Honestly
this week has been so good! I honestly am not quite sure where to begin. It's
just been so full of miracles and spiritual experiences and I am blown away by
how cool the week was.
So this week was
transfer week and Elder Cannon and I got asked to be site coordinators down in
Quincy. Just about everyone has to go through Quincy to get to the rest of the
mission, and it was super cool because we got a chance to see a bunch of missionaries.
That was fun but not
that cool. Then on Friday we had Zone Conference with Elder Juan A Uceda from
the Seventy. I don't know if you all remember him but he gave an awesome
conference talk last conference about a story on his mission when he was a Zone
Leader and his zone went to visit Machu Pichu I believe. Then he nearly ended
up falling off a cliff. Any way he came to the mission and gave us some amazing
insights. I wish I could have recorded it and sent it home but that's against
church policy. It was honestly so good and so spirit filled. I can't really
describe it. He just had this presence and power to him, and it was so
good.
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| Elder Klossner, Elder Allsop and I with Elder Uceda. His wife is on the back left. He was soooo cool!!!! |
One of my favorite
quotes from his talk/discussion thing was "I cannot follow a
stranger." He was talking about our relationship with Christ and how we
have to know him before we can follow him.
It was also really fun
to talk to his wife and him in Spanish. He speaks really good English but she
doesn't know much so it was super cool to practice a little Spanish with
them.
Then after Zone
Conference we stuck around and had a special Mission Leadership Council with
Elder Uceda. It was another super spiritual experience with him. He taught a
lot of things, but one of the biggest things that stuck out to me as I sat in
MLC was about the power of a simple and sincere testimony. It made me realize
that I spend too long trying to convince people to read in the Book of Mormon,
pray, or go to church, and instead I need to just bear my testimony.
That Friday was super
powerful and I have a lot of things that I want to work on this coming
week.
Friday night we also had
another lesson with Jose! Basically what we did was teach him what we learned
from Elder Uceda that day. During Zone Conference Elder Uceda went over Moroni
10:3-5 with us and just pulled it apart. Especially verse 3. He talked a lot
about how in verse 3 are the things that Moroni tells us to do in order to
prepare to ask and receive an answer. Basically that you can't have verses 4
and 5 if you don't have 3. It was so cool. In verse 3 Moroni invites us to
remember how merciful the Lord has been and then to ponder on those things. So
he told us that remembering means to remember all of the blessings that he has
given us so he told us to write down our blessings. Which is what we did with
Jose. We read Moroni 10:3-5 and told him to write down his blessings in
preparation to get his answer about baptism.
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| We were driving and I thought this was funny. |
Then on Saturday we had
another lesson with him in which we read a bunch of stories from the Book of
Mormon about how different people got their prayers answered in different ways
and in different amounts of time. The last story we read was about the brother
of Jared and how when he took his question to God, God basically said
"What do you want me to do about it?" Then he went and made his rocks
and went back to the Lord. We told Jose that this was very much the position he
was in. He has been praying and not yet had an answer about when. So we told
him, basically God is looking for you to make the first step and so we set a
date with him! He's currently working towards April 1!!
When we asked him if he
would prepare for that day, he told us that he wasn't sure what it would take.
When we told him that he had learned everything and basically just needed the
interview he was surprised. He then told us that it didn't matter how many
questions he was asked he was going to answer them. It was so cool! He is so
ready and is doing soooo well!!! This lesson was probably one of the most
spirit led in my whole mission. I literally didn't feel like I had to do a
single thing. I just opened my mouth and the words came out.
Jorge is also doing
really well he's just progressing a lot slower. This week our big focus with
him was just getting him to read. So our commitment was to read one verse a
day, which he has kept all week! He came to church and enjoys it every time, he
just doesn't really understand much of anything about God and doesn't catch on
to things very well.
Honestly this week was
so powerful, so spiritual I honestly cannot describe it with words, but I feel
so motivated to work just that much harder. My testimony has grown so much this
week, and I am super excited to share it!
Love you all!
--
Elder Miles
Washington Yakima
Mission
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