This week has been wild - in both good ways and bad. This week has really opened my eyes to how
precious life really is. Not only how
precious it is, but how life is too short to be upset. I’ve come to the realization of how often our
prayers are answered and we never know when or how. For example: praying for safety on a trip
home - I will go into more detail about that later on in this email.
Like I said before, this week was hectic. It all started
on Monday – well, technically it started after Monday, because for me, Mondays
are like Christmas to a little child. I literally can’t wait to hit send on my
email to hear back from all of y’all. Mondays just downright get me through the
week!
Tuesday: We meet
K__ for her baptismal interview, which she passed with flying colors! After
her interview, we did some stop-by visits, including Sis. C__. She’s the best, and I love her to death. We visited for an hour or so until we had to
head off to dinner. We ended up eating
on our own because we didn’t have a dinner appointment. I made poor man’s curry. Dad would probably
be insulted, lol. It was just chicken
and potatoes over rice mixed with curry powder. But it was all we had, lol. After dinner, we meet with K__ at a church member’s
house. It was a good lesson.
Wednesday was a blast! We had our Zone Conference. We talked about a lot of stuff, but one thing
in particular stuck out to me was about making the time you have left in your
mission count, rather than counting the time you have left in your
mission. After this we had dinner
with the Relief Society. They had an
activity called “Truth or Treat.’ We had
to go to a lesson so we could only stay for the food part - impeccable timing,
right? We then sped off to our next
lesson with A__ and J__. We were able to
set a baptismal date on November 25th and a date for their
wedding. We are so excited to work with
her, but it will take some work.
Thursday: We headed off to foodbank where we pre-opened
stuff for 2 hours! After the food bank, we headed to Bro. Collingwood’s house
and he drove us out to Three Points to visit people. We stopped by and visited around 15
people. I was basically Home Teaching, but
we managed to generate two more teaching appointments for this week, which we
hope will result in the setting of more baptismal dates!!! It should be pretty interesting to see how it
will all work out. After this, we headed to Sells for our Book of Mormon
class, which no one showed up for. So,
we visited people and invited them to come to church. It worked, because we had
about 5x as many people come to church on Sunday!
Friday: We had
interviews with the Mission President and did our weekly planning. That was
pretty much it for Friday. I did buy a new blanket, and I love it because the
nights here are starting to get chilly.
Saturday: I was running
on no sleep (because I wasn’t used to my new blanket) we woke up at 5:00 am,
picked up Bro. Collingwood and headed to Sells where we had a service
project. We poured a cement wheelchair
ramp for someone.
When it was complete it worked out well and it looked
amazing! And, I got to practice my
construction skills. After this, we drove an hour and half to get to the church
where it was time to FTF...fill the font, lol.
K__ was baptized on Saturday and I got the honor of preforming her
baptism. She is so happy and she said
she will never forget or regret her decision. Those words were worth all of the
trials an tribulation on my entire mission. After her baptism she had so many people
welcoming her - she fits in so well.
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| Such a happy smile! |
Sunday was a day to remember – for both good and bad. We had a great Sacrament Meeting in Tucson (it
was the Midvale Ward’s Conference). I fasted all day until dinner, so that
turned out to be a defiantly a blessing. Bro. Collingwood drove us out to Sells,
AZ and had sacrament out there, a lot of people showed up and it was a grand
ole time. We were hurrying home to pick up my package from Mon and Dad from the
front office of our apartment complex before it closed at 5:00. However, we got stopped by the Border Patrol and
Elder Ikimau forgot his passport. So, we were pulled over for 20 minutes while
things got sorted out. I wasn’t sure we
were going to make it home by 5:00, so I suggested a different route to get
home quicker (keep in mind, Bro. Collingwood was driving). We ended up not taking the new route I
suggested and at an intersection we were T-boned by a car that didn’t stop at
the stop sign and turned into us. We were going about 55 mph at the time. It all happened
so fast, I honestly don’t remember a lot, but thank goodness for Bro.
Collingwood’s driving, because if he hadn’t done what he did, our vehicle would
have defiantly rolled numerous times. There was some damage done to Bro.
Collingwood’s car that will have to be fixed and the other car was
totaled. Me being so tall and being in a
small car I was in the back seat, leaning forward towards the center of the car
and I hit my head on the window. To be honest, I was surprised it didn’t break.
I have a nice goose egg on my head and I was slightly concussed and I wasn’t
even sitting on the impact side. It all
happened so fast - everything was super confusing, but all-in-all we are all OK
and resting. I do however feel like I got hit by a Mac truck. My neck down to
my back is sore and of course my noggin.
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| Poor Bro. Collingwood! :( |
So, this week I’ve learned life is precious. I’ve learned: When
you pray for safe travel and you make it where you are going safely -be
thankful! I believe if I had been driving, I would not have
reacted the same as Bro. Collingwood - because of his years of experience. Or, if we would have been hit by a larger
vehicle like a truck, we wouldn’t be here to tell the story. A Good Samaritan
driving behind us that saw the whole thing and said it was gut-wrenching to watch,
but yet we were all alright! It was a
miracle! I want to testify of divine happenings today. We had the Lord on our
side, we were lucky to escape with little or no injuries. Life is too short and
precious to be unhappy. So, smile and put one foot in front of the other and
keep on trucking. Life can always be way worse than it seems. When it’s
raining, don’t worry about getting wet, look for the rainbow and learn to dance
in the rain. Life is beautiful. Enjoy what we have because evert day is a gift.
I love you guys so much!
Please email.
Love
Elder Dickinson
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