tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46345369814058226812023-11-15T23:56:57.417-08:00Kelsey's Adventures in New YorkAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-68963755055397822852017-08-27T07:10:00.000-07:002017-08-27T07:10:48.186-07:008/23/17--Welcome Home Hermana Ashford<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-6627135757278414302017-08-27T07:09:00.001-07:002017-08-27T07:09:08.539-07:008/21/17---Well....done...Welp come and gone. We saw this quote today and it said "Don't cry because it is over but be happy because it happen." I really feel that is how I feel right now. I am sad because I am leaving but I am happy because it happened. I can truly say this has been the best thing I have done up until this point in my life, but I know the next phase will be the next best part in my life so hold on to what I have done and move forward with faith.<div>
<br />This week has been the funniest week of my mission. Hermana Jofre and I have been on our toes all week with non stop movement and non stop pictures. I have loved every moment and I am so grateful to my district and my branch! They have supported me all the way through. I know this isn't long but if you have questions call me after Thursday!<br /><br />I know this is where I was supposed to be for these past 18 months. Maybe I missed a big thing or two but I would miss them again if I got the chance to serve my Savior like I did for these past 18 months. I know this is God's work and he has his hand in everything! I know this church is true and that Jesus Christ lives! I love y'all and see y'all on the other side!<br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford<br /><br />Picture 1-3: temple trip!<br />Picture 4-5: bad district pictures<br />Picture 6-7: Surprise goodbye party<br />Picture 8: out to eat by surprise<br />Picture 9: Anguie said see ya later!<br />Picture 10-11: graffiti activity</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-55458235294675971342017-08-27T07:04:00.000-07:002017-08-27T07:04:58.693-07:008/15/17--Crunch TimeHola cómo están todo? Well how is everyone doing? We now getting down into crunch time where we start running as fast as we can to reach that finish line! Well this week was pretty awesome! Mainly because we meet some pretty awesome people that are going to get baptized one day I can see it!<br /><br />So first guy is named Andy! We were at the train station on Tuesday. The interesting part was usually we don't go to this train station but I had felt to take a different way and we ended up at this station. So anyways he comes and seats next to me at the bench waiting for the train. He starts talking to us about this computer card that holds different credit cards on it and how you can switch which one you use and how crazy protective it is. Anyways for all y'all nerds who read this who want to know more about is card I get y'all hooked up with him go know more. Anyways he was telling us how this card is going to change the world and we were like well this card is going to change the world as well as we pulled out our card! See what we did there😉 so smart I know (tosses her hair). Anyways we went into talking about the restoration focusing on the Book of Mormon. I have discovered the key to everything is the evidence of the Book of Mormon, cause as we were explaining the Book the Mormon he goes how can I get one of these books. So we went back on Wednesday to see him again. The first thing he said was like I have some things I need to tell you. In our heads we were like noooooo that means he is going to drop us! But before he told us his "concerns" he was like are y'all JWs and we were like no. And instantly his whole attitude changed and he was so open to listening! It was awesome! As well he has a wife and two kids who want to learn as well! So cool! So excited!<br /><br />Then awesome family number two. On Wednesday we got a phone call from some elders saying they have a referral for us. So they give us their information. We called and set up a time for Saturday night. Well we went over Saturday night and they explained their situation. And may I say it is a situation but the cool part was how big of a desire the wife has to come back to church and feel the Spirit again. As well he husband really wants to get baptized. It was so cool to feel like we were an answer to their prayers. She had said that when she messaged the elder to give us her information they had told her we would call. So right as she was finishing praying we called! So cool and I know that God puts us in places for a reason!<br /><br />So some funny moments. I think the funniest was we were visiting less active and her recent convert that we visit every week. We were talking with her 10 year old recent convert son about different movies. Hermana Jofre and I were talking about the movies that we had cried in. So we naturally asked the son. He goes "I don't cry. You guys are just emotional!" So there you have it we are emotional! Hahahaha I love working with kids they have the best sense of humor!<br /><br />So my thought for this week comes from Helaman 8:15. He is talking about when Moses held up the sphere that to the children of Israel to save them. Anyways the scripture says:<br /><br />"15 And as many as should look upon that serpent should live, even so as many as should look upon the Son of God with faith, having a contrite spirit, might live, even unto that life which is eternal."<br /><br />I love how simple this gospel is and how simple the Lord has made it for us to make it back to him and partake of this great joy. Having faith in the Savior sounds so simple but I have come to understand it is a daily battle and we have to give all we can to follow Him and do everything He has asked of us to do. As well as we break our hearts and have a contrite spirit and submit to the will of the Father's we will become everything He knows we can become! Come to know Him and follow His will! Love y'all! See y'all soon!<br /><br />Ps. Pictures from the temple to come later!<br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford<br /><br />Picture 1: we had to carry a box of bibles and a bow of Books of<br />Mormon to our apartment. 💪<br />Pictures 2-3: alone on the bus.<br />Picture 4: the best store in town! So much chocolate! Expensive though.....<br />Pictures 5-6: Hortencia and I got bored in church so we got creative!<br />Picture 7: getting ready to play tenzi!!!!!<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-12845496568287395942017-08-09T04:46:00.001-07:002017-08-09T04:46:23.551-07:008/7/17--Working hard or hardly workingWell to be honest I am going to become slacker Miss slacker these next couple of weeks on my weekly emails so I apologize now if they aren't terribly exciting or interesting or super uper short or if they are only pictures. 😁 Anyways this week was pretty awesome! We had a hard working week and we are working on consistence now.....<br /><br />So last week we had district meeting and we talked about how we could be better at talking to everyone and I came up with the idea that every time we used our metro card we pull out a card to pass along to someone. Well let me tell you it worked great Wednesday and Thursday when we did it!! Wednesday we worked our tails off all day long and found SEVEN new people who want to learn more! What the heck! We went to Kansas and back though just going all over town looking people up<br />or talking on the bus or train. Doing service. I am telling you when we got home Wednesday night we were beyond exhausted! We were wiped out! Good thing we are still living!<br /><br />Thursday we had another hard working day just talking to everyone everywhere. We worked super hard! Then guilt trip of all guilt trips. We went to go pick up food from a member who us sisters call mama because she buys us food and feeds us all the time and more. So we go ver and we are super excited! Then she looks at us with a straight face and goes "mis hijas se olvidaron acerca del cumpleaños de su mama ayer" or English she said "my daughter forgot about their mothers birthday yesterday." Boy I sure have never felt so bad in a long time. We forgot her birthday! We felt down right terrible! Uhhh! No worry we made it up to her and heart attacked her and it made her super happy! Phew saved by the power of paper hearts! We had as well heart attacked another member who her friend had died this past week and both her and this member told us that they put the hearts in their bedroom! So cute! I feel loved!<br /><br />Then the other funny moment was Saturday night. So we had bought me some makeup that way I look nice when I go to the temple and home. So when we got home we practiced so that we could do it the next day at church. We had music playing and just having fun! Hermana Jofre started straightening her hair for church. I went to go pause the music on my iPad and saw that he sister training leaders were calling. So we picked up the phone and we were like hi how are you? The first thing they said was are you alive? It turns out that our district leader was worried because we hadn't given our daily number reports and thought that something was up. So we texted them and the Zone leaders to let everyone know that we were ok!<br /><br />This week we did a study on the atonement and how we can draw the power of Jesus Christ into our lives. And a line from a talk stood out to me. It is from the talk "Drawing the power of Jesus Christ in Our Lives" by Elder Nelson in the April 2017 general Conference and he says; "The more we know about the Savior’s ministry and mission--the more we understand His doctrine and what He did for us--the more we know that He can provide the power that we need for our lives."<br /><br />I have come to see on my mission the more we learn about who Christ is and what he did for other people we can come to see what he can do for us personally and we learn how to become more like him. I know this is Christ's church here on this earth! I know the Savior loves all of us! I hope y'all have a great week! I love y'all!<br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford<br /><br />Not many pictures this week😕<br />Picture 1: 1$1.50 scoops at Baskin Robbins<br />Picture 2: me trying to be cool with my new hat 😎<br />Picture 3: the other day our water was yellow than brown how strange right?<br />Pictures 4-5: make up test trails<br />Picture 6-7: Ready for church!<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-42323990176296386312017-08-01T04:34:00.000-07:002017-08-09T04:49:09.492-07:007/31/17--We're half way there! Livin' on a PrayerMay I just say, everyday we live on a prayer. But the half way part is because this transfer is half way finished and I am starting to freak out just a little bit!! Ahhhh! Anyways this week was a pretty good week! We had a lot going on and sometimes I feel like we were running in circles. Monday we had a pretty cool district activity. Because it was raining all day Monday we hung out at the church and played some get to know you games and then some of the games that I have like tenzi and spy it. It was so much fun! We just laughed and had some good old fashion fun! It was pretty sweet!<br />
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Then Tuesday was another crazy day like always! We had district meeting which was weird because we did role plays where Hermana Jofre and I sat out and we played the members. Then the elder's basically had to get a referral from us. Oh man it was so weird to hear the elders call me by my first name. I was like we are sinning, it is Sister Ashford to you and you misters and to everyone else forever and always! Uhhhhh.... So yeah I played Kelsey and they were trying to help me find a way to share the gospel with someone and it was pretty helpful. It helped me come up with some ways to ask people to give me there friends. Jk they do the missionary work and we sit along to enjoy the ride and help them along the way. As well, we saw my favorite people that night! This less active that I told you about last week who is my age and is amazing, well she is still pretty much amazing! She is really learning how to live the gospel each day and enjoy it in her life! Pretty awesome!<br />
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Wednesday I think I ran around town and back! We had service in the morning and that was super fun! There was extra help from out of state helping us serve food! As well, at the end of service they always feed us. This time as we were eating we got into the TV shows that we watched when we were kids. Man we couldn't stop laughing! We talked about little Bill, Dragon Tales, Hey Arnold, Recess, Fairly Odd parents, Ruggrats, Wild Thornberrys, the little rascals, the sandlot, Angels in the Outfield, and so many other movies and shows. Man it was so good to walk down memory lane for a little bit. Then the sad point of my day came when we meet up with Hermana Spencer, now Andrea because it was her last day!:( We met up with her and her mom for ice cream and just talked! I love having someone that knows you so perfectly! We could talk with out even talking! She is amazing and I know she gave her all to her mission! We spent a good 45-60 minutes just talking. Then sadly we had to be on our way. I miss her already! Then we visited a less active and got busy doing missionary work for the night!<br />
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Thursday I took this medicine that made my stomach like start to attack me so I spent the morning on my bed reminding myself to breathe and to take everything one step at a time! Then miraculously I made it to interviews. Honestly I think President Reynolds is the sweetest guy ever but so sweet he kind of lies. He told me like three times how awesome I am and that he wishes he had ten of me and that I was staying longer. Now why would he say a thing like that? Little old Sister Ashford does nothing that the Lord gives her the strength to do. I am nothing but the Lord makes me capable to do everything! Anyways after interviews we saw a couple different people and enjoyed the night.<br />
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Friday we had exchanges! Yay! I love exchanges! Sometimes it is nice for a moment to do missionary work with out having a list of people you are worrying about. Just for a day you just worry about doing missionary work. Sadly I don't have any stories how we walked around Nigeria and to England and then go back to America like Hermana Jofre and Sister Snow did but none the less it was super fun! Then on Saturday we had an adventure! First we went home then meet up with Sister Peterson the mission nurse to go out to pizza at New York's best pizza place! Aw man that pizza was good! Plus it is always the best to be in companion with my other grandma! I love Sister Peterson! Then as we were heading back to the bus stop I kind of walked in the wrong direction and we got lost in down town Brooklyn and ended up taking some pictures..... Yeah good thing we have smart phones to get us unlost and found. Then yesterday we took the less active to church again and had 5 hours of church! Yay! Church!<br />
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So this past week in the English ward someone was giving a talk and she talked about how we come closer to Christ! What I loved is she said when you get married you don't want to look across the altar at your future spouse and see anger, fear, greed, or obligation. You want to see someone who loves you and wants to show you that love forever! She related that to our relationship with Christ! We shouldn't look at him in anger because we feel he makes our life bad. Or out of fear because we fear the power and wrath of God. Or greed because we just want all that Heavenly Father has to give us which is more important to us than anything else. Or lastly out of obligation because we know it is good to go to church but our heart is far from doing what is right because we do it almost for show. More importantly we most go to church and read our scriptures and be obedient because we love God and we want to show him that we love him everyday and every second. I love Heavenly Father and my Savior! I know they are here for us! I hope y'all have a great week and don't forget the reason why we do everything! Love y'all!<br />
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Con Amor<br />
Hermana Ashford<br />
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Picture 1: district unity in we all role for the same numbers!<br />
Picture 2: Hermana Spencer❤️️<br />
Picture 3-5: Just taking some selfies along the way:)<br />
Picture 6: the Maldonado Family moved to Connecticut:(<br />
Picture 7: exchanges!<br />
Picture 8-9: pizza with sister Peterson!<br />
Picture 10: Lost in Brooklyn<br />
