Elder Miller's Last Week (9/26/2018)

Hey everybody,

The theme of this transfer has been "I don't have much time to write". Haha. We've been busy almost every week. I think we had one week where we weren't. Oh well.

So I finished the New Testament this morning. It was a good time. I enjoyed it overall. The important thing to know about the New Testament is its applicability is limited since the majority of it consists of letters written to address specific groups of people. I would think of it as if someone took letters sent by members of our modern Quorum of the Twelve to other General Authorities or Officers and made those letters into a book of scripture. A lot of it would contain good, true stuff, worth a read, but not quite on the same level as records of Christ himself in the Gospels and 3 Nephi or records of history and sermons like Acts (though I admit I didn't get much out of Acts, I need to read that again) or the Old Testament or the rest of The Book of Mormon. The general epistles in the New Testmant, though, are always great--sorta like General Conference talks in terms of universal applicability.

I plan to re-read the Gospels soon because I haven't read them for numerous months. Marking up all the JSTs in the text is gonna take a while though. Also gonna start reading the Doctrine and Covenants.

I hope you're all reading Saints. It's very good stuff. Lots of things I didn't know about and several things I didn't think they would even address, like Joseph Smith's Masonic connections. I'm over halfway done and excited for more.

Elder Miller's last days are approaching. This transfer went by quickly. It was a good time. I'll update more next week, I promise...

Attached are a couple pictures of Ohio's quaint beauty. And the "album cover" I made for our district's "band".

Love,

Elder Gallagher