Missionary Letters
Weekly Letter - 18 Apr 2020
Sent Date:
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hola Presidente,
I'm so sorry that this is so long in coming! I'm sending this just to thank you for everything
you and Hermana Chacon have done for me (do for me). I'd have written this sooner, but to
be honest it makes me pretty emotional and I really wasn't ready for that til now. I'm so so
grateful for you and your family and the sacrifices you make for us as missionaries.
Bautismos Noviembre a la fecha
Sent Date: Monday, November 18, 2019
Author: President Chacón
Extraordinarios Elderes y Hermanas, favor imprimir y revisar en sus consejos de distrito.
Versión de esta carta con información adicional y más completa enviada en sus correos
personales.
Conversiones y Almas que próximamente harán convenios en el Templo
Hasta la fecha hemos tenido 23 bautismos con potencial de 36 en el mes de noviembre. El
numero que se ha bautizado por zona es:
• ofelia 9
• esmeraldas 4
• ipiales 3
• imbabura 2
• imbaya 2
• otavalo 2
• calderon 1
• quinindé 0
• quito 0
• oriente 0
Sin dudas es un mes muy bajo y como se comentó en la gira misional, estamos dejando
todo para el próximo mes. Por ahora este es el mes más bajo de la historia de la misión y
me parece casi que imposible que así sea con este Battallón de Misioneros. Sentimos y
sabemos que la Misión Ecuador Quito Norte es la mejor misión del mundo, y sin ninguna
duda lo es, ya que es la única misión que nosotros tenemos. Hagamos de ella algo
maravilloso. Sólo se podrá lograr con Misioneros maravillosos y todos ustedes lo son y
tienen un potencial aún mayor. Recordemos el mensaje del Elder Zeballos: “La clave de la
misión es ser dignos. Debemos arrepentirnos cada día. Arrepentirnos de pecados y también
de hábitos que no son pecados pero en los que necesitamos mejorar. Arrepentimiento no es
malo, es muy bueno y nos impulsa a ser mejores.” Sé sin ninguna dudas que doblaremos
los bautismos de conversos si nos arrepentimos diariamente y trabajamos con todas
nuestras energías. Y al doblar las almas que entren por la puerta de la fé, el Señor nos
confiará más de sus hijos para llevarlos a la senda que los conducirá hacer convenios
sagrados en el Templo y merecer vivir en exaltación con sus familias.
“Sí, y todos cuantos han obrado milagros los han obrado por la fe, tanto aquellos que fueron
antes de Cristo, como los que fueron después de él… Sí, y todos cuantos han obrado
milagros los han obrado por la fe, tanto aquellos que fueron antes de Cristo, como los que
fueron después de él… Y en ningún tiempo persona alguna ha obrado milagros sino hasta
después de su fe; por tanto, primero creyeron en el Hijo de Dios. Y hubo muchos cuya fe
era tan sumamente fuerte, aun antes de la venida de Cristo, que no se les pudo impedir
penetrar el velo, sino que realmente vieron con sus propios ojos las cosas que habían visto
con el ojo de la fe; y se regocijaron.” Éter 12
Les amamos, sabemos que son el Batallón de Señor Jesucristo, fueron llamados por El
para predicar el arrepentimiento y bautizar conversos. El les dará todo lo que le pidan si lo
hacen con fe y si actúan con fe.
Presidente Jorge A Chacón
Hermana Moraima Chacón
Misión Ecuador Quito Norte
La Mejor Misión del Mundo – TU MISIÓN
Weekly Letter - 18 Nov 2019
Sent Date: Monday, November 18, 2019
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hello President,
Thanks for taking the time to read all of these letters! I´m doing great here. I absolutely love
my companion and she is super patient, fun, kind, and a great teacher, to me and to our
amigos. Everything is going well. I´ve already learned a lot from her about the culture and
about Spanish. We actually talk all of the time, so that´s been a blessing. The elders in my
district are also really great, and have been very considerate. For example, today they
wanted to go with us to lunch to try some sort of fish soup. I wasn´t sure about that because
my stomach hasn´t been super happy lately, so they decided we can go to pizza instead.
The members in the ward have also been great. The Spanish has been frustrating, but I
understand that it can only come with time, and the worst thing that happens is that people
laugh a little, so it´s okay. Besides the language and being assaulted by new experiences
that are totally outside my comfort zone every ten seconds, all is well! I´m thrilled to be here
and I love our area. On only my second day here, we contacted two new investigators. It
was awesome. One lady totally chased us down in the street, so we set an appointment and
went and visited her. She was so awestruck by the Book of Mormon, and just said, how did I
not know that this existed? The other was a man named Jaime. He is older, and he was
standing in a little gated parlor and called us out of the rain. He was happy to meet us until
we showed him our tags. He doesn´t like Mormons and he proceeded to tell us all about
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what we believe. Which of course was a bunch of nonsense. We talked for a long while, and
by the end, we´d committed him to reading 3 Nephi 11, and we will be back to visit him this
week. I´m not sure exactly how these letters are supposed to go, but thank you for your time
and the incredible sacrifice you and your kind family make everyday for us missionaries.
Anyways, I´m doing well and so is my companion, and I love being a missionary. The Spirit
has been ever present and I know the Lord is guiding us each day.
Sincerely, Hermana Miller
Obediencia con Exactitud y un Sacrificio con Fe
Sent Date: Monday, November 25, 2019
Author: President Chacón
EXTRAORDINARIOS ÉLDERES Y HERMANAS MISIONERAS
En tan solo tres días cumpliremos 5 meses sirviendo en esta maravillosa misión a la que
amamos porque estamos en el servicio de nuestro Señor y nos encontramos sirviendo con
cada uno de ustedes. Es un privilegio que jamás olvidaremos y estaremos eternamente
agradecido al Señor y a ustedes por todas las experiencias que estamos viviendo, por la
oportunidad de ser obedientes y ofrecer sacrificios al Nuestro Padre Celestial, por este
hermoso país y su bella gente, por el importante llamamiento como misioneros por el cual
hemos sido apartados y estamos consagrado en esta hermosa causa. En esta semana de
Acción de Gracias o “Thanksgiving” deseo compartir con ustedes una cita de nuestro
amado profeta el Presidente Thomas S Monson:
“Un corazón agradecido se logra al expresar gratitud a nuestro Padre Celestial por Sus
bendiciones y a aquellos que nos rodean por todo lo que aportan a nuestra vida. Esto
requiere un esfuerzo consciente, por lo menos hasta que verdaderamente hayamos
aprendido y cultivado una actitud de gratitud. Muchas veces nos sentimos agradecidos y
tenemos pensado expresar nuestro agradecimiento, pero olvidamos hacerlo o simplemente
no tomamos el tiempo para hacerlo. Alguien ha dicho que el sentir gratitud y no expresarla
es como envolver un regalo y no obsequiarlo.
Les amamos y sentimos de igual manera su amor. Gracias por cada momento que vivimos
con ustedes.
RECORDAR LAS ENSEÑANZAS DEL ELDER Y LA HERMANA ZEBALLOS
Fueron muchas las enseñanzas recibidas las cuales atesoraremos no solo en la misión sino
por el resto de nuestras vidas. Fueron enseñanzas de vida que nos harán mejores personas
y más cercanas a Dios. Entre las muchas enseñanzas hoy deseo destacar las siguientes:
• PROMESA DEL ELDER ZEBALLOS: Arrepentirnos cada día no solo de nuestros
pecados sino de aquellas cosas pequeñas con el propósito de mejorar. Si así lo hacemos
lograremos bautizar mucho más y seremos herramientas en las manos del Señor para
salvar muchas más almas.
• Estrujar o escudriñar las escrituras a diario para gozar de la compañía del Espíritu
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• Tener buen ánimo y trabajar con todas nuestras fuerzas sin importar el área o sector al
cual hemos sido asignados
• No hay mejor misión que esta, porque esta es nuestra única misión
• Debemos ser pacientes y enseñar con mucho amor a todo aquel que el Señor a puesto
en nuestro camino
• SER DISCÍPULO es una persona que se deja enseñar y sigue al Salvador. Un seguidor
actúa por si mismo y a través de HACER llega a SER.
El Elder y la Hermana Zeballos les envían sus felicitaciones por el comportamiento que
observaron en nuestra misión entre las que se destacaron:
• La reverencia durante las reuniones y el respeto al no salir del salón para atender otros
asuntos
• La puntualidad de cada misionero y su participación durante las enseñanzas
• El respeto en el trato entre Élderes y Hermanas y pidieron que continuara siendo así
• El mirar con el Ojo de la Fe a familias siendo selladas en el Templo
• El amor y preocupación genuina que sienten el presidente y su esposa por cada uno de
los misioneros
Felicitaciones a cada uno de ustedes - Su comportamiento y disposición fueron
extraordinarios.
AYÚDANOS SEÑOR A SALVAR UN ALMA MÁS
En el mes de Noviembre hasta la fecha se han logrado 37 Bautismos de Conversos
distribuidos así:
Ofelia - 9
Esmeraldas - 8
Imbabura – 4
Calderón - 3
Imbaya - 3
Ipiales - 3
Otavalo - 3
Quinindé - 2
Quito - 1
Oriente - 1
Para el mes de Diciembre hay un potencial de 100 Almas a Salvar. Yo creo que SI lo
podemos lograr. Sigamos con nuestro compromiso de: 1) 20 CONTACTOS diarios, 2)
Arrepentirnos para ser mejores, 3) Invitar al Bautismo a menos que el Espíritu nos indique lo
contrario y 4) HACER para SER Discípulos
PREPARÉMONOS PARA LA NAVIDAD
Preparémonos para ILUMINA AL MUNDO. Fueron enviados a cada Zona las tarjetas de
Ilumina al Mundo. Favor enviar por zona cuales son los planes para lograr las referencias
en Diciembre usando Ilumina al Mundo – Coros, visitas a hogares, actividades de servicio,
etc. Sus ideas son Bienvenidas – Se permitirán actividades por zonas una vez aprobadas.
Recuerden que este 1 de diciembre será el ayuno mundial. Alimentaré al hambriento.
Jesús alimentó al hambriento y tú también puedes hacerlo. - Véase Mateo 14:19
Tendremos actividad y Cena Navideña para Multi-Zonas que comenzará a las 12 del
mediodía en la Capilla Iñaquito y luego pasaremos a la Casa de la Misión:
• Diciembre 10: Zonas Esmeraldas, Quinindé, Imbaya y Ofelia
• Diciembre 11: Zonas Imbabura, Otavalo y Calderón
• Diciembre 12: Zonas Quito, Oriente e Ipiales
Asignaciones
• Todos deben traer un regalo de $5 para jugar el Elefante Blanco
• Calderón, Quinindé e Ipiales serán responsables de hacer la representación del
NACIMIENTO DE JESÚS según el evangelio de Lucas.
• Todas las demás zonas tienen la asignación de un número musical. Favor enviar cual
será el himno que cantarán por zona para evitar duplicidad. Los que envíen primero tendrá
prioridad.
• Recuerden enviar una carta de Navidad a sus Padres/Familiares.
Amados Élderes y Hermanas Misioneras, recordemos que la Obediencia es la primera ley
celestial. La Obediencia trae bendiciones, pero la Obediencia con exactitud trae milagros. Y
si unimos la Obediencia con Exactitud y un Sacrificio con Fe, estaremos actuando como el
Salvador. El profeta José Smith enseñó: “Por la fe en esta Expiación o plan de redención,
Abel ofreció a Dios un sacrificio aceptable de las primicias del rebaño. Caín ofreció del fruto
de la tierra, y no fue aceptado, porque no pudo hacerlo con fe; no podía tener fe ni podía
ejercer una fe que se opusiera al plan celestial. Para expiar por el hombre, era necesario el
derramamiento de la sangre del Unigénito, porque así lo disponía el plan de redención; y sin
el derramamiento de sangre no había remisión; y en vista de que se instituyó el sacrificio
como símbolo mediante el cual el hombre habría de discernir el gran Sacrificio que Dios
había preparado, no se podría ejercer la fe al ofrecer un sacrificio contrario, porque la
redención no se pagó de esa manera, ni se instituyó el poder de la Expiación según ese
orden. Por consiguiente, Caín no pudo haber tenido fe, y, lo que no se hace por la fe, es
pecado. Pero Abel ofreció un sacrificio aceptable mediante el cual recibió testimonio de que
era justo, y Dios mismo le testificó de sus dones”
USTEDES SON IMPORTANTES PARA NOSOTROS – LES AMAMOS – PRESIDENTE Y
HERMANA CHACÓN
Weekly Letter - 25 Nov 2019
Sent Date: Monday, November 25, 2019
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hola President,
I´ve made it through my second week, and I still am loving this. Hermana Anibarro is the
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best companion I could have ever asked for, she´s fun and kind, and patient and a wonderful
teacher. I´d like to be a missionary just like her one day. Thank you for making us
companions. I love the ward here and the people, they´ve been feeding us for every single
almuerzo and are keeping us both really full! They´re so kind, we´ve already had invitations
for Christmas, and even one for Thanksgiving, which is so sweet because they don´t
celebrate that here obviously. We had Interviews of ministration this week. I had mine with
Hermana Brast. She is awesome, and it was wonderful to talk with her, and I got lots of great
advice for ways I can be more effective and ideas for handling the things that come with
being a new missionary. We´ve been working hard tracting. I´ve found that it is my favorite
thing to do as a missionary. I love to have an excuse to go up and introduce myself to
perfect strangers and share our message, it´s a blast. We want to contact every part of our
area in the next ten weeks, and not spare a door. So we looked in our area book for our
map, and it was kind of pathetic, so we´ve created a much better one using google maps,
and we made a copy we can carry with us. We´re going to contact every street and keep
track, that way we don´t waste our time rewalking the same streets and places. I´m really
excited about it, and I think this will help us hone in on our goal to contact 20 people per day.
We´ve done it once, and we´re getting closer to doing it often. I´ve learned so much in these
last two weeks that it´s crazy, and I´m in love with Ibarra and the people here, it´s incredible
place to be. Thanks for your time President.
Sincerely, Hermana Miller
Weekly Letter - 03 Dic 2019
Sent Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hola Presidente,
It was another good week. I had the opportunity to challenge one of our investigators to be
baptized. She did not say yes, but neither did she say no! So we have given here one of the
plans for happiness that can give her the fourteenth of december as a goal date for baptism.
I also had a cool experience yesterday on the bus on the way back from a zone meeting. I
got a seat next to a girl. I had the impression that I should talk to her, but I really did not want
to! I can understand more than I can speak and I did not have my companion with me to
help. But I then had the thought, What if I have orchestrated this moment so that you can sit
next to this girl on this bus that you might be the means whereby she can hear of my
restored gospel and you choose not to say anything! Ouch! So I took a deep breath and
opened my mouth, and it was awesome. My Spanish still was not pretty, but she
understood, and we quickly became friends. She gave me her address and phone number
and we will soon be going to visit her and her family of five, who have never heard of our
church and do not attend a church of their own. It was a real confidence boosting experience
for me. They understand me! Haha. Anyway, it was a good week, and I am learning so
much. Hope all is well with you and your family. Thank you for your time.
Hermana Miller
Ready for Christmas Conference? Listos para la Conferencia de
Sent Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Author: President Chacón
Extraordinarios y poderosos Élderes y Hermanas Misioneras,
Muy felices estamos para verles a todos estas semana. Hemos preparado muchas cosas
para ustedes y sé que ustedes se han preparado también y deseamos ver todo lo que han
practicado. Ustedes son en realidad EXTRAORDINARIOS. Le AMAMOS y son para
nosotros nuestros hijos misionales.
Hoy escribiré poco. Solo quiero recordarles que lean La Ley del Sacrificio del Presidente M.
Russell Ballard. Lo anexo de nuevo. Impriman el mensaje y léanlo. Si ya lo leyeron, léanlo
de nuevo, si lo han leído dos veces entonces mediten sus enseñanzas y piensen de que
manera les afecta y como pueden implementarlo en su vida misional y luego en su misión
de vida. De esto hablaremos en nuestra entrevista.
Les felicito porque estamos teniendo una Navidad Blanca!!! Ya logramos los mismos
bautismos del mes de noviembre y hay un potencial mucho mayor. Ustedes están dando
todo de si para darle esos hermosos regalos a Jesucristo:
1. Una Blanca Navidad durante todo el mes de Diciembre con el mayor número de almas en
las aguas bautismales que jamás hayamos ofrecido a Él.
2. Le presentaremos también el mayor Potencial con Fecha para bautizar en el mes de
Enero.
3. Llevaremos a cabo Noches de Hogares en los hogares de los miembros según el
mensaje o guía de Ilumina al Mundo como se indica en el párrafo arriba.
Les esperamos con los brazos bien abiertos!! Vengan con Hambre… buenos en realidad
ustedes vienen siempre con hambre ὠ?.
Ustedes son MUY Importantes para nosotros – LOS AMAMOS
Presidente Jorge Chacón y Hermana Moraima Chacón
Transferencias, Despedidas y Bienvenidas
Sent Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Author: President Chacón
AMADOS Y EXTRAORDINARIOS ÉLDERES Y HERMANAS MISIONERAS,
MISIONEROS SIRVIERON CON HONOR Y MISIONEROS LLEGAN A NUESTRA MISIÓN
– SU MISIÓN
En esta semana se nos fueron 9 maravillosos misioneros (ver fotos):
• Hermanas Brast, Cabrera, Francou, Medina, Meza, y Lozano (el 23 Dec)
• Elderes Blake, Sangay, Quispe
Los amamos y extrañaremos inmensamente, pero los felicitamos porque cumplieron con
honor y así cumplirán ahora en su Misión de Vida.
Hoy llegaran 16 misioneros a quienes les daremos la bienvenida!! Ya son parte de nuestra
familia. Ya les amamos!!!
DICIEMBRE ES NUESTRO GRAN REGALO AL CRISTO NUESTRO SALVADOR
1. Una Blanca Navidad durante todo el mes de Diciembre con el mayor número de almas en
las aguas bautismales que jamás hayamos ofrecido a Él. (((Ya pasamos lo que hicimos en
Noviembre))) Felicitaciones!!!
2. Mayor Potencial con Fecha para bautizar en el mes de Enero. (((Vamos muy bien)))
3. Noches de Hogares en los hogares de los miembros invitando a investigadores amigos
como parte de Ilumina el Mundo
REFLEXIÓN
“…he decretado en mi corazón probaros en todas las cosas, dice el Señor, para ver si
permanecéis en mi convenio aun hasta la muerte, a un de que seáis hallados dignos.
“Porque si no permanecéis en mi convenio, no sois dignos de mí” (D. y C. 98:14–15)
USTEDES SON IMPORTANTES PARA NOSOTROS – LOS AMAMOS
PRESIDENTE JORGE CHACÓN Y HERMANA MORAIMA CHACÓN
Weekly Letter - 17 Dic 2019
Sent Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hello President,
I wanted to begin by thanking you and Hermana Chacon and Esther for all that you did for
us as missionaries to make that Navidad conference so much fun! It was awesome, and I
know so much work was put in behind the scenes for that. Please tell them for me, I
appreciated that more than you can know, it feels much more like Christmas afterwards.
This week we had a baptism! The first for me in the mission. We went a few hours early to fill
up the font, and I was standing there and had an epiphany of sorts, and your words came
back to me from our interview. You are living your dream! And its so true. Here I am, a
missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Saints in Ecuador, and I could not be
happier. I was thrilled to be able to have Hermana Anibarro for another cambio and we are
doing great. Luckily for me my district is nearly the same too, which is fun. We will be getting
a greenie Elder, so that will be fun, and I will like not being the greenie anymore haha. This
week we extended two more date for baptisms and they both accepted, so it has really just
been an awesome week. They are both for the fourth of January. Thank you for our
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interview President. It was fun to get to know you a little better. I needed to just talk too, and
so I appreciate your time. I feel really blessed to have you and your wife as my mission
president and wife for all of my mission and I look forward to getting to know you both even
better. Please tell Esther hello for me too, she´s awesome! Thank you for everything,
Hermana Miller
Abrir Nuestros Corazones para que haya lugar para El en el meson
Sent Date: Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Author: President Chacón
AMADOS Y EXTRAORDINARIOS ELDERES Y HERMANAS MISIONERAS,
Espero que en esta Navidad, donde estamos centrados en el Señor Jesucristo, lejos de
nuestros hogares y familias, podamos abrir nuestros corazones aún mas para dejar entrar
en nosotros el regalo más grande que nos dió Nuestro Padre Celestial, Su Hijo Jesucristo.
Ruego que podamos arrodillarnos y como pastores que hoy somos de Nuestro Señor
Jesucristo, miremos hacia el cielo y nos imaginemos al angel diciendonos:
“No temáis; porque he aquí os doy nuevas de gran gozo, que será para todo
el pueblo:
Que os ha nacido hoy en la ciudad de David, un Salvador, que es Cristo, el Señor. Gloria en
las alturas a Dios, y en la tierra paz, buena voluntad para con los hombres.”
No hay nada por qué temer. Estamos seguros. “La paz os dejo, mi paz os doy; yo no os la
doy como el mundo la da. No se turbe vuestro corazón ni tenga miedo” (Juan 14:27).
Si aceptamos la invitación del Salvador de seguirlo, el temor duradero desaparecerá para
siempre. Nuestro futuro está asegurado. Estas son las “nuevas de gran gozo, que serán
para todo el pueblo”. “No temas”, nos recuerda el profeta Isaías, “porque yo estoy contigo;
no desmayes, porque yo soy tu Dios que te fortalezco; siempre te ayudaré, siempre te
sustentaré con la diestra de mi justicia” (Isaías 41:10).
O como les digo a nuestros poderosos misioneros: MIEDO NO! NUESTRA FE ESTA
PUESTA EN NUESTRO SALVADOR Y MIRAREMOS SIEMPRE CON EL OJO DE LA FE,
CON EL FIN EN MENTE.
Les amamos, ustedes son los pastores que ahora ven y ponen en alto la luz del Señor
Jesucristo. Ustedes son los Discípulos de Jesucristo que cuentan con Su Luz tal como fué
declarado por El mismo cuado nos visitó en America: "Alzad, pues, vuestra luz para que
brille ante el mundo. He aquí, yo soy la luz que debéis sostener en alto: aquello que me
habéis visto hacer." 3 Nefi 18: 24
Feliz Navidad en compañía de sus compañeros y con la Luz que es Nuestro Salvador y
Redentor, Nuestro Creador y gran Señor, nuestro amado Jesucristo. Las oraciones de sus
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padres y familiares está con ustedes. Y nuestras oraciones lo estan siempre.
LES AMAMOS Y LOS TENEMOS MUY DENTRO DE NUESTROS CORAZONES.
Presidente y Hermana Chacón
Weekly Letter - 24 Dic 2019
Sent Date: Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Feliz Navidad, Presidente!
It was quite the week. We had a hard time getting ahold of anyone. They´re all traveling or
prefer that you don´t call them until January haha. But we are working hard and contacting
like crazy. I love the christ Child video, that´s been such a blessing to show in the homes of
members and nonmembers. The Spirit is always so strong when we watch that, it´s just
awesome. My companion and I are doing great, she´s a blessing. Our district too is
awesome and we have so much fun together. They´re really great. We especially love
getting to watch Toy Story 4 this morning, so thanks for that! We had a really cool activity
this week in our ward, where all the members and people we contacted donated clothes,
and then those in need came and heard a short program and then got clothes, we contacted
TONS of people. Our ward is so missionary minded, and I love that. So yeah, we are doing
well here in Ibarra and seeing blessings everyday. This is a sidenote, and I´m actually a little
embarrassed haha, but my mom sent three packages for my companion and I for Christmas
and I just wanted to check in and see if you may have seen any of those? Whenever they
get to us is just perfect, I just wanted to make sure they didn´t get lost on the company´s
end. They all have Olaf the snowman from Frozen on them. That´s so embarrassing, I tried
to tell her we didn´t need anything, but you know that means nothing to a determined mom!
So really, it isn´t urgent, I just wanted to check so I could tell her that they made it. Thank
you and Merry Christmas!
LOS LOGRAMOS!!
