Are you doing this for the Savior or for yourself?

Hey ya'll

this week has been really awesome and we have met some amazing people! The Lord definitely guided us this week to certain individuals and it was amazing because it was all the spirit!

We met awesome people at the most random places and they were so warm and welcome. We hope to be able to start teaching them soon! our car got recalled so we had to spend one morning at the Chevy dealership, the guys that work there had a hay-day teasing us, asking how many wives our husband has and if we are rivals with Jehovas Witnesses. They thought they were real funny, but they were cool guys. After all the jokes we got a little serious and bore our testimonies about the church and the book of mormon. It touched them, I know it did. One guy in particular Joe was really intrigued, he asked a lot of questions and I shared Ether 12:4 (my favorite) with him. 
4 Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with ^asurety ^bhope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which ^chopecometh of ^dfaith, maketh an ^eanchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in ^fgood works,being led to ^gglorify God.

he loved the reference to anchors because he used to be in the Navy, he is awesome. we are definitely stopping back in this week because we "forgot some things in our car" haha..

After Chevy we had to go to the mall to go to the Spring store because our phone broke as well... (it was a bad week of breaking things for sister bean and I) but as soon as we walked up one of the workers was like "are you guys Jesus people?" she must have read our name tags... :) Her name was Luz and she basically told us her life story and about her daughter who is going through a rough time. While Sister bean was with another worker I kept talking to Luz. She asked me to pray for her and her daughter. and then she asked if I would pray right then with her in the middle of the mall at the kiosk. So.. you know me, I totally did! The spirit was so strong and she was crying!  

This Sunday was truly amazing. We had five less actives there, (that usually never come). It was truly a miracle for some of them to be there! We had our investigator Nate there too, he is awesome!

We also committed our investigator Charlotte to baptism. She is amazing. I have truly seen this woman transform before my eyes as she has accepted the Gospel into her life. She felt the spirit so strongly last week while praying and it testified to her that this is the true church.

Yesterday we stopped by a less actives named Blake. Neither Sister bean or I had ever seen his name before or recognized it so we stopped by. He answered right away and was super friendly, he had the cutest dog that just jumped all over me so you know i was in heaven. We got to know him a little and his background and he told us it was super crazy that we happened to show up today because he's been having a really hard time right now and the night before he had prayed for the first time in a rrrreeeallly long time, he said he didn't think his answer would come so fast but here we were on his door step. IT WAS AWESOME! We are going back this week to meet his wife who isn't a member! Hopefully we can build a friendship with his wife and start teaching her soon :)

Guess who is in my ward in Madison Wisconsin.. none other than Coach Gary Anderson (formally coach of USU but now he's out here coaching the badgers.) He's inactive.. for now... ;)

He supposedly isn't interested in the church at all right now.. Our bishop told us that an Apostle contacted him and talked to him about his membership in the church and encouraged him to come back to church. (because that would do amazing things for the church in Wisconsin if people knew the head coach of the Badgers was mormon..) but any way.. he basically said "no thanks" TO AN APOSTLE. He was way nice but just said no thanks.

Soooo...
basically you know me, I've been obsessing over it and want to meet him so bad to see what he is all about.

Sunday is Mother's Day so I get to skype my family... to say I am excited would be the understatement of the century! I LITERALLY AM GIDDY JUST THINKING ABOUT IT!

I love all of you guys and I hope your week is so awesome!!

with all my love, Sister Askerlund (Ask-her-lund--- it's really not that hard)