Picture 11: on the train to church!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-81064548581552219882017-07-25T04:29:00.001-07:002017-07-25T04:29:20.030-07:007/24/17--Big StepsWell first things first I got my IPad back!!!! Do you know how much easier it is to write with a screen 3 times bigger?!! Man it is nice!! Anyways enough about my first world problems. Moving on into how great this week was!!! So not much really happen but I will share bits and pieces about what did happen with a less active we are working with! Because that is where most of my joy comes from this week.<br /><br />We have a less active we been working with since like my second week here in Bushwick and we had a lesson last Tuesday with her. We talked about our purpose and God's purpose and how they work together. It was a super powerful lesson and I could just feel how much Heavenly Father just loves this girl. She then busted into tears and told us some personal thoughts she had been having so we prayed together for strength. Then we offered if she wanted a priesthood blessing and she said yes. So come Friday we took the elders over to give her a blessing! Wow God is real and so is the priesthood. The blessing you could tell was exactly what she needed!! So on Sunday we picked her up for church and helped her do the hardest thing she has done in the past year and we took her to church! Y'all don't understand but this was a huge step for her! She basically never let go of my arm she was stuck to me like glue until we dropped her off at home. Man it was a proud missionary moment. Plus the best part was when we were messaging with her last night. She told us how she was learning how to let the Lord into her life. That is what I came onto a mission to do. Help at least one person bring Christ into their life. If that one person was at least me then the rest were just benefits. She means as much to me as all my recent converts. Man I am so happy.<div>
<br />So that was our big like moment but there have been some more fun moments between all that. On Friday we had Megazone which is always a fun time. I basically participated in almost everything. They asked me to say a prayer, give a talk, and bear my departing testimony. The prayer was simple. The talk I was happy to give because it was about becoming a Preach my Gospel missionary and I just pray that I have become that missionary. As for my departing testimony I just tried super hard not to cry so hard that everyone could understand me. I could just feel that the words I had said really came from my heart and they came from the Holy Ghost because I couldn't tell you what I said. As well Sister Peterson is leaving on August 14 (she is the mission nurse) which is super sad. She gave her departing testimony and I just cried because she was there for me when I was going home. She just loves me and gives me chocolate when I need it. She took us out to ice cream when the Martinos left she has done so much for me. Then at the end of the Conference I was talking to President Reynolds and he agreed with me that because I came back I need to do another year so that I get a complete straight 18 months. Sorry everyone. Just kidding. He then told Hermana Jofre and me that he was glad he put us together because he could see how hard we were working. Which was good to know that someone noticed our hard work!<br /><br />Then Saturday was nuts as well. So side comment in the Hispanic program because they are all converts they think when their 8 year old child is getting baptized that it is the missionaries responsibility to do that baptism...... Well actually it isn't.... Just so you know... But anyways some how Elder Grand and Elder Chay got put in charge of the baptism so we felt bad for them so we helped them out. We spent the day making a program and setting up the church so that everything would be ready. Then the baptism happened and everything went smoothly and we started into the food. In the middle of eating our branch president came up and told us for one of the two kids that got baptized we have to do the record because he is actually nine years old so they can't do it... awkward..... so to make things more awkward we realized that the child didn't have an interview with ether the branch president or our district leader. So yeah we have a lot to do to get everything fixed. Uhhhh.....<br /><br />I just want to share the talk that I shared in our Mega Zone. It makes this email a little long so sorry.....<br /><br />"As I serve Him in exact obedience with all my heart might mind and strength I am forever changed." Everyday we repeat this phrase in our mission vision but what does it mean to be forever changed and how do we become forever changed? I believe as we study and apply preach my gospel we become forever changed. To be a Preach my Gospel missionary we must constantly be seeking change and we must be looking for ways to improve. We didn't only come to teach repentance to others but we must first teach repentance to ourselves.<br /><br />In the message from the first presidency in preach my gospel it states the purpose of Preach my Gospel is "to help you be a better- prepared, more spiritually mature missionary and a more persuasive teacher." So in other words Preach my Gospel is supposed to help us be prepared, grow spiritually, and become teachers like Christ. As we learn to live Preach my Gospel the goal is to grow in all three of those areas and become forever changed by what we are learning.<br /><br />A Preach my Gospel missionary is prepared. Preach my Gospel promises us that, "Missionaries who strive to prepare themselves daily and seek to improve regularly will receive direction from the Holy Ghost and see blessings in their lives." So everyday during any of personal, companion, language, 12 weeks, or My Plan missionaries should be diving into Preach my Gospel and seeking ways to improve to become better, that way they can "be given power to teach repentance and baptize converts here in New York."<br /><br />A Preach my Gospel mission seeks to grow spiritually. It says that, "Effective study during your mission will help you fulfill your purpose as a missionary and strengthen your testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ." To me personally this is the one I have seen take the most effect in my mission as I have strived to become a Preach my Gospel missionary. As I have studied the Christ-like attributes I feel myself wanting to become like Him and understanding who He is and His role in my life. As I have come to live the gospel that is taught in Preach my Gospel I feel myself growing spiritually and becoming a better person "line upon line precept upon precept here a little and<br />there a little."<br /><br />Lastly a Preach my Gospel missionary is a persuasive teacher. It states in Chapter 10 that, "Teaching is central to everything you do. You develop Christlike attributes, study the missionary lessons, improve your ability to speak in your mission language, and rely on the Spirit in order to teach with convincing power." What I love about the gospel is that it always comes around full circle. In order to become the best teachers we must be prepared and grow spiritually. We must learn to become better and seek to repent and change.<br /><br />I know that as we come to live Preach my Gospel and follow the guidelines there in we will see a greater change in ourselves. I know that Preach my Gospel can answer any of the questions you have on how to work harder, how to work with members, how to study, how to find, what to teach and most importantly, to me, how to become like the Savior. I know Him and I know He lives. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.<br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford<br /><br />Picture 1: baptism<br />Picture 2: graffiti<br />Picture 3: Asian graffiti<br />Picture 4: 17 months</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-8569788809642738852017-07-18T05:58:00.001-07:002017-07-18T05:58:20.902-07:007/17/17--Transfers and a Slow WeekWell as my sister Danielle reminded me, I only have 37 magical days left of my mission. I sure hope to make them the most magical days of my life up until this point. I know the next steps and moments will become the best magical moments and experiences of my life. I am surprised at how fast time flies and I am seeing how you really have to make the most of what you got.<br /><br />So on to the week. Well to be honest, not too many very exciting things happened. I will cover some highlights and keep this kind of short. <br /><br />So this week was transfers. We got two new elders in our district so it should be exciting. They already seen like pretty cool elders. As well Elder Brown became the assistant to he president. The Elder Brown who was my district leader in the MTC!! Kind of crazy. <br /><br />As for the work we are just working hard and trying to find new people to teach. We have been working on finding through the less actives that our branch President has asked of us to look up. So in summary we are talking to everyone and taking as many names as we can get. So if you know anyone in Brooklyn that could use a message of Jesus Christ let us know. =)<br /><br />As for fun stories, one came from last night. First we went over to a member's house and she always makes the missionaries these tacos. They are super good. She has a record for most an elder and a sister have eaten. For some strange reason I had a huge desire to beat the sister's record. So I ate 18 tacos in one sitting. Let me just say I was pretty stuffed by the end. I maybe could have had one or two more but that would have been pushing explosion. <br /><br />Then this week by Sunday morning we ran out of toilet paper. So by the night time we had two napkins left. So Hermana Jofre walks out and looks at me goes, "Ok we have two napkins one for you and one for me. In case you need to wipe you butt or something." I fell to the floor laughing my head off. It was super funny. Sorry if you don't think this js funny but I found it very funny so I thought I would share.<br /><br />This week it mainly rained and we worked. Sorry for the not so exciting week.....<br /><br />This week as transfers start and this week in the program I am doing for going home we have talked a lot about setting goals and plans. I love what preach my gospel says. It says,<br /><br />"Goals reflect the desires of our hearts and our vision of what we can accomplish. Through goals and plans, our hopes are transformed into action. Goal setting and planning are acts of faith."<br /><br />I am learning that as we set good goals ones that are inline with what our Heavenly Father wants to have happen we will always be on the track and becoming better. I know this work is the Lord's and I know my Savior lives. I hope y'all have a great week!!<br /><br />Ps not many pictures this week<img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f61e" /><br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford<br /><br />Picture 1: we used real aloe from a plant to put on my sunburn!! So cool!!!<br />Picture 2: I had a Mamita in honor of Hermana Williams<br />Picture 3: with mama Hortencia <br />Picture 4- 5: pictures in the car so we could have something to send home. We are lame.<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-8113332932150944652017-07-18T05:50:00.001-07:002017-07-18T05:50:24.006-07:007/10/17--Time Flies When You Are Having FunWell this week has been insane!!!! We haven't stopped moving for days!! Monday was a super slow day and we had some roadblocks but we didn't let that take us down. We were fighters. So we made Balleadas. We have agreed that Balleadas are our comfort food and we may make them too much. But that is alright good food is good food.<br /><br />Fourth of July!!! Wow what a day!!! We were Busy with a capital B!!!! We went to a member's house early for breakfast and we had bbq chicken. Then we planed a party for one of the elders in on our district who is going home tomorrow. So we planed the food, decorations, and the games. While they heard a nets game and hot dog eating contest on the tv. Then we had district meeting and that was good. We went to a member's house for most of the evening and had hot dogs and enjoyed the beautiful outdoors. We watched fireworks from our roof. Oh man it was a sight to see!!!!! We could see fireworks from every side the front the back the left and the right. Most importantly we saw the Manhattan fireworks. Those were a sight to see. They were shooting off four fireworks at one time so they were in a line. A picture will be below. After not seeing fireworks in like 5 years God truly blessed me with the best seat in all of New York to see soooo many fireworks. Aw man it was awesome.<br /><br />Wednesday we did an exchange with the sister training leaders. They came to our area to work with us and to help us out. It was an awesome day!!! We talked to 27 people, got like 3 new investigators, one investigator on date for August 12, and found like 2 less active while still having some different lessons. It was an awesome day!!! As well they took us out to ice cream so that was super fun!! I think though my favorite part was Sister Snow who is beautiful by the way and I were talking to these Hispanics, of course and she doesn't know Spanish so she just stood there smiling. So cute. At one point she said something like "I only speak a little Spanish" and this little Hispanic grandpa who I was talking to goes "Ok well, we can get married" however in Spanish. So I died laughing because it was so cute and Sister Snow was like what did he say. So I translated and she laughed and we apologized and said we would see them later. It was super funny!!!!<br /><br />Thursday was an awfully busy day as well. We had finding and planing. Then we helped the member decorate for the surprise farewell party for the Elder. Then we ran to out dinner appointment then ran back to the church and then ran to an appointment. In one sentence that was our day. Little do you know that then the member was mad at me not hermana Jofre that we didn't stay for the party and two the appointment we went to the guy was high so he wasn't paying much attention and then turned us down on a return appointment which was super sad. We talked to the elder's afterwards and they said the party was awesome so yeah.<br /><br />Then the Friday night we walked out of our appointment and it was pouring rain. The member had one good umbrella so Hermana Jofre took it however she was afraid her shoes would get wrecked so she took off her shoes and walked with only no see socks on. I however had no umbrella so let us say after our like 45 minute walk home I was a little wet from head to toe. There wasn't hardly a dry spot on me.<br /><br />Saturday was crazy as well. We had a solid lesson in the morning then studies. Then we helped another member with her son's baptism and made the program, sang in It, and I played the piano. Then the elder's walked with us to the train because we both had appointments. One of the elders had said hi how are you to this guy on the street. Well that guy didn't take that very well. He whiped around and was like you don't push your religion on me I am not a Mormon and I don't want to be dont push your religion on me. We laughed afterwards and were like so apparently hi how are you means hi you need to be Mormon. Uhhh some people in the world today.<br /><br />Sunday was Hermana Jofre's birthday!!!! I surprised her by staying up Saturday night and decorating he apartment. She was super shocked. Then I went around church telling everyone I knew or saw that it was her birthday. Then a member threw her a surprise birthday party!! The Elders were there and it was a ton of fun!!!! She over all loved the day which all I could hope for.<br /><br />Then today we did a district activity and rented bikes from the city and rode around Brooklyn. It was super fun. Although some points were rough trying to ride in Brooklyn but other points were super fun!!! Overall a great district activity!!!<br /><br />So this morning I was reading in Alma and I came across this scripture that hit me. It is in Alma 15:16. So to give some background information Alma and Amulek were missionaries in the Book of Mormon and this is one thing that is said about Amulek. It says:<br /><br />"16 And it came to pass that Alma and Amulek, Amulek having forsaken all his gold, and silver, and his precious things, which were in the land of Ammonihah, for the word of God, he being rejected by those who were once his friends and also by his father and his kindred;"<br /><br />It hit home to me that Amulek gave up everything for the word of God and to teah it to other people. My only hope is that I can do that full time now and for the rest of my life. I am excited for my last six weeks and to giving all I have into the work. I know the Lors's hand is always in our lives!!! I invite you to ask yourself what more can I give in the word of God and helping others know about It!! I love yall and have a great week!!!<br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford<div>
