Ashton blog: The Real Dairy Queen is in Wisconsin!

and this is my district! Elder barid and thatcher sister smith and elder smith and then me and sister green!

Wisconsin cheese in the shape of Wisconsin!

HELLO friends and family!!!!!!!!!! It has been a nice wet week here in America's Dairy Land!!! We all know that the REAL Dairy Queen isn't on the caldwell/nampa blvd......its in Wisconsin...haha

Anyway!! Wow its June! happy June everybody!

It has really been a GREAT week!!!!

SO! we have an investigator named Barbara and we went to see her on monday...and basically...we sat down and she told us that she was offended by someone at church and she didn't want to be baptized on June 13th anymore....we talked to her about it and told her that the church is perfect...but the people are not..ANYWAY she didn't want to listen and so we were BUMMMED! aw man i have never been so blue!!!! BUT!!! ALAS! we went back to her house wednesday!!!! and we decided to bring TINA! A recent convert, and TINA WAS ON FIRE!!!!! and during the lesson with barbara...she asked "Okay so when is my interview thingy?" and we explained "Well we usually like to do that a week before your baptism.." and she said "but the 13th is in a week...."......and my face lit up and i said "YAAHHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" ahahha and the happiness in that room was overwhelming!!!!!!!!!!!! GOSH! i was SO HAPPY FOR HER!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHES LIKE MY GRANDMA out here! She is so COOL and SO READY to come unto Christ by being baptized! GOODNESS!!! so we met her at the church on saturday....she had her interview and then we had her try on some jumpsuits! YAY! and we got the program all set for the baptism!!!!!!

but we also have been teaching a woman named Jessica! She was a referral from our ward mission leader and SHE IS SO PREPARED it is scary! haha i love her so so so so much! we had a church tour with her and taught the restoration in the chapel! Before we talked about the first vision we said "okay...as we listen to the account of Joseph Smith..pay attention to the feelings that you have..." and AFTER THE SPIRIT WAS SO STRONG! she is so Christ-like and kind to us...when so many people are not....haha she is AWESOME! and so we met with her and went to lunch with her and had cheese curds and we gave her a book of mormon and invited her to church!!! YES!

So a HUGE miracle we saw this week was on satuday barbara called and said "hey my son has my car....so i can't make it to church tomorrow" and we said AAHHHHHH NNNOOOOOOO! haha we let her know that she couldn't be baptized sadly...if she didn't come to church the week before! and so we called EVERYBODY in the ward seeing if they could take her....and NO ONE COULD!!!!!!!!!!! and we aren't allowed to drive her because of insurance stuff....so sister green and i decided to pray and RIGHT AFTER I said "LETS CALL FRED!" (fred is a returning less active man) and we called and he said he would LOVE to take barbara! AAAHHHHHHH It was such a huge miracle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow!!!!!

anyway...i write too much...sorry if my emails are super complicated! haha...so yesterday was fast sunday and i just had the STRONG desire to get up in both sacrament meetings in the wards im serving and share my testimony with the wards and i felt so good fulfilling my purpose as a missionary for Jesus Christ! I know that there is a God and that He cares about each of us individually! We may not recognize or aknowledge Him as a Heavenly Father, but He will always see us as His children! I know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God! and that He lives today and stands as the Head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints! I know that Joseph Smith saw what he said he saw and that he is no liar! I know that the Book of Mormon contains the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that we will all be closer to God as we read it and abide by its precepts! I know tha tPresident Thomas S Monson is Gods mouth piece! I KNOW IT! I love you all!!!!!!!!!

"Because I have been given much i too must give!"

-Sister Wise

so we have a gym at our apartment complex...but it doesn't open till 7...so on pdays...i work out while sister green writes letters and i was DONE! hahaha hardest work out of my life!!!!!!

and then this is tearny! We are teaching her brother tate! and she is TOTALLY COUSINS WITH NATALIE FROM STUDIO C!!!!!!!! ....ive got celeb connections!