tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85507592073580291422024-03-13T19:42:42.877-07:00A Missionary's Tale......there & back again.Serving the people in the Canada Toronto Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day SaintsJohn Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-10363210590321933512017-08-28T15:00:00.000-07:002017-08-28T15:00:01.690-07:00Saying Goodbye.....I Love These People!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-52916255619215360552017-08-28T14:09:00.001-07:002017-08-28T14:09:28.208-07:00This Is My Last Letter Home...Hey Guys!<br />
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Wow, I can't believe this is my last letter
home to you. We had a very exciting week here in good old Mississauga.
We think we're going to start up a zoo with all of the crazy animals
we've been encountering the past few days. We have a skunk who loves to
come hide under our landlord's cars, so when we get home at night, we
have to be super careful or he surprises us. We also have a rabid
squirrel who has decided that he's going to live on our roof (he's
nasty! His tail has lost all it's fur and it has jerky movements). It
likes to stand on top of the roof, stare into your soul, and scream at
you while you run for your life into the apartment. It really keeps life
exciting. This particular story is my personal favourite...I've wanted a
dog story my whole mission. You can't go home without a good story about
being chased by a dog. We were tracting in an apartment building and
there was one door that had a sign that read 'Beware of Dog.' We knocked
on the door and quickly found out why that sign was there. The door
opened and out came two really big doberman pinschers. They were barking,
scratching, growling, and snapping at us. I stood there, clutching my
Book of Mormon and praying probably harder than I think I ever have
before. Probably the most terrifying experience of my mission. On the
bright side, the owner of the dogs finally got them inside and we had a
really good conversation about the gospel with her, hahaha. Then to top
off our crazy week, pink eye has struck our apartment! We spent our
p-day in the doctors office and at the pharmacy, hahaha. Such a
wonderful time to get a contagious illness. =)</div>
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Super
exciting news! Sister Pat set a baptismal date! It's been so neat to
watch her faith grow over the past five months we've been teaching her.
She wouldn't accept a baptismal date for months. We tried helping her in
every way we knew how. Finally last Friday, we read Alma 32 with her
and talked about how we don't have to know everything before we act. She
accepted a date and is praying and fasting to get an answer about
whether it's right. I love seeing the gospel work in the lives of
others! It's been one of the most joyful experiences of my mission
watching her grow and live the gospel little by little.</div>
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I
can't believe how quickly the past 18 months have flown by. My mission
has been a sacred privilege for me. I have loved experiencing the power
of the Atonement in my life as well as in the lives of those I have
taught and served with. I remember hugging my family goodbye at the MTC
and wondering, "what am I doing?" I struggled through the MTC, trying to
learn how to teach and be a good missionary. Then we flew to Canada...I
remember being at the airport and seeing all of these signs that said
'washroom' (hahaha) and then stepping out into the February weather. It
was so cold and I felt so scared. The first thing my trainer took me to
do was street contacting and I hid behind her the whole time because I
was too terrified to open my mouth. That whole transfer I wondered,
"what am I doing?" I remember kneeling down to pray each night and
telling Heavenly Father, "I can't do this. I'm not going to make it
through my first six weeks let alone 18 months." But then the power of
the Atonement of Jesus Christ came in. He helped me change and learn to
love serving Him as a full-time missionary. "Yea, methought I saw, even
as our father Lehi saw, God sitting upon his throne, surrounded with
numberless concourses of angels, in the attitude of singing and praising
their God; yea, and my soul did long to be there." Alma 36:22. Just as
Alma longed to be in the presence of God once he had felt the effects
of the Saviour's Atonement in his life, I longed to be here serving the
Lord as I felt the effects of the Saviour's Atonement.</div>
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Canada
has become sacred ground to me. I love the people here more than I can
say and saying goodbye to them is more difficult than I ever imagined.
My mission has helped me learn to love other people and to love the
gospel. I have loved feeling the Saviour's love for others and being
able to serve them as He would. I have come to not just believe the
gospel is true, but to really feel and know it. My mission has been a
very humbling experience for me...I've learned how much I really need
Him in my life.</div>
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I testify that Jesus Christ
lives and that His Church has been established again on the earth
through the prophet Joseph Smith. I know we have a prophet on the earth
today and that the priesthood is on the earth again. Through that
priesthood power, our families can be together forever. I know that the
Book of Mormon is the word of God, and I know that God answers our
prayers. I will never regret my decision to serve a mission!</div>
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I love you all!</div>
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Sister Dille</div>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-81959042447087909932017-08-21T19:59:00.001-07:002017-08-21T19:59:32.497-07:00Seeketh Not Her Own.....Hey Guys!<br />
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This week went by so fast! I can't believe it's already week 6 of the transfer! I'm trying to remember what all happened...</div>
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<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1815498050" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Tuesday</span></span>
was kind of a weird day...all of the departing missionaries went to
Brampton and we had a career orientation, a temple trip, dinner with the
Shields, and a testimony meeting. Some of the missionaries went home
early so they flew out the next morning, but the rest of us went back
out to work so it was kind of weird to have a day where we were supposed
to think about home, hahaha. It was a super good meeting though and I
loved the temple trip. The testimony meeting at the end was really neat
because we were all sitting in the same room we sat in when we first got
to the mission, sharing our testimonies. It was really cool that we all
made it, and I loved hearing about how our missions have strengthened
our conversion to the gospel.</div>
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I learned a
really cool lesson on charity this week. I've been studying it a lot
this transfer and I've been trying to develop it. While I was studying
one day, I read in Moroni 7:45-48. Verse 45 and 46 really stood out to
me. "And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is
not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no
evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth
all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, ye are
nothing, for charity never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto charity,
which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail— " I've read that
scripture many times before, but it really hit me this time! I learned
some really neat things from some of the phrases I didn't understand
before. </div>
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Seeketh not her own = we're accepting of everyone, even when they're different from us. </div>
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Is not easily provoked = not easily angered/irritated. </div>
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All things must fail = (this part is the gospel according to S. Varty
and Dille, so it may not be 100% correct, haha) eventually, we won't
really need faith/hope anymore because we'll have a perfect knowledge
when we dwell with God, but we'll always need charity. </div>
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I was
also studying in 1 Corinthians 13 and I learned that even if we have
great knowledge, great faith, and do great works, we are nothing if we
don't have charity. It was such a cool study. I definitely know that
this scripture is true! I know that having charity helps us to hope and
endure all things! I've seen such a big difference in my life the past
week as I've tried to develop charity.</div>
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<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1815498051" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Saturday</span></span>,
after our English class, we gave a chapel tour to some of the students.
