tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70587830779969279512024-02-20T11:26:17.977-08:00faldy30 takes sin cityashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08678940744097856202noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058783077996927951.post-53272451573489413022016-06-02T15:26:00.000-07:002016-06-02T15:26:03.177-07:00May 30, 2016 ¿A que hora sales por el pan?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #212121;">The Carrillo kids and Ulisses got baptized this week! Ulysses lives </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">with them and is a family friend. He also takes care of their chickens </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">when they are in Mexico. You could say he's like Alice and the Brady </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">Bunch. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">Ulysses has been coming to church for the last month with the Carrillo family and likes </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">it a lot but he wasn't there when we taught a lot of the lessons to the family, so we didn't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">plan on baptizing him with them. Anyway, on Wednesday, he was pretty </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">much like "can I get baptized with them?" We read D&C 20:37 with him:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We talked about the promise he was going to make with God, then finished </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">teaching him the lessons on Thursday and he got interviewed and then </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Friday was able to receive the ordinance of baptism along with the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Carrillo's.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>We don't take the best pictures: Ulysses' eyes are closed</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="color: #212121;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">One thing I'm super grateful for is the reproving and correction the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">Holy Ghost gives us. Like Elder Corbridge (he's in the 1st quorum of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">the 70) taught us, "All we need to do to know we are right with the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">Lord is to understand that we are idiots." The context of that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">statement is the fact that "The only intelligent thing to do in this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">life is obedience and everything else is stupid." We need to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">understand that every good thing in life comes from being obedient to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">the commandments. When we understand all of these things, it's really </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">easy for the Holy Ghost to give us correction to help us #elevate our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">discipleship of Jesus Christ.</span><br style="color: #212121;" /><br style="color: #212121;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">I'd just like to give a special shoutout to Steph Curry... I'm on a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">mission but I'm still in America so I happened to hear he's doing some </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">great things right now. It's all in the fundamentals people!</span><br style="color: #212121;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">Also, a shoutout to my friend Robert at Men's Warehouse for scoring me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">a sweet deal on a Calvin Klein suit to finish out my mission:)</span><br style="color: #212121;" /><br style="color: #212121;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">Love you all!</span><br style="color: #212121;" /><br style="color: #212121;" /><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background-color: white;">Elder Isaac Faldmo</span></span></span>ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08678940744097856202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058783077996927951.post-57084680526678891002016-06-02T15:14:00.004-07:002016-06-02T15:32:54.317-07:00May 23, 2016 The Corral Family and H. Wilkinson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our greeting at ward council:)</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This week was another good week! The Corral Family got baptized on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Saturday and it was a super great experience. They are the result of a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">member of the church opening their mouth to share what they know to be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">true. I know that there are people ready to make a promise to God to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">follow him and keep his commandments and be baptized in every part of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the world at all times. The Lord calls no person to fail and "no </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing." </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>The Corral Family and us:)</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There's people </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like the Corral family out there waiting... we just need to find them and be there for them.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Love this family!</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was able to go back to my last area to the Robindale YSA Ward back </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">across town in Warm Springs this week on exchanges with Elder Green </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from Rexburg, Idaho. I miss that place!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Also, Hannah Wilkinson came to Vegas this week for a clinic at UNLV </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and took Merrill and I out to lunch too! Thanks to her I will probably </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">be in Arizona for some of this summer with her kicking my rear with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">her workouts. #GoSunDevils</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>She's practically my sister but she's also my future strength and conditioning coach!</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There were two more sweet new families that came to church yesterday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and one of them have a baptismal date now! People are prepared </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">everywhere and searching for truth!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">My friend</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="currentHitHighlight" id="0.36814435780979693" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">Isaid</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">was able to get baptized this past Saturday! I am so </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">grateful for the opportunity o had to teach him. I wrote most of his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">story in his last email. He just loves everything about the church and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">loves learning. I've learned from him that humility is the key to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">progress. Dallin H. Oaks said, "the quality we must cultivate is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">humility. Humility is the great protector." He is always humble and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">hungry to learn more. His wife and kids will hopefully be able to get </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">here in about 2 months from Juarez! Another cool thing about his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">baptism was that he was baptized by Hermano Guerrero, a convert that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">was taught by Elder Thorne when he was in this Ward! