Week 64

So this week as great! Our investigator L is beyond excited to get baptized on Tuesday!! It's kind of a funny story of how she was found. Back when I was serving in Kissimmee I was on exchanges with one of the Elders and we decided to stop by some Less Actives we didn't know.  Well this one Less Active had a care taker who was also a member! She lived down here in Hunter's Creek. She worked every Sunday and hadn't been to church in years. She gave us her address and phone number tho and said we could give it to the missionaries In her area. Well L is this Ladies mom who also lives with her and she was soooo receptive to the gospel! It's fun to be able to come back and reap the seeds of some work I was able to do up in Kissimmee a couple of months ago while serving in a different area!! We brought Sister Berry to a lesson with her and they instantly clicked and meshed sooo well!
Everyone in the Ward is excited for the baptism! We also visited one of our investigators who had been taught for a while. I actually taught him like 4 months ago while on exchanges here with Elder Call so it was also fun to be able to teach him again! He for 13 years has been extremely afraid of getting married for multiple different reasons. Well we had an awesome lesson on faith and trusting in Heavenly Father that he won't let you down if you keep his commandments. Well when we came back for our next visit two days later he was just glowing!! I instantly knew he had talked to his Girlfriend about marriage! He said he was going to go buy a ring and propose in the next couple weeks!! We were sooo excited!! We see miracles like this on the daily! My faith just continues to grow each day!! I know Heavenly Father is the one granting us all these blessings and I'm so thankful for the work we get to do here with all these amazing people!

Well I love you mom!! I hope you have a great day!! Thank you for all you do for me!!

Love Elder Ashworth

Week 63

Hey Mom️️

So this week was a BUSY BUSY BUSY week!! Even with all the meetings though we were able to find some really cool new people! One of the recent converts here named S finally introduced us to his parents and we're teaching them now which was a really cool and spiritual lesson. They've seen the influence in his life and you could tell they they're ready to see what we're all about. We also met this lady who lives right next to them who was picking up some garbage that was in her yard so we just went and helped her pick it up. We quickly referred to the restoration and you could tell it caught her attention. She asked us if we would start coming over and teaching her more and of course we said "yes" and we're gonna see her again on Wednesday! Her husband just left her after 20 years and you could tell that she was just looking for some sort of peace and happiness. We're excited to teach her and help her get that peace and comfort she's looking for! I'll keep you updated on how she progresses! The members here are all pretty cool! We had a fun testimony meeting yesterday... By 9:50 there had only been 1 testimony given...it was a Don Ashworth kind of story but it was good They just announced that the stake is going to dissolve the Spanish groups and just do a Spanish branch so that's been a buzz lately. Lots of the members are bummed because the stake has worked so hard to help mesh the Spanish and non Spanish together and now they're just going to separate again. It'll all work out though. If they have a true testimony of the Stake presidency and in the Lord then everything will work out the way it needs to.

I loved your spiritual thought! I am so glad that you guys raised me in this gospel as well. It's blessed my life more then I could even imagine!! I've came to know my savior so much better these past months and have come to gain a lot more patience and love for everyone I meet! It's been truly amazing.

Being with President and Sister Berry and their family yesterday was a really fun experience. One that most missionaries don't get to have so I'm soooo grateful for this chance I have to serve and be around them more! She's such a sweet lady!! Even tho she's a ute Haha

I hope you guys have a great week!! We don't go to the same chapel as Valera but we're In the same stake so we'll get to see her more!! I miss her a lot. Thank you for all you do for me mom!! I appreciate it sooooo much!! You're the best!! I love you to the moon and back!

Love Elder Ashworth

Week 62

Mom-

This week I was studying in Ether about the Brother of Jared and his journey to the American continent because of the wickedness of the people. All of chapter 1 Mohonri Moriancumer is conversing and pleading with the Lord that he will lead his people to safety and preserve the language they spoke which was the Adamic language. That's the language Adam and Eve spoke and it was so pure and powerful that he didn't want it to be lost because of the wickedness of the people who were building the Tower of Babel. It might not seem like a huge deal but to him it was. Well In the last verse the Lord says "43 And there will I bless thee and thy seed, and raise up unto me of thy seed, and of the seed of thy brother, and they who shall go with thee, a great nation. And there shall be none greater than the nation which I will raise up unto me of thy seed, upon all the face of the earth. And thus I will do unto thee because this long time ye have cried unto me" Many times we'll pray so so so hard for small and simple things or even big things but after a week of not receiving an answer give up in asking for that thing because of our lack of faith. With the Brother of Jared though the Lord told him that his posterity would be safe and blessed and his language would be safe "because this long time he have cried unto me" After reading this it dawned on me that I have too often given up to quick in asking my Heavenly Father for things. If we all just continue with faith we will receive answers. Matthew 7:7 ¶Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:" This week we saw a lot of miracles! Obviously conference was AMAZING!!! I love watching conference and receiving inspiration for my life and the lives of our investigators. As always, I felt like many of the talks were meant just for ME! I felt like they talked a ton about the atonement and trusting in our faith and our leaders. In these last days it will be those who can and will follow the counsel of their leaders that will be safe. I'm excited to apply the things I learned! I definitely would also say that Elder Hollands and Elder Bednars talks were my favorite!! I couldn't stop thinking of you during Hollands talk!! We were driving up to our investigators wedding with the Bishop when we were listening to it and it was tough to hold back the tears. I love you so much mom️️️ Being on my mission has helped me realize how huge of an influence you and dad have been in my life. I wouldn't be the person I am today if it wasn't for you guys️️️️ I love you!


