What a week! This week was really, really good/happy. Lately, I’ve been remembering and practicing one
good thing that I learned from playing football. That would be having a PMA (Positive Mental Attitude)
– and, man, has it worked. I also
received a care package from one of my favorite seminary teachers ever. Thanks Sis.
Sell! It was a ‘Don't Worry - Be Happy’
package and it was much needed! I've been doing just that – not worrying and
just being happy and I’ll tell yah what, it has really worked. We have been seeing a lot of success,
too. It makes for a really fun
time. I wish every week could be just
like this last week.
I guess the best part of this week was our finding a part-member
family to teach: the R__s family. The dad is a church member, but the two kids
and mom are not. Because our recent acts
of service, they are now wanting follow the example of their dad and be a more
Christ centered family, which is wonderful! The dad has recently been reactivated and will
hopefully one day baptize his family. Maybe during my time here or maybe not -
who knows. Quien sabe. This was definitely the best part of our
week.
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| Awesome Farewell Luau with the O's Family. I love them so much! |
We spent a lot of time just walking around and talking to
people who were out walking. Being that
Clifton is a company town – meaning the mining company owns all of the property
– literally the entire town- because of this the company dictates the laws that
say we cannot tract due to the different shift-work schedules. So, we
talked to over 60 people on the street this week!
We had an opportunity to help brother R___s in his taco
shop. We helped saw concrete and will
eventually help him laying some pipe. It
was a fun project and I gained some good experience. Some service is more
fun than others, and this fun, plus it opened up the opportunity for us to
teach his family.
I can't say much about Clifton and Morenci, other than you
need to experience it yourselves. There is a kind of charm about this
place that just can't be explained. It
has been proved that this is one of the best areas in the mission - next to
Animas. So, I got super lucky in getting the opportunity to come back to the
Duncan Stake/District.
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| Our current abode! :D |
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| Just a few pictures from our P-day hike. |
Doctrine wise, I do not have a teaching point this week, but
remember what I said about having a PMA. It really has made a difference in my life
this week and hopefully yours too 😉.
My new companion is Elder Heiner. He is the bomb.com. He is super calm, friendly and always happy.
He is just an awesome guy to be around.
I miss the O__ family. That was a hard goodbye and leaving
them was really tough on me, but I have been well accepted into this ward
already. Bishop McBride says he remembered me
from 20 months ago – during exchanges, lol. So, that's already a foot in the
door and the new stake President sat in on one of our lessons with us. He said he is super proud of the Duncan
District and it is on fire right now. In
this little remote area, the Dirty Duncan District has five baptismal dates as
a stake and will be possibly adding 3-5 more in the next week or so! Our companion set has one baptismal date set
and we might be able to add 4 more soon.
Nothing but a positive report this week. I love y'all and
can't wait to hear from you.
Love you,
Elder Connor William Dickinson
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