This week was pretty good! We had a lot of fun exchanges and we were able to see a lot of amazing miracles. The first one was on Tuesday. We were on exchanges and we had a lesson planned with our investigator Marcos whos getting baptized on the 7th of May. We were planning to teach him the word of wisdom and I was a bit nervous to see his response to be honest. When we first met him I briefly brought it up that we don't drink coffee and for him to be baptized he'd have to quit. He basically told us that it would be nearly impossible for him to quit since he has been drinking coffee since he was a little boy. He's from Puerto Rico and it's just a common and cultural thing for them to drink coffee all the time. So I was a little nervous. He really wants to get baptized, but from his first response, I was afraid that this might be a hold back. Well we went in with faith and confidence, we brought our best member Brother Stanely who just happens to be his next door neighbor, and he without hesitation accepted it! I don't know what changed over the 2 week period of teaching him, but he was so willing to quit because he knew he would have to do it to be baptized! But wait, it gets even better 😃 At church this Sunday he bore a strong testimony in our gospel principles class about how much the church and the gospel has improved the quality of his life! He talked about how he used to be depressed and not motivated to do much, but now he's happier then he's ever been! He was telling everyone about his baptism on the 7th and the whole Ward is pumped to see him progress and be a part of the ward! His aunt who he lives with who's a less active member has already went out and bought him a new white shirt and tie and new slacks for his baptism day! We're hoping to get her to come back soon as well! Another cool miracle was we have this investigator named George Canales. He is the father of a lady in our ward. We have been teaching him for a couple months now but can't get into a routine because of how sick he is. His doctor is making him take this new medication that he has to up the dosage of everyday so he can get to a certain dosage by a certain time. So we go by once a week to see his recent convert grandkids and see him as well. He said he's ready to be baptized but just needs to wait till all this medicine stuff is figured out. His medicine makes him super super tired and out of it so it's hard for him to focus. Well anyways, he was able to come to church this Sunday as well and the ward welcomed him with open arms and he's gonna get baptized in about a month which is when his medical stuff will be taken care of! So that will be another great member to add to the ward. Things are just going amazing like usual!
I love you sooo much Mom!! Thank you for EVERYTHING!! I hope you have another fantastic week! You're the best!
Love Your Son Elder Ashworth!
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| Exchanges back up in St Cloud in "The Pirate Ship"! Haha this pic was approved by all the 12 apostles in the background by the way! |
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| Have to re-do the transfer board for the new mission president! So we took off all the red and made it ALL BLUE AND WHITE #GoCougars!!! I'm excited to see what president says about it since he's a ute. |
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| Exchanges with Elder Bigler! We had to drop president off at the airport and we got to go to Long Horn Steak House with Elder Bean and Sister Bean who are going home in 2 weeks :( Elder Bean is a very happy man if you can't tell! Haha he was sick that day so that's why he looks so down in the dumps! |
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| Exchanges with Elder Thompson in Lake Nona! The members in this ward took us out to Long Horn Steak House as well! so I got 2 nice steaks this week! |
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