Hello everyone! Sister A. here! People have just accepted they don't know my last name and just call me Sister A. we tried Sister Ask for a while but some kids in my ward kept forgetting the 'k' and would add an addition 's' so we are keeping it safe with just Sister A.. Hahaha
It has been a beautiful and wonderful week here in Madison, Wisconsin. It looks as if just over night everything just got painted green! It is so beautiful and I love it! With the warm weather the bugs have started to come out.. I swear there is like honey in my blood - so every bug on the planet just wants to bite me. not ideal, but I am dealing :)
Sister bean and I met some awesome people this week, on Tuesday we had an appt that got cancelled so we were driving home from that and there was this house we drove by that a guy was sitting on his porch. He caught my eye (no, not in that kind of way.. ) but I just felt super prompted to stop so I made Sister Bean flip a uturn and we went back, parked, and just got out and started talking to him. (we do super creepy stuff like this all the time) His name is Frank, he is from NYC. He is a single dad with two boys, all of his family is back in New York. We started talking to him about our church and what we do as missionaries and he was super interested! He started bearing his testimony on Jesus Christ and everything he has done for him, he told us he wants his kids to know Jesus and to go to church. We shared Alma 36:3 with him-that talks about whosoever will put their trust in the Lord will be supported in their trials and afflictions, he was really touched and loved the scripture and asked if he could get a copy of the Book of Mormon, he was a little surprised when we just handed it over to him :) He works like 3 jobs but said he wants to learn more so we're going to go back and teach him this week! The Lord is truly preparing people all around us and I can't/we can't know who they are if we are not diligently searching for them.
Charlotte finally came to church and LOVED it! She felt the spirit after so strong and just kept telling everyone that would listen that "She is going to be a Mormon" I attached a picture of us and her on her first Sunday, its like an aerial view because she wanted Jesus in the picture haha
Sunday we had a going away party for a family in our ward, the Turners. They are the most missionary oriented people I know, I attached a picture with us and Jen Turner and Lisa. Lisa and Jen are best friends and Jen taught Lisa everything about the gospel and got her to meet the missionaries and she was baptized last November! I sure am gonna miss this family!
We're teaching a new guy named Kevin who "isn't churchy, he's just spiritual" He wants us to go to his "drum circles" with him if he agrees to come to one of our Sacrament meetings, this sound be interesting... ;)
Madison Wisconsin is one of the most diverse places I have ever been. No joke one part of town people are all homeless and begging for food and two streets away is mansions. I have seen some very sad things here and met some very sad people. People who are looking for something better. So many people here feel all alone.. that's where us missionaries come in. I love, love, LOVE helping people to feel loved, whether it is love from me or love from the Lord, everyone deserves to feel loved. Everyone deserves to feel special and know their purpose in life. We are teaching some amazing people who are coming to realize there is so much more to life than they ever thought possible, and that is an amazing thing to see.
I love you guys!!
Until next week,
Adios amigos
-Sister Askerlund
"The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. that which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in His own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude. "
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