It has again been quite the awesome week. It started off great with two new investigators. We received a media referral on Monday and we contacted them that night. Quite the funny experience. We knocked on the door and said who we were. The lady goes to the back hall and says Michael, you've got company. He yells back "Is it the Mormons?".....well, yes it was! It was incredible Their names are Michael and Crystal and they recently moved in to Milo. They have four children and are so prepared to receive the gospel. Michael has SO many questions. We began talking and he pulls up on his phone a talk by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. Then he plays the Restoration movie and starts talking about General Conference and the list goes on. A little mind blowing if you ask me. We've seen them two other times this past week, and their desire to learn more and change their lives is sincere.
We helped out at the Bissells farm again this week and I got to see a baby cow be born! Sister Burton and I named her Milo.
We had a really neat experience with a less active member this past week. We had called her to see if we could come over and visit and she said she was out raking some leaves. We went over and helped her for a bit and then had an incredible conversation with her. It was really neat because just a week ago she had received a letter in the mail from a former missionary's wife who had taught her in the past. Receiving that note softened her heart quite a bit and rekindled some of the feelings she had when she joined the church. So it was an inspired letter indeed. She also received a letter from her current visiting teacher the same week. Coincidence??....I don't believe in those.
Saturday and Sunday we had Stake Conference. Saturday, Beth Ellison drove us down to Bangor and treated us to Olive Garden. I think we're spoiled. The conference was great. Both days there were no assigned speakers. Elder Olsen from the Seventy selected people from the audience to address us. Quite the inspiring experience if you ask me. The conference was all about God's love for all of us as His children, and how perfectly aware He is of our individual circumstances. Because He is an eternal being, He has the ability to focus completely on each of us individually all the time. During the Sunday conference all the Sister missionaries in the stake got to sing Joseph Smith's First Prayer to the tune of Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. It was pretty neat. The choir that sang during conference sang Did You Think to Pray. At the end of the conference Elder Olsen asked if the choir again would sing the song they had sung earlier in the program. It was quite powerful the second time through. There was quite a bit more focus on the words that were being sung that time around. So to finish off my email I want to leave you with the words to the hymn that took on new meaning for me this week. Did You Think to Pray?
Ere you left your room this morning,
Did you think to pray?
In the name of Christ, our Savior,
Did you sue for loving favor As a shield today?
When your heart was filled with anger,
Did you think to pray?
Did you plead for grace, my brother,
That you might forgive another Who had crossed your way?
When sore trials came upon you,
Did you think to pray?
When your soul was full of sorrow,
Balm of Gilead did you borrow At the gates of day?
Oh, how praying rests the weary!
Prayer will change the night to day.
So, when life gets dark and dreary,
Don't forget to pray.
Did you think to pray?
In the name of Christ, our Savior,
Did you sue for loving favor As a shield today?
When your heart was filled with anger,
Did you think to pray?
Did you plead for grace, my brother,
That you might forgive another Who had crossed your way?
When sore trials came upon you,
Did you think to pray?
When your soul was full of sorrow,
Balm of Gilead did you borrow At the gates of day?
Oh, how praying rests the weary!
Prayer will change the night to day.
So, when life gets dark and dreary,
Don't forget to pray.
Family and Friends, I hope that you never forget to pray, no matter what life circumstances may be. I love you all and I hope you have an incredible week!
Love,
Sister Dixon
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