Share Your Testimony!

Share Your Testimony! Holy Cow the Church is TRUE! So this summer, I may not be doing all the things that I wanted to get done... But I have had so many opportunities to be with the Sister Missionaries! um.. they are amazing! The Sisters that I have been able to serve with the last couple of weeks are Sister Milburn and Sister Harwood

It was Sister Harwoods birthday last Thursday. I had all of Raie's kids so it was pretty crazy and fun, Dallin helped me make a cake.. Well It was almost nine and the sisters were passing by the house so I made them stop, so the microwave cake did not cook long enough, and so this is what she got! It was perfect! The 23 candles were going everywhere.

I have come to love these two Lady's and will be sad when transfers come! I have had so many opportunities to share the Gospel and to help in this very important work! On little miracle..

*******Ben and I were having some people over for dinner, I felt like I should ask the man that lives next door, we have never been over (embarrassing) so when Ben got home we went over to ask if he would like to come over for dinner. As we apologized for not coming over before, we could not even ask him if he would like to come over for dinner when he asked if he had seen the Sister Missionaries over at our house.. (I was thinking "oh crap he is going to tell us to get of the porch and never come back).. he then insisted on us getting him a Book of Mormon, he said that he had been ready the Bible and really needed a Book of Mormon! I ran one over latter that night with some extra dinner.*******

There is so many opportunities for us to spread the Gospel, what is keeping us from doing it, SATAN, it is him, he is telling us we can't! Everyone WE CAN.

Please pray and ask who you need to help! The Church is True!

Love you all, Stay Strong in the Faith, Faith in Christ. POTCIT Well I better hit the books..

TEXAS: Today was our first full day in Dallas for our 1-Year Wedding Anniversary! It's been great to just take it easy and not worry about anything.

One of the first adventures we tackled was Luis Tussaud's Palace of Wax. It was fun, yet a bit eerie with all those celebrity look-alikes like David Letterman, Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey and more. Ben soon found it entertaining to act as though he were one of the sculptures and scared other people, including me! He was insistent on finding out what the large metal dinosaurs in front were made of. Yes, they are all strictly made out of car bumpers! Pretty amazing!



Next, we visited Ripley's Believe It or Not! It was incredible and we saw many things you would never believe, like pictures on a rice grain and the world's smallest painting on a pinhead, as well as on potato chips.

There were other things like a mural made of pieces of toast and vests made of human hair --GROSS! SICK!!! We saw the "Tallest man who ever lived" who was 8' 11''. There were also fun little games and what-not like this. Try it out! What's your answer? It will always be the same!

Well shot. For those of you that we see once in a while, you know that our lives have been very hectic! For those of you that we do not see once in a while OUR LIVES HAVE BEEN HECTIC!!

Ben and I have just finished up our 2ND courses of school, through University Of Phoenix on-line. We both our still enjoying it, although we are going to be paying off student loans for quite some time.. Such is life.

Ben recently started back up at an old job (Skyline Electric) where he has been treated like a king. This job has been a huge blessing in our lives. It has opened up the opportunity for me to work less hours at Home Depot! This makes me very happy! Home Depot has been a blessing in my life, but it is time to move on. April 23rd will be my two year mark, meaning 2 week vacation pay! I hope to hold out this long!

In my free time I am hoping to:

• Spend more time at my house.


• Play my Piano in hopes to become good enough to teach lessons soon.


• Spend more time on my studies.


• Spend more time with my family.


• Spend more time with the Sister Missionaries in our stake.


• Improve my homemaking skills.


• AND MUCH MUCH MORE!

This is but a small list! Life is so short and there is so much to do. I remember after I received my lengthy patriarchal blessing, I thought to myself " how in the world am I going to accomplish all of these things"? I still wonder this at times, but I think of an old Institute teacher that I was talking to about this one time.. he told me "now Ashlie remember, you have eternity"!

I don't know how the plan all works, but I do know that eternity would be pretty boring if we were not continually learning and progressing. But I don't really know, all we can do is do our best everyday.

Anyways I hope with more time of to keep you all updated, I know I sure love reading and seeing how your families are, so long for now.

Do you ever fell like this?

Am I the only one that is feeling like this? I love Christmas time! I really do, but time is just speeding by and half the day I just walk around dizzy wondering what is going on? All my Christmas shopping is done, it was easy this year because Ben and I decided that we are not doing it this year. Party Poops I know, but we decided to give the money that we would use on ourselves and give it to a family that needed it.

