"MERRY CHRISTMAS BOYS!!!!!"

Dec 28, 2015

hahaha okay so sister tenney and i had NO IDEA what to do in our free time on Christmas eve afternoon! so we had the idea to put the "#asaviorisborn" card on a candy cane and give them to anyone who would listen! so off we went! DOWNTOWN! haha we walked around and just found different homeless people or just people walkin around! But then there was a group of rather large men...and we were walking towards them....they kinda scared me! I mean these fellas looked like a group of Goliath's long lost COUSINS! THEY WERE BIG! hahaha....so we are walking toward them and i thought "Oh come on Ashton! You've gotta say at least SOMETHIN TO THEM!! and so while we are walking through them i just yell "Yeah MERRY CHRISTMAS BOYS" and they just looked at me like i was NUTSO! hahaha it was HILARIOUS! Sister Tenney said "WHAT THE HECK SISTER WISE!" and i said "Merry christmas! I have pepper spray!" hahaha it was just funny.............

       Wow though! Christmas was quite the experience! We had the opportunity to go downtown and go to the Ronald McDonald house and cook for the families of children who are patients at the Wisconsin Children's Hospital! :) I remember going there in Boise when i was younger, but haven't been back since! It was so fun! We got to cook and just be there with other volunteers and missionaries! IT was great to see that so many from the community would come early on Christmas day and help these people in need! I was so grateful to serve on such a special day!

     I LOVE being a missionary at this time! It is so hard but so worth it! I am grateful for Jesus Christ! Sister Tenney, for Christmas, received the Life of Christ Bible videos! and WHAT A BLESSING those have been! hahaha oh my word! We have both just had discussions about Him while eating lunch! While we run in the mornings, while we are in the car, while we study! As He has consumed my thoughts and time, He has consumed me! That is the power of Jesus Christ!

     Actually I spoke on that yesterday in the YSA ward! I am so grateful to serve here! And to serve now! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! MAY CHRIST CONSUME OUR TIME AND THOUGHTS as we consume His! I LOVE YOU! :) He loves you!

Because I have been given much i too must give!

-Sister Wise