Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Week 37

Tuesday: We had our usual district meeting in the morning, I wanted to prepare a good meeting for the sisters because hey have been going through a rough time. We had a good positive uplifting meeting and I could see the difference in their attitudes before and after. It was Sister Burgos' birthday so she wanted a chocolate dome from kneeders so we got one of those and Brother Wyatt drove with us to pick up these fancy donuts from beyond glazed, Brother Wyatt is the man he does so much for us and other missionaries. At night there was a ward walk about in one of our wards we cover, we ended up playing some basketball with some kids and most of them were not LDS so it was a good opportunity to friend them.

Wednesday: Well my bike had a flat tire and wouldn't hold any air so we went to Taylor's Bike shop in our area and bought new tubes and tires for my bike. Let's just say it was so hard to get the tires on the metal spoke and it took us way too long haha. Brother Wyatt took us to sodalicious  on the way home. We ate dinner with an awesome family the Waters.

Thursday: We had a lesson with Logan Murray, he is a 9 year old kid who has high functioning autism and is going to be baptized on May 27th which is this next Saturday!

Friday: We didn't have much success finding new people to teach but there is always going to be ups and downs in the mission! Just gotta keep working! There was a member at a church building who had a lot of extra butter and asked if we wanted it and we needed some so they told us to take it. So we loaded up a bag full of butter and took it home.  We called it the Great Butter Heist of 2017 and this is a picture to represent how much we got haha!

Saturday: We had another lesson with Logan and man was he bouncy today. It was a real tuff time teaching him because his cousins were coming over after the lesson and would be going to the park so he couldn't really focus. We talked to one of our relief society presidents who has become friends with this lady who isn't LDS but comes to church every week. She wants to join the church but her husband who is a member doesn't really want to do anything with the church. She said she would meet with us if her husband was in board so we talked to our relief society president of ways she could help them and their family. Well the nighttime didn't go as planned. We talked a lot about the sister in our district because they aren't teaching any investigators at the moment and their whole schedule is filled with teaching less active people and we thought that their time could be better spent finding new investigators. So we talked about it with the sisters and they were not having it, they were giving off all these reasons how important it is to work with those who have fallen away from the church. Yes it is very important to, but as a missionary we are set apart and have the authority to teach the gospel and to help people get baptized. A ward should primarily handle less active work and new members to keep them active in the church. They are in a young single adult Ward so their members of the ward are all return missionaries who know how do help with that. We went over to the Pecks house to encourage Zack to come to church. We played some baseball and basketball with him and he said he would come to church.

Sunday: We had a meeting as missionaries in the Riverton North Stake with the stake presidency. Afterwards we went to Meadows Ward council to find ways to help the Pecks. While we were in that meeting their mom said if Zack doesn't want to get baptized on the same day as his twin sister Jaylee then he doesn't have to. So we went over to their house to walk to church with them and Zack said he didn't want to go so he will not be able to be baptized on June 3rd with his sister. But Jaylee is so solid for a 9 year old and is very smart and mature. We went to church with Jaylee then and had a good time. At night we went to a fireside where an old member of the 70 spoke, and afterwards we had Banana splits that were good!

Love you all,
Elder Ashby
 

Picture descriptions: Our district at our last district meeting all together (Zone leaders won't be in our meeting next week) cutting up some donuts, our lesson plan for Logan, result of the Great Butter Heist of 2017!
 




 

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