We found out that night at dinner, that a man we gave a Priesthood Blessing the previous week, he bore his testimony on Sunday saying that he went to the Dr to have another surgery on his head, and they told him that he was perfectly healthy! Amazing how Priesthood Blessings can do miracles!
We also talked to a family who hasn't been going to their assigned Ward, due to other conflicts. And are moving in December and they said they won't be in this stake anymore. But we found out that they are moving into our other area we cover so we will start teaching their family in January.
Wednesday: We started our day off with a District
Meeting. It was weird seeing Elder Costa being our new district leader, but it
was a really good meeting. We raked up all the leaves for the family that we
live with. They had a lot of leaves, but no where near as much as we had in
Wisconsin! We talked with a less active lady who has a problem with smoking,
and we are continuing to work with her to stop her addiction. She wants to cook
us Brazilian BBQ for Elder Costa.
Thursday: We had a leadership meeting in the morning to
talk about our new goals as a zone. And was later discussed in Zone meeting
later that day. TEAM Together, Everyone, Achieves, Miracles! That was our new
motto as a Zone. We went by and visited Evelynn one of our investigators and
she hasn't been doing the commitments we have invited her to do and her Aunt
(who she lives with) told us that we were wasting our time with her and should
stop teaching her, but I told her that I'm not giving up on her and that I am
willing to give her one more shot. So I gave her a chapter to read from the
Book of Mormon Stories everyday until next Friday when we meet with her and if
she read them and understand what they say and how they apply to her life we
will continue to teach her. We talked with our next door neighbor who knows one
of our investigators very well, and had these gauntlets or metal gloves and
wants to give them to, and Orry and his wife who are really into medieval
stuff. Will be a good way to get into their home and to fellowship them.
Friday: Today was amazing! We had a lesson with a Chinese
girl Selina Gao, who just turned 18 and has a desire to be baptized. We taught
her the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ and she did really well.
And is on date to be baptized on November 26th. I got an
awesome pen from one of our ward mission leaders, he makes them on a rotating
thing and sands them to the size and shape. It's made out of Zebra Wood and
looks really good. We did a family home waving with the Allred family who are
members and they had us over for dinner with one of their non member neighbors
and we had a good discussion about Gods plan for all of us in the Plan of
Salvation. Elder Costa and Sister Allred played Come thou fount of every
blessing and it was very beautiful to hear.
Saturday: Rakes on takes on rakes. We spent most of our
day doing service for people by taking their leaves up for them. A family took
us to a pizza restaurant called Zillios and it was really good. (Not as good as
Ian's pizza in Madison Wisconsin) We stopped by the Cox home and we finally got
another lesson scheduled for Anaya! It's been about a month since we have
taught her!
Sunday: We went to a couple ward councils and see if we
could get any names of people to go teach or who are in need of service. We
went to the Crescent Ridge 5th ward primary program and it was really good
seeing the little kids share little messages about Jesus and other things. We
got a referral by email from church headquarters for a man and his wife who are
non members and we stopped by there and he was happy to see us and he told us
he just got a priesthood blessing from his grandfather that day and was wanting
to meet with the missionaries. He has lived here in Sandy for a year and a half
and has never been approached by missionaries! We set up a time to go teach him
and his wife next Sunday.
Monday(today): We had a lesson with Bruce Erickson and
his wife, didn't get very far in our lesson because he likes to talk and go on
tangents but he said he is willing to listen to us again since we talk about
Jesus Christ. He said he will read the a Book of Mormon though!
We also have a lesson with Selina Gao again at 3 during
Zone activity, but even though it's preparation day it is still the lords day,
and it a our calling to teach the Gospel!
Hope everyone has a great week!
Love,
Elder Ashby
Here is a picture of the zebra wood pen
And my new haircut...I can't believe how long my hair was (compare last weeks post)
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