Wednesday: We had Zone conference today and the whole
time was mentally preparing to stack these cups and beat this other person
who had no clue what to do. It was a really good meeting and I learned a lot
from it. I messed up on the cup stacking thing and did it in 50 seconds but the
other person didn't even finish. I cracked under pressure haha! We met with
Brandy and taught her the restoration and had her pray to know if she should be
baptized and she said yes! She is going to be baptized on June 3rd.
Thursday: I had a district leader training for most of
the morning and it was very good. I learned a lot and how to help those in my
district have motivation to work. I finally went to the mission home in south
Jordan. 8 months in and I've never been inside until that meeting, I've always
been the group that met at the mission office. We stopped by Brandy's house and
read the Book of Mormon with her. At night we met with an active family and
they gave us two good leads on people we could possibly teach! As I was talking
to the sisters in my district I was complaining how I bought deodorant but it
wasn't antiperspirant so I was still sweating so they dropped off a stick of
deodorant and an Arizona with som sticky notes that made my day!
Friday: We went to temple square in Salt Lake City with
Jaylee and Zack Peck. Their little sister Jazlyn and mom came. It was a real
fun experience to explain things with the visual things at temple square. We went to the video Gods plan for families and it was so
good. Afterwards we went to the church history museum to watch
the first vision on a 180 degree tv screen. It is always so powerful to watch a
reenactment of Joseph Smith seeing God the Father and His son Jesus Christ. They took us out to eat
dinner after our visit. When we got home we met with a part member family the
Covington's. The wife (who isn't LDS) is practically a dry Mormon, does
everything that her husband does, goes to church, reads the scriptures, you
name it she does it. She didn't really give us a solid reason why she didn't
want to take the missionary discussions. Her husband gave us a ride home and he
said that he things she won't get baptized because her parents are Anti LDS. So
we will see if we can do anything in the future.
Saturday: Well I have another flat tire so we were on
foot again and most of our work is in the stake we don't live in so A LOT OF
WALKING. We went to the Riverton North 4th Ward carnival but the
Zone leaders had to drop something off and we were discussing the work in our
areas as well as how the sisters in our district are struggling. Well we ended
up not being able to go to the carnival at all haha. We prepared on how we are
going to teach primary tomorrow in the Medows Ward.
Sunday: HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!! We went to the Medows Ward
sacrament meeting and Jaylee came but Zack didn't! He even pinky promised me h
would come this week! We had to teach Jr and Sr primary. It was about baptism
so we shared a video where kids talk about what baptism is. Then we had two pictures. One of Jesus being baptized and
then the other was someone else being baptized. They had to list of the
similarities between them. I had to give sister Burgos a blessing. The sisters
have been struggling in their work lately and the people they have been working
with stopped meeting with them. Well I had the opportunity to Skype my family
which only happens twice a year. (Mother's Day, Christmas) so it was good to see how the
family is doing. Had a good hour with them. A little bummed because my younger
sister has an iPhone7 and I never had the latest phone haha!
Monday: (today) we went on a hike with some other Elders
up Butterfield canyon.
Love you all,
Elder Ashby
Here are some pictures of this week
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