Our
Branch President loves to quote that all the time. He´s such a cool, amazing
and kind guy. President Machadoloves wants to inspire and uplift and I think he
says that quote just about every time we see him.
Anyways, to get down to
the nitty gritty. I don't have as much to talk about this week since our last
week the P Day was changed to Wednesday instead of Tuesday but we´ll still had
a lot of good experiences. On Thursday we had our second TRC which was really
cool. We taught this older guy about prayer, and he shared this awesome
experience with us about how he meet the missionaries through the power of
prayer. It was such a neat experience and the whole time I thought he was an
inactive member, but afterwards I found out was a member. Guess I still need a
little work on my Spanish. Oh, also on Thursday, we had another Zone issue. One
of our Elders was caught looking through the personal journal of another Elder
and we had to tell the Branch President about it. Everything seems okay and it
seems to have blown over. Every week I hope that there isn´t another problem,
but sadly my wish hasn´t come true yet.
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| Zone "Selfie" |
Friday was a very
spiritual day. I spent a personal study time, about an hour, talking with an
Elder Hasara about spiritual gifts. I really love Elder Hasara a lot. He´s in
one of the districts in our zone and is just the nicest most Christ like guy I
know, but anyways, we got talking about spiritual gifts and I decided that I
needed to spend some time trying to develop those gifts that I have been
blessed with. As I have worked towards developing this gift my mind recollected
on several things in my past and I realized that those gifts had been
developing inside me and that now it was my duty to work on those gifts so that
I may use them to bless the people in Washington and those around me.
Saturday was a pretty
mellow day, just a basic day of class and few problems. We taught one of our
investigators and she brought her "husband" along because we had invited
her too, and it was really neat to see how the Gospel can bring happiness into
the lives of families. He didn't seem to take it as well, but it was pretty
awesome.
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| The Guys |
Wow, Fast Sunday was
pretty spectacular. Every time, just when I think I can´t feel the spirit any
stronger, we have an experience like that. We had a 24 hour fast that started
on Saturday after lunch and ended Sunday at lunch. Anyways, during sacrament
meeting listening to the powerful testimonies of the missionaries was awesome.
I could feel the spirit so strongly, and then I got up and bore my testimony on
the power of the Atonement in my life and how through its strength we can do
all things. I shared my experience with Terik and could barely make it through.
I was choking up a lot but I could feel his spirit and the Holy Ghost as well.
Then as I was breaking my fast I had an extremely personal experience while
praying that I will never forget, and through that prayer I learned several
things. First, that God listens and answers all those who seek him with pure
faith. Second, that the power of prayer is so real. My testimony on prayer has
grown in huge leaps since I've been here, and I can't help but wish that I had
prayed with more intent at home.
Monday was another
rather basic day. We had four teaching visits, which was extremely stressful
because we generally get about five minutes to plan for each lesson when we are
only teaching two investigators, but with four we had probably 2 minutes. It
was crazy but I have learned that when you rely on the Spirit after doing all
you can to prepare, that he will guide your words.
Also Elder Zippi left
Monday for Chile. It's sad to see him go
because it was always good to have a
friendly face to see, but I'm excited for him to get to the field.
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| Elder Miles and Elder Zippi |
As a little bonus I got
a hair cut this morning. In fact the whole trio did. We all look a little
different, but mine the least of all. My hair was probably the shortest before I
got it cut.
I found a scripture this
week in Mosiah 24:14 and 15. I suggest everyone go read it. It's an amazing
scripture!!
Love you all so much,
and I know that the Lord loves you all so much more than I ever can.
--
Elder Miles
Washington Yakima
Mission
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