1/13/14

Goodbye Grandma you will be missed by many, I look forward to seeing you again some day. (Jacob's Grandma passed away on Sunday 1/12/14)

I'm thankful that I was able to talk to her on Thursday, I know it meant allot to her and to me as well, the conversation was only like 15 minuets, but she was in and out, but I told her that loved her and missed her and she said that she loved me to, I will admit that I did cry for awhile after the phone call, probably one of the few times that I've done so on my mission. I'm doing ok, I'm sad about the whole thing, but I'm glad that the pain is over with, and for the knowledge that I have about the gospel helps me when these kind of things happen.

 

     So this week was good, besides the bad news about grandma (Davis). We did get to teach Kiem the lesson about the restoration of the gospel, it went great, we watched the restoration DVD when we started talking about Joseph Smith and we pushed the date back to Feb 2nd, she is so ready and she is really excited about it all. she came to church on Sunday and stayed for the 1st and 2nd hour, she liked it and allot of the members talked to her when they came. so that was our high light of the week. and we will be meeting with her on Tuesday and Fridays now, and she is reading the book of Mormon from the beginning and is liking it so far.

 

Thanks for letting me know about the funeral arrangements, you'll have to tell me how it goes in the next email.

 I hope that you get a new boss that is great, do you think they might ask you? Just wondering

and the Vellingas already know about grandma, we had dinner at there house yesterday.

 

Well I hope you all have a good week.love you all

-Elder Jacob Dixon

New Year's and SNOW!!

 1/4/14

So this week was ok, we weren't able to teach kiem or abdur, they both had stuff come up, so we are most likely pushing kiems baptism date back 1 or two weeks, we still need to figure it out.

New Year's eve was fun, we went to a family in the ward, the Liddell's, they are pretty cool. We had a great dinner and we played some board games and some air hockey. We also had a training from the zone leaders to the whole zone about our new goal and its going to be 521 baptisms by the end of the year, we barley missed our last goal by 7 and we wanted 450 but g-only got 443, so we were so close to it. so I pray that they can accomplish this goal, I will only be able to see half of it by the time I leave, kind of sad :(

 

It snowed on Sunday and we got about 8 inches of snow, and it came pretty fast to, I had woke up around 4:45, 5:00 in the morning and I looked out side and I didn't see any snow, then I went back to bed and when we both woke up at 6:30 we had at least 6 inches of snow, and it was below 0 the whole day, so church was canceled and we where told not to drive our cars and only told to go outside if we had to, it was really windy as well.

Monday the high was -2 and the low was -12, thank goodness it was p-day. and we are supposed to get more snow on Wednesday.


Hope everyone has a great week

Elder Dixon

 Here are some picture of Jacob in the cold weather that they are having right now.

Pictures of Jacob

A member sent this to us this week:
 
Elder Taft and Elder Dixon had dinner with us tonight, and helped us celebrate Rob’s birthday.
My husband and I had taken dinner to the Bower’s, and we had your sons meet us there.
They gave Sister Bower a blessing. It was so very powerful. The Spirit was so strong. You have wonderful missionaries out here in Missouri. They are prepared. They work hard. They always do their very best. We are so glad to know them!

Love, Rob and Kim Davidson and family

Happy New Years!

Happy New Years family.

This week was allot of fun! it was great Skypeing with you guys and being able to see you all.

And thanks for all the presents, I love them all! We had a blast at members homes during Christmas and Christmas Eve, we had two dinners on Christmas Eve and we had breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner on Christmas Day, so within a 24 hour period we had 6 meals altogether, and allot of the members gave us candy, so plus the candy you guys sent and the stuff I was given, I have about 10 pounds of candy :P I'm still full from all the meals we had. Elder Taft has about 20 pounds of candy! That should last him for the rest of his mission.

 

We met with Kiem on Friday and had a really good lesson with her, we read from Alma 32 and talked about the seed of faith, we also set a date for her to be baptized, it's set for the 18th of January, we are all excited about it, and her husband will be baptizing her. We are super excited about it.

 

Nothing new with Abdur, we try to stop by now and again to try to meet with him, but allot of the times he works so its hard to catch a time when he is home, but we are still trying.

 

I'm glad that grandpa Davis treated himself to a Christmas present, I bet he is really happy. As for news about grandma's situation, it is hard to deal with at times, I mean it's pretty much the first time that a close family member is going through something like this. So I don't really know the best way to cope with every thing, but it is something I need to learn to do. So please keep me updated about grandma or anyone else, I'd rather be informed than being kept in the dark about things that are happening.

 

And that's awesome to hear about J Ryan going through the temple, and grandpa (Dixon) was able to take him through the veil.

 

 The weather here is really cold, it was in the high 50s on Friday and Saturday. 

 

This week should go well also, we have another appointment with Kiem and we are celebrating New Years eve with a family in the ward, so it should be allot of fun.

Love you all

Merry Christmas Dixon Family!

Jacob's Merry Christmas Email.

He did not get to Skype with us until 1:17 pm our time. 

But he was in great spirits, super happy and anxious to get back to teaching his current investigators.

 

12/23/13

 

Merry Christmas Dixon Family!!

