Ashton blog: BAILEY WAS BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well! What a week what a week!!!! FIRST OF ALL! Congratulations to my little sister Mallory for graduating! Love you mal! and then 2nd! BAILEY was baptized! by richard in the ward! We have only known bailey for 5 weeks now! BUT SHE IS SOLID AS A ROCK! and ready to be active in the church and to bring her family with her! I love her and felt so happy watching the ordinance of baptism be performed by the right authority in the right place! nothing like it!!!

Well! Life has been interesting this week! My first day with sister Mansfield in the Milwaukee 1st ward was interesting! The elders needed our car so we had to give it to them...so new area....new companion...no car and a lot of work to do! hahaha the elders gave us map and said "have fun" and WE DID! hahaha I knew of a few bus lines that i was familiar with from the YSA ward...but other than that i didn't know much! but we managed to get from where we were to where we needed to be in a timely manner! IT WAS A MIRACLE I KNOW!!!!!!

so we were around milwaukee just talkin to people (because no one in wisconsin has AC so when you get hot....sit outside...which we use to our advantage) and I was looking in bag for more restoration pamphlets and i didn't have any left! and neither did sister mansfield!...and all i had was ...yep...a word of wisdom pamphlet! and so i thought "okay yep...not giving THAT to anyone!" haha but then we see this girl on her porch and start talking to her and what do you know??? we found one of the ONLY people in milwaukee that doesn't drink or do drugs it was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! and so i said "Well you know! we believe the same as you that those things are bad for us and take our agency away!" and then we gave her the pamphlet! and we are meeting with her again this week!!!!!!!!! so pumped!!!!

All is well here in milwaukee though! President and sister cutler are going home in 4 weeksand so we are all just working our best and hardest to let them leave on a good note!! they will be so missed!!!!!!

Everytime i read in the book of mormon i am reminded of its truthfulness! And its not just in my head that i believe its true! But it literally makes sense! I know that it is a true book! I know that those prophets who wrote it REALLY existed! And i know that it was translated by a prophet of God! even Joseph Smith! Can't wait for that day where "Millions shall know brother joseph again!!"

LOVE you all family and friends! Praying for you all!!!!

PICS:

bailey before her baptism!!!

sister mansfield and i

me and bulah! She is 102!!!!!! WHAT?!?!??!