Yakima is a very crazy interesting place! It is the most dangerous town/ highest crime rate west of the Mississippi river. You can tell when you get there that it could possibly be pretty scary. All the houses have big chain link fences around them with huge dogs and the gates are pad locked its pretty sketch. The mission president went out tracting with some elders one night and got stuck in the middle of a gun fight but luckily no one fired their guns but they had a huge brawl and had to call the cops so ya there's Yakima for you. The mission home is in the nice part of town and the only nice part and it crazy nice/huge! So it was a relief being sent to the nice little town of Ephrata.
My first day was really cool we went to the scary part of Yakima and did OYM and the first place we went we put a girl on date for baptism and made appointments for lessons which is way lucky and cool and then the next house we went to we taught a guys family and invited us in and his friend came and cried when he got in the house because apparently hes been having a tough time and he said he needs god and gave us a hug and we taught him and did the same so we knelt down and said a prayer with this guys family and that got me super motivated. They call that greeny fire.
Ephrata is where I am now so enough with Yakima. Ephrata is a tiny town were everyone knows you so you get yelled at just living life going where ever. The work is going crazy we have 3 on dates for baptism and we got 2 while I was its been really cool and we keep finding new investigators. We just got new ones who are now progressing, one of them volunteered to pray the first lesson which if you ask me is a huge deal. we have another investigator, but she cant get baptized yet, but she will when she can for sure she says.
we cover two wards and they are huge so of course we have a car because it's so spread out. I'd call the Yakima mission areas the arm pit of the world. when people welcome me here they said welcome to Ephrata the land of dirt, dead stuff, and smoke. There's smoke here a lot because its really dry and things look better burned anyway, just kidding there's just a lot of fires all there id to burn is dirt tho so idk how that works. Other than that it's a cool little town.
My companion is a short ginger so I always have short companions but that's cool they are just more dense with knowledge. but i can fit more..He trains a lot so its great to get an experienced trainer. I bet you can guess where hes from. Every missionary is from there. The food I've had so far has been so good, people will just feed you like crazy and they are good cooks so far. There's a lot of fresh corn we've had. my companion The apartment has a swamp cooler that's the best it gets around here.
fun fact for ya: people around here say weird stuff a few= a couple 3 still= anymore (they use it in weird contexts) and i apparently live in "Wershington" now by the way, i love it.
I am so happy to be here in the field I have learned so much and cant wait to keep going, I've learned so much in less than a week i cant even begin to imagine two years. As long as i act with faith and a desire heavenly father will do the rest and will bless me with the power to bring others unto Christ and i cant wait to see that improve.
~Elder Hoskins
p.s. the members here are amazing missionaries and help so much.
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