Don't worry mom I told Ben we still have to get Pj's for our family tradition! Everyone needs a new pair of p.j's.

Anyways I just want you all to know I think about you all the time.. Ben and I are on our last weeks of classes.. and work is still their (thanks father in heaven). Anyways I will try to make my next post more exciting. Love you all! Marry Christmas.

I know I know!

I know I know... Everyone has been getting after me for not updating this! Raie and Katie are going wild with theirs.. And they both look amazing! Well the best news ever is Josh is coming home for thanksgiving. It was approved that we could all be together! It's been a long go at it, but I think that our family is slowly mending itself together! FAMILIES ARE FOREVER!

That we are promised. I know that my family has worked and continue to work hard to be together. Josh has been a huge example to us all, and is working really hard to come home, it is not easy to be a teen.

Josh, I love you and keep you in my prayers and want you to know just because I am married, does not mean I have forgotten about you! I am always here to help and listen to anything you ever need! love you buddy!

Jo's first date:

Ben and I were lucky enough to double with Jo on his first date. Don't worry, as he walked up to the door to pick her up, I started crying uncontrollably! I can not believe that the twins are old enough to date, dive... be in high school. Joseph has been trying diligently to get a date for many weeks.. And I was almost tempted to go to the high school and pull out all the little snots hair, for brushing Jo under the rug. He is such a good kid.. and any girl that will not give him a chance, deserves to get her hair pulled out. O.k o.k, so this is a little harsh, but lets face it.. I am pretty much just out of high school, and no I was not the most attractive girl at the school, but any guy that asked me out I gave him at least one chance. What are we going to do with our teens today. (I am a little scared!) Jo was so nice and respectfully! It was so fun, we went country dancing, then back to our place for some more fun. It was good, Jo has already asked us to double with him again on Mon. for a play at the high school! Yes you all should be jealous!

Ben and I continue to study our little hearts out! Ben got a job at olive garden and loves it. I have to say he looks pretty hot as a server. Mistie informed us today that we do not have lives, as well as Dave our roomie. Every time they walk in the door, Ben and I are both on our laptops studying away. We are on week four and it is a nine week course. So almost done.! Anyhow here is your update, I will try to be better, TTFN

P.S Mother: thanks for coming to help me with my homework! I LOVE YOU

What a WEEK! We survived our first week of school! So far so good, I think we will like it! We both come home from work and get out our little laptops, and off we go, working away on our studies, so far as far as we know we are 4.0 students. I think that we both are a little proud of that. Every time we see that we have received all the points we can, we are excited and we share with the other right away the good news. It will be disappointing if one of us does not receive full points.... I'm sure that it will be me... I married a smarty pants I love him!! I make him read through all my papers and responses before I send them of to be graded, that is most likely why I have all my points! Thanks Sweets!!



Life with meg is so good, we are learning a lot about life together. Its so fun, this week on Thursday we watched Oprah together! It was some fun girl time, SHE LOVED IT!! Gabbie has also been a huge support for me in school, as she is a teacher at Salt Lake Community college. They are really good friends, that I fell the lord has lead us to one another to help one another get through life.



This week was all so Halloween! So fun to see all the crazy people dress up. Unfortunately it came to fast for us, we did not dress up, well we did but it was lame, I was a stressed college student and Ben was a hard worker! Not to exciting. I had to work late, and Ben ran to help Dave Upwall with his spook alley. He had fun, and I did as well! Some of the kids came to see me, as they do every year when I have to work, here are some pix!




They are so fun! They came running in to see me at work! This is truly one of the gratest feelings ever! To be loved.

What a week! Ben worked very hard this week, applying at many different jobs, and also working for his parents. He has also kept up on the house work, and cooked me dinner many times this week. Ben had a very successful interview at the local Olive Garden, he got a second interview all in the same day, they should let him know in the next week, so continue praying.

It was a very good week for me, work has been hard and stressful. I have been looking for a different job, for a company that would appreciate me as an employee. I think that this is a dream! But hay, it cant hurt to continue trying to move up as far as pay goes. I put in an application at a place called cybersource. I am going to follow up on Monday and see about this.. I will let you all know!

Ben and I went to the Goo Goo Dolls concert with my family this weekend, very very interesting. Ben had fun... I need to learn how to have fun, here are some pix.

This should be a fun week, we have the Halloween dance on Thursday with the Special needs, I will definitely take some photos, and we will also be starting school, so tell next week.