Tuesday we had Zone Conference! President and Syster Youngberg were going through some house keeping and Syster Youngberg's segment was on Health and Safety and she went over the 10 points listed on the missionary portal. She got to step 6 "Protection from animals and insects"... I laughed, the story of my dog incident has apparently spread across the mission. We had some great training from the Assistants though based on the theme "Being an Example of the Believers" based on 1 Timothy 4:12. There is also a general conference talk by Russell M. Nelson titled "Be Thou an Example of the Believers" that is also super good and tied into our discussion. We talked about how we as missionaries could be an example of all of the attributes listed in the verse from Timothy. We also had the Stake President come as a guest speaker to discuss member missionary work and it was great!
Wednesday our determined that our washing machine was clearly past our capacity to fix. Our land lady was super nice though and said that we could borrow their washing machine until we got everything sorted out so we were in fact able to wash our clothes for the week. We also had one of the Senior couples come because we had some bike locks on our bikes that we don't actually have the keys for so they came with an angle grinder and cut them off and gave us new bike locks. It was a very entertaining image seeing a 65 year old man in a nice suit go to town with an angle grinder with sparks flying everywhere. We also started tracting in a little bit different area of town which was fun.
Thursday we did a lot of finding work but we had dinner with one of the members of our bishopric which was a lot of fun. [Mom's note: a bishopric is the presiding leadership of a congregation. Is consists of a Bishop, the leader of the ward (congregation) and 2 Counselors.]
Friday we did more finding and had a couple of conversations with people and were able to give out a Book of Mormon.
Saturday we did some finding work and we had a lesson all set up and had a member there and everything except that then we texted the guy to see if he was coming and he said he wasn't going to make it... awkward. We went home for dinner after that and had a good conversation with our member friend on the bus ride back. We then got to drop off a Twi Book of Mormon to a lady from Ghana we met with a few weeks ago. She's pretty positive but has just been super busy so it can be hard to meet with her because of her schedule.
Yesterday we had church and it was wonderful as always. We had a couple from the US visiting so Elder Anthon translated for them and I was the one trying to look up all the scripture references for him as best as I could. We knocked doors for a little while as well.
I decided to study Patience as a Christlike attribute this week and found a really great example in Alma 26. It speaks of Ammon rejoicing with his brothers about the wonders they have seen during their mission among the Lamanites. They had to endure their many trials and hardships but they persevered and were able to see miracles!
- Elder Ashford
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