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">On Saturday in the morning we went to an elementary school to do </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">service. The parents all scheduled and registered their kids and so we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">translated for them because our neighborhood is literally Mexico and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">none of the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">parents speak English.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elder Lynn G. Robbins and Jeffrey R. Holland came to visit us this week! It was a super spiritual experience to hear from an Apostle of Jesus Christ and one of the 7 Presidents of the 70. Elder Holland is one of the funniest guys I've ever met. So we were all at the Warm Springs Stake Center and we lined up on the stage as a mission for a picture with them and once Elder Holland walked in it got dead silent. After a few steps, with his Southern Utah dry humor, Elder Holland just says, "BOO" and we all started laughing. We all got to meet them personally. I told him my grandpa was Ross Hurst and he said, "you're kidding?" and then I said how my grandpa loved playing basketball with him and he said, "well that's good!" That's the only convo I got from him cause there were 400 missionaries he had to greet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The training that he and Elder Robbins gave was amazing. Elder Robbins talked about chapter 6 of Preach My Gospel. He talked about "who we are now is who are becoming." It made me think a lot about the person I am right now and my nature. My nature has changed a lot on my mission but there's still a lot of things I need to fix. Elder Holland talked a lot about teaching skill and how we can "go where the investigators are and take them where they need to be." Elder Holland is such a beast that he quoted himself during his training. You know you've made it when you can quote yourself. At the beginning of his training he said he did a personal interview with each of us when he shook our hand. He said, "You guys get it. When I go to missions and they don't get it, it gets ugly but you're safe." President Snow went to a mission president's seminar in Texas 2 weeks ago and Holland was there too and said to President Snow, "You guys in Vegas are killing it. Whatever you're doing keep doing it."<br /><br />Another miracle happened yesterday. A family of 7 walked into church. The parents are both less-active members but said they want to start coming back. All 5 of their kids have barely ever gone to church and aren't baptized yet so we are going to start teaching them this week.<br /><br />Transfers are this week and I'm going to be dying here in El Rancho! A former missionary came to our ward yesterday with his wife and said he started and ended his mission here just like me and it was the best part about his mission. I'm super pumped to give my all this transfer and keep elevating!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This week, Elder Merrill and I were tracting in a trailer park and we knocked on this door and this lady let us right in and said how she's been to our church before and wants to start going again and get baptized. So that was fun. It's very rewarding to be a full-time</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">missionary right now. There are prepared people EVERYWHERE we just gotta find them.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Finding the elect is a fun process."Go where your celebrated, not where you're tolerated." -Eric Thomas</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Brandon (former Elder Candelario) is in our Ward and got back from his mission about 2 months ago from Mexico City. He's a complete beast and we had him train our zone on helping investigators keep their commitments. Throughout my mission I've loved working with recent RMs because they're full of really good ideas and insights to move he work</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">forward.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We had the "Rovers" or traveling trainers come to our zone this week. They are Elder Sawyer (my former companion) and Elder Taylor (he was born in Panguitch). Rovers go around to each zone and we send them to various companionships and they work with them one on one and help build up each area. It was helpful to be able to be able to send them</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to companionships and have another set of eyes on the North zone to give us feedback. Elder Sawyer ends his mission in 2 days everyone! I just wanna give a shoutout to him and say how great of a missionary he is. He left a legacy in Vegas! He's going home 1 week early because his brother is marrying Ty Detmer's daughter this weekend. I love you Elder Sawyer!</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><br />At Zone Conference they, the missionary department was there and they gave all of our cars "Tiwis". They're car monitors that tell you when you don't have your seatbelt on, when you're speeding and aggressively<br />driving. I'm trying to get a Morgan Freeman voice on mine so I can feel rightly rebuked when I speed.<br /><br />We found a few more elect families this week! Two of them were member referrals. One of them is a neighbor of a member and with the other family, the mom Is a coworker of a member. All 8 of those people in those families have baptismal dates now! #Tier3MissionaryWork One of the families is a single mom and 4 little kids. It's been super humbling to teach them. They don't have a lot at all and accepted the gospel so quickly.<br /><br />We got a new Ward mission leader! Sergio! He got back from his mission in Lima Peru about a yeah ago. The assistant WML and other Ward missionaries are mostly young guys in their 20s and 30s so we named our new Ward mission team "Los Novatos" which means like rookies or inexperienced. It's a lot of fun right now. Unlimited amount of work and amazing members to work with.<br /><br />I love you all!</span></div>
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A donde van tan peinado? Sorry for not writing a lot last week but I really just wanted to play basketball so yeah.<br /></div>
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This week was quite a good one. We are teaching a lot of people and a lot are progressing and coming to church. I was able to go back to my last Ward for another baptism last Friday! Tamara got baptized and after the baptism Shannon, her sister, who Thorne and I taught and they've been teaching still is going to get baptized in June right before I go home after she gets through some personal stuff.</div>
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Those are all things that we have to do. Jesus will never force the atonement on us... it is up to each of us to learn about it, accept it, and apply it. It's a simple and perfect, yet difficult at times. It is the path back to our Heavenly Father. </div>
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ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08678940744097856202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058783077996927951.post-62850074321333676992016-04-05T18:30:00.001-07:002016-04-05T18:30:19.110-07:00April 4, 2015 Quick Update<pre style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; white-space: normal;">Hey Fam!