 I'm sorry that grandma's and grandpa's move was hard on you Mom, I know that you do allot for them and are always looking out for their benefit. Sorry to hear about bro Haskell, I'll have to write Jared an email, that's got to be hard on him.

So 1 my time sounds good, I'll be Skypeing from the Davidson's! I'm super excited about Christmas, we will be spending the whole day with members. We will be going to the Vellingas for breakfast and opening presents.This week was okay, we met with Abdur this week, we didn't get to teach really any thing, he just got back from work and he was busy with his family, and we didn't want to pull him away from that, but he came to the ward Christmas with Santa breakfast, so that was good, and neither him or Kiem where able to come to church, but we have a appointment with Kiem for on Friday.

Yeah so nothing much happened this week, oh we got freezing rain this week, so its pretty cool to see all the trees covered in ice, and the roads are not bad either.

So did you get the letter that I sent with all the Christmas cards? Well I hope you all have a great Christmas, this will be the last one that I have in the mission field :O pretty crazy

 

Love you all-Elder Dixon

12/16/13

So I don't know what time ill be Skyping you guys, it all depends on when you can do it, I would like to do it in the afternoon, if that answers your question, and if possible I'd like grandma (Davis) to be there so I can talk to her for a little bit.

So do you guys have new cell numbers now? since you got new phones.

And sorry to hear that mom had to get a root canal done, those are not fun

So this week was kind of slow, we weren't able to teach anyone, our appointment with Kiem was postpone to next week, they had to postpone it due to the weather that we had on Friday (which is when we meet with them) we got some snow and ice, and we wont be able to meet with them this week because they are going to be out of town.

 we weren't able to meet with anyone else, we did teach some lessons to the members, in the mission we are trying to reach the goal of 20 lessons a week in total in each area, and that includes investigators, pm, la and active members.

We had our zone Christmas party, it was allot of fun, we had a white elephant gift exchange, and a member cooked us all dinner, so it was allot of fun.

But besides those things nothing really else happened. oh wait! we got transfer calls on Saturday, we are both staying in Warrenton, but the other elders in the ward are being whitewashed out and we are getting Elder Johnson and a brand new missionary, I know Elder Johnson pretty good, and he is a awesome missionary, he was trained by Elder Toki, and Elder Johnson is going to be the new district leader.

 

So how is grandma doing? And what are you guys planning on doing for Christmas this year?

Today has been pretty good, we went to a members house and had breakfast and went sledding in there back yard, they have a good size hill, and you can get some pretty good speed going down it, as long as you don't hit any trees on the way down that is, I hit one or two, but thankfully they weren't big trees.

 

So if you could send me your guys account for Skype, we might be doing it at the Davidsons, but it depends when they Skype with there son.

 

Anyways love you all, have a great week.

-Elder Dixon

12/9/13

Hey Family.

Glad to hear that the grandparents are doing well.

Its ok that you weren't able to send anything back, it was kinda of a short notice, but its a bummer that she (sister Vellinga, is from South Utah county and moved back to Warronton, Mo. and was here for a visit and brought somethings back for Jacob) got the flu :( i know she was really looking forward to spending time with family and friends.

Your passing another kidney stone? So what are they caused by and how can you avoid getting them? And does that mean that I might get them latter on in life? There where a couple of elders that i know that had them while they where out here on a mission, poor guyy, anyways im glad that the herbal tea is working.

I think that Pres. Montigue will do a great job as ward mission leader, and I know that you guys will love conducting meeting at the rest home.

So this week went GREAT!

First off Abdur is doing good, we where not able to teach him this week but we did give him a blessing for a super bad ear infection that he had,so it was a great opportunity to for us, he got a second job due to a member in the ward who needed more help with his work, so we are happy that he is being blessed, I just hope he can see that.

We also taught Kiem (she is married to a member) we finished teaching her the plan of salvation, cause the time before that we taught the latter half of it cause she had some questions about the resurrection, but it went great again, the spirit was there and we invited her to read and pray about the Book of Mormon and she said that she has already done that and that she knows that it is true when she said that i was really, really shocked and my mind went a little blank there for a moment, but thankfully some words came out to invited her to be baptized, and she said that she would!!! :D and her husband just received the Melchizedek priesthood this Sunday so he can now baptize her and confirm her if she wants him to, so that was probably the biggest highlight of my week, its times like these that i love being a missionary.

We also had stake conference and a meeting with all the missionaries in the zone, so that went well as well, Abdur and Kiem where at stake conference and Kiem liked it but we weren't able to catch Abdur and talk to him before he left.

But yeah this week was way good.

And this week should be good as well, we have another meeting with Kiem and we are going to set a date for her baptism, and we are also doing a zone Christmas party, we would normally do a mission Christmas party but there are so many missionaries (240) that it would be to much of a hassle, so every zone will be doing its own separate thing.

Um what else, oh yeah I've been out for 18 months now :P crazy.

Transfers are on the 18th so we will get the call next Saturday to see who is staying or going.

The weather here is cold, high 20s and low 10 and below during the night, burr, but no snow yet, we did get some "snow" but it was more like dandruff, man the snow storms here have nothing on Utah, I probably just jinxed my self, oh well.

Love you all have a great week.

Elder Dixon