Wednesday: Well I had a meeting for majority of the
morning and afternoon since I am what is know as a district leader. So I am
responsible for watching over a few companionships of missionaries and their
work. So we have a training ever 6 weeks if we are a district leader. Nothing
really new in that meeting, it was basically a reiteration of the Zone meeting
discussing the problems we are having in the mission but without the sugar
coating that came from the Zone leaders. President Lansing was very bold and
direct that we need to be better. Elder Schunk was one of two missionaries in
our mission that was selected by our mission president to go to a
technology/missionary seminar. He is very knowledgeable about technology so
they are wondering how we can better use technology as missionaries in the
future. His meeting took a little longer and was up at Snowbird but Little
Cottonwood canyon so I stayed with Elder Brock & Anderton (Elder Anderton
was my companion in the missionary training center) At night we met with the
young women's president and young women's camp director in the Copperview 7th
ward. We received information that there were a few girls that went to
girls camp that are not LDS . Well turns
out there was 11! We got some good information and will be trying to work with
them here in the future.
Thursday: Today was a physically and mentally exhausting
day. We did service for Sister White for most of the morning. (the great aunt
of Brayden and Sefeara, kids we are working with) around 1 we had our usual
correlation/ lunch meeting with our MLS couple the Reeds. After that we went
back and did service for Sister White again until dinner. We did service for pretty much most of the morning till
5pm and it was a little above 100 degrees. At night we had a good visit with
someone in one of our ward and we went to go visit new move ins that we have
been trying to contact for some time now. It was a good conversation with the
Husband Jason, we gave him a Book of Mormon around 4 months ago and he said
that his wife read a little. Hopefully they can get the opportunity to read
more. We met the step dad of two of the young women who aren't LDS and went to
girls camp. He said they were with their dad this weekend so we are planning on
meeting with them either Monday or Tuesday. We met an active family the
Wilkinson's, who is friends with another family the Jacksons in that ward that
we are trying to work with and got some good information and will be working
with them to see how we can help the Jacksons who is struggling.
Friday: We started a 24 hour exchange with our Zone
leaders in the afternoon. (Where we swap companions for 24 hours to learn and
see how we are doing) I was with Elder Poppell who came out the same time as me
and is from Clearwater Florida. We started by going to the family history
center in Riverton to get on the computers to do Facebook. They cover the Riverton young single adult area so they
work with people 18-30 who aren't married and they have the opportunity to use
Facebook as a tool to find people to teach. I just so happened to have lived in
Utah for 13 years so I knew a lot of people and tried to friend them to see if
they are interested. Sister Kirkpatrick (a sister missionary in our district)
wanted a priesthood blessing because they are going through a lot this past
week and she is stressing about finishing her mission in a week. After the
blessing she was grateful for the help and support. At dinner we ate in the
Zone leaders area. The girl from the YSA Ward had her siblings and her
grandparents who were in town. Well it just so happened to be that they were senior
missionaries in my cousin Ethan Ashby's mission in Salem Oregon and knew him
very well! Crazy to see how the Lords hand is in the details of our lives. It
just so happened to be that they were in town and we planned our exchange and
decided that we were to eat in their area and that we would have that type of
connection. No coincidence there! After dinner we got dropped off at an
Institute summer social at Salt Lake community college. We met some really cool
people there but sadly most of them lived outside he mission boundaries. I did
have a good conversation with a girl who is preparing to go on a mission and is
recovering from an ACL injury. We easily had a 45 minute conversation while all
the people around us sat and listened haha!
Saturday: For our morning exercise both companionships
went to a church building and we played some basketball. It was really fun and
good to play with someone who is good as basketball (Elder Poppell) The
missionaries in the young single adult Stake have meetings with their high
councilor over missionary work every week on Saturdays so I got stuck in a
meeting since we were still on 24 hour exchanges. Elder Poppell and I grabbed
some Taco Bell for lunch and then headed back to pick up Elder Schunk & Harvey
to end our exchange. After the exchange we went back to Sister Whites house to
do some service. It was a little aggravating because she changed her mind on
how she wanted the service project done. We have been laying down cinderblocks
and tiles to make a patio bench and she wanted us to put down a layer of weed
block and sand before we put the other stuff down. So basically all the service
we did on Thursday needed to be done again. It just bugged us because she
changed her mind after we spent hours working on it. All in all her heart is softening and we hope that it
will open the door for us to teach Brayden and Sefeara in the future. The
Sister's in our district were going to fast for one of their investigators who
has been going through a rough time so as a district we decided to join in and
met to start a 24 hour fast for their investigator to show them we support and
care about their investigators.
Sunday: We went to a Ward council in the Copperview 7th
ward to discuss that we have some people in their ward we will be working with,
mainly the girls who attended girls camp. We got the leadership of the ward
informed and will get them involved. Afterwards we attended their sacrament
meeting hoping that a few girls that were at camp came to church. We asked
Sister Braithwaite (young women's camp director) if her daughter who is good friends with some
of the girls would invite two family's that have girls that attended camp to
come to church. (Avery, Chloe, and Presley Terry. Kennedy and Avari Vines)
Sadly Sister Braithwaite was working long hours the night we texted her so she
forgot to relay the information to her daughter so they didn't show up but we
are hoping for next week to be better.
Hope you all have a great week.
Love,
Elder Aaron Ashby
Riverton Zone
Elder Poppell and I
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