Wednesday: We had a district meeting in the morning. We
talked about selfless service and how we should be giving everything we do for
these 18 or 24 months and to remember Christ in all that we do. Well we were
supposed to get our car inspected because we are trading in our old car for a
new one but I totally spaced that we had a new missionary meeting..... great
way to be an example to a new missionary right? 😅 We were an hour late
to a two hour long meeting so that wasn't the best but I can't change the
situation, I can only change my attitude! It was kind of ironic since that's
what they talked about for the time we were at the meeting haha! At night we
went to a youth fireside to talk to some of the bishops and Ward mission
leaders. Eric D Richards was the person giving the fireside. He talked a lot
about the atonement and how every little thing we do wrong is sin and how we
will accumulate a lot of sin over our life, but through Christ's atoning
sacrifice we can be forgiven of those sins after we properly repent. It was
just a really good fireside in all.
Thursday We had to be at the mission office to drop off
our car so they could pick up a new one in Salt Lake so we ended up doing all
of our morning stuff at the mission office. We got a new 2017 Nissan Altima
with 30 miles on it! So funny story, the Zone leaders planned a Zone
expectation meeting and we told them we were going to have to wait till our car
got back and they scheduled it 30 after we were supposed to get our car. Well
turns out it took a lot longer than they thought and we ended up getting there
half way through that meeting as well.
Meetings just weren't our strong suit this week haha! But they knew we would be
late so they said it was their fault on this one. But I guess that's the new
thing just to show up to half the meetings. At night we taught two active
families the restoration to get Elder Sherman more teaching opportunities and
left them with the commitment to prayerfully consider who needs a Book of
Mormon, and to give it out to them.
Friday: We tried
to make posters in the morning but we're having some technology difficulties. I
don't know what it is about Friday's but nobody is ever home! We burned through
all our plans and backups so quickly and there was nobody outside for us to
talk to. My goal will be to have a successful Friday next week haha! Pray for
people to be home on Friday's!
Saturday: We went over to the Grahams to make our posters
since the wifi at the church wasn't working. Let's just say these ones by far
have the best quality of image on them so they look real nice. Then we had to
put them all up before Sunday. At night we ended up talking to a family as they
drove by. The Neagle's have a dog breeding business. They bread cavaliers I think is what they are called. Out
of the meeting other than seeing all their little puppies, they are going to
arrange a dinner with a few families that we are trying to work with and will
be a good opportunity to talk to them.
Sunday: Well Happy Birthday Mom!!! In the morning we went
to the 10th Ward and after that sacrament meeting we had a meeting with our new
stake presidency. It wasn't my favorite meeting since we only were given like
10 minutes and didn't get to talk about the things we wanted but they seemed
enthusiastic about missionary work. After that we went to the 5th ward
sacrament meeting and since it was the first Sunday of the month it is known as
fast and testimony meeting. So we fast for the things we want/need in our lives
and then after the sacrament is passed instead of having speakers give talks,
they open it up to anyone to go up and bare their testimony. There was a man
who has ALS and doesn't have much time
left to live go and bare his testimony. He had a person read his talk which he
wrote and he said I wrote this with my only functioning finger. He wrote out
his talk and it was so powerful and wanted everyone to be actively engaged in
missionary work because it changed his life (they recently joined the church) man it was so powerful. At night we went by and
taught Brother Duke the plan of salvation.
Monday: It wasn't our usual preparation day but we had a
good day! We started it off by being at the Oquirrh mountain temple. There is an
annual temple to temple charity run and our mission participates in it. So we
ran from the Oquirrh mountain temple to the Jordan River Temple. It was 5 miles
and man was it harder than I thought. Elder Sherman and I finished 4th as a
Companionship and I'm proud to say we never stopped or walked! After that we
were pretty much the walking dead, our legs were like wet noodles. We went and
helped Elder Sanidno and Dutton make posters and they wanted to have it be
Harry Potter so we gave it our good missionary twist! We also played basketball
with a less active who we are working with and his wife isn't a member (Lisa Carol) we talked about how we can help her out and he
thinks she is close to being ready to be baptized but doesn't want to ruin the
relationship she has with her catholic mom.
Tuesday: We had a multi district meeting (Zone meeting)
in the morning and I was asked to conduct the meeting. I was looking forward to
not having to conduct a meeting for once but oh well. We talked a lot about the
same things we did in our district meeting last week which was kind of funny
since the Zone leaders weren't in our district meeting. At night we saw a cool
miracle. We were trying to contact a former investigator and they weren't home,
so we talked to the man across the street working on his car. Turns out he was
a very friendly man who has been less active do to his smoking problem but
wanted us to come by and teach him and his son. After we got his name and # I
was really confused since I saw the last name Peck somewhere. Well turns out
there was an unbaptized kid with the last name Peck. Sadly it wasn't the same
address but we felt prompted to go visit them then. Well turns out it was the Less active mans uncle, who was
the grandpa of the unbaptized kid and said he will talk to his parents and see
if we can come in and teach them as well!
Wednesday: I had a leadership meeting to go to in the
morning and it was all focused on how we can make the Draper Zone or Draper
Clan (what they want it known by) more unified and like a family. It was a
really good meeting and got me excited to work this transfer! I had a baptismal
interview for the Sister missionaries in our district. She was a 9 year old
girl named Charlotte and man was she good, she knew every answer. I gave her a
big box of Nerds and congratulated her on her baptismal interview and a early
birthday present. (She's being baptized on her birthday 9/9) At night we talked
to a really interesting man who is creating a syfi movie at his house. He has
been working on it for two years and it is almost done. It was called dreamer
of the falls or something along those lines haha!
Love you all,
Elder Aaron Ashby
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