Seven out of the ten stayed, so that was pretty cool! At the end of the
tour, we asked if anyone would like to come to church with us. One of
the students, Saida, said she would like to come. (She's a really sweet
lady from India). <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1815498052" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Sunday</span></span> morning rolled around and in came Saida to church! It was super cool! =) </div>
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Sister Varty and I had a goal to find three new investigators this week, so by the time <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1815498053" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Sunday</span></span>
came, we had found two. After church, we sat down to plan and set the
goal to find one more. We only had about two hours to find though
because we had a lesson with an investigator, and we had to make up all
of our studies. After our lesson, we went out tracting in an area we
felt prompted to work in. We started knocking, determined to find a new
investigator. At about six or seven doors in, a Muslim couple named Ali
and Maha opened the door. We started talking with them a little bit (we
asked them where they were from and he goes, "the moon. And she's from
the sun.") They invited us in and we got to share the Book of Mormon
with them. It was really neat! In the end, they didn't become new
investigators, but they let us leave them a Book of Mormon, and we felt
like we were still successful even though we didn't hit our goal.</div>
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Okay, now for my favourite part of the week! So <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1815498054" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span>, Sister Pat came to the baptism for Kamran and she seemed to like it. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1815498055" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Sunday</span></span>
evening, we went to a lesson with her and she started telling us about
how she loved how calm he looked when he came up from the water. She
talked about how she felt a spirit of love and unity that she doesn't
really feel that much at other churches, and she talked about how she
felt an inner peace. THEN! She says, "I'm gonna baptize soon." I think
my jaw hit the floor and my heart rejoiced! We've been trying for months
to help her accept the invitation to be baptized! It was one of the
happiest lessons on my mission! Progress has been made! And now, she's
praying about a baptismal date!</div>
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I love you all!</div>
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Sister Dille</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went tracting with Brittany (One of the young women...she is awesome)!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pictures from our exchanges with the Hamilton Sister Training Leaders.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of the departing missionaries had to go to meetings on Tuesday, so I saw Sister Holmstead again and we got to ride with President and Sister Shields, so we thought we'd take a picture because it was cool!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Opening my last kinder egg!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went on a run this morning down by Lake Ontario!</td></tr>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-15054826348269344702017-08-14T19:22:00.001-07:002017-08-14T19:22:47.288-07:00WE FOUND A FAMILY....Hi Everyone!<br />
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I'm going to apologize in advance, my keyboard isn't working very well. So as you can see by the por speling so far, it won't let me type in double leters. Hapy editing, Mom!!! :)<br />
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We had an amazing week here in good ol' Mississauga! We've been trying to work as hard as we can, talk to lots of people, be obedient, etc... On Thursday last week, we had zone conference and that was honestly the best zone conference of my mission (which is a good thing I guess, considering the fact that it was my last one). I learned a lot about the importance of setting goals and making plans, not just as a missionary, but for the rest of my life. (Blessings! The person beside me moved, so I have a functioning keyboard now!). We also talked a lot about the Plan of Salvation, and President Shields shared something with us that I thought was pretty neat. He told us that he thinks in the pre-earth life, we were probably involved in the planning of the Plan of Salvation to some degree. Isn't that cool! My favorite thing I learned though, was at the end. President showed us a video from the last mission president's training. Elder Oaks gave a talk about the sacrament that encouraged the mission presidents to teach their missionaries to appreciate the sacrament. He said that in some churches, they participate in communion where everybody eats an identical sized wafer. In our church, we partake of the sacrament, where the bread is broken in our presence. Each piece of bread is unique in shape and size, just like the individual who partakes of it has unique sins and needs. He taught us to conscientiously renew our covenants each time we take the sacrament and to be grateful as we partake. Isn't that cool?!<br />
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At zone conference, all the missionaries who are going home that transfer give their departing testimonies. It was a very spiritual experience for me to be able to get up and share what my mission has meant to me. It has really taught me that through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can have a change of heart and we can receive strength to do things that were once impossible for us. The Savior really has become more of a reality to me the past 18 months. Being a missionary is a sacred privilege that should not be taken lightly. We have such a great responsibility to represent our Savior. It has been such a blessing to serve him as a missionary.<br />
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After zone conference, we went on exchanges with our Creditview sisters. I was in Mississauga with Sister Keeslar. While we were on exchanges, we found a family to teach! It was so cool! They are both Christians, but the denomination they belong to only exists in Syria, so they are looking for a spiritual group to join. I think we can for sure help them out with that! It was such a blessing! <br />
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On Sunday, four of our investigators came to church! One of them was a new investigator named Rajani. She is from India, but over the past several years, she has come to believe in Jesus Christ. She walked into church on Sunday morning, stayed for all three hours, and then we taught her later that night. It was such a tender mercy!<br />
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I wanted to share two things I learned in my studies this week.<br />
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1). On Thursday, I was studying the talk Our Father's Glorious Plan from general conference. This part really stuck out to me. "Another of the great blessings of my life has been to feel the closeness of heaven during those moments when I sit at the bedside of people as they pass away. Early one morning some years ago, I entered the hospital room of a faithful Latter-day Saint widow who had cancer. Two of her daughters were sitting with her. As I went to her bedside, I quickly discovered that she was no longer suffering, because she had just died. In that moment of death, the room was filled with peace. Her daughters had a sweet sadness, but their hearts were filled with faith. They knew that their mother was not gone but had returned home. Even in our moments of deepest grief, in the moments when time stands still and life seems so unfair, we can find comfort in our Savior because He suffered as well. It was a privilege for me to be in the room." As I read, it really strengthened my testimony of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and of eternal families. Death is not the end! Because of Jesus Christ, the grave has no victory and death has no sting!<br />
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2). First, can I just say that the Book of Mormon is so amazing! Wow! I don't know how I missed this before! I was reading in 1 Nephi 16, and as I read, I realized that so far, the Book of Mormon has been all about how Lehi's family deals with one trial after the other (like the effectual struggle in Mosiah 7:18 and the muddy creek story I shared a few months ago). I started comparing the different responses to the trials, and I put them in three main categories. A. Laman and Lemuel Level: Whenever something goes wrong, you immediately begin to murmur by your words and your attitude. B. Lehi Level: You're very faithful and want to obey, but sometimes murmur. C. Nephi Level: No matter what, you do not murmur. You trust the Lord and instead of just sitting around, waiting for your trial to end, you get up and act with the faith that solutions will come in God's timing. Our lives are like the first chapters of the Book of Mormon. There will always be challenges and trials to overcome which we cannot control. However, we can control our attitude. When we don't murmur, it is a sign of deep faith.<br />
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Wow, this email got really long! I love you all so much!<br />
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Sister Dille<br />
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<br />John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-61789931252738827262017-08-08T22:13:00.000-07:002017-08-08T22:13:00.192-07:00She Calls Us Her Little Daughters...Hey Guys!<br />
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Wow, it's August! When did that happen?!
July just started. This week was such an amazing opportunity for Sister
Varty and I to learn patience and diligence. We've lost almost all of
our investigators, most of our appointments cancel or don't show up, and
for those of you who have served missions, you know that it's not
exactly the funnest situation to be in. It's been really good though
because both of us are learning patience and humility. Last night, we
were talking about it, and we decided that even though our area is not
doing very well, we can still make these last three weeks of the
transfer fun. We've both learned on our missions that the greatest joy
comes as we obey with exactness and have urgency about the work. We've
set goals and made plans to be exactly obedient and work super hard.
We're doing our best to talk to every person the Lord puts in our path.
(Haha, we've started talking to people through their car windows and
inviting them to church while we sit at stop lights. It's pretty
awkward, but it sure keeps the work exciting!) We both have so much more
energy and a renewed love for the work! =)</div>
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Last
night, we had such a good lesson with Sister Pat. (I love her...she
calls us her little daughters!) We taught her the Restoration again
because we really want to help her understand the priesthood authority.
