29 March 2010

washington is beautiful. the trees are tall..like three-colorado-trees-tall. and it take like three days for a towel to dry. i'm not in a really humid area though, and it only rains a few times a week. in the rest of washington, they get rain daily but it's really nice weather in sequim and that's why so many people come here to retire. we are over two wards: Happy Valley and Sequim Bay. the members are all about missionary work. in the tacoma mission, the area i'm in is supposed to have some of the best wards. the ward really wants to contribute so most people are really willing to go on splits with us (which we do almost every night) and come on what we call church tours, which is a new thing to missionary work i think. the tacoma mission is one of the few pilot missions, where they try everything before they introduce it to other areas. we were the first to get preach my gospel when it came out in 2004 and we're the first to do church tours, which are a great way to get investigators to come to the church so we can teach them there and show them the foyer, sacrament room, and baptismal font (and talk about each along the way). i was told that whenever the first presidency has a new idea they want to implement to missionaries (worldwide) they try it first in the Tacoma mission and there are a few other missions also that are pilot missions.
There's no other place or time in my life that I will be able to bear testimony so many times a day and be set apart solely to preach the gospel (: