It's been a crazy first full week
in the field, but it feels like I've been out here for several months. I feel
like I've been dumped into it and told to learn. If the Spirit of the Lord was
not real then I would never have been able to learn as fast as I have. Spanish
is still difficult, but it just keeps getting better and better. I know that
God is with me and helping me to learn all I need to.
There have been a lot of awesome
experiences this week. It's been full of little miracles and some amazing ones
as well. Just a quick little exciting experience. Last week while we were
playing soccer after we had finished emailing, two Elders went for a header and
ended up with stitches and some serious dental work. Elder Spackman was the one
who ended up with stitches, which made my first field P-Day crazy, but I did
get the chance to drive again because of it.
During the week we had
planned to meet with a less active single mother and her family, and because of
rules we aren't allowed to be with alone in the house with sisters unless we
have another adult present, so we asked our Branch President to come along to
the lesson. Well as we were sitting outside waiting for our Branch President to
arrive for the lesson two ladies in a van drove up to us and told us that the
less active member's daughter had just been murdered that morning, and that she
was going to need a lot of support. About 2 or 3 minutes later, President
Tucker showed up and he was able to help the family. I definitely believe that
this was a miracle. God knew that she would be struggling and would need help
so he arranged for President Tucker to be there. Things seem to be getting
better, and the family was at church yesterday so that was awesome!
We've also taught Elario again. He
seems to be very interested and seems to be progressing really well, but the
second half of the week we lost contact with them. Hopefully we can reconnect
and keep teaching them. They are so amazing!! We've also been able to have a
lot more lessons in general. We are starting to figure out the area and our
teaching pool is beginning to grow. We've got probably 3 or 4 people that we
can pretty consistently teach and a lot of potentials. One of our lessons we
taught a guy named Joe. He seemed really interested, but his uncle was there
and tried to bash with us. It was really hard to teach Joe because of his
uncle, so in the end I just bore my testimony and we left. His uncle tried to
tell us that you cannot know if something is true by feelings, it's only by knowledge.
He was an interesting guy, he was pretty nice about everything, but kept
telling us we needed to give up what we are doing. Haha.
We met this guy named Inocencio
later in the week who was super cool, and practically begged us to come to
church, but he is a major drinker sadly. Anyways we had a member with us during
one lesson and he told Inocencio that he would pick him up for church on
Sunday. Sadly Inocencio drunk too much the night before and didn't want to come
to church. We're gonna work with him some more this week and hopefully he can
make it out to church.
We also had our first Zone
Training Meeting this week. It was super awesome and helped to answer a lot of
questions about some of the struggles that I have been having. It was also
super fun! We did some door approach scenarios in front of the whole zone, and
it was super helpful and pretty funny. The main points of the meeting were to
develop an attitude of finding, and to make sure you are not wasting any of the
Lord's time. It was really cool to be able to meet as a zone and discuss Moses
Lake and how the work is going. It was way fun.
A little funny experience this
week - I was trying to do a Spanish door approach and I accidentally told the
lady that I only spoke a little English. Whoops. Haha. I didn't even realize I
had said that until my companion said something. It was good though. My Spanish
is definitely improving though!!
I challenge everyone to look for
the little miracles in life. Often times we expect to see great things, but
some of the most amazing miracles are the smallest ones. I've been trying to
notice the little miracles in my mission and it has helped me to recognize the
hand of God in my life.
Sorry I don't have any pictures
this week!
I love you all!!
--
Elder Miles
Washington Yakima Mission
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