Tuesday: We had a zone conference that took up all morning and most of the afternoon, but it was a really good meeting. The focus points where on teaching, an above the line missionary, and event + response= outcome. It was a really good meeting and I loved the last part because ever since I tore my ACL my junior year in basketball, coach Holle talked to me and comforted me in a time of need. Our motto for the year was “the things you can control” and on the back it listed a few things and he focused on attitude and effort. The injury was the event and my attitude was my response and how much effort I put into it would determine my outcome. I have a firm testimony that we are given specific trials in our lives to make us the people we need to be. At night we had a neighborhood Halloween party we went to and had some good visits with some people we might be working with in the future.
Wednesday: We had our district meeting in the morning since we had Zone conference yesterday. We focused a lot on faith and the ability to change. We need to have the faith sufficient to be successful but know we are on the Lords time. We need to be willing to change some things in order to be instruments in the Lords hands. At night we had a lesson with Karly and we taught her the Plan of salvation using little drawing cut outs to show the Plan our Heavenly Father has for us, it went pretty good but Karly really wanted us to bring the white board we used last time so we will make sure to bring it every time!
Thursday: We had a Zone leadership meeting in the morning to discuss some of the things happening in the “Draper Clan” (Draper Zone) things are going really well for the missionaries here and we are seeing a lot of success and it is all given to us from the Lord. We had another lesson with Karly and we taught her the restoration using cups to portray the organization of the church in the primitive church and how it is ran the exact same here today in this modern era, with apostles and a prophet, but showing that Christ is still the head of the church.
Friday: We had a really lucky opportunity to do some service up at the draper temple. We planted over 60,000 tulip bulbs and then took down all the old flowers in preparation for the new plants. Sadly Elder Sherman and I got stuck with traffic duty instead of pulling out the old plants, but hey there were no accidents that day and if we weren’t there nobody would have known how to get into the temple parking so really we were the MVPs if you ask me haha! We heard from the temple grounds keeper afterwards and he talked a lot about how there are planters and harvesters and in missionary work we are harvesters and planters. We teach people about the restored gospel or plant a seed. If they have a desire to come closer to their Heavenly Father and savior and desire to fully partake of his gospel we teach them and baptize them into His church. After that we had exchanges with the Zone Leaders. I was with Elder Henley and Elder Sherman was with Elder Mullenaux. We had a crazy fun time. I had to do a baptismal interview for our sisters investigator and the mom wasn’t there on time and we started walking around talking to people and ran into someone who they were working with! No coincidences in the gospel!
Saturday: Our apartment doesn't have best seal on it, so we woke up and it was honestly like 40 degrees in our apartment and we had the oven on and the heater it was so cold! We had a lesson with Karly and she did amazing, her mom was doing something in the other room and would occasionally pop in, but Karly wasn’t trying to show off in front of her mom and she was so attentive and basically passed the baptismal interview questions!
Sunday: We went to the 10th Ward but sadly Tiana was up at her cabin and Karlys mom was sick so they didn’t make it out to church. We stopped by the Hidden Valley 4th Ward to hear our ward mission leader talk about missionary work. After that we went to the Draper 2nd Ward and then ended up helping out in primary since they didn’t have enough teachers, but all in all a great week and were preparing Karlys baptismal service for November 4th!
Hope you all have a great week.
Love,
Elder Aaron Ashby
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