Compared to last week, this week was alright. It was defiantly better than some other weeks we’ve
had in this area.
We were able to hand out 14 books of Mormon and we had 18
quality gospel discussions and added one new investigator. We were also able to set two baptismal dates
for R__ M__’s adopted kids! So, that
being said I guess this week turned out to be a wonderful week after all. It wasn’t a stellar week, but it was still
very good! We had an interesting thing
happen to us on Saturday night - I will share here in a little bit.
With all of that being said - I will jump right into the
week:
Monday, as always, was awesome - being able to email home
and play sports for most of the day! Volleyball is not a specialty of mine, but I
love playing it every Monday morning. I
will miss it, for sure. After that, we went to the library and emailed home for
a while. Later that night, we had Chili’s
for dinner, but I didn’t have chicken and waffles this time, lol.
Tuesday was an interesting day. It started out with us working at the
foodbank. While I was working on unloading
a pallet, I slightly cut myself. After
getting home, I was making lunch and was opening my can of tuna when I almost
cut off the whole pad of my finger. The
cut was pretty deep - stupid can, So, that was fun. After lunch, all our appointments, cancelled.
So, that made for a really interesting day of handing out Books of Mormon and
nobody wanting to talk, lol. Ehh –
whatever, that is the ups and downs of missionary work.
Wednesday was a good day! We drove to Sahaurita, AZ for
District Meeting, where we learned about how to make studies more efficient and
learning more. After District Meeting,
we drove home and had lunch followed by picking up Bro. Collingwood and going
out to visit people. We visited people until we had a dinner appointment with
the R__ family. We basically had the equivalent of a thanksgiving dinner
and I ate as if it was, lol. After
dinner we went on a run and handed out three more books of Mormon = 1 book per
mile, so not bad!
Thursday was a good day as well. It was a really good day because we didn’t
have to run from any dogs or guns, lol. We
went out with Bro. Collingwood again. We
visited about 20 addresses and people before heading out to Sells to teach our
Book of Mormon class. We read from the book of Abraham. I sure learned a lot. It’s a wonderful
book! After a long drive home we retired for the night.
Friday we woke up got ready and started our weekly
planning. Later we drove north for lunch
and more planning. We actually planned
for the better part of the day. Later
that night, we had a dinner appointment with Sis. D___. Sadly, her husband and son were out of town,
so she gave us some money to go out and eat.
It was super kind of her. Friday
was a pretty low key day, but we managed to hand out 3 more Books of Mormon. So, it wasn’t a loss, because no time spent in
the service of the Lord is a loss...right?
I also received a package from home. I love everything in it, as always. You guys are awesome missionary
parents! Oh, and Grandma, thank you for
you healthy contributions, they are greatly appreciated!
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| Small Care Package from home <3 |
Saturday: What a day!
Not much happened. We spent a good part of the morning and
afternoon driving some other Elders around to some place they needed to go (not
all missionaries have a car). Elder Perry
and I talked for about 2 hours during this time. We just talked about the mission, what we liked,
what we could do better, - just getting some feelings off our chests. Don’t worry, it was all constructive. I learned a lot, so that was good! Yay! lol.
After this we drove home had studies and got ready for a
dinner appointment with the C___ family.
It was awesome! We had homemade
chili and being that it may have been my last dinner there (transfers are next
week and I’ve been here for 6 months), we shared a ton of laughs. I’ve grown to
love that family. They are awesome!
Afterwards, we went to the O__’s and celebrated Sis. E___’s taking out her endowments. They had a massive taco bar and my three
favorite families were there: the C__s,
O__s and the R___s. We were only missing
the Collingwoods.
Anyways it was so awesome we actually last track of time,
which brings me to my story and email subject line: Saturday nights in south Tucson.
On our way home, we needed to stop and get gas for our
Sunday trip to Sells. OK, imagine a 4 way
intersection, but not a busy one. There
are gas stations on the northeast and northwest corners of the intersection. We
always gas up at the Circle K because we have a reward card there. However, I was prompted to go to the Diamond
Shamrock across the street from the Circle K.
Keep in mind, mission rules say we are supposed to be in our
apartments by 9:30 or 10:00 at the very latest.
So, there we were filling up at the Diamond Shamrock at 9:39, when we
hear tons of squad cars and someone screaming, “Get on the ground!” It turns out, 3 people had pulled off an
armed robbery at the Circle K and they took off running right past us. One of
the kids was like 13 and he made it the farthest.
That being said, we were caught up in the middle of all of
this. A sheriff deputy yelled for us to
get out of there. So we left after filling up, lol
So kids, the moral of the story is to follow mission rules
and be in by 9:30 and follow the promptings of the Spirit. Thank you to everyone for all for your
prayers that kept us safe! (We have nothing to fear with the Lord on our side!)
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| Armed Robbery at our usual gas station in South Tucson |
Sunday was wonderful. President Browning came out to Sells and spoke
at Sacrament Meeting. He met everybody and after the meeting block and we had a
killer potluck. The primary kids were a
bundle of heck, but the food motivated me, lol. President Browning also said he may be opening
a Missionary area in Sells, with full time Elders. IF that happens, it will
happen sometime within the next 3 transfers. He said I would be a logical person to open
that area. J It would only make sense. He also said we were getting smart phones next
week. Who knows if that will really happen? It’s been up in the air since last November. Always, we also had a wonderful recent convert
fireside Sunday evening.
As you may be able to tell I had a pretty good week – I can’t
really complain. As Bro. Collingwood
will tell yah: “Even if you complain, no
one would listen to yah.” Lol. I hope y’all
have a wonderful week. I cannot wait to
hear from you guys! Love y’all!
Love,
🌵🌴Elder Connor
William Dickinson 🌴🌵
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