Sent Date: Monday, December 30, 2019
Author: President Chacón
AMADOS Y EXTRAORDINARIOS ÉLDERES Y HERMANAS MISIONERAS,
¡¡Lo hemos logrado con la participación de cada uno de ustedes!! Cada uno de ustedes
aportó y cada uno levantó desde donde estaba para que hoy con gran gozo entregamos
nuestra ofrenda de Navidad a Nuestro Salvador y Redentor, Nuestro Señor Jesucristo.
En el mes de Diciembre DOBLAMOS los bautismos de noviembre trayendo a las aguas
bautismales a 79 almas - sus nombres y fotos los compartiré en el boletín de la próxima
semana – y hemos aumentado nuestro potencial para Enero a 103 nuevos conversos. ¡Si
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se pudo! Este es el éxito de todos y cada uno de ustedes ya que cada uno ejerció la FE
para lograrlo como la Gran Misión Ecuador Quito Norte, nuestra única misión. Sus
oraciones, ayunos, sacrificios, 20+ contactos diarios, sus esfuerzos diarios en encontrar, en
enseñar, en servir y en ayudar a las personas a tener experiencias espirituales han dado
como resultado esta hermosa ofrenda a Cristo Jesús
CONTINUA....
FAVOR VER DETALLES Y MENSAJE COMPLETO EN SUS CORREOS PERSONALES
DE LA MISION
Weekly Letter - 30 Dic 2019
Sent Date: Monday, December 30, 2019
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hola Presidente,
Thank you for taking the time to interview me yesterday. I realize that was an accident, but
nevertheless I really enjoy visiting with you and I always come away from our interview with
insight that is so helpful to me. So thank you! I don´t have anything to tell you that we didn´t
talk about yesterday, so this letter´s pretty short. I´ll go ahead and give my mom a call now
and talk to her about the pouch company and get back to you about that next week. Thanks
for all you do, President!
Hermana Miller
Invitación especial del presidente Nelson para este 2020
Sent Date: Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Author: President Chacón
Invitación especial del presidente Nelson para este 2020
“Cuando hablé durante la conferencia general de octubre pasado, designé al 2020 como la
época del bicentenario, que conmemora los 200 años desde que Dios el Padre y Su Hijo
Amado, Jesucristo, se aparecieron a José Smith en una visión. Ese acontecimiento singular
de la historia de la humanidad inició la restauración del evangelio del Señor, una
restauración que se despliega y continúa en la actualidad. Dios ama a todos Sus hijos y
tiene una visión para cada uno de nosotros. De la misma manera en que escuchó la oración
de José en 1820, Él los escucha y anhela hablar con ustedes por medio del Espíritu. Los
invitamos a ser una parte importante de compartir el mensaje de la restauración continua
del evangelio del Salvador. Hablaremos más acerca de esto pronto, pero pueden comenzar
hoy mismo, siguiendo las invitaciones que les extendí en la última conferencia general, de
sumergirse en la gloriosa luz de la Restauración. Podrían comenzar su preparación leyendo
de nuevo el relato de José Smith acerca de la Primera Visión que está registrado en la Perla
de Gran Precio. O bien podrían meditar sobre preguntas importantes tales como: “¿De qué
manera mi vida sería diferente si se me quitara de repente el conocimiento que he obtenido
del Libro de Mormón?” o “¿en qué forma los acontecimien-tos que siguieron a la Primera
Visión han influido en mí y en mis seres queridos?”. Elijan sus preguntas personales y
elaboren su propio plan. Sigan cualquiera de estas invitaciones a fin de prepararse para
compartir los importantes mensajes de la Restauración continua. Es su preparación
personal lo que ayudará a que la conferencia general de abril llegue a ser para ustedes no
solo memorable, sino también inolvidable. El momento de actuar es ahora. Este es un
momento crucial en la historia de la Iglesia y la parte que ustedes desempeñan es
fundamental.” Presidente Russell M. Nelson
Como Misión que debemos hacer para aceptar esta invitación:
1. Lea el relato de la Primera Visión de José Smith
2. Estudie y escudriñe a fondo Predicad mi Evangelio y el Libro de Mormón diariamente
3. Medite en que tan diferente sería su vida sin el conocimiento del Libro de Mormón
4. Use los Videos del Libro de Mormón en el estudio de compañerismo y cuando enseñe a
las personas
5. Haga Preguntas importantes e inspiradas y Busque las respuestas en las escrituras
6. Sumérjase en la Gloriosa Luz de la Restauración del Evangelio al sacrificar su tiempo,
sus deseos personales, sus dones y sus talentos llevando la mayor cantidad de almas al
bautismo como Distrito antes de la conferencia de Abril 2020.
Los amamos, su verdadero YO es EXTRAORDINARIO así que nunca se conformen con
menos.
Presidente y Hermana Chacón
Weekly Letter - 07 Ene 2020
Sent Date: Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hola Presidente,
I had a really good week. We had a baptism which was awesome, but we were also really
disappointed when the other girl with a baptism scheduled for the same day fell through. She
had some problems with her family, but we are still working with her. We fasted for her on
Sunday and we have faith that it will all work out! We got flu shots this morning, so that was
something outside the ordinary haha. One thing I´ve been thinking a lot about this week is
what you said to me during our interview about how sometimes we don´t understand the
purpose behind our mission until later, and that´s okay. I have a younger sister who is
preparing to turn in her papers right now and she´s been pretty nervous about a lot of things
and that was some counsel I was able to share with her that was inspired, and it´s really
blessed us both. thank you so much for taking the time to have those interviews, they are a
strenght to me. Hope everything is well with you and your family, happy new year!
Hermana Miller
Weekly Letter - 14 Ene 2020
Sent Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
President,
I had a really wonderful week. I finally got to the point I think where happiness isn´t battling
homesickness. It´s awesome and such a relief. I had intercambios this last week with
Hermana Wood, she is one amazing missionary. I learned soo much from her, ways to
organize myself more productively, and how to have fun while working hard. I´m sad she´s
leaving and we´ll never have the chance to be companions. I also really enjoyed our zone
conference, especially when you started singing the lyrics to I´m singing in the rain! That
was awesome, and this week everytime someone slammed a door in our faces or was
particularly rude, my companion and I started singing that haha. I loved your point. If we look
outside and it is raining, yet we decide to go outside, why are we mad that we´re wet? By the
end of my mission I´m going to have a book of quotes from you President! Great week, and
the working is going really well here. My district is AMAZING. We have a blast. You and your
family are always in my prayers,
Hermana Miller
Devocional con Elder Holland Sabado 25 Enero 2020 8:AM
Sent Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Author: President Chacón
BUENOS DÍAS AMADOS Y EXTRAORDINARIOS ÉLDERES Y HERMANAS
MISIONERAS,
Espero que cada uno de ustedes se esté preparando para escuchar la voz de un profeta del
Señor. Tendremos los siguientes grupos:
Grupo 1 Presencial: Aquellos que están sirviendo en Quito y Otavalo indistintamente de sus
asignaciones
Grupo 2 Presencial: Aquellos que viven fuera de las ciudades indicadas arriba pero han sido
invitados por causa del Consejo de Líderes de la Misión, la capacitaciones de Líderes de
Distrito, y las 2das Verificaciones.
Grupo 3 Presencial: Aquellos que están saliendo de la misión
Grupo 4 En-Linea: Lamentablemente no se nos ha dado permiso para que asistan todos a
menos que se hallen en Quito por alguna reunión/capacitación. Para este grupo le será
transmitida la señal para que lo puedan ver en línea desde un centro de estaca. Tan pronto
tenga el enlace, se les hará llegar.
Debido a los cambios de asignación en sectores/areas que se estarán haciendo esta
semana, el día de mañana miércoles en la tarde se hará llegar la lista de los que deben
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asistir. Los Líderes de Zona serán los responsables de comunicar la lista actualizada de los
invitados una vez reciban este listado y así evitar confusiones.
Los del Grupo 4 cumplirán una labor muy importante ya que ustedes estarán a cargo de
realizar los bautismos y asegurarse que se lleven a cabo las confirmaciones de esta
semana.
Pautas importantes a considerar:
Puntualidad: Capilla Iñaquito a las 8:00 AM. Todos los que asistirán de manera presencial
deberán estar en la capilla de Iñaquito este Sábado 25 de Enero a las 8:00 AM.
Vestimenta: Todos con ropa dominical. Zapatos limpios. Cabellos cortados pero siguiendo
las pautas establecidas en el portal misional. Favor no hacerse cortes que asemejan a
grupos de jóvenes. Su vestimenta debe ser la apropiada para asistir a la iglesia los
domingos lo que incluye el saco para los Élderes y faldas para las hermanas. Favor evitar
traer grandes bolsos y estar lo más liviano posible.
Preguntas: Si se abre un tiempo de preguntas y respuestas, se les pide que hagan
preguntas inspiradas considerando con quién están y donde están. Todas las preguntas son
buenas, pero debemos hacer las mejores que nos ayuden a edificarnos.
Protocolo: La forma de tratar a Elder Holland como Apóstol del Señor Jesucristo. No es
permitido pedirle autógrafos e inclusive fotos. tomar fotografías con Elder Holland. Se está
planeando tomar la foto de la misión antes de la reunión e inmediatamente después, Elder
Holland saludará a cada misionero. El saludo debe ser solo un apretón de mano junto con
su nombre. Si el Elder Holland les pregunta algo más se les agradece ser breves ya que
estarán las dos misiones de Quito y el desea saludarles a todos.
Antes de la devocional: Asegurarse ir al baño y hacer todo lo necesario antes que nos toque
acomodarnos para la foto. De allí saludaremos al Elder Holland y nos dirigirán al sitio donde
nos sentaremos. Una vez en al salón es irrespetuoso salir del mismo. Se les invita a no
estar tomando agua durante la reunión para evitar que tengan la necesidad de ir al baño.
Himnos:
Apertura y lo cantaremos de pie a la señal del conductor: “Called to Serve,” Hymn no. 249
(Llamados a servir, Himno no. 161) en Inglés. Se les hará entrega de un volante para que
tengan las letras del mismo.
Clausura: Al mundo ve a predicar, Himno no.169 en Español.
Fin de la Reunión: La reunión concluirá a las 12:00 PM. Una vez concluida y cuando se nos
indique deben retirarse de manera reverente y salir a proselitar o acudir a la capacitación en
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la capilla de San Carlos, donde les corresponda. No debemos socializar en la capilla
Iñaquito una vez concluida la devocional.
Grabaciones no autorizadas: (Unauthorized Recordings): este documento tiene una
declaración en inglés y en español que será leída (la versión en español) antes de empezar
el devocional. Leer el adjunto para su información previa a la devocional.
Esta será una oportunidad muy especial para todos y les garantizo que será un festín
espiritual. Espero que todos estén preparándose y listo para recibir una enseñanza desde
los cielos,
Les amamos y nos vemos el Sábado.
Presidente Jorge A Chacón y Hermana Moraima J Chacón
Jorge A Chacón
Presidente
Misión Ecuador Quito Norte
La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Ultimos Días
Cel: +593-98-481-2371
jchacon@ChurchOfJesusChrist.org
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Weekly Letter - 21 Ene 2020
Sent Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hola Presidente!
Another week in Central 2, it is a great place to be. Things are going well, although I have to
admit I am more than a little nervous to be leaving the trainee stage! And to get a new
companion, but that is all part of the adventure right? We had a baptism planned for this
upcoming week, but the family of the woman just up and moved and so far we have not
been able to contact them, so that was sad. But other than that, the week was great, and we
contacted a ton of new interested people, the most we have ever had in one week and I
think several have real potential. Also we are getting exctied for the conference this
weekend. Elder Holland is going to shake my hand!! I think that is so awesome, and I am so
so excited to hear him speak to us. Thanks for all you do,
Hermana Miller
Weekly Letter - 28 Ene 2020
Sent Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hola Presidente,
This week was a big one for me. Between Elder Holland, verificaciones, and my first
experience with transfers in the mission, ir was exciting! I can´t believe I shook Elder
Holland´s hand! That was such a neat experience. I even was able to share with an
investigator some things that we learned on Saturday and that was really cool.
Verificaciones are over and I am official haha, so I am happy about that. Although I was sad
to see hermana Anibarro go yesterday, she´s going to be an amazing hermana leader. And
my new companion Hermana Maldonado is equally amazing, and I´m feeling súper blessed.
There´s some serious potential in our sector this month, and I´m really excited. We´ve
already got a district finding activity planned for this weekend, so hopefully that is
successful. Hope everything is going well for you, thanks again for your time,
Hermana Miller
Favor Leer e Imprimir la carta del Feb 4 2020
Sent Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Author: President Chacón
Amados y Extraordinarios Elderes y Hermanas Misioneras,
Se les ha enviado via sus correos personales de la Iglesia la carta que deben imprimir y leer
personalmente y luego en sus estudios como compañerismo. Esta misma carta y sus
anexos deben también ser revisadas en cada Consejo de Distrito.
Les dejo esta nota para su reflección:
"Te alabaré, oh Jehová, con todo mi corazón; contaré todas tus maravillas. Me alegraré y
me regocijaré en ti;
cantaré a tu nombre, oh Altísimo." Salmos 9: 1-2
"I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. I
will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High." Psalm 9: 1-
2
Les amamos y oramos por cada uno de ustedes. Todo su sacrificio es contado por el Señor
y El nunca los desechará.
Presidente y Hermana Chacón
Weekly Letter - 04 Feb 2020
Sent Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
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Hola Presidente,
I had a good week, I am enjoying the change that comes with a new companion. I have
already learned a lot from her and we make a good team. We have already extended two
baptismal dates and they both accepted and we are so excited! We are working hard and
feeling happy. I have been blessed to have great health, haha my companion says that is
something I should write you about. This week I got the news that my best friend returned
home early from his mission in Texas. That was hard for me to take, but it has caused me to
reflect a lot. In good ways. Missions are hard, like Elder Holland said, but I have been
thinking all week about how he said man´s extremity is God´s opportunity. i love that.
Especially when as a missionary I think we are always feeling pushed to the limit physically,
emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. But that is where the growth is and so i am grateful.
Thank you for all you do.
Hermana Miller
Feliz Dia del Amor y la Amistad
Sent Date: Friday, February 14, 2020
Author: President Chacón
Amados y Extraordinarios Elderes y Hermanas Misioneras,
Ustedes forman parte del amor de nuestras vidas. Estamos inmensamente felices de servir
con ustedes y de ser parte de sus vidas. Nuestro Amado Padre Celestial los asignaron a
nosotros y eso ha sido una de las mayores bendiciones en nuestras vidas. Sentimos gozo al
servir con ustedes. Sus triunfos son nuestros triunfos. Sus alegrías son nuestras alegrías.
Sus tristezas son nuestras tristezas. Sus preocupaciones son nuestras preocupaciones.
Sufrimos cuando ustedes sufren y nos regocijamos cuando están bien y felices.
Celebramos este día del amor y la amistad viviendo con ustedes al servicio de quien mas
nos ama en la vida y quien dió su vida por nuestra Salvación, nuestro amado Redentor y
Salvador Jesucristo. Somos miembros de Su Batallón y Le servimos con valor.
Les amamos amados hijos e hijas.
Presidente Jorge A Chacon y Hermana Moraima Chacon
Feb 14, 2020
OJO DE LA FE - Alma 5: 15
Sent Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Author: President Chacón
Amados y Extraordinarios Elderes y Hermanas Misioneras
Para Ejercer la Fe - Alma 5:15
- Mirar
- Hacia Adelante
- Con el OJO DE LA FE
- y Ver
“Pelea la buena batalla de la fe, echa mano de la vida eterna, a la cual asimismo fuiste
llamado, habiendo hecho la buena profesión delante de muchos testigos.” 1 Timoteo 6:12
“Tú eres un hijo o una hija de Dios. Tienes un amoroso Padre Celestial que oye y contesta
tus oraciones. Él desea que seas digno de volver a vivir con Él algún día. Saber eso te
servirá para planear tu futuro terrenal y eterno con un fulgor de esperanza. Cuando mires al
futuro, mira mucho más allá que el día de mañana.”
“You are a child of God. You have a loving Heavenly Father who hears and answers your
prayers. He wants you to be worthy to return and live with Him someday. Knowing this can
help you plan for your earthly and eternal future with a brightness of hope. As you look to the
future, look far beyond tomorrow.” Coleen K. Menlove, Primary General President
Les Amamos
Presidente y Hermana Chacón
Weekly Letter - 11 Feb 2020
Sent Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hola Presidente,
This week was hot, and I loved that! The weather here is awesome. However, something not
so awesome this week was that one of our fechas fell through, for a girl named Joselyn.
That was a bummer, but we are working with her to set a new date. We also had our
entrevista de administración, and that went well. Hermana Oloya is in Tulcan, and so they
came the night before to sleep at our house. We have intercambios this week, and that
means my companion and I will go spend two days in Tulcan, so I am a little nervous about
that, but I think it will also be fun. We are doing well as a companionship. This transfer has
already been a great learning experience for me in that way. I love my sector as usual and
the ward is incredible as always. This week I discovered that the bishop speaks fluent
English! He cheated me out of two and half transfers of never a word of English haha. But
he needs to speak with Americans every week as part of his pathway class and so every
other week I am going to have a meeting with him to discuss the missionary work in our
ward in English. Hope you have a great week, thank you for all you do,
Hermana Miller
Horario durante Carnaval - Feb 23 al 25
Sent Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Author: President Chacón
Horario durante las fechas de Carnaval Feb 23 al 25
Todos los Élderes y Hermanas Misioneras deberán quedarse en sus respectivos hogares a
partir del día:
- Domingo Feb 23 desde las 2:00PM y por el resto del día
- TODO el día Lunes Feb 24
- y TODO el día Martes Feb 25.
No habrá excepciones. Asegúrense de saber administrar su Día de Preparación de hoy
para que hagan la compra de comida y otros insumos que usarán durante los días que
deberán quedarse en sus casas.
El día Miércoles 26 podrán llevar a cabo sus consejos de distrito y contactar a sus padres.
Gracias
Presidente Jorge A Chacón y Hermana Moraima Chacón
Weekly Letter - 18 Feb 2020
Sent Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hola Presidente,
I had a very full week that included intercambios in Tulcan, so I got to spend the day with
Hermana Leonard, and that was AWESOME. We had some really cool experiences, and we
felt the spirit in the lessons so strongly. I think it was the funnest day of my mission thus far,
and I was really grateful because I had been nervous. And although I have loved my Latina
companions, it was fun to hang out with an American for the day. She must sure think I talk
a lot haha! We have one investigator with a baptismal date right now, his name is Wilson. He
is so sincere and I want this so badly for him, he just struggles to feel prepared for baptism.
We taught him the Word of Wisdom this week, and he threw out all of the coffee in his
house! And if that was neat enough, his whole family decided that they wouldn´t drink it
either (they won´t listen to us right now) and he couldn´t believe it. He even came to Stake
Conference. It´s refreshing to have somebody keep their commitments. :) Excited for our
interview on Thursday, thanks for taking the time to do that,
Hermana Miller
Prácticas Estándar de Salud Preventiva | Standard Preventive Health
Sent Date: Friday, March 6, 2020
Author: President Chacón
ENGLISH BELOW
Como misioneros les pedimos que sigan las siguientes prácticas estándar de salud
preventiva:
• Lávese las manos con frecuencia con agua y jabón o un limpiador (gel) de manos a
base de alcohol.
• Cubra la nariz y la boca con un pañuelo desechable o codo al toser o estornudar.
Deseche inmediatamente el pañuelo.
• Evite el contacto cercano con cualquier persona que tenga síntomas parecidos a los del
resfriado o la gripe, incluso evitando darse la mano u otros saludos habituales.
• Cocine bien la carne y los huevos.
• Evite el contacto sin protección con animales salvajes o animales de granja.
• Si se sienten enfermos, deben consultar con las hermanas de la salud.
Esta información también estará disponible para los misioneros en el Portal de los
Misioneros.
As missionaries we ask you to follow the following standard preventive health practices:
• Frequently clean hands with soap and water or alcohol-based hand cleaner.
• Cover nose and mouth with a tissue or elbow when coughing or sneezing. Immediately
dispose of the tissue.
• Avoid close contact with anyone who has cold-like or flu-like symptoms, including
avoiding shaking hands or other customary greetings.
• Thoroughly cook meat and eggs.
• Avoid unprotected contact with wild animals or farm animals.
• If you feel sick, you should counsel with the health sisters missionaries.
This information will also be available to missionaries on the Missionary Portal.
Weekly Letter - 03 Mar 2020
Sent Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Presidente,
My companion and I are doing very well together, every week gets better and better, and as
we work together in the obra and in the living together parts of it, we´ve had a lot of fun and
learned so much from each other. Hermana Maldonado is so Christlike in her humility and
love and patience with me and everyone we know and teach. She´s been a blessing for me.
Our investigators are struggling to keep commitments so we´ve been focusing our study on
that and keeping our expectations high. Although our fechas have fallen through, they are
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continuing to progress and hopefully very soon we can reset some dates. I´ve come to really
love the people I am teaching here and my heart yearns to see them in that white baptismal
jumpsuit!!
I only marked this email as urgent because yesterday we had a sitdown with the zone
leaders in our District Council and I wanted you to be able to have this information quickly.
I´ve felt the need to address with you here some issues we´ve had as a district especially
now that the zone leaders have been involved.
As a missionary, and as a person I am not one who seeks out drama and so my heart is
heavy as I've tried to be prayerful about how to move forward. I have not talked with you
about this concern before now because I felt that since it was not initiated by me, I could just
ignore, downplay, redirect attention and it would go away. I didn't want to bother you with
anything that was unimportant or something that was becoming increasingly awkward at no
fault of my own.
I have made my sister leaders aware and my companion and we've been prayerful in the
past several weeks. I understand that my sole focus should be my missionary errand and
that's my hearts desire and so it hurts that there has been any implication that I have
thought, said or done anything contrary to that-- I have tried to not make an issue out of
unwanted attention from any elders specifically my district leader.
It began months ago and I felt uncomfortable with the joking and teasing- the familiarity in
general. As I shared my concern with my companion, we decided that I should just try to
distance myself, as to not encourage any unwanted attention and have less contact as to not
create a more casual interaction. My companion started answering phone calls so I wouldn't
have to.
I am honestly mortified to have drawn any negative attention. That is not representative of
my heart, my efforts, my obedience, my intention, or me. My district leader has chosen to
speak to zone leaders who did not speak to me or my companion or our sister leaders to find
out a little more information and see things from all sides, before responding.
I have been thinking about transfers coming up and just have tried to wait it out and distance
myself. I am grateful for my associations with fellow missionaries. We are in this great work
together. I want nothing more than to work along side each other and serve.
Please know that my heart is all in. I am striving to be exactly the kind of missionary the
Savior needs me to be. I have been obedient but have become somewhat of a target for
unwanted attention. That is completely unfamiliar territory to me and I want to run from it--
that's not my focus as a missionary. I realize this is complicated and I dislike that it even
needs to be addressed in an email, but my approach of trying to not let it escalate, or back
away from it has not been as effective as I'd hoped. I just want to be the Lord's hermana and
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move forward.
And you should also know that I am just fine. Really you don´t need to worry about me, I just
wanted you to have it come straight from me, because I don´t know what´s been said.
Please feel free to call me if there is anything I can help clarify. I think the dust should all
settle and luckily transfers are coming up at the end of the week. But I´ve already put it
behind me and hope that everyone else can do the same. I love the work and I love being
here in Ecuador! Thanks for everything,
Hermana Miller
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Weekly Letter - 10 Mar 2020
Sent Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hola Presidente,
I am in Cayambe! I am super excited to be here, and even more excited to be companions
with Hermana McCune. You of course know that we were in the MTC together, and we also
sat together on the airplane when we came here and I have a video of us just freaking out
on the plane haha. I am also excited to spend the week in a trio with Hermana Daurio, she is
one amazing missionary. I will miss my district, and I will miss Ibarra, and most of all I will
miss the people there that I came to love. I loved them even more than I realized.... it was
hard for me to leave them. But it is a comfort to know it is in the Lord´s hands always and
that He has a plan for each one of His children, including me! Hope all is well with you,
thanks for everything,
Hermana Miller
President Letter May 10 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, May 10, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It has been so wonderful to welcome 36 new missionaries to the Arizona Mesa Mission. We
are excited to have you come be part of our family, and we look forward to learning from you
and being strengthened by your faith and testimonies. We know that there are great things
ahead for the Arizona Mesa Mission.
