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This week has probably been the fastest week of my life.  I don't think I've had a week go by as fast as this one! 

Monday night we had a super fun dinner with some of the younger adults in the ward and it was a blast.  

Wednesday we had a pretty funny experience.  It was one of those times when you think to yourself "Man, I love being a missionary"  So Bro. Smith had referred us missionaries to stop by a lady that lives in an assisted living home.  We've been seeing her the for the past few weeks.  Last week we visited her right before lunch so when we were getting ready to leave and we had just set up another time to meet with her, Sis. Berg said "well we'll let you get to lunch" and I guess sweet old Betty(she's 95) thought she meant that next time we came we'd take her out to lunch.  Ha ha we were all super confused because she kept saying oh you don't need to pay for me, I'll get buy my own.  We were slightly confused and were kind of hoping she might forget by next weeks appointment.  Well Wednesday rolled around, which was when we scheduled to meet with Betty.  We called when we were on our way and she said "OK, I'll meet you downstairs"  ha ha so that confirmed our questioning of what she was talking about last time.  She did indeed think we were taking her to lunch.  We told he we'd meet her at her room because we had a little video we wanted to watch.  When we got to her room she had her boots and hat on and she was ready to go.  We said that we couldn't drive her in our car so we would go pick up lunch.  ha ha to make a short story long we had a great lunch provided by Wendy's with Betty.  It was too much fun.

We got an awesome new investigator this week.  Her name is Gretchen.  She came to the Ward Christmas party we had last month and this last Thursday we were finally able to meet with her at her home.  It was awesome. She has a lot of great questions about the church and is very open to discussing religion....which is not common among New Englanders.  She is so sweet and invited us back, so we are excited to get to know her better.

Saturday we had a super fun night with Marge and Rae.  They both live in a place called the Hazelton House, a senior living center.  Marge joined the church a year ago and Rae joined just a few months ago.  We had pizza and watched some Mormon Messages, and had some great conversation. 

Sunday was awesome!  We had a Cottage Meeting, which is a casual little get together with investigators, less active and active members.  The Smith's put this one on and it was a big success!  We had dinner and then watched a couple of Mormon Messages and then discussed them and had dessert.  We and the Elders each had one investigator that was able to attend and then there were a couple of less active members that were also able to attend.  The Spirit was so strong and it was a great way for everyone to get to know each other, become familiar with the church and to feel the Spirit.

The work here is going so well and I am absolutely loving it!  To end off with the good stuff I thought I'd share some exciting news....So.....Eliza's getting baptized this Saturday!  We are so excited for her!   She is such an incredible young woman, and we couldn't be happier! 

Here is a fun little clip that could brighten anyone's day...http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mormon-messages?v=1101413030001

We are ALL children of God and there is so much happiness and purpose from fully understanding that simple but divine concept!  I hope you all know that you are children of a Father in Heaven who loves us all perfectly!

I love you all too and hope you have a great week!

Sister Dixon