Wednesday: We had a MLC (mission leadership council) in the morning/afternoon. It was all devoted to the Holy Ghost and how it works with receiving revelation. President Lansing asked Elder Gehrett to give a training on what he has learned on his mission and it was all about "change." He talked about the beginning of his mission and the progression till the very day. He made me reflect on my mission and not where I am, but more importantly where did I come from. I feel like we often get lost in the day to day mentality, that we forget about our own progression. President Lansing talked about the pattern of revelation. What is revelation and how to receive it. He played a video with Elder Bednar speaking at a mission president seminar.
Thursday: We got together with Elder Richards and Lance to give Elder Bretschneider a blessing. He has been having stomach problems all week and woke up feeling like trash. Our home owner brother Crane left town for the week so we got to feed the sheep and give them water. Its always a good time feeding and petting Paula. (a sheep that was fed on a bottle so it acts like a dog) We went out on ward visits with the mountain view YSA ward.
Friday: We went out to Cafe Rio with one of my childhood buddies Braxton Kerr for lunch. His family moved to Herriman and he is technically in our YSA ward but he is going down to snow college next week. It was a good time to catch up with him. He is looking to being the starting QB down there. We had accountability (a meeting with President and Sister Lansing and the Assistants to talk about the missionaries in our zone) in the afternoon. It was really just a way for us to express our thoughts about transfers and what we see with our missionaries. After accountability I was able to have a temple recomend interview with President Lansing. I can't express how lucky I am to have him as my mission president. He is so knowledgeable about the gospel and I enjoy every interaction with him. At night we went to support a girl named Addison get baptized. She was being taught by the YSA sisters.
Saturday: We went to a baptism in the morning. We had to plan for our multi district meeting which is all focused on personal revelation with the guidance of the holy ghost. At night our dinner took us out to simply sushi. We had all you can eat sushi and let's just say octopus is really chewy and not very good haha! Had some good rolls and pieces. After dinner we went to a Samoan family ward party. We were asking around to see if there was any poly YSAs (young single adults) that would be interested in the ward we cover. There was a less active member of the church that said if we beat him and his buddy in a basketball game he would come to church. Well we started off rough being down 2-8. Then made a comeback to 12-9 and was about to win and Elder Bretschneider rolled his ankle pretty bad on a rebound. He came down on someone's foot so that ended but they have this "Samoan massage" they do to sprained ankles that makes it so you can walk the next day and one of the Elderly men did that for him. In the waiting process one of the ladies from the ward went home and grabbed us both lava lavas since we were talking about it! Her husband said, "I have been married to her for 40 years and she has never gotten me a lava lava. You better feel pretty special."
Sunday: We went to the Sojo 11th ward council in the morning to talk about getting on board with the Tongan and Samoan family wards to find the YSA age people who can come to the ward. We went to the mountain view ward with our main man Parley Beagley. Everything at church was perfect for what Parley needed to hear! Afterwards we went to the Sojo 11th ward conference. Bishop Filimouatu and President Bowman (first councilor in stake presidency) gave great talks. At night we had a great lesson with Parley and he says that he is serious about being baptized now. We called up our district leader and he came over and passed the interview! Keep Parley in your prayers as he prepares to be baptized on August 4th.
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Aaron Ashby
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