Wednesday: We gave Elder Fulton a blessing in the morning. He must of had some food poisoning. After that we started planning for our multi district meeting for September 4th. I did a baptismal interview for a lady named Luina. She goes to the Samoan ward in Riverton. At night we did ward visits from the butterfield canyon ward and we had some good contacts. We finished the night off with some ward basketball.
Thursday: Well our Thursday night was the definition of YSA. We had ward visits in the mountian view ward that started at 7pm. We didn't leave the church till 7:30pm to go have a lesson at Parley's. Well Parley kept saying he was like 15 minutes away, or that he was super close. Well turns out that we waiting at his house till 8:45pm then had a lesson haha! We wanted to get out and work so bad but didn't want to just bail out on the lesson. We ended up having a good discussion with Parley and man has he come a long way! It has been a true blessing to see Parley's conversion on my mission. Half the mission knew who Parley was and I was there when he finally decided to get baptized. He has blessed my life and my testimony.
Friday: We went out to Sandy to go get two bikes for the temple to temple run on Labor day since we are the "medics." We took Elder Vegamora and Walkers bike and then Elder Bucklein practiced a musical number for a baptismal service he was going to on Saturday. (The Elders area was where Elder Bucklein came from) We had a fun time at night exploring our newer areas in Harriman that are being built and we found a couple apartment complexes and townhomes that should be good places for us to find more YSA people.
Saturday: Well it was a super hectic day with attending baptisms. We dropped Elder Bucklein off in Sandy to watch Ramon get baptized, while I went to Ben Cannon's baptism with Elder Alarcon and Crockett. Then Elder Bucklein met us back up and we went over to Luinas baptism. It was cool to see the Samoan family ward. Right after dinner we got together as a RNNATION to do a zone fast. Right now we have 12/13 companionships in our zone who are looking to have someone they are teaching get baptized this transfer.(transfers are 6 weeks) There has only been one time in mission history where the whole zone has helped someone get baptized. The thing is, is that the one companionship has someone who is on the verge of being baptized and we should know by Tuesday if the Dad think his kid is ready to be baptized. It is so nerve wracking since my time in the mission is coming to and end and there is so much that can be accomplished and it is that close!
Sunday: We had a stake correlation meeting with our Stake President, President Bradshaw. He is such a good stake President and does all he can to help all three companionships that work in the Riverton YSA stake. He has some great ideas on how the work can he furthered in the stake. I wish I could serve here forever! We went to rose canyon ward council in the morning and they loved it when we told them we sometimes find YSA people by the cars outside haha. For example there was this tricked out Nissan and we knew that only someone 18-30 would drive it. We knock on the door and sure enough a 20 year old YSA anwswred the door. We went to rose canyon and butterflies canyon sacrament meetings. After sacrament meeting we went to the Oquirh mountian temple parking lot to end our zone fast.
Monday (Sept 3): Happy birthday Mom!!!! Hope you have a great birthday! We did a temple to temple run as a mission with the community. It was about 5 miles but as stated above, we were the medics so we biked it and it was all down hill so it was pretty easy haha. It was good to see a former companion of mine Elder (Jacob) Gehrett. Looking forward to seeing him after the mission as he will be living in Sandy haha!
Hope you al have a great week!
Love,
Elder Aaron Ashby
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