While we taught, we both felt so much love for her! Because we felt so
much love, we were able to be very bold with her and we testified that
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the one true church
upon the earth. We promised her blessings and invited her to read and
pray. It was such a powerful lesson!</div>
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We had MLC
last Wednesday! It was my last one. =( It was such a good meeting
though! I love going to MLC because the Spirit is always so strong. It's
such a great opportunity to learn from other missionaries who are
trying so hard to do their best. I wanted to share one thing that really
stood out to me from what we learned. The assistants gave an
instruction about how we need to lead our missionaries in the Saviour's
Way. To help us understand our role as leaders, they shared the story
from the Bible when Jesus asked Peter if he loved Him. We watched the
Bible Video and it was so powerful. Each time Peter answered the Lord,
he got more and more serious that he truly did love Him. The elders
taught us that Peter's responses represent our conversion. The first
'yes' was us at the beginning of our missions. We really want to tell
the Lord we love Him, but we're struggling to leave home behind and be
on our missions. By the time we end our mission, we should be on the
third 'yes' where we're deeply committed to obey and serve. They taught
us that our job as leaders is to help our missionaries when they want to
say 'yes' to the first 'do you love me,' but are still struggling to
obey. It was such a powerful lesson for me!</div>
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So now for the funny stories...</div>
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1.
Yesterday, we were walking down the street and we were trying to start a
conversation with this guy walking away. He wouldn't stop, so we just
said by and turned back around. As he walked away though, we noticed
that he just had this random snake in his hand walking through the
middle of the city. What? <img alt="😕" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f615" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f615" style="margin: 0 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></div>
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Haha, this is probably my most embarrassing moment of my whole mission.
Sister Varty and I went running this morning and it was a really good
run. We were keeping a pretty good pace and we both felt pretty good. We
turned a corner and I'm not quite sure what happened (maybe the side
walk was a bit uneven or something), but with I totally face planted on
the sidewalk! Right off of the highway! It was hilarious! I wish
somebody would've gotten it on camera. Wow, I'm so graceful. <img alt="😂" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f602" style="margin: 0 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></div>
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I hope you all have a good week!</div>
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Love,</div>
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Sister Dille</div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">I don't have too many experiences to share from this week, mostly just stuff I've been learning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">As I did My Plan today, two quotes really stood out to me that I wanted to share.</span></div>
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“As I look back on my life following my mission, I realize that there
were periods when I was able to maintain the same closeness to the Lord
that I experienced in the mission field. There were also periods when
the world seemed to creep in and I was less consistent and faithful with
my prayers. … If the world has diverted us from the practice of prayer,
we then have lost great spiritual power” Elder Perry<br /><br />2.
“Clearly, a dividing line between those who hear the music of faith and
those who are tone-deaf or off-key is the active study of the
scriptures. I was deeply touched years ago that a beloved prophet,
Spencer W. Kimball, emphasized the need to continually read and study
the scriptures. He said: ‘I find that when I get casual in my
relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is
listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I
immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the
spirituality returns" Elder Cook</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">I
can testify that these quotes are true! As we immerse ourselves in the
scriptures and commit ourselves to sincere, faithful prayer, it makes a
huge difference in our lives!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">I
have a renewed love for the Book of Mormon. I've been studying one
chapter everyday for the past week, and it's been such a revelatory
experience for me. I've been learning so many wonderful principles that
I've never noticed before. I wanted to share what I learned with you as I
studied in 1 Nephi 3. It talked about two different responses to our
trials... 1. Nephi-faithful and never murmured. 2. Laman and Lemuel-
unfaithful, disobedient, and always murmuring. It was interesting to
compare their two responses to adversity as I read. Because Laman and
Lemuel were murmuring and lacked faith, they weren't able to accomplish
the commandment the Lord had given them to go get the plates. Nephi
however, was obedient and never murmured (which is a sign of deep
faith). Because of Nephi's attitude during their trial, the Lord was
able to use him as an instrument in His hands. It's the same for us! =)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">My
testimony of prayer was strengthened this week. We went on exchanges
this week with our Churchville YSA sisters. I was with Sister Wehrli,
and she's so awesome! (She actually went to Weber State...I knew there
was something I liked about her!) She's only been in the field for 12
days, so I wanted to set a really good example of opening our mouths to
talk with everyone, but I was pretty nervous. I had a silent prayer in
my heart the whole exchange that God would give me the strength and
courage to open my mouth and talk with everyone He put in our path...and
He did. It really strengthened my testimony that he listens to our
prayers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">I love you all!</span></div>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-49086683143641966662017-07-24T20:05:00.000-07:002017-07-24T20:05:05.935-07:00Did You Know Lehi & His Family Had a Pet?.....<div dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Wow, I have such a strong testimony of D&C 24:12. "</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms",sans-serif;">And at all times, and in all places, he shall open his mouth and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms",sans-serif;">declare</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms",sans-serif;"> my gospel as with the voice of a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms",sans-serif;">trump</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms",sans-serif;">,
both day and night. And I will give unto him strength such as is not
known among men." Everyone has been telling me that your last transfer,
you're completely exhausted all the time, and I believe them. I have
never been so tired in my life. It's been really cool to apply the
Lord's promise in this scripture though...whenever I feel really tired,
we go out and talk to people, and all of sudden I have energy to keep
working. It's so cool!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms",sans-serif;">This
morning, I was studying in 1 Nephi 2, and there are so many principles
in there that are applicable to us. In that chapter, the Lord asks Lehi
and his family to leave behind all of their comforts and head out into
the wilderness. Obviously that would be quite difficult to leave behind
your nice home and go spend the rest of your life living in a tent. It
was interesting to see how they each responded to the test. Lehi was
faithful and obeyed, Laman and Lemuel murmured, Nephi prayed to have his
heart softened, and Sam was so humble and willing he accepted the
testimonies of others. In our lives, we're often required to make
sacrifices and go through hard things. Sometimes we murmur like Laman
and Lemuel because we 'know not the dealings of that God who created
us.' But if Lehi and his family hadn't made that sacrifice, we wouldn't
have the Book of Mormon today. Our sacrifices bless others, and
although we do not always understand why we're called to wade through
certain afflictions, God does. We can trust that He loves us and no
matter what happens, it is for our good. (1 Nephi <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1372001998" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">11:17</span></span>).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms",sans-serif;">Fun
fact for the day, did you know that Lehi and his family had a pet? They
had a pet flea. In the Book of Mormon, the Lord commands Lehi to take
his family and "flea" into the wilderness. The things we learn from
studying the scriptures. =)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms",sans-serif;">So,
I have a new companion! Her name is Sister Varty and she's so awesome!
She's from Millerville, Alberta, so I get one last Canadian companion!
She's a really sweet sister, and she's a very obedient, diligent
missionary! She's awesome!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms",sans-serif;">We
had a cool experience this week! We got a media referral for a lady
named Anne-Marie who wanted some help painting her house. We went and
did service for her and we chatted a little bit about the gospel. She
has a new baby and so she's starting to think about how she wants to
raise him and how to protect him from the evils in the world. We talked
with her about prophets and how we have one on the earth today to help
us do just that. She's going to let us come back this week and share
more with her. It's really exciting!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms",sans-serif;">My
testimony of planning was strengthened a lot this week. When we plan,
the Spirit can help us more. Sister Varty and I have been planning a lot
more effectively for our lessons, and it's made such a huge difference.