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ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08678940744097856202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058783077996927951.post-12005348725164475102016-03-30T19:55:00.000-07:002016-03-30T19:55:01.914-07:00March 28, 2016 La Pascua<pre style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; white-space: normal;">Happy Easter everyone!
So most wards have a special sacrament meeting planned out for Easter and all the bells and whistles ready to go. For our Ward they didn't have anything so in Ward council yesterday on Easter Sunday, they told us we had to speak because they didn't have anyone else. So yeah I don't really know what I said but I talked for 15 minutes about the resurrection. It was pretty cool
because I was able to share my experience and testimony about knowing how the resurrection was real. From experiences at Grandpa Ross' funeral and also another funeral of a young boy here on my mission Heavenly Father has let me know through His Spirit that our bodies and
our spirits will actually come together again and be glorified, perfected beings. It's a step that we will be able to take to be able to become that much more like our Father in heaven. It's a pretty wonderful truth that we have a full knowledge of thanks to the restoration.
Elder Merrill my companion is a boss and it's a lot of fun to serve with him. We are teaching some pretty special people right now so I hope we have a big April to follow up with what we did in March. North Las Vegas is the place to be and there are a ton of miracles happening every day.
We just have to want them, pray for them and most importantly WORK for them. "Work, work, work, there is no satisfactory substitute, especially in missionary work." -Ezra Taft Benson
I'm so grateful for my mission and the opportunity I have to grow in so many different ways every day. I'm starting to learn to see every situation/problem/weakness as a opportunity rather than an obligation. We just need to realize what we're thinking about when our effort is low. When effort is low it's probably because we see things as an obligation rather than an opportunity to grow into what God wants us to be. The way we think about things in our life is everything.
I hope March Madness is going well and all of your brackets are busted and Remember everyone when you're shopping to "See Hurst First" :)
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so far and it was a lot of fun to serve with him. I'm staying here and my new companion is Elder Merrill! I served around him in my last area. He is from Cardston, Alberta Canada and went to BYU for a year before his mission. He has been out for about a year and a half and is a knockdown 3-point shooter :) He will be my companion most likely for the rest of my mission, he's gunna kill me!
