SHORT AND SWEET

I'm going to start off by apologizing for the shorter email this week. We have district pday today in Newport so I don't have much time to email. I do have an awesome miracle to share though. It happened this past Thursday. Well actually it goes back to a little over a week ago to the previous Friday during weekly planning where we plan where we are going to be for the upcoming week. A prompting came subtly that we should go to Corinth in the upcoming week. We have a limited number of miles that we are allotted to drive each month and at that moment our miles weren't looking to good. Corinth is one of our outlying areas which require quite a few miles to get there. Although it didn't make the most sense to venture out that direction we planned it into our schedule. Our Branch President lives out there so we called to see if we could set up doing some service for him. Everything was arranged for us to go to Corinth on the upcoming Thursday. Wednesday night as we planned for the upcoming day we filled our day with contacting potentials and former investigators in the Corinth area. We had a good, full day ahead of us and we were excited! Thursday came and the day started off well. We made it out to Corinth and began fulfilling our plans. Many of the people we stopped by were not home. We were able to see a less active member shortly before dinner which was great. We had dinner with the Clukey family and then we needed to determine what we were going to do for the rest of the evening. We had a few different options of people to stop by and see. One of our investigators in Milo was available to meet with us that night, but we felt that our work wasn't quite finished in Corinth. We plugged a few addresses into the GPS and headed out again to contact people. The first one we stopped by was not home. The next two were in the direction of home. I had glanced at the potentials list and saw that there were 2 potentials on Exeter St. which is where President Clukey lives. I wondered why we didn't try them earlier when we were just right there. The records weren't all that great either. One had a name and no house number and the other was just an address with no name. So as we left the first house we tried contacting after dinner the prompting came to try the potentials on Exeter St. I tried to brush it aside because I thought that if we were supposed to go there I would have noticed the names earlier. I drove about a block past Exeter St. when the words came to my mind in a voice that was not my own "are you going to be obedient, or not?" I pulled to the side of the road, turned around and headed back to Exeter St. positive that Sis. Danner was thinking I was crazy. We knocked on the potentials door that we had the address for and no one was home. Sister Danner said, "well, lets box out", so we did! We knocked on the next door and no one was home. We went one more house over and it didn't look likely that anyone was home, but we knocked anyways. A girl answered the door and we introduced ourselves. She then told us that her mom is a member of the church, and she too was baptized when she was younger. In my mind I was thinking "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!" Our focus in our branch council meetings the past few weeks has been to find those who are not on the church records who are members of the church. God directed us to this home and to this sweet lady who wants to come back to church. WHAT A MIRACLE!

That's what I wanted to share this week! I hope you all have an incredible week! I LOVE being a missionary! There is no better work :)

Love Sister Dixon