We spend our personal studies focused on our investigators, and then in
companion study we make detailed lesson plans according to what we
learned in personal study. Last week, we had a really powerful lesson
with an investigator named Fostina on the Restoration. As we taught, she
totally understood because the Spirit was there. She understood the
pattern of apostasy, the need for the Restoration, the role of the Book
of Mormon, etc. Planning is inspired.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms",sans-serif;">I Love You All!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "comic sans ms",sans-serif;">Sister Dille</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is our ward mission leader, Brother Miles.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A missionary who served in the ward came back to visit and I talked with her mom. It turns out we're very distantly related through the Dille's side, so we obviously took a picture!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We learned how to use a drill today to hang up hooks in somebody's washroom. We were quite proud of ourselves, if you can't tell.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a little girl we are teaching named Romina. She's a member's daughter and she only speaks Spanish.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Romina wanted to take pictures with us at church. She drew us a picture too.</td></tr>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-57567698310733244822017-07-17T11:39:00.002-07:002017-07-17T11:39:36.065-07:00I'm Staying in Mississauga to Finish My Mission!..........Hello! <br />
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Wow, can I just say that goal setting and planning are such powerful
tools! Since we were almost 99% sure this was Sister Holmstead's last
week as a sister training leader, we wanted to end it by hitting the
standards of excellence. We set our goals and made our plans and then
did our best to carry them out. We're both so weak and simple, but the
Lord took our simple efforts and magnified them. We were blessed this
week with so many miracles...<br />
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~We were in an apartment building
dropping by a potential investigator and a man walked by to throw out
his garbage while we were standing outside a door. We started talking
with him, and he told us he had been sitting inside debating on whether
or not he should leave his family. Something told him to take out the
garbage so he did, and we ran into each other. He really wants to change
and we get to help him!</div>
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~We started teaching a Muslim couple we met a few weeks ago who were going through a rough time.</div>
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~A member called us last p-day and said, "Sisters, can you come right now and come teach my friend?!"</div>
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~Five of our investigators came to church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1690945397" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Sunday</span></span>!</div>
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The
Lord is so good to us...I can't even handle it! These experiences
really built my testimony that people are not numbers...they are
children of God and it's our responsibility to reach out to them. </div>
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God's timing never ceases to amaze me...<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1690945398" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Wednesday</span></span>,
we showed up to our returning member's house, but she forgot we were
coming and was about to leave to go run an errand. So we started working
around the area, tracting and OYMing. We met a girl named Zoe as she
was coming off the bus. We showed her the Book of Mormon and read Alma
7:11-13 with her. She was like, "Wow, I like that. I don't even like to
read, but I'm gonna read this book. Hopefully I can get it done in the
next two weeks." Shout out to the Book of Mormon for being true!</div>
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We
had an amazing lesson with our investigator Dennis...we've been working
with him to help him stop drinking and smoking. When we showed up to
our lesson <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1690945399" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Friday</span></span>,
he said, "I haven't had a drink since Tuesday." We were so proud of
him! I love it when we get to witness the Atonement of Jesus Christ
changing people!</div>
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There are just some days where your heart is so full of joy, you can't even explain it! <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1690945400" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Saturday</span></span>
was definitely one of those days...Sam and Stacy both got baptized. My
favourite part was seeing the joy on their faces as they came up out of
the water, having just made such important covenants with God. It was so
awesome!</div>
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Well, another transfer has ended.
Sadly, Sister Holmstead's time in Mississauga is over and she's headed
up to Georgian Bay. I get to stay and finish off my mission is
Mississauga with Sister Vardy. =)</div>
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Sister Dille</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sam's baptism :) Sam asked me to speak and it was really special :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stacy's baptism :)</td></tr>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-53078539245046533432017-07-10T19:41:00.001-07:002017-07-10T19:41:28.875-07:00Don't worry....sometimes it's freaking hard!Hi Guys!<br />
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I hope you all had a great week! Our week went by super fast! <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2033447249" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Tuesday</span></span>,
since it was our p-day and it just happened to be the fourth of July,
President and Sister Shields invited all the missionaries over in the
Brampton Zone for a BBQ. It was super fun, but I have to say, it was
really weird being in normal clothes at President's house and seeing
President walk around in slippers, hahaha. :)</div>
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we had MLCs, which are always super good! I always love meetings
because you're just called to repentance so much! You come away from the
meeting with so much to work on that can help your area. One of the
things we talked about was talking with everyone. President's been
bringing that up frequently for the past few weeks, and it's been so
cool to see the miracles that have come from it! After MLC, we had a
lesson with an investigator named Trisha who we found through talking
with everyone. Her dad recently got baptized in Nigeria, so now she's
curious about the Church. We went over and we taught her about the Book
of Mormon and it was really cool to see how much she wanted to
understand the truth. We're going back this week and she wants the rest
of her family to join in the lesson. :) (It's like talking with everyone
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We have an investigator named Stacy who's preparing to be baptized <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2033447251" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">this Saturday</span></span>.
We had a lesson with her a few days ago, and we brought a really nice
lady from our ward with us. Stacy asked a question about understanding
the Book of Mormon, and our member jumped in to answer. To understand
how hilarious this was, you have to know that this member is super
sweet, quiet, and kind...she's a really nice Japanese lady. So her
answer was, "don't worry, Stacy. Sometimes it's <u>freaking</u> hard!" Sister Holmstead and I about died! It took everything we had to keep it together! It was so funny! </div>
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We
met with Stacy after church again yesterday right after her baptismal
interview. She was so happy! It was so neat to just see her joy that
she's going to be able to enter into a covenant with God. I think that's
one of my favourite parts of missionary work...seeing the joy the
gospel brings to other people. </div>
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Well, it's officially the last week of the transfer! Honestly, we can't figure out how that happened! Time sure flies! </div>
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I Love You!</div>
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Sister Dille</div>
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P.S.
Next week, I have to start working on My Plan during computer time, so I
probably won't have time to email most of you back, but I promise I'm
not ignoring you, hahaha! :)</div>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-11626651998146249532017-07-04T13:31:00.001-07:002017-07-04T13:31:40.869-07:00With His Stripes We Are Healed....<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Hey Guys!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">This
week was so crazy! We went on back to back exchanges with our
Creditview and Etobicoke sisters, and then we went on exchanges a few
days later with Hamilton, so we feel like we haven't really been
companions at all this week. I love exchanges though...they're
really good opportunities to learn from and serve other sisters! =)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">It was Canada Day <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_679214766" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span>!
This was a special Canada Day because it was the 150th anniversary of
our country! It also happened to be our 500th day on our missions, so it
was pretty sweet! In the morning, we got all dressed up in our
missionary appropriate, Canada Day apparel (white shirts and red skirts,
hahaha) and we walked to the church for ESL Class. While we were
walking, a lady in a minivan rolled down the window and yelled, "Are you
twins?!" She went and turned her car around, parked, and got out. She
was like, "Sorry! I saw you two from the back and I just had to see if
you were twins!" (Sister Holmstead and I don't think we look very much
alike, but everybody else up here thinks we're twins, haha). She
happened to be in a red skirt and white shirt too, so we took a picture
with her. =) It was cool...I love random things like that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Our
mission has been working really hard to talk to more people everyday.
