Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Week 103

August 1
Today was good. We played Basketball all pday. We had an open night of making visits. It is super weird that today was my last pday. 

August 2
Today MLC was pretty good. We then had to go to a dentist for Elder White. We made some visits before having dinner with Brother and Sister Earle. We made visits with one of our appointments falling through. We had a good coordination to end the night. 

August 3
Today was really good. We enjoyed some Rain!!! We had our zone leadership counsel for zone meeting. We had coordination with Brother Heaton. We made some visits before having dinner with the Anderson's. We made some visits before sharing a message with the Clouds. We met with the Young Women's presidency to end the night. 

August 4
Today was pretty good. We had weekly planning. We had a lesson with Dean which went well. We had dinner with Bishop Abbott and his family. We shared #SeekAndServe with the Barker's, then the Kauer's to end the night. 

August 5
Today was good. Zone meeting was super good! It was weird to give my departing testimony. We had dinner with the Montgomery's which was awesome! We made some visits before sharing a message with the Eiselin's. We then exchanged I went to Elder Melsen's area (my last area)!

August 6
Today was pretty good we went to a couple baptisms. We had dinner with Travis. We made some visits before sharing a message with Sister Haley. We then exchanged back. It was a good day with Elder Melsen! 

August 7
Church was good today. It was really weird say goodbye to people. After lunch we had my exit interview with President Griffin which was really good but things started setting in. We had dinner with Sister Franklin. We made a couple visits before going home to pack...

Well that is it from my mission! 

Love you all,
Elder Ashby

Monday, August 1, 2016

Week 102

July 25
Today was alright. Our car broke down outside Walmart so we spent a couple hours with it getting it repaired. We played basketball as a zone. We made visits all night. 

July 26
Today was good. We had interviews with President Griffin. We had a zone leader Webex meeting. We had dinner with Sister Jordan. We made some visits before sharing a message with the Johnson's. We then exchanged. Elder Wells is with me in my area. 

July 27
Today was good. After Lunch we had coordination with Brother Heaton. We had our church tour fall through with Gayle. We went with Brother Wakefield and President Heikkila on their home teaching visits. We had dinner with Sister Slocum. We made some visits before sharing. Message with the Moore's. We then exchanged back it was a good day with Elder Wells!

July 28
Today was pretty good. After lunch we went to family services. We had weekly planning. We had dinner with the Taylor's. We made visits all night until we had coordination with Brother Bowler. 

July 29
Today was good. We had a good district meeting. We made some visits before having dinner with Sister Hopkin. We made visits all night. 

July 30 
Today was good. We helped Joan Picha move which was pretty hectic but got taken care of. We made some visits and worked on the spreadsheet. We had dinner with Sister Mangum. We had our lesson with the new referral fall through. We made visits all night. 

July 31
Today was good. Church was normal. We made a visit in Sun City to a member Dean that has come back after 50 years of activity and come to find out he had his records removed a long time ago so we started teaching him so he can be rebaptized. We had dinner with the Spear family who are really cool. We visited with Bishop Abbott for a little bit. We had a baptismal interview to end the night. 

Monday, July 25, 2016

Week 101

July 18
Today was good. Since we hit our zone goal last month as a zone we got to watch the movie Freetown which was pretty good! We played basketball and speedball. We visited the Lowe's. We made visits to end the night. 

July 19
Today was good. We worked on the stake spreadsheet project. We had a lesson with Richard Kuchan. We made visits before having dinner with the Maughan's. We met with the High Priest presidency in Sun city. We had a lesson with Sister Murphy. We made a couple of visits to end the night. 

July 20
Today was good. We worked on the Stakes spreadsheet. We met with Charles. W made some visits before having dinner with the Romig's. We made visits the rest of the night. 

July 21
Today was good. We met with Brother Heaton for coordination. We had our weekly planning session. We had dinner with the Montgomery's! We shared a follow up lesson with the Maskovisch's. We made a couple visits to end the night. 

July 22
Today was good. Zone Conference was a good meeting. We had dinner with the Squires. We made visits all night. 

July 23
Today was good. We had Sun Cities ward breakfast for the 24th of July. We then went to a move which was good. We made some visits before having dinner with the Cherrington's. We made visits all night with our lesson falling through. 

July 24
Today was good. After Church we met with our ward mission leader Brother Bowler which was good. We made some visits in Sun City before having dinner with the Browning's. We shared #SeekAndServe with the Pribyl's who are awesome! We made visits the rest of the night. 

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Week 100

July 11
Pday was pretty good today. We played basketball and volleyball. We shared a message with the Montgomery's. We then went and visited the Albertini's before heading in. 

July 12
MLC was pretty good. We taught Richard Kuchan. We had dinner with the Ogan's . We gave a blessing and made some visits to end the night. 

