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.