email from Ashley

Hey guys. What a great week you all had! This week was so great. Fernanda was baptized on sunday and we had stake conference! The messages were so uplifting and wonderful. Our ward was the choir for both days and my companion and i and 2 investigators sang in the choir too!!!




This week i recieved a great compliment. My mission president said You´re terrific - I know that you can be trusted everywhere and that is a wonderful compliment



It is a great thing to be trusted. I feel trusted by the lord with much more fequency here in the mission, and i will always strive to keep it that way. this week was a really great one. stake conference was wonderful. Sunday was all about missionary work as well and the baptism to top it all off was so special. I am so grateful for the lords hand in everything we do. I am thankful for the members who are prayerfully involved in missionary work. It is getting much easier to discern the needs of others and to recognize the still small voice. We are working with the ward council to help 2 less active families. My study this week helped me to understand the love of the savior and what he expects of me. As your knowledge and understanding of the atonement grows, your desire to share the gospel will increase. I remember when i first got my mission call i opened up preach my gospel and started reading and this was the first phrase that caught my attention. I studied carefully the atonement and each time i think about what my savior has done for me, i feel with certanty that my savior loves me, and expects the best of me. There is nothing more motivating than the savior´s love and a testimony of the restored gospel!



I am so thankful for your story about chance mom. i will definately use it this week. YES

you are so great mom! i love how you can easily relate many real life experiences with gospel principles. I was telling a special family about you the other day. about how you made our rowland family values and how talented and special you are! Thanks for all you do for me mom!!!



Hey dad, i think i will be feeling how you feel in a few months... a little out of the swing of things. it is so incredible how serving and responsibility becomes such a huge part of your life. so huge that you take it for granted sometimes until it is gone -as noted by some returned missionaries in their homecoming talks - . i know that the lord qualifies every one he calls. he knows who he would have serve in every position in his church. have you recieved a new calling yet? Dad how is family scripture study going? Did you guys finish the bishops challenge?? I love you so much! A great big hug for you dad! I am working hard and it is so great.



Hey little brudders...how are you all doing? Jess sorry you werent feeling well. hope you are better or get better really quick. one time, i was teaching a man who was less active and i asked him to go back to church, he said he was sick and i said brother ernesto, if you go to church on sunday, i know you will become.....i wanted to say better.....but i swithched the word and i said......a woman. (melhor...vs...mulher ask tyler) hahahaha i said it again and again, and he didnt understand, he kept saying, but i dont want that.... and i was like of course you do! it isnt good to be sick! hahaha but then my companion said, brother ernesto, what she meant to say was that you will become ....better.

needless to say, he laughed really hard and long, and the next day he returned to church, and is active and strong again!



I am proud of my brothers. you guys are the greatest ever. good luck with basketball this week. keep making personal goals and try to do your best to acomplish them. you guys are great examples of this ...i always liked to watch you practice and play basketball cause it was easy to measure your progress and see how much you improved. Dont forget to do that with your spiritual side as well okay boys. say your prayers even if it is hard, and read your scriptures even if it seems like there is no time. as you do this it is real easy to see your progress and heavenly father can bless you with material things as well as spiritual things! Mosiah 2:41! Love you all so much.



Have a wonderful week okay? kisses! xxoxoxoOoXXXXXxxxxoooo