August 18, 2014

Dear Family,

What did mom do while she was by herself? Sounds like you had a blast camping and doing guy stuff. I miss that kind of stuff a lot. 

I tried to convince President Weston to let us sleep in a tent in the members yards who live super far away so then we could work in 

that area the next day. He said no. But it was worth a shot. I also tried to convince the Elder over cars to buy us a truck. He also said no. 

Man, lots of rejection. Yeesh I'm just trying further the work. ;) Kind of. A guy in our branch bought me a fishing pole! And we're going fishing 

next prep day. I'm pretty pumped. Sorry about the computer dying. Technology these days...

Well this week went really well. It always has it's ups and downs but you know that just the way things are. I'm loving my comp. She's great. :) 

We're very similar. I don't know what I did to be blessed with two awesome comps in a row...Hopefully we stay companions for the rest of my mission. 

A Recent Convert helped us get a new investigator this week! Mark, the recent convert, told this guy at work about his baptism. He said he was searching 

for a new church and wasn't sure what to think anymore. Um. Can anyone else say prepared?! Mark was like so we have these missionaries  that teach about

our church and the gospel of Jesus Christ. IT WAS AMAZING! I haven't taught the Restoration to someone so open. He had so many question and was 

so confused. He really really liked Joseph Smith's story. He was like see that sounds like God, calling another prophet. And we set him for baptism! We set him 

for Nov 8th! So if you could pray that he will find the answers he needs and be able to make that date that would be great. His name is Brandon. He actually looks 

exactly like Blaine...it's kind of weird.  

Anyway our investigator Patrick was supposed to be baptized this week but unfortunately he was still drinking coffee. :( So we had to reset him. But because of his work 

schedule he won't be able to be baptized until like October or November. So if you could pray that a miracle would happen and that his work schedule will allow

him to be baptized. That would also be great. :) 

Oh! So weird moment. Do y'all remember when we went on the road trip and we drove through Nebraska on I 80? Well we were driving to North Platte for 

zone training, which is 2 hours away, but we drove by a rest stop that I'm pretty sure we stopped at because it looked super familiar. I could be wrong but 

I'm pretty sure that that is one of the rest stops we stopped at. So how weird is that we drove past my area! Whaaat?! :) I just thought that was cool. 

So yeah we had a super great week. :) I like it here and I'm adjusting well. 

Thanks for all of your love and support. :) 

Love you! 

Love, Sister Ashley Curfew