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Picture 1: cool street art<br />Picture 2: alone on the bus<br />Picture 3: cool view of Manhattan<br />Pictures 4-7: fourth of July <br />Pictures 8-11: exchanges<br />Pictures 12- 14: Hermana Jofre's birthday<br />Picture 15: bike riding<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-6116419378877727822017-07-05T18:52:00.001-07:002017-07-05T18:52:43.958-07:007/3/17--A Week To GoThis week I can't say was a terribly exciting week due to funny stories or anything but through the Lord teaching me many different lessons. So I will share a few of them and any stories that come up through them but I have a feeling this weekly won't be that long.<br /><br />To start off the week, on Tuesday, I woke up with the worst stomach ache I think I have ever had in my life. I was up at 4 in the morning and couldn't sleep. So we spent almost all of Tuesday in the apartment with me sleeping and my companion studying. It was super sweet that later that night the member who made us dinner made soup to help with my stomach ache.<br /><br />Wednesday and Thursday we had three dinner appointments. Sometimes I think the members think we never get fed and that we are starving missionaries. On Thursday we had our apartment inspected by the senior couple in charge of housing. We had to help one of them switch out a light bulb by standing on two chairs and a crate. It was a little scary. We also made balleadas by ourselves which was a big accomplishment for me!!<br /><br />Friday we had service at a senior center helping them serve food. We usually do this service on Wednesday so it was off. Anyways, we did it on Friday because the were celebrating 43 years of being open. It was cute they had a photo booth so we got the district in and took pictures. It was super fun!!<br /><br />Thursday we had an experience that taught us both that God doesn't work logically and we need to turn to Him for guidance. We were week planning for a recent convert and I thought that she hadn't been taught the commandments again we can just teach those. So we started into planning and about half way through we didn't know what to do. We couldn't put ideas together and we couldn't make anything work. It was the weirdest feeling in the world of wanting to plan but not being able to. So we realized we hadn't turned to God for help so we got on our knees and prayed. Within the next 10ish minutes we redid her plan and got it all the way through and it felt right. This experience really taught me how God knows his children and if we are going to do His work properly we are going to need to turn to Him. I know that to be true with all of my heart! I love y'all have a great week!! Sorry this week wasn't terribly exciting! Next week should be! We have some fun things planned! Love y'all!<br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford<br /><br />Picture 1: day spent in sick <br />Pictures 2- 4: we went to a member's birthday party so her daughter and I took pictures <br />Picture 5: making Balleadas <br />Picture 6: picking up my package<br />Picture 7: Elder Mott feel asleep in church. Poor guy<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-41273878550276791522017-06-27T05:48:00.000-07:002017-06-27T05:48:07.762-07:006/26/17--What if you never went home?So this week has been a little all over the place and has kept us on our toes. The new phones are still an adjustment. I do find myself missing my iPad and may be counting down the days until we can use both. I am grateful for the chance to be among the Lord's servants that He trusts enough to use the phones. Sometimes I question why He choose Samsungs and not iPhones, but I guess that isn't my choice.<br /><br />As many of you know we went to the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday last week. What you don't know is that as soon as we were walking off the bridge it started to pour!!!! We meet up with a set of English elders on our way to the subway station. We were soaked from head to toe. It made such a good memory though and I really didn't care about being wet. We took a bunch of pictures. At one point there was a bunch of water falling off the side of one of the buildings and buckets of water were just falling from the roof. One of the elders was like I dare you to go stand under that waterfall. So Hermana Jofre and I jumped at the challenge and said hold our bags we are going in. So that really added to us being wet.<br /><br />Wednesday we had a meeting for all the newbies and their trainers. My favorite part, like always, was when Sister Peterson, our mission nurse, got up and started talking about nutrition and the food pyramid and what we should be eating. Having sat through this meeting for the third time knew exactly what she was going to say. I started laughing before she got into the funny part. She quickly looked at me and told me to stop laughing. I looked everywhere but at her. I was trying so hard not to laugh. So what she said is, "we need to eat grains, chocolate, protein, chocolate, carbs, chocolate, meat, chocolate, fruits, chocolate, vegetables, chocolate, sweets and fatty foods and chocolate." So as you can see chocolate is very important in your diet. After the meeting we went to talk to her because I just love her. And why wouldn't want to talk to the chocolate queen? She was messing around with me and was like were you laughing I needed to say that with straight face and no thanks to you I almost didn't. I apologized and we just laughed it off. Then she looked at Hermana Jofre and told her that I always make her laugh. Good know someone thinks I am funny!!<br /><br />Saturday night the elders had a baptism and had asked that I play the piano, which is no problem. However, while they were changing they wanted to just sing hymns until we got done. Uh fun fact about Sister Ashford--sight reading hymns is not a strength of her's. So just keep that in the back of your mind. One person asked to sing Battle Hymn Of The Republic. Uh I really don't know how to play that song. So after a tough introduction and a struggle through the first couple of measures one of the elder's looked back and gave the cut it off signal so I stopped playing and he just looked at me and laughed. As well Hermana Jofre was sitting next to me on the piano bench and she starting laughing. We just laughed as they sung. Afterwards he was like yeah it was better without the piano.<br /><br />Then as for my spiritual thought for this week we had interviews and my mission President told me to start reflecting more on my mission. He asked me what my favorite section in Preach My Gospel is and said chapter 6 which is the Christlike attributes. He asked me which one and I said faith because that is what I have learned most on my mission. Looking back I see how much faith life and a mission takes. We wake each morning with the faith that God will guide us to those who are ready and have an open mind and heart to he gospel. I love what preach my gospel says about faith it says:<br /><br />"When you have faith in Christ, you believe in Him as the Son of God, the Only Begotten of the Father in the Flesh. You accept Him as your Savior and Redeemer and follow His teachings. You believe that your sins can be forgiven through His Atonement. Faith in Him means that you trust Him and are confident that He loves you."<br /><br />I know if we act in faith God will fill in our gaps and make us stronger than we knew we were. Have a great week!!! Love y'all!!!<br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford<br /><br />Pictures 1-5 Brooklyn Bridge<br />Pictures 6-7 #CityWide<br />Pictures 8-9 she threw us the key again<br />Picture 10 the reason for the title of my email<br />Picture 11 downtown picture<br />Picture 12 cool graffiti <br />Pictures 13- 15 that view though<br />Picture 16 and that is how many months I have served on my mission<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-63638269941867966832017-06-20T06:48:00.000-07:002017-06-20T06:48:20.163-07:006/19/17--New Way of Doing Missionary WorkSo I apologize now if my email is super short there is two reasons for that. First, we got new Samsung Galaxy J3 phones and the screen is a lot smaller and so is the keyboard so it takes me a little longer to type things out. Second off we are going to the Brooklyn Bridge so I am trying to type this fast so I don't have to worry about it later. So yeah.<br /><br />So this week was crazy we had a bunch of things happen and it was all over the place. So if this email seems all over the place I am sorry. So to start the week on Monday we did a bunch of look ups and no one was answering the doors so discouragement was upon us. However after doing a look up we walked out of the elevator and this lady was like are you sister missionaries from the church. And before she could say which church Hermana Jofre had already said yes. She was so cute! It turns out this lady is a less active and had been looking for missionaries for a little while now. It was sooooo cool to see her face light up at the answer to her prayer as we came off that elevator. We are super excited to teach her and help her come back to church and feel of her Heavenly Father's love again.<br /><br />Tuesday was our craziest day of the week. We helped our relief society move with the elders. Then we had a breakfast appointment with a member. Then we saw another less active member not soon after that. Then we had district meeting. Then from there ran to an appointment and ran to another one there after. We had like an hour for personal study and that was it. I love days like his because we work hard and come home tired and fall right to sleep then stay asleep all night and get a good nights rest.<br /><br />Wednesday was a fun day. We had exchanges. Our sister training leaders are awesome. I am super happy they are out sister training leaders because I love them so much. The funny part was before we even got there. So when we left out apartment to go to their apartment it wasn't raining but as we traveled south what we didn't think would happen is be rain. So as soon as we walked out of the train and out of the subway station we did not expect rain. We didn't have our umbrellas or rain shoes. So we ran to the nearest story and Hermana Jofre bought a new umbrella. We awkwardly shared the umbrella until we got to their house. The funnier part is she left it at their house then after our meeting again on Friday after an appointment she had left it there too. So we are still working on getting her umbrella back.<br /><br />Then to the exciting part of the week. Mega zone. So on Friday they switched our mission from tablets to Samsung Galaxy J3 phones. So now we only have the phone but it has data so we can use them where ever which comes in handy in the city. So this may be way my email might be a little shorter because it is a smaller screen and a smaller keyboard.<br /><br />The end to our week was good we found two new investogators last night which was a great way to end our dry time of little investigators.<br /><br />Oh the two funny sayigs from Hermana Jofre from this week <br />1)Grandpuncle- in reference to her great uncle<br />2) I have a bathroom in my bag.- she brought half the stuff from the bathroom with her to exchanges and left it there for the rest of the day<br /><br />The attribute of Christ I choose to work on this transfer was hope. I love what preach my gospel says which is:<br /><br />"Hope is an abiding trust that the Lord will fulfill His promises to you. It is manifest in confidence, optimism, enthusiasm, and patient perseverance. It is believing and expecting that something will occur. When you have hope, you work through trials and difficulties with the confidence and assurance that all things will work together for your good. Hope helps you conquer discouragement."<br /><br />After the past couple of weeks of feeling frustrated that we didn't have investigators I have seen how the Lord has been testing my hope and faith in Him. I am realizing how hard it is to have hope and faith. I know that the Lord will keep His promises as long as we just out the trust in Him. I love y'all have a good week.<br /><br />Con Amor <br />Hermana Ashford<br /><br />Pictures<br />1. Hermana Jofre testing her ankle<br />2. Ice cream from a good bakery<br />3. The black haired bun sister missionaries<br />4. The blondes<br />5. Exchanges<br />6. Mega zone<br />7. New phones<br />8. Ravioli pizza<br />9. Madre Mia- Hermana Williams <br />10. Life in the rain<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-18317783655988432782017-06-18T05:19:00.001-07:002017-06-18T05:19:44.327-07:006/12/17--Sad and Unfortunate Week to Be UsWell if you know my mom and I you know this saying but if you don't ask me or her and we can share the story. But basically this week was crazy and all over the place I am going to have to go through each day and talk a little about each day to make sure I don't leave anything out because so much happened. Plus just keep in mind there comes a point in the week that all the bad luck in the world feel on us. Thank goodness I have a companion who can laugh it out with me! We got a<br />pretty good ab workout in.<br /><br />Monday- so today wasn't too crazy we ( I mean my companion) did a bunch of shopping so it was just a lot of running around. We visited a member family that we usually visit right before or right after the Elders. This time it was right after so they hung around for a little bit to make comments at us. Then at some point they all thought I was mad! But I wasn't. I still don't get how that story goes. Then he funny part was in the middle of eating dinner Hermana Jofre started laughing and looked and me and said it looks so funny that you are eating Hispanic food! You are so white and American and you are eating Hispanic food like a Hispanic. She finds it so funny that I am white and eat and act like a Hispanic. I guess that is what you get after living among them for the past 15 and half months. (That is gross. 15 and half months)<div>
<br />Tuesday- was most likely the most fun with the least amount of bad luck in the day. We first got a referral from we asume the temple square mission but once we got to district meeting we found out that one of the set of elders received the same referral so sadly we gave it to them because he is a guy so we really can't go over because it is a little hard. Then that night was when the party began! We went out to eat with a family that I love so much! Uhhh! We went to some like Korean place that makes really good fried chicken. We ate on like the second floor that looked over the first floor and there was games! So we played some games as we waited for food and talked and ate! It was so much fun! Then they took us to a Italian bakery for ice cream! Oh my goodness it was sooo good! Uhhh we want to go back so bad!<br /><br />Wednesday- we had helped a member go grocery shopping and she bought us food. She leaves close to our house so we ran home to drop the food off so it didn't go bad! Hermana Jofre left her bag because it was hurting her shoulder and I accidentally left my keys to the apartment on the counter. If you catch my drift we locked ourselves outside our apartment.... Plus as soon as we left Hermana Jofre left her name tag so that was when we noticed we didn't have keys. So we played it off cool we made it the rest of the night. We got home and had a small panic attack because we didn't know how we would get in. Gratefully one of our neighbors buzzed us in then we carded into our apartment.<br />The whole process wasn't to bad but it gave me a little stress!<br /><br />Thursday- so mind you I have had a cold all week. I woke up hearing double. Through my right ear which is the ear I went home for I heard perfectly fine. In my left hear I heard everything again but in a higher pitch! It was crazy and annoying. So off to the doctor's we go! Along the way a member was driving by and waved to us! It was cool! So at the doctor's we find out that I have an ear infection and now I have to take horse pills for the next ten days. Uhh gross! Then on our way to the church we were trying to do some contacting so I had my companion give this guy a card and while she did that I gave a lady a card and got off the train. When I turned around I saw Hermana Jofre still handing out her card. Right when she turned around the doors of the train closed on her. We got separated! Ahhhh! It felt so weird to be without another half of me right next to me! So I got on the next train and got up to her at he next station. We reunited like old friends who haven't seen each other in a long time! She had called the elders because she forgot what to do. So funny! Poor thing they were laughing at her....<br /><br />Friday- was the most physically exhausting day of the week. In the morning we ran something from one member's house to another member's house then ran to our appointment. Then when we meet up with the elders to get new metro cards from them at the church they told us they had forgotten to go and pick up their food from a member. So they asked that we go and pick it up for them. We did so with happy hearts! So it took us 40-45 minutes to get to the member's house which is normal. Then it took us 2 and half hours to get back to the church! We had waited for 45-60 minutes for one of the trains and it still never came. So we left to take the buss back to the church. We waited for each bus. Then we missed our stop so we had to take another train! Uhhh overall it was a hot mess. Not to mention it was pretty hot outside, hotter than it has been since I have been back so I got a nice sun burn. Then right when we were like 10 steps away from the church building my bag broke. The shoulder strap just broke. So I had to get rid of that bag and start using my other bag the next day.