This week I was able to go back to my last area to the Robindale YSA Ward (AKA RobSquad) for Haley's Baptism! She is best friends with a member of our Ward named Tatiana and one time we were at Tatiana's house for dinner and we asked her if we could teach any of her friends and she's said, "yeah I'll text one right now." (That's why YSA wards are so bomb.) Anyway, Elder Thorne and I started teaching Haley and a couple days after the first lesson, Haley, her friend texted us and said she didn't want to continue to learn because she didn't like the church's
stance on gay marriage cause she had a few friends that were but thanked us anyway. A few months later she changed her mind and decided to start learning again and decided to be baptized! I'm grateful that the church and gospel are true because we don't really convince
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imagine." We asked him if he had ever heard that before and he said "no" and started to cry again. We continued talking about this truth throughout the lesson and when we were almost to the end he wanted to go back to the first page just so he could read that sentence again. It helped me be more grateful for the knowledge of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Without the restoration we wouldn't have a full understanding of that simple, yet profound truth. God is our literal Father in Heaven-- not just some blob floating around. He knows us perfectly and knows how to heal us through His Son's Atonement. Martin learned that last night and accepted a date to be baptized. </span></pre>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">About a month ago, a priest in our Ward and I were out and about and a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">lady named Mixdrey opened her door and invited us in. Mixdrey and her daughter Ana </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">were baptized this week! They are two of the most solid people I've </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">taught on my mission. Mixdrey is already almost done reading the Book of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Mormon and Ana cancelled her school and is going to go on a mission in</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">a year. Shoutout to my friend Sylvia for talking to Ana and helping her via text and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">answering some of her questions!</span><br />
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<br style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Elder Smith and I are loving serving the Spanish speakers here in El Rancho. My </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">listening and understanding is almost all the way back to where I was a year ago with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Elder Felix so I pretty much know everything everyone is saying and my speaking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">has gotten a lot better too these past few weeks. Elder Smith is a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Spanish genius!</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" /><div style="text-align: center;">
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I was able to go to the temple this week with Elder Sawyer to be there for Leona's first time at the temple doing baptisms! He and I taught and baptized her when we were companions. She had her own family names and was able to do their baptisms and confirmations!</pre>
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The Ace Show was in Vegas this week and so that means every Hurst and their dog was here to be at it. I was able to see my Uncle Bruce and Aunt Holly and also my Uncle Jason and the mom's friends and Uncle Jason's in-laws the Smiths! I love you guys!</span></pre>
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First off S/O to my cuz Wilhelm Clark for tonight and his first playoff game! #OHS</pre>
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"13 For how knoweth a man the master whom he has not served, and who
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Then later that day I was able to go back to my last area for Jason's baptism! He was someone Elder Chambers and I found on exchanges a little over a month ago and he's one of those people who is just ready for the gospel and he accepted it right away. He's going into the military and so there were lots of people from of his unit and some of his officers that were at the baptism. Naturally, one of the songs was "Onward Christian Soldiers."</pre>
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I was able to reunite with Elder Thorne on Tuesday! He came to my area for exchanges and it was good to be with him for the day. He's finally made his decision and is going to try and walk on at the Y for football!</pre>
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It was a good week #2 here in the land Northward. We did everything we could to "...fortify against the Lamanites, from the west sea, even unto the east; it being a day’s journey for a Nephite, on the line which they had fortified and stationed their armies to defend their <b><u>north</u></b> country." (Helaman 4:7)</div>
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We went on 2 exchanges with 2 of the District Leaders in our zone and their companion's this week. On one of these exchanges I went with my MTC companion, Elder Bunch! If anyone has any questions about technology, ask him. He is going to make a lot of money doing whatever he's going to do after the mission. This is our first time serving in the same zone on our missions, so it was good to catch up and talk about the things we are going to do to finish strong. We had a pretty cool experience with a family that we taught in my area. </div>
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So we are teaching this guy named Luis who was in the Mexican Mafia. He has a pet pigeon. No we're not talking like President Monson owned pigeons, it's just a pigeon that came off the street. It doesn't even have a cage. But I've gotten used to it and we're buds now. </div>
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Some other awesome people we are teaching are Maexdre & Ana. They are a mother and daughter and from Cuba. They came to church and loved it! Maexdre read all the way to Alma 5 in 3 days. Then, on her own terms, she drove to the temple to look at it! </div>
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ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08678940744097856202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058783077996927951.post-64240525029632161082016-02-08T14:22:00.004-08:002016-02-18T09:23:43.657-08:00February 8, 2016 #Number1North<pre style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; white-space: normal;">Hey Fam!
