Wednesday: We had a district meeting in the morning. I
was nervous to do an exchange with our Zone Leader Elder Harlan. "That's
where you are with another missionary for 24 hours to evaluate how you are
doing." We had a lesson with Roberto, and man is Elder Harlan good! He
knew how to teach and teach by the spirit! We invited him to say the closing
prayer and ask God if the Book of Mormon was true, like it directs in Moroni
10: 4-5 but he didn't ask it in that way, he said "God, lead me to what I
should be doing." Which was a bummer because God will answer your
questions if they are specific and you ask with real intent. Elder Harlan
talked all night haha, we were talking till like 11:30 at night about all sorts
of things.
Thursday: It finally snowed here! We had meeting with our
Mission president in the morning. Our cars windshield fluid sprayer wasn't
working so we dropped it off at Big O and them studied at the Zone leaders
home. I learned a lot from Elder Harlan and how to become a better
missionary! We had a good lesson with
Selina and she is keeping all her commitments, she is almost ready to be
baptized.
Friday: We taught a less active Scott Winkler, his wife
was out of town but he didn't want to cancel on us again. But we talked about
the plan of salvation and temples and they are continually working to be sealed
in the temple. We also had a lesson with Selina again and she is willing to do
anything to be baptized. We talked about tithing and she said if she needs to
do that to be baptized she would. We were supposed to have a lesson with
Evelynn but they weren't home for some reason? Which was surprising because
they never leave their home!
Saturday: We started off our day helping a less active
move things out of a room into another and man was that a mess! But it was all
good.
She asked for us to give her a priesthood blessing for
the desire to stop smoking. (And she smokes 15 cigarettes a day) and I gave it
and felt good. But she was worried about what I said, I said "enjoy the
time you have with your family." And she took it as she is going to die.
But it depends on how you look at it, it could have different meanings. I don't
question what I said. Elder Costa had a leadership meeting about the new
mission training plan for the holidays, and we got to see a sneak peak of the
holiday video the church makes each year and man is it amazing. It will be up
on Mormon.org if you search #LightTheWorld I would highly recommend it to all
people to watch, Mormon or not. At night I had 30 more pages of the Book of
Mormon and I wanted to finish it. So I read until it was done and I never felt more
accomplished in my life. I prayed and asked to know if the Book of Mormon is
true and Jospeh Smith translated it by the power of God.
I felt a warm feeling and a sense of peace. I would
invite all who question our church to read the Book of Mormon and pray to know
if it's true like in Moroni 10:4-5 and the feeling of the Holy Ghost will
manifest an answer to you.
Sunday: Today had its highs and lows. Roberto didn't show
up to church. But Selina did! So we are happy she is continuing to keep the
commitments. But we got bad news, her baptismal date was set for November 26th
but she hasn't been going to sacrament meeting for three weeks. Which is
required in order to be baptized. She has been going to church in the last two
meetings but not for the first meeting which is sacrament. So her date will be
moved to December 10th. Sadly a potential investigator called us and left a
voicemail and said that they wanted to cancel our lesson with them and that
they aren't sure if they want to take the missionary discussions just yet, but
there is hope.
Love,
Elder Ashby
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