Week 25

Tuesday: We had our usual District meeting, but Elder Alfonso asked me to conduct the meeting. I was asked to give a training on our purpose as well. I asked everyone three questions. 1. What is your purpose here in SLC? 2. Why are you here? And 3. What are you willing to do to fulfill your purpose? It was a very good discussion. Everyone shared their answers and most of them were answers from the heart.

Wednesday: We were supposed to have a lesson with a less active family with an Unbaptized kid but nobody answered the door.... we will try again in the near future.

Thursday: We went to the stake center to print off names and address of people in our area for the district blitz. A blitz is when all the members of a district work in one persons area to help them out. We have had a thought time finding people to teach so we did it in our area. Sadly we didn't get any new investigators out of everyone's efforts but we got the YSA (young single adult) Elders and Sisters referrals.

Friday: Nothing too exciting until night when we went to the stake center to play pickleball. I tried to be on the non member's team as much as I could to talk with him. We talked a lot about pickball and I call him "master" because he is crazy good. He is always willing to give me advice and tips so hopefully our friendship will open the door to talk religion with him. Elder Alfonso was playing a game and the other team barely hit it over the net and he went full speed and slid into the net and took it down, it was the funniest thing.

Saturday: We went to go visit the sisters in our district because one of them seems to be a little depressed and we got them a treat to make things all good. Seems like she is doing better. We got a call from the AP's (the assistants to the mission president) and you never know what they are calling for... they asked how we were doing, and then got the the main point of their phone call. They wanted to know how Elder Alfonso makes his crazy posters and what software he uses. Man was that a relief. Elder Alfonso's grandparents drove down from Layton Utah to pick up his bike and all the things that he won't be able to fit in his suit case when he flys back to Spain. They took us to In&Out Burger afterwards. They are pretty cool people.

Sunday: We went to the 12 Ward and shortly after the meeting our ward mission leader wanted to meet with us to go over some stuff. He previously sent us to a house where he heard that they wanted to meet with us but when we went their son said that nobody in the house was interested. But apparently his younger sister has been going to church in a different Stake for some time and wants to be baptized. So our ward mission leader and Bishop are going to try to visit them and see where they are at and if they are ready to meet with us!

Monday(today) we went to Classic Skating as a district. It was pretty fun going back to where I had childhood memories. I met someone working there who was in my ward in West Jordan when I grew up. (Tony Peligrino) had a good time trying to learn how to skate. I was pretty bad but got decent at it towards the end!

Love you all,
Elder Ashby