I'm having a blast serving back in El Rancho with Elder Smith! He's the funniest companion I've had and we are having a great time together. I don't know of I told you last week but he's from Vienna, Virginia right by DC. He went to BYU for a year before his mission. He's also an amateur rapper. </pre>
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The Lord is blessing the North Zone a ton right now. This transfer we are "#KnockOutNorth: KO'd for KI's" (key indicators). That's our zone vision and Elder Smith and I rolled it out this week at our Zone Council. We are focusing on finding for the month of February and already broke our zone
record for finding this past week! Our local leaders are all on board and we have a great Ward Mission Leader and if we stay humble and hungry some positive outlying things can happen these next few months! #Number1North </pre>
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My Spanish is doing ok right now. Still knocking some rust off but through fasting and prayer we're going to get there. Like 90% of the people we talk to are Spanish speaking so that makes it easier to progress faster with the language. It was cool to come to church yesterday and see the Rubio Family, a family Elder Rivas and I baptized. They were all there and very active. I'm going to get them to the temple before I leave here! I love serving in the ghetto areas. People are so humble and crazy! :)
So it is with us, North Town is the place to be for missionary work and seeing miracles everyday! <b>This has been one of the best weeks on my mission!</b></pre>
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On Saturday, Kaleb got baptized! A few months ago, Elder Thorne and I went to prosball at Sunset park. Kaleb and his brother were there and we beat them in a little 2 on 2 pickup game and then shared the lesson of the Restoration with them. They didn't live in our area so we passed them over to Elder Sawyer and Chambers who were assigned to Kaleb's area. So they started teaching Kaleb more and he progressed really quickly and was baptized on Saturday!</pre>
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taught me! And of course, I'm super blessed to have had the opportunity to serve with Elder Thorne these past 2 transfers. He has taught me a ton and also helped me get back into shape :) But, I'm also super excited for the future and the opportunity I have to serve back in the North! We're going to be #Number1North and break some records! Let's go to work!</pre>
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<br />ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08678940744097856202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058783077996927951.post-81555648831770005532016-01-27T11:02:00.003-08:002016-01-27T11:02:58.069-08:00Ancestors and Elder Corbridge visit January 27, 2016<div style="color: #444444; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">
Hey everybody here's a quick update of what's going on with me the past week or so:</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">These past few days we have had the opportunity and the blessing to have Elder Lawrence Corbridge of the 1st Presidency of the Quorum of the Seventy and his wife with our mission. It started with a special MLC on Sunday night and then 2 mega zone conferences on Monday and Tuesday. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;">While Elder Corbridge was here I had the chance to be interviewed personally by him and get some 1-on-1 time. He is probably the most intelligent person ever with the scriptures. One question I posed to him in my interview was "how can I avoid temptation after my mission?" and without delay he responded with D&C 45:57:</span></div>
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Last Wednesday was the Worldwide Missionary Broadcast for all of the missionaries throughout the world. We were able to hear from a few of the apostles (Anderson, Bednar, Oaks) and others from the Missionary Executive Council. It was titled "Teach Repentance and Baptize Converts." I loved it because all of the talks and trainings were on the 8 fundamentals of missionary work or from the Missionary Guide <i>Preach My Gospel. </i>It's all about the fundamentals for whatever we do in life! </div>
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I also was able to go on exchanges with Elder Chambers this past week! I'm so grateful for the mission and the friendships we develop because of it! I can't wait to watch him play at BYU after the mission!</div>
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So I have become quite fascinated with my ancestor named Thomas Sirls Terry. A member from a Ward I formerly served in is a descendant of him also and gave me a huge book with all of Thomas and his family's history. Here are a couple of my favorite Thomas Sirls Terry quotes from his journal:</div>
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"When famine and starvation stared me in the face, and hunger had so weakened my mortal frame, that when at my labor I would have to sit down to rest in order to gain strength... still I hung on to my faith and integrity in the Lord ... and when a mist of darkness had darkened the horizon of truth and when the prophets of God, who were slain for the testimony which they bore, by the wicked friends of hell, and when destruction seemed to the total overthrow of the whole church, my faith was still in the Lord, and would serve the God of Israel and would never let anything shake me from my firm position in the commandments of Christ. Therefore, my dear children, let nothing of an evil nature persuade you from a righteous course through life, and always carry out your righteous decrees and be firm in your determination."</div>
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ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08678940744097856202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058783077996927951.post-29458311994357575022016-01-24T20:22:00.001-08:002016-01-28T08:45:07.818-08:00January 18, 2016 "No Bad Days!"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Birthday this week on the 22nd to my father David! Love you dad! Thanks for being a great example of hard work and consecration!
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ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08678940744097856202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058783077996927951.post-44659811249393684972016-01-12T15:18:00.001-08:002016-01-28T08:45:42.003-08:00January 11, 2015 The Story of Bryan Mandujano<pre style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; white-space: normal;">This was one of the best weeks of my mission! </pre>
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started my mission in North Las Vegas in a Spanish Ward named El Rancho. While there, Elder Rivas and I were working very closely with Bryan. Over the course of the last year and a half since I left El Rancho, a few crazy things have happened to bring Bryan to last Saturday... His baptism. Here is his story.
