Tuesday: We went to Elder Pearce’s district meeting in the morning which was really good. Sister Peterson gave a really good training on the Christlike attribute hope. She explained that our source of hope has two feeding factors. The first one is our identity and the other is Jesus Christ. We get hope from knowing who we are and our potential and knowing what we can do through the help the savior. I throughly enjoyed the meeting and learned a lot about the privilege it is to be one of the Lords representatives. At night we went to the temple open house with Erik and Angie. It was such a good temple tour. Erik said about 15 years or so ago when the Draper temple had an open house he felt so peaceful in the sealing room and the celestial room. As we toured it he kept talking about how good he felt. He said his favorite part was staring in the mirrors that are perfectly across the room for each other to symbolize eternal marriage. As we were walking into the celestial room Erik said, “wow I just got hit with the most peaceful feeling 3 times when I walked in. Almost like my heart was beating and it got more and more peaceful. When we were done with the tour Erik and Angie stared at the temple for 30 minutes as we talked to them. It started with both of us talking to Erik telling him he can have those feelings all the time after he is baptized and then it changed to me talking to Angie and Elder Mayberry talking to Erik. It was such a good 30 minutes each teaching one person.
Wednesday: Elder Waddell and Lybe were sick so we had to go get them some medicine. It just so happens to be that we ran into my uncle Lance and my cousin Ethan who just got home from a mission. It was pretty funny to see them and especially since Elder Waddell and Lybe are the missionaries that cover their area. We started exchanges with the Portuguese Elders later in the day. Elder Mayberry went to the Portuguese area not knowing any Portuguese haha! I was with Elder Gemio and I was really impressed with how good of a missionary he is. We stayed up till about 2am talking about everything plus more haha! It was a great exchange.
Thursday: We ended exchanges in the morning and then got ready to go to the temple open house with our investigator Jennifer and her roommate heather who is LDS. It was really good and Jennifer was like, “I wanna get baptized in this baptismal font!” Haha sadly only baptisms for the dead are preformed at the temple! We started another exchange in the day. I was with Elder Partridge and in our area and Elder Mayberry was with Elder Westover in their area. Elder Partidge and I saw a cool miracle at 8:45pm.We talked to this lady on her balcony and she just moved in from Mississippi and was super open to the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. She said she would be baptized if she knew it was true.
Friday: We got a call from the assistants in the morning informing us that a missionary in our zone had a family emergency so we had to go help him pack and comfort him. It was sad to see him leave but it is what it is. We had Elder Budge with us for the day. We had a lesson with the James family who just got baptized on St. Patrick’s day. They had a a friend named Aisha who was with them and sat in on the lesson and she is interested in learning more and coming to church. After that we had a lesson with Elder Budges investigator. We finished our night by teaching Erik and Angie. We had the perfect message for them and what they were going through.
Saturday: We helped Elder Sherman and Shultz to move into Elder Budges apartment in the morning. We went to the Portuguese elders investigators baptisms. Yes they were in Portuguese and we had a translator for us haha! It was really cool to see how even though we don’t understand the language we can feel the spirit. They had a lady in her mid 30s get baptized and then a family of 5.
Sunday: We went to the park point ward sacrament meeting in the morning and then Erik and Angie came to the willow grove ward and really enjoyed it. Angie hadn’t been in an LDS church building if over 15 years because she felt judged since she was teenager who was pregnant. They absolutely loved it though! Their 4 year old kid was crying when they were leaving saying, “I don’t wanna leave my friends!” After his first time at church. They said they would be coming back next week. We went and talked to a girl named Gabi in the garden cove ward who has been going to church for about a year now and isn’t a member of the church and wants to be baptized! She is afraid to ask her dad but she said she will. We have a lesson set up for Thursday during their lunch break. We will be doing it over Facebook messenger or Skype.
Hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Aaron Ashby
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