I invite each of you to study the article written by President Russell M. Nelson in the April
Ensign. The article is titled “The Future of the Church: Preparing the World for the Savior’s
Second Coming.” In the article President Nelson states, “Spiritual security will always
depend upon how one lives, not where one lives. I promise that if we will do our best to
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exercise faith in Jesus Christ and access the power of His Atonement through repentance,
we will have the knowledge and power of God to help us take the blessings of the restored
gospel of Jesus Christ to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people and to prepare the world
for the Second Coming of the Lord.” I add my testimony to that of President Nelson’s. If we
are striving to repent each day and become better, we will be given the power, even the
strength of the Lord, to take this gospel to all those who seek it. We will find the elect in
Mesa and throughout the world.
Sister Andrews and I would like to have more interaction with you than we have been able to
have in recent weeks. We will be calling to set up times when we can join you for
companionship study and to go over daily goals. We will also be doing weekly Zoom
meetings with the entire mission so that we can discuss the weekly devotionals from the
missionary department. Our first mission Zoom meeting will be this Saturday at 10 AM to
discuss the talk, “Bloom Where You’re Planted” that was given by Elder Gerrett W. Gong a
few weeks ago. At the start of the meeting a companionship will be selected to share their
thoughts on the devotional to begin the discussion. Each companionship please come
prepared to share. A few missionaries will also share miracles that they have seen in their
work. The meeting will be no longer than 40 minutes. We are also in the process of trying
to put together a mission wide general conference trivia game done through Zoom. It should
be a lot of fun.
I would also like to invite the new missionaries to set up a time during this week to teach the
Restoration to their own families. At the end of the lesson please invite your family members
to prayerfully go through their contacts to see to whom they can reach out and send an
uplifting message. For those missionaries that have already taught their families the
Restoration, please teach your families this week the Plan of Salvation and make the same
invitation for them to search their contacts. I know that this will be a special and edifying
experience for you and your families.
Thank you so much for all your faithful efforts. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are
always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 11 May 2020
Sent Date: Monday, May 11, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
To be honest with you I'm actually pretty nervous about writing this email to you... I've never
received a response from a mission president before to my emails, and my companions tell
me you respond regularly. That's actually really cool, although I cannot fathom how you
possibly make the time to read and reply to so many emails each week! That's pretty
amazing. Thank you for all that you do. Being a mission president I imagine is pretty
overwhelming, let alone in this hectic time. I really appreciate all you and your sweet wife
have already done to make us each feel so welcome and looked after and needed here. I'm
really excited to get to know you both better, and am grateful to have the opportunity to
serve in your mission.
Things are going well. It's definitely a bigger adjustment than I was expecting, I suppose I
thought that because I'm from the United states that would make it all easier, but it's actually
been more difficult than I'd expected it to be. But my companions are really both so sweet
and thoughtful, and have really helped me feel loved and welcomed here.
Since our interview, there was one day Hermana Costanzi had a really hard time, but she
was able to break down and talk to Hermana Rusk and I about it, and we were able to sit
down together and strengthen each other and talk about the way she was feeling and how
we can help her. It was actually a really sweet bonding experience for us as a
companionship and since that she's been doing much better. She's a great missionary. And
I've been continually impressed by Hermana Rusk and the sweet, patient, Christlike, and
compassionate way she interacts with Hermana Costanzi. I feel really blessed to be their
companions. It's obvious that the quarantine situation has understandably taken a toll on
everyone and its manifested in different ways, but we are working through it and being
creative and I can see how the Lord is blessing us.
Speaking of which, my spiritual experience I'd already shared with you in our interview, but
nothing came even close to ot, so the highlight of the week was to have my sister Emma
open her mission call. She's only a year a week and a day younger than me, so we've
always been best friends and very close. She's always been a great kid, but a mission was
something that she really needed, and to know the Lord was able to show her in such a
miraculous way how personally He knows her was incredibly powerful and a testimony
builder for all my family. But mostly I am just so grateful that he'd do that for her.
Anyways, sorry this got so long, again, thank you for time and your service to us
missionaries and to the Lord!
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Sent Date: Monday, May 11, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you so much for your letter. That is so great to hear that things are going well with
your companions and that Hermana Costanzi was able to open up to you. I know this is
quite a different experience for you, but I also know the Lord has called you here and will be
by your side. That is awesome to hear about your little sister's mission call. The blessings
for our service come in many ways. Thank you for all that you are doing.
President Letter May 17 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, May 17, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It was so great to see you twice this week as we participated in the “Battle for the Cactus”
and in the mission-wide devotional as we shared mission miracles and discussed Elder
Gong’s counsel to us. Thank you for your preparation for both events. It is in that
preparation that true spiritual growth can take place. Please be sure to study the most
recent missionary devotional by Elder D. Todd Christofferson. It is a wonderful message for
us as missionaries. Just as a reminder, the Battle for the Cactus this week will be from
Preach My Gospel Chapter 4: Recognize the Spirit. I have also asked that in preparation for
Zone Conference that you think about how and when you have recognized the Spirit in your
life, or you might say, “How have you heard Him?”
We are excited regarding the recent lifting of some of the quarantine restrictions and that we
can now teach in person if the friend is comfortable. Please recognize what a blessing this
is from the Lord and express thanks to Him and our Heavenly Father for allowing the slowing
of this pandemic. In regards to visiting members, please be sure to check with your stake
president to receive his counsel on visiting stake members in their homes.
I would like to share with you a few more changes that will now be taking place due to the
lifting of some restrictions:
We will now have half-day exchanges starting at 11 AM and going until 9 PM. We will no
longer have the 1 hour fresh air walk exchanges.
We will discontinue the daily 30 minutes of viewing inspirational videos and the District
videos. However, if you have not finished all of the District videos please complete viewing
those.
On preparation day, you may meet as a district at a park and play games for 2 hours. The
direction from the missionary department at this time is that you should not play contact
sports including soccer, basketball or football. You also should not meet in churches as a
district on preparation day. The only districts that may combine are the two in the Snow
Zone since there are not more than 10 people.
All other current guidelines will remain in place. Hopefully, there will be more changes taking
place over the next few weeks. I will let you know when and if I receive more information.
Please continue to wear masks when in public buildings.
I apologize if this seems like an email of guidelines, but I need to remind you of a few other
things to be mindful of. We should not be viewing videos on Facebook or anywhere else that
are not associated with the Church. This will detract from the Spirit in your work. We also
should not be contacting missionaries or other people that are outside our districts. In your
apartments, the thermostat should not be set lower than 75 degrees.
Now after all those details, Sister Andrews and I are very excited to see your faces virtually
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this week in zone conference. I also hope each of you had a special experience this week
as you had the opportunity to teach your families. We love you, and you are always in our
prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Quarantine Update
Sent Date: Friday, May 22, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It was a wonderful experience to be with you today in zone conference. Let’s be sure to take
what we felt and learned into our work so that we can become instruments in the Lord’s
hands to bring about miracles. Today we received guidance from the Area Presidency and
the Missionary Department that will help us in this process.
We now can have in-person teaching appointments but only inside meetinghouses.
We can have the 2 hour district activity on preparation day at an outside park, but there can
not be contact sports, and it will be limited to 10 people or less.
You can have companionship study at an outside park. If people come up to you while
studying, you can speak with them but maintain social distancing.
District councils and district sacrament meetings will be limited to 10 people or less. Please
maintain social distancing.
We will only have the 1 hour fresh air walk exchanges.
We should not street contact.
We can not visit members in their homes.
Please wear masks in any public buildings.
I will let you know as other changes are approved. Thank you for continuing to serve with all
your heart, might, mind and strength, and seeking the Spirit’s guidance in your work. We
love you.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 18 May 2020
Sent Date: Monday, May 18, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
Hope everything's well with you and your family. I love my area! It has been really great to
get out of the house and to the houses of some of the people we are teaching.
It was a good week, although I have to admit that things have been a little difficult. The last
thing I want is to make the situation seem more dramatic than it is or sound like a tattle-tale,
but I'm a little worried about our companionship. I have been prayerful about how to show
love and patience, and at the same time try to figure out how to motivate. I know this
quarantine situation allows us an opportunity to be creative- we've been working on making
some short videos based on the principles from Preach My Gospel. The intent is to create
little segments that would be fun to share with children. I see it also as something that my
companions could get excited about. Most days that's working. I had an exchange with
Hermana Smith and was able to talk to her about it and she told me you are very much
aware of the struggles both Hermana Costanzi and Hermana Rusk have. Understandably,
quarantine has been really hard for them. But I just kind of wanted to let you know how
things are going from my perspective. Both of them are great missionaries, really they've
taught me so much already. Hermana Costanzi is so good at being conversational and
relating to everyone she meets. Hermana Rusk thrives on talking to people and making
people feel so loved. Really they're awesome. I don't even really know how to explain myself
very well, really I just want the best for them and for our area. But together it's a little rough
because we struggle to stay motivated to stick with our schedules for example, or get out of
bed to exercise, things of that nature. I think I'd put it like they enable each other to
rationalize the things they do and don't want to do, whether that's sleeping in a bit, or just
checking out for the day because they don't feel well. The Lord has been teaching me a lot
about patience and compassion, because before now I have never really understood what it
meant for someone to struggle with mental health, but now I can see that that can be really
debilitating for someone from the moment they wake up in the morning. However, I really do
feel like it's a hard environment to feel the spirit in and then even more so if we aren't exactly
obedient, and because of that I find myself a lot of times feeling frustrated. I have a hard
time knowing what's me being uptight and used to going about missionary work a certain
way, or really what is holding us back as a companionship. I think getting my original mission
assignment pulled out from under me so quickly has really made everyday feel so urgent to
me- Something that Hermana Smith told me was that she strongly believes that sometimes
we are called to help the strangers in that transfer, or sometimes it's to minister to our
companions. Really it has been a blessing to learn that lesson, and we are finding our way
day by day and doing the best we can together. I just wanted be open with you about it from
the start so that moving forward you can kind of know what's going on. But truly I'm grateful
we have been together, I know the Lord has been really teaching me and stretching me in
positive ways.
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Anyway, my spiritual experience this week is pretty small and seemingly insignificant to
anyone but me, but all the same I'd thought I'd share it with you still. So, there's a
flower/bush that I absolutely love, and I think my love for it is because my mom also loves it
a lot. It is called bougainvillea and it only grows in places that are warm year round, and my
mom's from California, so that's where she came to love it. Anyway, it was one of my favorite
things about Ecuador, its everywhere and everytime I saw it it made me smile and feel
Heavenly Father's love for me. Like Him letting me know He's aware of me. So I leave
Ecuador and find myself in Apache Junction, about the farthest from Ecuadorian scenery
and climate as you can get. And lo and behold just about the only flower I've seen in this
place is bougainvillea, and its everywhere! I could hardly believe it. If there's was a way to
make me feel known and remembered by God and like He knew where I'd be, that's the way
to do it. So I see it all the time and it's a constant reminder that He knows and loves me, and
I need that everyday.
Thanks for your time, and for all you do for us!
Hermana Miller
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Sent Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and for sharing with me your feelings about how things have been
going in the companionship. I am grateful for your desire to be the best missionary that you
can be and to fully take advantage of the opportunity that the Lord has given you. Maybe
the best thing to do is to have a companionship invetory and to start with a prayer. You
could share with them your feelings about the opportunity to be a missionary and your
testimony of the blessings that will come as you all do your best to be obedient and serve
diligently. You could set goals to get up on time each morning, exercise and then daily plan
as a companionship. Then you could set the example of sitting at the table and diligently do
your personal studies each day. They will see your example. Let me know your thoughts on
these things and also how it goes. Thank you for sharing that sweet tender mercy of seeing
those flowers in both missions. The Lord truly does know when we need that small reminder
that He is aware of us. Thank you for all that you are doing.
President Letter May 24 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, May 24, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It was so wonderful to be with you for zone conference last week. Thank you for your
preparation for that meeting that allowed for the Spirit to be present. Please continue to act
on the invitations which were made. Look for what you can give up or change that is holding
you back from being able to soar and then act on it; help those you are teaching recognize
the Spirit in their lives as they are learning of the gospel; think about when the Spirit has
confirmed to you the truthfulness of a key principle of the gospel and take time to record that
experience; live worthy of the Spirit and follow the promptings when they come. As you act
on these invitations, your ability to discern and listen to the Spirit will increase.
We will have a mission devotional this Friday at 3 PM. Elder Dale Willis, our Area Seventy,
will be addressing us. We are grateful that he will be joining us, and we look forward to
hearing his counsel and testimony. This meeting will be a 40 minute meeting. Please check
the mission calendar to see the other devotionals that have been scheduled.
We are grateful that we again have the blessing of teaching people in person in the
meetinghouses. This is a great opportunity for people to come see what a church building is
like and to feel the Spirit that can be felt there. Now is also a wonderful opportunity to obtain
from your ward auxiliary leaders lists of the less active members in their organizations to
whom you can reach out and invite to meet with you in the church building.
I am so grateful for your desire to give all that you have to the Lord. The Lord loves effort
and will bless you for it. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday at the Battle for the
Cactus. As a reminder, the questions will be from Preach My Gospel, Chapter 8: Use Time
Wisely. I look forward to seeing many of you this week in interviews. Thank you for all that
you do. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
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Weekly Letter - 25 May 2020
Sent Date: Monday, May 25, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hello President,
Hope your week went well. Adobe continues to be an area that has a lot of potential, and
that's fun to see. I'm really excited to work with the new quarantine change that will allow us
to teach in the church meetinghouse.
As a companionship we are continuing to try to do our best. There was definitely
improvement after that fire zone conference, and that's because really they are trying, so
that was great. We did have that companionship inventory that you invited us to have, and
that opened up some good opportunities for communication. We are continuing to strive to
be better every day and it's been neat to see the Lord blessing us for our efforts, even if they
occassionally fall short.
Tomorrow is Hermana Rusks birthday and we have got some surprises up our sleeves, so
that should be fun!
Thanks for your time,
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is great to hear that things are starting to go better with the
diligence of your companions. That is wonderful to hear that you are seeing blessings from
your efforts. I promise that those blessings will continue to come. Thank you for all that you
are doing.
President Hinckley Of Missions, Temples and Stewardship
Sent Date: Sunday, May 31, 2020
Author: President Andrews
I speak also of missionary service. I was recently in London, England, and there we held a
meeting with the missionaries serving in that area. Representatives of the British
Broadcasting Corporation filmed part of the service. They are preparing a documentary of
our missionary work in the British Isles.
Prior to this I had been interviewed by a representative of the BBC Radio Worldwide
Service. He had seen the missionaries and noted their youthful appearance. He asked me,
“How do you expect people to listen to these callow youth?”
In case some of you do not know the meaning of callow, it means immature, inexperienced,
lacking sophistication.
I replied to the reporter with a smile, “Callow youth? It is with these missionaries today as it
was with Timothy in the days of Paul. It was Paul who wrote to his young companion,
saying, ‘Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in
conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity’ (1 Tim. 4:12).
“The remarkable thing is that people do receive them and listen to them. They are
wholesome. They are bright, they are alert, they are upstanding. They are clean looking, and
people quickly develop confidence in them.”
I might have added, “They are a miracle.” They knock on doors, but not many are at home
these days in a city like London. And so missionaries approach them on the street and
engage them in conversation.
It is not an easy thing for a sensitive young man or woman to do this. But they come to
believe in these further words of Paul to Timothy:
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
“Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord” (2 Tim. 1:7–8).
They recognize that fear comes not from God but from the adversary of truth. And so they
develop a capacity to engage people in conversation concerning their work and their
message. They and their associates will bring into the Church during this year of 1995
almost 300,000 converts. That is the equivalent of a hundred new stakes of Zion and more
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than five hundred new wards in one year.
“Callow youth?” Yes, they are lacking in sophistication. What a great blessing this is. They
carry no element of deception. They speak with no element of sophistry. They speak out of
their hearts, with personal conviction. Each is a servant of the living God, an ambassador of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Their power comes not of their learning in the things of the world.
Their power comes of faith, and prayer, and humility. As we have been reminded, the work
is not easy. It has never been easy. Long ago Jeremiah said that the Lord would gather His
people one of a city and two of a family and bring them to Zion and feed them with pastors
after His own heart (see Jer. 3:14–15). In terms of the individual missionary, the harvest is
not great in most instances, but in the aggregate it becomes tremendous. The work
demands courage, it demands effort, it demands dedication, it demands the humility to get
on one’s knees and ask the Lord for help and direction.
I throw out a challenge to every young man within this vast congregation tonight. Prepare
yourself now to be worthy to serve the Lord as a full-time missionary. He has said, “If ye are
prepared ye shall not fear” (D&C 38:30). Prepare to consecrate two years of your lives to
this sacred service. That will in effect constitute a tithe on the first twenty years of your lives.
Think of all that you have that is good—life itself, health, strength, food to eat and clothing to
wear, parents, brothers and sisters, and friends. All are gifts from the Lord.
Of course your time is precious, and you may feel you cannot afford two years. But I promise
you that the time you spend in the mission field, if those years are spent in dedicated
service, will yield a greater return on investment than any other two years of your lives. You
will come to know what dedication and consecration mean. You will develop powers of
persuasion which will bless your entire life. Your timidity, your fears, your shyness will
gradually disappear as you go forth with boldness and conviction. You will learn to work with
others, to develop a spirit of teamwork. The cankering evil of selfishness will be supplanted
by a sense of service to others. You will draw nearer to the Lord than you likely will in any
other set of circumstances. You will come to know that without His help you are indeed weak
and simple, but that with His help you can accomplish miracles.
You will establish habits of industry. You will develop a talent for the establishment of goals
of effort. You will learn to work with singleness of purpose. What a tremendous foundation all
of this will become for you in your later educational efforts and your life’s work. Two years
will not be time lost. It will be skills gained.
You will bless the lives of those you teach, and their posterity after them. You will bless your
own life. You will bless the lives of your family, who will sustain you and pray for you.
And above and beyond all of this will come that sweet peace in your heart that you have
served your Lord faithfully and well. Your service will become an expression of gratitude to
your Heavenly Father.
You will come to know your Redeemer as your greatest friend in time or eternity. You will
realize that through His atoning sacrifice He has opened the way for eternal life and an
exaltation above and beyond your greatest dreams.
If you serve a mission faithfully and well, you will be a better husband, you will be a better
father, you will be a better student, a better worker in your chosen vocation. Love is of the
essence of this missionary work. Selflessness is of its very nature. Self-discipline is its
requirement. Prayer opens its reservoir of power.
President Letter May 31 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, May 31, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It was great to be with you during the devotional with Elder Willis. I hope each of you were
able to take something from the devotional that you can apply in your lives and in your work.
I loved Elder Willis’s acronym JOY which is love for Jesus, others and yourself. I also liked
his questions to ask each other in companionship study: What does holiness of heart mean?
And what can we do each day to be more holy? Please act on these invitations in your next
companionship study.
This Thursday, June 4, Elder Ronald A. Rasband will be giving the missionary devotional.
He requests that all missionaries prepare by reading and studying “The Restoration of the
Fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ: A Bicentennial Proclamation to the World.” He also
invites you to have a print or digital copy for reference, as you watch the broadcast on the
Missionary Portal. Please schedule this Thursday evening to watch the devotional with your
companion at 8:30 PM. With the current curfew, if you do not have the connection to watch
the devotional in your apartment, please watch it at the church at 6:30 PM so that you can
be home by 7:45 PM.
Sisters and Elders, this week in MLC we discussed the Standards of Excellence for the
Arizona Mesa Mission. Those standards are the following: 1 convert baptism per month per
companionship, 2 people on date at all times, 2 people attend sacrament meeting each
week, 3 people found per week, and 4 lessons taught per day (this last standard is new).
The standard of 1 convert baptism per month was not made by me but by our Area
Presidency under the direction of Elder Soares. I have complete faith that these standards
are achievable with the help of the Lord. As Ammon exclaimed, “for in His strength I can do
all things.” I would love to hear of your success as you achieve any of these standards.
When you have 2 people at sacrament meeting on Sunday, please send me a text so I can
rejoice with you. When you find the third person that week or teach 4 lessons in a day,
please send me a text. I love to hear of your successes and miracles.
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Today I had the impression to look up the first General Conference that took place after I got
home from my mission. I was drawn to a talk given by President Hinckley in the Priesthood
session which was titled “Of Missions, Temples and Stewardship”. A portion of his talk was
given specifically to missionaries. As I read this portion, I had the impression that I should
share it with our mission. I will send that portion of the talk in a separate email. I am grateful
that so many of you are serving in the manner that President Hinckley described and are
seeing the growth and blessings that he promised. Sister Andrews and I have loved seeing
half of you in interviews and look forward to seeing the other half this week! We love you,
and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
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Weekly Letter - 01 Jun 2020
Sent Date: Monday, June 1, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
The days this week kinda blurred together, and so at the moment I can't think of much to tell
you about... we got in contact with a former yesterday named Cruz who was asking all the
right questions, and I'm super excited about it. We are going to teach the Restoration
tomorrow! The spiritual highlight for my week has definitely been prayer. To be able to know
that I can talk to Him about anything, and that He understands even though no else can, is
an unexplainable strength to me. It gets me through every single day and I am so grateful for
that blessing.
Thanks for all you do!
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and also for sharing your experience with prayer and how much it
has helped you. He truly is always there to listen to us. That is great to hear about Cruz.
Let me know how things go. Thank you for all that you are doing and for your example.
President Letter June 7 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, June 7, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It was wonderful to see the other half of the mission this week in interviews. I am grateful for
the opportunity to visit one on one with you and hear of the blessings that you are seeing as
you strive to be consecrated disciples of Jesus Christ. It has been awesome to receive text
messages from many of you this week letting me know of when you have achieved the
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Standards of Excellence in one or more categories. Please continue to send me texts to let
me know. It was also awesome to hear that as a mission we taught 1,098 lessons last week.
You are doing a great work. I love 1 Nephi 17:13 “And I will also be your light in the
wilderness; and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my
commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall be led
towards the promised land; and ye shall know that it is by me that ye are led.” I know that the
Lord will be that light for us in this work, and that as we serve faithfully, He will prepare a
way for us to accomplish His work. As we see the miracles take place, we will know that it is
because of Him that they have happened.
I loved the missionary devotional with Elder Rasband. It is so important for us to study and
know the new Proclamation and to use it in our teachings. I feel that one of the greatest
things that we can do in our lessons is use the video of President Nelson reading the
Proclamation. The Spirit can always be felt so strongly as he shares that wonderful and clear
message.
We are looking forward to seeing you twice this week. First, we will play Battle for the
Cactus focused on Chapter 1: My Purpose from Preach My Gospel. Each zone has been
putting up some great scores. Second, we will be privileged to hear from Brother Richard
Gulbrandsen at our mission devotional on Friday at 3 PM. He has served as a stake
president in Citrus Heights, mission president in Argentina and MTC president in the
Dominican Republic. We will be blessed by his words of testimony and counsel.
We have received permission to allow entire districts to participate in district councils and
district sacrament meetings. The Arizona curfew expires Monday morning June 8th. I am
grateful to each of you that has been obedient to this curfew requirement. Thank you for all
your faithful efforts. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 08 Jun 2020
Sent Date: Monday, June 8, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President, hope all is well with you. I saw on our Facebook page your spiritual thought in
Spanish, that was really cool!
To be honest with you, it has been a really rough week. Cruz, the guy I told you about last
week, ghosted us, and that was really disappointing. But more than anything else our
companionship really struggles to get along. I'm sorry I haven't been more upfront with you
about it, but the last thing that I want is to be a burden or another complication in a transfer
plan that I'm sure is pretty difficult to arrange already. I also really dislike drama, so I have
tried to be extra prayerful and let it all roll off my shoulders and keep moving forward. It
wouldn't be productive to recount the various instances and problems, but please know that I
wouldn't bother you with this if I hadn't been struggling and praying over it or could find a
way to make things better. I have tried to do everything I can to not push them, particularly
Hermana Rusk, farther than absolutely necessary, but at some point in the day we have to
get out of bed and do something. I find myself alone in the mornings up trying to do my study
and trying to figure out how plan my day without my companions... as I continue to try to
adapt and do my best to be obedient I run in the walls with not being able to be functioning
as a companionship.