This week Bryan Mandujano and his wife got baptized. He is a true example of the love our Savior has for all of us and that our Savior's hand is always extended to us... no matter how far we think we are. Bryan was found by missionaries about 19 months ago. He has always had a sincere desire to follow Christ and be baptized but he has struggled with substance abuse and addictions for the last couple of years. Missionaries have taught him constantly and tried to help him for the last 18 months with dozens of potential baptismal dates which all failed because of his relapses. Many of us who taught him even began to question and lose faith that he would ever be able to overcome his addictions. At one point, it even got to where his girlfriend had a plane ticket to leave but at the last minute decided to stay with him. With their newborn son she felt she couldn't break up the family.</pre>
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would make it, but he did come out of it. When he woke up he had limited use of his body and had permanent damage. However he said that during his coma, his friend who had died in the crash came to him and told him he was ok. His friend told Bryan that he didn't need to worry about him because he was in spirit paradise waiting for Bryan because he had made the covenant of baptism. Bryan immediately changed after that. From that point, he started progressing for real and since his first meeting with the missionaries. He finally was clean of drugs for the first time! All that remained for hi to enter into the covenant of baptism was to be married to his girlfriend Maria. This past Saturday Maria and Bryan were married and
baptized directly after the wedding. For the past 18 months many missionaries have worked with Bryan and Maria and he finally has entered the fold. Bryan and Maria are now striving towards an eternal family through their future temple sealing and overcoming all the odds against them!</pre>
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This stuff it too good! I love this mission! #NLVM</div>
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ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08678940744097856202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058783077996927951.post-87051043973375086602016-01-05T18:47:00.000-08:002016-01-28T08:46:39.971-08:00January 4, 2015 DRIZZY DRAKE<pre style="color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What's up everybody?? we've had a pretty great past 2 weeks!
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Mary got baptized on New Years Day! She's a foreign exchange student from Russia and is still working on her English but it's been cool to see her progress in the Gospel through trials in her life. Her host family are all members and she's going to go to BYUI next fall.</span></pre>
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I grew a lot spiritually in 2015 and I'm excited to keep progressing here in 2016! It's time!
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<pre style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; white-space: normal;">We are teaching a lot of people and one of them is getting baptized at the end of this month. Her name is Mary and she's a foreign exchange student from Russia. She just got here a month ago so she's still learning English and culture. She lives with a member family and is going to BYU-I next fall! She's super prepared! We were teaching this guy by a pool this week. He was a little under the influence of alcohol. We got done with the lesson and Thorne takes a couple steps back forgetting that we are by a pool and splashes right into the hot tub.... </pre>
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ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08678940744097856202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058783077996927951.post-74877723907786644412015-12-07T16:45:00.003-08:002015-12-07T16:45:59.592-08:00December 7, 2015 Raining Miracles...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Elder Thorne and I LOVE President Snow!!!</b></span></div>
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and <u>that's how it's supposed to be</u>! Our Ward is going to be constantly changing because of people leaving and coming at the end of every semester. We have a couple of UNLV athletes that are in our Ward that served missions that help us out a lot when they aren't busy with their athletic season.
Elder Thorne and I are <b>very</b> tired all the time. During weekly planning we were talking about some things and fell asleep...<b>while we were talking!</b> Yeah we don't sleep a lot. It's all good though!
We love being here right now, time is going by super fast so we're kinda just soaking this up! We feel super blessed to be companions right now! Everyone here is pumped for the BYU Vs. Utah game! Elder Thorne and I figured out we were both at the Las Vegas Bowl together when we were kids when BYU played Oregon!
#HYPE #ELEVATE #Win4Taysom? #NLVM</pre>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">President Snow took us bowling today!</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Elder Faldmo</span>ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08678940744097856202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058783077996927951.post-33732295016737057152015-12-04T20:26:00.003-08:002015-12-04T20:30:14.123-08:00November 30, 2015....Giving Thanks for Great Things Happening in Vegas!<pre style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', 'BBAlpha Sans', 'S60 Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; white-space: normal;">Happy Thanksgiving!</pre>
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Our Planning for the Nevada Las Vegas Mission 2016... big plans!</span></b></div>
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