Wednesday: We had a Zone conference with the Sandy Zone.
It was good to see missionaries that we in my last Zone! They focused on
repentance and how, "we can't just change our behavior, we need the
savior." I just loved that and made me think about how true repentance
works. By acknowledging what my savior did for me. We visited a Ward mission
leader at night to update him on George. We haven't been able to meet with him
lately due to his busy schedule but we will meet with him on Tuesday.
Thursday: Elder Alfonso had a district leader training in
the morning, so I was dropped off at another district leaders area to work
there with his companion for a few hours. I was working with Elder Schunk who
was Elder Fitzgerald's trainer. It was pretty fun working in their apartments.
We met some characters haha. But I guess that's what you get with people in the
apartments.
Friday: work was slow and our area Book crashed so we
didn't know who to go visit so we were trying to figure out who to go visit. In
the mean time Elder Alfonso and I were recording ourselves lip sing some songs.
We did "You will be in my heart" by Phil Collins. And we did
"Next AP" which Elder Alfonso made in the past with other
missionaries. At night we stopped by to see what was going on at the Stake
center and it was some elderly people playing pickleball. They invited us to
come play so we did for the last hour of the night. We figured out that there
was a non member there though! We will try to talk to him next week since they
do it every Friday night.
Saturday: Nothing too exciting in the morning/ afternoon.
But at night there was a "neighborhood adult social" at the stake
center and there was a band that was there preforming. There was some food and
music. The small band was pistol rock and they were alright. But
according to my companion who is in a band, that they weren't good at all haha!
Sunday: we went to a missionary preparation class at the
church and we helped out all the seniors and juniors in high school who are
preparing for missions. We helped this one guy out and man did he pick up fast
on how to be a good missionary. At night we had a special mission fireside
where Brad Wilcox (a well known speaker) came and talked about the atonement.
But I really liked how he talked about Grace. The phrase we are saved by grace
was answered. Yes we are saved by grace. But we are based off our our work and
how we accept his grace. I loved an analogy he used to describe the atonement.
He played this game as a kid in high school on the bus coming home from debate. The moral of the story is that you need to do some things
and if you win you move closer to the front. And if you mess up you go to the
back. He began to work his way to the front and just before he was at the front
he messed up and had to go back. He repeated it again and again and became very
discouraged. But even though he felt like he was going no where, the bus was
taking him home. This relates to us in our lives as we accept the atonement. We
are going to sin no matter what and sometimes we feel like we are going no
where. But life is going on and we are still going home to our Heavenly Father.
The atonement was given to us to be able to start over and to try our best. I'm
forever grateful for the atonement of Christ and all he has done for me in my
life.
Love you all,
Elder Ashby
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