Well we
had transfers this week, and I am being transferred to the Yakima South Spanish
Area. I will be serving in the Terrace Heights Branch with Elder Harmon. He's
been out like six months more than me and is the District Leader. I don't know
much else about him but everyone says that he is a pretty awesome guy. I'm
super excited to be going to Yakima and I'm looking forward to serving the
people there. The area that I am serving in is super heavily Spanish populated so I'm really excited for that. Moses Lake has quite a few Hispanics but not
as many as I would like. We got the calls on Saturday night and then they
announced it in our Branch the next day.
On Sunday I got to give
my talk that I had been working on for several days and it turned out really
well. It was
on temples and family history work. I mostly just talked about
when we take family names to the temple it can be a special experience. It was
super fun and I thought it turned out pretty well. So Elder Spackman was
translating into English during sacrament (there are a few English families
called to work in the Branch), but he had to say the closing prayer so the
second counselor, Hermano Luna, asked if I would do the translation for his
prayer. It went pretty well, but man it required a lot of thinking. I really
enjoyed it though. I can't wait til I get to the point where I can translate
anything.
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| This is the Luna family from Moses Lake. Brother Max Luna is the 2nd counselor in the branch presidency and is soooo cool. I think I might miss their family the most. They are just so awesome!!! |
This week has been a
little different than the past several. We spent most of the time doing
tracting and finding again. We've had to drop a few investigators and a lot of
lessons were falling through. So we didn't teach a whole lot but what we did
teach was super awesome. We taught several Less Actives this week and one
showed up to church! The Rubio family has been less active for a while because
the father has had some killer Arthritis pain but his wife and son showed up
yesterday, which was so cool, and he has been improving a ton lately.
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| This is me with the Moses Lake Branch Mission Leader: Brother Freddy Alva. |
We were also able to
teach Hinocencio and Ricardo again. Ricardo is doing super awesome, he still
just needs to get that desire to find out if it's true. He loves coming to
church and has been coming for like two months straight now but he doesn't
quite want to commit to really trying.
Hinocencio is doing
really well but he struggled this week with alcohol. We have a lesson with him
tonight that should be really good for him. He went to an addiction recovery
class this last week and it went really well. He seemed to really enjoy it and
really soaked it all up but then he struggled a few days later. We'll just
have to keep working with him.
We ate dinner at the
Bergeson's house the other night (branch member family), and they had a really
neat quote above their sink. It said "Testimony does not come without the
TEST." This quote is definitely so true. We will never be able to grow our
testimony unless our testimony is tested. In addition to that, during district
council this week the quote came up "If God brings you to it, He will
bring you through it." So if God allows you to be tested, then if you ask
Him for help, He will bring you through that trial.
It's been a really
awesome week and I'm really excited to be moving on to Yakima! I'm gonna miss
Moses Lake, and the missionaries here, but I'm really looking forward to
it.
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| This is the group of us that plays soccer every morning. Back row: Elder Spackman, Elder Johnson, Hermana Luevano, Sister Hirsche, Hermana Palsson, Hermana Oliva. Front row: Elder Bonzo, Elder Miles |
Oh for those of you who
are fish lovers I tried some sushi this week. Sadly I'm not converted yet and I
probably won't ever be.
Love you all!!
--
Elder Miles
Washington Yakima
Mission
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