Tuesday: We had interviews with our mission President in the morning and it was good to talk to him about the work and those in my district. He is really pleased with our district but as all successful people he is never satisfied. He is grateful for the work and success we have seen but knows there is always room for improvement. At night we had Dinner/ a lesson with the Zarbock family with their less active neighbors kids. We talked about spiritual CPR and how regular CPR keeps us alive we also need to keep our spirits alive. A way we can do that is by Church, Prayer, Reading the scriptures. We daily need to read the word of God and pray to him. And weekly we show our gratitude and come to partake of the sacrament to renew the covenants we made at baptism. We taught a young man preparing to go on a mission the same thing afterwards and will play some basketball with him and a couple of his buddies on Monday as well. We visited with the Diderickson family at night and followed up on the Book of Mormon challenge and encouraged them to continue to prayerfully seek who needs it.
Wednesday: We had our district meeting and it was taylored on the training the assistants gave in Zone conference on followership. They mainly focused on following our leaders to be successful, but I focused on following our Savior in all we do. The Savior when he was at the Sea of Galilee and said to some humble fishermen, "Come, follow me." The Savior has given us that same invitation, come and follow him. We need to have the faith like the apostle Peter asked the Lord if he could walk on the water and then the Savior replied with, "Come" then he leaped out of the boat and walked on water and the moment he took his eye of the Savior and doubt sunk in he began to sink into the water and then the Savior reached out and grabbed him from sinking. We need to keep our eye on the Savior in all we do and have the faith that miracles can happen. And then we need to always remember to follow him. We met one of our newly called Ward mission leader and man he is excited to do some missionary work and get things going in his ward. Looking forward to seeing how that goes.
Thursday: We had a leadership meeting in the morning that was focused on knowing what we need to prioritize as a missionary to further the work. 1. The Lord 2. Ourselves 3. Companion 4. Others. If we have a relationship with our Heavenly Father we can trust him in all we do. If we ourselves are enjoying the mission we can be successful and be an instrument in His hands. If our Companionship is in unity we will be effective advocates of truth. And then we can find those who are ready to receive the fullness of his gospel. At night we taught another active family in the 11th Ward and gave them a Book of Mormon challenge. We went out with one of our ward missionaries Brother Wray and had a good visit with an elderly man who needed a visit.
Friday: We had our lunch correlation meeting with the senior missionary couple the Grahams and they took us to sweetoburrito. (Doesn't compare to Chipotle!) Then we had a house inspection to make sure we aren't being dirty missionaries haha. The old office senior missionary couple were the ones to do it so that was cool. Well we were having a brutal Friday night, trained to contact so many people but nobody was home. As we were leaving the neighborhood I felt prompted to go visit one more person who wasn't in our plans. I was thinking well there never home but it's worth a shot. Well turns out they were outside on their porch! (Basically chastised myself for not having enough faith haha) and we had a good conversation with them and got an appointment to teach them. The mom is a member but less active and her kids are not baptized and the daughter has gone to church a few times and went to girls camp and wants to know why we believe what we believe. Well man we got answers to that haha!
Saturday: Well it is general conference weekend and man I love general conference as a missionary. General conference happens twice a year and is when we hear messages from our modern day prophet and apostles and others who have been called to speak. It is Gods way of communication to us through the spirit of revelation. We had a session from 10am-12 one from 2-4 and the a priesthood session from 6-8 so basically it the spiritual version of march madness where we are just spiritually edified all day! I loved every second of it and know that it is what God would want us to hear. We watched the morning session with the Duke family and then watched the afternoon session at a church.
Sunday: Again there were sessions from 10-12 and 2-4 Elder Sherman and I watched the morning session with the Wray family and since Elder Sherman was given a ticket to the pm session from the mission he went with a group of missionaries there to watch that one. So in the mean time I had to hang out with the wray family. During the time in between sessions we played a few games of Settlers of Catan, one of my new favorite board games. Then had a really powerful last session of conference. One of the 12 apostles pasted away after the morning session and was sad to hear, but Elder Neil A. Anderson from the quorum of the 12 gave a little portion of a talk that Elder Robert D. Hales would have gave if he was healthy enough. He talked about how we need to have the faith to meet God after this life and how we need to prepare ourselves to meet him. I can't express how powerful all the sessions of general conference were. For those who didn't get the opportunity to watch it, they will be on LDS.org in about a week or so and you can read the talks that were given. I know if you read any of the talks you will know that God is still speaking to us through modern day revelation and through his called servants.
Hope you have a wonderful week!
Love,
Elder Aaron Ashby
Zone Activity
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