It kind of came to a boiling point when I overheard some things when they thought I was
asleep. As a silver lining, it is a great eye opener and learning opportunity for me, because
there is so much honesty in what someone says when they think you aren't listening. So in
that way, I'm glad, because I dont think anyone would ever directly point out those things to
me, and I want to be able to turn the other cheek at the hurtful part of it, and use the facts to
be better. We have and are surviving the transfer, but I really think it would be best if I am
not their companion any more. I think it would really help us to get fresh starts in order to be
more effective missionaries and also to feel the spirit. But I need to let you know that I
haven't been more direct about it before also because in my first transfer in this mission I
didn't want you to have to flag me as a companion/missionary that is difficult to get along
with, or that can't handle any kind of companionship difficulty. We have had inventories, and
focused on their music, and I have done everything I know how (or have been advised by a
great STL, and my interview with you) to do. l never in my life have ever felt so helpless and
unable to remedy the problem. Life has taught me that most things can be resolved with a
little bit of elbow grease and humility and resolve, but this has become more than I know
what to do with. Hermana Smith has been a wonderful STL, I really appreciate her service, I
was able to talk to her last night and she encouraged me to be more open with you about
how I'm feeling. Hermana Nielsen has also been a tender mercy, and I'm so grateful for
them both.
On another note, my spiritual experience for the week was pretty neat, although it scared me
a little! It actually happened yesterday. I was Facebook finding when I received a notification
that I had received an email from a lady named Teddie, a close family friend. The interesting
part is that I have only met her once in my life in person. A really long story short, my sweet
mom made friends with her and we have been family friends online ever since. Yesterday I
had an extremely fuerte impression that it is time for Teddie to hear the gospel, but not from
anybody, but from ME. I'm not excited about it, it makes me so so nervous, but Heavenly
Father has made it very clear that this an opportunity I have to courageously follow through
on a prompting that actually is really scary for me. So I'm writing her today to set up a lesson
this week and I will have to let you know how it goes.
Sorry this is so long, I just have one more quick question. My sister who we have discussed
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earlier, is heading on a mission in September. I talked to H. Smith about it and she thought it
was a great idea, but I want to run it by you. I would love to meet with my sister Emma a
couple times a week for a mission prep kind of meeting to study Preach My Gospel. Would
that be alright?
Thank you for all you do, Hermana Miller
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Sent Date: Monday, June 8, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and for letting me know how things have really been going. I am
grateful that you have tried your best to be obedient and to be an example to your
companions. I hope our meeting today was helpful so that the companionship can function
until the end of the transfer. Thank you again for all that you are doing and let me know how
things go with Teddie. I hope this week goes much better.
President Letter June 14 2020
Sent Date: Monday, June 15, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
I had the special experience of being the pianist for sacrament meeting today. Ok, it was
only the opening song, Come Follow Me, and it was only the right hand, but it was special
for me to participate in a way that I never had before. I know my Mom would finally be so
happy to hear that those two years of piano lessons finally paid off. I hope each of you have
had a special experience over the last few months as you have been able to participate in
district sacrament meetings. This has been such a unique experience to ponder on the
sacrament and the Savior in a special way as distractions have been minimal during that
special time. It has been a wonderful experience to be able to hear my children speak each
Sunday and share in a close, intimate setting what they really feel in their hearts. The Lord
knew that members of the Church needed these experiences to bring us closer together and
to rely on Him more fully.
It was great to be with you through Zoom for the devotional with Brother Gulbrandsen. I
hope that your faith was strengthened in the fact that the field is indeed white and that there
are individuals in your areas that are waiting to hear the gospel. Please reach out to your
Bishops or ward clerks to obtain those lists of part member or less active families if you don’t
have them yet so that you can contact those individuals and let them know how much they
are loved and missed. As we strive to be consecrated disciples of Jesus Christ, those in our
wards will sense the Spirit that we have with us and trust us with their friends and family
members. Your hard work will pay off. We have heard from so many of you how you are
seeing miracles personally or in your missionary work as you’ve chosen to give more of
yourself to the Lord.
We are sad to say goodbye this coming week to 6 amazing missionaries, and we are so
grateful for their dedicated service to the Lord. I am so grateful for the fact that I will be able
to see all of my missionaries again after the mission in this life and even beyond. We are
excited to receive 35 new missionaries. Please pray for their safe arrival and smooth
transition to our mission here. Welcome them to our Arizona Mesa Mission family with open
arms, seek to learn from them and their experiences, and help them to see the true joy of
daily striving to be the disciple that the Lord wants us to be. Thank you so much for all that
you do each day. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 15 Jun 2020
Sent Date: Monday, June 15, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi Presdient,
How are you? :) I'm doing well, we had a really great week here in Adobe, we had four
lessons everyday! So that was fun to work towards together everyday, and super fun to
celebrate. As a companionship too it was a much better week, and so I'm super grateful for
that. We are leaving this transfer as genuine friends, and I feel very blessed to leave this on
such a good note. While u am a little nervous about being new all over again, I'm excited for
what this transfer has in store, and excited for a change. I'm grateful too for your patience
and counsel and help over these last few weeks, it wasn't easy but I feel blessed to have
such wonderful support from my mission president and your sweet wife. You guys are pretty
wonderful. Thank you for everything!
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter. That is great to hear about the lessons that you have been able to
teach and that things were able to go so much better with your companions. I know that you
will love working with your new companions. They will love having you as a companion and
they love to work diligently. Thanks again for all that you are doing.
Sent Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
I want you to know how grateful I am for the faithful efforts you are putting forth each day. I
have had several missionaries come forward and share with me that they have viewed
inappropriate material on Facebook as they have searched profiles of those requesting to be
their friends. This has even led some back into unclean habits that they had overcome in
their pasts. They have seen how the Spirit has left them and that they are not able to teach
with power or authority. Sisters and Elders, as I have discussed this issue with several
missionaries, we have come to the conclusion that there is really no good reason to search
the profiles of those that are requesting to be your friends or that you are teaching. With
anyone that requests to be your friend, you could immediately let them know that you are a
missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ and share with them your purpose, but you do not
need to view their profile. In most cases you will know just by their name and picture if you
should or should not begin any type of communication, or if you should just delete it
immediately. I am asking you to no longer search profiles, and I promise you that you will be
protected and have the constant companionship of the Spirit if you follow this counsel. I love
you and want the best for you. You are free to make your own decisions but not the spiritual
consequences that will follow. If any of you have had struggles with viewing inappropriate
material, please come and visit with me. I am here to help you begin to have that full portion
of the Spirit back in your life and in this work. Again, I love you and am grateful that you are
in our mission.
With love,
President Andrews
President Letter Jun 21 2020
Sent Date: Monday, June 22, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
We are so excited to have welcomed our new missionaries to the Arizona Mesa Mission
Family. Please take time to reach out to them and get to know them. They are all wonderful
missionaries. We are also excited for the Battle for the Cactus this week and the devotional
with Elder Broc Hiatt, who is an Area Seventy and also currently the president of the Mesa
Central Stake. As a reminder, please tune into the devotional at 2:50 PM on Friday, and
this week’s Battle for the Cactus is Preach My Gospel, Chapter 2: Effective Study.
It has been awesome receiving many texts from you letting me know of when you have
reached the Standards of Excellence in various categories such as lessons taught per day,
people found per week or people attending sacrament meeting. There are so many great
things going on in the mission. We also taught 1,176 lessons last week as a mission which is
outstanding. As we lose ourselves in this work, miracles take place and we feel the lasting
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joy of knowing that we are helping others come closer to Christ.
This week I had the opportunity to be part of a wonderful lesson with two nonmembers. The
Spirit was felt so strongly as the Sisters showed the video of President Nelson sharing the
new Proclamation in his own words. One of the nonmembers was brought to tears as she
listened to President Nelson speak. We were able to share that the feelings they felt were
the Spirit not only testifying of the truthfulness of the message, but also that the elderly man
speaking truly was a prophet of God. It was an experience that I will never forget. I am so
grateful for the opportunities that I have to teach with you and feel the Spirit in your lessons.
Thank you again for your diligent and faithful efforts. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you
are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 22 Jun 2020
Sent Date: Monday, June 22, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
I have been so excited to email you this week. This week has been the grestest blessing. I
absolutely love my companions, and my áreas, and Sister Romo who I live with, and
absolutely everything. I'm just on cloud nine this transfer, my comps are so dedicated and
we just work our tails off and fall into bed at night so happy and tired. We taught 38 lessons
in five days! And the best part has been that everyday all day we just see miracle after
miracle, and it is blowing my mind! Writing this email felt a little overwhelming just because it
has been so great, and I'm so excited. The greatest spiritual experience of the week for me
was getting to teach a lesson to a recent convert I had the opportunity to teach and learn
from in Ecuador. She answered the phone and we both just started to cry. Her name js
Ashly and she is 19. The coolest thing was she said, "Look what happened today,
Hermanita!" And she sent us a picture of her hugging a friend of hers who was wearing a
white dress. She had been baptized just hours before we called. Ashly has been sharing the
gospel with her. Now she is teaching another friend and trying to get that one in contact with
the missionaries so that she can also be baptized. It is just like a great big ripple effect that
the Lord is letting me see a bit of His behind the scenes work and I am so grateful. I love the
Lords perfect plan!
By the way, Happy belated Fathers Day! Hope it was a great day for you, thanks for being
the dad of the mission haha, we appreciate you so much!
Hermana Miller
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Sent Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is so awesome to hear that things are going well in your
new area and with your new companions. That is amazing that you were able to teach 38
lessons! It really is the best feeling to be anxiously engaged in this work. That is wonderful
to hear about the person that you taught in Ecuador and how she is sharing the gospel.
Thank you for all that you are doing, and I know that many more miracles are ahead as you
give your best to the Lord. Have a great week.
President Letter June 28 2020
Sent Date: Monday, June 29, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
I hope everyone enjoyed the devotional with Elder Hiatt. It was wonderful to be reminded
that you were asked and chosen to come to earth at this time because the Lord has a
specific plan for each of you. I loved how Elder Hiatt shared that he had committed to follow
the promptings of the Spirit and then followed through even after trying to dissuade himself
several times. I am grateful to know that if we follow promptings we will never go wrong.
It has been awesome to receive your texts during the week letting me know that you have
reached the standards of excellence that day in either lessons or people found. This las
week as a mission we taught 1,396 lessons. That is amazing. Please let us remember that
more important than the number of lessons is to make sure that the Spirit is felt by those in
the lessons and that we are helping these individuals come closer to Christ. I am grateful for
your efforts to seek the Spirit in your lessons.
We are excited to see you this week for the Battle for the Cactus and also Zone Conference.
Please prepare for the Battle for the Cactus by sincerely studying Preach My Gospel
Chapter 6: Christ Like Attributes. You will be blessed as you study this chapter and strive to
gain and work on these attributes in your life and in this work. Please prepare for Zone
Conference by reviewing again Elder Klebingat’s missionary devotional and striving to
implement at least one of his points of counsel over the next few days leading up to zone
conference. It will be great to hear of your experiences with this.
It has been wonderful to accompany you on your lessons and thank you for accepting my
invitations. I have so enjoyed teaching with you and feeling of the Spirit in your lessons.
Today Elder Willis shared with the stake presidents in Mesa Proverbs 3:5,6: “Trust in the
Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” He reminded us that the Lord has always
known what would take place at this time and that we do not need to fear as we trust in Him.
He will strengthen us and direct our paths. I testify that He will be with us in this work and
direct us to those seeking the gospel. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in
our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 29 Jun 2020
Sent Date: Monday, June 29, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
Hope all is well with you. We had a great week here in L4, and saw some really neat
miracles. We taught 40 lessons, found 5 new people to teach and had 4 people listen in to
church on Sunday. It was a really neat week and we are doing great and are so happy. I
have already learned so much from my companions and Sister Romo. I had a cool (although
quite fuerte haha) experience this week after that amazing devotional we heard from Elder
Hiatt. That was a really powerful devotional. Anyways, a REALLY long story short, I was
chastised by the Spirit for a prompting I had put off for longer than I should have, so I had
the opportunity to repent and act on that prompting. It was a great learning experience for
me. I'm grateful for the Lords patience with me. :) thanks for all you do.
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is amazing that you had that many lessons and had 4
people at church. Thank you for your faithful efforts to allow the Lord to bless you in that
way. Thank you for also sharing your experience of following that prompting. We will never
go wrong when we follow those promptings. Thank you for all that you are doing.
President Letter July 5 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, July 5, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It was wonderful to be with you for zone conference. It is amazing how we are able to feel
the Spirit over technology even when we are not physically together. Thank you for your
preparation for zone conference and also for your thoughts and experiences that you
shared. Please continue to work on the two invitations of your choosing from Elder
Klebingat’s devotional, and please continue to ponder on how you can teach repentance
more powerfully and effectively, and then do it. I promise that you will see blessings in your
life and in this work as you act upon these invitations. We have put together a written
summary of Elder Klebingat’s devotional, and we will post it to the mission documents folder.
If you do not have access to that folder, please contact Sister Bay, and she will send you an
invitation.
We are continuing to teach more and more lessons each week. Thank you so much for your
diligent work. There are a few things that I need to remind you of:
1. Please test your carbon monoxide detectors in your apartments each month and report if
it is functioning properly. It is critically important that you do this. We currently have 12
apartments that are late in reporting. Please contact Elder Purser if you have any questions.
2. Please be sure to remove any trash or food containers that you take into church
buildings. Also, if you are using the church restroom regularly, will you please clean it once a
week with the supplies in the member custodial closet. There have been several stake
presidents with concerns.
3. Thank you for the posts you’ve submitted for our mission Facebook pages. We’re asking
for each companionship to make a quick post each week and a quality post once each
transfer. The mission technology specialists need these so that they can keep our mission
Facebook pages running well. We have received some wonderful referrals from our pages.
We will soon be sharing these pages with all the members in our mission, and we want our
posts to be appealing and inspiring. Keep up the good work!
4. This Friday at 2:30 PM we have a mission devotional with President Lloyd Baird and
Sister Jana Baird. They are the President and Matron of the Boston Massachusetts Temple.
Please be on the Zoom meeting by 2:20 PM.
I am so grateful to be serving with you and to have each one of you in our mission. You
each have so many amazing talents and abilities. I love what Elder Martino said in last
weeks missionary devotional, “You were foreordained to serve at this time.” The Lord has
always known that you were going to be a missionary at this exact time. He has always
known your talents and abilities, and He has put you here because He knows you can help
Him accomplish His work in these times. Thank you for continuing to put your trust in the
Lord and seeking the Spirit to guide you in this work. I promise that as you sincerely seek
that guidance, it will come to your personally. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are
always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
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Weekly Letter - 06 Jul 2020
Sent Date: Monday, July 6, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
Sorry this is so late! Today was a crazy day and I just totally spaced writing you until like 6:
10, and we had a ton of stuff to do, so I waited till now. Sorry! But it was another great week.
We were able to extend a baptismal date today to one of our investigators for August 8, so
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that was exciting! She is so so prepared. She is the same age and reminds me a lot of a girl
I taught in Ecuador. In both of those experience the high of the teaching experience where
the baptismal invitation was extended was after they had felt the Spirit strongly in the
message of the Restoration. Which meant with both of these girls the invitation was
extended rather quickly, relative to the amount of information we teach as missionaries. But I
think that's cool, because it goes to show the power and simplicity of the message,
specifically the First Vision and the Book of Mormon. I love that the truthfulness can be felt
regardless of my own inadequacy in the language and my ability to teach. It doesn't matter
because the spirit and the tool that the Book of Mormon are sufficient. In fact, they are are
more than sufficient. I'm glad to be learning a language, even those its yard, so that I can
learn lessons like that. My companions and district are wonderful, and we enjoy every
minute we have together. This transfer has already been a great strength to me. This weeks
spiritual highlight was for sure in zone conference. That was so powerful, especially the
message Elder Bednar shared about teaching repentance and the remission of sins. As I
have studied that intentionally this week, I have seen the Lord strengthen and increase my
capacity to teach the doctrine. I'm so grateful to be a Mesa missionary. Thank you for all that
you and Sister Andrews do!
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is so great to hear about all the good things that are
happening in your area. Thank you for your diligent work to help allow those miracles to
take place. I am glad that you enjoyed zone conference and that you are acting on the
impressions that you received. As you continue to do so you will see great blessings in your
life and in this work. Thank you for all that you are doing.
President Letter July 12 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, July 12, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It was great to meet with many of you last week in interviews and also to see most of you
virtually in the Battle for the Cactus and the devotional with President and Sister Baird. I am
grateful for the various experiences shared in the devotional that reminded us of the reality
of the plan of salvation and the work that takes place in the temples. Some might say that
the experiences were coincidences, but I know they were tender mercies from the Lord
giving those reassurances in times of need.
I had the opportunity this week to join some missionaries for a lesson. As I arrived, I was
greeted by one of the Elders while his two companions were finishing up a phone lesson
with someone from another country and speaking a different language. I was amazed at
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how just listening in from a distance, I could feel the Spirit coming from that conversation. At
the end of the lesson the investigator gave his first heartfelt prayer, and the Spirit was felt so
strongly. I just want to thank each of you for living your lives in such a way that the Spirit
can work through you to touch the hearts of others. As I left that lesson with those
missionaries that night, I felt such a sense of joy and happiness.
In thinking about this experience, I also reflected on last week’s Come Follow Me lesson
about Alma and his companions’ mission to the Zoramites. In Alma 31:38 it states “And the
Lord provided for them that they should hunger not, neither should they thirst; yea, and he
also gave them strength, that they should suffer no manner of afflictions, save it were
swallowed up in the joy of Christ. Now this was according to the prayer of Alma; and this
because he prayed in faith.” I thought of each of you and how you might consider
yourselves somewhat afflicted with the current conditions, but also how you continue to
serve faithfully and have these wonderful experiences with those that you are teaching. I can
see that you are indeed being strengthened and that your afflictions are being swallowed up
in the joy of Christ. We are so grateful to be serving along side each one of you. Sister
Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
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Weekly Letter - 13 Jul 2020
Sent Date: Monday, July 13, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hello President! How are you?
Thanks for taking the time to do interviews this week, that's a lot of interviews! Thank you for
your time and insight.
Things are going great, my companions are still wonderful, and so is sister Romo :)
We got to do some service this week and that was awesome, and a lot of fun. We did
service for someone we're teaching cleaning some bouncy houses. That was very fun and
something interesting to mix it up. She was somebody who was on date when I got here, but
she had been out of contact the whole transfer, and I had actually never met her. We called
her randomly one night at 7:30 and she told us she was busy cleaning stuff outside and we
said, "hey we can do service now, we will be there in 10 minutes" and we were. It was
awesome and now we are back in contact with her and she listened into church on Sunday.
So that's is great. Thanks for all you do.
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is great that things are going so well in the companionship.
That is also great to hear about the service opportunity that you had and that the friend
videoed into your sacrament meeting. I feel that service will be a great way to build
relationships and find people that interested in coming back or finding the gospel. Thank
you for all that you are doing. Have a great week.
Missionary COVID Guidelines
Sent Date: Sunday, July 19, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
I have had many missionaries ask me to summarize the specific guidelines and restrictions
in place during the COVID 19 pandemic. I will include that summary below.
Missionaries should not enter homes of members or non members nor teach lessons
outside at the home.
Missionaries can teach in person lessons in the church buildings.
Missionaries should not shake hands of any other person even if you feel like you might
offend the other person. (I have been guilty of this, and I commit to stop)
Missionaries should wear masks in public buildings and also in any church meeting except
for district council and district sacrament meeting as long as social distancing takes place.
Missionaries should social distance in all meetings
Missionaries should not receive rides from members or non members
If multiple companionships are in a car, all missionaries should wear masks.
Missionaries can do service in the yards for members and non members. Missionaries can
knock the door of any member, investigator or former to offer service. Missionaries should
wear masks when speaking with people during service.
Missionaries should avoid eating in restaurants as much as possible.
Missionaries can meet members at the church to eat dinner but need to clean up thoroughly
after and remove all trash from the building.
Missionaries should not eat outside at members or non members’ homes.
Besides the call on preparation day, missionaries are allowed one additional call to parents
during the week. This additional call should not last longer than 30 minutes.
There should not be district lunches after district councils or district activities on preparation
day.
Districts can have a 2 hour activity outside at a park on preparation day. We should not
combine districts or travel out of our areas.
There should be no contact sports during morning exercise or on preparation days.
Missionaries should not enter other missionaries’ apartments.
Missionaries should not meet up with other missionaries for lunch or dinner.
Missionaries can do companionship study at home, at a church or at the park.
Leaders can do companionship study with other companionships within their stewardship as
needed. This should be done at a church building.
Missionaries should not tract, but they can talk with people in public if the person initiates the
conversation or seems like they would like to speak with you.
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Missionaries should not watch movies or videos. Watching church videos occasionally was
a suggestion in the early days of quarantine.
District sacrament meetings should not last longer than 35 minutes.
Exchanges are limited to a one hour walk while maintaining social distancing.
President Letter July 19 2020
Sent Date: Monday, July 20, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
As I mentioned in my letter earlier today, many missionaries had asked what the current
guidelines are regarding COVID and missionary activities, and they asked that I summarize
those in one document. Please know that those were not guidelines from me but are from
the Missionary Department and our Area Presidency. As we follow those guidelines, we will
be kept safe and blessed in our work. It is interesting that there are very few limitations
regarding the missionary work that we can do now compared with missionary work prior to
COVID. The only things regarding the work that we can not currently do is to go into people’
s homes and tract. We can teach people in church buildings, which is often a better setting
than in the home, and we also now know how to find and teach people through technology.
We can also now do service for people in their yards.
I love what Elder Uchtdorf shared in a recent article on the Church website. He said, “Focus
on what you can do, rather than on what you cannot do. I can feel your joy and enthusiasm
as you focus on the many good things you can do in life. It is amazing to see how you help
and uplift each other by word and deed. You are a miracle and a blessing to this world as
you love and serve God and His children—our brothers and sisters. For joyful or unhappy
times, Heavenly Father has given us a promise and a blessing: “Fear not, for I am with you,
be not dismayed, for I am your God, I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you
with my righteous hand” (Elder Deiter F. Uchtdorf: Don’t Mask Your Heart).
Let us focus on the opportunities available to us and trust that the Lord will always help us
accomplish His purposes. President Nelson has recently said, “This is a hinge point in the
history of the Church and your part is vital.” I am not sure if we realize the power of that
statement. We get to serve as missionaries at the time that the hinge is moving, and the
great gate is opening to allow for the gathering of Israel to take place and expand. This will
be through the new ways of doing missionary work that we are discovering. Thank you so
much for serving so diligently and seeking to know the will of the Lord in how to do this work.
Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 20 Jul 2020
Sent Date: Monday, July 20, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
Hope your week was good. Ours was good, but we had a few let downs with the
appointments we set in person with some families of investigators. One family got sick, and
the other family had some car problems. One person we are teaching named Carla, is super
wonderful. She is so good. She had some fairly severe special needs. Shes 23 and lives
with her family and although she is pretty with it, she is very childlike. To give you an idea of
the level shes at, she struggles to read (we always teach in English) and find page numbers
in her BOM. So we had a really great weekly planning about how we can help her
understand and navigate the BOM more easily, and we came up with the really cool idea to
make an interactive preprepared BOM with pages from the Friend that are cool and stuff like
that. It worked great! We took it to her in person and met her and it was so special. She is so
so sweet. She really is progressing at the pace and to the level that she can, kind of like a
primary child. I think she is one that could be baptized and it would be good (of course I dont
know what the exact rules of each situation is) but she is totally dependent on her family and
I dont think they are too excited about religious stuff in general. We also found out that she is
pregnant, due in August, and that she doesn't know who the father is. I don't know what
means, but we are realizing it's going to be a lot more complicated than we originally
thought. But we love her sooo much. I'll keep you updated on what happens with her. We
need to try to talk to her mom. Thanks for all you do President. Your family's in my prayers!
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Monday, July 20, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thanks for your letter and that is good to hear that Carla is progressing. Hermana Ayre
mentioned her in her letter as well. If you feel that she understands all that is being taught
and has a sincere desire to be baptized, you could move forward. She would need to be
living the law of chastity for a month and to have repented of her mistakes. The pregnancy
would not preclude her from being baptized. Thank you for all that you are doing.