<br /><br />Saturday- the morning started off alright although it was a little warm so lots of sweating. Then while we were at home we had a bunch of flies in our apartment so I closed all the doors to contain them in<br />one room so that we could kill them! However the door to our study room and my closet for some reason had a key lock on it. I not knowing that it was lock or where the key was had shut the door. So when I went to open it to get something it didn't open! I started to panic just a little bit! I tried carding in and using bobby pins and trying just about anything without breaking anything to get in the room. We struggled for like 30-45 minutes. I finally gave up and called the elders. They tried telling me how to do it and it didn't work. Mind you I can't leave because I don't have shoes because they are in that room that is locked and we have an appointment coming up soon. So we are in a biggish hurry. So we asked the elders if they can come over and try somethings while we go to our appointment. So while they head over I shove my size 7-7.5 feet into Hermana Jofre's size 6 shoes and run to a shoe story to buy new shoes so that I don't break her shoes. So I get new shoes we run home let the elders into the apartment and leave. We go to our lesson and come back. They elder's called and had said they after an hour of trying to card and bobby pin into the room gave up and broke the handle and got into the room.<br /><br />Sunday- the most peaceful day of the entire week! It was cool after feeling stress and frustration all week as soon as I partook of the sacrament I instantly felt filled with the spirit and filled with the<br />love our Heavenly Father! It was a sweet moment to the end of a crazy week! Then to had to the craziness of the week when we were walking to the train last night from our appointment about 3-5 people hit on us. We felt extremely uncomfortable and were super happy and excited to get home.<br /><br />So this week we have been asked a couple times that if we have a living prophet what is he saying to us. It made me realize the importance of knowing what our living prophet is saying to us. I already basically knew what he had said in this past conference but I wanted to reread what he told us. This part from his talk "The power of the Book of Mormon" in which he says:<br /><br />"This morning I speak about the power of the Book of Mormon and the critical need we have as members of this Church [and everyone] to study, ponder, and apply its teachings in our lives."<br /><br />Hermana Jofre and I have decided to read the entire Book of Mormon in Spanish in the 12 weeks we are together. As we read we focus and mark the verses or phrases that stand out to us the love God has for us as His children. I am loving rereading the words of our Heavenly Father and looking for His love. Each day I can find multiple verses and phrases of Him pouring our His love onto us and His desire to bless us. I have seen over and over again on my mission that as we study the Book of Mormon with a desire to change and a desire to become better we will change and find the ways to have a better life from the Book of Mormon. I know that we have a living prophet and what he says is<br />there to help us! I love y'all and have a great week!<br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford</div>
<br /><br />Picture 1: cute selfie of Hermana Jofre and I<br />Picture 2-8: out to eat with Dasha, Shadae, and Ana Martinez<br />Picture 9: the chair at our door so no one would come in.<br />Picture 10: crazy looking strawberry<br />Picture 11: another cute selfie<br />Picture 12: a member tossed us down the key so she wouldn't have to come down<br />Picture 13: another member wrote us notes on the plates covering our food!<br />Picture 14: our poor door!<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-27903241390526935692017-06-18T05:10:00.001-07:002017-06-18T05:10:11.559-07:006/5/17--Baby StepsWell I am alive and well and living. This week was a little crazy but not as crazy as the week before. For those of you who may have noticed I sent my weekly on Monday but it didn't arrive until Tuesday because I didn't have wifi for a little while on Monday due to some unfortunate events that happen to my companion that will remain unmentioned. Any which way last Monday was a party and slightly crazy! We visited three members and went to a Zone BBQ activity at our stake president's house. Super fun!<br /><br />Then transfers happened. First we went to a member's house early Tuesday morning. Then Hermana Castañeda packed really fast in order to allow some Hermanas to take her luggage for us. What we ended up doing was throwing her 60 pounds suitcase down the stairs cause we were struggling to get it down the stairs. So yeah some crashing and heaving were done. Then we traveled to transfers. Which we spent like 20-30 minutes waiting for them to tell us who our new companions are!<br /><br />So my new companion is Hermana Jofre she is from Miami Florida but grew up in Southern California. Although her mom is from Honduras and her dad is from Guatemala. She is super short she comes up to right below my shoulders. She is the sweetest person ever! As well she never lets a smile fall from her face! She is so caring which has been very helpful these past couple of days as I have had a cold.<br /><br />Uhh as for exciting stories there isn't much to tell. When talking to a member this week we discovered that Hermana Jofre knows her cousin because she lives in her home ward! Crazy how small the Mormon world is! Other than that is has been watching my little greenie take her first steps into missionary work. She knocked her first door, she taught her first lessons, she went to church as a missionary, rode the trains for the first time, and now first preparation day as a missionary! They grow up so fast!! Uhhhh....<br /><br />As well we have a less active who has had a couple different fears about coming to church so we were trying to think on how to help be comfortable with church. We decided she would come visit the church on a non church day with us and just spend time in the church building. She came and it took a couple minutes to help her relax and get settled in but once we did she said she felt surprisingly comfortable in the church! It was awesome to watch her take some baby steps into using the atonement to help her heal from the fears she had.<br /><br />This week I read in a talked called "Gathering the Family of God" by President Erying from this last General Conference. Before he gets into talking about family history work he mentions and I quote:<br /><br />"Because He loves us with the love of a perfect Father, He wants us to progress and advance and become like Him. He ordained a plan by which we would come to earth, in families, and have experiences that would prepare us to return to Him and live as He lives."<br /><br />Then he proceeds to talk about family history work and finding those of our past. To me this part stood out to me because I thought about how our family can help us become better people not only our current family but our ancestors as well. Recently there has been a big push for helping members, less actives, and recent converts to do their family history work. As I read this talk and thought about family history work I also thought about the scripture in Doctrine and Covenants 128:15 which says:<br /><br />"15 And now, my dearly beloved brethren and sisters, let me assure you that these are principles in relation to the dead and the living that cannot be lightly passed over, as pertaining to our salvation. For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers--that they without us cannot be made perfect--neither can we without our dead be made perfect."<br /><br />So from both the talk and this scripture we learn that family history work makes us better people and become more like Christ. To me the biggest Christlike attribute that stood out to me was humility because in the process of doing family history work you don't think of yourself as you do it but you focus on the people you are trying to find. I realized many other ways in which family history can help us become better people but I want y'all to think of why family history work could make you a better person and if you want send me and email of what you think. I know that as we seek our kindred dead we will become like our Savior. My favorite feeling lately has been to help some of the less actives as they excitedly find some family names so they can take them to the temple. I know our Heavenly Father wants us to help everyone around us including our ancestors.<br /><br />Sorry my weekly doesn't have as many exciting stories... I love y'all and have a great first week of summer vacation for some of y'all!<br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford<br /><br />Picture 1: first day picture<br />Picture 2: what elder's do on a train when there is no one else.<br />Picture 3: I don't know if you can see it but it is police men on horses<br />Picture 4: Linery a member!<br />Picture 5: waiting on the bus<br />Picture 6: when your friend sends you his famous cookies<br />Picture 7: Playing the slap game.<br />Picture 8: Scarlet ps sorry my companion's face is blurry we didn't<br />any good ones because she was laughing the whole time.<br />Picture 9-11: when your companion offers to do your hair.<br />Picture 12: no one loves us. We were the only ones on the train<div>
Picture 13: what happens when a college graduation happens.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-67352734192249736212017-05-31T04:04:00.000-07:002017-05-31T04:04:18.290-07:005/29/17--Another Transfer DownWell another transfer has come and gone and only two left! Wow! Time just flies sometimes. This week has been an adventure! It all started with last Tuesday. My companion went on her last mission temple trip. So sad:( So I spent the day on exchanges at the mission nurse's house which was so fun! She is the best! That night we had a dinner appointment with a member and my companion was not going to be done with finishing her mission stuff so she told me to go ahead and go to the appointment on exchanges! So we did! It was an amazing lesson and good food! Then we went to meet up with our companions but they weren't done yet and couldn't meet up with us in time. So we did an overnight exchange. Turns out our companions didn't get back to their apartment until 11 at night. It was just pure craziness and we enjoyed everything! My exchange companion and I just enjoyed our time talking and relieving some stress.<br /><br />Then comes the part where I gained like 20 pounds because we had like 3-4 dinner appointments everyday. Uhhh... The first was at one family's home on Wednesday and the daughter just had her first baby so we are the first ones outside of the family to see the baby! She was super cute! Plus the food was super good! The next was at another member's house. Then Thursday we went out to eat with the mission nurse and went to a good Mexican place. Later that day we went to two member's houses for more food. Basically, where I am getting with this, is we ate a bunch of food and I swear I gained a bunch of weight! Plus our mission nurse took us out to eat twice this week.<br /><br />The next exciting news came on Friday when at a member's house I felt the phone buzz and it is President Reynolds! I about passed out... For you missionaries they know, it was a training call! So for my last two transfers I will be training a new missionary! I am super excited for round two and a second go at training. Apparently Heavenly Father thought I did so good the first time that I can do it again. I don't know about that one but you can ask Sister Johnston how I did. Anyways I freaked and have had anxiety ever since but I am living. I am super excited though! I get my greenie tomorrow.<br /><br />Then funny part 101 was district meeting. So some back up information. My companion's aunt passed away a week and a half ago. We came to the last song and our district leader was like we need to sing a good last song because it is our last one. So I suggested God Be With You Til We Meet Again because it a good farewell hymn due to Hermana Castañeda going home. An elder said we only sing that for dead people. Our district leader said yeah I want them to sing it at my funeral in Spanish! By this point the music has started and they just started singing. So Hermana Castañeda held up a picture of her dead aunt and I busted up laughing. One elder said oh who is that? I said her dead aunt. They are still singing. Then someone asks oh when diD she pass away? Hermana Castañeda goes last Thursday. I die laughing and all the elder's went dead silent with only the piano music playing from the iPad. Then our district quickly changed the song to something more up beat. I don't know if it sounds super funny but it was really funny in the moment.<br /><br />Then on Saturday we had a meeting for the new trainers so we got on the train. After sitting on the train for one stop the guy next to me who had been asleep on his knees decided he needed to move positions. So he moved to my shoulder! He fell asleep on my shoulder! Oh my it was beyond awkward. The lady across from us later noticed what had happened and busted out laughing. She laughed for a good 10-15 minutes and she was face timing someone so she showed them what happened. It was super awkward and other people on the train began to notice and were laughing as well. Oh how uncomfortable I felt. Once we got off the person just slouched forward and fell asleep.<br /><br />I like from the conference talk called "Overcoming The World" by Elder Anderson from this last general Conference. He says; "Overcoming the world is not one defining moment in a lifetime, but a<br />lifetime of moments that define an eternity."<br /><br />I think for me in my mission I always expected and thought I would be pretty close to perfection when I finished my mission but I realized the mission isn't about becoming perfect it is about becoming converted so that we can overcome the world and find peace. I am learning that perfection will come with time and change but conversion is what I can change the most right now. I want to become like my Savior because I love him! I am grateful for the church and the lessons I am learning here in New York!<br /><br />I love y'all! Have a great week!<br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford<br /><br />Picture 1: Preparation day last week! Playing games!<br />Picture 2-3: making baleadas!<br />Picture 4-5: district pictures.<br />Picture 6: one of our lunches with the mission nurse<br />Picture 7-8: playing with the kids.<br />Picture 9: Rosario and Andy!<br />Picture 10: interesting pizza name at lunch with the mission nurse the<br />second time<br />Picture 11-12: lunch with mission nurse wanted to take our picture<br />Picture 13-14: man asleep on my shoulder<br />Picture 15: My brother got his mission call to Madagascar! So cool!<br />Picture 16-17: dinner at a member's house!<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-253193278762887062017-05-24T06:48:00.000-07:002017-05-24T06:48:39.911-07:005/23/17--Burn baby burn 🔥So I shall explain my title a little bit later, but overall this week was pretty good and I have a couple exciting and funny stories to tell. We had many adventures and good times to go around and I am excited for this week!<br />
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So to start off the adventures, on Monday after emailing a little we went to the Brooklyn Bridge. It was so much fun to be able to see the Statue of Liberty from where we were and to see most of Manhattan. We lived life on the edge and went to the edge of our mission. It was funny. We joked and said we would be such disobedient missionaries if we were to just simply walk over this big yellow line. As well, we were talking all those people who can freely walk over this line and for us there is this invisible wall that we can't cross. Anyways overall it was fun and we took some fun pictures.<br />
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Then as most of y'all may have seen I got to see my mission grandma this week! It was so fun to see her! She is so pretty and amazing! Fun fact the last time I saw her was on the first day of my mission in New York! That seems like forever ago! We just chatted and talked as if we had known each other our whole lives! Super fun! Plus it was so cute to see her interact with the less active member and see how they became friends in like 5 minutes and they are now friends on Facebook and chatted like they had known each other forever. It was super cute! Plus it helped my Spanish because she doesn't speak very much English and is more comfortable in Spanish.<br />
