Well, I have been fighting a cold all week, it is unfortunately that time of the year, but I think I'm about over it now. So that is always a good feeling.
Wednesday was our usual busy day with RIA, reading the Book of Mormon with a member, and then later we had our coordination meeting. we had about 20 minutes to go contacting before our meeting though. We had set a goal to contact a man that day who was maybe university age or a bit older. That was who we felt we needed to find. 10 or 15 minutes went by and we hadn't had any success but we decided to at least turn back and go talk to people along the way. As soon as we turn around we started talking to this man that matched exactly what we had felt impressed to look for. It turned out he was the grandson of a member although his family aren't members but it was still good to have contact with him. We then had Branch council that night and were even able to testify of the power of inspired goal settings. It was pretty awesome!
Thursday was in person district meeting and my birthday so that was great. We all went and got pizza together after. We also taught someone a lesson about the restoration and it was awesome! Not much more you can ask for on your birthday here in the mission field.
Friday we had lunch with a member and she even had a cake for me. We then went out and did some finding and then our young man (singular) had just turned 15 like a week ago so him and the YM leader invited us to go get burgers with them during our dinner hour so that was cool. The burgers there were sooo good.
Saturday we swung by a few members which went well and then we went tracting. However, as we were getting ready to then swing by someone on our way home we discovered that my back tire was completely flat... so we got to walk an hour home, talk about companionship bonding time...
Sunday we had a great day in church. The stake President was there visiting and spoke and we had some awesome talks about repentance. We then got to help out in Primary again. So it was all pretty great.
It's been a super awesome week. I read through a talk by Ezra Taft Benson today called "The Book of Mormon - The Keystone of Our Religion". It is phenomenal. I already loved the Book of Mormon and after reading that I appreciate it so much more.
I hope you all have a wonderful week!
--Elder Ashford
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