Things
are going super amazing here in Omak! Elder Allsop and I are seeing so many
blessings and miracles, and this week was so full of them! I feel so blessed to
have had all these wonderful things happen, I am humbled by how much the Lord
has blessed us recently. This week alone we found 10 new investigators and we
now have a teaching pool of 21 investigators! This is easily the most I have
had my whole mission, and it has been crazy to try and find time to visit all
of these people. A good amount of these people have a ton of potential as
well.
I wish I had time to
fill you in on everyone that we have been teaching, but that would take more
time than I have so I'll update you on a few people.
First, Jeff and Amanda
are still doing well. Amanda was a little turned off when we talked about
marriage with them. I guess she doesn't think that not being married should
affect her being with her family for eternity. They had a little rough bump but
they're still doing super well.
Eva is still doing well.
She really wants to get baptized but is just not putting it as a huge priority
right now. She decided that she actually wants to marry her boyfriend, which
was a very unexpected decision. He has no belief in God, doesn't want children,
and doesn't care about eternal families, and she wants all of that. It's kinda
a tricky situation, but we'll see what happens this week.
Trinidy is still doing
well, just progressing slowly.
We've also started working
with 3 new families. The first is Angie and her kids Lydia (11) and Riley (9).
Angie has been clean from drugs for two years and is looking to get more
support from God in her life and her kids’ lives. She was a referral from a
member and now they're looking to be baptized on June 17th. They are super
stoked to learn and grow as a family.
The next family is
Dimitri, Dejan (14), and Shenaine (12). The dad is a single dad from the
Philippines and he just wants to grow his personal relationship with God. He is
currently Catholic but says that religion to him is a way to become closer to
God, so we're hoping that as he reads the Book of Mormon that he will recognize
that this is the truth. His only hold up right now is that Catholicism is a
tradition in his family and he doesn't want to change that. So pray that his
heart is softened to the fact that there is only one true church.
The third family is Greg
and Vicki with their two boys, Brecken (10) and Logan (5). They are such a cool
family as well!! We've been trying with them for a while and Vicki just kept
telling us that they were too busy and that we should come back another day,
but this last week she set an appointment with us for Sunday, and when we went
by they were totally ready to sit down with us. It was super cool. They live in
a really nice house up on a hill, and you wouldn't generally expect those types
of people to be open and humble but Greg and Vicki totally are! They are super
family oriented and they loved The Family Proclamation. They also said that
they want to do whatever will make their family closer. So they're willing to
do just about anything. They're even going to hold a FHE by themselves! The
hard part is that they are just genuinely busy. They are super busy all of the
time so if you could pray that their schedule opens up that would be awesome!
Also Brecken is a soccer stud.
Oh also we taught
seminary this week, which went super well. The youth up here are so cool!
There's a lot of other
people that I wish I had time to tell you about but I don't have much more.
Love you all! I appreciate all of your prayers.
--
Elder Miles
Washington Yakima
Mission
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