A Week to Remember!

It was my birthday this week and the elders gave me a pineapple with a candle on it since i can't eat cake! hahaha :)

So I was having one of those "What was i doing a year ago" thoughts earlier in the week! And i realized that a year ago God was preparing me for a mission! even though i knew it not! haha If i recall correctly it was around this time a year ago that my sister kennedy called me and said "Hey! Listen...i think you should go on a mission!" and me being scared out of my mind but for the FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE! I prayed and waited and listened and was sincerely wanting to know the will of God and act on it!!!! I prayed and received an answer when sitting in sacrament meeting in my YSA ward! I have NO CLUE what was said! no idea!.....but i do know that God spoke to me SO clearly that day!!!!! He needed me to go! I love what President Eiyring has said about callings "The Lord knows you and the calling you have, for it was He who found a way so that He could issue your call" IT IS SO TRUE! I felt that He cleared the way! And thats how  it is with ALL callings and not just missionary calls!

    I am very grateful to be a full-time missionary at this time! The missionary program is not just something that turns punk teenage into decent adults...but it is a program that fulfills the prophecies given in the Book of Mormon and the Bible! The prophesy that the truthful message of the Restoration will be brought to ALL NATIONS KINDRED AND TONGUES! i feel that!

    Back in November President Cutler gave a training about "watering down" the message of the restoration! he was asking us to evaluate if we apologetically say "uuhh...yeah....you have to be baptized.....because this is the true church!...sorry!" or "yeah.....you can't live with them.....we believe in chastity......my bad!" or even "Okay we believe in something called the word of wisdom....but if you don't feel like thats something you can do...then thats okay! no worries!" he was saying essentially..."ELDERS AND SISTERS STOP DOING THAT!!!!!" hahaha he proceeded to take Spreckers Root Beer (A wisconsin favorite brewery) and he poured a little in a cup...the spreckers represented the goodness of the restored gospel...and then he filled the rest of the cup with water! GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and then he continued to say "NO ONE wants that!" its too good to water down! And i now know that! now i feel so good when i say to some random person on the bus! "Hey! A lot of people wonder if there is one true church! And there is!" THEY GET SO EXCITED! hahaha :) its great!

      I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATS AND SHOUT OUT TO elder Ty Smith in the MTC you are going to ROCK!!!!!!!!!! and SHOUT OUT to Elder Luke Wonnacott!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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

-Sister Wise

JESSICA AND I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she came to institute!!!!!!!! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! reunited with family basically!!!!!!!!

pictures: Me and Cristal! UWM student in the ward! shes cool and is in the ROTC program at UWM! (even though shes in a marquette shirt)

me and sister tenney at dinner with JESSICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!