Ashton blog: HOPE YOO GOT DA FLEGS OUOOT!!!

Happy Memorial Day!!

Ashton, Sister Green and two other sisters from the district toured the bio domes (Hunger Games was probably filmed in Milwaukee!)

HULLO FREENDS END FYAMILY! HYAAPPY MYEMORIAL DAY! HOPE YOO GOT DA FLEGS OUOOT!!! haha.....just thought I would show you how well the mission language is coming along!!! hahaha....

But in ALL SERIOUSNESS! It has been a GREAT week! I am so blessed to be a missionary!!!!! Sister Green and I go run in the mornings and have come to realize WHAT A BEAUTIFUL part of the country we live in!!!!!! We are so blessed!!!!! anyway! Super great week!!!!! We have 2 investigators on date to be baptized!!!!!!I am so EXCITED for them!!!!!!! Barbara and Tate! They are AWESOME! and so ready!!!!!

OH! we have two baptisms now! Barbara on the 13th of June and tate on the 29th of june (Tate is part of a part member family and is nine...his mom is totally against it but whatevs...)

So last Monday my district and I went to the domes in Milwaukee...theyre like bio horticultural something somethings....Theyre big domes with controlled climates!!! Super cool!!! pretty sure they filmed the hunger games in there! Makes sense....haha anyway! That was fun!!! and then that same night sister green and I went to President and Sister Cutlers for dinner! It was so fun!!!! a little intimidating sharing a message and extending commitments to your mission opresident!!!! But we all can do better and all stand in need of the changing and healing power of the atonement!!!! It was awesome!!!!!

WOW! okay not much time!!!!!! but I love being a missionary!!!!! I love knocking on doors and talking about my Savior and sharing His message! Milwaukee has SO many religious people!!!! It is nice to just tell people "Hey as members of the LDS Church...WE BELIEVE IN JESUS TO BE THE SON OF GOD!!!!!" People are so shocked when we tell them that!!!! haha

but cool story! Saturday night! Sister green and I were going to an appointment with our investigator...and we went and she wasn't there....left her a note, called her...and she didn't answer so we were super bummed.....so we went tracting! That was pretty successful! Taught a few lessons! But had to stop to go have an appointment with a less active man.......aannddd he didn't show up..so we were SO BUMMED!!!! and then I just had a thought of "Hey lets go see bishop! We are in his neighborhood!" and I was wanting to share with him my idea of "Bring a friend to church sunday" Like what we did in the Caldwell stake...so sister green said okay and we went over....and we were talking to him and he said "Hey...why don't yhou come inside? My daughers boyfriend is here! and he is not a member....but its good that you showed up because hes been starting to ask a lot of questions..." AND SO WE TAUGHT THE RESTORATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He had so many questions!!!! He came to church the next day!!!!! WWHHHAAAA??? It was AWEOME!!!!!!! Two doors close and THE LORD OPENS UP ONE HUGE ONE!!!!! SO blessed we are!!!!!! Speaking of blessed! Milwaukee drivers are TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!! haha the Lord definitely protects us in the car as well!!!!!!!!!

Well its been a great week!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't have a ton of time!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT THIS WORK IS TRUE!!!!!! I have found that whoever we are....we tend to be MUCH happier when we are thinking of others!!!!!!!!! I know that Jesus Christ is very much alive!!!!!!!! I know that He stands at the head of this Church and the head of this work!!!!! I feel Him teaching lessons with me! I feel Him praying for investigators with me! And I see Him in the people we come into contact with every day!!!!!! I love Him! That is why I am out on a mission!!!!! Its not a sacrifice to be out here! What is a sacrifice, is the life that Christ gave on the cross!!! He not only dies for us but He lives for us today!!!!!!! I was reading a talk by elder Holland and he was talking about a young missionary coming up to Him and saying "Would you die for the gospel???" and Elder Holland said "That would be so easy!!!!! The hard part is living every day for it!!!!" I hope we can all follow that example and live for the gospel everyday!!!!! Christ lives to share it! why shouldn't we!!??!? THIS WORK IS INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!! The gospel brings happiness and families are forever when established on the foundations of the gospel! I love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Because I Have Been Given Much I Too Must Give!"

-Sister Ashton Wise

p.s. (Mallory will like this!!!...SIster Green and I were in the car listening to her Mormon Tabernacle Choir CD and their version of OKLAHOMA came on!!!!!! And so i started doing the edance that mal taught me and sister green was SSSOOO CONFUSED!....but she is used to the weirdness now...haha )

p.s.s. totally took a tilt Tuesday picture before bed!!!!!!! For all my dance friends out there!

p.s.s.s. everyone around here LOVES AMERICA! Myself included....SO I TOTALLY went all out for memorial day!