September 11, 2017 - Semi Normal Week

I don't have much time to write this week. We had an hour

Meeting about cars

and a half meeting on all the cars in the mission this morning, so that chopped a good chunk of our P-Day. 

This past week has been more normal than the last but Elder Allsop and I only got to spend one day together in our area. We're companions, but sometimes it doesn't feel like it because we have to go on tons of exchanges, and this week we had 3. 

On Tuesday, we had a Super MLC, which includes all of the

Teaching at Super MLC

Zone Leaders, District Leaders, and Sister Training Leaders. It was a super good meeting. President trained all of us on how we can be a better leader, and he talked a ton about the importance of Charity in leadership. He said something that Elder Allsop and I both thought was super awesome. He said "It's 20% what you say, and 80% how you say it." He was talking about when giving correction to other missionaries but I think this principle applies to all aspects of life. It's not so much about what we say or do, but rather it's more about how it's done. If it's done in the right way and with the right attitude it can be much more powerful. In the same meeting Elder Allsop and I talked with all the Zone Leaders about various things. There're pics on the mission blog. 

Then Tuesday night through Wednesday night we were on exchanges with some Zone Leaders, and I was in our area. It was wild because I had hardly done anything in our area, so I had to do a lot of winging it as far as where to go, but it worked out. Well Wednesday night we re-exchanged and then an hour later we exchanged again, so I spent all Thursday in Selah with another Zone Leader. It was super fun.

Friday Elder Allsop and I were back together but we had to

With President and Sister Lewis

still finish a lot of administrative stuff from transfers, so we spent a good chunk of our day trying to get that all taken care of. However, we did get to teach a recent convert and his wife about Family History. It was super neat and his wife loved it. His name is Matt and he has such a strong testimony. He was baptized about a month ago and he is 100% in the Gospel. It super cool to see his testimony. His wife is a tougher situation, but she seemed to love Family History, and she showed up to church!! 

Friday evening we drove to Ephrata to do some more exchanges. Ephrata is about an hour and a half north of Yakima so we missed a chunk of Friday evening, and we spent all day Saturday in Ephrata on exchanges with those Elders. 

It's been a wild week, but I've had the chance to meet some more of the people we're working with, and I am super excited for our area. We definitely are blessed by the Lord in seeing success even with all of the craziness. 

I hope I have a little better update on some people next week, but this coming week we are going to be spending Tuesday-Friday at four Zone Conferences that are all over the mission. It should be super good, but we won't get more than 3 hours in our area from today until Saturday.  

 

Love you all!!

-- 

Elder Miles

Washington Yakima Mission