Tuesday: We went to Elder Waddell’s district meeting in the morning. It was all focused on receiving personal revelation like we talked about last week in our leadership meeting. We were really impressed with Elder Waddell’s meeting. He just came off 7 transfers as a zone leader. We expressed our new goal in closing remarks of having 40 baptism in the month of May and nobody said anything. We talked about how Lehi in the Book of Mormon was persecuted for being a “visionary man” we explained how they may feel a little overwhelmed with that big goal but how Lehi and his seed prospered when they followed his counsel. After district meeting we started exchanges with Elder Lyse and Clawson. I saw a crazy cool miracle with Elder Clawson in our area. We felt prompted to knock on a door and we met a lady named Shanice. She just moved in from Michigan and she has had some problems and decided to move. We were able to talk a little bit about how we were sent by God to reach out to her and this is the path He wants her to take. She said she would pray about baptism.
Wednesday: We ended exchanges with Elder Lyse and Clawson and Elder Mayberry and Lyse had a crazy good exchange! They found two people who accepted to be baptized! The Lord is truly hastening his work! We had exchanges with the assistants Elder Pineda and Elder Gehrett. I had the opportunity to go to the Sandy West Stake with Elder Gehrett (my former companion) We had a great time being back together for the night. We had a really good lesson with one of their investigators who is getting ready to be baptized. He had a problem with the Word of Wisdom. Which is a commandment that Jospeh Smith received through revelation. It is basically a health code for our bodies. There are things we should and shouldn’t put into our bodies. Coffee is one that we shouldn’t put into our bodies and he had a hard time understanding that it was bad for him. Elder Gehrett and I talked a lot about how it may seem silly but that it was a commandment from God and it is simple. Like the brazen serpent staff thing with Moses. Those who where bit by the snakes, all they had to do was to look at the staff and they would be healed. It is simple that when we sacrifice a little the lord does wonders with us. God maybe wants him to feel just a little of the sacrifice it took for him to give up his only begotten son to die for all of us. We were able to help resolve his concerns and he committed to pray about it!
Thursday: We ended exchanges in the morning and I was truly blessed to have the opportunity to learn again from Elder Gehrett. We had to drop a bike off at the mission office later that day. We taught one of our investigators Deidra and we helped her to see the need for a prophet in these last days. She will also pray about being baptized if she knows these things are true.
Friday: We went to Elder Pearce and Passeraub’s weekly planning session to see if there were things we could do to help them to better fulfill their missionary purpose. We gave them some ideas on things to implement in their work. We went on exchanges with them later that day and I was with Elder Pearce in their area and I had to opportunity to help Elder Pearce with the things he struggles with and boost him up so he can be the best he can.
Saturday: We had breakfast with our Stake President as we usually do. He wanted to express thanks to all those who are supporting me on my mission and allowing me to serve here in the Bingham creek stake. We went to Sister Peterson and Merrill’s investigators baptism which was a really baptismal service and they were able to teach her mom who isn’t of our faith and she said she would pray about being baptized as well! Those sisters are so good! At the baptism I met a girl named Ashby so we had to get a picture! We talked to a man named Jake in the streets and he had a Catholic background but as we began to talk to him he was opened to what we had to share and said he wants to give it a shot. He will also be praying about baptism as he reads and prays about the Book of Mormon. We ended the night by reading the Book of Mormon with one of our investigators Muhammad who is from Liberia and is partially blind. He is open to the idea of Jesus Christ being more than just a messenger from God but is a little stubborn about his Muslim background.
Sunday: We went to the Elm Creek ward council in the morning and then off to the Plum Creek sacrament meeting since Shanice didn’t make it out to church. After the plum creek ward we went to the Elm Creek sacrament meeting to see if Jennifer came and unfortunately she needed to go pick up her trailer otherwise it would have been towed. At night we talked to a mom and son in our apartment complex and they were talking about how they were trying to find a church to be baptize in...... what!?!?! They said they would be willing to meet with us and learn about baptism and be baptized if that’s what God wants them to do! We are looking forward to going to the temple open house with Donna and her son Syler on Thursday! We are continuing to see a lot of success in the West Jordan Kingdom and are breaking all time records every week and it is a testimony builder that the lord will use us if we allow him to!
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Aaron Ashby
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