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Then we went to a member's house who we call mom because she treats us like a mom. She gives us rides to church and always makes sure we have food. She checks up on us all the time and is super sweet! Anyways she is my Brooklyn mom! So we went to her house for dinner and we wanted to do an object lesson. This is were my title comes in. Hermana Castañeda had seen the elder's from back home do this trick and wanted to do it too. So what you do is you get a tea bag and dump the<br />
contents out of the bag so now it looks like a tunnel. Then you balance it in the middle of your hand and set it on fire. Then at the last second the bag floats into the air and turns into ashes. I will attach a video of us doing it so you can see what happens. Anyways we went to do it at her house and learned the hard way that some bags don't do what we want it to do. So my lovely companion asks me to hold<br />
the bag as she sets it on fire. It starts burning and gets closer and close to my hand and at the point it is supposed to fly upwards it just stays and keeps burning. Thankfully God gave me good reflexes I moved my hand away before anything too bad could happen but I could still feel that my hand got burned just a little. Although when we did it the second and third time it did work because we used a different type of tea bag from the first go around. My hand is good and I am living! It was just funny!<br />
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Then this week we had exchanges with her sister training leaders! We had fun just in a different area and taking in English all day which was weird. We had fun cause we had a dinner appointment with one of their members and it was funny to eat at an American home because I realize how little Americans eat compared to Hispanics. Then when we got home for the night we played tenzi until like 11:30 at night then the next morning we played it for our morning workout. We got a good workout in our forearms. Then we had a BBQ with one of our less actives which was super fun! It was a nice because it was super hot that day! It was like being home with a nice BBQ and enjoying the outdoors.<br />
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Then the last funny moment for the week is we went shopping with a less active yesterday and she took us to IHOP. She didn't know what hash browns, waffles, hot chocolate, whip cream and BLT are so we introduced her to all of that in one seating! Then we went shopping and we were looking at skirts and the member found this one skirt. Now remember she doesn't know much English. She held it up to Hermana Castañeda and she was like oh that is too big for you so she came to me. She held he skirt up to me and was like oh yes this will fit you because you are fat. My jaw hit the floor. I about died laughing! It was soooo funny!<br />
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This week I was reading in a conference that I really like. It is from April 2017 Conference in a talked called "Whatsoever He Saith unto you, Do It."<br />
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"Every day, consciously or otherwise, we all choose “whom [we] will serve.” We demonstrate our determination to serve the Lord by faithfully engaging in daily acts of devotion. The Lord promises to<br />
direct our paths, but for Him to do that, we have to walk, trusting that He knows the way because He is “the way.” We must fill our own waterpots up to the brim. When we trust and follow Him, our lives, like water to wine, are transformed. We become something more and better than we ever otherwise could be. Trust in the Lord, and “whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.”<br />
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I love the idea that if we just do the simple and small things the big things will change. I am excited to see the change the Lord has in store for me!<br />
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Con Amor<br />
Hermana Ashford<br />
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Picture 1-5: Brooklyn bridge and Statue of Liberty and living life on<br />
the edge of our mission<br />
Picture 6: pictures with less actives and investigators.<br />
Picture 7: good lighting good pictures<br />
Picture 8: me and my grandma<br />
Video: burn baby burn 🔥<br />
Picture 9: we are the same height<br />
Picture 10-11: exchanges<br />
Picture 12-13: 15 months tomorrow!<br />
Picture 14: cute little children<br />
Picture 15: city graffiti<br />
Picture 16-17: IHOP with Jessica<br />
Picture 18: Spread the love it is the Brooklyn way!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-20818567756281105622017-05-15T10:22:00.000-07:002017-05-15T10:22:03.031-07:005/15/17--Mother's Day!Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and the mission mothers!!!! Well this week was pretty crazy and to be honest I don't fully remember what we did, but I will try my best to remember and make this a good weekly, hopefully as good as some of my other weeks. Although at the same time I don't think very exciting things happened, so I apologize now if this email isn't that exciting and as fun as past weekly emails.<br /><br />So to begin I didn't say much about the temple last week but it was a fun experience to go and think about what I have done this far on my mission and rededicate myself to finishing my mission running and giving everything I can to be better and help the people around me. I truly love the temple and spending time there to just be close to my Heavenly Father. Plus I got to see some people that are on the island that I don't see as often now that I am in the city. And the temple is super beautiful and amazing! When we went to go get on the train to go home when saw a missionary who went home in August! It was fun to see her and talk to her on how she is doing and advice she has for after the mission. That was mainly for my companion who goes home this transfer. So, in like two weeks. Either which way it was fun to see her and just talk. Plus she was with Sister Peterson who is awesome! She was like you never saw us because she was leaving mission boundaries and didn't get permission. But I think it is ok because Sister Peterson is like the best person alive! I love her!<br /><br />Then that night we visited a family where the mom is active but her two daughters are less active and I think that house is one of my favorite houses to visit here in Brooklyn. The biggest reason is because one of the daughters is very similar to me. So I was telling them about some different things that happen in my life we just would talk for hours if we could. We just go on and on and on together, it might be dangerous. The best was we went into the lesson and we were talking about prayer and, the one that I am very connected to, was like "Sisters! I did what you asked of my to do! I prayed to know if Heavenly Father loves me!" I quickly responded with "And what did you feel?" She was like "I felt his love! I was a little surprised at how fast I felt his love!" To me that is what a mission is about. Helping others just know and feel that there is a loving Heavenly Father there for us and he wants to to hear from us! I just love them!<br /><br />Oh then the funniest story is this one. So our metro cards were expired so we asked our district leader to get us new ones. And for some reasons and another we couldn't meet up with them Wednesday night. So he said they they will just stop by our apartment to drop them off the next day around lunch time. Well Thursday lunch time came and went and the elders still hadn't stopped by. We couldn't really leave because, one we couldn't go anywhere because my companion had no way to get there and two we didn't know when they would show up. So we gave them a call and the first thing they said to was oh my goodness so sorry we forgot to get you your cards. Super funny so we waited another hour or so for them to come. So we live on the third floor and one of our windows goes over the door to enter into our apartment. So my companion made like a make shift basket and tied it to string so when they came we lowered it out of our window. However it was just barely long enough to reach them. So we told them not to pull on the box. However them being elder's didn't listen to us and pulled and broke the string which defeated the purpose of our basket so we had to go down the stairs and get the cards from them and get our basket. It was funny, and funny!<br /><br />The funny story on Friday was when we went to a member's house to eat. She was late so she just took us to a pizza place to get us pizza. Although as soon as we got our food she left so she left us seating there by ourselves. So we went and sat at the window to watch people walk by. When one of our members walked by a return missionary. We like got his attention and he walked in to talk with us. He was like Hermanas it isn't dinner time. We tried to explain ourselves and tell him that the member just left us and we weren't just there being disobedient. I don't think he believed us but at the same time he knows that we aren't disobedient missionaries. After he left it was raining a little bit and we saw this guy who was using a kid umbrella so he could smoke. It was a funny sight to see. A big guy with a small umbrella.<br /><br />Then Saturday oh man! It rained all day long! I promise it didn't stop raining all day long! I don't think I have used an umbrella so much in my life. It just rained and rained and rained! Thankfully we were in the rain too much because we had a couple of meetings at the church and then we had a lesson which was kind of interesting. What had happen was it was a less active that we looked up the day before and the husband said his wife would be there the next day for us to visit. So it was the next day and we were stoping by. So we tried to buzz in but no one answered so we gave her a call. She would not let us in and was interesting in her responses to my companion. She just left us standing in the rain. But that is cool. Then that night we had our branch Mother's Day activity! It was fun! They had a little program where he primary sang we sang as missionaries and some spiritual thoughts. The awkward part was they put up a wall in the room we were in to hide some stuff but the piano was behind the wall. They asked me to play for the hymns they were going to sing. So I had to play the piano from behind a wall where I couldn't see no one. It was a little awkward.<br /><br />Well this week I found so many cool things in my studies I just want to share it all! Although there is one scripture that really stood out to me out of everything I learned. It is in 3 Nephi 13:34. It says:<br /><br />"34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient is the day unto the evil thereof."<br /><br />I like he beginning part of the scripture. Taking no thought on tomorrow because there will be enough thoughts for tomorrow in tomorrow. It is true we have each have things hat occupy our lives each day. To me I feel the Lord wants us to know that we need to take everything one day at a time. Don't worry about the future and to take everything one day at time. Focus and enjoy the moments you have right now because there will come a point that today will be in the past. I know Heavenly Father wants us to enjoy every moment we have. I encourage y'all to find ways to enjoy each moment and not worry about the future too much. Make sure you enjoy the here and the now. I love y'all! Have a great week!<br /><br />Ps I will email on Tuesday next week because my companion goes to the temple next week!<br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford<br /><br />Picture 1: End of temple trip!<br />Picture 2: old missionary and Sister Peterson. Evidence we never saw them.<br />Picture 3-5: Playing with finger spinners.<br />Picture 6-7: getting our cards from the elder's!<br />Picture 8-10: cool graffiti<br />Picture 11: cool sunset!<br />Picture 12: big man small umbrella<br />Picture 13: mash potato pizza! 🍕<br />Picture 14: talking to home from the other side.<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-71778307201202246872017-05-10T06:22:00.001-07:002017-05-10T06:22:38.478-07:005/9/17--Temple!!! Twiceish...Good Tuesday Eveyone! The only hard part of going to the temple is that I don't get to talk to all the missionaries win everyone else, but I guess the temple IS pretty AMAZING! 😁 Anyways this week has been pretty crazy and good! I am going to only hit on some of the highlights of the week because otherwise my email will be extremely long! This week we did have interviews with President Reynolds which is always so much fun! He and I mainly talked about what I have done so far on the mission and he asked if they should send a second set of sister missionaries to Brentwood. I offered to go. So we will see what happens.<br /><br />Then on Thursday was national prayer day. I don't know if y'all knew that but the first Thursday of May is national prayer day. So Brooklyn did their own day of prayer. We were told to go by our president so our entire zone was there. What happened is a priest or preacher from 7 churches gave a prayer. Each of the seven were told to pray about something specific. They were government, media, churches, education, families, youth, and the city. They were all very into their prayers and the audience besides the missionaries were really into everything.Then after all the prayers these band called Sisterz got up and said prayers through song. This is when we were told to stand up and dance<br />as well. So the zone got up and got moving. It was actually very helpful because it was super cold outside so by standing up and moving we got somewhat warmer. Which was nice. Overall the event was cool and fun!<br /><br />Then on Friday we to a reactivated member's house to help her with doing family history that itself was a story. The moral of the story is she had two accounts created so we couldn't get her attached to her membership number and at the same time there was like 4 other problems. I was on the phone with someone for 30-45 minutes trying to fix it and it still isn't fixed. Uh technology sometimes can be a pain. Then we headed to the church so Hermana Castañeda could write her college application essay. Now mind you by the time we left the member's house it was pouring rain. So we had to walk a half a mile to her train station because the bus we needed wasn't coming for another 20 minutes. So we walk the way to the station without an umbrella. Let's just say we were drowned rats by the time we made it to the church. Everything was wet from head to ankle (because my toes were in rain boots so they didn't get wet). Uhhh I learned my lesson the hard way if it looks like rain just take the umbrella.<br /><br />Then that night we went to a member's house. She had only been home a little bit before we got there. She was going to make food for us and the for the elders to stop by and pick some food up to go. So we came in to help her make baleadas. They are homemade tortillas, with homemade refried beans, eggs, Mexican cheese, crema, and we put pork on it. So I learned how to make the tortillas and I was helping make them. It is slightly harder than it looks because you flatten the tortillas with your hands. So it is a little difficult. The member thought I was pretty good at if I do say so myself. Plus I love<br />cooking and I love learning how to make Hispanic food! I am so excited to make it when I get home.<br /><br />Temple trip oneish. On Saturday the branch had a branch temple trip. So one of our reactivated members wanted to go. She asked if we would go with her. So here is the deal we make transfers in Manhattan every now and then because that is the only way to get somewhere the quickest. So we made a transfer in Manhattan and didn't actually go to the temple with her but we made sure she got there safe and sound. So we count it as our temple trip but we didn't go inside of the temple with her. We just watched her walk out of the train station. It was a small adventure. On the way back it took a little longer than intended but overall the member had a great time at the temple and I am so grateful for he gospel.<br /><br />Then Saturday night we were sitting at our table before getting ready for bed. When my companion basically jumped onto the table freaking out and pointing. I look behind me and see nothing and I am like what happened. She was like there was a mouse! She freaked! She moved all of our food that was in the top cabinets to the fridge. Then she tried to scare it away by pushing the broom into the hole it crawled in. I still haven't seen this mouse but apparently we have a mouse in our apartment. She claims otherwise but the truth was she was even scared to go to bed that night. She still is a little freaked out by having a friend here. She doesn't like that he doesn't pay rent. So we shall be getting mice traps today. 