LOOK!

Another week has come and gone and I continue to wonder how and why the time goes by so quickly!
Here's a little update for this past week. We'll get the not so good out first.... Unfortunately all of our progressing investigators either had a family emergency this week or have gone out of town, so we didn't get to see any of them :( On a happy note though we were able to find MANY potential investigators this week, it was incredible! We also got to do some fun service. We got to go to the Bissell's farm on Wednesday and moved some more calves! It was quite hilarious! We had a harness that we had to get on each baby cow in order to get it from being in the barn with their Mom to their new homes on their own. I wish we would've filmed some of our attempts to get the harness on the baby cows, because it was a sight indeed. By the end though, you would have thought you were watching a professional rodeo! We harnessed and pulled those calves with ease!

We have been doing a really neat thing in our mission called seven minute lessons. This teaching is patterned after 1 Nephi 11 when Nephi wants to understand what his father Lehi saw in his vision. If you are familiar with the chapter, Nephi is able to see what his father saw, and he desires to know what it means. Rather than simply answering his questions, the Spirit of the Lord directs him to look for the answers himself. Nephi is directed to "look!", from there he explains what he sees and then from there learns what it means. We too are trying this same heavenly method of teaching by using the pictures in the pamphlets. The seven minutes is so that we teach extremely simply. It has been off to a great start. I do want to share a funny experience from it too. We had dinner with a member last night and we did our seven minute Restoration lesson. We start off by talking about the picture on the cover of the Restoration pamphlet which is Christ holding a lamb. Things were starting off great. We opened the pamphlet to the first page, and BAM it was a picture we had never seen! It threw us off pretty bad because we had been practicing teaching this many many times, so when the picture wasn't the one we were used to seeing it threw us for a loop. It was quite hilarious. The member we were teaching got quite the kick out of it too! I didn't know they had more than one Restoration pamphlet! Come to find out that they make pamphlets with pictures of people of different ethnicity and cultures! Learn something new everyday!

Another great miracle from this week happened with two of the people the Elders have been teaching. They were baptized this past weekend. It has been a pretty miraculous experience the whole way through. One of the members of the branch brought up a gospel conversation with them upon the first time meeting them. From this conversation they accepted to meet with the Elders. The Elders have been teaching them and they wanted to be baptized! Saturday was the big day! There are few things greater than seeing someone enter into the waters of baptism. These two people were so incredibly prepared to enter into this covenant with God. Sunday, not only were they confirmed members of the church, but one of them received the Aaronic Priesthood, and the other accepted a calling to serve as 2nd Counselor in the Relief Society. If that isn't miraculous, I don't know what is.

Sunday, Sister Danner and I taught Relief Society. We didn't get the lesson until the night before and the lesson was The Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood. When we heard this Sister Danner and I thought "Wha?????". It sounds a lot harder than it actually ended up being. We watched a Mormon message called sanctify yourselves, which brought the spirit extremely strongly. Many sisters shared experiences of priesthood blessings they had received themselves and blessings their family members had received that changed their lives. It was such a great experience. I absolutely love the members of our branch.

That's about all I have time for this week! I hope that you are all doing well and that you have an incredible week!

I love you all!
Love,
Sister Dixon

So I totally forgot the whole point of my email. Gee whiz. I have something I wanted to invite every single person who reads this to do....... Ask God what His favorite color is. I promise you that you will get an answer. God cares about us so much that He will answer even our most simple prayers. So please do this and let me know your answer!

Peace and Blessings :)