Ashton blog: On Wisconsin!

HELLO FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!!!!!!

Thank you each for your support and prayers! I feel the power that it gives me to press on and keep having fun!

THIS WEEK HAS BEEN GREAT! Something SUPER cool that happened is that we took an 18 year boy in the ward, Emersson, and took him to a lesson with our investigator Ben! Emersson is about to get his mission call so he always comes out with us and the elders! ANYWAY! so Emersson did a fabulous job! After the lesson we were talking to him and he said "GOSH! I think you sisters should take Maddie out too! on like a mini mission!" (Maddie is the bishops daughter!) and we said okay! And so on Saturday we took maddie out to work with us and to show her the life of a missionary! It was SO FUN! And we worked HARD! haha we went and taught investigators! Saw less active members of the ward and we talked to EVERYONE we saw walking on the street and we took her TRACTING! (for those of you who are unfamiliar with "missionary Lingo" haha tracting is when we go and knock on doors! Trying to share the Gospel with people and the Book of Mormon!) and so we knocked on lots of doors! Talked to lots of people and Maddie did SO GREAT! We were excited to have her and her mom said that she went home and napped for a few hours because she was so exhausted! haha It was great though!!!!! GOOD TIMES!

Something else that happened this week that was WAY exciting is that TATE! (our 9 year old investigator) SET A DATE TO BE BAPTIZED ON SEPTEMBER 12TH!) YYYYAAAYYYY! we are so excited for him! He wants to be a member so bad! His mom isn't wild about the idea of him being baptized but I am pretty sure it will happen!!!!!!! Tate is great! (#poetdidntevenknowit) haha

OH! and there is a first experience for everything right??? well........since I am the senior companion now I get to drive.................hahahah and MILWAUKEE DRIVERS ARE NUTS! hahahaha holy cow! Wisconsin has some aawful roads! hahahaha anyway! and so I was driving the other day and I totally CUT OFF THIS GUY! didn't mean to! Didn't mean to!!! hahaha and then he drives next to us....did some weird sign language thing to me (perhaps a middle finger....meanie....) hahaha and then I just screamed! I WAS SO SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahaha that has never happened to me before! So I just thought "THATS IT! WE ARE BIKING FROM NOW ON!" hahahahhaa anyway!!!!!!!!!!

It has been a GREAT WEEK! and I have never been happier than I am RIGHT NOW! I LOVE BEING A M ISSIONARY! It is such a gift! I LOVE YOU ALL!

I KNOW that this is the work of God! We got to teach the restoration to a woman that we met and we say down and talked to her! And I just bore my testimony of the prophet Joseph Smith and assured April that this was true and that "I didn't come out here for 18 months to lie to people!" I know that this message is true! I know that the Book of Mormon is true!!!!! It teaches us how to gain peace in this life and the life to come! I love you all! I love my family! I am so glad that I am sealed to them! like president Cutler says "ETERNAL LIFE! IS FAMILY LIFE!" I know it!!! I am so glad to have the blessings of the temple with me wherever I go! I LOVE this gospel! HAVE I MENTIONED THAT!!!!???? Goodness!!!! I would yell it from the top of Brewers Stadium!!!!!!! I know it is true! I am so excited to share it with all I meet!

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!

P.S. Surprise mom! I am singing in Zone Conference tomorrow! Wish me luck! hahaha

Because I have been given much I too must give!

-Sister Wise

I kinda played a joke on sister palmer saying that we work out in our skirts...she thought I was serious, haha but I totally had basketball shorts on underneath hahaha