🐭<br /><br />Temple trip two! That happened today. It was overall super fun and an adventure!<br /><br />So this week at one of the lessons we were at we were teaching the plan of salvation and the mom of the family made this comment that really stuck with me. We were talking about how we can live with our Heavenly Father again. For those of you who don't know the plan of salvation it goes PREMORTAL LIFE -> BIRTH -> EARTHLY LIFE-> DEATH->SPIRIT WORLD-> RESURRECTION-> FINAL JUDGEMENT-> THREE KINGDOMS OF GLORY (which are) CELESTIAL KINGDOM ☀️ TERRESTRIAL KINGDOM 🌙 AND TELESTIAL KINGDOM ⭐️. So the celestial kingdom is where we want to make because that is where Heavenly Father lives. So we were talking about this plan and how we make it back to the Celestial Kingdom. The mom said "Sometimes we fear the celestial kingdom because we think it is too hard to make it there, but really it should bring peace and hope because of how simple it is to get there." I know at one point in my life I did fear the celestial kingdom because I thought it was too hard to get there and be able to live with my Heavenly Father again. I know now that the path is simple. All we have to do is tryour best to become like Christ. We have to be baptized and learn how to follow and become like Christ every day. I know we can return to live with our Heavenly Father. I know his hands are always extended<br />and open for us to go to Him. I am grateful for this gospel and I love my Savior.<br /><br />I love y'all! Have a great week!<br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford<br /><br />Picture 1: I see this and I feel right at home.<br />Picture 2-3: Brooklyn day of prayer<br />Picture 4-5: Drowned Rats<br />Picture 6: Baleadas<br />Picture 7: cool graffiti that I like! For you Danielle!<br />Pictures 8-12: Temple Trip!!<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-11282185461739112012017-05-10T06:10:00.001-07:002017-05-10T06:13:59.824-07:005/1/17--Week Two in the CityWell I am still living! Does that count for anything? Hahaha JK! His week was awesome and super busy! We had many thing happen and many adventures. So to start off the week we had Mega Zone on Tuesday so we got to see other missionaries! I got to see Elder Weisler, Elder Stoker, and Hermana Spackman! They are all missionaries from early on in my mission that are super cool! Plus we got to see President and Sister Reynolds which is always a blast! Then as we were walking out it was raining. So we headed home and then meet up with some members to go to visit a less active family. It was raining hard by this point. Then we walked out of the lesson and our members didn't have umbrellas like my companion and I plus they wouldn't take ours. So we did the next best option. There was cardboard on the side of street so they picked it up and put it over their heads. That is how we keep dry here in New York! Cardboard! 📦<br />
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Then oh then, we had chicken feet!!!! They cut off the foot of a chicken boiled it added some flavor to it and gave it to us on a plate! Not saying it didn't taste good! I think it tasted surprisingly good. However just the idea that we were eating the feet of chicken who walk around in their own poop and grass. As well we basically ate pure skin. It was mainly just the skin of the feet. There was some meat on the heel of the foot but still it was mainly skin. Plus there were some stubs of nails still on it. So overall it tasted good but just as long as you push out the idea that you are eating chicken feet. The funny part was my companion and I were talking about it afterwards and then we saw a pigeon and saw their feet and we both about threw up just at the thought of what we had just done.<br />
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Now here comes some of the really funny part. At district meeting last week we had it on Thursday which is really late but not important. Somehow we started talking about when the members feed us for dinner how we should try and make the appointments at ether 4:30 or 7 so that we can do some finding between 6-7:30 which is when we are supposed to be doing finding. Then it changed to how both sets of elder's had missed almost all of their dinner appointments that week. Which at first they were like that isn't a big deal. Then we explained how every week one of the sister's in the branch stands up and basically begs people to sign up to feed the elders because everyone else signed up to feed us. So then they felt really bad that they beg people to feed them and they don't go. The famous two lines that happened there after were first (by Elder Gover) "We did it! We done messed up this time!" And two "Ok now we need to do some hard kissing up! Maybe we could make some brownies and put some hearts on them that say Te amo!" We about died from laughter. Just watching as the all of then Elders freak because the realization sinks that the messed up big time and how they planned on solving the problem with food.<br />
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Then here is some sad news and some cool news. One of the elders who came in with me on the English side was in the English district had to go home last week for knee surgery. So we got him some snacks for the plane ride home to TEXAS! We took like three steps away from their apartment and see the train that we want start to come in. We saw it and ran or I mean sprinting 2-3 blocks down the street to the station. About half way there I didn't know if we were going to make it but we kept running. We bounded up the stairs so fast scan in and ran up the final two sets of stairs and WE MADE IT ONTO THE TRAIN! The fun part was there were random people cheering us on and and urging us to make the train! I still don't know how we made that train other than God loves us!<br />
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Then the next funny story came on Friday we went to our dinner appointment and we were a little late which this causes the rest of our problems. So because we were late the member had left to go do something so when we got to her house she wasn't there. So we decided that while we waited we would go to Diary Queen to get ice cream as we wait. As we were waiting for our ice cream the member called and said she was home. So we panicked and took the ice cream with us coming with any excuse to why we have ice cream. We got to her house across the street and tried her door she wasn't there. So we called her. She said that she was on her way and was going to stop at Diary Queen to get us dinner and ice cream... So we looked at our ice cream and knew how long it took for us to get our ice cream so we began to eat it very fast. We finished it in time however we didn't know how to get rid of our trash. So we looked everywhere for a trash can. We found some back door and found trash cans. So Hermana Castaneda got to go throw the evidence away. Then we proceeded to have Diary Queen and ice cream for dinner, the second round of ice cream was a little rough, but we did it.<br />
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This week I read Elder Oak's talk from this past general Conference entitled "The Godhead and the Plan of Salvation." I love when he says: "In contrast to the belief that God is an incomprehensible and<br />
unknowable mystery is the truth that the nature of God and our relationship to Him is knowable and is the key to everything else in our doctrine."<br />
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One of the most powerful thing I have seen on my mission is how we have chance and ability to come to know each member of the Godhead. How we can come to know the Savior and what he did for us. How we can come to know our Heavenly Father and his divine love for each and every single one of us. How we can come to know the Holy Ghost and how he guides us back to the Father. As well I know that if we don't make the time to know each member of the Godhead we are not living the gospel to its potential. By living the gospel we come to know the Godhead and their roles in our lives. As well as we come to know the Godhead we know how to repent and how to become better people. I know my Savior and I know he lives! I know my Heavenly Father and I can taste of the love he has for us. I know the Holy Ghost and I am learning how he speaks to me. I love y'all! Have a great week!<br />
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Ps next week I go to the temple!! So that means I will email on Tuesday! Yay!<br />
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Con Amor<br />
Hermana Ashford<br />
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Picture 1-2: cardboard umbrellas<br />
Picture 3: we ate chicken feet......<br />
Picture 4: us and recent converts. We call them the kids.<br />
Picture 5-6: throwing away evidence.<br />
Picture 7: #CityLife<br />
Picture 8: when you play I spy Texas on the train.<br />
Picture 9: when your companion doesn't like taking pictures.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-54646994928259492612017-04-25T04:43:00.000-07:002017-04-25T04:43:09.117-07:004/24/17--City Life yo!! Well guess what?!?! I am in the city! I am in Brooklyn! Yeah!! Life is good! We do a lot of walking in fact only walking and taking the train so I feel like a real missionary a little bit. It was nice being<br />in Brentwood with five lessons a day and being able to get there quickly. I get a little frustrated because we spend so much time traveling and taking a long time between visits, but there isn't much<br />I can do. I just hope that I can lose weight being here in the city! Lose everything I gained while in Brentwood! Well my new companion is Hermana Castañeda! She goes home at the end of this transfer so I will send my second missionary home. It should be a fun transfer!<br /><br />This week was full of sadness and excitement! Monday night we just spent time saying good bye to different people and crying. Then Tuesday was slightly stressful making sure I had everything I wasn't forgetting anything. As well we had to be early so that Hermana Reeve could pick up her new bee! It was so much fun! Then I spent most of the afternoon with Hermana Williams, I mean Tesa Williams, before she got ready to leave! Not going to lie I cried hard to see her leave. Afterwards Hermana Castañeda was like yeah you looked like a train hit you. So yeah. We then took the train in to our area and it took a while.<br /><br />The rest of the week we spent time trying to get to know everyone in the area. We are in a descent size branch. We are working with a couple of different recent converts and reactivated members to get to the temple soon. The whole branch seems super nice and so down for missionary work. As well they have a sign up for feeding the three sets of missionaries in our ward. I think I eat at member's houses as much as I did in Brentwood. We have a dinner appointment almost everyday this week! Which is great because I love Hispanic food!<br /><br />Life in the city is for sure different then life on the island. For starters where we live. We live above a coffee shop and a night club. So at night we go to sleep listening to loud music and drunk people.<br />As well we live on the third floor so it is a long way up. Also the train tracks run right by our house. So you hear the train running by 24/7. Then the other day walking through the train station we saw a<br />fight. The guy was covered in blood. Plus one night we looked out our window and some guys were like getting ready to shoot a video of some sort. But he guy being recorded was like seating in some big chair. It was odd. Then as we were watching this a van pulled over and a kid ran out and jumped the fence across the street. Then later the van came back and the kid climbed back over with a bag. No clue if we witness a robbery or something but it was odd.<br /><br />I have three semi funny stories for the week. The first one happened when we were walking home from the train last week. A bird pooped on my head! It was beyond gross. We promptly went home so hat I could take a shower and clean myself. I felt much better after my shower and I knew I was clean. The second semi funny story is from last night we showed up to the member's house who signed up to feed us, which by the way they live on Ashford St so hey will never forget me:) Then at the end of the visit they both were like we didn't know you were coming today, but they said we could go over anytime to eat. Awkward moment. Then semi funny story three is from last night as well we walked up to our recent converts house just as two other members from the branch showed up to visit her. It was super awkward because nether of us knew the other was going to be there. Then we started talking at dinner and Texas was brought up. Now mind you there are three Mexicans at the<br />table. Let's just say the conversation was funny. The Mexicans were defending themselves, I was defending Texas and one person was just seating there laughing at the whole ordeal. It was funny.<br /><br />This past week one of the talks I read was from this past conference by President Uchtdorf called "Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear." I have been thinking a lot about that this whole week. He talks about how we sometimes used fear as a motivation to do things. He points out that fear isn't a long lasting motivation however love is. I am realizing that my love for the Savior should he reason I do everything. I do everything out of love for him and all of his children. As well that goes with our challenges we face. He says: "Rather than dwelling on the immensity of our challenges, would it not<br />be better to focus on the infinite greatness, goodness, and absolute power of our God, trusting Him and preparing with a joyful heart for the return of Jesus the Christ?"<br /><br />I am realizing in everyday life that when I focus on the Savior and his love everything else comes in time and with strength. I know the Savior lives to give us the power we need. I know he loves us and<br />wants us to be the best we can be. I encourage y'all to look for us love more in your everyday life. I love y'all and I hope y'all have a great week!<br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford<br /><br />Picture 1: Loly 💗<br />Picture 2-3: Genny💙<br />Picture 4-5: Anguie💖<br />Picture 6: See ya later Tesa!❤️<br />Picture 7: Hermana Gourley<br />Picture 8: Spring time and new companion<br />Picture 9: night city skyline from our roof<br />Picture 10: Jennifer we took her to church!<br />Picture 11: 14 months in the mission! Going a little too fast!<div>
Picture 12: Ashford street<br />Picture 13: the church across the street reminds me of Disney world and see how close the train tracks are to our house<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-84419118564405918352017-04-18T04:49:00.002-07:002017-04-18T04:51:41.059-07:004/17/17--THE BEST WEEK EVER!!! With a sad ending...And new beginnings!So today we found out transfers. We had a big guess what was going to happen because on Friday Hermana Reeve got a call from President Reynolds saying she is going to be a trainer! Yeah! I am so excited for her! So we had a meeting amongst the baptism and temple trip and everything this past weekend. So we pretty much knew that I was out and Hermana Reeve was staying all weekend which gave a very sad twist to everything that was going on. Then today was the day to actually find everything out! So the zone leaders got and on and started reading the list of what was happening and they got to us. They said Sister Ashford out then Elder Corbett said Sister Reeve out!! We both stared at each other in pure shock and horror. We both started bawling like crazy! We were super sad! Then at the end they read of the list of people who were out and Hermana Reeve's name wasn't on it so we freaked. So we quickly called the zone leaders. Come to find out it was a prank and apparently Elder Corbett had said just kidding right he had said it but neither one of us heard! Oh Hermana Reeve was not happy for a moment there. It was only a little funny. On the other hand I am really sad to be leaving and have to say good bye to my beloved Brentwood. <br />
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Wow this week has been super crazy! We ran around like crazy and ended up with so much success! To begin the fun on Wednesday we had a zone training which was amazing! Hermana Reeve gave an amazing workshop or lesson to the group! Plus it was super fun to see Hermana Gourley and other friends! Then that night we picked up Anguie Artola and took her out for a mini mission! The first thing she did is cry that she was away from her family. She soon got over that the next day when we busily got to work visiting person after person and knocking doors. She was a contributor to our investigators and members. There were many times you could see the Holy Ghost work with her and have her make comments and she felt guided. It did feel like I was in training again teaching someone how to be a missionary cause she didn't do too much in the way of planning and participating in studies and didn't know how we did things. Yet you could tell she knew what she was doing. I loved having her with us! At the end when we took her home Friday she was crying cause she wanted to stay with us forever and never leave us or the mini mission. It was super funny. <br />
