This week was pretty darn interesting J and I have a
decent amount of good news to share – and that is always good!
Hopefully, the email servers stop acting up and will actually
work this week - unlike the last couple of weeks L. Anyways, I hope you all had as wonderful of a
week as did Elder Lee and I did.
Remember the goals Elder Lee and I set last week? Here is how we did...drumroll......
Goal #1: Hand
out 30 copies of the Book of Mormon
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We handed out 37
Goal #2:
Have 40 Quality Gospel Conversation (QGC)
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We had 33 QGCs
Goal #3:
Find 4 new investigators
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We found 4
Goal #4: Set
1 baptismal date
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We didn’t get anyone to set a date
Goal #5:
Have 4 investigators come to church
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We had
had 4 investigators attend church this week
As you can tell, we had a wonderful week with some cool
stories to add.
Monday we got to email home, which is always my favorite! It was wonderful, but sadly we didn’t get to
talk much because of the stupid email server. I am not sure what they are going to do about
it, but hopefully it will work better this week.
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| P-Day Pool |
Tuesday: We went out
to the food bank for two hours of service. After the food bank, we went out
with Bro. Collingwood to visit people and check out addresses until 5 o clock. Just like in Pres. Dieter F. Uchtdorf’s talk
about the ‘Fourth Floor, Last Door,’ after visiting over 50 addresses on Bro.
Collingwood’s list, the final door we knocked on that evening we found a guy
named T___. His dad is also named T___, making him T___ Jr. We were looking for his dad, who is a less
active church member, but T___ Jr. was there.
It turns our T___ Jr. is searching for a church. He has read the Book of Mormon and wants to
be baptized. It’s a pretty cool story of how persistence and faith pay off.
After that we had dinner and studies.
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| Crazy Crime here! One out of 4 is near our neighborhood! :O |
Wednesday: We had
district meeting that went really long. So, we went out with Grandpa (Bro.
Collingwood) from 2:00 until 7:00 visiting people again. While visiting people
we entered some private property. Following
Bro. Collingwood’s lead we started talking to this lady who was really
standoffish. She said her husband wasn’t
home. It turns out she answered the door
with a pistol - safety of, finger on the trigger and ready to shoot. It was pretty scary, but we smoothed things
over and headed to the next house. That afternoon, we handed out several copies
of the Book of Mormon and found a former investigator, who we are going to
start teaching again. So, it was super
good productive day. Later that night we
ate dinner and went for a run. During
our 3 mile run we managed to hand out four more copies of the Book Of Mormon.
Yay!
Thursday was another interesting day. We didn’t work at the
foodbank, which gave Elder Lee time to work on his talk for today. After that we went to 3 points with Grandpa
visiting some more people. We went up to this one particular door and this lady
came storming out super ticked off trying to sick her dogs on us, but she
tripped watching us run away. She had 3
massive pitbulls. But because she
tripped we got to the truck before she got to the gate and let the dogs
out. It was super close, but exhilarating
none the less. After visiting more
people we headed to Sells to teach our Book of Mormon class - then drove home
for the night.
Friday was our planning day. We planned for most
of the day. Somehow, we still managed to give out several Books of Mormons, even
though it was our planning day. So, Friday was good day.
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| Zone Conference fun! |
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| Proper Posing! :) |
Saturday was a wonderful day and a testimony builder to say
the least. The weather was really
coooooold and it rained pretty hard.
Man, I loved being able to see my breath again! We were driving
home from wherever we were - probably finding.
As we were driving home Elder Lee spotted one of the Books of Mormon we handed
out in a wash (a ditch for run off).
The rain was pouring out of the sky so we pulled over and Elder Lee went
to get it. To our surprise, even being in
a flooded ditch laying in the rain, the book was in pristine condition! The cover was a little wet, but there’s no
way that book should not have been totally destroyed - yet it was perfect!
Amazing right?
Sunday was just a cool day in general. For the first time in my nearly 6 months in
Midvale, we went to church for all three hours in the Midvale Ward and did not
drive to Sells. It was awesome! I met a fellow named Mauri Kingi. He is a member who is a snowbird from South
Dakota. (snowbird is a nickname for
people from northern states who spend in the winter in Arizona). He is part Native American and part Mauri (New
Zealand). He is from the Pine Ridge
Tribe. He says he spends a lot of time in Rosebud, ND where my Mom spent parts
of two summers as a student nurse working at the hospital on the
reservation. I told him about how my Mom
had worked there and asked him he knew one of my Mom’s friends that she meet when
she was there. He said actually knew my
Mom’s friend very well. Being part Mauri,
I asked him if he knew the Tika Tonu Haka, (the Haka I learned and performed
for Elder Ikimau when he went home). He said “No way, Absolutely!?! Bro, that’s my haka!” So, I felt bonded to him for some reason. He is a super nice guy! That was pretty
much it for Sunday, other than blessing K___’s house.
Anyways, I obviously had a very interesting and busy busy
week and we hit most of our goals!!!! Yippy.
I love you all and cannot wait to hear from you!
Love,
🌵🌴Elder Connor
William Dickinson🌵🌴
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