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