We've been asked to talk with 20 people everyday independent of regular
finding activities and working with members. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_679214767" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Sunday</span></span>,
our whole mission fasted for the strength, faith, and courage to open
our mouths and talk with more people. We've seen so many miracles as
we've tried to talk with more people. We've found more of God's children
who are prepared to hear the message of the Restoration, and we're so
much happier! Missionary work really does bring greater joy!</span></div>
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want to share my testimony of the healing power of the Atonement. In
Isaiah 53:5, it says, "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was
bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with His stripes we are healed." I've been able to have some
powerful experiences with the Atonement this past week...I never realized
before that through Jesus Christ we can be healed. I know that as we
rely on Him, he can heal our broken hearts, give us the strength to
forgive, and help us have peace to move on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Hahaha, I guess it didn't end up being that short...had too much to say! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">I love you!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Sister Dille</span></span></div>
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We
had zone conference this week in Brampton and it was so good! One of
the things we talked a lot about is talking with everyone in our path no
matter where we meet them. It doesn't matter if we meet them at the
grocery store, in an elevator, or on the street, we share the gospel
with them. So after zone conference, we went on exchanges with our Black
Creek hermanas, and Hermana Bahadur and I worked on it the whole
exchange. We saw so many cool miracles from it. We got two potential
investigators in one night. =) Also, we were getting into our car in a
parking lot, and a guy was just getting out of his. Hermana Bahadur
stopped him, and we chatted with him for a bit and then invited him out
to church. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_739052841" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Sunday</span></span>
rolls around and into the church building he comes! He told us that
he's been searching for something (we have the answers, hahaha!) He said
that he never goes to the parking lot we met him in and he never stops when
religious people try to talk with him, but he couldn't stop staring
when he saw our tags. So prepared! </div>
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We taught
Sister Pat the word of wisdom last week, and came up with a plan for her
to stop drinking coffee. She told us, "if it's bad for me, I'll stop!"
We came back the next night, and she said, "I've put all my coffee
away...I'm done." That right there is what you call faith, my friends!
She's so cool!</div>
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Funny story of the week...on
exchanges, we had to go to Shopper's to buy Hermana Bahadur an ankle
brace. In the store, we gave a card to an older guy named Al (he had a
super cool handlebar mustache and a bowler's hat!). Anyway, while we
were going through the braces, he found us again and started giving us a
bunch of tips for fixing foot problems. He was like, "Number one, you
have to lose weight! With foot problems you always have to lose weight.
Then, you have to get a rubber ball and run your foot over it for
awhile. Then you get Nivea cream and rub it all over your foot. It has
to be made by the Germans! Then wrap a plastic bag around your foot and
walk around for two hours. All the bad stuff will come out of your foot
while you walk. When you're done, you'll feel like you're walking on the
clouds! Then you must wash off your foot in cold water. It has to be
cold because if your body is hot then your blood will be hot. Your foot
will be feel better. That kind of advice is normally $250, but for you,
it's free!" =)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went to a berry farm and thoroughly enjoyed being on a farm again!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matchin' pajamas!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I discovered you can make smiley faces out of mangos and apples :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I found Sister Gariki at Zone Conference.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I found Sister Snickers at Zone Conference :)</td></tr>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-79356486792417441812017-06-19T17:15:00.001-07:002017-06-19T17:15:32.265-07:00My Name Is On A Canadian Police Report.....<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Hey Guys!</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Well,
another week has come and gone! Holy cow times sure goes by fast! We
had a great week and saw lot of tender mercies and miracles!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1016932281" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Tuesday</span></span>,
we had an amazing tender mercy. So we went to this apartment building
to drop by two less-active members. We prayed that we would be able to
get in and then headed off. When we got in the building, we were looking
through the directory to see if we could find the less-actives on the
list. As we were looking, a guy came and opened the door for us
(blessings!) We dropped by both sisters, but neither of them were home.
We'd been let into the building way too easily so we knew there must be a
reason we were there. We began knocking on doors on the fourth floor
and nobody was really interested. Then we get to door number twelve and a
Portuguese woman named Maria answered. She's had a really difficult
life, and it was so cool to be able to talk with her about the gospel
and how it could help her. She agreed to let us bring a Portuguese Book
of Mormon to her. Things happen! Fourth floor, twelfth door!
(Read President Uchtdorf's talk from general conference last fall if you
don't get that joke). ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Well,
the other tender mercy that goes along with Maria goes as follows.
Sister Holmstead and I were super tired that day! We were seriously
falling asleep while we were standing up having conversations with
people. When we came home for dinner that night, we decided we were more
tired than hungry so we took a nap. We set a timer for thirty minutes
so we could get up and get ready before our interviews with President at
<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1016932282" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">5:00</span></span>.
Well, apparently when we fell asleep, we went out hard because the
alarm on the phone went off, and we slept through the whole thing. Then,
at about <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1016932283" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">4:50</span></span>,
President Shields called to let us know they were running about ten
minutes late because of the traffic, but we slept through that too!
(Apparently it was a much needed nap). Well, the Lord is so good to us
because He made sure Sister Holmstead woke up at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1016932284" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">4:55</span></span>
so we could still have time to get up, throw a snack together, and
still beat President and Sister Shields to the church. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">For the funny experience of the week (this is also the craziest experience of my mission)...<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1016932285" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Wednesday</span></span>
after district meeting we went on exchanges with our Churchville YSA
sisters, and I don't think I've ever had such a powerful lesson about
the Lord's timing. Sister Hollyman and I went off to our first
appointment with one of their new converts. She happened to be a few
minutes late so we just figured out our schedule really quickly. Then we
had lunch and a lesson with her and we were off again. We dropped by a
less-active member and then tracted in the area a little bit. While we
were tracting, Sister Holmstead called and asked if I had accidentally
taken my GPS with me. We checked the car, and sure enough, it was
sitting in my bag. (Oops!) So we arranged to meet them at Square One and
drove off to meet them. They took a wrong turn and got lost so they
were a few minutes behind, but they eventually got there and all was
well in Zion. We contacted around Square One for awhile and then started
heading back to the car. Let me say, the Lord's timing is
fantastic...it was such a tender mercy that their new convert was late
for the lesson, that I accidentally took the GPS, that the other sisters
were lost and showed up late, the length of our conversations with all
the people we talked with, etc. because as we were going back to the
car, we heard cars honking and slamming on the breaks. We looked ahead
and saw a little girl running across the road. She ran up the steps to
the mall and played there for a bit and then started running back again to the road. We took of running to catch her before she got to the road
again. Luckily we caught her just as she was stepping out onto the road.
