There are two ways to look at the subject line if this
email.
1) From your
perspective, a civilian’s perspective, a long tiring week could include getting
yelled at by the boss, worked 20 hours of overtime or something else that was probably
not fun, edifying or so on.
Or
2) From the view point of a missionary a long and tiring
week means a week full of work that was worth all of the difficulty. As I lay in my bed typing this up I know I
have given it my all this week. This was one of those weeks that was tiring,
but I can kneel before my Lord and say “I've done all I could.”
That being said, my week was the second kind. We were uber busy with service, teaching and
meetings. From now on, instead of going through my week day-by-day, I
will only share any highlights.
Monday: What can I
say? I'm a simple man. We could have
done all the fun things in the world, but nothing can hold a candle to talking
to my family on PDay. You guys are my world. You guys keep me going - so thank
you for that.
Tuesday was a long day filled with cancelled lessons, but
the highlight was being able to attend a missionary dinner for the Youth and
Young Adults hosted at the Butterfield Ward bishop’s house. He talked a little about his mission and we got
to share advice on filling out our mission papers and things we wish we would
have known better or done more before our missions. So, it was a fun opportunity to share a little
of what we have experienced to help future missionaries.
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| A beautiful desert sunset |
Wednesday’s highlight was zone conference. The West
zone and North zones combined for a daylong conference to talk about numerous
spiritual things ranging from technology safeguards to extending invitations
and commitments. It was defiantly an edifying and all-around spiritually
enlightening time.
Thursday was a day to remember, my goodness! We woke up and went to do service at the
C___s. Due to some circumstances, they needed
to move a shed off of one property and onto another - before the day was over. We spent the morning using screw jacks to jack
up the shed to a height that we would be able to get a trailer underneath
it. The screw jacks are exactly what they sound like. Basically we had to spin a handle to wind the
screw jack forever until they lifted the shed high enough. I have blisters on
both palms, one of which got infected. Fun right? Well we finally got the shed to the other
property. I was the traffic flagger and
directed traffic and such. After a
tight squeeze and some on the fly engineering, we landed the shed on its final
resting place. It ended up taking all day, but it was well worth it - not to
mention I gained some valuable knowledge from doing it.
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| Challenge Accepted! :) |
Friday consisted of weekly planning, lessons, correlation meeting
and other business. Need I say more?
Saturday was a good day. We helped the O__ family (an
entirely different O__ family that I’ve written about before) work in their
back yard and completely change the look of it by 180 degrees. We moved a
dirt pile, weed wacked, removing stakes and did a lot of good old fashioned cleaning
up. Now, it looks wonderful. It
was darn hot, too.
Here is something cool: I introduced our ward mission
leader to Grandpa Collingwood. We are now
starting to use the program that Grandpa Collingwood developed in Midvale. We just implemented it here and I'm looking
forward to seeing it in use, because I know it works. So we went out on
splits with Bro. R___ and visited some new move ins and other less active
members. It was time well spent.
Sunday: My goodness! We had meetings from 6:00AM until out 8:30PM
dinner appointment. It was a brutally long day, but again – it was worth it.
That was my week. I
am looking forward you hearing from y'all. I love you.
Love,
Elder Connor William Dickinson
I will send pictures in another email.
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