We'll start at the beginning. We had an awesome FHE with the Oakes family on Monday. They have five kids and they invited another family over so it was just a lot of crazy fun!
Tuesday we stopped by Beth Ellison, one of my favorite members in the branch.....I don't even know if we're allowed to have favorites.....but I do! ha ha ha. She sent us home with so many goodies. One of which was an Amish cookbook so we decided to make some cookies for our new friend Chief Damien (the policeman who saved us last week). That night we had an awesome lesson with Mike and Michele. I honestly can't get over how incredible these people are. We had to park a little ways down the road they live on because their truck exploded.....literally so they weren't able to plow the whole road, and there's no way our little car would be able to make it, so we just parked it and walked the rest of the way in. We had dinner and an incredible lesson. After dinner and our discussion it was pretty dark, so they walked us back out to our car. The stars were UNREAL! It was even more incredible than last week because the sky was so clear, and we had just had a lesson on the Plan of Salvation so it couldn't have been more perfect! I just love this family!
Wednesday was awesome. We spent most of the day in Brownville with Sister Picott. She is the sweetest lady ever. She is a less active member in the branch, and she taught us how to make bread! We made six loaves! Oatmeal molasses and cinnamon raisin. YUM! They turned out pretty great! Her nine year old grandson Elijah got off the bus at her house after school, so he joined in the fun as we were finishing up. He is a hoot! We had a little dance party with him and he taught us some of his moves. He's a character. When the bread was coming out of the oven he said "Wow, you might have a future in bread making". We all got quite the kick out of that.
We had dinner with the Leemans and they invited their friends Jim and Leanna. The Leemans are awesome people and they are not shy about sharing what they believe and love, it was pretty inspiring! Jim and Leanna are amazing people and Jim holds a church service in his home and over skype, so they are pretty strong in what they believe. I'm going to jump ahead to Saturday. So we had just had lunch with the Walsh Family and we had heard a few times that a good potential lives by another member in the Brownville area so we decided to see if we could figure out who it was. The first door we knocked on was Jim and Leanna's! We just about died! It was awesome. They let us right in and we had an incredible discussion with them. God works in mysterious ways!
Now jumping back....We went to bed Wednesday night excited for the upcoming day because we had zone meeting. Well it was definitely exciting to wake up, but exciting in a way we did not expect. We looked out the window and there was a foot of snow covering the ground! We thought that the meeting would be cancelled again! After a few phone calls, they decided that they were still going to hold the meeting because, we and the Dover Elders were the only ones who got hit with the snow, so they were going to hold the meeting regardless. The plow obviously hadn't come yet so Sister Burton and I got right outside and started shoveling our very long driveway. Ha ha ha we were shoveling like mad trying to make a path for our car. We did not want to miss this meeting. We prayed for a miracle and we got one. Our car made it out of the driveway with only a few little struggles. We also were able to drive safely to the members home that was taking us to our meeting. Thank goodness for wonderful members with four wheel drive! I am so glad we did not miss this meeting. It was absolutely incredible. We learned about the Ten Virgins and how we can become one of the five wise ones. The way we can do this is by getting to know our Savior Jesus Christ. That is what the five unwise virgins lacked. I left that meeting feeling SO motivated to be so much better and I want so badly to better know our Savior. I just love how much I get to learn every single day.
Here's one last random thing that happened this week that I'm pretty excited about. We were visiting a less active member in Milo and she was working on a newsletter for this organization that she volunteers at called PAWS. It's basically a cat shelter. We were asking her about it and asked if they possibly needed more people to volunteer. Her eyes lit right up and she said "Yes!" Right after we told her we'd be interested in volunteering she was on the phone with them and we are going to start tomorrow! Mom, I'm sure your eyes are already itching. We are pretty excited about volunteering though and I'll definitely let you know how it goes next week!
Those are just a few of the highlights from this week! Lots more to look forward to!
I LOVE YOU ALL!
Happy Spring......kind of
Sister Dixon
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