President Letter July 26 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, July 26, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
I hope you all had a wonderful week. It has been great to hear of many Spirit led lessons
that are being taught, people being found through service opportunities, and the referrals
that we have received from members and online. The Lord is blessing you for your efforts.
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We bid farewell to 4 great Sisters and prepare to receive 29 new missionaries to our
mission. Let’s welcome them with open arms and help them to feel loved and part of our
Arizona Mesa Mission family. It is also important that we help them see from the start that
we truly are striving to become consecrated disciples of Jesus Christ.
I really enjoyed Elder and Sister Clayton’s missionary devotional this week. Elder Clayton
shared examples from around the world of how missionary work is being done and the
miracles that are taking place. We are seeing those in our mission as well. Please take
time each week to watch these weekly missionary devotionals from the General Authorities
of the Church. Their messages are so powerful and relevant to the work today. The Spirit
will bring things to your mind that you can do in your individual areas.
I have heard of missionaries going out to walk, run or ride their bikes first thing in the
morning after they wake up and pray. They have said that there are many people out
walking or working in their yards at that time of day. They have been able to greet these
people, start casual conversations, and even ask if they could come back and help them
with work in their yards. I feel that this would be a wonderful thing to consider. Possibly take
the first 30 minutes of your hour exercise time and see who you can meet in your
neighborhoods. The Lord loves effort, and He will bless you for it. I love the words of Jacob
in Jacob 1:7 “Wherefore we labored diligently among our people, that we might persuade
them to come unto Christ, and partake of the goodness of God, that they might enter into his
rest.” I testify that there are individuals in your areas that are waiting for you to help them
come unto Christ. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 27 Jul 2020
Sent Date: Monday, July 27, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
Things are going well! Although Hermana Ayre and I are sad to lose Hermana Muñoz, we
are excited for her and excited to welcome a new companion to the mission. The walk with
Carla turned out to be so so so cool and a big blessing for her and for us. We even met her
mom and are working on warming her up:) the mom and daughter in our area are doing
great, it's crazy how prepared they are! I'm excited to be on a bike this transfer, and no that
isn't sarcastic! Haha:) I think it'll be cool and I. Excited to be able to say I rode a bike in the
summer in Mesa. Please tell your daughter Allie (sp?) that I really appreciated the thought
she shared this week. She is a darling girl and has a light about her, she would be one
amazing missionary You must be so proud of her. Anyways, thanks for all you do and hope
you and your family have a great week!
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is great to hear that things are going well with Carla. I
know that you and your new companionship will continue to do great things. Thank you for
your faithful efforts and your kind words about Allie.
Date correction from Aug 6 to Aug 2
Sent Date: Monday, August 3, 2020
Author: President Andrews
I apologize for the incorrect date of the recent letter. It should be dated August 2nd.
President Letter August 8 2020
Sent Date: Monday, August 3, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It was so wonderful to greet our new missionaries this week. We know they have
tremendous talents and abilities that will bless our mission. We are excited to have Elder
Bradley Foster speak to us this Friday at 3 PM for our mission devotional. He was recently
released as a General Authority and oversaw the Family History Department for the Church.
Please prepare for his visit by getting to know him a little better by studying his April 2010
General Conference talk, “Mother Told Me”.
You might have already heard about this, but we are changing the one hour fresh air walk
exchanges to three hour exchanges at the church where you will have lunch together, do
companionship study together, and work together for an hour using technology or teaching
someone in person at the church. This will give you more of an opportunity to get to know
each other better and learn from each other. Please be sure to clean up well after your lunch
and take out your trash.
We are very excited about the new video that our mission has created. This video was sent
out to all stake presidents in our mission so that they can send it to each member of their
stake. The video simply and clearly explains how members can follow our Facebook page
and share our posts with others. Please follow up on this when you visit with members,
show them how to follow our page and invite them to post while you are with them. I feel that
this is one of the greatest means to bring about the hinge point that President Nelson
referred to. This will allow the gates to the gathering of Israel to begin to open widely.
Please continue to be safe by following the protocols and guidelines that have been given
regarding COVID 19. Please remember to social distance at district council and district
sacrament meetings. Please also remember to always stay in your areas for non community
service opportunities and that we should not eat at people’s houses inside or outside. You
will be blessed and protected for your obedience. We are extremely grateful for all your
faithful efforts. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 03 Aug 2020
Sent Date: Monday, August 3, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President, how are you?
Things are going great in L4, we were able to put someone we have been doing a lot of
service for on date (Alejandra) so that is so exciting.... its three people on date for August
22, we are so pumped! I really honestly thought it couldn't get any better after my last
companionship, but really Hermana Clegg and Hermana Ayre are so wonderful I can't even
tell you. We work hard and have so much fun. Living with Sister Romo is the best thing that's
ever happened to me too, she teaches me so much. We have two english sisters living here
too, and we have all quickly become great friends. It's going to be a great transfer and I'm
excited to see what the Lord has in store for this hot Arizona summer! We are happy and
surviving bikes too:) thanks for all you do.
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Monday, August 3, 2020
Author: President Andrews
That is so awesome to hear about the 3 people that you have on date! The Lord is blessing
you for your faithful efforts. I am so glad that all is going well in the companionship. Thank
you for all that you are doing. Have a great week.
President Letter Aug 9 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, August 9, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It was wonderful to join in on several of your district councils and companionship studies last
week. I am grateful for the Spirit that was felt in each one of those visits. Last week as a
mission we taught 1,481 lessons. Thank you for your diligent efforts to help make that
possible. More importantly than the number of lessons, I hope that the Spirit was felt, and
that you and those you taught were edified and had a desire to come closer to the Savior.
We were blessed to have Elder Foster speak to us in our devotional. He gave great words
of counsel and also suggestions to study several books by Elder Tad R. Callister. Those
books were A Case for the Book of Mormon, The Infinite Atonement, and Blueprint of the
Lord’s Church. The Assistants sent out an email from me which contained links to several
talks by Elder Callister. These talks are essentially summaries of these books, and I felt that
it would be good to send them out to you so that you could get a head start on your study.
Please read and study Elder Callister’s talk, The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given,
in preparation for Zone Conference on Wednesday. I loved Elder Foster’s remarks and
especially the question that he asked us to ponder to ourselves: “What will your last prayer
be like as a full time missionary?” As I thought about that I wondered, “Will I be comfortable
asking the Lord to let me know if He is pleased with the effort that I have given?” I want to
serve with all my heart, might, mind and strength, so that I will be comfortable asking that
question and then longingly awaiting His response.
Sisters and Elders, the Lord only cares about where you are right now and the direction that
you are heading. If you need to course correct at all, do it. At the end of your mission, the
Lord will know the heart that you have developed during your mission, and that is what
matters. I am so grateful for every step that each of you make in the right direction. You are
becoming consecrated disciples of Jesus Christ. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are
always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 10 Aug 2020
Sent Date: Monday, August 10, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
Thanks for coming to district sports, that was so much fun to have you there. Thanks for
making that effort, we know it's hot and that we are a little intense when it comes to frisbee
haha, but we really loved having you there and I thought that was super cool of you. Our
area is doing so so well, there are so many prepared people! This past Monday we had
some extra time in the evening and we called a former and taught her a quick lesson and set
up another lesson for Wednesday. We decided to teach her lesson 3 and just really go for it
in the second lesson. We read a powerful scripture about the Holy Ghost, and she
commented that that was a pretty incredible blessing that she thought would be cool to have.
Obviously that was the perfect opportunity to invite her to be baptized, and readily and
enthusiastically accepted that invitation for September. Now there are 4 people on date in
our area and we are so pumped! My companions are so wonderful, they work hard and they
play hard and we are just loving every second together. They are wonderful missionaries,
and everyday I find new ways I want to be like them. They're awesome. Some days this
week during random moments we would just look at each other and shake our heads and
say, "What did we ever do to deserve to be so blessed?!" But I guess that's the cool thing
about Heavenly Father, sometimes he rains blessings down on us just because He is a
loving and generous God. I'm so grateful to be His missionary! Thanks for all you do!
Your Little Wide Receiver
Sent Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thanks for your letter and that is so awesome to hear about all the great things that are
happening in your area. The Lord is definitely blessing you for your efforts. That is great that
you and your companions are getting along so well together. I know that there are many
miracles ahead for your as you continue to serve faithfully. It was a lot of fun to join your
district for district sports. Have a great week.
President Letter Aug 16 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, August 16, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
We loved being with you this week in our mission wide zone conference. It is amazing how
the Spirit can be felt even over technology. I am so grateful for the testimonies that were
shared by our departing missionaries and for the wonderful service that they have given
here in our mission. I know their prayers on the last night of their missions will be special
and memorable experiences for them.
We were blessed to have 7 people enter the waters of baptism this weekend. The field is
white, and the gate to the gathering of Israel is opening. Thank you for all that you are doing
to work with the members and also to do service to find those that are prepared to receive
the gospel. In this week’s devotional, Elder Uchtdorf spoke about the importance of
continuing to use the new methods of missionary work that we have found as well as using
service to build new relationships with others. We are seeing members that are beginning to
truly gain trust in us and are referring their friends to us. We are also seeing teaching
opportunities from offering service and showing others that we truly love them.
I hope that each of you took my invitation to take time to record your experience of when you
first came to know the Book of Mormon was true. I promise that this simple recording will be
a blessing to you at some future time in your life. I am also grateful for your willingness to
study the Book of Mormon for 30 minutes each morning, even early Sunday mornings and to
start your preparation days. I promise that you will receive the blessings that President
Nelson has guaranteed. Sister Andrews wanted me to remind you of her invitation to take
time to look at your heart and to put in the work required to enter into Christ’s sanctuary.
Drop what you want if it’s not the Lord’s will so that you can receive something better. You
will be amazed at the blessings you will receive from this. We love you, and you are always
in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 17 Aug 2020
Sent Date: Monday, August 17, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hello President,
How are you today? It's been another really great week. Sol and Vanessa are so excited for
their baptism this Saturday and so are we! Everything is on track with them, and they are
doing great. The two other sisters on date have been really hard to contact but we have
some service stuff planned to get in touch with them this week. My companions are amazing
and I really love working with them. The ward is starting to wake up a bit, we had a really
great get to know you meeting with our bishop (he's been the bishop for just two weeks) and
we discussed how things will start to look with getting back to church, and we planned some
ward activities, and it was super awesome. When I served in Ecuador, working with the ward
wasn't really a thing, so that's something that has been new to me here, but I've been
pleasantly surprised to discover that it can be really fun, and I feel like I'm finally starting to
get to know the ward and make some progress with learning to work with members, it's cool.
Anyways, that's all I've got, but I'm excited to get to have our interview on Thursday. Thanks
for all you do,
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thanks for your letter and that is great to hear that Vanessa and Sol are prepared for their
baptisms. I am glad that things are going so well in the companionship and that you are
starting to work closer with the ward leadership. I know great things are ahead. Thank you
for all that you are doing.
President Letter Aug 23 2020
Sent Date: Monday, August 24, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It has been great to see you in interviews, and I look forward to visiting with the rest of you
this week. We are excited about the new opportunities available to us as we can now enter
people’s homes to teach them. However, as Elder Uchtdorf and Elder Pieper have
counseled us, this does not necessarily mean that we must go back to the way we did things
before. We have learned to teach and find through technology. If we can accomplish more
and be more effective by teaching individuals through technology, then we should continue
to use it regularly in addition to in person visits. I believe that one of the blessings of the
pandemic was so that we would pause as missionaries and learn greater and better ways to
do this work. We must continue to use and build upon the things that we have learned and
not quickly revert back to our old ways. Please be considerate of individuals that we are
teaching. If you plan an in home visit, please make sure that they are comfortable with you
coming into their homes, and please do not visit individuals that are older than 65 or have
health conditions that put them at risk.
I am grateful for the devotional with President and Sister Thomas. As I mentioned at the end
of their remarks, they gave us great nuggets of counsel. The following are a few concepts
that really stood out to me. Sister Thomas made a goal to never complain on her mission
and looked for the positive. She learned to truly love an annoying companion. A mission is
laying down your worldly life for a friend. She noticed that she was briefly left in her own
strength when she returned home from her mission because she let the small and simple
things slide briefly. You have 18 or 24 months to serve and the rest of your life to think about
it. President Thomas spoke of taking the Lord at His word. We should arise and be doing.
Let zeal overcome your problems. We must stretch ourselves. The harder we try, the
happier we are.
I love this scripture, D&C 31:3, given to Thomas Marsh. It applies to each one of us. “Lift up
your heart and rejoice, for the hour of your mission is come; and your tongue shall be
loosed, and you shall declare glad tidings of great joy unto this generation.” I testify that the
hour of your mission is come, that every promised blessing is sure, that the field is white,
and that you are indeed binging salvation to your soul (D&C 4:4). Thank you for serving with
all your heart. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
President Letter Aug 30 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, August 30, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
This week Sister Andrews and I had the chance to attend several baptismal services. I am
always so amazed at the Spirit that can be felt in those services. The Holy Ghost seems to
always testify of the truthfulness of that ordinance and that the individual truly is entering the
gate to the path that will lead them back to their Heavenly Father. How awesome is it that
we get to play a small part in that process! Thank you to each of you for the part you play to
“lift where you stand” as President Uchtdorf encouraged us. We need each of your efforts,
and we appreciate your hard work.
We look forward to seeing you several times this week. We will have the Battle for the
Cactus on Wednesday, our mission wide Facebook training on Thursday at 1 PM, and our
mission devotional with President Hiatt on Friday at 3 PM. It will be wonderful to hear from
President Hiatt. Please be on the zoom meeting by 2:50 PM on Friday.
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I love the opportunity that I have to interview each one of you. You share with me your
testimonies and your experiences. These build my faith at the same time. This week I
interviewed an Elder that said he was having a bit of a tough time with his companion. They
were butting heads over a few things. He said that one morning he began reading in the
Book of Mormon, and he was reading in 3 Nephi 11. He said that he read verse 29 which
states “For verily, verily I say unto you, he that hath the spirit of contention is not of me, but
is of the devil, who is the father of contention, and he stirreth up the hearts of men to
contend with anger, one with another.” He said that in that moment he realized it was the
adversary that did not want him and his companion to get along, and he had a feeling to
come up from behind his companion and give him a big bear hug and tell him that he loved
him. He said he did it and that everything started to get better in the companionship from
then on. He thought it was cool that you really can find answers to all your questions and
concerns in the Book of Mormon.
Please know how grateful I am for all your faithful efforts each day. The Lord loves effort
and will bless you for it. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 31 Aug 2020
Sent Date: Monday, August 31, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
It is crazy it is already the last weekly the transfer! It has been a fun one for sure. Sol and
Vanessa were baptized, and that means our teaching pool has really shrunken, so we have
been focusing on finding. We have already had some cool experiences. We also got to go to
two in person dinners this week and that was so awesome. It is fun to feel just a little bit of
the old mission experience again. My companions are awesome and doing well. In my
interview we talked a little bit about Hermana Ayre and the problem with her boyfriend. It has
been hard for her this transfer and as a companionship we were able to talk about it, and
she decided to end things with him. Only a few days after that he went home early from his
mission. It has been hard for her, but also she has already been happier and she knows that
that was the right thing to do. I just wanted to let you know as a follow up from our
conversation. Well, not much else exciting to share. I'm excited for all the meetings we are
going to have this week, that'll be fun way to mix it up and get some more finding ideas.
Thanks for all you do, hope you have a great week!
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Monday, August 31, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thanks for your letter and again that was great to hear about Sol and Vanessa's baptism. I
am glad that you and your companions are working hard to find new people to teach. Thank
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you for letting me know about Hermana Ayre's situation. I am grateful for all your faithful
efforts. There are more miracles to come.
President Letter Sep 6 2020
Sent Date: Monday, September 7, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
I hope you had a great week. It was wonderful to hear President Hiatt speak to us and
share so many personal stories of how the Lord has blessed him with experiences, both
good and difficult, to allow him to become what the Lord needed him to be. The Lord has a
perfect plan for each of us, and as we remain faithful we will see the Lord’s hand in our lives,
and we will accomplish the things that He has prepared for us. The Lord always fulfills His
promises: “I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye
have no promise.” (D&C 82:10) We must have hope and remember that the Savior always
has the ability to help.
We will be welcoming 34 new missionaries to our mission this week as well as an additional
21 over the next two weeks. Please take time to reach out to these new missionaries and
help them feel and know that they are part of the Arizona Mesa Mission family. The
example you set for these new missionaries is so important. We want them to know that we
are a mission of missionaries striving to become consecrated disciples of Jesus Christ
through dedicated service, study and obedience.
I am grateful for the Facebook training that we received this week, and I am excited for us to
work closely with the members in their social media efforts to allow the flood gates to open
to the gathering. We will be discussing in district councils and zone conference ways to
approach and work with the members to help us in this effort.
We are excited to be having our first “Why I Believe Fireside” in several months this coming
Sunday at 7 PM. The Hermosa Vista Stake will be hosting this fireside, and it will be through
Zoom. We will be providing you a Zoom link to give to your friends with whom you are
working. We are hoping that this will be an opportunity for them to feel the Spirit as they
hear the testimonies of recent converts and listen to uplifting music. Please also plan to
watch the young adult devotional with Elder and Sister Rasband at 5 PM this Sunday.
Thank you for your faithful efforts. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our
prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 07 Sep 2020
Sent Date: Monday, September 7, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President Andrews how are you?
I'm doing well, and excited for a new transfer and all the mix ups that brings. Our area is
doing well, and we are teaching several steadily progressing people. One of which is a
woman named Brenda (who lives in Mexico). She was a referral from her investigator sister
we recently passed to some elders in Scotsdale. She is incredible! We obviously couldn't get
her a Book of Mormon, and so we sent her pictures and instructions to download it in the
Gospel Library app. Three days later she was in the book of Jacob! She loves the Book of
Mormon so much, it really took me aback, and made me stop and wonder what I need to
reevaluate in order to rediscover a love for it like she has. She asked us, "Why hasn't the
whole world accepted the Book of Mormon? It answers all the questions I have ever had."
She is a well versed student of the Bible as well. It is so neat to work with her and answer
her questions. We asked her to be baptized on our third appointment and she eagerly
accepted. We are working to get in contact with missionaries in Mexico where shes at.
Two quick questions for you President:
1. We talked about me training this transfer, is that still happening? I heard that maybe
missionaries are coming in a week or two late and wasn't sure when or how I would find out
whether or not I will be receiving one of those new missionaries...
2. In our Spanish ward this transfer there will be 9 missionaries, which was before 7. That's a
lot of missionaries, and we have already been made aware that for many families even 7 is
many and hard for many families in the ward to feed, and already there have been several
days where we just don't have dinners. However, in discussing this with the English sisters
we live with, we found out they cover two or three English wards that are practically fighting
to feed them. We wanted to know what your thoughts were on working some sort of rotation
that would allow us to maybe relieve the Spanish ward of one companionship per night so
that they would only have to feed six, and asking one of the extra English wards to feed one
companionship of Spanish missionaries? We feel like this would help our ward members
more readily volunteer to feed us and have us share messages in their homes. We would
really appreciate your advice on the matter.
Thank you for all you do!
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Monday, September 7, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is awesome to hear about your friend in Mexico that has
accepted a baptismal date and loves the Book of Mormon. I hope you can connect her with
the missionaries there soon. Regarding your question about transfers, yes you will be
receiving a new missionary next week. Also regarding your question about dinners, that
would be great if you could work something out with the words in the area to help out with
providing meals. Please feel free to look into that. Thank you again for all that you are doing.
I know there are many great things ahead for you.
President Letter Sep 13 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, September 13, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
We want to welcome our new missionaries that arrived last week. We are excited to have
them join our Arizona Mesa Mission family. We are also excited for the 15 missionaries that
will be joining us this Tuesday.
It was a very special experience for me this week to be able to attend the temple with our
missionaries that received their endowments. I could feel the Spirit strongly as we entered
the celestial room and felt the confirmation that it truly was the closest thing to heaven on
earth. I am so grateful that the temples have opened so that our missionaries can receive
their sacred endowments. I anxiously await the day that our entire mission can go back to
the temple and do the work for our family members. When the temples are open, we
normally try to attend once a transfer in our mission. This is so that you can gain your own
personal testimony of the peace and power that comes from making the temple a part of
your life.
Elder Quinton Cook and his wife gave a wonderful missionary devotional last Thursday
night. I encourage each of you to go to the portal and view the devotional. When an apostle
of the Lord gives direct counsel to missionaries, we need to take note and act. I hope each
of you were able to watch the Face to Face with Elder and Sister Rasband. They gave clear
and powerful counsel to the young adults of the Church.
In preparation for zone conference please study the October 2019 General Conference talk
by Elder Terence Vinson, “True Disciples of the Savior”. In February President M. Russell
Ballard visited our mission and gave us specific counsel. A document will be emailed to you
with the notes from his counsel to the Arizona Mesa Mission. Please review those notes in
preparation for zone conference and take some time to consider how both talks could apply
to you currently in your mission and begin to act on it. You will be given the opportunity to
share your thoughts and experiences. We are excited to be able to have zone conference in
person. Thank you for all your faithful efforts. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are
always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 14 Sep 2020
Sent Date: Monday, September 14, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
I can't believe that it is already halfway (almost) through the month of September, time flies!
This week has been really special for me because last Monday my sister Emma was set
apart as a missionary and began at home MTC. I am going to call her today and find out
how it has been this week. Its so cool the way missionary work continues to move forward!
We are in the finding stage right now in our area... it is slow moving but a cool opportunity to
work on receiving personal revelation and direction from the Lord. I'm so grateful to be a
missionary.
Hope you have an awesome week,
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is awesome to hear about your sister beginning her
mission. Thank you for your willingness to train. As I mentioned in our phone call there is
nothing to be nervous about. Just put forth your best effort and ask for the Lord’s help and
everything will work out how it should. Thank you for all that you are doing
President Letter Sep 20 2020
Sent Date: Monday, September 21, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It has been wonderful to participate in the Why I Believe firesides over the last two weeks. It
is so neat to hear the testimonies of these converts and how their lives have completely
changed since entering the covenant path. We really are so blessed to be able to have a
part in that amazing process.
We were blessed to hear from President and Sister Pollock in Friday’s devotional. When we
do our best to keep our covenants and serve the Lord, the Lord can direct us to exactly
where we need to be. He has a perfect plan for each of us, and He will always prepare a
way. As President Russell M. Nelson said, “Keep His commandments, and we’ll be alright.”
I am grateful for your diligent efforts last week. We as a mission taught 1455 lessons.
Again, more importantly than the number of lessons, is that the Spirit was present and that
faith and hope were strengthened. These Spirit-led lessons will translate into helping others
come unto Christ, be that members, less actives or nonmembers.
Please remember my invitation from last week to prepare for zone conference. The
following is that invitation again:
In preparation for zone conference please study the October 2019 General Conference talk
by Elder Terence Vinson, “True Disciples of the Savior”. In February President M. Russell
Ballard visited our mission and gave us specific counsel. A document was emailed to you
with the notes from his counsel to the Arizona Mesa Mission. Please review those notes in
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preparation for zone conference and take some time to consider how both talks could apply
to you currently in your mission and begin to act on it. You will be given the opportunity to
share your thoughts and experiences. We are excited to be able to have zone conference in
person.
With zone conferences and new missionaries arriving this week, it might take me a bit longer
to respond to your letters. I do want you to know that I am grateful for your letters and your
sharing of your spiritual experiences. Thank you again for your faithful efforts. Sister
Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 21 Sep 2020
Sent Date: Monday, September 21, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
How are you? I am doing great, it was really hard this week to say goodbye for now to
Hermana Clegg, but I know that was what needed to happen not only for her and Sister
Green, but also for Hermana Porray and I. Its hard to explain, but the spirit did confirm to me
that this is the way it needed to be so we could continue to grow and be stretched as
missionaries and as companionship. Hermana Porray is wonderful. I feel so blessed to be
her companion and she is so much fun. She keeps telling me missionary work is way more
fun than she expected it to be and I am just thrilled. We have worked as hard as I ever have,
and the blessings come almost immediately, it is so fun to see. Her Spanish is coming along
great, and she really puts herself out there which helps a lot. I LOVE training. I was t sure
that my personality/experience would lend me to being any good at it or enjoying it much,
but it has surprised me. I think out of my whole time on my mission, this opportunity has
drawn the best of me as a person and as a missionary. It has been a huge blessing for me,
and especially that new missionary training, to just get hyped up again on this crazy privilege
we have to be the Lord's emissaries for this short time. Thank you for the messages you
shared there, I received a lot of much needed revelation. Thanks for all you so for so many, I
know that can't be easy but I learn so much from your example of one by one ministry.