So now Sister Hollyman and I are standing with this lost little girl
trying to figure out what to do. We walked with her into the mall, and
she was just holding my hand and chattering happily away as we searched
for a security guard who could help us. We eventually found two and they
took us back to their main office while they called the local police to
see if anyone had reported a missing child. Eventually, the police
called back and said they found the little girl's grandma and they were on
their way. The police showed up, and the little girl was returned to her
family. So now Sister Hollyman and I have our names on a Canadian
police report, hahaha. As crazy as the experience was, it was a really
good reminder that God's timing is much better than mine. Had our
schedule turned out any differently that day, we would not have been
where we needed to be to find that little girl and she could've been hit
by a car.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">But
the story doesn't end there. Later that night, Sister Hollyman and I
were driving home, and their GPS is very very old, so it wasn't giving
me very good instructions. We got to a point in the road where I could
take one of three forks in the road...left, straight, or right. Well,
the moral of the story is always choose the right, because when you
choose to go straight, the road takes you to the Toronto-Pearson
International Airport, which is the home of the most confusing road
system in the world in my opinion. We got lost at the aiport on
exchanges. :) Sister Hollyman thought it was great though because it
gave her ample opportunities to tease me and remind me that <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1016932286" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">in 10 weeks</span></span>,
I'll be there. In fact, as we finally found our way out, a plane took
off and flew right over our car. She turned to me and said, "Sister
Dille, Sister Dille! What's that called?!...10 Weeks!" So that's our fun
story about finding a missing child and getting lost at the airport,
hahaha. Oh the things that happen on exchanges!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Love you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Sister Dille</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing soccer last p-day in our super cool matching MTC t-shirts.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exchanges with Sister Hollyman and Sister Skeen.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dinner at Momma's house (she's a really cool Jamaican lady in our ward)!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We had a lesson with a YW in our ward named Brittany on marking her scriptures for a mission.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is for Sister Holmstead's family....it's the picture she promised you of Mississauga.</td></tr>
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week was so cool! Sister Holmstead and I have been working on talking
with as many people as we can each day, and we've seen so many tender
mercies! I'll share a few of my favourite ones.</span></div>
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We were walking home one night, and there was a man on the other side
of street. Sister Holmstead was like, "let's go for it!" We crossed and
started talking to him, and it was a super good conversation! We taught
him about the Book of Mormon and showed him a copy. He asked, "can I
have that?!" He's going on a trip, but he said he'll call us when he
gets home! (Fingers crossed <img alt="😀" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f600" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f600" style="margin: 0 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" />)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">2.
We were coming out of a lesson from our investigator's apartment
building. There was a man sitting at the other building across the
driveway, so we went to go talk with him, but a lady came out the door
and right to us. She asked who we were and what church we were from, so we
explained and shared the Plan of Salvation pamphlet with her. She's
going through a really difficult time in her life right now, and she
wants to make some changes. She gave us her number and asked us to come
visit her <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_491754616" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">next Sunday</span></span>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Man, this week flew by so fast! <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_491754617" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Thursday</span></span>,
we had MLC in Brampton, and it was so good! We learned a lot about how
we can work better with members, because members are our best source for
finding solid people to teach. We've been trying to figure out how to
do that better in our area, so it was definitely an answer to prayers. </span></div>
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after church, we had a lesson with Sam, and Bishop came. It was such a
good lesson! We talked about the commandments and how we have a prophet
on the earth today. As we talked, Sam shared with us some of his past
experiences and how he's so excited to make changes to his life. He now
has a baptismal date for <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_491754619" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">July 15th</span></span>! It's such a privilege to be teaching someone who is so humble!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Well,
summer has officially come to Canada! We walked out of our apartment
yesterday for church and it was already 30 degrees at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_491754620" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">8:00</span></span>. By the time we came out of church, it was 40 degrees! We're melting over here!</span></div>
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Sister Holmstead and I tried a new food this week. We went to teach our
investigator Suhil, who's from Syria (cool side note...we learned he's
really really famous over in the Middle East for his art work! We're
teaching a famous person! We're gettin' his autograph at the next
lesson!) At the end of each visit, he always gives us something
to drink, and this week it was flower juice. They apparently make a
syrup out of flowers and put tons and tons of sugar in it. Then you mix
it with water and it's basically like drinking flower flavoured sugar
water, hahaha. We had TONS of energy for the rest of the day. <img alt="😉" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f609" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f609" style="margin: 0 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /> </span></div>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-43463016332994766682017-06-05T19:33:00.000-07:002017-06-05T19:33:49.711-07:00Two's...Three's....Six's....Seven's....I Love Canada!Hey Guys!<br />
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Well, we'll start with the bad
news...Sister Seegmiller thinks she's leaving me. Apparently she thinks
she needs to go to Hamilton or something. My new companion is
going to be Sister Holmstead. I came out from the MTC with her and she's
from Utah. She's really cool and I'm excited...I've exchanged with her
before and she's a wonderful sister! It's also such a tender mercy that
Sister Seegmiller is only going to Hamilton because those are the other
STLs we exchange with, so we'll get to go on exchanges with each other
and we'll still get to see each other at MLCs. :)</div>
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Other
than our devastating call from the assistants last night telling us we
aren't staying together for a third transfer, our week was great. We had a really cool tender mercy. During weekly planning last
week, we set a goal to find three new, have six member present lessons,
and get seven referrals. We've been really struggling with those three
key indicators for the past few weeks, so we decided we were done with
two's and three's, we wanted sixes and sevens, hahaha. On exchanges with
Sister Nelson, I learned about how to ask for referrals more
effectively, which we were then able to implement throughout the week to
help us get more referrals, and then we were very blessed to be able to
find so many members to come teaching with us. We've also been going on
lots of car fasts, so we've been able to find a lot of potentials who
we were able to call and set up appointments with so they could become
new investigators. By the time we counted up our numbers last night to
send in, the Lord had blessed us to achieve our goals. The Lord takes
such good care of us. :)</div>
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We had a really powerful lesson with our investigator from Jamaica <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_375869617" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span>
night. We call her Sister Pat. :) We gave her a church tour, and then
we showed her the Restoration video, and the Spirit was so strong. After
the video, she told us that she knows Joseph Smith was a prophet. She
really has the gift of believing, it's so incredible! I'm so grateful
for powerful moments like that! </div>
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I wanted to
encourage you all to read something. This week, I was studying about the
restoration of the priesthood in Joseph Smith History 1:68-end. It was
such a powerful experience for me. I also read Oliver Cowdry's testimony
at the bottom, and it's so powerful. I know that if you read it, your
testimonies of the Restoration of the priesthood will be strengthened
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we went on a car fast and it was REALLY long! It also happened to be
the time we need to do an actual fast and it was hot. So by the time we
were getting close to the end of the day, we were pretty burned out. We
were walking along the sidewalk, and this car salesman was cutting
balloons off the cars. We said hello to him, and he asked if we wanted
the balloons. Uh, of course we want free balloons! So we happily walked
back home with our big balloons trailing behind us, hahaha. It's a new
contacting technique we're trying out. ;)</div>
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Funny story of the
week...once upon a time Sister Dille and Sister Seegmiller were doing
studies. Sister Dille was reading Jesus the Christ and had to look up a
word in the dictionary. She stumbled across the word 'ache' and for
whatever reason, her brain did not process the word correctly. She was
trying to figure out how to pronounce it and the only things she could
come up with were a-chee and a-shee. Now thoroughly confused, she reads
the definition- a dull pain. "Oh! Ache," she calls out. Wow! You know
you're tired when...hahaha. Good thing my companion doesn't judge. :)</div>
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P.S. Sorry, because of transfers, I probably won't have time to email very many people. I promise I'm not ignoring you! :)</div>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-10924290817995045132017-05-29T20:38:00.000-07:002017-05-29T20:38:17.517-07:00Chocolate Chip Cookies & Tender Mercies....Hey Guys!<br />
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We had a busy week, and it went by so fast!
