Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Week 58

Tuesday: Well transfers were here and Elder Sherman and I are staying together. We were both pretty happy about that. We have some new faces in our district, Elder Sandino is training a new missionary Elder Bretschnieder. The sisters are the same, and we have Elder Henley instead of Elder Rodriguez for our Zone leaders. (Elder Mullenaux stayed) We had a meeting with Elder Henley and Mullenaux to go over some things and prepare for the transfer. We gave the Sisters a blessing of comfort and council after that. At night we taught Mason North again and had a good lesson with him and a buddy about commandments. They were really excited for the Alta Corner Canyon game later that week. (Corner Canyon won) We also taught one of our ward mission leaders less active son. 

Wednesday: We had our first district meeting of the transfer, it was a really good meeting. We talked a lot about discipleship. There is a lot going on now a day and following Christ and his teachings aren’t as important as they should be for people. With the saviors atonement we can do all things because he has walked that lonely path for us, he knows us and our trails. If we look to him in all we do we will find happiness in this life. As I’ve come on my mission not knowing what I was getting myself into I have come to know my savior a little more. I know that we have a loving Heavenly Father who sent his only begotten son for us so we can be forgiven of our sins. We all have feelings of guilt and shame and these cannot be relived without the atonement of Christ. If we allow it to, the Atonement of Christ will change our whole lives. 

Thursday: We had a zone expectations meeting in the afternoon to go over the things that are expected of us for the transfer and I am really excited to see what this transfer has in store for Elder Sherman and I. At night we taught an active family in the 11th Ward the Davis’s. After that we were supposed to have visits set up with one of our ward mission leaders but he was asleep when we went by. He got up and talked with us and we came up with some plans on how we can move the work forward in his ward. 

Friday: We had our usual lunch Correlation meeting with our senior missionary couple the Graham’s. They set up an appointment for us to go by and teach a family with an Unbaptized kid on Sunday! After that we went and got a feel for what the Elders and Sisters in our district have envisioned for this transfer and made a vision, goal, and plan so we can help them be more efficient in their work. It helps to have a vision of what your success could be and then to set reasonable goals to make you strive to work hard to achieve them, and course we need to have plans to accomplish them. 

Saturday: We had a lesson with one of our investigators Tiana. We followed up on the Book of Mormon reading and she had read but not as much as we thought. So we began to read a few chapters with her and help answer questions she had and it went really well and she wants to be better at reading and praying so we will be sending her some scripture text every day for a friendly reminder. We stopped by a potential investigators house who we could never get in contact with and they were home! They were about to head to a Halloween party but they told us that they want to meet with us and Monday or Tuesdays are best so we will be going by then! 

Sunday: We went to the 10th Ward in the morning and then went to primary to see if the girl we were teaching later that day came and sadly she wasn’t there, but at 2 we had our lesson and they were “sick” at church and went home but we’re perfectly fine for our lesson haha! The mom started it off by talking about baptism and how Karly is going to be baptized! So we taught them about the gospel of Jesus Christ and she accepted to be baptized on November 4th!!! After that we went to two more hours of primary in the 2nd Ward since we will be teaching in a few weeks. We ended the night by informing the leadership of the ward about Karly wanting to be baptized on Nov 4th. It was a great way to end the week! 

Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Aaron Ashby

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