Quite the week in Vermont!
Monday was a sad day, Rosanna Stevens passed away. She has been
fighting cancer for the past 9 years. My companion and I had the
privilege of meeting her a few times before she passed away. She is
absolutely incredible, and she has raised 8 phenomenal children. The
entire family just blows my mind. I have never seen a family that is so
strong and positive during such times of trial. Tuesday we had some good
learning experiences. We had two lessons with investigators and the
lessons were a little scattered. Looking back on it now, it was pretty
funny, but in the moment I was just thinking "these people are never going
to want to meet with us again!" ha ha ha basically because I felt like we
were overloading them with information. But thankfully the Holy Ghost compensates
where we fall short. So we get to try again this week! Wednesday
was great. We got 2 new investigators!!!! Like within half an hour.
It was crazy. So we were visiting one of the less active members on
our road and the sons girlfriend was there and so we taught them a lesson and
she wants to learn more. After that we were walking to another less
active members home down the street the other way and we saw a man sitting with
his dog (everyone here has a dog) a little ways off, but we kept walking.
I knew we should turn around, because we need to talk to everyone!
So we turned around and went and talked to him, and BAM we have a new
investigator. We are meeting with him tonight! Thursday we had some good
lessons. One with another investigator, Betty. She is an older
woman and loves to read and learn. Before we sisters were in the area,
the elders were teaching her, so that was our first lesson with her. We
had a good dinner and lesson with Chris and Phil. Chris is an active
member in the church and is a Relief Society teacher, and Phil has been less
active for some time. We had a pretty good lesson with him, but he still
gets a little worked up and uneasy when talking about religion, but I have
faith! So hopefully we'll see some changes happen in his life to get him
back to church.......Drum roll please....FRIDAY! We got to go to the
Joseph Smith Memorial.
The girls in the branch had a stake girls camp at
Camp Joseph that is on the property where the JSM is in Sharon VT. We
rode down with President Chamberlain, Brother Stevens (Rosanna's husband), his
daughter Julia, and one of the great girls we meet with weekly, Mariah.
It was so fun to see all the girls and to spend time with them at their
camp. When they had a little devotional before the testimony meeting,
Mariah, my companion and I got to go over to the Memorial. It was
incredible. Although it was past closing time one of the missionaries
that lives there gave us a tour and everything! It is absolutely
beautiful and the spirit there is quite strong. Such a neat experience,
to say the least. On Saturday we spent the day in the kitchen. We
made a lot of food for the funeral and did what we could to help.
The
funeral was incredible and there was a really good turnout. They had a
true potluck dinner after the service that everyone was invited to. No
assignments were given or anything, but there ended up being plenty of food,
and plenty of variety. It was a lot of fun being able to work in the
kitchen with the ladies in the branch! Sunday after church we were able
to help a lady move in. She came from NY so the elders that had met with
her there called us and told us she was coming. She is pretty awesome and
we look forward to meeting with her again! This week is packed with tons
of goodness and I am really looking forward to whats ahead I love you all!
Sister Dixon
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