Hey Mom!
This week:
Breaking in the newsies, waiting in the waiting room,
and...ok I'll just write whatever comes to mind because I can't remember
everything and condense it into one sentence-list, right!
Another week has come and gone in Yakima, and I must say it
was pretty gloomy. Work wise, I would say it was decent. But weather
wise....GLOOMY. I remember Mr. Schimko talking about how depressing Washington
is sometimes, and I guess I didn't really understand what he meant utnil
now. About Monday through Friday there
was nothing but fog, rain, snow, hail, sleet, you name it. If it is cold or wet
and falls from the sky, it happened. Don't worry, the wool insert that Dad gave
me with his coat is quite effective at blocking all of these. And it looks
pretty classy too!
There was a good amounts of highlights from the past week
that are definitely worth sharing, so I'll do my best to recall them. We had
grim news that there is a slight possibility the car may be taken from us. But
it's not official.
I guess one thing worth writing about is that we had a fun
time taking the latest sets of missionaries out for the first time. I took a
certain Elder Hansen from Orange country CA, to a lesson with a less active
sister named Ruby Martin. She is such a sweet old lady who has a sincere and
strong testimony, but can't seem to make it to church. It was a good lesson, we
talked about the Restoration of the Gospel. Later in the week we also had the
privilege of meeting with a certain less-active member named Jeff. He's
awesome. The lesson we taught him eventually turned into a commitment activity
for him to come back to church, and boy...was it cool. I'm glad I have Elder
Beatty here, he seemed to be guided by the spirit in whatever he said, because
Jeff told us how everything we were saying was coming right off his patriarchal
blessing. OHHHHHHH SNAP! And then to make it even cooler his wife, Erica, who has a thick Portuguese accent, started
talking. We could understand her well, but there were times during her speech
that Jeff reminded her to speak English, as if she was speaking straight
Portuguese. OOOHHHHHH DOUBLE SNAP! I'm not terribly certain if it was the gift
of tongues was present, because we were just simply understanding her. Then
again...that's what the gift of tongues is! Either way, they loved us to death
by the time we left, and Erica decided to give us her new milkshake blender as
well. I guess that means it was good lesson.
Another fun experience found us sitting in a waiting room
waiting for an elder, who we gave a ride, who was seeing the doctor. Anyway,
Beatty does the brave thing and breaks the silence by talking to this one guy
about the Book of Mormon. Turns out this guy had some pretty good questions of
the soul that needed answering, and we were able to refer him to the elders in
his area. Later Beatty told me he was prompted to do so. I guess I need to work
on that, acting on the promptings of the Holy Ghost.
It must've been great being able to attend the Christmas
devotional! I bet the conference center is such an awesome place. See if Daniel
and Hannah get tickets to the Christmas concert there! When the choir was
singing the piece from Handel's Messiah, I was thinking about how much you
would love that classic! And whaddya know, you were there for it too! I loved
President Uchtdorf's talk too.
Still, I hope all the best for everyone back home! I
recieved a card from Grandma and Grandpa Camit this last week, so can you
please tell them thank you for me? I'd write, but I need to find resources
first. Anyway, love you all! Hope you guys have an excellent start to your
holiday season!
Love you!
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