June 16
Today I found out that I am going to be a District Leader
in Prescott valley! I'm pretty excited. P-day was really good today we went to
the transfer building to hang out with everyone and played some basketball and
chair soccer. We had Priesthood visits tonight and Brother LaMunyon took me to
make a visit but they weren't home so we went to Sonic and Brother Huff met us
there with Elder Melsen. Brother Huff then gave us a ride home.
June 17
Today was pretty stressful. Brother Antie drove us to
transfers.
Transfers went as expected. It was hard saying goodbye to
Elder Madsen who goes home in 6 weeks so I won't likely see him again. With
being doubled into the area it was really hectic and we didn't know what was
going on when we got to the area. We had dinner with the Hoggard's and they had
an investigator friend over and we taught him the first lesson which went
really well. He will have to be referred to the YSA Elders. We then taught a
Spanish speaking family the Hererra's because Elder Smith is a Spanish Elder
which makes us a hybrid companionship.
The mother and two kids are on date for baptism on my
birthday not the father though. Then we visited another one of our
investigators and went back to have the Zone Leaders train me on District
Leader stuff, but as all of those trainings go they really don't do anything but
see if I have any questions, so Elder Smith will be a big help to me in helping
me with anything I'm not sure about. Then we unpacked. I hope everything settles
down.
June 18
Today was good. We got groceries. Afterwards we went to
the Church to check out how the Ward has been doing with Facebook and to talk a
lot about where the Ward is at. We had dinner with the Call family. We had
Coordination Meeting which was good and good to meet new people and get
familiar with everything. We had splits where Brother James took me to a new
member lesson with John Kristman. When we got back we went and talked to the Bishop
for a bit which was really good. There is a lot going on and its been kind of
crazy to absorb everything that is coming my way. I'm a little stressed about
District Meeting tomorrow.
June 19
Today we had District Meeting which was nerve racking, but
it went really well and I fell like I earned the trust of my District a ton and
they all came away better off! Afterwards we went and taught Eduardo Herrera in
English so he could help teach the rest of the family later that night in
Spanish! Both of our lessons with the Herrera's went well! We had dinner with
our Ward Mission Leader's family which was really good! I am picking up a lot of
good information and philosophies from Elder Smith and am really happy to have
him as a Companion! We made some visits to end the night.
June 20
Today was so awesome! After our language study and stuff
we had a Coordination Meeting with Brother Jeffrey and Sister Schultz from
another ward for the Stake social media fireside next Sunday which was really
good and I was glad that the Zone leaders asked us to come. We talked a lot of
logistics and this area is basically revolutionizing the online missionary
efforts right now which is a lot of responsibility but also very exciting! We
had dinner with the Joe family who is a single mom and three kids which was
really good authentic Navajo tacos! Afterwards we went and counseled with some
members on how to advertise the Stake Fireside and we got a really good idea
from Brother Kleinman, the first counselor, to put little invitations in the
closing Hymn of Sacrament tomorrow! So we ran the idea by the Zone Leaders and
it became a zone wide initiative! We made up a sweet invitation and went to the
Church and printed them and copied them and took the time to place them which
was really exciting!
A whole new way of missionary work is coming forth from
this Zone and I feel really blessed to be a part of this in a leadership
position and feel the trust from President Griffin who is coming to speak at
the Stake Fireside!!! After we placed the invitations we had a Coordination
Meeting with someone from the Stake High Council for tomorrows Stake Coordination! And finally our day was over!
June 21
Today was really good! We had Stake Coordination which
was nerve racking because I'm expected to have things to discuss about the
other areas which I don't know too well yet but it went really good! Church was
good, Brenda and Eduardo Herrera came to Church! During Priesthood we were
asked to go to the Beehives class and talk about Priesthood Keys which went well!
During Opening Exercises Missionary minute was so cool and we should have a
referral coming in when they get back from vacation! We got a really, really
good and huge mint brownie for Fathers Day! We had lunch with the Reeds and
their non member friend which went well we didn't teach but had good
discussion. We went to Ward Council but it had been canceled due to Fathers
Day. We had dinner with the Wimber's. We met with Bishop to discuss the Stake
Fireside a little more in depth with what the Zone Leaders talked to him about.
We went and did some advertising for the Fourth of July activity with the Zone
Leaders as well before heading in and calling all the Missionaries in the
district.It has been a great week here in Arizona. I am so glad that I am busy doing the Lord's work!
Love you all,
Elder Ashby
Here is the brownie
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