I’m really super tired this week, but here are some bullet points of everything that went down:
- Monday: Ms. Peggy, a very thin lady with severe Alzheimer (impeccable taste in hats), came to our Monday Night Bible Class again 🙂 She kept giving us hugs and thanking us for coming and providing hymns. She’s the only non-member who comes, and she used to only stay for the hymns and leave before we read any scriptures (she can’t even read the hymns any more, but she knows all the verses by heart.) But she’s stayed for -two- weeks now, and she just glows and adds the most amazing spirit to the entire lesson. I never want to forget Ms. Peggy. She’s someone who is going to meet missionaries on the other side and want to keep feeling the Spirit that she came to find here.
- Tuesday: We started the day out with painting some fire hydrants in the shadiest parts of Yakima, saw so many Yakimaniacs doing some pretty trippy things (talking to trees, twitching, whistling at us, taking their clothes off in the park and putting them back on, asking us to paint their shoes, wanting to buy something from us – cans of yellow and black paint? – and so much more). After those blissful 3 hours of re-painting fire hydrants, I’m really glad I’m not serving in Yakima proper:) But we also had an amazing lesson that night with a couple of returning members, and the Spirit really was doing all the teaching. We invited them to get a vision for their future as a couple and a family, and showed them the Mormon Message “I am the Gardener.” It was just what they needed. The wife came back to church this Sunday 🙂 She also told us that she and her husband had set 5-year goals that they’re striving for.
- Wednesday: Lessons galore, mostly with RCLAs. We have just been seeing so much progression in those who have left the safe harbor a little bit. Under the direction of Presidente Sanchez, we were given a few families that he wanted us to reach out to in an effort to help them know that Heavenly Father loves them. With all of the families that we have visited, we have made great efforts to be completely bold and loving in extending commitments. We’ve also tried to bring members with us to every single lesson with our less-active members. It has been magical 🙂 The Spirit and the love is always so strong, and I mean, I guess it’s working. We’ve have 3 families come back! 🙂
- Thursday: Zone Conference! 🙂 I love Zone Conferences! It was very tragic, however, to learn upon arriving that it would actually be my LAST Zone Conference, and that I would be giving my departing testimony D: Wah. But with the help of the Lord, I got through it, and learned some amazing things about the power of service, family history, and so much more. Just a reminder to look on yakimamission.wordpress.com for more pictures and news updates from the Washington Yakima Mission 🙂
- Friday: Weekly Planning NIGHTMARE, helping someone move, and the return of Joshua (the 18 year old golden referral from week #1 with Hermana Harston.) We were helping Joshua’s hispanic family members pack some clothes when randomly showed up, and he told us that 1. the English Elders never came by, and 2. That since we met him, he’s read up to Chapter 13 in 1 Nephi in the Book of Mormon, knows it’s true, and that he wants to come to church. So now that his MOM is interested in meeting with us, after noticing the change in her son, we invited them both to church! Unfortunately, neither were able to able to come to church this past Sunday 😦 But next week for SURE! So that was super awesome. Hermana Harston also had the biggest headache ever, so while she was waiting for her head ache to die down, I painted her toe nails. Unfortunately, we didn’t have toe-separators, so I had to resort to a random collection of pens/toenail clippers/etc that were within reach.
- Saturday: Women’s Broadcast was way good. Que mas puedo decir. We did everything we could the night before to get people to go to it, and then no one went. But the Spirit was there, so that was nice. Learned lots 🙂
- Sunday: When isn’t the day of rest awesome? Honestly, seeing so many people come to church, finding out that our Ward Mission Leader has had a change of heart and wants to help the Lords vision come to pass, watching Presidente Sanchez encourage (with “all the feeling of a tender parent”) the branch to reach out to one another, ahh “) There is nothing better.
So all in all, this week was very full of joy 🙂 Exchanges are tonight, and I’m staying in the area with Hermana Bailey (my companion from the CCM).
Have a great week, y’all! 🙂
Hermana Mrozek // Kennewick Washington Mission 