This week was defiantly a good week. Teaching wise, we didn’t get a lot got done, but
learning wise, it was huge! "Seek
ye first to obtain My word, then seek ye to declare My word"
This week, it was a pleasure to have a General Authority
speak to the mission on Thursday! Richard J. Maynes of the 70 came to the
mission. I will highlight that later in
this email.
I want to thank you guys for that awesome email you sent
this week. It filled in all the gaps of
the stuff I miss most - other than snow.
I am having trouble getting into the Christmas spirit without snow. Trust me it’s hard.
I did see a lady wearing a Packer jersey today and she filled
me in on how the game went, lol.
Anyways, I might as well jump into how my week went,
because I guess that’s what I’m here for, right?
Monday we played volleyball in the morning, followed by haka
practice and some shopping. After shopping, we went to the library (only for
the internet to email, lol) and then home for the night. The everlasting highlight of Monday(s) is
defiantly emailing home. I don’t know about you guys, but I feel like every
time I write home the time in between P-Days becomes shorter and shorter – or
is that’s just me.
Tuesday: We went to the
food bank and worked there for two hours. After that, we went home and made
some lunch. I wasn’t feeling all that
well so I took a quick nap. After that I
felt much better. Later, we had a dinner
at Peter Piper Pizza - it’s like Chucky Cheese.
The family we went with had little kids, so the kids played while we
ate. Afterwards, Elder Ikimau lined me
up (gave me a haircut). Now, the top of
my hair, which is longer, is black and my short sides are brown, lol.
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| Thanksgiving Package---Better late than never! |
Wednesday we had a wonderful District Meeting on the Church’s
Christmas initiative called “Light the World” and we were showed how to present
it to members. It was a pretty cool
meeting. Look Light the World up, it’s
on lds.org. It consists of 25 days of service. There is a
short video for each day with different ideas of little acts of service. After District Meeting we contacted some
referrals, who were not home at the time. I learned that we actually cover three
different reservations: The San Xavier,
Pascua Yaqui (pronounced yockey) and the Tahono O'Odham nations. After contacting the referrals we had dinner
on our own. After dinner we met with C__
and talked about how her job is going and stuff like that, the, we shared some
scriptures with her.
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| Food Truck Style |
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| My all time FAVORITE Mexican Food... the "sonoran
whataburro" from pershones food truck (bacron wrapped) |
Thursday: In the
morning we went to....drumroll...the food bank, lol! No, just kidding - we had a Mission Conference
where Elder Richard J. Maynes of the 70 came and spoke to our half of the
mission. His wife talked about how
angels bless the lives of others - and we (missionaries) are those angels. I could not help but think of my angel... my
mother - and all the lives she saves (as a trauma nurse)... just in different
ways than us missionaries 😉. Elder Maynes talked about the Book of Mormon
and finding people to teach. It was a
really good training. He helped me to be
able to BETTER understand what I am reading – rather than forgetting what I’ve
read 3 pages later. Does that make
sense? Anyways after the conference, we
had to get the oil changed in our truck. It took forever, but it was fine - not a
biggy. After this we had dinner appointment
with the O___s. We had some awesome big
ribeye steaks and baked potatoes with Caesar salad. All of which are my favorite!
Did I mention I have quit drinking soda all together? I have and today is the forth day so
far. I’m just trying to drop a few pounds
by eating heathier. (The idea of dropping weight is going to be pretty funny
after you read about the Chinese Buffet a little further down, lol)
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| Quitting soda, had to make the last one "top shelf" |
Friday: We drove to Sells,
AZ and played sports and stuff with Z___, then we taught him another
lesson. After that we drove home. Later,
we had dinner on our own before we taught a lesson to J__ L__ and A__ Q__. She recommitted to baptism on the 16th
of December. We talked about tithing and fast offerings and committed them to
paying tithing. After meeting with them, we went home, hunkered
down and got some rest for the terrible day that was to follow.
Saturday was just a terrible mess – that is the best way to
describe it. We picked up another set of Elders who had some service lined up
for 10:30 - but the people we were supposed to help move had not given the
other Elders an address to meet at. After
11:00 they finally got a hold of people and they said we should show up at 1:30
and they would be ready for us to help. So we went to get lunch and then were
ready to help at 1:30 – but guess what - still no address. Finally, after some calling around we finally
had an address and we were supposed to meet them at 2:30. We were supposed to meet at a storage place to
help these people move their stuff into an apartment. We got there at 2:30. The people said they were on their way - like
10 times. The 19-year old in me said, “This
is stupid, let’s just leave.” but the
missionary part of me and the other missionaries decided we would wait until
they showed up. Needless to say, they finally showed 2 hours later. So, we
finally got the unit open and started moving stuff out – then after seeing all
of the stuff that had to be moved, they decided they needed a u-haul
truck. After an hour of us sitting on their
couches and watching their stuff we had already moved out of the unit, they finally
arrived with the truck. However, the
rental unit place closed at 7:00 so we had to just chuck all of their stuff in
the truck in a hurry, then move it into their apartment. Needless to say, it took forever, ugh! It makes me so upset just thinking about it,
but it did teach me that planning is essential for success. After this we had
time to eat quickly after not eating all day. We chose a cheap Chinese buffet
and we destroyed the place! I ate 110
shrimp, 20 pieces of sushi and crab rangoons, and a whole plate of ice cream for
desert, lol. (What can I say, it was my
only mean of the day – you got to make it count. Lol)
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| First Christmas away from home tree! |
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| Ending the post with a pic of a great friend, Elder Ikimu |
Sunday was a good day.
We had my first Stake Conference on my mission. The theme of the talks was missionary work. After Conference, we made some stop-by
visits. Later we had Ward Correlation
Meeting. And that was a wrap for the
week.
I hope y’all had a wonderful week and maybe learned
something from my misfortunes. If not, sorry.
Jesus loves you, so there, lol.
Any who,
Love,
🌵🌴Elder
Dickinson🌴🌵
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