We had two exchanges this week, so we felt like we weren't really
companions. On one of our exchanges though, we had such a cool
tender mercy!</div>
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I was with Hermana Karpa and we
were walking to Sister Lau's to help her with her English class and it
was POURING rain. We were completely soaked, and I found out that my
raincoat isn't as waterproof as I thought, hahaha. The water from skirt
was dripping down my legs into my boots and the wind was blowing so hard
we couldn't use umbrellas. It was great! ;) It made us appreciate dry
clothes and shoes a lot more. So we got to the appointment, shared our
message, and then started putting our coats/rain boots back on. Sister
Lau was like, "sisters, I drive you home." Tender mercy! We were able to
go back to our apartment and have enough time to put our stuff in the
drier. Then for tender mercy #2, we had talked about chocolate chip
cookies that morning walking to Sister Lau's, and all day I wanted
chocolate chip cookies so badly! We went to another appointment at
Sister Miner's house and when we stepped in the door, she was putting
cookies in the oven, and they just so happened to be chocolate chip. :)
She told us that she felt prompted to make them for us. The Lord is so
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Yesterday, we were on a car
fast, and we met the most hilarious people! We met this older guy who
was wearing a cowboy hat and jamming out to rap music while he cleaned
his pick-up truck. We met this young mom walking down the street pushing
a stroller, so we said, "Hi! How are you?" She said, "I'm not
interested!" (Kind of a strange mood to be in). Then we knocked
on this door, and a lady opened. We asked how she was doing and she told
us, "I'm really angry. Why did you knock? I have a doorbell right there
and you didn't use it." Then we offered to do free housework for her
and all hard feelings cleared up. She's going to let us come back <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1248185179" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">in two weeks</span></span> as long as we don't try to convert her... ;) </div>
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We
went to downtown Toronto this morning, and it was so cool! There were
so many people. We got to see the CN Tower, Union Station, the
waterfront area, a cool park with old trains, and a bunch of cool
people. It took up a lot of our time, so I probably won't have time to
email a lot of you back, but I love you!</div>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-15571444765877233382017-05-23T19:11:00.003-07:002017-05-23T19:11:48.386-07:00You Remind Me Of A Girl I Once Loved.....Hi Guys! I hope you all had a great week!<br />
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Wow, it
seems like forever since I emailed you last, hahaha. We had such an
amazing week, I don't even know where to begin...we saw so many tender
mercies! A few weeks ago, we met a really nice lady downtown while we
were walking to an appointment. Her name is Sister Pat, and she's from
Jamaica. :) Last Tuesday, we went to teach her for the first time, and
it was so good. We taught her about the Restoration, and gave her a copy
of the Book of Mormon. (Cool random side note...we brought Sister Edmay
teaching with us, and when Sister Pat opened the door, both of them got
so excited. It turns out they're really good friends, because they used
to be neighbours, and now they're reconnected!) A few days later, we
went back, and we read the introduction with her and part of Alma 5. She
said, "Sisters, I know it's true." In our heads, Sister Seegmiller and I
were like, 'are you sure? It's pretty rare that after only two lessons
someone knows that certainly.' Then yesterday, we went back and she had
been reading in Alma, and she said, "Sisters, I know that whatever I
read in this book is true." It's such a tender mercy.</div>
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Then
this morning, we were able to have lunch with our investigator, Sam,
from the Philippines. After lunch, we shared the Restoration. We talked
about how the priesthood authority has been restored, and after he's
baptized, he'll be able to receive the priesthood to help do God's work.
He started crying and was filled with so much joy! He has such a deep
desire to serve God. He said the closing prayer, and it was one of the
most sincere prayers I've ever heard. It's such a privilege to be
working with such prepared people!</div>
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In order
save kilometers, Sister Seegmiller and I have been walking a lot. We've
gone on two really long car fasts, and we've been so blessed for it.
Last week, it was SOOO hot on the day we chose to walk. It was almost 40
degrees outside, and we were dying! We were on our way back home from
an appointment, and this black car pulled up alongside the curb. The
driver rolled the window down and it was Sister Anderson, one of our
members! She gave us a ride back to our apartment, and saved us from
walking in the heat! Yesterday, we were on another car fast. We walked
to a less-active sister's house, and had a wonderful lesson with her. As
we were about to leave, she said, "Sister, wait! I"ll make lunch for
you." It was such a tender mercy because we didn't have time to go all
the way home before our next appointment, so we wouldn't have been able
to eat. On our walk back to the church, another member found us and gave
us a ride. The Lord is so good to us!</div>
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Hahaha, this email wouldn't be complete with some good funny experiences, so here ya go!</div>
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1.
A few weeks ago, we were tracting, and a Polish man opened the door. We
had a conversation with him, and asked him how long he had been here in
Canada. He told us he's been here nine years, so we said, "wow! You've
been here longer than we have!" He asked us where we were from and how
long we've been here, so we told him we're from the States and we've
been here for a little over a year. He was like, "wow! Your English is
very good." We said, "um, thank you...we uh, spoke it in school." </div>
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2. We had a regional broadcast a few
weeks ago in Etobicoke. We were standing by the doors and an older
gentleman walked in and started talking with us. He looked at me and
said, "you remind me of a girl I once loved. I saw you sitting up on the
stand and wondered if it could be here. It's a long, sad, story." I had
no idea what to say! I just stood there hoping my face wasn't the
colour of a tomato!</div>
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3. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_8187505" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Sunday</span></span>
morning, we decided to start our day off right by locking ourselves out
of our apartment! :) We were heading out the door for church, so we
grabbed all of our stuff, locked the door, and headed to the car only to
realize that our keys were still hanging inside the hallway. (It was
also in the middle of a thunderstorm, hahaha). We tried knocking on our
landlords door, but they weren't awake yet, and the screens on our
windows can only be removed from the inside, which is really unfortunate
when you're trying to break into your house. So we walked to
church in the wind, rain, and thunder and learned a very important life
lesson; always make sure you have your keys! </div>
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Love you!</div>
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Sister Dille</div>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-91734409057528531472017-05-15T18:25:00.001-07:002017-05-15T18:33:42.555-07:00When Performance Is Measured, Performance Improves...<div dir="ltr">
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Seegmiller and I learned a really important lesson this week! (Well,
we've actually been learning it for the past two transfers, but ya
know...). At the beginning of our first transfer together, our area was
struggling with finding new investigators. In Preach My Gospel, it says..."When performance is measured, performance improves. When <span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk1520007" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><wbr></wbr>performance </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk1520008" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is </span></span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">measured </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk1520009" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk1520010" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">re<wbr></wbr>ported, </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk1520011" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk1520012" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">rate </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk1520013" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">of </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk1520014" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">improvemen<wbr></wbr>t </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk1520015" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">accelerates." </span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="im">
</span></span></span><div>
<span style="color: #444444;"><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So,
we've been working on our key indicator of finding new investigators
for the past few months. We've been setting goals, making plans,
implementing our plans, evaluating our efforts, adjusting our
goals/plans. Now, we're finding several new investigators every week.
