Week 43

Mom!!!

That sounds like an amazing week!! I love the way Elder Christofferson speaks! I'm so jealous of you! I love listening to apostles bare strong testimony! It makes me want to be sooo much better every time!! I know Jesus is my savior, but I could live it a little bit better, as we all could. Is Riley super excited to head out?? He's gonna be a killer missionary. Tell him I said hey.

This week was awesome! Our investigator S passed her baptismal interview and is getting baptized on Friday!! We and obviously her daughter who is the stake Relief Society president are sooo happy! So many people have been praying that she would join the church and now it's finally happening! I feel so blessed to be able to have been a part of her whole conversion process! We're still teaching a lot of people's families which has been a lot of fun! Sister Senden’s Niece is doing really well and is excited to get baptized in a couple weeks! I love this Ward and this area soooo much! I do not want to leave! Transfers are next week and either Peacock is dropping to train his last transfer, or he's staying here. I could possibly leave though which would stink!! I will be soooo mad if I get transferred! I wanna stay here at least 2 more transfers!

Things are just Rollin here. Nothing super new or different. Happy as can be and just #2blesses2Bstressed 😉 Haha I miss you guys! It sounds like things are going really well there! Sports are good, family's doing well, everything seems peachy up there :) Are you guys getting excited for Powell?? It's comin up quick! What tournaments are the boys gonna be in this summer? How is both grandma and grandpas doing? Tell them both I miss them!

So yes I did get all those things!! Thank you very very much :) Haha i don't think you'll want to hear this, but I think I'm growing... A lot of My pants are getting higher and higher up🙉🙈 Haha I make sure to wash them on the right settings so I don't think they're shrinking! I should be ok though :) I'll let you know if they get super bad!

Well I hope you have an amazing week mom!! I love you so very much! Thank you for having your own testimony of this gospel and living it!! You make me want to be a better person!

I'll talk to you soon❤️❤️❤️

Love your son Elder Ashworth!

Week 42

Mommmm!!!

Thank you for all the emails throughout the week!!! I really appreciate them :) I love you ️

Things are going absolutely amazing!! The work is progressing sooo well right now! People are coming to church, new people are being found, less actives are returning, everything's Rollin right now! We went on a temple tour with The Relief society pres's mom on Friday and it was great!! We call her Meema (Kinda like grandma but redneck style) Haha She wasn't sure if Joseph Smith was a prophet yet so we were really hoping she'd receive and answer there! Well this morning after accounting with the District Leaders we got a call from her and she said she was ready for her Baptismal Interview!! Elder Peacock and I were jumpin around tackling each other and stuff!! Haha it was sooo amazing! Sister Sendin’s nephew is great! He received the Priesthood yesterday and I got to stand in the circle which was fun!  We're also teaching Sister Sendin’s less active cousins daughter who is getting baptized soon as well! Sister Sendin is just a Pot of Gold for new solid investigators! Haha last night we were at a less actives house and she said Sister Sendin was coming over soon. I was so excited to see the look on her face when she walked in and found us already there! Haha she walked in and said "OH MY GOSH!!! I can never get away from you guys!! Do you have a tracker on my car or something?!" Haha she was just joking around but it was super funny!
What a woman…

This new camera is working well! I like it a lot!

Overall things are saweeettt!! Can't wait to get that new suit you send that pic of to Valera Haha I love you soooo much Mom!! Thank you for all you have done in helping me and supporting me! I'll talk to you soon!

Love your son Elder Ashworth ️
P.S. You're pretty ️

These guys are TripleA baseball players for the The Houston Astros!  They're staying in a hotel
for a month and one of them is less active and the other is his friend! They both came to church which was
soooo cool!! They signed a baseball for me which was dope too.

This is from a Missionary exchange I went on! We saw tons of miracles that day in his area!
We found like 7 new investigators! He's a Spanish missionary in training and his trainer is the DL so he's a

bit new. I would just go talk to people knowing they couldn't understand me, and then make him talk to
them in Spanish! Haha it worked well! He's the most Christlike Elder I know.
I learned a ton from him just in that one day.

Week 41

MOM!!!

I loved seeing your beautiful face!! I don't have a ton of time to email and you already know how my week went basically so it's gonna be a little shorter.

I definitely thing Sister Senden is that mom!! I love her to death and she loves you too!! All the missionaries are just jelly that I have you as a Mom :) Haha I love all the packages and they really do help me a ton!!

I feel like we just picked up from where we left off last time!! I know that's exactly how it's going to be when I get back Nothing's really going to be new!! I miss you guys a lot but love it out here sooo much!!

