Week 29

Friday: We went to go print something off for our investigators and we realized something was very wrong.... we didn't have our fob to get into the door. We must have lost it when it broke off the keychain! We will have to get a new one soon! We met a really cool less active guy who has never went to a YSA (young single adult Ward 18-30) so we invited him to go to that and meet with the YSA missionaries  and he said that would be good!

Saturday- Well today nothing too exciting till night time. We met a man named Tony Kerns. He is known as an eternal investigator. (Someone who always meets with missionaries but doesn't want to keep any serious commitments) He has been going to church for almost two years now with his active LDS wife. He still doesn't believe that God cares about him or is even there. We went there and we testified to him so boldly and left him with a commitment that if he read the Book of Mormon and prayed about it everyday for a week straight, that God would manifest an answer to him. We promised him in the name of Jesus Christ he would get an answer. He said "oh every set of missionaries say the same thing and I never get an answer!" He got mad and left the room. Personally I am not discouraged about him as my companion was.  He thinks that since he wouldn't keep the commitment we didn't do all we could. But I told my companion we did all that we could. We left him a commitment, promised an answer, and testified about it. We can loose sleep over other people's act of agency. They are entitled to do what they want, even if we know that it isn't for their best interest.

Sunday: Well we had a meeting with our high councilor over missionary work (a calling in the church that watches over missionary work for their area known as a stake) we talked to the 3rd Ward mission leader Brother Hansen and he said he talked to Bonnie Kerns and she said that Tony didn't want to talk about our discussion, but she told him that even though the missionaries where there, they were not the ones speaking. And that no missionaries have been that bold with him and left him with that type of commitment and promise. It was a nice reassurance that as missionaries and representatives of Jesus Christ we are given in the very moment what we need to say by the Holy Ghost.  It amazes me because it was a very powerful moment testifying and teaching Tony, but I Honestly can't remember what I said for most of the night. We can do all things through Christ and our Heavenly Father!

Short letter this week due to the long one last week.

Love you all,
Elder Ashby