I had to share a picture of Owen's first taste of carrots. How can things be disgusting and cute at the same time?
Faunice
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Mary's Birthday
So Mary is now 8. And because she is 8 and getting baptized, she wanted her birthday cake to be a Beehive with bee's. This is because she wanted to "Bee" modest and "Bee" smart and all that jazz. The bees were made with marshmallows and half of a twix bar. Katie is such a honey.
I have a lovely bed!
I just thought I'd show off my new bedframe. Jim & Mom helped me put it together last week. Guess how much I got it for? Nope, guess again. Nuh-uh, guess again. 75 dollars! I got it at the RC Willey scratchndent across the street and I am pretty pleased! In fact I keep the tag on to remind me of the great deal I got.
Also, Nov. 8th is the Women's Show at the Southtowne Expo. Does anyone wanna come? It is sure to be lots of fun and Sarah and I will have AwesomeLunch at our apartment afterwards. There will be games and puh-rizes!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
A Student's Prayer
Now I Lay Me Down to Study, I Pray the Lord I Won't Go Nutty. If I Should Fail to Learn this Junk, I Pray the Lord I Will Not Flunk. But If I Do, Don't Pity Me at All, Just Lay My Bones In the Study Hall. Tell My Prof I Did My Best, Then Pile My Books upon My Chest. Now I Lay Me Down to Rest, And Pray I'll Pass Tomorrow's Test. If I Should Die Before I Wake, That's One less Test I'll Have to Take..... Amen.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Missy's October 20th email
Hey Y'all!
OK, I know that this isn't very nice, but I only have like 5 min to email. My comp has our day packed and we have to leave and go off and do something else right quick. She always forgets to schedule in time for emailing, probably because she talks to her kids on the phone almost every night, and so she doesn't need to email. It's all fine though because I get to see everyone in three weeks anyways!! Wow, time just flies!!!!
Anyways, this past week was a good week. Dustin Miller got baptized on Saturday. He is a neat kid and he is going to make a awesome member. He has come a long way too. A couple months ago he was a alcoholic smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day. Now he is a clean cut young man doing wonders and going back to school. I love how the gospel changes peoples lives and I love being able to be a part of it.
Well, I gotta go! Y'all will only get 3 more emails from me and then you get me in person! Very exciting!
Love ya lots!!!
Sister Dixon
OK, I know that this isn't very nice, but I only have like 5 min to email. My comp has our day packed and we have to leave and go off and do something else right quick. She always forgets to schedule in time for emailing, probably because she talks to her kids on the phone almost every night, and so she doesn't need to email. It's all fine though because I get to see everyone in three weeks anyways!! Wow, time just flies!!!!
Anyways, this past week was a good week. Dustin Miller got baptized on Saturday. He is a neat kid and he is going to make a awesome member. He has come a long way too. A couple months ago he was a alcoholic smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day. Now he is a clean cut young man doing wonders and going back to school. I love how the gospel changes peoples lives and I love being able to be a part of it.
Well, I gotta go! Y'all will only get 3 more emails from me and then you get me in person! Very exciting!
Love ya lots!!!
Sister Dixon
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Interesting Conference Stats
A friend of mine sent me this email the other day. She decided to take some notes during her sacrament meeting, and one of the techno-geeks in the ward spent some time analyzing the last general conference session. I thought it was pretty interesting in a I-don't-know-exactly-what-to-make-of-this kind of way.
There's this guy in my ward who gave a talk yesterday. The topic for
all the speakers was a review of the conference talks from Oct 3-4th,
2008. He is a self-proclaimed 'geek' and said that he was interested in
finding out if there was an on-going theme or topic that ran through the
conference. He downloaded all the talks from this last conference,
including those from the General Relief Society Meeting, onto his
computer. He then ran them through a linguistics program. Here are the
stats he came up with:
Out of 37 talks - these are the top ten references.
111 references to missionary work
125 references to the adversary
136 references to love or charity
150 references to men or fathers
152 references to temples
158 references to prayer
160 references to faith
332 references to families
371 references to women, mothers, or sisters
825 references to Jesus Christ (Pretty good for a church that is
purported to be non-Christian... don't you think?)
