I love this quote! I was reading in the conference edition in the Ensign and came across this quote earlier last week! I loved it! I have realized that the reason i have been born is to teach the gospel and to live the gospel and to share that joy that it has brought me with others!! I love this gospel!
I found out a few days ago that i am being transferred! I have been in this area for my whole mission! hahaha Its crazy! 1/3 of my mission was spent in southern milwaukee county! :) haha now I have been called to serve in the Milwaukee Young Single Adult ward! I am so excited! It will for sure be a different experience! we (from what i hear) will be doing A LOT of street contacting on the campus of Marquette University in downtown milwaukee! I am so excited! This will be WAY different! it will be cool to teach some people my age..ish! hahaha :)
Our last district meeting was on Tuesday! We each stood and bore our testimonies of the restored gospel and how the atonement of Jesus Christ has changed us! I stood and talked about the people who i have taught! I have seen them go from "I am a vile sinner and can never be forgiven of the wrongs i have done" to see them say things like "It doesn't matter what i have done! He will forgive me! He will make promises with me! He will love me!" and that has been the thing that has kept me goin! The doors slam in our faces at times and we get yelled at....BUT there is NOTHIN better than telling someone that they don't have to be weighed down my guilt anymore! they can be forgiven! and people get so excited when we tell them!
Thanksgiving was THE BEST THING EVER!!!!!!!!!! I am so grateful for the opportunity i have to be a missionary! something really cool happened on Thanksgiving! We were at a dinner appointment and i said to sister peterson "after this we should go minister to people!" hahaha so we left the dinner appointment and she said "okay what do you want to do???" as i was driving i saw a mcdonalds and thought! "okay no one wants to work on Thanksgiving!" so we drove to the drive through and got like a parfait or something and as we went to the widnow to pay the girl I rolled down the window and said "Hello! Whats your name?" "Emma" "Emma! Well Emma can we sing to you????" and so we said "Happy Thanksgiving day to you [...]" she was SO EXCITED and her smile was priceless!!!!! and then we gave her a pass along card with our number on it!
But then later that day i told a bunch of other missionaries about it! And so we all went to a gas station during black friday shopping and went in and sang to the guy working in there! and after we were done the elders talked about the Book of Mormon a little bit! and this guy said "that is crazy because i was feeling SO DOWN earlier today and really missin my family! but you all made me VERY happy! God bless you!" It was the greatest!
Well this email in a novel! :) i love you all! I know that Jesus Christ lives! As we listen to Him and live by His teachings, it will forever mainstream the Church of Jesus Christ! I love you!
"Because I have been given much i too must give!"
-Sister Wise
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