Looking forward to seeing you at zone conference!
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Monday, September 21, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you so much for your letter and thank you for all that you were doing for sister Porray.
I am so happy to hear that you have been able to feel that this is where you should be and
that this is part of the Lord’s plan for you. I know you will see miracles take place in your
area as you both continue to put forth your best effort. I look forward to seeing you at zone
conference.
President Letter Sep 27 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, September 27, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sister and Elders,
It was wonderful to be with you in person for zone conference last week. There were
several times that I looked out over you Sisters and Elders from the stand, and I felt so
blessed to be able to associate with such valiant young men and women. I am grateful to be
able to serve next the Lord’s all stars that have been reserved to take the field in this the
final inning. I want you to know that you really are the ones the prophets have looked to for
thousands of years. You become that all star player the Lord needs as you exercise your
faith and do you best. I am excited to visit with each of you and hear of your experience of
praying to know what offering you can give the Lord in righteousness. I know that by giving
that offering, you will be far more blessed than the sacrifice you are making. You can not
give the Lord a crust without receiving a loaf in return.
As a mission we taught our most Spirit led lessons ever last week. We taught 1499 lessons.
I am so grateful for your hard work and efforts. I know that these efforts will translate into
helping more people come unto Christ.
Please prayerfully prepare for General Conference this week. Think of questions that you
would like for the Lord to answer for you. I promise that if you take the time to ponder on
these questions, that the answers will come to you this coming weekend through the Spirit
and the words spoken at General Conference. What an amazing opportunity to hear from
the Lord’s mouthpiece exactly what we need to be aware of and to do in order to be
protected during these turbulent times. In the words of Alma, “shall the words of Christ, if we
follow their course, carry us beyond this vale of sorrow into a far better land of promise.” As
we follow the words of Christ through our prophets, we will be carried to where we need to
be. Let’s invite all that we can to come listen to a prophet’s voice. Sister Andrews and I love
you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 28 Sep 2020
Sent Date: Monday, September 28, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President, hope your day went well. I'm doing well-- although it was a really hard week.
Besides being thrown back to square one in quarantine for this next week, there's some hard
stuff going on at home that has me worried. Not in a sense that anyone can do anything
about it, and certainly not me, but it's the first time on my mission I have felt needed at home
yet totally helpless. Luckily my family is just about as wonderful as they come, so I am not
really worried about them pulling through at all, its just hard to feel powerless to help them. It
was just one of those weeks where everything that can go wrong did, and everything that
could get worse got worse. Pero asi es la vida a veces.:)
I've learned how to answer the question as a missionary: "Why do hard things happen to
people who are doing the best they can?". The question I'm still learning about (and hope to
hear counsel on in conference) is: "Why do the hard things have to last so long?!" Since the
day I began a scary quarantine in Ecuador with a total shutdown and food rations six months
ago, it has been a daily battle to overcome hard things. The funny thing is that I'm grateful.
And I wouldn't trade all I've learned through the hard. I'm so grateful for a testimony that the
Savior understands and helps us through the hardest things. I'm learning so much about
grace; from Him, with myself, and for others. I feel so blessed to have this experience and
grateful for simple nudges and whisperings from the spirit that help me see His hand in the
middle of the road. It has been the most painful thing that have been the most valuable and
shaping, and so I dont expect (not want) to be spared it. So, sometimes it's hard. But I trust
Him! Thank you for all you and your sweet wife do for so many of us, ministering one on one
to people in their own hardest moments. You are both in my prayers!
Sent Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and I’m so sorry that you have to be in quarantine at this time. I’m
also sorry to hear that there are struggles taking place back home. I promise that as you
continue to put forth your best effort that your family will be blessed. You being here is the
best thing that you could do for your family. I have gained a testimony that the trials that we
face or not a punishment but rather an opportunity to grow into what the Lord wants us to
become. You are doing the Lords well so you can have confidence that anything that takes
place is for your gain. I am grateful to have you in our mission. I hope your week goes better
and that you enjoy general conference.
President Letter Oct 4 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, October 4, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
What a wonderful General Conference weekend! It is such a blessing to be able to recharge
our spiritual batteries every six months and receive clear direction on what we can do to find
joy and protection in our lives. It is now up to us to act on the personal revelation that we
have received so that we can have access to the promised blessings. There were so many
talks given about the gathering of Israel or as President Nelson explained, those who are
willing to let God prevail. My thought was, “First of all, are we willing to let God prevail in our
individual lives so that we can help those that are searching and willing?” I know that as we
are willing to give up our will so that God can prevail, He will make us into more than we
ever thought possible. That is when miracles will take place, and we will find those of like
desires. I was impressed with the opening prayer of the Saturday morning session. Elder
Patrick Kearon said, “Help us remember that the gospel of Jesus Christ joyfully lived is the
answer to all ills.” What a simple and powerful truth!
When the talks from General Conference are made available digitally, please go back and
read them and highlight those things that have special meaning to you. These are the words
of Christ given directly to you. Take another opportunity to Hear Him by studying those talks
and then acting in faith.
Thank you so much for your diligent efforts last week. We were able to teach 1543 Spirit led
lessons. You are continuing to do a great work. I hope each of you are feeling that drive
home feeling often.
For the first time since COVID began, we will be having our first in-person Why I Believe
Fireside on Sunday October 11th at 7 PM at Kimball Stake Center. This will also be a
Facebook live event through our Facebook page. Please invite as many friends as you can
to attend or view the fireside online. Please remember that for a missionary to attend in
person, they need to bring a friend or be participating in a musical number. We are excited
to resume these wonderful firesides.
Again, it has been a special experience to interview many of you over the last week, and I
look forward to visiting with the others over this coming week. Thank you for your goodness
and the Spirit that you carry with you. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in
our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 05 Oct 2020
Sent Date: Monday, October 5, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
We are so excited because today we are out of quarantine!! We are excited to get back to
full speed. I enjoyed our interview this week, thank you for taking the time to do that. We
talked about my offering to the Lord in righteousness, and general conference gave me
exactly the revelation I needed to make that decision. I think it pertains to several things, but
can be perfectly summed up in President Nelson's counsel to "let God prevail". That is my
sacrifice. I'm going to work on it in my personal prayers, consciously letting him be the most
important influence. I think that as I focus on that, it will ultimately affect my habits, the good
ones and the bad ones. I have also committed to take the prophet up on his challenge to
look for the promises to God's covenant Israel in the scriptures, and so I will be doing that in
personal study. I was so grateful for conference, the spirit was powerful and I received so
much action information! I love being a missionary!
Thanks for everything,
Hermana Miller
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Sent Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is great news that you are out of quarantine! I am grateful
that you had such a good experience with General conference and were able to receive
personal revelation. As you let God prevail and give your will up to Him you will see miracles
take place in your life in this work. Thank you for heeding the council and invitations of our
Prophet. Have a great week
President Letter Oct 11 2020
Sent Date: Monday, October 12, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
Again, it was a special opportunity for me to meet with many of you in interviews this past
week. I am grateful for the Spirit that you carry with you and for your desire to be the
disciple that the Lord needs you to be. On several occasions I found myself driving home
after the interviews thinking about how blessed I am to have a personal relationship with
each one of you.
I am excited for the Battle for the Cactus this week as we review the talks from the Saturday
sessions of General Conference. Please do not stress out about knowing who said what
quote. The questions will be more focused toward the themes and stories that were shared
by the speakers. I hope you are having wonderful experiences as you are going back and
reviewing those talks during your personal study. That has truly been the case for me.
I had a great meeting with a stake president this morning. He is requesting that the
missionaries in his stake coordinate with the wards to find out who the sacrament meeting
speakers will be a week prior to them speaking. He is then asking that the missionaries visit
these speakers and invite them to invite their friends and neighbors to view the virtual
sacrament meeting broadcast when they speak. This is a great and easy way to make
invitations to others to help them come and see. Please follow up with your bishops about
the possibility of implementing this in your wards.
We are very excited to have Elder Paul Pieper speak to us this Friday for our mission
devotional. He is the Area President of the North America Southwest Area. Please prepare
for his devotional by reviewing his General Conference talk from October 2018, All Must
Take upon Them the Name Given of the Father. It is a tremendous blessing to have a
General Authority speak to us.
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I am grateful for each of you who are continually striving to make your personal offering to
the Lord. You are letting God prevail in your life. Thank you also for being united as a
mission to strive to be exactly obedient this week and to pray for miracles in all of your
companionship prayers. To the degree that you are obedient, to that same degree the Lord
will prove that He is a God of miracles. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in
our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
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President Letter Oct 18 2020
Sent Date: Monday, October 19, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
I had the opportunity to attend a wonderful baptism this past Saturday. I was so amazed at
the love that the members of the ward had for this brother. Many of the members had come
together to help do service for this brother prior to his baptism, and by the way that they
treated him, you could tell that they loved him and already viewed him as their brother. I felt
the Spirit so strongly in the baptism as I thought about the goodness and Christlike love of
the members in our mission.
I hope you all were able to gain new insights on how to work more effectively with members
from Elder Pieper’s devotional. You were able to hear firsthand what the Elder Pieper Plan
entails. I will be sending out the slide presentation that he shared. I know that as we strive
to work closely with the wonderful members in our mission and truly come to know their
concerns and cares for others, the Spirit will help us to know ways to help them to lift,
encourage and inspire their friends.
Thank you so much for your faithful efforts this last week to strive for exact obedience. We
were able to see many miracles as we served with all our heart and prayed with all our heart
for the Lord’s help and strength. We exceeded by 100 lessons our previous weekly record
of lessons taught (1643 lessons this week). That is incredible. As I just shared on our
mission-wide call, from Jacob 6:2 we read “And the day that he shall set his hand again the
second time to recover his people, is the day, yea, even the last time, that the servants of
the Lord shall go forth in his power, to nourish and prune his vineyard; and after that the end
soon cometh.” We are those servants, and the Lord will give us His power to do this work
and help miracles take place before His coming. Let’s keep giving Him our all.
In preparation for zone conference that will take place the week of October 26th, please
review your General Conference notes and act on at least one of the promptings that you
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received. In zone conference you will have an opportunity to share what touched you from
General Conference, how you have acted on the promptings, and the blessings you have
seen as a result. It will be an amazing experience as we come together and share how we
heard Him, acted on our personal revelation, and saw the change in our lives and this work.
We are grateful to work side by side with you in this work. Sister Andrews and I love you,
and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
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Weekly Letter - 20 Oct 2020
Sent Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President, I am so sorry it has been so long! I just got my browser working again tonight
so now I can write again haha. Hope you and your family are doing well. My family just sent
my sister off to Hawaii today for her reassignment, so that was exciting! It is so special to
have a sibling on a mission! I'm so proud of her and excited for he to see all the miracles of a
mission, inwardly and outwardly. So this week for "miracle week" we had a tender mercy
that has continued to develop and will continue to develop into a BIG miracle. It's that there
is a family in L4 (la familia Iturrios) who are some formers. A man and his wife and their four
young girls. Anyways, they were some formers I have been trying to get in contact with since
I arrived in this area, and we hadn't been able to. We must have called them and passed by
their house a million and a half times. So the other night were out making some rounds and
it was starting to get late, it was like 8:50, and so we decided we should start heading home.
Then I remembered that we were near this family's home, so we might as well just knock
before heading home. We got up there and they had a locked outside gate, so we couldn't
knock or anything. We couldn't even get the dog in the front yard to bark. So we sat there for
a second thinking and we decided to pull up their phone number in areabook. We called his
number and he didn't answer, and we were bummed but not surprised. Then right as we
turned to leave I suddenly remembered that I had recently discovered who his wife was in
areabook
So we pulled her up and realized that the number were different. So we called and she
answered!! And she came outside with her baby on her hip and all her kids with her and they
were wonderful. About 10 minutes into talking her husband came home and they all chatted
with us at the fence til 9:25 (the other miracle of the night was that we hit every green light
on the way home to be back at 9:30 on the dot!). Anyways, they are so prepared and they
love us. They just begged us to come back, it was awesome!! So we went back again
tonight and taught them about the book of Mormon and he started asking us great questions
and we taught about temples, and forever families, and baptism and invited them to read
and pray to gain a testimony of the BOM. We invited them to be baptized when they receive
a testimony of truthfulness of the book and our message and they were willing to do that in
the future. The Hermano said, please come back whenever you can, even 2 or 3 times a
week, just come! The Lord is at work in Mesa! I love being a part of it,
Hermana Miller
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Sent Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is so awesome to hear about the family that you were able
to contact again and how interested they are and learning about the gospel. What a blessing
and miracle! That is also awesome to hear about your sister and that she is going to be
serving in Hawaii. Thank you for all that you are doing. You are a blessing to our mission.
President Letter Oct 25 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, October 25, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It was so good to be with many of you this past week and to feel the Spirit confirm to me of
your goodness and that you truly are part of that finest team that the Lord has reserved to
come forth in these latter days. It is a blessing for me to serve with you.
Sister Andrews and I are excited to be with you this week for zone conference. As a
reminder from my letter from last week, please review your General Conference notes and
act on at least one of the promptings that you received. In zone conference you will have an
opportunity to share what touched you from General Conference, how you have acted on
the promptings, and the blessings you have seen as a result. It will be an amazing
experience as we come together and share how we heard Him, acted on our personal
revelation, and saw the change in our lives and this work.
I hope you each had the opportunity to view the Missionary Department weekly devotional
with President M. Russell Ballard and Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. They gave powerful and
inspired counsel on many aspects of missionary work including using the Book of Mormon in
our teaching. If you have not yet viewed the devotional, please do so as soon as possible.
The assistants will be focusing their zone conference training on some of the counsel that
was given in the devotional.
Sisters and Elders, we love you and want you to have the best experience possible on your
mission. We want you to have experiences that will strengthen your faith and help you to
become lifelong disciples of Jesus Christ. We know that as you give your all to the Lord, you
will see miracles in your life and in this work. As President Nelson reminded us in his final
words of his Sunday morning address, “My dear brothers and sisters, as you choose to let
God prevail in your lives, you will experience for yourselves that our God is “a God of
miracles.” I know this to be true, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 26 Oct 2020
Sent Date: Monday, October 26, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President¡ it was a crazy and super wonderful week! We were able to find and challenge
four separate people to be baptized this week, and ALL of them accepted, we have three
prospective for next week too, and we are just busier than can be. I dont know why except
that the Lord is so good to us, we arent doing anything extraordinary, just doing the best we
can and being bold. I love getting to be a missionary and getting to be bold and
straightforward with those we teach about repentance and baptism, theres a power that
comes when you push someone to be their best because that's what their Heavenly Father
wants for them, and He backs us up big time. My companions are wonderful too, I love them
both dearly, and they are really great missionaries. Hope your doing well!
One question for you, because of a surplus missionary situation in Hawaii where my sister
Emma is serving, she has kind of a odd phone situation and doesn't have access to a group
call. So today my mom had her call one phone and put me on the other phone and held
them next to each other so we could talk, but as you can imagine that didn't work so well, we
couldn't even hear each other. So I guess my question is if I could have permission to call
my sister independent of the group call with my parents? Of course that would only happen
on pday (we have the same one) for a few minutes. I think this will be such a special
bonding experience and strength for us to get to share our missionary experiences witheach
other. Thanks for all you do!
Sent Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is amazing to hear about the great things that are
happening in your area. That is so awesome that for people excepted baptism. The Lord
truly does bless us for our consecrated efforts. Regarding your question about your sister,
let’s go with a phone call every other week for 15 minutes. Let me know if that would be
good for you. Thank you again for all that you are doing.
President Letter Nov 1 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, November 1, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It was a special experience for me to be with you this last week at zone conference. There
were several different times when I could feel the Spirit testify to me of your divine calling as
missionaries for the Lord at this time. I am so grateful to have each of you in our mission
and to be able to serve alongside such valiant sons and daughters of God.
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I felt that we are all excited to begin celebrating our successes of helping our brothers and
sisters come back to the gospel through faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, renewing their
baptismal covenants through partaking of the sacrament, and finally truly receiving the Holy
Ghost into their lives. I look forward to knowing how many of these less active individuals we
are helping come unto Christ every Sunday through Sacrament Meeting attendance. These
individuals will have posterity and future members of the Church that will be eternally
grateful to you.
Thank you to those of you who accepted Sister Andrews’s invitation to use the Atonement in
your life and note the joy that comes from doing so. Thank you for accepting my invitation as
well of striving to let God prevail in your life and seeing the miracles that follow. I promise
that as you act on these invitations you will come closer to Christ and feel His love and
strength more in your lives and that you will feel joy.
I look forward to seeing many of you this week in interviews and hearing of your
experiences. I testify this is where the Lord wants you to be at this time, and that He is truly
working side by side with us in His vineyard in preparation for His second coming. Sister
Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 02 Nov 2020
Sent Date: Monday, November 2, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President, it was a good week, and we had a baptism, that was wonderful! My
companions and I are also doing great, and I'm super grateful to be their companion. I really
enjoyed zone conference this week and look forward to interviews this week! My miracle this
week was getting to say hi to Elder Hawes at zone conference, he was in my mission in
Ecuador!! That was crazy he got reassigned here. We actually arrived there together. It was
fun to feel like a have somebody around here who loves Ecuador as much as I do! Hope you
have a great week,
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is so awesome to hear about Angelique’s baptism. I am
happy that you and your companions are doing so well together. That is really neat that you
were able to see Elder Hawes and that he had served in your mission. Thank you again for
always serving so diligently.
President Letter Nov 8 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, November 8, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
I am so excited to report that we taught 1684 lessons last week. It is not about the numbers,
but it does show that you are out and about doing the Lord’s work and helping others to
come closer to Christ. I hope you are experiencing that drive home feeling as you know that
the Lord is pleased with your efforts at the end of the day. It has also been awesome to hear
about those individuals that you have helped come back to church after much time away.
You are fulfilling your missionary purpose as you help these individuals come back.
We have had quite a few missionaries that have not been feeling well. Please take all
precautions to wash your hands often and to not shake hands or even bump fists. I admit
again that I have been guilty of this, and I commit to stop. I have received word that a few
missionaries are not wearing masks during sacrament meetings. All missionaries should
wear masks during sacrament meeting. We should be wearing masks in any public building
unless invited to take them off. Also, regarding testing for COVID, we should only test for
COVID after receiving permission from the mission nurse and if you are having at least 3 of
the symptoms. We have been blessed to only have 3 missionaries test positive for COVID
up to this point and those cases were about a month ago.
We are excited for our mission tour with Elder Ruben Alliaud of our Area Presidency. The
mission tour will take place the week of November 16. We will have two mission-wide
meetings with Elder Alliaud during the week, and several of you will have the opportunity to
have a personal interview with him. This will be a great blessing for you to have a one on
one interview with a General Authority. In preparation for Elder Alliaud’s visit, please study
his most recent General Conference address, Found Through the Power of the Book of
Mormon, from October 2019.
I have loved seeing many of you this last week in interviews and I look forward to seeing
many more of you this week. I am so grateful for the great work that you are doing. I was
able to attend several convert baptisms this weekend and meet these wonderful children of
our Heavenly Father that you helped come to know Him. What better thing could we be
doing at this time in our lives?? Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our
prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 10 Nov 2020
Sent Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President, sorry this is a day late, I went to bed feeling like I forgot something but could
not remember what haha, and then it hit me first thing this morning. We had to take several
people off date this week in our area because we couldn't find them (they're ghosting us
oof), so that was disappointing, but that's okay too because it means we have our work cut
out for us. This week my dad shared with me some cool insights from Moroni 9. Sometimes
we dont keep "laboring diligently" because its successful. In fact, sometimes we know that it
will actually be useless, like Moemon tells Moroni. But he also teaches that we must never
cease to perform our labors, because it is that seemingly pointless struggle that is, in fact,
the whole point! Its ironic, but it is true, and I had never learned that principle from that
chapter before. Mormon says, "they're going to kill me, and they're probably going to kill you,
and all of this seems like we are wasting our time. And maybe in a sense we are. But the
keeping on when there seems to be no use is how we fight the natural man within ourselves,
and how we learn of Christ, and how we ourselves are saved." It was a cool insight, and it's
made me think a lot about the attitude I have about the work. Just the doing help us to
become like Him, even if we cant see, or maybe there won't even be that kind of fruit we
think there should be. His fruit is always better! Thanks for all you do, and for our interview
this week,
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter. What you shared is somewhat similar to what I shared in zone
conference about the Lord being able to do his own work. We are given the opportunity to be
missionaries for our own blessing and growth. By us serving and helping others to come
unto Christ we are becoming converted ourselves. It is through the faith and dedication to
the work that we become converted. Thank you for always serving faithfully.
President Letter Nov 15 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, November 15, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
Some amazing things took place in our mission this last week. One was that we had 95 of
our less active brothers and sisters return to sacrament meeting on Sunday November 8th.
These are choice children of our Heavenly Father that we are helping to come back and
experience again the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I am grateful for all that you are
doing to find these lost sheep as well as those sheep that have never known of the gospel.
Elder and Sister Bednar gave a fabulous missionary devotional this past Thursday. They
spoke of the importance of having the Spirit in this work and acting upon the promptings that
we receive. Elder Bednar made reference to 1 Nephi 4:6,7 “And I was led by the Spirit, not
knowing beforehand the things which I should do. Nevertheless, I went forth.” He
emphasized that Nephi did not know what he was to do, but he still went forth. The Spirit will
guide us as we just go forth. If you have not yet viewed the devotional, please do so before
the Mission Tour on Wednesday. It goes along very well with what we recently studied from
Chapter 4 of Preach My Gospel, Recognizing the Spirit.
Again, we are excited for our mission tour with Elder Ruben Alliaud of our Area Presidency.
The Mission Tour will take place on November 18th from 10 AM to 12 PM and November
19th from 1 PM to 3 PM. Please be on the Zoom meetings by 10 minutes prior to the hour.
Besides viewing the missionary devotional with Elder Bednar in preparation for the Mission
Tour, please study Elder Alliaud’s most recent General Conference address, “Found
Through the Power of the Book of Mormon” from October 2019. As we prepare for these
meetings, the Holy Ghost will enlighten us, and we will receive revelation on how we can find
those that are willing to let God prevail in their lives. I look forward to seeing each of you this
week over Zoom. As we see you on our computer screen, you always bring a smile to our
faces. I am curios to know how many missionaries read my weekly letters. If you read this,
end your weekly letter to me with the words all in. Please don't mention this to any other
missionaries. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 16 Nov 2020
Sent Date: Monday, November 16, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
Things are good, hard here and there but we work through it! This week I am excited to have
our mission tour and receive some inspiration, and sobre todo to listen to President Nelson
share his message on Friday. That is going to be so neat. We made invitation type things in
Spanish and in English that we are going to see how many we can hand out in the street this
week, it is going to be so neat. I'm excited. The miracle this week was at home for me, my
family received some much needed revelation and it was a huge blessing. The Lord is so
aware of us and teaches us what we need to learn in such specific ways and it is wonderful
to watch. Thank you for all you do,
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and thank you for letting me know about the needed revelation that
your family received this week. The Lord truly does bless us for our faithful efforts. Thank
you also for getting the word out about President Nelson’s message. Thank you for all that
you are doing.
President Letter Nov 22 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, November 22, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
What a blessing it was to hear from President Russell M. Nelson last Friday and his
message on the blessings of gratitude. It was such an incredible experience to hear our
Prophet pray for us as we were all together. It was almost as if we were standing next to
him as he petitioned our Heavenly Father for us. I will never forget the Spirit that I felt in that
moment. As you feel prompted, please share that video with as many people that you’re
working with as possible. It has been special to see your posts of the things for which you
are thankful. Let’s be cautious in our posts to make them about gratitude and not something
that could be taken as bragging or showing off.
