Wednesday: We had to clean our car out in the morning
because we didn't get around to it on Monday. Brent Bateman (my second cousin)
took my companion and I out to lunch. We ate at Freddy's. After that we went to
the stake center to see what was on a flash drive my brother sent me for Christmas.
There was a lot of good missionary approved music. We put most of it on my
companions flash drive because it's a Bluetooth one and can be played with his
new Bose speaker. We printed out some good English to Farsi phrases to teach
the Marzbans. We ate dinner at their house then taught them English. We
were there for four hours! My companion was so interested in learning Farsi he
never wanted to leave.
Thursday: not much happened today, at night we went to go
visit a member who had just lost his wife six weeks ago and tried to comfort
him. He was telling us how his wife was the best example for him because even
though she wasn't doing the best health wise, she would still care about other
people and try to help them out. So I read the talk the Character of Christ by
David A Bednar (a member of the quorum of the 12 apostles) and it really helped
him out and showed how his wife had the character of Christ in her. He really
appreciated the help and support that night.
Friday: another day without much going on. We ate dinner
with a family, and our ward mission leader leader for that ward was there and
was going to eat with us. And this ward mission leader never goes on splits
with us and never really even talks to us. He opened up to us and was talking
about how he needs to be a better Ward
mission leader and how he will start giving us referrals to go visit. At night
we were putting up our new flyers in the church buildings and we found two
basketballs in the gym and after a long day, we just had to shoot some hoops
for a few minutes.
Saturday New Years Eve already?! Since we couldn't
proselyte on a holiday we went and got some new basketball shoes at Scheels.
Then went to go play basketball with the Jones family in the 6th Ward. Their four oldest sons are all pretty good at basketball
and always make it a fun challenge. After that we stopped by an investigators
home and gave them a late Christmas present and he invited us in and started
talking to us. He said he wants to learn more about our church and that even
though he lived in Utah most of his life he doesn't know anything about the
church. Which is a miracle here in Utah. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he
said that he would definitely read it with an open mind and heart and pray to
know if it's true. He said we could come by and teach him some lessons. We will
be teaching him and his family on the 6th. We ended up staying at the Perrys
home (Crescent Ridge 5th ward/ neighbor) we played a lot of games with their
family, including my new favorite game Settlers of Catan! Don't
know why but that game is very fun for me. They launched off some big fireworks
for us before we had to leave. Didn't really feel like New Year's Eve since I
was sleeping by 10 but oh well it was a good day!
Sunday: Another crazy Sunday here in Sandy, we were
bouncing from church to church. We talked to a bishop in the Albion Ward and we
got like 4 good referrals from him so that's always a bonus. In priesthood
meeting we wrote down three things we will be more grateful for this year, and
I had three in mind. 1. Be thankful for all the sacrifices it took my family
and myself to get to the point where I am now. 2. Be grateful for the
opportunity to serve the Lord full time. 3. Be grateful for the opportunity to
have people listen to us and hear about our message about the restored gospel.
We ended up talking with a family that the mom does crochet. She said she would
make us any hat we want, so my companion is going to have a Kilo Ren mask/hat
made, and I'm having a swoop(Utahs mascot) hat. Really looking forward to
seeing how they turn out.
It's a new year and a new opportunity to become a better
person. Try to stay true to your new year resolutions! I believe in all of you. Also I encourage everyone to invite someone to learn more
about the LDS church. And if you aren't a member I encourage you to to take the
missionary discussions. Wherever you are I will make sure that you can have
that opportunity. I also encourage all to read the Book of Mormon again or
maybe for the first time. To read and ponder the words. And to pray and ask God
if these things are true, if the Book of Mormon is the Word of God, if Joseph
Smith translated the Book of Mormon, and if Jospeh Smith restored the gospel of
Jesus Christ again to the earth and was given the priesthood keys to act in
Gods name. I promise that your life will be blessed by doing this, I may not
know in what way, but I promise you in the name of Jesus Christ if you will do
theses things you will be more happy, you will understand your purpose in life,
and you will know in your heart that these things are true. I leave you with my
testimony, I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I have read it and prayed
about it, and gained my own understanding that it is true and I invite all to
do the same. I love you all and will be praying for you and your new homework
assignment. And I will be following up to see if you have attempted to do these
things.
Love,
Elder Ashby
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