Tuesday: We went to Elder Richards district meeting because we thought it was going to be his last district but turns out he has one more before he goes home. Elder Richards came out with me and went home three weeks early for school. He gave a good meeting about diligence and a word our mission is using right now is "fedge." Fire + Edge= FEDGE. So missionaries "on fire" are super energetic about the work and go out and work hard because they love what they do. A missionary with "edge" is one that makes the best out of every situation and can get the job done. If you have fire and edge as a missionary you will basically be the best missionary possible. At night we went out on ward visits with Rose Canyon and then had ward basketball since they were going to regionals for softball.
Wednesday: We planned a NLC (Nation leadership council) in the morning. We went to lunch with Elder Richards and Rushton for Elder Rushton's birthday! At night we went out on ward visits with Butterfield canyon and we met some cool people we might be able to teach in the future.
Thursday: We had our nation leadership council in the morning. We had a big focus on staying on the straight and narrow path and how even the slightest drift off course can take us completely off. We talked about FEDGE and how if we are having fedge we will be on the straight and narrow, but if we slack off just a little, we will be way off course. At night we had a good lesson with Luis and we read Alma 5 which talks about what we need to do in order to gain salvation.
Friday: We needed to help the Assistants Elder Henley and Rodriguez in the morning. They needed risers from a church building in Murray. The funny thing is that it was in our Tongan YSA area but way outside of the mission! Then we needed to help them set up for mission tour on Tuesday.
Saturday: In the morning we went to a baptism for Braxton who was being taught by Elder Taylor and Schultz. We spent a good portion of our afternoon emailing missionaries that are serving out from the family stakes if they know anyone we could go visit. At night we talked to a man outside of an apartment complex named William. William just moved here from Venezuela and was super Intrested in going to church and wants to change his work schedule so he can come! We are super excited to work with him.
Sunday: We went to Butterfield canyon ward council again this week. We were able to be apart of Luis receiving the Aaronic priesthood! It was cool to see him go from where he was till now. The gospel has completely changed him. Afterwards we went and had to bare our testimonies in the Tongan YSA ward about missionary work. It was super cool because I started my talk by saying "talofa" which is hello in Samoan. (Tongan is Malolale which is way too long and half the ward is Samoan) And it made my mission haha! I was like I've been waiting my whole mission to do this! At night we had some good visits with David from the Mountain View ward.
Have an awesome week!
Love,
Elder Aaron Ashby
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