He was so compelled by these numbers that he then decided to run the
last 10 years worth of conference talks through the same program. He
found that the lesser referred to topics varied but that the top three
consistently stayed the same.
The interesting thing he found was that during this conference there
were topics that received a disproportionate amount of attention
compared to the last ten years.
This conference there was an increase in the number of times these
topics were mentioned (when compared with the last 10 years):
70% increase in the words service or charity
130 % increase in the words angels or spirits
147 % increase in the word hope
380 % increase in the words sacrament or sacrament meeting
457 % increase in the words Zion or unified people
I don't need science to compel me to believe. I love it when the
affirmation of my belief and faith is proven through science though.
Just one of those "I KNEW it!" things... I was really glad that for
the first time I had decided to start taking notes on sacrament meeting
talks and had my pen and paper ready when he started reading off his
stats.
I just thought you'd find this interesting. I know I did.
There's this guy in my ward who gave a talk yesterday. The topic for
all the speakers was a review of the conference talks from Oct 3-4th,
2008. He is a self-proclaimed 'geek' and said that he was interested in
finding out if there was an on-going theme or topic that ran through the
conference. He downloaded all the talks from this last conference,
including those from the General Relief Society Meeting, onto his
computer. He then ran them through a linguistics program. Here are the
stats he came up with:
Out of 37 talks - these are the top ten references.
111 references to missionary work
125 references to the adversary
136 references to love or charity
150 references to men or fathers
152 references to temples
158 references to prayer
160 references to faith
332 references to families
371 references to women, mothers, or sisters
825 references to Jesus Christ (Pretty good for a church that is
purported to be non-Christian... don't you think?)
He was so compelled by these numbers that he then decided to run the
last 10 years worth of conference talks through the same program. He
found that the lesser referred to topics varied but that the top three
consistently stayed the same.
The interesting thing he found was that during this conference there
were topics that received a disproportionate amount of attention
compared to the last ten years.
This conference there was an increase in the number of times these
topics were mentioned (when compared with the last 10 years):
70% increase in the words service or charity
130 % increase in the words angels or spirits
147 % increase in the word hope
380 % increase in the words sacrament or sacrament meeting
457 % increase in the words Zion or unified people
I don't need science to compel me to believe. I love it when the
affirmation of my belief and faith is proven through science though.
Just one of those "I KNEW it!" things... I was really glad that for
the first time I had decided to start taking notes on sacrament meeting
talks and had my pen and paper ready when he started reading off his
stats.
I just thought you'd find this interesting. I know I did.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Missy's October 14th email
Hey Fam!
Yesterday was a holiday so I am emailing today. I don't have much time though, sorry. This past week was really good. We are finding a lot of good people to teach. My companion loves knocking on doors (she has never done it before I came)! She loves it even more because we have found some way awesome people while knocking around. There is this one lady named Lydia who we found who is totally going to get baptized. She is pretty golden. I just really hope it will be before I leave.
We have a baptism coming up on Saturday. It is with this guy named Dustin. He is pretty awesome. The whole ward is excited about the baptism too. The ward here is really awesome. They are very supportive and love the missionaries. I think that comes from having senior missionaries all the time. The senior sisters can go and hang out with and friendship the members a lot so they get a lot more member referrals.
Sister Black is a funny lady. She acts like she's 30 even though she is 62. Probably not always a good thing, but she is so much fun. We are having lots of fun and success.
Well, I love ya lots and hope y'all have a great week!
Sister Dixon
Yesterday was a holiday so I am emailing today. I don't have much time though, sorry. This past week was really good. We are finding a lot of good people to teach. My companion loves knocking on doors (she has never done it before I came)! She loves it even more because we have found some way awesome people while knocking around. There is this one lady named Lydia who we found who is totally going to get baptized. She is pretty golden. I just really hope it will be before I leave.
