This week has been a week full of Zone
Conferences.
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| Elder Allsop, President Lewis, Elder Miles |
Tuesday through Friday we traveled all over the mission and helped
President make sure that everything ran smoothly. We didn't do any training's
this round of Zone Conferences, but we went to make sure everything ran
smoothly. We have all sorts of stuff we have to make sure is all set up and
prepared for the meetings.
This round of Zone Conferences was full of a lot of practicing,
which was really nice. We practiced how to have good focused conversations with
people when we first meet them, and we also practiced teaching the Restoration
in a very short and simple way. They were all very spirit filled meetings and
were a lot of fun.
Because of all of the meetings we had we didn't get a lot of
time in our own area, but I do have a few updates on some of the people we're
working with. The biggest one is Matt and his wife Sarah. We had a chance to
visit with them a little this week and the visit was awesome! Sarah has been
less active for some time now and she hasn't shown a whole lot of interest in
reactivating but she had an amazing change of heart this week. Last week I
believe I mentioned that we took them to the family history center and got them
both started on genealogy work. Well the spirit of Elijah is definitely real.
She has grabbed hold of family history and absolutely loves it. It's also
motivating her to work towards the temple now, which is a huge step for them.
She's also come to church twice since we started family history and before she
started Sarah would only come rarely. It's been quite the blessing for their
family. Also, Matt received the Aaronic Priesthood on Sunday.
Another neat experience from this week. So, on Thursday
night
Elder Allsop and I were in a bit of a pickle. In the past when having a Zone Conference,
the Assistants would go down the night before, but when they do that it made it
really hard to get any work down in their area, so on Thursday night Elder
Allsop and I were getting ready to head to Moses Lake to help set everything up
for the Friday Zone Conference, but we hadn't worked much in our area. So, we
decided to wait and go up to Moses Lake early Friday morning, so we could have
a little time in our area. We had to wake up at 5:30. Well it was totally worth
it. In about 5 minutes of knocking we ran into this guy named Edgar, who told
us he didn't have much time that evening (it was pretty late), but he would
love to hear our message. And last night the fruits of our sacrifice really
pulled through. We had an awesome lesson on the Restoration with Edgar,
probably one of the best lessons I have ever been a part of. The Spirit was
super strong, he was super engaged, and we were able to teach super clearly and
powerfully.
It was such a good lesson and I am so glad we sacrificed a
little bit of sleep. It was well worth it. He has a very sincere desire to know
if it's true and he was really excited to read the Book of Mormon. We'll have
to see what happens with him. We have another lesson scheduled for this coming weekend.
--
Elder Miles
Washington Yakima Mission
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