Ashton blog: Oh the Weather outside is frightful....but the fire is slowly....or not so slowing "burning..the latter day glory begins to come forth"

So it snowed....hardcore! haha it was a blizzard! shards of glass were hitting my face it seemed! hahha but anyway! besides the point! it melted the next day anyway! hahaha

Okay first! SHOUT OUT to my sister Madison HULLINGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE!!!!!!!! Happy wedding day on the 25th!!!!!!!! oh my goodness!!!!!!!!!!! you looked stunning! Loved what you were wearing! Maddy you looked good too! ;) hahaha joking! Really though! So grateful for the two of them!

      so the general womens conference was on saturday! and since "Charity Never Faileth" i thought it was highly appropriate that the theme of the meeting was Service! It caused me to reflect back on an experience i had earlier this week!!

    I was on an exchange with sister Dawn Gross (N Ogden Utah) and we were on the bus coming back from UWM...and it was snowing hard! We stopped at the bank of america (tallest tower in Wisconsin) and i see a man outside the window hanging on to the shirt of another man...he got on the bus and as soon as i saw his guide stick, i realized that the man was blind! he told the driver which stop he needed and then he came and felt his was toward me! he sat by me and i said "Hello there!" and then we started talking and he was the NICEST MAN!!!!!!!!!! his name was Dan! He worked at the bank of America! he is a former officer in the navy...must have lost his sight in the navy...idk...but he and i chatted and started talking about the gospel!

and then it happened! aahhhhh! this woman gets on the bus! She was older and had ice all over her shoes and so it was really slick for her to walk! she had her arms full of groceries! and I DONT KNOW HOW but Dan got up, felt that she had groceries, knew that it was a blizzard outside and said "Oh those are heavy! Here take my seat and i will take those!!!

Dan and i continued our conversation after he found another seat on the bus with the groceries, and he told me he is Christian and it obviously didn't surprise me! I then realized that what makes a Christian a Christian is not if you wear a cross around your neck or say prayers at night or read your scriptures! Those are all things of value but what makes a Christian a Christian is exactly what Dan demonstrated! selflessness and love! It was incredible! It made a really big impact on me! i was grateful for it!

anyway! EASTER WAS WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I Know Jesus Christ lives! I know that that is why we celebrate! We show Him we are grateful by following Him! Just like Dan showed me on the bus!
I love being a missionary for the true church of Christ! I know that I am not lying to people when i say that this is HIS one and only true chuch on the earth! I know that! I have felt that!

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and while your decorating eggs this season! may we remember who created the egg! eehhh? eh? pretty egg-citing!
hahaha HAPPY EASTER! #hallelujah

"Because I have been given much i too must give"
-Sister Wise

PIC1:sister gross and I...(shes giving me a hug of comfort because this was taken right when maddy and mitch were being sealed)

PIC2: art!...downtown Milwaukee!
PIC3:Milwaukee Public Library