Week 74

Mom☺️

This week has been crazy busy, but overall pretty good! I was sick most the week throwing up, but I managed. It was kind of cool to see that when I was teaching a lesson my sickness seamed to go away, but right after the closing prayer, it came back! Haha I knew Heavenly Father was helping me so I could focus and teach the things I needed. J is getting super super excited for her baptism coming up!! And so are we! 😃😃😃 This family has been changing soooo much!! J used to be the most quiet and shy little girl I've ever me! But now, we can't get her to be quiet and calm!!😂😂 Its been one of the best experiences to watch her grow in this short amount of time.

Talking to you guys was awesome!! Things seem to be going very well at home which makes me happy!! I miss you so much, but I'm SOOO happy to be out on my mission!! So many amazing experiences still to be had out here! The one thing I am also excited about though is being able to apply all these things I'm learning to life after the mission! When I study and learn things in the morning I always get so excited to go out and apply the things from the scriptures or from PMG that I've learned that day, so I'm excited to apply the things I'm learning now!

This week I came across something in the scriptures that intrigued me.In Alma 21:23 Ammon is teaching a bunch of King Lamonis people and this is what he says. "23 And Ammon did preach unto the people of king Lamoni; and it came to pass that he did teach them all things concerning things pertaining to righteousness. And he did exhort them daily, with all diligence; and they gave heed unto his word, and they were zealous for keeping the commandments of God." And it made me think if I'm zealous about keeping all the commandments. Zealous also means diligent, zealous, fervent, initiative. Are we the ones to Initiate keeping the commandments around family, friends and coworkers? Or do we kind of go with the flow. That's really what I want to work on, I gaining more Zeal in keeping ALL the commandments!

Love you sooo much!! Thank you for all you do for me! Thanks for all the support and love you show!! It means so so so much! I hope you have a great day and week! Talk to you soon!

Love Elder Ashworth

Week 73

Mom!! I’m excited to talk to you on Christmas!!! We're planning to Skype at 6pm your time.  This week went well to say the least! L, our recent convert has found over 50 family names and is going to the temple on Wednesday and we're pumped to go with her! We got to go on a temple tour with R
before her baptism and she LOVED it! Then she got baptized and it was a great service overall! The man who baptized her has been returning to re-activity. Right after the baptism we were checking up on him outside the font and he came out crying and said "Thank you for giving me this opportunity, I didnt think i would ever be able to do this" The spirit hit me strongly and i felt like it whispered "He needed this just as much as R needed this" and it was a great experience.  Its awesome to see how Heavenly Father works. We were pondering a lot at first of who we would bring to her lessons to have her become friends with in the ward, and now we all know why the spirit put his name into our heads. We then got to go to do an endowment with a recent convert and that was amazing as always! I received a lot of answers on things and feelings of peace. I definitely needed that this week! We also had the Christmas devotional and so we got to see all the missionaries in the mission which was a blast! J is SOOO excited for her baptism on the 30th! A lot of non members should be coming so it should be a great opportunity to find some awesome new people! Overall it was a good week. Thanks for the Christmas packages!!

Love your son,
Elder Ashworth

So CRAZYYY story behind this!! To make it short, Elder Langston and I were at the church preparing things for our baptism in the afternoon and we had some garbage from our lunch. Well the cleaners had just come and taken out all the garbages so for some odd reason I insisted we go out to the dumpster to take out our trash. Usually I wouldnt care, but for some reason this time I did. Well we walked out there and right next to the dumpster was this 60' Flatscreen TV!!! E. Langston was almost positive it didnt work, and i was guessing it didnt, but i found an iPhone in the garbage earlier on my mission that ended up working, so i basically begged him to help me carry it in to the chapel so we could plug it in and really see if it worked. Well we plugged it in, and then i connected my iPad to it, and low and behold, it works!!! I had to hold the reset button for a second but after that it turned right on!! It glitches a tiny bit but it still works great!! Haha so we left a note by the dumpster saying to call us if someone was looking for it. So if after a week or so nobody has called we're going to go sell it to the pawn shop and secretly give the money to one of our investigators so they can buy a ring to get married!! Talk about manna from heaven right?!!!

Week 72

Mom,

This week was great! We had a lot of cool miracles! R is getting baptized this week and she is beyond excited! She came to another persons baptism this last Saturday and loved it. The spirit was so so strong and she could feel it. J the 9 year old is also extremely excited for her baptism coming up! L, the one we bought the coffee pots off of is doing better. Their schedules are just so busy so it's tough to get on a good schedule with them. We've got some good plans tho this week to help them progress so we're excited! We have the Christmas devotional this week too which should be fun! Our recent
convert L is going to the temple to do baptisms for the dead and we will get to go with her so that will also be great! Overall, things are going great!

I think one of the highlights of my week was hearing how well Steven and the team is doing! It made me tear up a little when I saw that video of him! I'm just so excited for him! His hard work is paying off and he's reaching his goals which makes me beyond happy!

I love you Mom! Thank you for all that you do for me! You can just send all the packages to the office :) I don't exactly know our schedule for Christmas but ill let you know ASAP! :)

Love Elder Ashworth

anelee likes to race me after each lesson... She thinks she's fast... But I beat her ;)

Week 71

Mom!!  I'm so so so excited for Stevo!! Super pumped his practice is paying off! So excited for him!

So this week went really well! We went on a couple of exchanges which was really fun! I got to go on exchanges with Elder Chidester from high school which was super super fun! He's a great leader, I learned a lot on that exchange. We were able to see a bunch of people that day as well here in Hunter's Creek which was obviously a plus. We had a great miracle with finding a new baptism this week! The two Sisters who work in the employment office went to the post office and had this less active lady come up to her and tell her that she wants to come back to church! So we went and visited her that day and it ends up that she has a 9 year old daughter who hasn't been baptized who really wants to be! So they came to church and she's gonna get baptized on the 30th of this month!! We're excited to work with her! We then had the baptismal interview for our investigator R and she passed! R was also a miracle, she just walked into church one Sunday because she said God told her to! Haha and she loves everything about the church, she's been reading the Book of Mormon everyday and she loves it! So lots of cool little miracles this week! We then had a couple lessons with our investigator L, her husband is a member, and those went well! We somehow ended up buying her two coffee pots off her for $15! Haha we bought them so they'd quit drinking coffee and it's working well!! Overall we're being blessed tremendously! All these investigators have basically fallen in our lap. We just work as hard as we can and God will place the prepared ones right in front of us and it all works out. I'm really really excited for the next couple months here in this area!

Thanks for the Christmas tree!! I appreciate that a lot! I love you! Thanks for everything!

Love Elder Ashworth

Elder Chidester giving our investigator a nice little haircut!
Haha we serve in many different ways here! ;)

Our investigator in her sweet PJ's! The Christmas party was "Polar Express" themed so everyone
 wore their PJ's...We obviously couldn't do that so we just wore some dope sweaters!! Haha

Took some Christmas pics at the Reisings after exchanging back up in Eustis!

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