July 13 
Today was pretty good. We met with the leadership of the zone to coordinate zone meeting. We had coordination with Brother Heaton. We made visits before having dinner. We made visits the rest of the night. 

July 14
Today was good. We weekly planned. We had dinner with the Hughes. We made visits before sharing #SeekAndServe with the Cherrington's to end the night. 

July 15
Today was good. We had zone meeting which was a good time. We had dinner with Sister Kunz and her friends. We made visits before sharing a message with the BaƱuelos family to end the night. 

July 16
Today was good. Gayle rescheduled on us. We met with a brother Womack. We made visits until dinner and we made visits after dinner. 

July 17
Church was good today. We made a couple visits before having dinner with the Smiths. We made visits the rest of the night. 

Sunday, July 17, 2016

Week 99

July 5
Today was a good pday. We played basketball. I got the transfer news taking me back to my last area in Peoria North. Brother Husk took us out to dinner. We had a good coordination. On splits I taught the Ortega's which was a super good lesson and I'm really sad that I won't be able to continue to teach them. Really good day though. 

July 6
Today transfers went down and yes I'm back in Peoria North. After we went shopping we had a couple lessons with the Speaks, Richard Kuchan, and the Hansen's. Brother Maskovich took us out to dinner. We made visits the rest of the night. 

July 7
Today was good. We had our Weekly planning session. We helped Sister Dineen assemble and move her tv. We had dinner with the Genchi's. We made visits all night. 

July 8
Today was good. District meeting went well. We made some visits before having dinner with the West's. We made visits all night and we helped the Romigs move some stuff out of their uhaul. 

July 9
Today was good. We had a lesson fall through so we made visits. We had coordination. We had dinner with the Johnsons. We shared a message with the James. We made visits to end the night. 

July 10
Today was good. Church was pretty normal. We made some visits in the afternoon before having dinner with Sister Horn. Our lesson with Dorothy fell through so we made more visits. 

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Week 98

June 27
Today was good. We played volleyball and basketball for pday. We made visits before FHE. FHE was a talent show and our performance went really well. It was a pretty fun activity. 

June 28
We made visits all afternoon. Our dinner cancelled so we ate at home. We had a good coordination. We met with the Ortega's which went well. We made a couple visits to end the night. 

June 29
Today we helped a member of the YSA move afterwards we had dinner with the Eisenbarts which was good. We had rescue visits with the YSA to end the night. 

June 30
Today was good. Weekly planning as usual. We had dinner with the Davis family. We made some visits before going back to the Davis family with our ward mission leader to follow up on the ward mission plan. We made some visits to end the night. 

July 1
Today was good. District meeting went well. We made some visits before going to give the Lynch's a blessing. We had dinner with the McClellan's which was good. We taught Ashley. Our lesson with Justin rescheduled so we made visits all night. 

July 2
Today was a very slow day. We made a lot of visits. We had dinner with the Stevenson's which was good. We made more visits before meeting with Sister Haley. 

July 3
Today was good. Church was good as usual. We dinner with Rachael and Hailey. We made visits all night. 

July 4
Today was good. We had a service project with other Elders where we painted the inside of someone's home. We got back and had dinner at home then we were in the rest of the night. We chilled and played some board games and had a good time. 

Week 97

June 20
Today was pretty good. Basketball was the story of pday. We had Alondra's baptismal interview went well. FHE was fun. We made some visits to end the night. We were told we have a mission conference on Wednesday which was a little surprising. 

June 21
Today was pretty sweet! We met with the Relief Society presidency again. After lunch we made some visits and then shared a message with Joe Fullmer. We had dinner with President and Sister Lee. We had stake coordination for Peoria North. We taught the Ortega's and Put Yolanda, Karina, and Maria on date! We met with the King's shortly to end the night.  

June 22
Today we had our mission conference meeting that we found out about on Monday. Elder Holland came to the mission and gave us some training!!!!!!! It was super cool! After lunch we went to Eve's treasures. We mad visits before having dinner at the apartment. We taught Ashley. We made visits the rest of the night. 

June 23
Today was good. We went and helped out at Eve's Treasures. We made some visits. Julian Jenkins took us out to Red Lobster again. We went out with Brother Selin to the Biorns, Plockes, and the Randell's to end the night. 

June 24
Today was good. We did our weekly planning. We had dinner at the apartment. We made visits before going to the YSA stakes pool party which was a good time especially seeing a lot of people from the Phoenix North ward and Elder Balenacagi!

June 25
Today was good. Alondra's baptism was hectic but ended up turning out really good. We then went to Peoria North's Stake Priesthood leadership meeting and provided training for the ward mission leaders. We had dinner then went and did a baptismal interview. We then went out and made visits the rest of the night. 

June 26
Today was really good! Alondra's confirmation went well. My talk went well. Karina and Maria came to church! We had dinner with the Kings. We made visits all night.