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Another week long event was our temple trip! We took Alex, Carlos, and Leslie to the temple for their first time. I have to say it was a miracle and a blessing we even made it there! When we set the appointment they told us we needed to have three Melchizedek priesthood holders. On Monday we had one and one maybe. Then a lady called us saying she and her husband would be there so then by Tuesday we were at two and a maybe. So we called about 3-8 people on Wednesday and Thursday. Come Friday morning we found out that the other lady could t come any more and our maybe and all of those 3-8 people we called or texted couldn't go. So now it is Friday and we have one person and the temple trip is the next day. Friday was a stressful day! Big freak out moments. We called around 25 people to come with us and none of them could come. Then a miracle happened and the temple called saying a couple of different people called saying they would be there so we were going to be ok and we didn't need to look for anymore people. The temple itself was an amazing experience! It was so fun to see them do baptisms. You could see a true glow around them afterwards. <br />
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Baptism one: so throughout the week we had an interview and quickly taught her all the rest of the lessons! She is a young women of a mom who had been less active. She was a taught a little bit by Hermana Williams and I when I was here a year ago. Her name is Kiara. She was baptized Saturday after we got back from the temple. The baptism went smoothly and it was so fun to see her shine and glow in such great happiness finally be baptized!<br />
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Baptism two: then on Sunday two girls got baptized who have become part of my life and my heart. We meet them six weeks ago at the beginning of this transfer. They are cousins of Alex Carlos and Leslie who we took to the temple. Anyways these past six weeks we have worked hard with lots of love to know how to best prepare them. There has been many road blocks along the way and there were days we didn't know if they would get baptized. However at the end of the transfer they got baptized on Easter Sunday! What a way to remember the resurrection of our Savior then watching someone take their first steps toward Him! They were baptized by their cousin Carlos and it was so fun to see him use is priesthood. The girls Cindy and Johanna gave the sweetest testimonies. They truly have changed and come to know their Savior a little more. It was awesome to see them change and grow over these past six weeks! I love Cindy and Johanna so much!<br />
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This past week our mission president invited us to read in a conference talk every day, so I have been trying to do that. One of the talks I read was a suggestion from my mom from this past general Conference by Elder Jeffery R Holland untitled Song Sung and Unsung. I love one part of his talk that hits home to me. He says:<br />
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"...then our Heavenly Father delights to have us sing in our own voice, not someone else’s. Believe in yourself, and believe in Him. Don’t demean your worth or denigrate your contribution. Above all, don’t abandon your role in the chorus. Why? Because you are unique; you are irreplaceable. The loss of even one voice diminishes every other singer in this great mortal choir of ours, including the loss of those who feel they are on the margins of society or the margins of the Church." <br />
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I have faced many days when I didn't feel unique or worth much. I have faced days that are hard and it would be just easier to give in. I know we have all faced those days, weeks, months, or years. I have come to see on my mission to see just a portion of how much God truly loves us. As I was seating at church on Sunday on the stand because I was playing the piano I was looking around at the Brentwood ward and I was over come with such love for each person. For each person who I had taught and interacted with. For each person who showed me how to be a little better, how to love a little more, and how to improve myself. I can only a portion of God's love for everyone and that portion I can see is already too much for me to understand. I know God loves us individually. I know he wants us to come back to him. I know each and everyone of us is important to Him! He loves us and is cheering us on as we fight through the battle of everyday life to return to Him. I love y'all and I pray that this week we will all take the time to talk to our Heavenly Father and feel of His love and peace. Have a great week! <br />
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Con Amor<br />
Hermana Ashford <br />
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Picture 1-3: Anguie Mini mission<br />
Picture 4-5: Temple Trip!<br />
Picture 6: we had started filling up the font for our first baptism and there were ants and spiders and other weird things in the water so we stoped filling the font and hoped in to go swimming and clean! Luckily the water was only up to our shins so it wasn't too high. Then the water want warm enough so we boiled water and dumped it in. <br />
Picture 7-8: Kiara's baptism!<br />
Picture 9-11: Brentwood Squad!<br />
Picture 12-14: Cindy and Johanna's baptism!<br />
Picture 15: Yanci and I! <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-33422207567382744802017-04-12T04:47:00.001-07:002017-04-12T04:55:18.957-07:004/11/17--Busy + Crazy + Stress = Mission LifeWell sorry I didn't email yesterday. We had interviews with our mission president so in order to have enough time for a district activity we moved our preparation day to Tuesday. So yeah! But anyways<br />
this past week has been super crazy and super busy. There is a huge blessing for serving here in Brentwood. You feel at times you have too many people to work with than you have time to work with them. This week was one of those weeks when you wished there was more time in the day so you could have time to visit everyone you want and need to visit. I count my blessings for how good of an area this place is. I know Heavenly Father puts us in the areas we need to be in.<br />
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So the funny stories. This past weekend the Spanish Elders had a baptism. The drama there is that it got pushed around because the Young Women were having an activity. Anyways so the baptism was "at 2" but when we showed up at 1:50 only the Elders were there. So we asked how everything was going. Bad choice because they were just stressed out so some of it came a little towards us. So they got everything figured out the investigator came and got baptized twice because his foot was sticking out of the water the first time. Then while they were changing Hermana Reeve and I showed the Easter Video and we showed it through an Apple TV connect to a TV. Then we were talking about how we find peace through Jesus Christ, so we asked everyone how they could share the video with their friends. One of the kids raised his hand and goes "Yo tengo un pregunta cómo conectado la tablet a la televisión?" Or in English how did you connect the iPad to the TV. It was super funny and was said in the middle of the lesson. Then the best part came afterwards. So after the service I started playing the piano to bring in the Spirit and because that is normally what is done. So while I played Hermana Reeve went to congratulate the investigador. She shock his and hand said congratulations. Afterwards let go of his hand crossed her arms. Well the guy didn't think a hand shack was enough so he went in very slowly to hug her. The thing is as missionaries we only do hand shakes to people of the opposite gender. So I watched the entire thing lay out. He hugged her for a good couple of seconds and she just stood there in shock with her arms crossed and staring at Elder Corbett to make him move off of her. After he finally let go we died laughing. I couldn't look at her for a little while without dying. The rest of the night was fun at the Young Women's activity and we helped by doing hair and nails. They did like a LDS Spa.<br />
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Then Sunday we had a special fireside by the missionaries for the whole stake. So the speakers were recent converts and they showed videos about revelation. As well the missionaries did special musical number. President and Sister Reynolds came out and spoke. Overall a fun night all based on members doing missionary work. Our recent convert and their cousin who is our investigator came to the fireside. So small back story is transfers are next week and Hermana Reeve really doesn't want to leave Brentwood. Like she would be so mad if she left. So she made our recent convert go up to President Reynolds and tell him to keep her in Brentwood because she is the best. The funniest part of it all was how awkward he looked waiting to talk to President Reynolds. Plus he was so excited to do something for us he did it so willingly. It was super funny because the next day in interviews Hermana Reeve said President Reynolds mentioned it to her.<br />
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I would like to share a quote from the women's session of General Conference from a couple weeks ago. The talk "The Beauty if Holiness" by Sister Carol F McConkie. She says,<br />
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"Sisters, if we would be holy, we must learn to sit at the feet of the Holy One of Israel and give time to holiness. Do we set aside the phone, the never-ending to-do list, and the cares of worldliness?<br />
Prayer, study, and heeding the word of God invite His cleansing and healing love into our souls. Let us take time to be holy, that we may be filled with His sacred and sanctifying Spirit. With the Holy Ghost as our guide, we will be prepared to receive the Savior in the beauty of holiness."<br />
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The part I love the most is give time to Holiness. I pondered that quote and what she was saying for quite some time. I in the end changed it to mean something so much personal and meaningful to me. I<br />
changed it to give time for Christ. I realized that everyday we need to give time to get to know the Savior and his power that is offered for us. I have come to an understanding that as we read the<br />
scriptures, say our prayers, and go to church everyday and every week we give time for Christ. The most important thing to me in the world is coming to know my Savior, and Redeemer Jesus Christ. He is the center piece to my life. He is the reason I get up everyday and take a couple more steps forward. Because of Him I find hope and joy and love and life. I know He lives and He is watching out for each and everyone of us. I invite y'all to give time for Christ. Don't just read your scriptures or say your prayers or just go to church or not do any of the above. I encourage y'all to give time for Christ and come unto Him. Come unto the fold and feel of His blessings. I promise you that as you do so you will feel of His love and guidance with more abundance in your life. You will find peace. I love y'all and I hope y'all find time to give for Christ.<br />
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Con Amor<br />
Hermana Ashford<br />
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Picture 1: we had deep cleaning and cleaned out the drained and found something gross<br />
Picture 2: cute selfie with the comp<br />
Picture 3-4: fun selfies with our investigators kids while she talked to her landlord for 30 minutes!!! That was a short lesson!<br />
Picture 5: heart attacking a member from the inside.<br />
Picture 6: a little background is this is Sebastian, Esther, and Randy who I taught when I was in the Hamptons. I worked a lot with them! I was so excited to hear that the mom and son (Esther and Randy) got baptized this past weekend. I got to see them at the fireside on Sunday. They were radiating with the Spirit.<br />
Picture 7: with the fantastic 5 the three kids and over plus the uncle their cousin who is getting baptized this Sunday.<br />
Picture 8-11: selfies because we are matching<br />
Picture 12-13: district pictures.<br />
Picture 14: district activity picture.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-41344654348405145682017-04-04T03:36:00.002-07:002017-04-12T04:55:06.007-07:004/3/17--General ConferenceI think I have only blinked like twice in the past 4 weeks and it was over! This transfer is going by so fast I can't even believe it! We have kept so busy and working hard it is exhausting. This week was just working and working then some fun with General Conference. We had some funny moments along the way and some interesting moments.<br />
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So this week one of our investigator's dad went to the hospital so we asked if he wanted to get a blessing from the elders. That itself was an experience and half. Afterwards when we were driving to our next appointment Hermana Reeve was like I want to make a cake for the Elders because they are always helping us and I want to pay them back. However the struggle was that Elder Weisler is allergic to milk so whatever we made couldn't have milk in it. We looked at many recipes but found nothing to make. Mind you it is like 8:30 at night so we don't have much time to get things pulled together. We messaged with a member and she told us substitutes for dairy products. We ended up making Texas Sheet cake. The coolest miracle of this was we needed buttermilk so we were going to substitute it with milk and vinegar but I couldn't remember the ratio. I prayed really hard and the idea of one tablespoon of vinegar to one cup of milk or almond milk in this case. We called the member and I was right! It was cool to see how God helped us to do a small service for the Elders. Then we ding-dong ditched them at their door with a note. They were so grateful! It was funny Elder Weisler ate so much of that cake. He basically ate half a cookie sheet of cake! So fun!<br />
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One of the highlights of my week was we went to Yanci's house and made papusas! Her sister taught us how to make them so when we go home we will know how to make them. It was so much fun! It was similar to the time before when I made them with Hermana Williams. Although this time I was much better at it because I had a year of practice and getting better. I am not quite to a Hispanic or fully made them all by myself. However I hope when I get home I will be really good at it.<br />
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I can't say much more exciting happened that was funny that would make sense out of contexts. I hope everyone got a chance to see the new prince of peace video I posted on Facebook! I love that the church puts out videos and gives us tools to help us better deepen our testimony of the Savior. I know he lives and he loves us beyond our understand!<br />
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Sorry it is so short not much exciting things happened this week! I love y'all!<br />
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Con Amor<br />
Hermana Ashford<br />
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Picture one: my piece of Texas Sheet cake.<br />
Picture two: Yanci Loves taking our picture<br />
Picture three: Pupusa making mine was a little small....<br />
Pictures four and five: Anguie!!!<br />
Picture six: Picture with four year old Jason<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-72980177589724503302017-03-28T14:35:00.002-07:002017-03-28T14:39:21.111-07:003/27/17--Wow! What a Week!I have to say this week has been one of the craziest and best weeks of my mission. I don't know how much better it could have gotten. We did about everything this week. We have been busy bees that never stood still for more than like 10 minutes. Any way, on to the highlights of the week.<br />
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Monday as after we all got done changing from basketball we were talking to Elder Corbett and Elder Weisler. Elder Corbett got super excited to tell us this story. So he starts talking about this mini fridge he had in college then goes into how where he was storing it while he was on his mission. Then out of no where he was telling about his garage and how his dad has to park his truck sideways. Then Hermana Reeve goes, "Uh what does this have to do with the mini fridge?" We died laughing and Elder Corbett was just flustered and didn't know how it related. The best part was the climax of his story is that his mini fridge is still waiting for him in his garage after two years. That just tells you the kind of Elders we work with. Such random and funny things.<br />
