Week 49

Tuesday: We had our usual district meeting in the morning. We talked a lot about how to follow the vision that our priesthood key holders have. For example our mission president has a vision that we as missionaries can achieve the 1-1-1 which is one baptism, per companionship, per transfer. We know that the lord is preparing people to receive his restored gospel and we are instruments in his hands. At night we visited the Diderickson family who is a strong active family and we shared a message about the Book of Mormon and invited them to prayerfully think about who the Lord would want to receive a Book of Mormon. I have a firm testimony of the Book of Mormon. Which contains the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ and is a second witness of Christ. We invite all to read and pray to know if it is true, and by the Holy Ghost we can know if it's true.

Wednesday: At night we visited another active family the Hardcastles and we shared a message with them and gave out the Book of Mormon challenge. They have two kids out on missions now. Their daughter has been out for a year, and their son is currently at the MTC (Missionary training center) down in Provo. It's crazy to think that I was at the MTC about a year ago! Time has flown here serving the Lord!

Thursday: We had a meeting with our new high councilor over missionary work, all our ward mission leaders, bishops, and our stake president.  It was about how we can further the missionary work in the Draper Hidden Valley stake. I gave a similar training on how to work with our priesthood key holders, to accomplish their visions. It was a great meeting and our Stake President is being released next week and he was very emotional and emphasized the importance of missionary work.

Friday: We had our usual lunch/ correlation meeting with our senior missionary couple. We are excited to finally have ward councils back.  In July there were no meetings other than the church block. It was family month, so they wanted the members to be spending good quality time with their family. It was a Missionaries nightmare since we couldn't get in contact with anyone haha!

Saturday: I had to go to a Zone leadership meeting to discuss the work going on in the Draper zone. We are doing really well as a Zone and it is because we are having sufficient faith that we will find prepared people. We focused a lot on being confident and being bold. If we have confidence and being bold is the highest form of love we will let others see that we are disciples of Christ.

Sunday: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELDER COLLIER! (My companion) Well it was an interesting day, we went to 4 wars councils to talk about people we are working with/ attempting to work with in their ward boundaries. So a woman named Judy Bianco who is going to be baptized on August 27th was interviewed for baptism by one of our Zone leaders and passed.  After church we had a missionary meeting in one of our wards and discussed ways we could further the work in their ward and it was great. Our ward mission leader Brother Duke figured out our favorite foods since it was Elder Colliers birthday so we had some really good homemade lasagna and crab legs! Man was it good!

Have a great week.

Love,
Elder Aaron Ashby

Pictures:  The Diederickson Family, Elder Collier's B-day present (Alabama hat) and Zone Activity