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February
3, 2014
Hellooooo
everyone! Wow did we have a great week here. It snowed a ton (hence
the subject line), it was so cold that they had to cancel school twice,
and we had to push our van out of the snow a few times. BUT, we had so
much fun along the way and had miracles as well! What a blessing! People keep talking about how crazy this
Michigan winter has been! How lucky I am to be a part of it!
Here are
the miracles from this week:
1)
RITA. We were able to meet with her on Thursday. She wanted to meet
at the stake center so we gave her a church tour and taught her a lesson
there. She was taught a little by missionaries before when she lived in
England so she knew about the Book of
Mormon and such. She had some family members who recently passed so
we taught her about the plan of salvation. It was kind of a bonkers
lesson because she had so many questions but she absorbed everything and really
took it to heart. She told us at the end she needs the baptism of the
Holy Ghost in her life so she will have to be baptized by water first. We
set a date in February with her and it was such a huge miracle. I am grateful
Heavenly Father directed her and us to the library so our paths would
cross. Rita is going through some hard times right now and is really loving
the gospel. She came to church yesterday and stayed the whole time.
Plus we found an awesome fellowshipper for her who made her feel so welcome.
Ah. Sweet is the work!
2) Angie
came to church! Angie has been learning from missionaries for a couple
months now and all of us have invited her to church many times. Somehow,
she hadn't come yet even though she goes church hopping and attends a different
service pretty much every week--why not ours? When Elder Golden came to
the mission he talked about how the adversary will do ANYTHING in his power to
keep people from coming to church because it is such a crucial step in their
conversion process. Angie is the perfect example--it seems like
something would always come up on Sunday mornings! She wasn't really
progressing so we have been praying about how we could help her or if we should
stop teaching her. But then she came to church! One of our amazing
members texted and invited her and it was seriously such a miracle. And
it goes to show the power of member missionary work. That's for all you
at home! Fellowship the missionaries' investigators!!!!
3)
Interviews with President Hess this week. I am so grateful for his
example. Sometimes I get a tiny bit sulky about not being in Brazil but
then I remember all President Hess has taught me and all is well with the world
again. I loved getting to talk with him and hear his insight on how
important faith and positivity are. How blessed I am to be serving
in this place at this time.
4)
Amazing church members. I don't know if I have ever expressed how
much I love the members of the Williamston Ward, but I just wanted to take
a moment and say how amazing they are. They are seriously like a
family, and they have helped me to feel like a member of their tight-knit
bunch. I am amazed at how willing they are to come out teaching with
us and feed us every night. Yesterday Sister Flora had a migraine
at church and everyone was so worried. Sister Hunter took Sister Flora
out of the chapel and our bishop gave her a blessing before sacrament
meeting started. Everyone kept asking if she was ok and one of the
members wrote her a prescription after church for migraine medicine. We
were all touched at how charitable the members were and I just love them so
much. Transfer calls are coming this Friday and I am kind of nervous
about what will happen! I can't believe it's already been a month since
we picked Sister Flora up. I don't want to leave Williamston quite yet
but a change would be fun as well. We will see!
Love you
all!
Sister
Dixon
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