This
week has been wonderful, yet sad. I am definitely beginning to understand what
it means to feel sorrowful for others who do not have to Gospel, or who do not
want to hear it. We spent a lot of time this week tracting and doing our best
to find new people to teach. We are very consistently teaching Refugio and
Marisol, and Hinocencio, but others just do not want to listen. We also have a
lot of first lessons, but then trying to get back into their house to keep
teaching them can be so difficult.
We taught Hinocencio
three times this week, but the first two were really strange. He hadn't read or
prayed, and didn't really seem to have a desire to change anymore. Then he was
drunk our second lesson and just didn't seem to care. It was super hard to see
that change and Elder Spackman mentioned that we might have to drop him. So
Saturday we planned to have a sit down lesson with him and just be really
straightforward with him, and he bailed on us. I figured that was kinda the end
and that we wouldn't be teaching him anymore, but Sunday morning he was at
church! It shocked me when I saw him. He had called a member and asked for a
ride, and when we talked to him he told us that he felt really bad for skipping
our lesson, and for not keeping his commitments. He has that desire to better
his life again! And at our lesson with him Sunday night he'd spent a good chunk
of the day reading the Book of Mormon. It was so awesome to see the difference,
and it really was a miracle.
Refugio and Marisol are
also doing super well, but they are just struggling to come to church. They
understand everything super well, but they just can't seem to get to church.
That's something that we talked a lot with them about on Sunday. They felt like
if they were keeping all the commandments that it wasn't necessary for them to
go to church, and we were able to explain to them that going to church is also
a commandment, and that it's the place where we renew our covenants. An awesome
miracle with them this week was we had planned a lesson with them and had
planned for a member to come out with us. Well about twenty minutes before the
lesson we got a text saying that they were going to be busy and not able to
have the lesson. We didn't see this until we got in to car to go over there and
just as were about to let our member know that it was canceled he texted us and
said that they were already inside visiting with them. Apparently Refugio and
Marisol had some friends coming over but when our members showed up they told
their friends to wait. What an amazing miracle!
There isn't really too
much else to report. I got to give two blessings this week which was really
neat. Each time I give one my testimony on the power of the Priesthood grows so
much.
We had our first
transfer calls this last Saturday and it looks like I'll be in Moses Lake for
another six weeks! Though we might be moving apartments.
A fun little random
story. We met a Jamaican guy the other night and he was almost as hard to
understand as someone speaking Spanish. There were times during our lesson with
him that I thought he had slipped into Jamaican.
It was an absolutely
amazing week!
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Elder Miles
Washington Yakima
Mission
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