Hello hello friends and family!!!
It has been a GREAT week here in America's dairy land! So I just want to start out by saying MAN I am so blessed to live in this country!!! I am so grateful to enjoy the God-given freedoms I do!! I am so grateful for all of those who have fought and are currently serving in the military! It's a privilege to live in a country where I can worship how, where, and what I may! I worship my God and feel grateful to be able to do so!
ANYWAY! So this past week was SO SO SO good! So Sister Green and I went to our bishops house and set up a time we could come over to have a special lesson with his whole family! and so sister green and I went over there and played a little game! #1 was to write down 5 movies and whoever writes them all first gets a piece of candy and then #2 was to write down 5 book of Mormon heroes...and then #3 was to write down 5 of your friends who need to hear about the gospel! and we committed them to have one person each week over to their house, and then invite us over to give a quick lesson and meet the missionaries! They committed! so we will see how it goes! WE ARE SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!
Okay!!! SO! The REALLY awesome stuff happened this weekend!!! SO! on Friday sister green and I got on the bikes and went just park contacting and I was excited! It was just a really nice day and thought "Oh yeah! There will be tons of families out and about!" And we were riding around and there was no one! No one was answering doors and no one was outside! I got SUPER bummed! and then we just prayed that the Lord would put some one in our path...and so as we were riding home we stopped and talked to a woman named Carmen...and HO.LY. TA.LE.DO! She has such a testimony of Jesus Christ and the Bible!!! She is going through a hard time with her marriage and we gave her a Book of Mormon! We are meeting with her next week to talk about it! She was happy to talk to us and MIRACLE...SHE LIVES IN OUR SAME APT. COMPLEX! So cool! Such a tender mercy the God has trusted us to meet and minister to one of His daughters! :)
OKAY SO THE FOURTH OF JULY! wow!!!!!!!! the wisonsin accent is REAL!!!!! "Do you want a FLEG!?" "Hey guys! Lets play TEG!" "Would you like a BEG for your REG and your FLEG and then you can run around and play TEG!"haha I love it I love it! BUT our ward mission leader was at the New Berlin, Wisconsin parade and said "HEY! people are always passing out fliers atparades! So come and pass out copies of the Book of Mormon and pass along cards!"so we agreed! so us and a few other missionaries did that! haha and WOW! hahaha it was awesome we taught a lot of lessons but OH MY! I talked to a guy's daughter and said "Do you know much about the Mormon church?" and her dad said "we know its a cult......." hahaha SO AWKWARD! I just smiled and said "NNOO we are not! do you want a card! Go online and read about it for yourself!" haha so that was fun! I love just talking to people though! Especially in big crowds! LOVED IT!
Another funny thing that happened at the parade was on one float there was a comedian guy for a Milwaukee radio station and He was just saying funny things...and I waved to him and he saw us missionaries and started singing songs from the Book of Mormon musical...hahaha and he said "WHAAZZUUPPP MORMONS!?!" haha and we just cheered and the whole crowd looked at us and cheered too! It was AWESOME!
It was a fun week! and it is fun being a missionary!..but i'm not out here for the fun! I am out sharing and teaching the gospel for the same reasons alma did! "yea, and from that time even until now I have labored without ceasing, that I might bring souls unto repentance. and that they might taste of the exceeding joy of which I did taste [...]" I am so grateful for the atonement of Jesus Christ, not only is my sleight wiped clean, but I am given strength beyond my own! There is no way I would or could be out here, had it not been for the enabling power of the atonement of Jesus Christ! Its sad to see that there are people who wallow in guilt and have no idea that those feelings can be given relief through the atonement, and that is why I am out here! :) to bring them to the knowledge of their Savior!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hope everyone had a happy fourth!
"Because I have been Given much I too must Give"
-Sister Wise
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