Tuesday: We had a lesson with Mason North, he is a
recently reactivated priest and wants to meet with us to get ready for a
mission. He is a really cool kid who my companion and I connect with really
well since he plays football for Corner Canyon. After that we stopped by the
Milliches, a family that needs some help. We were trying to get our senior
missionary couple an appointment to teach them but only the dad and his son
were there so we only ended up talking about football and didn't get one set
up. We were on our way to contact a former bishop and he lives by a potential
investigator and their lights were on so we stopped by and Nick was home! We
set an appointment up for Saturday with him and his girlfriend Tiana,who is
interested in our church!
Wednesday: In the
morning we had a new app to do our planning on and man was it confusing! After
that struggle we had a lesson with one of our ward mission leaders that I
haven't met.... yeah I've been in the area for 2 months and I haven't met him.
During the middle of our day we got a text from a potential investigator and
she said can you can come by at 7. So we did and she just recently moved in
from Colorado and she knew absolutely nothing about our religion. She wanted to
know how our church began to be, so we shared the restoration with her. It was
crazy to find someone who knew absolutely nothing. It kind of threw me off
guard because we had to explain everything, but it was all worth it!
Thursday: We taught the Boyce family (active LDS) the
restoration and inspired missionary work in them by giving them a Book of
Mormon challenge, to prayerfully consider who needs it. Later at night we went
out with one of our ward mission leaders brother Paulk and did some visits.
Friday: We started an exchange with Elder Sandino &
Dutton. I was with Elder Sandino in their area and Elder Sherman was with Elder
Dutton in our area. While on the exchange we ran into one of their recently
reactivated members who is receiving the priesthood. We shared a quick message
about the priesthood and how it will be a blessing to him and his life. We also
had some other good visits with people but nothing too extravagant.
Saturday: We had a lesson set up with Nick and Tiana and
it happened. As we were talking trying to get a feel for where Tiana
is at she asked, "what are the qualifications for baptism?" Man I
wasn't expecting that! So we shared some scriptures and invited her to read the
Book of Mormon for a week straight and to pray about it and a baptismal date of
October 7th and she accepted and will be working towards it! Man was it one of
the craziest things! After that we went to go do our studies and people were at
the church setting something up and we asked if they needed help so we did.
There was a wedding going on and we set up all the tables and chairs for them.
He was so thankful that we did he invited us to his wedding haha! So we stopped
by and went to a wedding! Probably one of the weirdest things I've done on my
mission but it was worth it haha! Afterwards we got some good wedding treats
and then got some dinner at a neighborhood party!
Sunday: We went to the 10th Ward to see if Nick and
Tiana, and the Layton's would come. Sadly the Layton's didn't come but Nick and
Tiana did! Unfortunately they bounced out after sacrament meeting so we couldn't talk to them but hey
they came! At night we had some good visits with members to see how we could
help those investigators we are working with. It was a pretty good week for us
by finding three new people to teach!
Love you all,
Elder Aaron Ashby
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