Week 60

Tuesday: We had a district meeting totally focused on getting our investigators to church so they can feel the spirit more abundantly. If our investigators can’t  keep commitments  they can’t progress and learn more and take that next step of baptism, which is a necessary ordinance. At night we went and taught the North’s. Corner Canyon is still undefeated in high school play and we heard they won their first playoff game. We invited Mason to come to mission preparation every 1, 2, and 4 Sunday at 7:30am. We went out with one of our ward mission leaders adult son and visited a part member family the Heiners. It’s an interesting dynamic. The mom is an inactive member. Kids are active  members. Dad is an active in church but isn’t LDS, and has been going to church for 15 years! He said he is comfortable where he is at but the message we shared was called, “The will of God” which talked about aligning our will with Gods to find true happiness. 

 

Wednesday: We had a Halloween party in the Draper 6th Ward which was really fun but nobody really introduced us to people who came which was a little sad to see. It was an interesting party, the activities were ran by the cub scouts and man was it interesting haha. We went by and shared a message with one of our ward mission leaders family. Then went and talked to the bishop to see how his wife was doing since her father passed away over the weekend. We also talked about our two investigators in his ward Karly and Tiana. 

 

Thursday: We ate dinner with the Roberts family in the Draper 6th Ward and we finished eating early and their kids challenged us to a basketball game so we played some basketball. It was pretty fun playing  a somewhat competitive game of basketball again, it’s been a while. We ended up lowering it to 8 feet and played some dunk ball. First play of it one of their kids was standing right under the hoop and I went up and posterized him haha. It was really fun throwing ally oops and dunking it. We taught a single man named Nate Burr who is active in the Draper 11th Ward. After that we went out with our ward mission leader Brother Paulk and man is he a character. We went by and shared messages with the Numbers family as well as the Bain’s. It was really cool to see we were praying in the day to be the answer to someone’s prayer and the message we shared was perfect for Sister Bain and she was in tears saying “that was exactly what I needed to hear.” It’s crazy to see how the lord uses us as instruments in his work. 

Friday: We had our usual lunch Correlation meeting with the Graham’s and they picked us up Chipotle ️ (by far my favorite place to eat) and we had a few minutes so we went down to their basement and played a few games of pool. Apparently if you don’t call which pocket the 8 ball goes into when you’ve finished all your other balls you lose? Someone is going to have to email me the rules because he definitely lost haha! We were supposed to have a lesson with Karly but they were getting their Halloween costumes so we had to go to our backup plans and had a slower night trying to contact people. 

Saturday: I had an interesting personal study in the morning as I came across a scripture that puzzled me and got me thinking. It was in the Book of Mormon in 2 Nephi 27:20 which says, “Then shall the Lord God say unto him: The learned shall not read them, for they have rejected them, and I am able to do mine own work; wherefore thou shalt read the words which I shall give unto thee.” I thought it was interesting that the Lord doesn’t really need us to do his work. No missionary knocked on Jospeh smiths door and told him he would be a prophet of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. However the Lord trusts us enough to be able to do his work. How great is it to know that he has trusted me to be His servant and share His gospel. We had a lesson with Tiana, we read more out of the Book of Mormon with her since she has been too busy with school, but she says she feels great when we do read. We discussed a lot about what is in the Book of Mormon as well. Later at night we finished up all the required lessons for Karly to be baptized. We had to move her baptismal date to November 11th because  her grandpa would be out of town on the 4th. All is looking well for her to be baptized on that date so we are excited! 

Sunday: Our day started off at 7:30am with a stake priesthood meeting all focused on missionary work. 4 recently returned missionaries spoke about a few things and it was pretty good to hear. We spoke in the 10th Ward which is where Karly and Tiana are in and we were so worried they didn’t come but they both came in late but they came! That’s the biggest stress as a missionary when they say they are coming to church and then they don’t, but this one ended positive. I spoke on Service, I only had about 5 minutes since Elder Sherman gave a sermon but hey good on him haha. I focused a lot on this past General Conference and how they talked about service, not only when a natural disaster happens but that there are people around us who need some act of service. Whether it be saying hi, being kind or any little thing can drastically change someone’s day. There are people out there that are struggling and they need our help. We ended up teaching Karly the 10 commandments with hand signals and it was a fun time.

 

Hope you all have a wonderful week.

 

Love,

Elder Aaron Ashby