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| Elder Gaeta and Elder Miles |
This week has been a pretty awesome week! Thanks to the temple trip we had last Tuesday! I honestly love going to
the temple. The spirit inside is like nowhere else. As I was sitting inside the
temple I kept thinking over and over again at how much I wanted to just stay
there forever. As I thought that, my desire and motivation to keep all the
commandments grew immensely. I knew that if I stayed true to my covenants, that
I would be able to live in a place like that for all eternity with my
family.
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| Waterville Area |
This week the highlight was
definitely that we got to go to the temple. Other than that we spent a lot of
time out knocking doors and trying to find people. At the beginning of the
transfer we spent most of our time going by people that Elder Gaeta had found
the previous transfer, but now that we've spent time working with them we've
had to drop many of them and we've started to spend more time knocking on
doors. It doesn't sound that fun, but it's definitely become more enjoyable the
longer I've been on my mission.
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| View of Wenatchee on our way back from Waterville |
This week though we were able to
talk with Mario again. He's doing well, but he says he wants to take things
slow and serious. He doesn't want to jump into something that he is unsure
about. He's a great guy though. He loves his kids a lot and is willing to do
anything for them. His kids also are super awesome. One of them told us that he
knew it was all true because it was said by prophets, so we're excited to see
how they progress. We've also found a couple more people this week. One named
Felipe and the other Nancy, both we just had a first lesson with, but they seem
interested.
Last Saturday we did a little
exploring of our area and we went up to a town called Waterville. It's a 35-40
minute drive from East Wenatchee and it's up some mountains, but at the top of
the mountains it opens up into a huge plain in which people grow stuff called
winter wheat. It's a pretty beautiful area but sadly there weren't too many
Hispanics.
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| Elder Gaeta, Elder Miles, Hermana Hansen, Hermana Tecuatl, Elder Etter, and Elder Christensen |
So this Saturday we get our transfer
calls again. It's going to be interesting to see what happens. We had our last
district council this week and at the end we all guess what's going to happen,
and many of the missionaries think we're going to be split up, but I'm not so
sure. I guess we'll see what happens.
Something neat I learned this week
came from an English member, Brother Oberweiser, that we visited while we were
in Waterville. He talked a lot about how he focuses on learning from the little
things around him, and as he talked I realized that the smallest things can
often have the profoundest meanings, so thinking on that over the weekend I
came to realize how often we overlook those small things. In President
Ucthdorf's first talk this past conference he talked a little about how we lose
appreciation for those small things. As I read through part of that talk, and
thought about what Brother Oberweiser said, I decided to focus more energy on
seeing the little things and the little blessings in everything. Things like
having another day on earth, having rain every day, and all sorts of other
small things.
Anyway, love you all!!
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Elder Miles
Washington Yakima Mission
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| Elder Miles is 3rd from left on middle row, Elder Gaeta is 1st on left on middle row |
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