We have a baptism coming up on Saturday. It is with this guy named Dustin. He is pretty awesome. The whole ward is excited about the baptism too. The ward here is really awesome. They are very supportive and love the missionaries. I think that comes from having senior missionaries all the time. The senior sisters can go and hang out with and friendship the members a lot so they get a lot more member referrals.
Sister Black is a funny lady. She acts like she's 30 even though she is 62. Probably not always a good thing, but she is so much fun. We are having lots of fun and success.
Well, I love ya lots and hope y'all have a great week!
Sister Dixon
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Missy's October 6th email
Hey Howdy Hey!
Well, here I am in Ridgway. Man, if I thought Marion was the middle of no where then I was mistaken. Ridgway is nowhere. For example, I am now in the library. It is a small one room building with a couple computers squeezed in among the handful of bookshelves. It doesn't open up until 2pm (that's why I am emailing a little later then usual). It's pretty funny.
Another sign that I am in real country is that there are no apt complexes and so we live in a cabin. A honest to goodness cabin. All made of wood and really tiny. It is the cutest thing ever! I was freaking out when we drove up to it! I love it! My new companion, Sister Black, was a interior designer (among other things (this lady has done everything!)) and it drives her nuts. It is rather drab inside, but I still love it! Too bad I only get a six weeks here, maybe even less.
A new senior sister is coming in at the end of the month and so I will either spend my last two weeks here in a threesome with two senior sisters, or in another area. We'll see what happens.
My comp is really nice. We have decided that I am older than her. She likes all the modern stuff while I like old radio shows and stuff. It's kind of backwards. She is 62 and it's fun to be with her. She is supposed to keep all the same rules as me while I am her comp, but she slips a lot. It is really weird to have a TV in the cabin. She makes sure that she watches only church movies and only when I am not in the room. But it's a small cabin and I hear it and it is pretty weird for me. Man, what is it going to be like when I go home and it will be OK to watch TV?
Another nice thing about being with a senior sister is that we use her own car and so we have no mile restrictions! It is so nice to not have to walk around and plan our miles! We can go as far out as we want! It's great! Of course being with her we spend a little too much time visiting and not enough time proselyting. She says that she would like to do more door knocking and stuff like that so we have been trying to do some middle ground stuff. It's been fun.
Well, I love y'all and hope y'all have a great week!
Sister Dixon
Well, here I am in Ridgway. Man, if I thought Marion was the middle of no where then I was mistaken. Ridgway is nowhere. For example, I am now in the library. It is a small one room building with a couple computers squeezed in among the handful of bookshelves. It doesn't open up until 2pm (that's why I am emailing a little later then usual). It's pretty funny.
Another sign that I am in real country is that there are no apt complexes and so we live in a cabin. A honest to goodness cabin. All made of wood and really tiny. It is the cutest thing ever! I was freaking out when we drove up to it! I love it! My new companion, Sister Black, was a interior designer (among other things (this lady has done everything!)) and it drives her nuts. It is rather drab inside, but I still love it! Too bad I only get a six weeks here, maybe even less.
A new senior sister is coming in at the end of the month and so I will either spend my last two weeks here in a threesome with two senior sisters, or in another area. We'll see what happens.
My comp is really nice. We have decided that I am older than her. She likes all the modern stuff while I like old radio shows and stuff. It's kind of backwards. She is 62 and it's fun to be with her. She is supposed to keep all the same rules as me while I am her comp, but she slips a lot. It is really weird to have a TV in the cabin. She makes sure that she watches only church movies and only when I am not in the room. But it's a small cabin and I hear it and it is pretty weird for me. Man, what is it going to be like when I go home and it will be OK to watch TV?
Another nice thing about being with a senior sister is that we use her own car and so we have no mile restrictions! It is so nice to not have to walk around and plan our miles! We can go as far out as we want! It's great! Of course being with her we spend a little too much time visiting and not enough time proselyting. She says that she would like to do more door knocking and stuff like that so we have been trying to do some middle ground stuff. It's been fun.
Well, I love y'all and hope y'all have a great week!
Sister Dixon
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