HOLY SMOKES!!!!! CHARLENE IS ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!

October 12, 2015
WOW! okay! SO FIRST THINGS FIRST! My Zone Leaders called us on sunday night and asked two things 1) Sister Wise, can you put together a musical number? and 2) can charlene speak at Zone Training Meeting?? IN FRONT OF LIKE 50 MISSIONARIES! ahahha and so we said yes to both requests and proceeded to call Charlene! 

    She was a little hesitant, but she put her faith in the Lord and said yes! Which is a big deal for her! Even though she really is actually a fabulous public speaker! so she came, come tuesday morning, and she did SUUCCHHH AN AMMMMAAAZZZINNNGGGGG JOB!!!!!! She said some things I never had hear before! She said that she was feeling really depressed before we knocked on her door! She said "My whole life has been a struggle! I thought it was always going to be!" And she talked about how the church has changed her life! SHE BORE SOLEMN TESTIMONY OF THE MASTER! I was so grateful! It has been amazing to see her grow! To see this woman! Who had no concept of her divine identity prior to the restored gospel of Christ entering her heart and life, come and strengthen MY testimony TREMENDOUSLY! of course she was in tears and so were all of the missionaries! I love that woman! She has become my dear friend! AND GET THIS! SHE IS MOVING TO IDAHO with her daughter! She can never get rid of me now! I told her that i will be there when she goes through the temple! :)

     Okay! So another sweet experience! We had a lesson with our investigator is tate! We didn't know what to teach because he has been taught EVERYTHING! his mom just wont consent for him to be baptized! :( but that is okay! We continue teaching! But we totally wrote him a song!!!! Its to the tune of "I hope they call me on a mission" and we sang it for him:

      We know that you want to be baptized

       you want to show the Lord you care!

      We know your strong desires to serve Him

       He knows your heart He knows your name...and Tate, HE CARES!

(insert guitar solo here) haha ...kidding.....i'm more feelin the bongos

       We know that one day when you're baptized,

       You'll feel a light you want to share!

       You'll get your nametag and your best suit! 

       And serve along with the Lord! You'll sure make a great pair!

YAY! hahaha so we sang that to him! It was awesome! He loved it! We had fun! And it is something he will always remember!!!!!!!! But the really sweet thing was AFTER the lesson we always race tate and his little sister to the end of the drive way and they say bye to us at our car and we drive away! And this time i opened the door and Teirny,Tates little sister, saw our pass-along cards we give away! It had a picture of Christ on it! She said "Can i have some!?" and i said "Yeah you have any friends you want to give it to???" and she said "YEAH!" and then we got in the car, and i was typing some things on the GPS and we watched her go across the street to some neighbors playing with their dad and she gave each of them pictures of Christ! Then she pointed at us and we waved! hahaha It was SO SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sharing the gospel is EASY! :) we make it a little hard sometimes! :)

    ANYWAY! It has been a fabulous week! I thank each of you for your love and support!!!! these have been the GREATEST MONTHS OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!! :) they are going far too fast! but i just want to bear my testimony on the sabbath day! It really is a delight! I am so grateful for the SACRAMENT! What an incredible gift! THINK OF IT! It is the only ordinance that is repeated for ourselves!!! It is special! It is a gift! I am grateful for sacrament meeting and for the spirit that is felt in it! I was thinking back and realized that it was in a sacrament meeting in Nampa, Idaho that the spirit bore witness to me that my Father wanted me to serve a mission!!!!!  SACRAMENT MEETING CAN BE A TIME TO RECEIVE REVELATION IF WE LET IT! :) I love you all! I KNOW that Jesus is the Christ! I KNOW that joseph smith is a prophet of God! I know that when people talk bad about him, it is only evidence that the prophecy is being fulfilled that his name would be used for both good and evil! I know that President Monson is a Prophet of God and that he and his counselors and the 12 apostles are special witnesses of Jesus Christ! I am grateful to be in a dispensation that is lead by a living prophet! I KNOW that this email is super duper long! I LOVE YOU ALL!

From America's Dairyland to you! 

Sister Ashton Louise Wise

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