So it made me super happy to see Erin at the BYU game with you and even happier to see Tanner braiding her hair️️


So that's awesome that you got to meet Brother Larsen!! He's such a cool guy! I asked myself those same questions when I met his wife! She'll come around sooner or later! That makes me super happy to her Steven’s knee is going to be healed and ready for the season!! Send me some videos of him playing!! I wanna see how he's improved since I left!!

It's crazy how fast times flying!! I love my mission soooo much!! This has been the best growing and learning experience I could have had at this point in my life. I know that it's preparing me for lots of different things to come! Thank you for helping me and supporting me so much!️️
How's your photography going mom?️ What else new is going on? What are you going to do to help dad stay happy and busy this winter? Haha I can't believe that I'll be home after this next winter!!
I love you mom️️

Love Elder Ashworth

Week 61

So this week went really well!! Our investigator H is getting married this weekend so me and Elder Cooper are gonna go crash it! We're gonna show up, steal the Microphone from the DJ, and go strait into teaching them all the Restoration and the Law of Chastity and commit them to baptism! I'll let you know how it goes. I'll have Sister Reising come and video it so you can see if it works ;) Haha no but we're really excited they are getting married! Then he's getting baptized a couple weeks after which will be even more amazing! :) You can already see the difference just in his eyes. It reminds me the scripture in 3 Nephi 18 where it says that The light of the body is the eye, and if therefore, thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light and it's so true! He's been making those necessary changes in his life and his whole body is beginning to be filled with light and it's one of the best things in the world to watch! We also have B who has made HUGE progress! He was smoking almost 1 pack a day and within 2 weeks he quit and doesn't drink coffee anymore! He's been coming to church for the past 3 or 4 weeks and you can just tell that there's something different about him. He's waiting for a couple of other things to get cleared up so he can be baptized but he's stoked to enter the waters soon! :) I was able to go on exchanges with and Elder named Elder Black and it was awesome! Now Elder Black will openly tell you that he has very minor autism but it doesn't stop him from getting work done! He's one of the most Christlike missionaries I've met. You can just tell that if you asked him to do something for you, he'd do it without hesitation; we need more people like him in this world. We played chess and since it has been a while since I played he helped re-teach me how to play and absolutely destroyed me!! Haha he was using all this terminology and showing me 50 different moves I could have done so I would have had a better chance of winning and all this stuff and I could have sworn he was speaking a different language! Haha it was really fun tho :) I was studying the Sabbath day this week a little and it says multiple times that keeping the sabbath day will keep us "unspotted from the world" Well when you look up "unspotted" it refers you strait to Chastity, and cleanliness. And so I started to think about how dirty and un-chaste this world is and I think it's because we don't keep the Sabbath Day even close to as holy as we need to. We're promised it will help keep us unspotted from the world yet millions of members of the church are deep into the world far from being clean and unspotted. Luckily there is repentance, but once you're 'of the world' and addicted to worldly things, it's very difficult to get back out. I really think we should all re-evaluate what we do on the sabbath and think of the signs our actions on the sabbath give to the Lord. I bet we'd all be a little disappointed in ourselves and the things we have justified to be ok to do on the Lords day when we know it's really not. We had a meeting with the stake president this week and it was awesome! We're rolling out a couple new things that I had been thinking about for a while so I'm excited to see if my ideas help the whole stake progress. It was just good to get to know him and gain his trust. I'm excited for this Zone. It's growing really quick and I feel really blessed to be a part of it. It kind of dawned on me that the Lord has blessed me a lot my whole mission in that I've always been sent to areas and Zones that can progress and grow quick! I know it's nothing I do so it's been humbling to see Heavenly Father just take the wheel and bless us for our efforts.


How are all the boys doing?? Are they all happy? How's dad doing? Are you guys playing a lot of tennis together?? How is Sarah and Cam doin? Is Miles still your favorite child?... haha I miss that little rascal!! Did you get the photos from Brother Larson in our ward?? He's got a house in Utah in the river woods and I think it'd be cool if you take him and his wife out to dinner or lunch or something! He's flying out there on Tuesday! His wife isn't a member but she has sent out 4 missionaries and her Husband is in the bishopric but she's a really nice lady from what I can tell. How are you doing tho Mom? Are you happy?? I hope you're happy! ️️️ I miss you and can't wait to talk on Christmas!! I have a feeling now that it's almost October that it will go by quick! I miss you mom! I hope you have a great week️️


Love Your Son
Elder Ashworth

P.S. My ankle is healing nicely. i’m off crutches and just in a walking boot. It gets sore at night sometimes but other than that I’m good. Thanks for all the prayers!!