Elder McMillan with his zone at the ruins

Elder McMillan with Desiree Castillo, a wonderful lady who helps missionary moms get special things to their missionaries

09 January 2017

This week was awesome!  We were able to find 11 new investigators and they are all really awesome. I am so happy in my area. It is awesome!  I love it so so so much. I am so happy to be here and to learn and I just love it! Trujillo is so awesome!

This week was really good. We were able to also find a new room where we will live. It is a nice place and we hope it can be of use for the other missionaries that will live there in the future.

I have been thinking a lot about the mission. It  is so amazing! Getting to meet new people everyday in another country! it is insanely awesome! I love these people so so so much. They are so special. I love them so much. It is so amazing to think we are all brothers and sisters. God has a plan for each and every single one of us.  He loves all of his children and wants us to be happy. through the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we will have this peace. We will have joy and will have the opportunity to return to his presence, if we live the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I testify to you all in the name of Jesus Christ that this is the only church by which we can find true joy. Live it and love it. Be worthy and do it, because we will have peace through this Gospel. Remember to read the Book of Mormon everyday. It is the word of God.

I love you all. This mission has changed me, and I am so thankful for this time that I have to serve.

I love you all! Be strong and trust in God!

Love from Peru,

Elder McMillan

Photos from Mission Christmas Devotional

Elder McMillan was able to witness this beautiful family be sealed for time and all eternity in the temple

02 January 2017

This week was my miracle week. I don't know why but I was feeling a little down and felt sad. I felt bad. In my studies I prayed with all of my heart and asked for help. During my personal studies I was reading in Ether when the Lord says he will pull the brother of Jared and his people out of the deepness of the ocean. He has prepared our way. He will pull us out of the dark and give us light. Ether 2 verses 24 and 25. He loves us and wants us to be happy. Please, read this beautiful chapter it is so awesome! I promise you all that you will feel the spirit!

We were leaving our pensionista and decided to go knock on a random door. A sister named Maria opened the door and told us the missionaries had visited her before. She pulled out her Book of Mormon and had marked it up like crazy! She knows this is the true church and we asked her to be baptized and she accepted! She is so awesome and me and my comp are so excited to visit her and help her so she can follow the Example of Jesus Christ and be baptized!

I testify God is real. His son Jesus Christ is real. I love you all so much! Read the Book of Mormon all of you. I promise you all that you will find the answers of your heart! I love you all!

Love from Peru,

Elder McMillan

26 December 2016

l love you all and hope you all had a Merry Christmas! I love you guys so so much and want you all to remember that everything is possible with Christ our Savior. I know he was born and that he lived. I testify that he is real. Please believe it! I love you all so much. I am sorry my time is short today! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

Love from Peru,

Elder McMillan

Christmas message from Elder McMillan
December 25, 2016

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