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The next exciting thing that happened was Wednesday we had exchanges with the sister training leaders. Who are super cool. We mainly did knocking and finding events. When we knocked that night it was like 30 degrees plus it was extremely windy. I couldn't feel my toes, fingers, face, and more by he end of knocking for two hours. The only highlight of that was some lady while knocking gave us cookies cause she felt bad for us. The best part was they were extremely good cookies. The next exciting event was Zone Training on Friday. We had a member from the Plainview ward come and teach us how he knocks doors. He knocks doors selling solar panel for a living. So he was giving us tips and tricks on how we can improve. The only downfall was this was the third time I had heard this workshop. I heard him give it twice before towards the beginning of my mission. So I just sat back and chilled. He did teach it a little bit different than normal but took just as long as he had<br />
the last two times. Super cool but super long at the same time.<br />
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Then funniest story of the week. Last night we were visiting a recent convert who got baptized the Saturday before I got in the area. Her husband is a very funny man. Slowly but slowly he is opening up to us and is slowly learning more about the church. We pray one day he will listen, but until then we are sassy with him and tease him all the time. Yesterday he told us how the week before he had been cleaning his car and the Jehovah Witness missionaries came by and were talking to him. He turned and looked and them and told them that he was Mormon. They awkwardly backed away and left. We laughed so hard. We were shocked that he would say that he was Mormon without ever<br />
listening to the lessons or going to church. He is such a funny guy and it makes life fun when we go over to visit the recent convert.<br />
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Then the highlight of all highlights for the week. Started Tuesday when Yanci called us and asked when we would go to the temple with her. We told her it would be best to go this month because next month we are planing on going to the temple with other recent converts. So she said to set everything up and we can go Saturday. So we start calling many people. Long story short by the end of Tuesday we had a small hope of going to the temple because her interview with the stake president wouldn't happen. Then Wednesday morning she called and said the bishop said that the stake president would be in Brentwood giving interviews that night. She said if she texted her boss she could most likely go. So all day we prayed. The sister training leaders thought we were crazy. Anyways that night she called and said she got the interview and we could go to the temple Saturday! So that is what we did! We went to the temple Saturday with her for the first time! It was awesome we listened to the session in Spanish. It was super fun!<br />
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This week reading in the Book of Mormon I came across a scripture I really liked. It is in Mosiah 16:4. And it says:<br />
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"4 Thus all mankind were lost; and behold, they would have been endlessly lost were it not that God redeemed his people from their lost and fallen state."<br />
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I love this scripture. To me it shows just how much we need Jesus Christ and his Atonement. I know that Christ suffered for our sins that way we can be saved. I know he lives and loves us. Let us all<br />
take time as we come to this Easter season to think about Him and what he has done for us. I love y'all! Have a great week!<br />
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Con Amor<br />
Hermana Ashford<br />
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Picture 1: We are the Fantastic 5. Us on our recent converts off to teach their cousins!<br />
Picture 2: Awkward picture number one of me.<br />
Picture 3: exchanges!<br />
Picture 4: Zone!<br />
Picture 5: early morning to train station<br />
Picture 6: train ride<br />
Picture 7: post temple picture<br />
Picture 8: awkward picture number two of me.<br />
Picture 9: when you play I spy Nina(a Hampton bays member) during general women's conference.<br />
Picture 10: 13 months with Sister Gourley</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-40584287075164477052017-03-20T11:25:00.002-07:002017-03-20T11:25:30.803-07:003/20/17--❄️❄️Blizzard But Not Really ❄️❄️Well what a week. If you can tell by the title we had a little bit of snow this week. To be honest when I cam back I had hoped I had missed all of the snow and wouldn't have to deal with it. On the other hand God had a different plan for me. Thank goodness I am in a car area so my poor companion wouldn't have to listen to me complain that much about snow. However I think Hermana Reeve got a taste of it this week. Poor thing. I feel a little bit bad.<br /><br />Anyways last week on Tuesday we had a very eventful day. So all day Monday we planed on how we were going to walk to a member's house that lives in the same apartment complex as the elder's so that we would have company if we got snowed in on Tuesday. So we planed it out and talked to the member and the elders and got it all worked out. Tuesday came and we woke up to a little bit of snow and then it was raining. So everything was mush. So we were like ok just to be safe we are still going through with our plans. So we walked over and we were wet. Soaking wet. Apparently my snow boots do well with snow but not rain because the water seeped into my boots. So my feet were soaking wet. Then we get there and have studies with the member. Who is super cool by the way. Her name is Jess and she is a convert of like 2 years and has her own quirky personality. Anyways we get done and we made food for the Elders and the member so the Elders came over and we chatted. Come to find out that President said we could drive but try not to as much as possible. So we walked over for studies with Jess and to talk to the Elders. Uhh just a little upset about that. Anyways the night ended up being really good because we found a couple new investigators that have some potential.<br /><br />Although the rest of Tuesday was nasty weather wise. So it snowed like 2-4 inches over night. Then it rained all day long. So everything was mushy and gross. Plus it was really windy and we could have gotten blowed away to Kansas or something. The only nice part about the nasty weather was that everyone and I mean everyone was at home. Hardly anyone left their houses. Basically everyone had work canceled. So it made doing missionary work pretty easy because we just visited everyone because they were all at home. So that made that day fairly easy.<br /><br />As for the rest of the week, to be honest, it was all seems as one. We had our respective meetings and visited some of the normal people. On Friday St Patrick's day we had Mega Zone which was awesome. The funniest part was at the beginning we were talking to Sister Peterson, who is the mission nurse, and they started saying a prayer to bless the food. Well, Sister Peterson didn't notice hey were praying so kept talking rather loudly, may I say, right through the beginning of the prayer. Then we told her they were praying and she got so embarrassed. Hermana Reeve and I laughed our heads off. She thanked us so many times that we told her. Oh my goodness it was funny. <div>
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Most of Mega Zone I just pondered about my mission and how I want to make these next 5 months count. I want to live each moment as one to remember. Then after the Conference we were talking to Elder Corbett and Elder Weisler, who are the zone leaders, in our district as well we work with them to cover Brentwood. Anyways they had a baptism last week and they were asking us a question about it and Elder Corbett was like that is a decent idea. We were like sorry our ideas aren't good enough for you. He got embarrassed as well and was like I am sorry I didn't mean it like that. It was hilarious. Good times. Good times.</div>
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<br />This week at the baptism the Elders ask that we give a little workshop on families while the family is changing. In my studies for this I found a quote that I absolutely love and I feel like is something that<br />is true for all families. It is in a talk called "Eternal Laws of Happiness" by Elder Lynn A. Mickelsen in the November 1995 Ensign. It says:<br /><br />"Our happiness in this life and joy in the future as eternal families depend on how well we live them."<br /><br />Pretty short and to the point but I love it. If we want things in the future we have to live for them now. The eternities won't be perfect unless you are striving to be perfect. Your family won't automatically<br />get along in the eternities if you don't strive to be friends with you siblings today. I know this to be true. I have seen in my own life. The moment I strive to be friends and show love to my siblings,<br />parents, companions, friends, members and so on I have built better and stronger relationships that I will cherish for the rest of my life. I challenge each of you to think about the people around you and<br />find one person you can strengthen a relationship with and go and do. I know the Lord will bless you and the person you are reaching out. I love each and everyone of you and I hope y'all have a great week!<br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford<br /><br />Picture 1: Snow day<br />Picture 2: us on the snow day<br />Picture 3: blow drying my wet cold feet<br />Picture 4: we had the cleanest car award<br />Picture 5: Mega Zone #didntknowhowclosetoseatnexttopresident<br />Picture 6: recent converts got the priesthood<br />Picture 7: squad pic<br />Picture 8: late night bed picture. I look less awkward this time.<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04920908474367285903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634536981405822681.post-64204353136755916732017-03-19T06:26:00.000-07:002017-03-19T06:26:08.370-07:003/13/17--Deja VuWOW I feel like I am like reliving my life just better this time!! Soooo to explain that I am now in Brentwood which was my first area when I got into the mission field a year ago. So we have been visiting members that I haven't seen in forever. I have been loving it! Ahhh! As well I am loving my new companion! Her name is Hermana Reeve! She is from San Francisco California! She comes from a family of six kids! She has been on her mission for 7 months now. She loves the outdoors and is super fun! We spend a lot of time laughing and just talking. So yeah that is my little update on life here in my "new" area! <br /><br />So this week has been super fun seeing a lot of the members. It just makes me happy that most of them remember me and get so excited to have me back. It was funny one of the girls in the ward who is like 10 was like I don't remember you. She told me I was just a replacement for the other sister who used to be here. I reminded her that I was here before the other sister was here. She went quiet and then said not for me because I don't remember you. Then I jogged her memory on some of the fun things we did and she remembered me and said we were best friends now. So fun how you can persuade little kids to love you by just being fun. <br /><br />As well this week was fun because this past weekend we had stake Conference and I got to see all of the members from Hampton Bays branch. It was cute the branch president invited us to a munch and mingle they were having after stake Conference. So it was fun to walk around and talk with them. Most of them were like I thought you had finished your mission because we saw pictures of you at home on Facebook. So I think I explained what happen at least 20 times to different people. But that was alright because I got to see them and talk with them. <br /><br />Tender mercies- because we had so many tender mercies I am going to make a list of them with a small explanation.<br /><br />1) Anguie- She is the first person I watch get baptize. About a year ago when I was here three weeks after getting here she got baptized. This past week she told us that she and her family are getting prepared to be sealed together. Her parents are already sealed but Anguie isn't sealed to them. So we are super excited for her to get sealed! As well we are preparing to do a mini mission with her to prepare to go on a mission.<br /><br />2) Yanci- She was a less active we worked with to help get her active. We would play soccer with her and even tried to dig her a pool. Now she is active and has taken to the necessary steps to go to the temple for herself. She told yesterday she is preparing to go this coming Saturday and invited us to come. I am so excited for her to further feel of God's love for her!<br /><br />3)Sebastian and Esther- While visiting with the members of Hampton Bays I realized a former investigator I would teach was there with his family. Now this is a family I love dearly and can't count the times I cried for them and wanted them to feel of the full blessings of the gospel. Well after talking with the Sisters they said the whole family is preparing for baptism. My excitement was and still is through the roof. I am so excited and happy they are progressing. To feel of the full blessings of the gospel. <br /><br />4)Referrals- We have had countless members come to us saying they have a friend they would like us to teach. We have so many people we can tell are ready and prepared to hear the gospel. I am excited to see where everything goes. <br /><br />5)Alex, Carlos, and Leslie- They are siblings who just recently got baptized a week ago. Carlos is 16 and had his interview for the priesthood yesterday. Bishop said that once he gets the priesthood on Sunday he can then give it to Alex who is 12. We are so excited to see them get to experience the priesthood and give it to each other. <br /><br />6)Snow- Others may not see this as a tender mercy but I do. This week it snowed hard and then we are supposed to have a blizzard tomorrow and may get snowed in. The tender mercy is that I am in an area that has a car. I don't have to walk around in the snow and cold and make my companion mad at me because I complain about the snow too much. Hermana Reeve at the end of a day made the statement that she realized I really hate the snow and cold. <br /><br />This week I have been thinking a lot about God and his will for me. I was a little nervous about coming back into an area I have already served in. I don't know why I am here, if it for my companion, to see some of these people progress, I missed teaching someone I was supposed to teach, or someone is now ready for me to teach. Whatever it is I want to make sure I do it and it to please God. I found a scripture in Moroni 7:33 that gave me strength. It says:<br /><br />"33 And Christ hath said: If ye will have faith in me ye shall have power to do whatsoever thing is expedient in me."<br /><br />I realized that God will give me power and strength to do his will. If I simply have and do the things I am supposed to do then I will be given power and guidance to the people I am here to influence to be influenced by. I am excited to learn and become a better person. I realized I don't have those life changing moments that define a person. For me personally the understanding comes with time. I have recognized differences in myself and seen how I changed with time. I love the mission and they make you forever changed. I love y'all and have a great week!<br /><br />Picture 1: last day in Flushing and maybe last day serving in the city. Which is fine two weeks was good enough for me. <br />Picture 2: the gang back together. I was so happy to see them!<br />Picture 3: our sad face that our recent convert didn't answer our call....<br />Picture 4: our sassy face to a teenage less active who wasn't home but her mom was so she let us in. So at her house without the person we wanted to see <br />Picture 5: snowing hard core<br />Picture 6: winter wonderland<br />Picture 7: it was his birthday this week so we took a picture. <br />Picture 8: while waiting for Carlos to get out of his interview we took a picture with the Velasquez family. <br />Picture 9: Us and Yanci getting ready for the temple<br />Picture 10: more awkward bed pictures. I am really good at making them awkward. <br /><br />Con Amor<br />Hermana Ashford <div>
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