Elder Adam and Zuster Lilli--May 9th Email

Elder Adam

Dear Family,

It was amazing to talk to you guys yesterday! It was great to see all of you (you're excused, Jim and Erin (Congratulations on the new baby!)) :D It was really awesome to see your faces again!

As you know, I was able to spring back into action this week! Due to my long recovery, we had to take the pace a little bit slower, so we didn't get as much work done as we usually do, but the Lord is still looking out for us.

My first week here, we found a man named Marino, who was working with a bit of wood outside of his house. We contacted him and he was extremely receptive and accepting. It kind of surprised us, but we were glad. We visited him that week, but only for a few minutes due to a weird jump in our schedule that day.

We visited him again this past week when I got back to Pucallpa. The reason he accepted us so willingly is because he accepted the missionaries before and even went to church a couple of times. 

Which church? Why, in my old area, Yarinacocha! I didn't teach him, but the companion I had did. He also mentioned that he's visted a ton of churches and felt nothing, right up until he visited the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He felt that that was the right church.

I was pretty impressed. The Lord gave his guy a headstart! We invited him to baptism, and after thinking about it for a few minutes, he accepted. (Down here, when they think about it, it's usually a good sign that they're honestly listening and feeling the Spirit). I've got a really good feeling about him.

Hope you feel better Katie! I'll keep praying for you!

Love,

Adam

Zuster Lilli

Here are my addresses

Letters

zuster dixon

patrijspoort 131

9733 GS Groningen

Netherlands

Packages

Zuster Dixon

Schuttersveld 2
2316 ZA Leiden
Netherlands

Friends and Family

What a week! It was so great to skype with you yesterday! It was a great mothers day.

We have been teaching this man named Mjad, he first called us asking us if we could help him with his Netherlands exam and we readily agreed. Then we hung up and realized that WE don't really know Netherlands..... so we asked one of the members to help us, so we would go over to her house and she would help him and then we would give a short lesson.  This Saturday the member had to cancel so we taught a full lesson instead and extended a baptism invitation and he said that he would like that. It probably helped that we were teaching in English... In fact our first 3 lessons for potential investigators are all in English.... God is going easy on me 

So I talked to those of you that I skyped about this wonderful time of the year but everyone else missed out.  Here in the Netherlands there is a magical time that everyone looks forward to.  this time is called spider season.... Yup, you heard me right, SPIDER SEASON! First of all- what sort of a place has spider season! and second of all- why haven't I heard of this before and why aren't there more people freaking out!?!?

WELL... last night right before Sister Harris and I went to bed, we were changing our laundry over and there on the floor was a spider the size of a dinner plate! We squealed and ran all throughout the house while it chased us. We covered it with a cup, shut the door and hid under our covers. I swear I did not sleep a wink last night.  This morning we left the cup right where it was ... but I swear it had moved during the night.

Spider season is real folks! It's coming for me! If you don't hear from me one week then look in the obituaries and there I will be. Death by spider season.

hoping the you will hear from be, but if not remember that I loved you all.

Sister Dixon

Groningen