We've seen some pretty amazing
miracles this week and it's been amazing! I honestly can't describe the level
of excitement I feel for this area!
First off we had a Family Home
Evening with Jose Rios at a member’s house, it went super well. It was the
Villalobos family that was in charge of it and Hermano Villalobos taught an
awesome lesson on prophets. It was so good and honestly helped Jose out a ton.
Then we had a lesson on Wednesday with him and we talked a little about the
temple and the Atonement. We had some members with us that are going to through
the temple soon to get sealed and they talked a little with Jose about what
happens in the temple.
Then on Friday we had an amazing
lesson with him. We took his main fellowshipper, Hermano Martinez, and he was
super led by the spirit during the lesson. Somehow he was able to get a concern
out of Jose that we had no idea that he had. Jose was confused on who had the
authority on the earth today, and how it was given to us. The member also got
Jose to tell us about how he felt about the BoM. Jose told Hno Martinez that at
first he only read the BoM because he had committed to us that he would, but
now that he's been reading it he has this feeling in his chest that he says
makes him want to read it. Also in his closing prayer he told God that this is
where he wants to be, he just needs an answer. It was such a good lesson!
Then he came to church yesterday
again! For all three hours! And he came to the classes with us instead of going
to Primary! It was such a good Sunday for him to come. It was our Ward
Conference yesterday and the Stake Presidency was in charge of everything so we
talked all about the Atonement and Jose was even taking notes! It was so
cool!
Also this week we've started
working really hard with a family. It's the Zavala family. Fernando and Ana are
the parents and they have a 16 year old girl named Julissa and an 8 year old
boy named Fernando, but they call him Jr. This little family is so cool. We've
taught them several times and this week we had a church tour with them. At the
church tour we finally met the mom Ana. The church tour was super good. It was
on a Wednesday night and it was bumpin with people. Mutual was happening and
there was so many people but the Zavala family loved it.
Then this weekend we focused
really hard on making sure they came to church. We went over Sunday morning and
spent 20 minutes talking to Julissa and her mom at the door just resolving some
of their concerns about the church, but it worked out well because they
promised us they would come. And they did! They came and loved it! Especially
little Fernando Jr. He was so excited at the church tour and just wanted to
come sooo bad. When we found him for our 3rd hour Sacrament meeting he told us
that he had just had the "fastest 2 hours of church in his whole
life!!!!!" He told us that an hour at another church felt like 5 and 2 hours
in our church felt like 40 minutes. He had had so much fun and he said his
favorite thing was how much he was able to learn. Julissa was also amazed at
how fast it went and she really enjoyed it as well.
We thought it was pretty easy for
them to come to church but I guess when Fernando the dad showed up and they
were all getting ready to go to church he told them no. He had been in jail for
a day the week previous and while in jail he had made a promise to God that if
he was released he would continue going to the Christian church that he was
going to. Well he got out and when Sunday rolled around he told everyone that
they were going to their other church. Well this didn't fly so well with Jr. He
started crying and was so upset. He cried for so long that eventually Fernando
let up and said they would come to our church. So they came! And they really
enjoyed it. Julissa told us this story during church and we were so proud of
little Jr!
This helped me understand even
more why Christ told us that we should be as little children. They have such
pure intentions and I think that it is a lot easier for them to feel the spirit
than for people who are older.
Another cool experience this week
was we had a member of an English ward hook us up with an awesome referral! He
had us come over to his house on Thursday and we had an awesome lesson with
Rosy and Luis! The member had invited them to take the lessons and they said
they'd love to. During the lesson Rosy said that she and Luis had been talking
and that they wanted have a church for their family and because they had had
such great friends in the church they decided that this was the church that
they wanted to be a part of. She talked about how all members of the church are
so loving and have such an amazing light about them and that she wanted this so
bad for her family. We're super excited for them. They basically told us that
they are going to be members, now we just have to teach them the lessons and
help them receive their answers.
This week we also had Zone
Conference. We learned a lot about teaching repentance and baptizing converts.
It was super cool and we got to watch a lot of videos that were trainings given
to President and Sister Lewis form the missionary department in Salt Lake. It
was a super spiritual experience and we've already seen some cool miracles with
this re-emphasis on teaching repentance and baptizing people who are converted
to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
There were so many other amazing
things that happened this week but I don't have time to write it all! Love
you!!
--
Elder Miles
Washington Yakima Mission
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