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| Ricardo and Maribell and their family. They were really hard to say goodbye to. Ricardo even gave me a hug. He's the super tall one. |
Well
things are pretty awesome here in the new area of Yak South!! The missionaries
call Yakima, Yakistan, or the Promised Land. It's a pretty awesome area and I
am super pumped to be down here. I honestly cannot wait to get to know the
people really well. I can already tell that I'm going to love it. The area we
work in is super Spanish, we talk to more Spanish speakers in a day than we did
in a week in Moses Lake. It's fantastic! I've already been able to see my
Spanish improve since I've been here and I'm really starting to get my
confidence in communicating up. I love the Spanish work. The Spanish culture is
honestly so amazing! You're hard pressed to find a rude Spanish person.
Everyone I talk to is just so nice even if they aren't interested. They always
offer water and food, which I'm definitely not complaining about.
Our area is pretty
small. We cover like a two block radius going North to South and like 12ish
miles going East to West, but even though it's small it is just packed to the
brim with Mexicans. This means that we get a lot of people to talk to and so
our pool for teaching people is pretty big. We have a really solid investigator
right now named Daniel. He's had a rough life and his wife is a less active
member. The first night I was in Yakima he accepted a baptismal date of June
25th! He really wants to be baptized then and is really looking forward to it.
His wife, Lucia, told us at church on Sunday that she wants to start
participating in the lessons and to start coming back to church. Oh and she
wants to feed us which again I ain't complaining about. He is really the
biggest investigator we have right now. There are a ton of potentials though,
the key will be sorting through them to find those that are interested and
ready to listen.
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| Refugio and Marisol |
The Branch is pretty
spectacular. It just split like 6 months to a year ago and really wants to work
at growing their numbers again. The Branch President and Branch Mission Leader
are working really hard to help the members get excited for missionary work and
it looks like they're getting there. I am really excited to be working here
though.
Transfers were a little
interesting. According to all the missionaries you never have any idea what is
going to happen on transfers with President Lewis. It was tough to say goodbye
to some missionaries that I won't probably ever see again and it was tough to
say goodbye to some of the members and our investigators. I'm gonna miss Moses
Lake but I am so excited to be here. My companion is Elder Harman from Westlake
High School. He played basketball over there. He's been out like 7ish months.
He and I get along really well already and I'm super excited to keep working
with him.
The apartment isn't too
bad. We're living with two other
English Elders in a little apartment complex
thingy. The church has had this apartment for like 5 years and I guess it was
pretty gross before I got here. Elder Harman told me that they spent a lot of
time cleaning it and trying to make it nice before I got here.
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| Sister Wilson and her son. Sister Wilson fed Elder Miles many meals and went with on visits to Refugio and Marisol. |
There is this super good
pizza place here in Yakima called Mod Pizza that we were told we had to try.
It's like subway but pizza status. You tell them how big you want your pizza
then you can put whatever you want on it and however much you want of it. It was
so good. I loaded up a pizza with all sorts of good things and practically
inhaled it. Thankfully it's not too expensive.
Love you all!!
--
Elder Miles
Washington Yakima
Mission
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