".... another awesome thing happen as well..."

2/10/14

 

Good morning Dixon family!

 

Man I can't believe that we are tied for 2nd with medals and its good to see that China isn't up there :P

So if i understand correctly the basement flooded from the side door because the drain wasn't working correctly?

And one of Keims daughters is a member, she was baptized when brother Johnson was coming back to church.

sorry to hear that the car is acting up again, it never seems to not have a problem.

I hope you can find out what the problem is soon.

 

This week went really well. Keim was Baptized!!!!, and that was the biggest high light of the week, it went great, allot of the ward members where there to support her, and we are very grateful that the ward is good at fellow shipping people into the church. I'll send a picture with the email.

We also had another cool experience, on Thursday we went tracking in the morning and had some plans lined up after lunch and none of them worked out or they fell through. So we decided to go and track the street over from where we tracked in the morning and we got about 5 houses down the street when this older man invited us in. I didn't expect that happening since this has only happen a couple of times on my mission and most of the time people just want to bash with us, but when we got in he called to his wife and said that there is someone here to see her. When this happened I was confused and didn't know what was going on, so his wife comes in and greets us with a warm smile and hand shake and invites us to sit down. We started talking and we found out that they are members of the church that moved from St.Charles in December and they haven't been to church yet, and they asked us who sent us to knock on their door; we just told them that we just decided to tract on that street, so they where really shocked to hear that. They are really nice people, the Ericksons are their names. One of the reasons that they haven't been to church yet is because she is a care giver and works on the weekends and Sundays. She is trying to switch her hours so that she can come to church, so that was a really neat experience to have.

 

We had another awesome thing happen as well (hope you don' mind the long email) we meet with Abdur on Tuesday and talked about baptism with him and his thoughts about it, and he does want to be baptized but he told us some of his concerns and his biggest concern is trying so stop smoking. He knows that it isn't good but he has been smoking for along time and recently he as been cutting back, and we left him with some scriptures to read when we left. Then yesterday we went over after dinner and set a date for him to be baptized, and that is going to be for the 29th of March!!!, We are so excited for it and he is too, along with his wife who is a member, she was really shocked when she came into the room and we told her about the baptism date.

So this past week was pretty awesome! I love being a missionary and being able to see people accept the gospel :D

Love you all-Elder Jacob Dixon

left to right- Cierra ( keims non member daughter) her husband who baptized her, Keim,me and Elder Hendrickson

 On our way to a dinner appointment we stopped by this river that was solid ice so that's what I'm standing on

Feb. 3, 2014

Happy late birthday Dad! you guys should be getting a letter either today or in the next few days.

So the ground hog saw its shadow? Man I don't want 6 more weeks of winter, not that I believe in that sort of stuff. the weather here is cold its staying in the low teens and we got freezing rain on Friday, so everything is covered in a thin layer of ice, it looks pretty cool.

My new companion is Elder Hendricks, he is from Galesburg Illinois, so he is like 3 hours away from home, but he is waiting on his visa to go to Brazil, so he could be here for 3-4 months or get his visa in a couple of weeks, so its pretty random. but he is a really cool missionary, it should be allot of fun serving with him.

This week went ok, Monday-Tuesday Elder Taft prepared to leave and packed and we visited some members so Elder Taft could say goodbye. and we taught Keim the rest of the commandments and talked about how her reading is going and she is still reading whenever she gets the chance to. they where pretty sad to see Elder Taft go.

And on Wednesday we went to transfers and picked up my new companion. we met with Keim on Friday and just reviewed the interview questions and reviewed some of the things that we taught her, and answered any questions that she had, but she didn't really have any questions, she understands every thing that we taught her.

But she wasn't baptized on Sunday, she wanted her daughters to come to it but they couldn't, due to the weather and it was a busy week for every body, but she is still way excited to be baptized next Sunday, so next week I'll send you pictures of the baptism.
Besides those things nothing else really happened.

We are trying to find more people to teach, but we just aren't having the best of luck, I feel way bad cause in the trainer responsibilities we are to have a big teaching pool and we don't have that :( we only have two people that we are teaching and one of them is getting baptized which is great, but we haven't seen Abdur lately and haven't really been able to have a good sit down with him. I don't know what to do really, besides tracting, but I don't have the greatest out look on that, so its hard to try to motivate me to do that. so that's how I'm feeling right now. sorry to go on about that.

Glad that Dad had a good birth day.

Hope you all have a great week. love ya

left to right is Elder Hendrickson,me,Elder Yanagita(my first trainee) Elder Abad (he was trained by Elder Yanagita)

Big spider that was on the ceiling right above my desk

 

All the trees covered in ice

"We went to the city museum yesterday..."

Hey family,

 

Thanks for sending me the pictures to the funeral. Itsgood to see most of the family, I'm glad that it went well.

It's interesting to see how some people look differently than I last saw them. 

I'm glad that you where able to read my letter that I sent to grandma. Thanks

 

So this week was good, we where able to teach Kiem on Tuesday and Friday and they both went well, we taught her the word of wisdom on Tuesday and she said that she would throw out her iced tea that night which she did, so that was awesome and she doesn't have any other problems with the rest of it, she is also starting to read the book of Mormon from the beginning. On Friday we taught the gospel of Jesus Christ and its went well, we had another member there (brother Fuller, second counselor in the bishopric) And he is also there home teacher, and he had some great input. She is really excited about baptism and she always like sharing with us the way that she feels really good inside.

Besides that we didn't get to teach anybody. Oh we had president interviews on Thursday, and that went ok.

We went to the city museum yesterday with the other Elders in our district and we met up with Elder Toki and a couple of other missionaries, since Elder Toki is leaving next week, ll send some pictures along with the email.

the weather is still really weird, it was 45 yesterday and today we got a inch of snow and its 10 outside right now.

 

So I don't know what was wrong that day when wrote the letter, I just struggled with trying to write neatly. and I haven't gotten a appointment with the eye doctor yet, I'm waiting until next week when we find out what is happening with transfers, we get the call on Saturday what is happening so the next email from me ill let you know what is happening.

Hope you all have a good week.

 

Love you all-Elder Jacob Dixon

 Here are some picture from Elder Dixon

 

email from the Davidson Family

Email sent to us on 1/14/14 The Elders just left our house a few minutes ago. The temperature is dropping and a few flakes started falling as they walked out the door. We didn’t have dinner until 7:30 p.m. because they were at Kim Johnson’s home teaching her the lesson on the Word of Wisdom. They said that she only drinks iced tea, and was very positive about making that change in her life. They are very optimistic that things are working well toward her baptism on February 2.

As soon as they walked in the door, Elder Taft sat down with my kids to play trucks in a bin of dry beans. There was one black bean and they took turns hiding it and having the others find it.

After dinner, the Elders taught us about their mission goal for the year and challenged us to pray with them to achieve 521 baptisms. Every missionary prays at 10 pm every night for success with their personal goals and the mission goals. We are invited to pray with the missionaries, so that the members and the missionaries will be more united and work together.

While we were having dessert, my son showed them how to run his Lego robot using an iPad as a remote control. We joked about taking pictures of them playing on an iPad.

We love having your sons over for dinner. They bring such a Spirit into our home! We sent them home with a few clementine oranges for tomorrow… They have a lot more dinner appointments this week because we had the dinner calendar circulated during church. Dinners were scarce last week because church had been cancelled. Thanks again for sharing your sons with us. Love, Rob and Kim Davidson and family

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