Week 35: Where were you when the world stopped turning? 9.11.17

This week just seemed to have flown by.  Anyone else feel that way?  Anyways, I would love to hear from you all.  I know it’s a simple thing, but it means a lot! This week we set a baptism date with S__ and did some service. It might be a shorter email - mainly because we did a lot of small things that aren’t necessarily worth reporting, lol.

Monday:  I know I say this every week, but it is true!  I just love writing home and trading emails with everyone! It makes the monotonous weeks a lot easier!  We didn’t have a dinner appointment, so we came home, worked out and tied up some loose ends from last week.

Tuesday:  After an intense work out, we went to the food bank and helped out there for 2 hours. After that we came home, ate lunch and then did family history at the library for an hour. After that, we tried contacting some referrals, but for some reason, no one was home, which made no sense. Anyways, that was pretty much it for our day. 

A King/Bull snake we ran over!! :O

Hump day:  Everything after Wednesday seems to be downhill, in a good way, lol.  We had our District Meeting, which was good.  It kind of started off with us talking about online proselyting, but that doesn’t start for us until the 27th.  After District Meeting we drove 20 minutes home and ate lunch. We then did some contacting before we had to drive to a lesson with J__ and A___. A__ has a baptismal date for October 14th.  They are looking forward to getting married and then for her baptism.  All is going well there!  After the lesson, we drove clear out to Three Points and helped an active/part-member family move in the area. It took forever because they had a ton of useless stuff, but..."When ye are in the service of your fellow men, ye are only in the service of your God."  So, needless to say, just serve!

Thursday we headed off to the foodbank and worked there for a while.  After the food bank we came home, changed and then went contacting.  Yay, right?...Nope!  Anyways, we had dinner with the O___.  They took us and there massive family out to Texas Road House.  Bro. Olive introduced me to prime rib.  Man, I’m never getting anything else, because I love it so much! Now, when I come home I can hit up the good prime rib places in Wausau. We had a fun time watching the Patriots lose too! Man, Texas Roadhouse has a dang good ceaser salad too!

Look close...VERY CLOSE...yup folks that is some HAIL!!
Can you believe it??

 Friday:  Blessed planning day.  Guess what we did?   Yup, you’re right…we planned!  Oh, and we meet with S__.  He is 11 and is part of a part-member family. He wants to be baptized on the 7th so we are meeting with him and his family every Friday for 3 weeks!!

Saturday:  We woke up and did service for most of the day moving people. We had breakfast at R__’s house. We had chorizo, eggs, tamales and chicken for breakfast, lol.  It was good. Then, in the afternoon we made our weekly visit to Sis. C__! She is so sweet. We always love stopping by to visit with her.  After that, we had dinner on our own and then did some more contacting.

The scree saver on my tablet..Helps me cope with the loss of Finner....

Sunday - Fun day:  This Sunday was the same as the last week. We had Ward Conference and left after sacrament to eat breakfast at Bro. Collingwood’s house.  We had blueberry pancakes.  After breakfast, we made the trek to Sells AZ to attend Sacrament Meeting and Primary and Priesthood meetings. In the Sells branch, we pass the sacrament because they don’t have enough priesthood.  We are also in charge of the Primary.  In small branches like Sells, they usually do not have Sunday School, because there are just not enough leadership and people to staff the teaching positions. After that we drove home ate dinner and then went to the Bishop’s house. His family was in town from Portage and Gresham WI. So, we talked about everything Wisconsin under the sun. It was a blast.

That was our week - a whole bunch of little things.

This coming week we have the potential to set 4 more baptismal dates!  So, we will see what happens.

I’ll leave you guys with my testimony of love. We are living in the most chaotic of times. The greatest commandment is to love the Lord thy God with all your heart. And the second is like unto it. Love thy neighbor as thyself. (I probably slaughtered that)  But the point is; we are all Heavenly Father’s children = go out of your way to serve someone, even if it’s just a smile or something like taking the time to get to know your neighbor. Do this and I promise the missionary opportunities will follow.  Missionary work is done out of love, so it all comes full circle.

Sister McBride and whhhaaattt Sister Carter from my District in the MTC...
What a small world! :)

That being said; I love you all so much

Love,

   

Elder Dickinson