This week was a pretty normal
missionary week. Not a whole lot seemed to happen. We just jumped right into
the area and spent a good chunk of time finding people. We taught Daniel
several more times. He's doing super well and is ready to be baptized, he's just
got to get over a few issues which look like they won't be a problem. He's got
a strong testimony and a really good fellowshipper so things are going really
well with him. Saturday night he made Prime Rib and fed the missionaries. Sadly
I was on exchanges so I didn't get to enjoy it. It was a bummer but exchanges
were fun.
We went on exchanges with Elder
Turley and Elder Najarian. They are two other Elders in our district. I went
with Elder Najarian to his area and we taught some pretty cool people. The area
he works covers a couple small towns just outside of Yakima so we were driving
through a lot of apple, pear, and cherry fields. Which reminds me, we had a
lesson with a recent convert family and they have a ton of cherry trees in
their backyard, and they loaded up three huge bags full of cherries for us.
We've been eating cherries since Friday and have only eaten 1 bag between 4
Elders. We haven't been given any other fruit but I guess pear and apple season
starts here in a month so hopefully we get some of those. 
The biggest thing we had this week
was Zone Training meeting which was super good. The focus was to help us focus
on cultivating our desires. We talked a lot about how the desire is everything
and that once you get your desires in the right place you can then set goals to
help you get to, and become, the missionary that you want to be. I really love
the zone I'm in. It just has an atmosphere of success and they are determined
to work really hard. I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before but Elder
Allsop is in my zone now, so we get to spend some time together, which is
pretty cool.
Sunday for dinner we had another
Carne Asada which as usual was super good.
The upcoming week looks really
good. Elder Daniel L. Johnson from the seventy is coming to do a mission tour
and he is giving a special Spanish Conference on Thursday for all the
missionaries in the mission that are Spanish speaking and then on Friday he's
doing Zone Conference. He's worked a lot with Spanish speakers so he is going
to train us on how we can work with their culture.
The past few days have been super hot,
like over a hundred and boy it's tough. Thankfully our car has AC and we just
got our apartment AC fixed. We spent the time since I got to Yakima with an AC
that only works for a short time before cutting out but Saturday morning they
installed a new one and man that thing was a lifesaver.
Just so everyone knows the Spanish
is coming along really well. I can testify to you that the gift of tongues is
something so real. I can do just about everything a missionary needs to do. I
can give full lessons, do door contacting, and anything that has to do with the
gospel. I'm amazed at how fast it has come, and others are amazed. Oftentimes
people ask how long we've been studying Spanish and when we say only a few
months they are stunned. I definitely still have a lot to improve on but God
definitely made sure that I can teach and do all the missionary work I need
to.
Sorry I don't have a whole lot
more to say! Love you all!
--
Elder Miles
Washington Yakima Mission
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