We have a lot of new things to do as ZL's but it kinda motivates me to work harder to still be able to reach our goals! It brings a lot of satisfaction and gratitude to see Heavenly Father bless us sooo much even with all the meetings we have! I love you Mom sooo much!! Tell all the boys I'll email them next week but that I love them all too so much and it was great to see they're all doing well!! They're all turning into such studs!! Haha I love them!

I'll talk to you next week Mommyyy️️

Love your son Elder Ashworth!!

I ️ U and 3-Peace suit baptism day

 

Videos from Elder Ashworth!

Week 40

Dad,

This week is Stake Conference and I was sitting in the Stake Priesthood Meeting and they said the average home teaching percentage is 40%... That's an F. Not even a D, an F. Why don't people fulfill their callings? What have you seen in your callings and assignments that motivates you to continue to put in the time and effort to do what the Lord has asked? Because over half of this stake isn't doing what the Lord has asked them to do. I've come to the conclusion that it's a lack of a testimony. Members of the church just don't believe or understand the influence fulfilling their calling has on the Hastening of the work of Salvation. So then comes the question, what can leaders do to show the significance of all these things we are asked to do as members of the Church Of Jesus Christ? I think we first have to lead by pure example. We need to make sure that our duties are being fulfilled, but more in private then public. We don't boast that we did all our home teaching, but we simply bare strong sincere testimony whenever possible of the miracles and blessings we have seen as we have simply, done what the Lord has asked of us. As we have discussed there isn't just one right way of leading just as there isn't one perfect spaghetti sauce, but there has to be some overall way to help lift up and encourage big groups such as the priesthood in the stake... And I think it leads to the quorum leaders. They know the members of their quorum more personally then the Stake President. So as the stake president gets personal with the HPQL and EQL and learns how to motivate them personally, they can then take that form of leadership to the members of the quorum and personally motivate them. It's a big pyramid! Haha I kind of just ranted about all that but I'd like to hear what you think about all of it?

Overall things are going super well!! We continue to see miracles placed upon us by our Heavenly Father! More and more people's family members are coming out of the wood works for us to teach! It's awesome! Heavenly Father is blessing us so much! Just this week I was on exchanges with one of the District Leaders and I was praying hard that we would receive a new investigator who truly needed us. As we went to the S's to teach their nephew who's getting baptized this Saturday we were surprised to see his older brother there with him! It was amazing! I asked, and I received, easy as that ;) Haha we picked him up and he should be coming to church this Sunday! Our investigator B who just got baptized last week is doing amazing! He's already talking to all his work about coming to church with him and things like that. It's amazing. I'm so excited to go see them get married in the temple in a year.

Elder Clarke of the 70 came to our mission and he said something really interesting. He said
He lets us do missionary work for us, not for him.
(Elder Clarke)

Missionary work is not for him. We aren't out here doing this for him. He is letting us do this. He knows how important it is to let us do certain things such as missionary work so we can learn and grow in his gospel.

I hope you have a great week! Keep me updated on how things are going. Keep fulfilling your calling! Don't be a part of that 60%! :) I love you so much!

Love Elder Ashworth.

Mom!!

I cant believe that Stevo is getting his permit! Remember the first week I got my license and then we went down to gunlock and me and Connor Copeland got pulled over on the way back and I had forgotten my paper license back home and only had my old permit. I was out past curfew, had my brights on, was driving with someone before I reached 6 months, and did have my license and the Officer just said "Have a safe night" Im still convinced it was because I was wearing my BYU sweatshirt!!

So we're gonna Skype around 8 pm which will be 6 pm for you guys and ill have about an hour again! Please do invite Erin :)

Everyone thought it was soooo nice that you guys picked Madsen up from the Airport! Haha Valera sent those pics you sent to practically everyone in the ward!

So Elder Clarke of the Seventy is here and spoke to the stakes down here. He said that his Gransons are down here with him and are excited to go out with some missionaries on splits to see how we work. He then said "Don't mess up missionaries, don't mess up.." In my head I was thinking 'Stinks to be whichever missionaries that have to take out his grandsons.' Well right after the meeting we get a text and guess who’s getting to take them out tonight for a couple hours?... Elder Peacock and I do #yayyyy Haha I'm actually super super pumped because we usually have amazing lessons at night so hopefully we'll have a good one tonight!

Mom I love you sooooooo much!! Thank you for all you do!! I couldn't do it without all your support and love!! Keep doing what you're doing!! Im so excited to Skype you guys again! It seems like we just skyped a week ago!

Have a great week and I'll talk to you on Sunday!!

Love Elder Ashworth

 

Elder Ashworth and Elder Peacock with Elder Clarke's grandsons