Week 96

Mom!

I hope Brandon does well in his baseball tourney! Thanks for the updates this week! I love those so thank you ☺️😘❤️

Ahh man Fathers and Sons camp bring back a lot of great memories! I hope the boys have a really fun time on their campout! I hated campouts but I'm glad they're excited!

So this week was good overall. we are seeing tons and tons of miracles and work is getting done, this area has never done better then it is now, so that's great! We found an AWESOME family of 5 yesterday! We had a member out with us and we taught this single mom and her 4 kids who are all above the baptismal age which was exciting! They seem very sincere and they really liked what we had to say! They're coming to church this week and we're meeting with them twice before that! So that was a cool miracle! We had two other investigators named Yuri and Coleen who are both kinda on the edge of being dropped. But we were able to have two good lessons this week where we told them that if they don't start coming to church and reading their scriptures that we'll have to stop coming over. We went through Acts 19 with them and Mathew 3:11 and some other scriptures about baptism by authority and after those lessons they began to understand the significance of what we were saying. They should both be coming to church this next week and are currently praying hard about baptismal dates for The end of June! We've been seeing a lot of Less Actives and part member families as well and most of them are making some good progress! So all those things were great! This week as I was studying for some of our investigators I came across the baptismal requirements for about the 100th time, but this time something new stuck out to me. So in Doctrine and Covenants 20:37 it lists off the requirements for baptism

Humble themselves before God
   Desire to be baptized.
   Come forth with broken hearts and contrite spirits.
   Repent of all their sins
   Be willing to take upon them the name of Christ.
   Have a determination to serve Christ to the end.
   Manifest by their works that they have received the Spirit of Christ.

So when we teach our investigators we teach them that partaking of the sacrament each week is just like being baptized again. Well if that's true then that means that we need to prepare ourselves each week as if we were getting baptized again. I tried to do that this past week and it made my sacrament experience even that much better! And that's something I needed this Sunday especially with the talks that were given! Let's just make the story short and say one lady tried to share a video from her phone over the pulpit by putting the speaker up to he mic! Luckily our bishop got up about 5 seconds after she started the video and told her she couldn't do that!! Haha and then in gospel principles the lesson was on exaltation and becoming gods and the class was going nutsss!! Other then that tho this Ward is pretty normal! Haha

Elder Tredinnick and I get a long great so that's good!

I love you mom! Have a great week!!

Love Elder Ashworth☺️❤️

Got to go on exchanges with Elder Jennings! This one guy had a sweet snapback
hat that he was getting rid of that was brand new so i basically just asked him if i could
have it and so thats why i have a hat on in one of the pics!

Elder Donnelly and i are in the same zone!
I got to serve with him over a year ago and so its been fun to be around him again!

This guy has these sitting on his front porch and it always gets me when we drive by!
I always think its a real person and so i had to stop by and get a pic with it!