This will most likely be a shorter email because of the time
that was taken up by all of the service we did - and we did a ton – and I mean
a ton of service!
Monday was quite a change of pace for PDay, but it’s nice
out here in Benson though. Living out
here is defiantly an acquired taste, but is well worth it.
Tuesday: We tried making some stop-by visits. One of the people we were looking for ended
up either visiting Mexico or moved to Mexico. We’re not sure. Hopefully he is just visiting, lol. Following
a couple of stop-by visits, Elder Ramsden started showing me the area along
with introducing me to some of the members.
Wednesday: Let’s just
say after Wednesday I was wiped out. We
started at the Foodbank. Benson’s
Foodbank is an open air operation and our job was to wipe off the window where
they write on it with Crayola maker to identify the number of boxes of food
each car gets. It was a fun opportunity
for us to talk to people and people get to see the missionaries out and about
serving the community - so it’s good! After
that we ran to the church for our District Meeting. We had to change at the church before and
after the meeting because later we helped move a lady that really needed some
help. It took us until dinner time to
finish and by that time we were donzo. We were completely beat because it took a
lot of time and there was a lot of heavy appliances.
Thursday consisted of some more stop-by visits and a heathy
dinner, which tasted good, but wreaked havoc on my stomach.
Friday was a day that we spent setting up for the G___
family’s (the people we live with) 40th annual Easter egg hunt thingy. We moved and sat up chairs and set up games
stations. Bro G__ weed whacked and we raked
up what he cut down. After a while, the
G__s had to leave to go to a
funeral. So, I surprised them by weed whacking
the rest of the yard that they would have had to do when the funeral was
over. I ended up weed whacking like an
acre and a half, lol. It brought back some
memories of one of my summer jobs – where I would weed whack all day,
everyday.
Saturday was the day we had the G__ Family Easter celebration.
It started at 10:00, we hid over 175 dozen eggs (thats 2,100 eggs) for 150 kids. It took forever! We started hiding eggs at 7:15 and finished
at 9:45. Who knew it would be such hard work? Well, the festivities wrapped up around 2:00ish
and we changed, put some stuff away and then headed off to do some service. We fished up with that around 5:00ish. The service entailed digging a trench to lay
pipe which we will be doing at a later date.
Sadly, we had to watch General Conference on tape delay. But, after
service we had homemade green chili pork. It was very good!
Sunday, we watched the wonderful General Conference sessions
and then had dinner in Dragoon, AZ, which is around a 30 minutes away from
home. After dinner we visited the S___
family and then wrapped up the night.
Sorry this email was short but like I said most of our time
this week was taken up by doing service.
I can’t wait to hear from y’all.
Love you
Elder Connor William Dickinson
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