Elder Zachary F. Smith - Washington Yakima Mission

One week into my first time moving to a new area!! It's so so much different than Ellensburg. For example in Ellensburg you could work your butt off for a full week, knocking hundreds of doors and texting/calling everyone in our app and you'd be lucky to have over 10 lessons. Here in Selah we have still been working hard, but not nearly as much and we get around 3 lessons a day!! I never thought it would be possible since the only thing I knew was Ellensburg. I got used to that so moving to new areas can very clearly be so beneficial to missionaries. One of the biggest changes I've seen within myself besides spiritual is definitely cooking. I used to DESPISE cooking but now it's becoming a passion. I've been experimenting with different spices in my rice, my chicken, my eggs, my sausage, my onions and whatever else I cook. It's become something I look forward to every day to cook a tasty meal that I love. I even started practicing with baking this week! I made b...

Well this is kind of surprising but I'm leaving Ellensburg! Transfer calls were last night and Transfer day is tomorrow. I've been assigned to the Selah 2nd ward! My new companion will be Elder Hadley and words cannot express how excited I am for a new area... And I'll finally have a car!! This week wasn't too crazy, but there were still some fun things here and there. Last Wednesday we went Christmas caroling as a creative finding idea, I planned out the whole thing which is why it was sad when it didn't go too well haha. I remember loving caroling in Virginia but here it was a bunch of people with no spirit, turning us away or cursing at us, telling us we were entitled 😭 But all in all it was still a fun experience with the whole district and we were able to stop by our on-date Stephanie Vernor, and she absolutely LOVED having a bunch of missionaries show up at her door and sing for her.  On Thursday we did some service for the Merrills who I absolutely love espe...