Well
this week was pretty great! Things are definitely going really well in the
Moses Lake 9th Branch. It's been really cool to see how much the Lord prepares
people to be taught.
Since we just Skyped
yesterday I don't have a whole lot of
new things to say but we've had some
really good lessons and some really cool experiences. We're still teaching
Refugio & Marisol, Hinocencio, and Ricardo, and they are all doing really
well. Hinocencio and Ricardo showed up yesterday both with white shirts on for
the first time. Now all they are missing is the water and a tie (haha).
Hinocencio is doing really well. He's been really good about drinking lately
and has been asking a lot about baptism so last night we set a baptismal date
with him! It was super cool! He told us that he would do whatever it takes to
be baptized by the end of the month and he's is definitely trying super hard to
reach that. So right now he's scheduled to be baptized on the 28th and he can
totally reach that. He just needs to keep up what he's been doing.
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| Just a couple pics of the apartment. We are staying in a members basement apartment. It's pretty nice. |
Refugio and Marisol are
progressing just a lot slower than we would like. It's a constant struggle to
get them to come to church. They're pretty good about reading and praying but
the biggest thing for them right now is to come to church.
Ricardo just keeps
slowly improving. He's got great fellowship right now from the branch members
and that might be the most important thing for him right now.
We've done a lot more
finding this week and have found some pretty good potential investigators. It's
always super awesome when you find someone that just seems to be so prepared to
hear the Gospel.
One thing I've been
studying lately is the idea of being perfect like it mentions in Matthew 5:48
and 3 Nephi 12:48. Something I thought was really cool was that in Matthew it
only mentions to be perfect like the Father then in 3 Nephi Christ mentions to
be perfect as He is and like the Father is. I thought this was really cool
because obviously Christ was perfect while he was on the earth in the sense
that He did not commit any sin, but it wasn't until he was resurrected that he
became like the Father. So our job is to make the constant and consistent
effort to become like Christ and then through the power of the Atonement and
Resurrection we can become perfect even like the Father. I heard a quote that
says something like "We cannot be perfect, but we can be perfect in
trying." This quote describes perfectly what enduring to end is, or our
quest for perfection, we have to constantly be trying to better ourselves one
thing at a time, because if we aren't progressing we are digressing. And that
constant effort to move towards perfection is what has been asked of us.
Well love you all! Hope
you all had a great Mother's Day!!!
--
Elder Miles
Washington Yakima
Mission
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