Each
week just keeps getting better, and it's hard to explain. I just keep growing
and changing and learning how to become closer to the spirit. I'm definitely
still learning all the time.
Just to start off I
don't have a lot of time to email this week.
Our P-Day is actually on Wednesday because we're going to the temple,
which is so exciting!! They gave us just a short time to email home this week
so this is probably going to be shorter than normal, and I forgot my camera so,
sadly, no pics.
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| Elder Spackman and Elder Miles |
Tuesday was Elder
Spackman's B-Day and for dinner a member, Sister Wilson, had us over for dinner
and some cake and ice cream. She's also the member that is coming with us to
teach Refugio and Marisol (so they should be in that pic that she sent home).
The lessons with Refugio and Marisol are going well. Marisol is really good
about praying a lot and asking about what she needs to do next, about baptism
and such. We're still trying to get Refugio going but he's willing to pray in
front of us, which is definitely something good. They keep progressing but just
slowly, it seems to be a two steps forward, one step back kinda thing.
We also got to teach
Ricardo a couple times this week. He's such an awesome guy and he's really
consistent about coming to church (it helps his wife is one of the strongest
members ever), but he just says he's not ready for baptism. His whole family is
super catholic and that is a big change for a lot of Hispanics. Catholicism is
more of a way of life for them. He'll get there, it's just going to take a lot
of patience and taking things slowly.
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| Elder Spackmans' birthday celebration. Elder Miles says that Rufugio and Marisol are in this picture - but not sure which ones they are. |
Hinocencio just keeps
plugging along. He's been to church like five times now but he's still
struggling to get over his drinking problem. Our next lesson with him we're
going to make a plan with him and set some goals. He could be a really strong
member and he's been trying so hard to overcome his challenges but it's
definitely going to take some time.
Yesterday I had to give
the closing prayer for Sacrament in Spanish. I was pretty nervous but I gave a
pretty good prayer. It was the first time I'd prayed in front of that many
people in Spanish and I also found out that on the 22nd of May I will get to
give a talk in Spanish. I'm pretty excited for that opportunity but I am also
going to be speaking last, so I could either have to talk for 5 minutes or
twenty. We'll see how it goes but it should be good.
One thing that I learned
this week that I thought was really cool is something about desires. There's a
talk titled "The Fourth Missionary" that is super good. There was a
quote from this that I really liked. It
says "The good you do, will do you no good, if your heart is not
right." I've been thinking a lot about how this pertains to missionary
work, and to just life in general. There are a lot of missionaries and members
that do the right thing but because their heart isn't in it they don't grow. So
with missionary work and with life in general we need to learn how to change
our desires and help them come in line with our Father's desires and as we do
this, as we turn our life over to him, we will be able to grow so much more and
do so much more good.
Que tengan buen dia! (Have a good day!)
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Elder Miles
Washington Yakima Mission
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