Miller, Abigail

Good morning brothers and sisters. It is such a pleasure to be here today speaking to you.  I feel like I was just up here a week ago giving my farewell talk.  My time serving in the Dominican Republic flew by and I am eternally grateful for the people I met, the experiences I had and the memories I made.  Over the last 18 months I have grown to love the people and the culture of the DR. It will always hold a special place in my heart.  In the last 18 months I have come to know who Jesus Christ is and who our Heavenly Father is and how Their light gives people hope and joy all around the world. I have grown such a profound love for Them. As the scriptures teach us, Jesus Christ is the light and the life of the world. As He said, “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” Jesus is this light. One of the signs to Christ's coming was that the world would have ongoing light for 3 days without darkness...

I am going to miss flower tree moments. I am going to miss the power I hold as a missionary telling people how much God loves them. I am going to miss transfer news nights. I am going to miss my friends I've made here. I am going to miss the colmado music. I am going to miss walking in the sun midday. I am going to miss people yelling "no se mojen". I am going to miss the roads that turn into rivers. I am going to miss someone coming to know Jesus. I am going to miss the spirit during personal study. I am going to miss tigres. I am going to miss the plastic chairs.  I am going to miss the passing out at 10:30. I am going to miss domincan washers. I am going to miss losing power. I am going to miss waiting for my friends on Sunday. I am going to miss watching someone read the Book of Mormon for the first time. I am going to miss watching someone pray for the first time. I am going to miss watching faces glow while talking about Jesus. I am going to miss chasing someone dow...

I feel like my time is running out. My mission is wrapping up.  We have seen miracle after miracle this week. I've never seen the Lords hand so much.  A few miracles from this week. We have the cutest couple, Renel and Wesland. They were sooooo awesome and wanted to be baptized but it was imposible for them to be married and therefore be baptized so we had to stop teaching them.  Renel, the husband ended up just barely moving to the states and his wife and son are here while he is providing for them.  We sent Renels records to the missionaries in Florida and he is getting baptized!! Super happy for him! But even better is that we went to go teach his wife Wesland and she told us they both want to be baptized, and they are planning on doing it the same day, so they can make this step of progression together, as they said. I'm so so excited for them to be an eternal family. Wesland gave us her testimony this week.  She told us before we started visiting them they ...