McMillan

ON TOP OF THE WORLD

ELDER McMILLAN AND ZONE

ELDER McMILLAN AND ELDER VOLQUEZ, HIS TRAINER

ELDER McMILLAN, ELDER SANCHEZ, ELDER VOLQUEZ

ELDER McMILLAN LOVES HIS COCA COLA

ELDER McMILLAN'S TYPICAL PERUVIAN MEAL

Monday October 17, 2016

Well hello there friends and family! I love ya'all and I testify that this work is real!

So this week we found an investigator whose name is Walter. He told us we found him at the perfect time. His wife and daughters had just left him. We taught him about Jesus Christ and the loving power of the Atonement. We each gave him a hug and he just started crying. It was such an amazing experience for me. I know he is chosen to accept the Gospel.

I want to testify to you all that this Church is true. I know that God loves us and he cares for us. I know we sometimes have challenges but I know our Savior will literally pick us up and carry us when we need him. Our Savior is always here for us. He is waiting to carry us home. All we need to do is allow him to do it.  I promise you all he is waiting for you to allow him to carry you all. I promise you all he will help you. Trust in him. Let him carry you. I know that he can do it. Allow it to happen.

I want you all to remember that our Church is unique. It is original. It is different from all the different other sects because it has the truth. We have a prophet, and 12 apostles. We have the power and authority of God. We have the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The message of the Restoration is power. It has strength. It can quiet anyone that has doubts about this Gospel. I know with all of my heart that God, our Eternal Father, and his son, Our Savior Jesus Christ, appeared to a young boy named Joseph Smith. This is the final Restoration that will happen on earth. There will never be another Apostasy. Please know that this message is a message of power. It is truth. It is a message of love, and beauty. I know this message is true, and I know it is a message of power. I know that this message is true and it needs to be taken in all parts of the world. I love you all and I testify that we have the Truth. I testify that the Book of Mormon is the most correct book here on Earth. It is written by prophets. It is about the old inhabitants of the Americas. This is True and I know it. I love you all. Have a great week and share your testimonies with the world!

Love from Peru,

Elder McMillan

10 October 2016

 Family and Friends!!!

Well hi there everyone! so sorry I didn't write last week! I didn't have anytime to write last week!

This week was so awesome! We had interviews as a zone with President Rios. It was so awesome! I love our Presidente so much! He is awesome!!!!! I learned so much from him and he helped me so much!

We were able to find 8 new investigators this week. They are really awesome! We found uno hermano and his name is Luis. He is a catholic teacher and didn't believe in the restoration. My companion taught him about acts 3 verse 19 which talks about the Restoration! He was frozen and finally understood the Restoration. It was so awesome!

Our investigator Caled has gone to church 2 times now! He is so awesome and our goal for his baptism is 29 of October!

I love you guys so much and I hope that you are all happy and healthy! 

Love from Peru,

Elder McMillan

03 October 2016

Sorrys pals I dont have time this week, so I just hope you know that I love you all so so so much and always revise your notes that you took in Conference, you will always find something new!

26 September 2016

 Well hey there everyone! love you all so much and am praying for you guys everyday. This week was great and so exciting!

Well this week me and my companion, we were just walking down the street and a lady stopped us and talked to us. We talked to her and it turns out she wanted us to visit her. She had been having some troubles with her family. We went to her house and visited her. She is chosen! Her name is Rosio. She has 3 children that are all grown up. She even came with us to church on Sunday. It was awesome! She found some friends there and really felt comfortable. She is awesome!

I have been praying for General Conference to come, and it is finally here! We are so lucky to listen to the Prophet and the 12 Apostles. I am so excited!

I gave a talk in church about a testimony and the importance to find a testimony and the importance to share a testimony. I was nervous but I hoped everyone liked it!

It was a really good week here in Trujillo. We had a multi zone and it was so awesome! I felt the spirit so strong. Some other elders also told me that in Chao, my first area, the investigators that I found are going to be baptized! I love you all so much and I testify that this Work is real!
 

Love from Peru,

Elder McMillan

The Zone

Elder McMillan and "Friskies"

September 19, 2016

Hey friends and hey family! I love you all so much and am praying for you all. So this week was definately interesting and fun hahaha!

So we started in our new area which is really exciting! We have met new members of the Church and met awesome investigators! Our pench here is good too. She makes good food and is going make tacos for me tomorrow! I love food!

There are 4 new missionaries in my zone, and yes all are North Americans. They are all awesome and want to learn so much. It reminds me of when I started my mission and I didnt understand anything! haaha!!!

I was translating for them in one of the meetings we had, and it really is so hard to remember english. I dont remember anything. I will have to take english classes when I get home hahaha!

We have a multi zone tomorrow so we will eat some yummy food there as well  I hope!

I love you all. I have been reading in 3rd Nephi a lot. I am realizing that Jesus Christ is our Savior everytime I read a verse. Each chapter is a testimony that He lives! I testify with all of my heart and my soul that our Father in Heaven lives and so does his Son, our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. I love you all!

Love from Peru,

Elder McMillan