It was wonderful to be with you last week during the mission tour with Elder and Sister
Alliaud. I hope that each of you were able to record the things that were heard and not said
during the meetings. These are the things that the Spirit indicated to you to focus on. It was
awesome to hear of a companionship that took Elder Alliaud’s invitation to heart and that
prayed the next morning to find someone that was prepared to be baptized in the next 6
weeks. After working as hard as they could throughout the day, they received a call in the
evening from a former investigator that had been on date but had decided the Church was
not for him. He told the missionaries that he could not get out of his mind the thoughts of the
things that he had felt previously and told the missionaries that he wants to be baptized.
What an amazing example of acting in faith by these two missionaries.
It has been an incredible week in the mission. There was a companionship that texted me to
let me know that they had achieved all of the standards of excellence for the week except for
lessons, in which they had 26. There truly are miracles taking place. Let’s take Elder Alliaud’
s invitation and ask for the Lord’s help to find someone who is willing to let God prevail and
be baptized in the next 6 weeks. This will happen as we continue to find and show love to
the less actives and also work closely with the active members. I loved this week’s
Missionary Department devotional with Elder and Sister Jackson in which they explained
very clearly that fulfilling our missionary purpose is bringing all unto Christ, member and non
member alike.
We hope that you all have a very happy Thanksgiving. We want you to know that Sister
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Andrews and I are so grateful for each and every one of you here. As a small Thanksgiving
gift, you can take an additional 30 minutes for your exercise on Thursday morning. Please
remember that we are not currently permitted to participate in any football or Turkey Bowls.
There also have been a few questions about Christmas music. If it speaks of Christ, it is
appropriate, but songs like “White Christmas” or “All I Want for Christmas is You” would not
be on the missionary Christmas playlist. Again, Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are
always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
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Weekly Letter - 23 Nov 2020
Sent Date: Monday, November 23, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President, it was a week full of inspired messages from the YW face2face, the devotional,
the mission tour, and President Nelson's message. I really received a lot of direction and
edification that was much needed. I'm excited for this last week in the transfer. I think the
Lord especially blesses our efforts to be diligent in the "fourth watches" of seasons of our
lives. That is an enduring to the end principle that I'm still learning and trying to be good at,
it's an incredible opportunity to grow and develop Christlike attributes, especially that of
diligence. But anyways, the prophets message was the highlight and miracle of my week. Its
amazing what something as simple as a more grateful perspective can do to bless us and
increase our capacity to feel and be led the spirit. I'm so grateful to be a part of this great
work. Thanks for all you do,
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is great to hear that the mission tour, devotionals and
President Nelson‘s message had such a great meaning for you. Thank you for continuing to
serve diligently and also for following President Nelson‘s counsel to show more gratitude.
That small thing can truly change our lives. Have a great Thanksgiving!
Preparation for Zone Conference
Sent Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
In preparation for Zone Conference will you please come prepared to share your favorite
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scripture about Jesus Christ and why the scripture is meaningful to you? Will you please
also ponder on when you have felt the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ in your life?
If you feel that you have not yet had that experience, will you pray and ask that the Holy
Ghost remind you of times when the Savior has been there for you? As you act on these
invitations, you will be preparing yourself to have a spiritual experience at Zone Conference.
Thank you for striving to be consecrated disciples of Jesus Christ. We love you.
With love,
President Andrews
President Letter Nov 29 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, November 29, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It was great to see many of your posts on
Facebook of things for which you are grateful. It was a special experience for me to take
President’s Nelson invitation and really think about all the many blessings that I have
received in my life. He was exactly right when he said that counting blessings is better than
recounting problems. There is something about taking that time to recognize the Lord’s hand
in our lives. It helps us realize the love that our Heavenly Father and Savior have for us.
I was blessed to attend 3 baptismal services this past Saturday. The individuals were 16, 17
and 27 years old. It was inspiring to see these young people make the decision to leave
behind what the world would say is cool or important, and to instead put their trust and focus
in Jesus Christ and forming a relationship with Him. But really, that is exactly what each one
of you are doing for these 18 or 24 months. Life is so much better when we turn to the Lord
and let Him prevail. I am excited to see what is ahead for these young new converts and for
you as well.
I love that Christmas is approaching. People are often much more open to talk and learn of
Jesus Christ at this time of year. As Elder Neil Andersen shared in General Conference, let’s
focus on Christ and speak of Him more, especially during this Christmas season.
We are sad to see many of our exceptional missionaries go home this Tuesday. We know
they will go on to do great things in their lives and for the Lord. We are excited to welcome
23 new missionaries to the Arizona Mesa Mission family. Please welcome them with open
arms. Thank you for your diligent and faithful efforts to bring others unto Christ. Sister
Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
President Letter Dec 6 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, December 6, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
We were so blessed to see so many of our less active friends come to church last week.
We had 253 returning members attend church. You are doing a great work! I want to thank
those of you that were able to join in the fast for Sister Tameifuna. We continue to pray that
the Lord will provide a way for her to return home to her family in Tonga.
The Mesa Mission has worked very hard to produce our Christmas Concert Facebook live
event. It will be this coming Sunday at 7 PM. You should have received pass along cards to
hand out. Please distribute these cards to as many people that you are working with as
possible. I am very grateful to all the missionaries that put their time into making this
wonderful production.
I had a special experience this week. As I was driving, one of my past construction
subcontractors came to mind. He is an inactive member of the church and has had some
serious struggles over the last few years. I called him late one night for the first time since I
left on the mission, and I was able to talk with him about multiple things that he is dealing
with. At the end of our call, I told him how much I used to love when he would come up to
me on job sites and tell me about his ideas of what he wanted to do for his young men
activities when he was serving as the young men president in his ward. I then told him how
awesome it was when I saw his excitement as he used to tell me about his young men that
were making changes and getting ready for missions. I then asked him if he was thinking
about going back to church. He said, “You know, it is pretty crazy that my old bishop called
me this morning and was talking about the exact same things.” I told him that it was not a
coincidence that he had come to my mind the exact same day. I am so grateful for how the
Holy Ghost works in our lives, and how He can prompt multiple people to fulfill His purposes.
As I emailed you earlier this week, in preparation for Zone Conference, will you please come
prepared to share your favorite scripture about Jesus Christ and why the scripture is
meaningful to you? Will you also please ponder on when you have felt the power of the
Atonement of Jesus Christ in your life? If you feel that you have not yet had that experience,
will you pray and ask that the Holy Ghost remind you of times when the Savior has been
there for you? As you act on these invitations, you will be preparing yourself to have a
spiritual experience at Zone Conference. We are excited to see you there. Sister Andrews
and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 07 Dec 2020
Sent Date: Monday, December 7, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
Things are going well, always so many adjustments that come with transfer change, but it is
also such a great opportunity to grow and learn. I love the Pueblo area, the ward members
are absolutely amazing! We have already experienced so many miracles this week. One
was especially touching, and a testament to the principle that we are always planting seeds.
A woman self referred herself and was wanting a Book of Mormon. We took it to her home
and were invited inside, and she told her super sad story. But 15ish years ago she met
missionaries and remembered the feelings she had with them and with reading the Book of
Mormon and she knew she needed that feeling again right now in her life and so she called
us. She just cried and we had a wonderful lesson and the spirit was so strong! It was a really
neat experience. Hope you have a great week!
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Monday, December 7, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is such a special experience that the woman reached out
to you and remembered the spirit she felt from the book of Mormon. There definitely are
people that are seeking this light. Thank you for serving faithfully.
President Letter Dec 13 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, December 13, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It was so good to be with you last week in zone conference. Thank you again for your
preparation for zone conference which allowed for us to receive an outpouring of the Spirit. It
was wonderful to hear of your experiences with the scriptures and how you have been
strengthened as those scriptures have given you reassurances at key times in your lives. I
hope that you each took my invitation to record what you felt when you first read that
scripture and why it was meaningful to you. I also asked you to record when you have felt
the power of the Atonement in your life. I look forward to our interviews to hear more about
how this experience was for you. I promise that at some future point in your life, that simple
recording will give you the reassurance and strength to make it through a trial.
I have loved singing the Christmas hymns so often over this last week. I have felt the Spirit
so many times
reconfirm to me the reality of the Savior’s birth and of His extraordinary mission. I love the
references in the scriptures of the hosts of angels that proclaimed Christ’s birth. In Luke 2:
13-14 it reads, “And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host
praising God, and saying, glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward
men.” I have often wondered, “Could it have been possible if you and I were in that heavenly
host of angels?” And if we were, could you imagine the joy that we must have felt at
knowing that the Savior of the world had finally been born? Oh, if we could only remember
what we felt that magnificent night! I know without a doubt that He truly was born that night
and that He is the Savior of the world.
As we spoke of in zone conference, Elder Alliaud invited us to sincerely pray as
companionships to find a person that is willing to let God prevail and be baptized in the next
6 weeks. I know that the Lord will direct us to these individuals as we pray in faith, follow the
Spirit and put forth our best effort to do this work.
From Sister Andrews: Sisters and Elders, as we approach Christmas this year on the
mission it can be easy to miss traditions at home, family time, and feel a bit discouraged or
depressed. This is a hard time of year for missionaries. Focusing on Christ will help. How do
you do it? Think of the birthday parties you got invited to as a kid. It was always so exciting
to pick out a present from the toy aisle for my friend. I knew I would have fun at the party and
that my connection with my friend would be stronger. I didn’t have expectations about what I
would receive at the party and wasn’t judgmental about how the party went. I was just glad
to be there celebrating with my friend. You’re invited to celebrate Christ’s birth this year. He’s
invited you to come. Come to the party! Select a present for Him by reaching out to serve
and invite others to come unto Him. Try not to focus on yourself. It’s His party after all. And
it’s a virtual party, but hey, we’re used to that by now, right? Don’t hijack His birthday
celebration by connecting with everyone but ignoring Him. When you sing Christmas hymns,
focus on the words and let your gratitude to Him enter your heart. Come to His party! This is
one you won’t want to miss.
We love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
President Letter Dec 20 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, December 20, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
Merry Christmas on Friday! I shared this experience last year, but I wanted to share it again.
I’ll never forget my first Christmas home from my mission. I was the youngest of 7, and all of
my siblings with their children traveled to Provo to have Christmas together. We had our
customary Christmas Eve program where we sang carols together and read of the Savior’s
birth in Luke Chapter 2. It was a wonderful evening together as family. That night, my
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parents’ home was full with all of my siblings and their families so I drove to my college
apartment to spend the night. All of my roommates had left and traveled home for
Christmas. I remember having one of the most spiritual experiences of my life that evening. I
simply took time that evening to watch a video of Christ and then to ponder on what He had
done for me and my family. I felt the witness of the Spirit in a way that I will never forget. I
invite each of you to take some time on Christmas Eve to find a quiet place where you can
watch The Christ Child video. You may have already viewed it many times, but prior to
viewing it again say a prayer to know if that sacred event really took place. Take some time
afterward to reflect personally on what He has done for you. I promise that as you do so, you
will have a special confirmation that Jesus truly was born in Bethlehem and that He is the
Savior of the world and your Savior individually.
It has been wonderful to meet with many of you in interviews and to hear of your
experiences of pondering on and writing about your favorite scripture about Christ and also
recording your experience of feeling the power of the Atonement in your life. Thank you for
the Spirit that you brought into the interviews. I look forward to having a similar experience
with those of you who have yet to be interviewed this transfer. I am so thankful how the Holy
Ghost confirms the truth of all things. I share my witness again that Christ lives. He was born
in a lowly manger and lived a perfect life. He suffered, bled and died so that we can find
peace in this life and live again with Him and the ones we love. I know it is true. What an
amazing opportunity we have to give Him the gift of our faithful service. Thank you for giving
your all to Him for this short period of your life. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are
always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Sent Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President!
Thanks for coming to play volleyball with us at the park today, that was super fun. It was
cute that you brought Kade, he is a cute kid. We were still talking about how you showed us
up even 11 vs 1 haha, that was pretty awesome. Anyways, I'm doing really well and so are
my companions. This transfer has been powerful! I dont know that I have ever seen so many
miracles so consistently, everything feels so led and that is a blessing. I couldn't even pick a
miracle there were so many, but I've been working at being better at beholding and so I am
writing each one into my journal, and wow there are lots!! I'm so grateful. One was an older
lady in a really sad situation who we are going to go visit on Christmas, so I'm looking
forward to that and think it will be a sweet experience. I'm excited for Christmas! Hope yours
is wonderful, thanks for everything you do,
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is wonderful to hear that things are going so well in your
companionship and in your area. That is awesome that you are seeing so many miracles
and that you are writing them down. Thank you for serving faithfully. Have a merry
Christmas
President Letter Dec 27 2020
Sent Date: Sunday, December 27, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
I hope all of you had a very merry Christmas. Hopefully, you were able to have a special
experience as you viewed the Christ Child video on Christmas Eve and pondered on His
miraculous birth and how He would impact all mankind. I was deeply touched by the
expression of the wise man as he knelt, looked at the Christ child and realized that before
him was the person that would make it possible for every human soul to be saved. Over
these last few weeks many of you have had experiences where you have felt the witness of
the Spirit regarding the reality of Jesus Christ. Please know that the adversary is aware of
the experiences that you have been having and will try to discredit them. In 3 Nephi 1 after
the new star appeared signifying Christ’s birth, the following account was given, “And it
came to pass that from this time forth there began to be lyings sent forth among the people,
by Satan, to harden their hearts, to the intent that they might not believe in those signs and
wonders which they had seen.” If you felt something in your heart on Christmas Eve and
have experienced your own signs and wonders, will you please bear record of it by writing it
down? The adversary can never discredit your own written words and testimony. Your
words will be a blessing to you throughout your life.
As I was reading this week in 3 Nephi 9, I read the following words of Christ: “Will ye not now
return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you? Yea, verily I
say unto you, if ye will come unto me ye shall have eternal life. Behold, mine arm of mercy is
extended towards you, and whosoever will come, him will I receive; and blessed are those
who come unto me.” These verses have become one of my new favorite scriptures about
Christ and His Atonement. I love the simpleness of these words of the Savior. His arms are
always extended towards us, and all we need to do is to turn to Him, make changes and be
healed. As a new year begins what a wonderful time to make changes in our lives so that
the Savior can truly heal us from whatever is afflicting us. We can begin to feel that relief
immediately, as we turn to Him.
Thank you for continuing to pray to find those individuals that are prepared to let God prevail
in their lives in the near future. It has been amazing to hear of many of your experiences of
miraculously finding people that had been prepared by the Lord. Thank you for your faithful
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service. Just a reminder about Battle for the Cactus this week, if the winning zone would like,
our family can join your zone on New Year’s Day for your zone hike. Also one hint, it would
be good to study the scripture references this week. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you
are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 28 Dec 2020
Sent Date: Monday, December 28, 2020
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President,
Well, it was a good week, and we have so many investigators with a lot of potential...
Unfortunately Hermana Conley has just recently becoming sick and losing her taste and
smell. We told the members we live with and they told us they had been sick too, and so
they went in and got tested today and both came back positive. We are still waiting on H
Conley's results but at this point it doesn't really matter, we will have to quarantine anyways.
And so that's hard, but I know that the Lord will provide, even via videocall. So that's kind of
depressing haha, but we are doing well besides that and this will hopefully give us a chance
to really get good at daily contact! :) thanks for all you do!
Sent Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and again I’m sorry to hear about your situation with the
quarantine. Thank you for your determination to continue to work diligently through
technology. As you ask for the Lord’s help and put forth your best effort I promise that you
will still find success even in these quarantine days. Thank you for always serving faithfully.
President Letter Jan 3 2021
Sent Date: Sunday, January 3, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
I hope you all had a great New Years Day and zone hike or other activity. This is always
such a great time of year to make new goals and to essentially start anew. I love what
President Nelson shared in the last General Conference. He said, “Embrace your new
normal by repenting daily. Seek to be increasingly pure in thought, word, and deed. Minister
to others. Keep an eternal perspective. Magnify your callings. And whatever your
challenges, my dear brothers and sisters, live each day so that you are more prepared to
meet your Maker.” I feel that President Nelson’s counsel is so fitting for us as we are starting
a new year. Let’s leave behind anything that might be holding us back and make a new
normal for ourselves. I promise you that you will be amazed at how good life will be as you
embrace your new normal.
I am always grateful when you accept my invitation to join you in your lessons. It was
wonderful to join the Sisters this last week and visit a man that has been attending church
for some time now. The Spirit was felt strongly as testimonies about the Book of Mormon
were shared and blessings were promised. It really is awesome that we get to have these
types of experiences as missionaries. There will come a time that you will think back on
these experiences and wish that you could live them again.
I loved the words of counsel that President Nelson gave us in the January Liahona. The
article is titled, “Grow into the Principle of Revelation.” Please take time to read the short
article and ponder on the prophetic counsel that is given. Our ability to receive personal
revelation is critical to our spiritual survival and our success in this work.
Thank you for your faithful efforts and continuing to pray to find those that are prepared to let
God prevail in their lives in the near future. The Lord is aware of you and grateful for your
efforts. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
President Letter Jan 10 2021
Sent Date: Sunday, January 10, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
Saturday and Sunday I had the opportunity to attend several meetings with missionaries and
stake leaders. On Saturday evening I attended a baptism where there were 6 missionaries
present. The missionaries sang, gave a talk and gave a presentation on the restoration of
the gospel of Jesus Christ. After the service, the stake president approached me and told
me how impressed he was with these missionaries and the Spirit that they have with them. I
was then in a meeting this morning with 8 other missionaries. The stake presidency
counselor and the high councilor commented to me that these were truly outstanding
missionaries and how grateful they were to have them in their stake. Sisters and Elders, I
just want to thank you for the example that you are setting and for being worthy of the Spirit
that you carry with you. Others notice the light that you have about you.
Last week we taught 1746 lessons. This is the third time that we have exceeded 1700
lessons. Thank you for your diligent efforts. The Lord is blessing you for those efforts as we
are finding more and more people that are willing to let God prevail. Many of these
individuals have come through contacting less active individuals and families.
I have still felt strongly that it is through our mission Facebook pages that we are going to
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make large strides in finding more people to teach. I feel impressed to ask each of you to do
the following this week. Will each of you video yourselves in 45 seconds or less sharing your
testimony of your Heavenly Father and how you know that He is real? You can choose your
attire but be sure that it is dignified and your name tag is showing. Please also do your
video in either Spanish or English depending on if you are currently serving in an English or
Spanish zone. Please then send the video to your zone social media specialist and also post
it on your personal profile. Please complete this by the end of the day on Saturday January
16th. I know that there will be people that will be touched by hearing your brief and powerful
testimonies.
We are saying goodbye to 4 wonderful missionaries this week. We are also receiving 16
new missionaries that are excited to start this life-changing mission adventure. Please
continue to be great examples to these missionaries and welcome them to the Arizona Mesa
Mission family. Thank you for serving faithfully. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are
always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
President Letter Jan 17 2021
Sent Date: Sunday, January 17, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
We’ve loved hearing so many of your testimonies of the reality of a loving Heavenly Father.
Thank you so much for taking my invitation to record your testimonies and to post those to
your Facebook profiles. I felt the Spirit strongly as I have viewed many of those. I know
others are feeling the Spirit as well as they hear your heartfelt and sure witnesses. I again
have had several members comment to me about how outstanding you are and the Spirit
that you carry with you. There are no better words that a mission president can hear.
I have felt impressed to focus on the Prophet Joseph Smith in our upcoming Zone
Conference. In preparation for zone conference, I am going to ask you to do several things.
First, will you please think back to the time when you first knew that Joseph Smith truly was
a prophet of God and what that experience was like. If you are still working toward that
testimony, that is just fine. Will you also do the following invitation that Elder Neil L.
Andersen gave the youth in October of 2014? You were all probably deacons or beehives at
that time. As part of a stake youth conference in 2015, I invited the youth in my home stake
to act on this invitation. Here is the invitation from Elder Andersen:
“To the youth listening today or reading these words in the days ahead, I give a specific
challenge: Gain a personal witness of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Read the testimony of the
Prophet Joseph Smith in the Pearl of Great Price. This is Joseph’s own testimony of what
actually occurred. Consider recording the testimony of Joseph Smith in your own voice,
listening to it regularly, and sharing it with friends. Listening to the Prophet’s testimony in
your own voice will help bring the witness you seek.”
This might initially sound like an odd invitation, but if you act on Elder Andersen’s invitation, I
promise that it will be a special experience for you. I hope that you are all watching the
weekly devotionals provided by the Missionary Department. These speakers are Apostles
and General Authorities. I would recommend that zones schedule a time each week to do a
30 minute Zoom meeting review of that week’s devotional. We will also be having a missionwide
Zoom Facebook meeting on Tuesday January 19th from 8:45 PM to 9:15 PM. Please
be sure to join us for that meeting. Again, I am so grateful for the missionaries that you are
and for your desire to be consecrated disciples of Jesus Christ. Sister Andrews and I love
you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
President Letter Jan 24 2021
Sent Date: Sunday, January 24, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
We enjoyed joining districts this last week for district councils. There was great counseling
regarding ideas to help friends progress. It is wonderful to see how the Spirit can guide us as
we counsel together. I am grateful for the preparation that is put into your district councils.
This past week we taught 1896 lessons which is the most we have taught in a week thus far.
That’s amazing! Thank you for your diligent efforts.
We are excited to see you this week in Zone Conference. I wanted to remind you again of
my invitations. First, will you please think back to the time when you first knew that Joseph
Smith truly was a prophet of God and what that experience was like. If you are still working
toward that testimony, that is just fine. Will you also do the following invitation from Elder
Neil L. Andersen:
“To the youth listening today or reading these words in the days ahead, I give a specific
challenge: Gain a personal witness of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Read the testimony of the
Prophet Joseph Smith in the Pearl of Great Price. This is Joseph’s own testimony of what
actually occurred. Consider recording the testimony of Joseph Smith in your own voice,
listening to it regularly, and sharing it with friends. Listening to the Prophet’s testimony in
your own voice will help bring the witness you seek.”
Thank you to all that have already been working on these two invitations. I promise that zone
conference will be a special and uplifting experience for you if you have prepared previously
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by acting on these invitations.
There is an item of much concern in the mission. I have received word that there is a
Google drive folder in the mission that contains music and movies not appropriate for
missionaries. I ask that you please delete this drive and not access it any longer. I promise
you that you will have an increased portion of the Spirit in your life and in your work if you
heed my counsel, and you will be happier. Ultimately, it is up to you to be obedient to this
missionary standard. Just know that I do love you and want you to have an experience here
that will change the rest of your life. You are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 26 Jan 2021
Sent Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President
Things are going really well and its a blessing. I have never been in a ward as wonderful as
the Pueblo Ward. I have lesrned more about member missionary work here and how to do it
more effectively than I have in my entire mission. I love the second transfer in an area, you
find a rhythm and you start forming relationships with members and amigos. It's been
awesome. Especially after spending almost half of the first transfer in quarantine. I don't
know what your plans are for me next transfer and I am willing to do whatever you (or the
Lord) ask of me. But if it is possible, I would love love love to stay in the Pueblo area for my
last transfer. Anyways, my companions are doing well, especially Hermana Conley has
shown much improvement and really settled in, found her place, and made a long term
commitment to the Lord. I'm really proud of her. And Hermana Kunz is probably the most
Christlike person I have ever met, I aspire to be like her. I haven't had any exchanges yet,
the first one is with Hermana Kister tomorrow. I am nervous, but also excited. I just pray that
these exchanges can be uplifting experiences for each one. I really appreciated the training
on exchanges in MLC, it was exactly what I needed. Thanks for all you do
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is great to hear that things are going so well with the
members of your ward and your friends in your area. That is also great that Sister Conley is
feeling better and enjoying the work. I am glad that MLC was a good experience for you and
that you were able to take things from it to apply in your calling ad a sister training leader. I
look forward to seeing you at zone conference.
President Letter Jan 31 2021
Sent Date: Monday, February 1, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
I am grateful for the Spirit that we were able to feel together in zone conference this past
week. Thank you for your preparation and worthiness to allow the Spirit to be with us in such
great abundance. I am especially grateful for those of you that acted on my and Elder
Andersen’s invitation to record Joseph Smith History in your own voice and for the spiritual
experiences that have been shared from that. If you have not done so already, please write
down how you have come to know that Joseph Smith was a prophet. If you do not feel that
you have that testimony yet, please write about aspects of the gospel for which you have felt
peace. Throughout your life please remember that you will always be blessed for following
the counsel of your priesthood leaders.
