Last email...

Last email, this is weird.

 

Things have been great. I'm happy!

 

I'll tell you how everything is when I get home!

Love you guys!

 

 

Last transfer...

Hello!

   Got transfer calls this past Saturday, Elder Dodge left me, and I'll be in a threesome with Elder Decker and Elder Brown for the next 2 weeks here in Alhambra. I'm really excited, they're both good elders and good things are on the way. We had a great week this week, we've found a lot of really good investigators and we're teaching a lot. We should be very busy the next few weeks. We're teaching one lady right now who i particularly enjoy teaching, Emily. She's a single mother, and has been in America for 5 years. She's been going to a different christian church for 5 years now and was just recently baptized there. At first we were sort of apprehensive to teach her because we thought she'd just argue with us, but it's been amazing to watch her heart soften. The last lesson we had she told us she was scared to pray about the Book of Mormon because she's afraid to actually receive an answer. She knows that if she does she'll have to leave her old church and position there and be baptized here. That's real intent! She'll be baptized soon if things go well.

   Another one of my good friends from the singles ward got her call this week to Hong Kong! Which is way funny because she's extremely white and has bright red hair. She's a convert of about a year or so, it's amazing how solid of a member she is. I'm always so impressed by the members of that singles ward, they're all so faithful.

  Well. I'll see you in a couple weeks! Things are going great! Love you all!

 

Elder Dixon.

  

Happy Thanksgiving

Family,

   Thanksgiving was great! We had a great week, I think I'd die if I ate another slice of pumpkin pie. We ended up having 4 pies left over from our pot-luck chinese style thanksgiving party on Wednesday. Which was very successful by the way! Many of the people that attended expressed their desire to learn more about the church, especially more about 'our purpose in life'. We had a few members tell their conversion stories, and then had a small performance from a new family in our ward. The grandma played this super cool ancient chinese instrument and the grandkids sang primary songs along with it, it was very unique! For Thanksgiving we went to the Jorgensen's home, they have 4 young kids. It was really nice to be a good family setting for thanksgiving and eat real american food. 

   This week has picked up quite a bit. We found quite a few new people to teach and we're excited. We met a man yesterday who called us saying he wanted to get married at our church. He said he went on a tour bus to Yellowstone and stopped at the SLC temple. He said the feeling he had there was just so amazing, and that the tour bus guide told him that people get married there. When we met with him yesterday,  we found out that he has no beliefs in anything but wants to find out why he felt so good when he was there. He cancelled lots of plans just to meet with us, so we know thats a good sign of real intent!

   2 friends from the singles ward I served in got their calls this week! Cody (that guy who called you) got his call to Leeds England speaking Polish! How cool is that. And then Brynn (Jennie's friend) got her call to Alaska. They're both so excited.

   Elder Dodge and I gave talks in Sacrament meeting this week, it went really well. He and I are the translators for sacrament meeting, so he translated my talk and after I finished I ran up into the translation box and switched him places, then he ran down and gave his talk. Kinda funny. The other two chinese elders in our ward struggle with translation (one is from Taiwan and one is really new) so it's left up to us to translate, but I love it.

   We had a mission conference with Brad Wilcox this week, it was awesome. I love that guy. His daughter is in our mission, so President allowed him to come see his daughter if he would talk to the missionaries. It was very inspiring. He brought a few copies of his book "Continuous Atonement" for President, and President said he's going to give me one of them... I'm excited for that. Oh! by the way, 2 things that I'd like for Christmas. "The Infinite Atonement" by Tad R. Callister, and "Increase in Learning" by David A. Bednar.

President told me I need to study Bednar's book alongside of Preach My Gospel... so it must be pretty important.

   Love you guys! I'll get those presents as soon as possible.... only a few p-days to do it so I'll do my best. My companion and I bought a live crab today and we're going to try to cook it. We've experimented something new every week, haha. Have a good week!

 

Elder Dixon.