Monday, March 17, 2014

OH WHAT DO YOU DO IN THE WINTER TIME?

You know you're in Maine when you see a shirtless man outside shoveling a foot of snow.......Where am I?!?!?
This week has been crazy.  Again we have seen so many miracles!....and a few challenges.

We have made it a big point to pray for families to teach and this week our prayers were answered.  We found 2 families to teach which resulted in 5 new investigators.  God has truly been pouring out His blessings on us.  

Tuesday as we were trying to find some former investigators and one of the addresses on the record didn't even exist so we decided to knock on some doors that were where the house should have been, and that is where we met Casey and Morgan.  They are awesome!!  They immediately let us in and we talked to them about what we believe.  Casey, the mom, teaches Sunday school at the little community church in Brownville and she was looking for suggestions on what to teach so she asked if we could maybe come one weeknight and have a Q&A session with the youth there.  Then her daughter chipped in and said "Why don't we go and do a fieldtrip up to their church some Sunday, we have two vans."  Her mom thought that was a great idea.  We were just blown away!  It was so neat!

Wednesday was quite the day.  We were just getting ready to head out after lunch and I put some things in the trunk....after I closed the trunk and went to grab the keys from my coat I realized that the keys were not in my coat....or in my bag....or anywhere else.  They were in the trunk.  Oops! 
Of course the first thing Sister Burton and I did was pray.  We had SO much faith and we were just praying so hard that God would somehow open the trunk.  Well....sometimes God doesn't work that way.  Sometimes He has a better way to answer our prayers.  I felt super bad that I had locked the keys in the trunk so we began calling just about everyone we could to see what to do.  We decided to walk down to the library to do our mormon.org time and while we were there it started to snow....a lot!  We walked to a members home who was nearby and they just saved the day.  Sister Sneed called the police station and they said that they'd come right up and unlock it.  The Sneeds drove us back to our apartment and the Chief of Police came and unlocked our door.  by that time the snow had gotten pretty bad so we didn't dare drive anyways, but at least we had the keys!  Now we have an opportunity to take some cookies to the police station and hopefully we'll make some great friends ha ha ha.

Thursday we were planning on having interviews with President Stoker, but we were in a winter wonderland so that didn't happen.  Our cars were grounded so we ended up walking everywhere that day.  It was quite eventful.

Saturday we had our first meeting with Lorna and her two grandsons.  It was great.  We are starting at square one with them and it was quite a neat experience seeing these kids pray for the first time.  
Sunday during Branch Council we had quite the great time.  Our Branch President has quite the New Englander accent and we got quite the kick out of it.  Agendar, commar, arear, the whole deal!  Oh man we were dying laughing.  He got quite the kick out of it too.  I am just loving this branch.  Oh one more neat thing that happened on Sunday.  Well it wasn't super neat during the moment but it ended up being great.  We were just about ready to go and the two people we had set appointments with called....at the exact same time and cancelled on us!  We were so bummed.  We then knew that God had someone else in mind that we needed to see.  We just had to figure out who.  We went stopped by potentials and formers and less actives and then as we were nearly done for the night we remembered our neighbors who just moved in.  We had left some cookies and a Book of Mormon on their porch and so we thought we'd stop by and follow up on it.  They were home and we got to meet two awesome people, Molly and Jeb.  They were super appreciative of the cookies and we became good friends!  God never lets us down.   

Well that's about all the happy happenings for this week!  
I love you all and hope you have an incredible week!

Peace and Blessings 
Sister Dixon     

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