I had the privilege this week of attending two different stake conferences with two different
General Authorities. It was wonderful to be taught by them and to hear their special
witnesses of the Savior. I know that those men are truly called of God.
This week I attended coordinating council meetings with each stake president in Mesa and
Globe, and I was able to share with them the plans that we discussed in zone conference
regarding working with members in their stakes. They were all supportive of our plans and
willing to help. Let’s review the plans (or stones) that we are presenting to the Lord and
asking for Him to consecrate (or touch) to bring souls unto Him:
1. Follow up with all media referrals within 1.5 hours of notification.
2. Join your ward Facebook pages and friend but unfollow all members. Send each
member a message asking them to pray to know of 3 of their friends that you can send a
friend request to.
3. Chapel tours for all church buildings in Mesa and Globe on February 20th from 1-3 PM
4. Each Sunday obtain from the ward clerk the speakers for the following Sunday. Visit
each speaker early in the week and invite them to share the sacrament meeting link with
their friends.
5. Make a brief video of how you came to know that Joseph Smith is a prophet and post
that to your Facebook profile.
6. Each day in companionship study do one Edify App lesson and report each week.
7. Update area book several times each day (especially right after you respond to a referral)
I have loved viewing the recent videos you have made in which you have shared how you
have gained your testimonies of the Prophet Joseph Smith. I have felt the Spirit as I have
watched your heartfelt testimonies. These videos will touch the hearts of others and also be
a blessing to you at some future time in your life. Thank you for serving faithfully. Sister
Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
President Letter Feb 7 2021
Sent Date: Sunday, February 7, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
We as a mission were blessed to have 9 individuals enter the waters of baptism last week! I
had the opportunity to witness 3 of those baptisms, and I am so grateful for the peace and
love that was felt during those baptismal services. It was wonderful to see several
investigators attend each baptismal service as well. Thank you for all that you are doing to
hasten the work here in Mesa.
I had the chance this week to attend a lesson with a young couple that is preparing
themselves for baptism. I first met this couple about 7 months ago when I attended a lesson
with them. During the most recent lesson the Spirit could be felt so strongly. The man
shared with me that 7 months ago when he met with me and the missionaries, he did not
want to be there and that he was only there for his girlfriend. He said that a few months ago
he was in a very dark place and decided to pray to know if this message really was true. He
received an overwhelming witness that it is all true. There were tears in his eyes as he
shared this. As I left that lesson and drove home, I could not stop thinking to myself of how
amazing it is that we get to be part of this work and have these experiences regularly as
missionaries. The drive home feeling is real! There really is no better thing that we could be
doing at this time, and nothing that would bring us more joy.
I have loved having interviews with you and hearing of your experiences of pondering on
your testimonies of the Prophet Joseph Smith and recording those thoughts and
impressions. I have felt the Spirit as I have viewed the personal videos of your testimonies
that have been posted. Thank you so much for taking the time to do that. Others will feel the
Spirit as they view them as well. I look forward to hearing of the personal experiences of the
rest of you as we meet this week in interviews. I am grateful for your goodness and your
desire to serve the Lord faithfully. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our
prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
President Letter Feb 14 2021
Sent Date: Sunday, February 14, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
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I am so excited to see the miracles that are going to take place this week as we strive to be
exactly obedient and ask for the Lord to consecrate our performance. I know that we will be
blessed to the degree that we keep His commandments. He never fails on His promises to
us. (D&C 82:10) We know that we can’t dictate to the Lord how He should bless our efforts.
He chooses the blessings. However, I hope and pray that some of the miracles will come in
the form of people feeling prompted to come join us for our chapel tours and that they will
feel the Spirit that dwells in these dedicated buildings. Let’s be well prepared to give a
chapel tour where the Spirit is felt.
This week I was able to see firsthand that the elect of the Lord are here and waiting to
receive the restored gospel. I had the opportunity to accompany a companionship to teach
a complete family of 5 individuals. This family met the missionaries because one missionary
saw the mother standing in front of her apartment on the second floor, and then he had the
prompting to turn around and go back to talk to her. She accepted an invitation to meet with
them, and the family has attended church 2 weeks in a row. It was a special experience for
me to be in their home and to see the father feel and recognize the Spirit and then recognize
that the Lord had placed people exactly where they needed to be in order for him and his
family to come to know the gospel. Sisters and Elders, the Lord will guide us to the elect if
we are faithful and sincerely ask for His help.
Thank you for the sacrifices that you make each day to hasten this work. I often have
people tell me how wonderful you are and the Spirit that you carry with you. Thank you for
being worthy of that Spirit. Let’s pray for miracles like it all depends on the Lord and then
work for those miracles like it all depends on us. Truly, miracles will happen. Sister
Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 15 Feb 2021
Sent Date: Monday, February 15, 2021
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Happy Presidents Day to the best one around! :) We appreciate so much all that you and
Sister Andrews do. I really was going to write you last week after our interview haha, but my
phone crashed and I was without one for a few days... things are finally looking up in our
area... it had been a rough slow couple of weeks of a lot of planting but little harvest.
However yesterday in delivering Valentines to several elderly friends we have, we were able
to put one woman on date! And that for sure wasn't part of the plan!:) her name is Josie and
she is going to be 87 two days after she is going to be baptized. So we are excited for that
and it was for sure the highlight. Have a great week!
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and for your kind words. That is awesome to hear about Josie and
her desire to be baptized. That is wonderful that you are beginning to see the blessings from
your hard work. Thank you for all that you are doing. Have a great week
President Letter Feb 21 2021
Sent Date: Sunday, February 21, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
Thank you so much for your faithful efforts this last week to strive for exact obedience. I
know that no effort was wasted and that we were and will continue to be blessed in many
ways. When we are obedient, we are immediately blessed in some manner in our lives.
(Mosiah 2:24)
This last week I had the opportunity to be part of a lesson with a man that has been meeting
for quite a while with the missionaries. As we asked inspired questions, he shared with us
that he had experiences in the past where he felt that God had abandoned him. He shared
that when he was a little boy, he had an uncle with a serious illness and that his family had
prayed for him, but that he still passed away. He felt that God did not hear his prayers. I
shared the experience with my brother passing away from cancer a few years ago and how
we had prayed and fasted for him, but that he still passed away. I shared how I could see
how my brother’s passing was able to touch many lives at his funeral as many people
learned of the plan of salvation. I also shared how I was able to feel peace from the Holy
Ghost that his spirit continued on, just in another place. The man then shared about his little
sister that died of cancer and that he could not see why God would let that happen. I felt
prompted to tell him that Heavenly Father had a better plan and that He called her home to
be with Him. I testified that she was now with her Heavenly Father and that I knew that
without a doubt and that the sting of death was swallowed up in Christ and that he would see
her again. The Spirit was very strong in the apartment. He accepted the invitation to let down
his walls and to pray to God again. At the end of the visit, one of the Elders felt prompted to
share Enos 27 which are the final words of Enos:
“And I soon go to the place of my rest, which is with my Redeemer; for I know that in him I
shall rest. And I rejoice in the day when my mortal shall put on immortality, and shall stand
before him; then shall I see his face with pleasure, and he will say unto me: Come unto me,
ye blessed, there is a place prepared for you in the mansions of my Father. Amen.”
I then shared that I know it is not a coincidence that the Elder shared that verse. I explained
that the day before my brother passed away I flew to San Diego to visit him. After seeing
him that last time, I went back to the airport and boarded the plane. I sat in my seat and
opened the Book of Mormon for comfort. I read Enos 27 and it was as if they were the final
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words of my brother to me. I shared that with the man, and we were all again touched by
the Spirit.
Sisters and Elders, the Lord is in the details of our lives and this work. As we look for His
hand we will see it. With the new transfer beginning, please take the time to make prayerful
transfer goals and then work with the Lord to accomplish them. In the strength of the Lord
we can do all things. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 22 Feb 2021
Sent Date: Monday, February 22, 2021
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President
Things are going well in the area and I am super excited about this change in goals being for
the transfer instead of the month. I think it is a great idea and I'm excited to do that with my
companion tomorrow. The highlight of the week was a woman we found last night out on her
porch. We talked for almost two hours, she had so many questions. Her name is Angelina.
The sweetest thing was when we explained to her Premortal Life. She was incredulous! She
was so tickled by the idea that she lived with God and that she chose to follow Jesus Christ.
She asked how we knew that and some other things and it was a neat experience to testify
of the clearness of the BOM. What a blessing. I love being a missionary. I'm nervous to go
into my last transfer, but I'm also excited to make goals with God and put my shoulder to the
wheel and have an incredible last six weeks. Thanks for all you do!
Sent Date: Monday, February 22, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and it really will be an awesome experience for you to set goals for
this transfer and see what you can accomplish with the Lord’s help before you go home.
Thank you for sharing that experience of meeting that woman and helping her to remember
things that she once new. Thank you for your faithful service. Have a great week
President Letter Feb 28 2021
Sent Date: Sunday, February 28, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
We were blessed to receive 19 new wonderful missionaries to the Arizona Mesa Mission
family. Please reach out to them within your districts and welcome them to Mesa. Sister
Andrews and I had the opportunity to attend two stake conferences this weekend. It was
such a treat to have several members come up to us and tell us how amazing the
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missionaries are that are in their wards and what a wonderful Spirit they have with them.
You are giving Sister Andrews and me proud parent moments. Thank you for striving to be
consecrated disciples of Jesus Christ.
Thank you for prayerfully setting your companionship goals for this transfer. I am excited to
see the things that you will accomplish as you work side by side with the Lord to accomplish
the goals that the Spirit has inspired. Pray like it all depends on the Lord and serve like it all
depends on you.
We are changing up Battle for the Cactus for this week. Wednesday at 3 PM we will actually
be having a mission wide Facebook training that will be given by a Facebook specialist from
the Missionary Department. We are excited to learn from her. Please plan on joining the
training on Wednesday at 3 PM through the regular Zoom link.
In preparation for Zone Conference, please study Preach My Gospel, Chapter 4: How Do I
Recognize the Spirit. Please also think back on the times that you have received personal
revelation or promptings in your life. What happened when you acted on that revelation?
Also, think back on what you were doing when you received that revelation. I am excited to
hear of your experiences at zone conference.
We had many small miracles take place with our chapel tours. It may seem like the tours
didn’t make much of a difference, but 50 chapel tours is significant! I thought I would share
just one miracle that I read in one of the weekly letters from last week:
The chapel tours turned out to be a great success! We didn't actually get to give anyone a
tour, but we went out to the road and started waving at every car! During the last 5 minutes a
truck pulled into the parking lot, and they got out to talk to us. He said that he was baptized
and went to church when he was young and a little in another state, but he and his girlfriend
were looking for a church to attend. We told them we have church on Sundays at 11 and
invited them to come. He said they would be there, and he actually came! And not only that,
but during sacrament we leaned over when they announced the Why I Believe fireside and
invited them to come, and they said yes to that too! They came to the fireside and after it we
talked a little bit about the Book of Mormon and gave each of them one, and we got their
phone numbers. They also want to learn English so they said they are going to come to the
English classes that we teach on Tuesdays! It was cool to see everything just work out so
well and see that God really has prepared these people!
Sisters and Elders, thank you for serving so faithfully so that these wonderful blessings can
take place. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
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Weekly Letter - 01 Mar 2021
Sent Date: Monday, March 1, 2021
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President. The first week of transfers always flies by. I'm happy to be here again in
Pueblo. I'm also excited to have Hermana Wolverton. I think she is struggling with the
change more than she expected to, but I know she will get the hang of things quickly. She is
a really dedicated missionary. This week's miracle was small, but a tender mercy for me. A
few weeks back my phone stopped working. I had to send it in to be repaired. I received a
ridiculously expensive repair bill from the company because they stated that the damage
didn't fall under the warranty. I felt that that couldn't be true based on the diagnostic I
received earlier that week at the store. It was just kind of one more expensive and really
stressful thing on top of everything else. So I said a prayer about it. Several actually. And I
told the Lord the situation and that I needed this phone bill to be resolved. Then I called the
customer service back and explained everything again and a very kind phone person waved
my bill. I know it's small, and the Lord has more important things to worry about that $300
bills, but He knew it was important to me. I'm so grateful for a merciful God who is also a
loving father who helps me with big and small things each day.
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and thank you for all of your care and support for Hermana
Wolverton. I’m grateful that you are helping her to adjust to her new area. Thank you also for
sharing that experience of praying with sincerity and having your prayer answered. It truly is
amazing that our Heavenly Father hears and answers every prayer. Thank you for serving
faithfully.
President Letter Mar 7 2021
Sent Date: Sunday, March 7, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
It was great to join in on two district councils last week as well as several companionship
studies. I am grateful for the Spirit that was felt in those settings. I also had the chance to
accompany two Elders to teach an investigator that they have been working with for quite a
while. He has had some reservations regarding the acceptance of a modern day prophet.
We had the chance to watch with him the Give Thanks video from President Nelson. The
Spirit was present in the room as we testified of how each of us had come to know that there
are modern day prophets on the earth. The Spirit will always testify of the Lord’s prophet.
This week at Teaching Academy I shared the following scriptures:
3 Nephi 20:42 For ye shall not go out with haste nor go by flight; for the Lord will go before
you, and the God of Israel shall be your rearward.
and
D&C 49:27 Behold, I will go before you and be your rearward; and I will be in your midst, and
you shall not be confounded.
I love that both of these scriptures describe the Lord as a rearward or the support at the
back of something. It is pretty amazing to think that we can substitute in the modern
vocabulary “has your back” in those sentences. How wonderful is it to know that as we are
faithful or “all in” that we can go forth in the strength of the Lord because the Lord has our
back.
We are excited to be with you in zone conference this week. I wanted to remind you of my
invitation to prepare for zone conference. Please prepare by studying Preach My Gospel,
Chapter 4: How Do I Recognize the Spirit. Please also think back on the times that you
have received personal revelation or promptings in your life. What happened when you
acted on that revelation? Also, think back on what you were doing when you received that
revelation. I am excited to hear of your experiences at zone conference.
We are also looking forward to our Why I Believe fireside this coming Sunday at 7 PM at the
Kimball Stake Center. This is a great opportunity to bring the people that you are working
with so that they can hear the testimonies and life stories of those that have come unto
Christ and joined the Church. As a reminder, in order for you to attend, you would need to
bring a nonmember or returning member. Thank you so much for your faithful efforts. Sister
Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
President Letter Mar 14 2021
Sent Date: Sunday, March 14, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
We loved seeing each of you this last week in zone conference. Thank you for your
preparation for the conference and for the things that you shared as we were together. I
hope that we all were able to focus more on the importance of seeking the Holy Ghost more
in our lives and to follow the promptings that come to us. It is the only way that we can be
successful in this great work. It is a wonderful promise that the Lord will micromanage our
lives if we let Him.
I have heard from several missionaries that have already had great experiences with
showing the “Those in the Back Room of Our Lives” video as part of their messages with
members. It helps members see so clearly how easy it is to take time and pray to know who
is in the back rooms of our lives that we can help feel loved and even come closer to the
Savior.
Last night I had the opportunity to attend the baptism of an elderly man that had attended
church for over 50 years with his wife that was a member. His wife passed away a little over
a year ago. As the missionaries have visited him, he has been able to feel the Spirit and
realize that this is what he needs to do to be with his wife after this life. There were over 30
sets of missionaries that have visited this man over the years. Each one helped to add to
his faith and testimony. You never realize how much of a contribution you really are making.
There are individuals that will be eternally grateful for your efforts.
In the “Why I Believe” fireside tonight there was a reoccurring theme. That theme was that
the gospel brings light into our lives when things might seem dark. That went along perfectly
with a scripture I read this morning in my scripture study. It was Alma 32:35
“O then, is not this real? I say unto you, Yea, because it is light; and whatsoever is light, is
good, because it is discernible, therefore ye must know that it is good”
This scripture reminded me of just how simple it really is to know the gospel is real. As we
follow the gospel of Jesus Christ, we always begin to sense that light come into our lives. It
never fails, and this gospel is indeed real. Take a moment and ponder on what life is like
when you are truly striving to live the gospel of Jesus Christ. The difference is clear.
Thank you for serving faithfully in your sacred callings. I look forward to seeing you in
interviews. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
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Weekly Letter - 15 Mar 2021
Sent Date: Monday, March 15, 2021
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President!
We experienced a real miracle this week! We needed an outside the box idea to mix it up
this week, and what we did was sidewalk chalk contacting... we brainstormed questions we
felt people might relate to and then my companion and I lettered them all over a park and left
our phone number. Well, somebody messaged us! His name is Abraham. He has had some
pretty serious trauma in his life, which is why the question, "Why does God let bad things
happen to good people?" caught his attention. After visiting with him for a few days over text,
we set an apt to meet him at that park in person. We went to the meeting and he was there
with his wife and three young sons. Then it got even crazier, because we spoke it English as
the chalk thing was in English and he turned to his wife and began translating what we said
into Spanish. So we told them we too spoke Spanish and were able to teach them a lesson
there and invite their family to church and they said they would come I know the gospel will
be the balm that can help him heal old wounds and I can't wait for him to find out. I know
God inspires us with ideas, sometimes even crazy ones, that will allow us to bless others.
His is a perfect plan and I'm grateful to be part of it.
Sent Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and that is so neat to hear about your experience with following the
prompting to use sidewalk chalk and then having Abraham respond. I am excited to hear
how things go with him and his family. That is also really neat that they speak Spanish.
Thank you for following the promptings of the spirit. You never go wrong. Have a great week
President Letter Mar 21 2021
Sent Date: Sunday, March 21, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
I enjoyed visiting with many of you this past week in interviews and hearing of the things that
you are doing to have the Holy Ghost more in your lives and to also hear of how you have
been following the promptings that you have been receiving. We were blessed to have 9
convert baptisms in our mission this week. Sister Andrews and I were able to attend two
services, and the Spirit was felt strongly in both. It is amazing how that feeling of love and
peace can always be felt at a baptism. I am also grateful for all the work that you have been
doing with returning members. We have been blessed over the last few weeks to have two
individuals come back into the gospel and be baptized again. I can only imagine how happy
our Heavenly Father is as He sees His children come back. The story of the prodigal son in
Luke 15 comes to mind: “And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great
way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed
him.” I know that our Heavenly Father has the same love for these individuals and for us as
we turn to Him.
I am looking forward to Easter and to General Conference. Let us be sure to speak of Christ
as often as possible especially with Easter approaching. Please also invite all that you are
working with to watch General Conference and hear the words of our prophets. Share your
testimonies that the men that will speak are modern day prophets that speak for Jesus
Christ. Share how you personally have come to know that they are prophets of God. If you
are working with people, consider asking members if you can bring your friends to their
home to watch a session of General Conference. I promise that as your friends watch
General Conference, the Spirit will touch their hearts and they will know that their words are
true. Please also prepare yourselves by being prayerful and asking for specific direction in
your lives through the talks that will be given. If you listen intently, you will receive personal
revelation for your life and those with whom you are working.
I look forward to seeing many of you in interviews this week and hearing your experiences of
making small adjustments to allow you to hear Him more. Sister Andrews and I love you,
and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
President Letter Mar 28 2021
Sent Date: Monday, March 29, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
I am grateful for the opportunity that I had this week to join in on a lesson with a returning
member family that was preparing to baptize their 11 year old son. We asked this couple to
share with us their stories of how they joined the Church and how their lives have been
changed by doing so. The father shared how he was in and out of activity for most of his life,
but he has always been able to see that when he tries to live the gospel that he feels so
much better and senses so much more light in his life. He shared that his father made many
bad choices when he was younger but then made a complete turn around in his older years
when he joined the church and started living the gospel. The father became a temple worker
and shared the gospel with many from his old crowd and with his family members. The Spirit
was so strong in the home as this man spoke of the amazing man that his father had
become through the gospel. The wife also shared her story of learning about the gospel
through her husband and the positive changes that took place in her life. We then taught
about temples to their 11 year old son, and we testified of the reality that families can be
sealed for eternity in those sacred buildings. The Spirit again confirmed the reality of our
words. As I left that lesson, I said to the Elders, “Isn’t it amazing that we get to have those
kinds of experiences as we serve missions!” Sisters and Elders, this is a great work to be
part of.
I love the new video, This Easter Find Peace in Jesus Christ, by President Russell M.
Nelson. It is such a powerful witness of the reality of Jesus Christ, His Atonement and our
ability to live again with those that we love because of Him. I would recommend sharing it
as often as possible leading up to Easter and General Conference. Those who view it will
also receive a witness that President Nelson is indeed the Prophet of God on the earth.
Sisters and Elders, please prayerfully prepare for General Conference and take notes of
what the Spirit speaks to you while you watch. I promise you that you will receive inspiration
and revelation for you personally. In our zone conference in April, we will be discussing the
personal revelation that you received as you listened to the Lord’s Prophet and Apostles.
What an amazing opportunity we have to hear exactly what the Lord would have us know
and do at this time in our lives. Thank you so much for your faithful service and for the Spirit
that you carry with you. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
Weekly Letter - 29 Mar 2021
Sent Date: Monday, March 29, 2021
Author: Miller, Sadie Jane
Hi President, hope you're doing well!
We are doing well here in Pueblo! This week I was able to have two exchanges, one with
Hermana Martinez and one with Hermana Hibbert. I'm sure you are already aware that they
struggle a little bit, but things have drastically improved this week. Hermana Martinez
especially had a cool apiritual experience she shared with me and I believe they are doing
much better. One thing you should know is that Hermana Hibbert (both from her perspective
and her companions) struggles because she feels like she hasn't been entrusted with any
leadership responsibilities during her mission, and she feels a little bit like that means she
hasn't measured up. Of course that isn't true, but she feels that way sometimes. Obviously I
can understand why she hasn't been called upon to be an STL, as she struggles so much
with each of her companions. But maybe there is an opportunity for her to be called on with
something that has to do with the music? I think she wanted to help with that when Sister
Davis left, but she didn't feel comfortable openly volunteering, but would preferred to be
asked. Maybe she can be given an assignment to help Elder Garret with that? I just think it
would mean so much to her to help in another way. She doesnt know I'm suggesting this or
really how aware I am of her desire to do more in the mission. Thanks for all that you do!
Hermana Miller
Sent Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Thank you for your letter and thank you for your exchange with Hermana Martinez and
Hermana Hibbert. I am glad that things are going better in the companionship. Thank you
also for letting me know your thoughts about hermana Hibbert and how we could help her. I
will take those things Into consideration. Thank you again for looking out for her. Have a
great week and enjoy general conference. I look forward to our interview.
President Letter Apr 4 2021
Sent Date: Sunday, April 4, 2021
Author: President Andrews
Sisters and Elders,
What a wonderful General Conference! It was so special to spend Easter weekend listening
to Prophets, Seers and Revelators sharing their testimonies of our Savior, Jesus Christ. I
felt the truthfulness of their words so strongly when they shared their powerful witnesses like
the one shared by Elder Holland, “Have a blessed, joyful, peaceful Easter. Its untold
possibilities have already been paid for by the Prince of Peace. Whom I love with all my
heart. Whose church this is, and of whom I bear unequivocal witness, even the Lord Jesus
Christ.” I know that these are men of God that know the Savior personally.
I hope you were able to hear Him as you watched General Conference and had the Spirit
speak to your mind and heart. Please be sure to review your notes of what the Spirit said to
you and start acting on those promptings right away. I look forward to hearing of your
thoughts and your experiences when we meet in zone conference.
Sisters and Elders, I want to share with you how grateful I am for this Easter season and for
the opportunity to celebrate the life, sacrifice, and resurrection of our Savior. I know that He
truly did overcome our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane and that He rose from the tomb
the third day. I know this because of the undeniable peace that I feel in my heart every time
I read or hear of what He did for us. How can you read these words of Abinadi and not feel
in your heart that they are true? “But there is a resurrection, therefore the grave hath no
victory, and the sting of death is swallowed up in Christ. He is the light and the life of the
world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea, and also a life which is
endless, that there can be no more death.” The Spirit will always testify of truth. How
wonderful it is to know with certainty that those we love are not gone forever but that we will
be with them again! I know this to be true without a doubt. He is risen. Christ has won the
victory. Sister Andrews and I love you, and you are always in our prayers.
With love,
President Andrews
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