Hello
family and friends,
This
week was full of good and bad things - mostly good, so no worries. I’m sorry for the short and slightly detached
email last week, but it was New Year’s Eve and I was basically multitasking the
entire time I was writing it. This week, I will try to do better. That’s
all we really can do - continue to try to be better, right?
I
want to start this week’s email with invitation. As you know by now, President
Monson passed away this week, and I have had some interesting experiences. I would like to extend an invitation to
start...or to continue reading the Book of Mormon - every day. Even if it is just one scripture a day or one
chapter a day - I invite all to feast upon the words of Christ. If President Monson, a man called of God, used
his last General Conference talk - his last words and breath - to invite us to
read The Book of Mormon…it must be important.
That
being said, here is what we were up to this week:
Monday: I’m sorry we didn’t get to email much this
week. We usually have volleyball from 9
to 11:00, but this week we had Zone sports after volleyball. For Zone sports, the whole Zone gets together
to play some sports once a transfer (about every 6 weeks). So, we were busy all morning having fun. After all that was done, we emailed until it
was time to head to town, we then didn’t have any Wi-Fi, so I sadly was not able
to finish emailing. We had to do our shopping and then it was time for
bed.
Tuesday
was a good day. We didn’t do service at the foodbank, because they were doing
their inventory. After lunch we went out and talked to people and did
some stop-by visits. Sometimes, I feel like stop-by visits are a waste of time,
then I remember that no effort is wasted. We had a late dinner on our own. I fried up some potatoes.
Wednesday
was a very good day! We picked up Elders Perry and Mitchell and drove
down to Sahaurita, AZ for our weekly district meeting, where we learned about
the passing of Thomas S. Monson. While sad, we shared our favorite memories of
him and talks he had given. We also learned about how to make our personal
study more effective - not only for us, but also for our investigators. Later, we ate dinner on our own, due to Elder
Lee not feeling well. It’s in my New
Year resolution to work out more, so we also ran 3 miles. I’ve worked out every
day since New Year’s! This however was kind of mistake because that night, I
did not sleep at all.
Thursday (aka Birthday): January 4th. Its hard to believe one year ago I said goodbye to my family, left Wisconsin and entered the MTC. It has been an awesome journey so far and I am looking forward to this next year. We worked out again after waking up, which
stunk because A) no sleep and B) I was sore form the night before. We went out with Bro. Collingwood and
contacted and spoke with a lot of people. We gave out 5 books of Mormon and visited over
40 people that day. I’d say it was a very successful day. We visited
people from 11:00 am to 4:30 pm. After 4:30 we drove to Sells to teach our Book
of Mormon class. The class went very well!
Instead of having 1 person there, like last week, we had 12. It was crazy! Crazy good. Then we drove home
and that was our day. We went to bed and I stared at the ceiling from 9:30
pm until our alarm went off = Day 2 of no sleep :(
Friday
was an interesting day. We woke up and I worked out pretty hardcore. After which, I ran another 1.5 miles. I need to somehow find the joy in it, instead
of trying not to die, lol (I might be a little out of shape). After we worked out, we picked up the other Elders
and did our weekly planning until 3:00. After our planning was complete, we got some
fish tacos to satisfy a craving we’d been having. One thing I’ve noticed, we haven’t been
teaching a lot. We have been trying, but no luck. We had a dinner appointment
with Sister D__ that night, but it fell through, so she gifted us some money
and said dinner was on her.
I
did have an awesome experience Friday. Mom and Dad, if you want to know I will share
it with you.
Oh,
and guess what else happened. I couldn’t
sleep Friday night, surprise!
Saturday
was another good day. I obviously was beyond exhausted at this point, but we
went on a short hike with K__. I wore Ikimau’s
old cowboy boots he left behind. After
the hike, man I was one sore fella. After
the hike and handing out some more Books of Mormon, K__ treated us to lunch at Texas
roadhouse and I had a very, very good steak. After this we went to the library
for some family history, then we did some finding with no luck.
Sunday: We were told we would have to give talks in
the Sells Branch, but luckily it was Fast and Testimony Sunday, so instead
we bore our testimonies. I find it a lot easier to do it in the Sells
branch than at home in Wisconsin. After
Sacrament Meeting, we taught a lesson to the Primary kids. Its like we were
teaching in a zoo, but I feel that it ended up going somewhat okay. We then drove home and ate a linner sort of
deal on our own. But then we did studies and later that night we ate a PDay eve
meal with Elders Perry and Mitchell. We made a Vidalia onion chicken and
cream over rice with a side salad.
Anyways,
this was my week, not very exciting, but it was defiantly uplifting and
motivating. The lack of sleep however killed me. So I am hoping for a good
night of sleep followed by an awesome day of emailing you guys.
I
love you all, signing off from Tucson, AZ
Love,
Elder Dickinson!
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