Hey guys! This week was wonderful. As for the work, there was nothing. To be
honest.. nothing to report. This week was super slow, but it was still a good
week!
So, I’ll start of by talking about Monday. We had a good day. We finally played some sports, but it wasn’t
basketball - whatever. We played a game
called fivestar. It is a combination of dodgeball and kickball. It was super fun! That night we went on exchanges
and I exchanged with Elder Lorenzen. He’s my favorite. He is so relatable and chill. It was a super good time! We actually were on
exchanges through Wednesday, so it was just so awesome, lol.
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| Care Package! Loved it! |
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| <3 |
Tuesday: We started
off with doing service at Beads of Courage. We were talking to the main person
there and they figure since January, alone we have packaged over 2.1 million
beads, just the six of us Elders who show up. That’s just since January! They have been doing this for 3 years. After
service, we ran up to the mission office and grabbed the package Mom & Dad
sent, which I loved by the way. I have missed getting mail from Mom and Pops!
So, that was a very good brightener to my bad previous week. After that, we ran
home ate some lunch and then did some finding until dinner. Lately our finding has consisted of visiting
part-member families and helping to clean up the ward’s membership records and
our district log book. We had dinner at Boston Market. It was super good!
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| Shhhh...dont tell the Badgers :O |
Wednesday: We went to
District Meeting and Zone Breakout Meeting - and this is when we exchanged
back. Afterwards, we did some finding, with no results. We also had another
appointment with A___. This time the lesson was about life after baptism. It
went great. She and K___ are both still on cloud nine. After this we went to
dinner. Some members gave us money for our dinner, so we just ate cheap. After
this we went and did family history.
Thursday: We went to Beads of Courage for another service
session. Following that, we went and helped our housing coordinator clean out
the building they use to store everything missionary apartments would need. It
was super fun, but took forever.
Afterwards, I was super sore, but we got a lot done. We did that until dinner. Then, we visited
with some less-actives for the rest of the night.
Friday was a repeat of Thursday, until dinner. After dinner, we did our weekly planning.
Friday flewwwww by, like crazy fast!
Saturday: We helped
build the B___ family’s house again. It’s fun to help them out. We shoveled rock and did some landscaping. It
was super hot and I got to use my new cooling towel Mom and Dad sent in my
package. Wow, is that thing amazing, or what? At first, when I saw it, I was like ”I’ll
never use this, “ but dang, I love that towel, lol. It’s the best thing since sliced bread. After
service, we took a nap and then visited K___. He is doing well, but has have
angioplasty and have a stint put in his leg on Wednesday. So, prayers are
needed there! Other than that, he is doing awesome.
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| The "before" picture |
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| Sigh, still working! :D |
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| After we were done...it looks awesome! |
Sunday was an interesting day. A Lutheran clergyman came to our Sunday meeting
block and asked our Mission President, President Browning, to come and speak at
one of their masses. Hopefully, we can go with President Browning. He wants his congregation to understand
Mormons and their beliefs. He wants to
grow a friendship between the congregations. It was a really neat experience to
be a part of. The guy was possibly one
of the nicest people I have met! Other than that, nothing else happened worth
mentioning on Sunday.
This may look like a short email; but we just did a lot of
finding with no success and a bunch of our appointments fell through.
This week was brutal because of all the finding, but I made
the best of the hand I was dealt.
I chose to be happy, and so should everybody. Choose to be happy and
choose to make someone’s day better and it will help make yours better too!
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| I am SO proud and excited to hear Elder DeMille returned home today "Mission Accomplished" It made me reflect on this throwback picture taken of my district leaving the MTC for Tucson, AZ and why I am serving this mission. Go Caleb! (I can say that now...I am sure Logan, UT misses you) |
We learned about charity today in Sunday School this week.
Charity has become my favorite thing. I’ve been striving to become more
charitable, so far so good, but there is always room for improvement…always.
I love y'all so much
Love,
Elder Dickinson
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