Joy!!

Dear Friends and Family,
This week was really great. Sister Mathison is feeling better and we are ready to get back to work. We had some really fun/amazing/joyful experiences this week.  We got to go to the temple on Wednesday. I love the temple. It is such a peaceful place and going to the temple brings so much power in our lives. It was so much fun to get to go with the whole MLC. It was also lots of fun to get to road trip to Memphis with a bunch of missionary friends. Waking up at four in the morning to get to the temple on time was less fun but worth it.

One of the highlights of the week was getting to be reunited with some of my favorite people. My trainer Sister Mecham made a surprise visit to Searcy this week. It was SO good to see her and catch up for a little bit. This week was also the 40th year mission reunion which brought back a few other old missionaries including Sister Kalahiki and my original mission president and his wife, The Petersons. It was also fun to see lots of people from the Pinnacle Mountain Ward at the reunion as well. I was asked to conduct the mission choir at the reunion. I was told that the choir needed to sound like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir #nopressure.  I'm not sure we sounded quite that good but I think we did a pretty decent job.

Prior to the reunion fireside, a very special and much prayed for event occurred. Sister Maggie Davis is a bit of a legend to the missionaries in the ALRM. She lives right across from the mission home and she comes and bears her testimony to all the arriving missionaries. Maggie starting investigating the church about three years ago and has wanted to join the church for about that long but hasn't been able to. I met Maggie my very first day in the mission field. She was at the airport with the Petersons when I arrived in Little Rock and gave me huge hug when she saw me, I was inspired by her testimony and her story. I got to know Maggie even more when I was serving in the Pinnacle Mountain Ward. She came teaching with us and would sit by us a church sometimes. She was a great example to me. Well right before the fireside started, Maggie was finally baptized! I've never seen anyone so happy to be baptized. She was just glowing. I can't even express how happy I am for this girl. She is amazing and is finally able to experience all the blessings of being a member of the Lords church. 

I am so grateful to be a missionary here in Arkansas and to help people like Maggie to enter into the Lord's church. I know that this Church is true. I love that this Church offers absolute truth in a world where truth is hard to find. I love this gospel and I love this work!

As always thank you for everything and have a wonderful week!
Love
Sister Aase
 

Sister Kalahiki & I

Sister Mechan & I

 

Sister Mathison & I

Sisters at the Memphis Temple