Liverpool is the Pool of Life

Hey everyone!

For some strange reason it is a ridiculously beautiful day today. I like it. You forget how much the sun means to you until you have to go without it forever. 

Well, things are going great here in the Pool of Life. We found some new people to teach and they are great! Yogesh and Priyanka Sherma! They are a young couple from India! They are so great and they are excited to be baptised! They came to church yesterday and they really loved it. I'm so excited to continue working with them. 

We saw a lot of miracles and we had a great round of trainings this week about working with members. The mission is undergoing some big changes, and the work is moving forward. I'm really excited.

I'm also way excited for General conference! It's going to be so amazing! I love it so much, and I am grateful for the opportunity we have to be able to listen to the words of a living prophet to help us get through the trials that we face. I know that as we listen to those words we are able to better understand God's plan for us! I love it so much! Please listen to the words that they share!

I love you all so much! Have a great week! Keep the Faith!

Love,

Elder Ashcraft

Blessed Liverpool

Hello everyone!

Thank you so much for your prayers this week! Michaela was baptised and everything went really well. She was confirmed on Sunday and I know that it was all because of the prayers that were offered in her behalf, so thank you again, very much. 

I love serving here so much. The Lord has been so merciful to us and has blessed us with so many miracles and people to teach. It is such an amazing time to be a missionary out here in the Lord's vineyard. It is the most incredible thing to be able to watch  people's lives transform and turn to the Saviour Jesus Christ. I love the Lord and His work, and I know that I am right in the thick of it!

Elder Aulenbach is great. He has such polished skills for having been out for such a short time. He is a powerful missionary and I am grateful for him.

Well, I love you all so much! Thanks for everything that you do and that you are! Keep up the good work and Keep the Faith!

Love,

Elder Ashcraft

Hey Everyone! I'm in England!

Hello there!

It has been a great week in Liverpool. We were blessed abundantly and it was great. s

Well, first thing, We have another baptism scheduled for Friday! Michaela, who we have been teaching for about a month, is great. She has turned her life completely around, quit smoking and overcome a lot to get to this point. She is excited, but she is facing a lot of opposition from her mother. Please pray for her! 

Missionary work is so great. I love it so much! We have the truth. We have the key to true success and happiness in this life and for eternal joy in the life to come. It falls on our shoulders to share it with those who don't have it. I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to teach the people of England the truths that I have come to know for myself. I know that this gospel is true. 

So funny story. Yesterday, we had a strange conversation with an African man, his Italian girlfriend, and two drunk Englishmen that work on the docks. It was quite funny. One of them asked how Christ was able to feed the 5000 with 5 fish. His words were, "Was it a whale?" Haha Poor thing. Someday he'll understand that it could've been a minnow and everyone still would've been full. 

I love you all! Thanks for everything!

Love,

Elder Ashcraft

Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes!!!!!!!!!!!

God is Great!

Hello everyone from the While Land of Liverpool. No it hasn't snowed, but the Lord has blessed us with an abundance of people that have accepted the invitation to Follow Him by being baptised. We were so blessed with 2 baptisms this weekend, Steven (from China) and Gisele (from France). So amazing. This gospel is what brings people true happiness.

The service went great. It was conducted by Brother Vincent Harvey from the ward, who happens to be a Scottish man with a lisp. No, I am not lying. He is very difficult to understand, but it was great anyway. We filled the font pretty full to make sure that there would be enough water, so as Steven was baptised, the water level rose up the stairs and flooded the bathroom. But it was all good. Nothing a good mop and some towels couldn't fix. It was so great. 

I love being a missionary so much. It is an incredible thing to be engaged in this great work. Thank you all for your prayers for our investigators. They are working. I know that God is mindful of us all, and that He loves us. 

I love you all so much! Thanks for everything! Keep the Faith!

Love,

Elder Ashcraft

Yay!

Hey everyone!

 

It was such a great week last week and it ended in the best possible way! Kiera was baptised! It was so amazing! I love being a part of this work, where I get to see people realise just how much our Heavenly Father loves them. It is an incredible thing, and I wouldn't trade these experiences for all the money in anyone's imagination. So good. Ah. I love it.

 

Well, Right now I am on exchange with Elder Joseph Jolliffe, from Devon, England, and it's a good thing that he doesn't live in Utah, because every girl would fall in love with him. He kinda looks like Jason Ashcraft, just with more hair on his head. He is great, and his accent is stupendous. He is great.

 

I love you all so much, and I ask you to pray for our investigators Gisele and Steven. They are being baptised this Saturday, and so please pray for them!

 

The Church is so true! I love it so much and I am so grateful for the blessings that the gospel brings into all of our lives! God Lives! Jesus is the Christ! and the Book of Mormon is true! I love you! Keep the Faith!

 

Love,

Elder Ashcraft

Livvvverpooooool

Hello everybody!

Well, transfer calls came, and Elder Aulenbach and I am staying in Liverpool! Yesyesyesyesyes!!! I'm so excited! The Lord is really blessing us right now and great things are happening. 

Unfortunately Kiera's baptism was postponed last week, but it's on Saturday now, so please pray for her. And Next week Gisele and Steven are getting baptised! It's such a blessed time to be a missionary! I love it so much!

Probably my favourite part about serving as a missionary is that I get to see people as they make a spiritual journey, travelling from being a spiritually ignorant savage to being a covenant-keeping kingdom builder. I love to watch the change that comes over people as they repent of their sins and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour and Redeemer. His Atonement is real, and it is the reason that I am here in England, preaching His good news.

I love the Church so much because I know that it is the only organisation sanctioned by God to perform the ordinances necessary for our salvation and exaltation. This is His church, and it is true! I know it's true! 

I love you all so much and I am so grateful for everything that you've done for me, and for your great examples. Keep up the good work and Keep the Faith! I love you!

Love,

Elder Ashcraft

wow I sent this email to nine people.

Hello everyone! 

Well, this week was quite ridiculous and crazy, but I loved it. Mostly.

Elder Dantas, one of the other missionaries in Liverpool got appendicitis.....or so they thought. They took out his appendix, but it was fine. but he's still in a lot of pain. So they're not exactly sure what's wrong with him right now. He's getting an ultrasound hopefully today. Please let it be a boy. 

Needless to say, we've spent some of our time at the hospital, some of our time in a threesome with Elder Dantas' companion Elder Craig (from Canada, so I've been engulfed by the Maple Leaf), and the rest of our time trying to stay on top of our own area. It's been crazy, but I loved it.

At zone conference this week, we did a Lehi's dream activity, where we were blindfolded and had to make our way through the church. It was great. Reminded me of BOM Quest. Good times.

Well, I love you all so much! I know the church is true and that Jesus is the Christ and that He lives! I love Him and He loves me! And you!

Keep the Faith!

Love,

Elder Ashcraft