Wednesday: We had district meeting in the morning and
it's always hard to know what to train on if you get put in a new area with new
members in your district. Now I have a bigger district, we have the Zone
leaders, Elder Anderson & Gehrett (Elder Gehrett was one of my Zone leaders
in Riverton) a companionship of Elders, Elders Sandino & Dutton, and a set
of sisters, Sisters Burgos & Anderson. (Sister Burgos was in my last
district) The meeting was mainly focused on not being satisfied with the work
and success we have. Everyone in the district has some pretty good work going
for them at the moment and we don't want people to become complacent because
they already have success. We want them to remember their saviors example and
to continue to press forward in this great work. We had a Zone expectation
meeting after the district meeting, they are really cracking down on some rules
because missionaries are breaking them. At night we went by to visit a lady who
is going through a rough time and shared a quick message with her to know that
we can endure hard things.
Thursday: We had a Zone leadership meeting in the
afternoon to reiterate what was said in the Zone expectation meeting. We talked
a lot about how a district leader should work with a sister training leader
with sisters who are in my district. As a district leader over Sisters, I am
responsible for their missionary work, the STL's are responsible for the
sisters physical, mental, and emotional well being. I talked to a sister in our
district about their ankle injury and I guess that was a no no, so I will have
to work on not "counseling them"
Friday: We had a meeting with the Grahams our senior
missionary couple, their grandkids were in town so we didn't have lunch with
them. I had to interview one of the sisters investigators to be baptized and
man was she cool! She had gone through so much in her life and it was amazing
to see how the atonement has worked in her life for the better! She was one of
the most solid investigators I've seen!
Saturday: Our shower was broken so we had to use our
senior missionary couples steam shower and man was that thing nice haha! Maybe
it wasn't a bad thing our shower was being fixed. We ended up making some
posters to put up in our church buildings and I think it may be one of the best
I've made. At night we went to Teressa's baptism since Elder Collier was asked
to be one of the witnesses. It was jam packed with missionaries brining their
investigators to see what a baptism is, also missionaries who helped her along
the way.
Sunday: Last night we were up late writing two talks for
church. We started our morning off by going to give a talk in the Draper 17th
Ward realizing we were not on the schedule to speak, but in fact it was three
weeks from now. So that gave me a breather, so we only had one talk then! We go
to the Hidden Valley 4th Ward and I gave a talk on recognizing and following
the spirit. I related it to Nephi at the beginning of the Book of Mormon when he and his brothers
are commanded to retrieve the brass plates. How he was "lead by the
spirit, not knowing beforehand the things which he should do." I also
talked about our experience of leaving Utah and moving to Wisconsin and how it
ended up being the best thing for our family. After we went to the Draper 2nd
Ward to see if our investigator Lisa Carrol came to church, well sadly she
didn't and apparently on the schedule I was speaking! So I gave the same talk I
gave earlier. After we went over to a part memeber family home and Elder
Collier shared his conversion story of joining the LDS church, and I shared how
I gained testimony of it. Overall it was a pretty good day.
Hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Aaron Ashby
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