The Greatest Wedding Planner :)

Well fam and friends this week was just amazing! The lord just dumped many blessings on us! So there was two big things that happened this week! 

First we decided to flood Bridgetown with the Book of Mormon! Just imagine 20 or so relentless and bold missionaries walking through the heart of town in Barbados loaded with countless numbers of Book of Mormons and tracts! We were stopping people left and right! Walking into stores, contacting just about everyone in sight. I don't think I have ever been so bold in my whole mission! Elder Spencer and I talked to countless numbers of people! I felt like Ammon or Aaron as they would teach cities.  

I had no sense of embarrassment or was shy in any way. I treasured up in my mind the words in D&C 6:34 - "Therefore, fear not, little flock; do good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail".... Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not." 

and also in section 33: 2-3 "For verily, verily, I say unto you that ye are called to lift up your voices as with the sound of a trump, to declare my gospel unto a crooked and perverse generation. For behold the field is white already to harvest; and it is the eleventh hour, and the last time that I shall call laborers into my vineyard!!"

Right now I am at a point in my mission where I don't care what people think, I know the gospel I know it well. I feel of the spirit and I am doing all that I can to serve God with all my heart. I love praying at night and communicating with God about the day. I love talking to him and accounting for all that I have done. But most importantly I am so grateful for the savior..When ever I feel inadequate or feel like I shouldn't talk to someone I lift up a picture I carry with me of the savior and remember who's errand I am on. I find strength through the atonement of the savior of Jesus Christ. 

2!! Freakin Mark and Merissa got married on Saturday and let me tell you that was the craziest experience. So basically Wednesday night we go and see them and they told us they got all the paperwork for the wedding! and that they want to have the wedding on Saturday! We were like what? No problem lets see what we can do! So the next two days Elder Spencer and I tried to figure out how to plan a wedding! haha that was so funny! we were calling all the elderly women we knew asking them what goes on at a wedding and what we needed.. 

Luckily there was two selfless relief society women who helped us put it all together! And boom we had a wedding on Saturday! it was amazing!! Mark and Merissa were crying and were so happy! Now we can baptize them too. But they have to have the baby first so.. after she has her baby we will have some nice splashes! 

This week was pretty cool! I am love how God blesses us even in times of trial. 

Love 

Elder Dixon

MLC and Ting

This week was absolutely crazy! I can't believe all that happened in one week! 

So really briefly I want to share with you some of the experiences I had this week. On Tuesday a new sister came from the MTC so we spent all day doing her orientation. During lunch at the mission home the power cut off because of the rain! It rained so hard and didn't stop! I have never seen so much rain in my whole life! Like CHEESE ON BREAD people! I think God may have been crying! Everywhere in Barbados was flooded. All the roads were covered in water. It rained so hard all the main pipe drains busted and water was shooting up in the middle of all the main roads! Tuesday was also the day everyone was flying in for Mission Leadership Council. So all the zone leaders were scheduled to fly in to spend a few days with us so we could teach them the new training that they needed. But because of all the rain the airport was closed all day but then reopened that night. 

Yeah so basically Tuesday night we helped finish the orientation in the dark and had a candle lit dinner with President and Sis Herrington haha. I had an amazing spiritual experience after with a blessing Pres. gave me. Then the rest of the night we took trips to the airport to pick up all the Elders coming in. We picked up the last batch at like 2:30 a.m. so it was a long night. After finally getting to our apartment we walked inside and it was full of water!! It had rained so hard our apartment was flooded lol so we walked through the water and then knelt in a inch of water to pray. Then I grabbed the mosquito repellant and sprayed my bed and myself tell I was drenched in mosquito repellant and fell in bed and slept real good! Mission life is great!! The next day was great we taught a great MLC! And for the devotional at night we sang some Christmas carols and talked about Christ. Oh how amazing that was!!  

Well the rest of the week was great we were able to shot vac out all the water and dry out the apartment! I got my Christmas package!! Thanks thanks so much!! It was so much stuff! I am so spoiled!! 

And the greatest part of the whole week was God blessed us on Sunday!! And Mark and Merissa and the whole family came to church!! And they want to get married either this week or next week because they want to be baptized!!!!!! Merissa is pregnant and due on Christmas so for her to be so pregnant but still able to catch a bus and come to church shows how completely committed they are! Thy got an interview  for marriage on Sunday with the district president and are all set just have to do a little bit of paper work! But man was that amazing to have a family at church! 

I am so grateful for the gospel and am so grateful for the Christmas time to celebrate the birth of Christ! I hope to help everyone feel of Christ's love this Christmas!

Love, Elder Dixon 

16 Months!

Well this week was alright!!  A cool thing that happened is the Martinque Elders from the french side came for trade-off! That was fun because I got to spend almost two days learning from them and doing something different. There was some actually really cool experiences with them. One night it was late we had worked our bums off all day!  So we were working so hard and lesson after lesson kept falling through. So finally we prayed we would find some one that needs to hear the gospel.. And sure enough the lord heard and answered our prayers. 

We called into this guys house and he jumped off the couch and walked to the door. He was like I have been waiting for you.. (I was in shock) He said I found a Book of Mormon by my work and I have read quite a bit. I really want to know what you believe... He then told us all about the gold plates how the book was written around 600 BC to 400 AD (by the way nobody in these islands usually know what BC and AD stand for.) and then he goes on to tell us all about Nephi. He said he was so interested that he took another Book of Mormon from his friend and takes it to work so he can read at work and at home! It was amazing!  But it was so late that he said we need to come back a different day. Bummer.. But we are excited to see him again.. 

A few other things that were funny was that men at church are crazy. The talks were like a 20 minute story time that didn't make sense and then in the middle of the story he says thank you and sits down. lol.  

Well our investigators Mark and Merissa are doing good though. They have started planning the wedding so that they can get married then baptized! 

Well love ya 

Elder Dixon

Also this week we built a shop for a member who sells of the road! it took some thinking but it turned out alright! lol