It's been amazing to see how the Lord helps us to achieve our goals!</span></span></div>
<div>
<span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-m_-2021618109062761143gmail-chunk" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I found an awesome scripture on member missionary work! In 3 Nephi <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1381289380" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">18:32</span></span>, it says...</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk m_3189810064257025730gmail-hl-id-36771458" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330001" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333;">"</span></span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk m_3189810064257025730gmail-hl-id-36771458" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nevertheless, </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330002" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ye </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330003" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">shall </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330004" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330005" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cast </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330006" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">him </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330007" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">out </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330008" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">of </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330009" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">your </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330010" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">synagogues</span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330011" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330012" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> or </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330013" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">your </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330014" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">places </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330015" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">of </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330016" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">worship, </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330017" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">for </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330018" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unto </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330019" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">such </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330020" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">shall </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330021" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ye </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330022" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">continue</span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330023" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330024" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">minister; </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330025" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">for </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330026" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ye </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330027" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">know </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330028" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330029" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">but </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330030" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">what </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330031" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">they </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330032" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">will </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330033" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">return </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330034" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330035" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">repent, </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330036" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330037" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">come </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330038" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unto </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330039" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">me </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330040" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">with </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330041" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">full </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330042" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">purpose </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330043" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">of </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330044" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">heart, </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330045" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330046" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330047" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">shall </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330048" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">heal</span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330049" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> them; </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330050" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330051" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ye </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330052" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">shall </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330053" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">be<wbr></wbr> </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330054" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330055" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">means </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330056" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">of </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330057" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bringing </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330058" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">salvati<wbr></wbr>on </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330059" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unto </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk m_3189810064257025730gmail-hl-id-36771458" id="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk330060" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">them." </span><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk m_3189810064257025730gmail-hl-id-36771458" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As
members of His church, we are the means of bringing salvation unto
those who have not had the chance to receive the restored gospel. Now
truly is the time for members and missionaries to work together. I
invite each of you to pray this week for what you can personally do to
share the gospel with the people around you. The Lord's work will move
forward when you as members and we as missionaries are equal partners in
the work.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk m_3189810064257025730gmail-hl-id-36771458" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk m_3189810064257025730gmail-hl-id-36771458" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We had an amazing miracle on exchanges this week. I was with Sister Rhodes, and we had an hour from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1381289381" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">2:00-3:00</span></span>
where we needed something to do. We couldn't figure out what would be
most effective, so we moved on, and decided we'd come back to it later.
We set a goal that we wanted to receive and contact a media referral
that day, and wouldn't you know that a few seconds later, a text from
church headquarters came through with a referral assignment. We called
the man up, his name was Sam, and he asked if we were free at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1381289382" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">2:00</span></span>!
The Lord is so good to us! He's so prepared to receive the gospel. He
was visiting his niece and nephew in the Philippines, and started going
to church with them. The missionaries came over several times and taught
him a little bit. When he flew back to Canada, he was so excited to
meet with missionaries here and keep learning. He came to church
yesterday, and <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1381289383" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span>
night, the Spanish elders in our ward had a baptism, so he came to that
too. He's all excited now to enter the waters of baptism! The Lord
provides!</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk m_3189810064257025730gmail-hl-id-36771458" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk m_3189810064257025730gmail-hl-id-36771458" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I love you!</span></span></div>
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<div>
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="m_3189810064257025730gmail-chunk m_3189810064257025730gmail-hl-id-36771458" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sister Dille</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">District service project at the Brampton Community Gardens.</td></tr>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-35102904262748442902017-05-08T19:50:00.001-07:002017-05-08T19:50:33.199-07:00They Did Not Doubt Their Mothers Knew It...Hi Guys!<br />
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We had the craziest, most ridiculous week of my mission, hahaha! We had so many funny/weird things happen! </div>
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1). <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_378207033" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Thursday</span></span>,
we had a lunch appointment, and since we're trying to save on k's, we
decided to walk. It was such a pretty walk, the weather was beautiful,
the lunch was so good, the day was basically going perfect. On the way
back from our appointment, we saw the most awful thing I've ever seen. A
crow was flying past us with a screaming baby bunny in it's mouth, and
the momma bunny was chasing the crow down trying to get her baby back.
We chased the crow down to try to save the bunny, but it landed on its
neck. By this time, it had started raining, so we stood with our
umbrellas, crying, and watching the poor baby die. It was awful! A few
minutes later, we saw the momma standing all by herself on a lawn, and
started crying all over again. It was ridiculous! Seeing this though
reminded me of something really important...the importance of mothers. I
love the story of the stripling warriors in Alma. I love the verse
where it says, 'they did not doubt their mothers knew it.' Mothers have
such a powerful influence in our lives!</div>
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2). We
put an add on Kijiji offering help with house or yard work. A lady
contacted us for help with gardening. So we go and we're pulling up
brick, raking up dead leaves, basically just tidying up the yard. We had
about 20 minutes left, so we asked if there was anything else she'd
like help with. "Oh sure," she said, "I'd like you to cut my lawn. I"ll
be right back." So out of the house she comes with two pairs of kitchen
scissors in her hands. She happily gave them to us and put us to work.
We got down and started cutting, laughing hysterically! It was one of
the weirdest things I've ever done.</div>
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3). <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_378207034" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Saturday</span></span>,
after ESL, we got a phone call from a member who needed help moving
and she had to be out of her apartment and have the u-haul truck back by
<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_378207035" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">4:00</span></span>.
We pulled up and started working. Luckily the elders had been there the
day before to load up the heavy furniture, so we just had to worry
about the boxes and bags. We were running around like chickens with our
heads cut off throwing things into the elevator, dumping in the truck,
dragging them out of the apartment, etc. We finished the apartment and
then pulled up to the storage unit and started chucking things out of
the truck. We finished unloading it, and then we were trying to get the
gate in the back closed. We were hanging on it trying to get it to
close, and we just about had it. So then we start pushing on it from the
top, jumping on it, looking quite ridiculous I'm sure. But! By the time
<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_378207036" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">4:00</span></span> came around, we had the apartment empty, the truck unloaded, and the storage unit full!</div>
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So despite all these ridiculous things, we did have a lot of cool miracles!</div>
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1). <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_378207037" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Wednesday</span></span>,
we had MLC, and I learned so much! We both learned so many good things
we can do to be more obedient! We've been working on implementing them,
and it does make a difference!</div>
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2). We had an
amazing lesson with Janice this week on the gospel of Jesus Christ. We
taught her about repentance, and how it's just small simple changes to
our lives. We talked about how it's a joyful thing to repent, and she
started crying. It was so cool to see how much the gospel touched her
life. That same lesson, we were able to set her with a baptismal date.</div>
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3). We were able to find three new investigators!</div>
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I love you all!</div>
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Sister Dille</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me & Sister Seegmiller!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went shopping with our new convert's daughter, Adrianna, on p-day!</td></tr>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-39006457982066787442017-05-01T18:12:00.002-07:002017-05-01T18:12:48.487-07:00Arabic, Muslims, and Turkish Delight...<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Hi Guys! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">We had a crazy busy week, but it was so good! <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1736348585" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Tuesday</span></span>,
I learned a really powerful lesson...we had a lot of administrative
things to take care of, which left us with only a few hours of time to
minister, but somehow, we were able to get so much done and see so many
miracles. We went and helped with transfers in the morning for a couple
of hours, and then Sister Shields (our mission president's wife) asked
us if a new sister could spend the day with us because her trainer had
some departing missionary meetings she had to go to. So we got to bring
Hermana Cluff with us for the day, and it was so awesome! By the time we
got back to our area, it was <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1736348586" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">1:00</span></span>,
and we only had about five or six hours until we had to take Hermana
Cluff back to her trainer. We went street contacting and found two new
investigators! One of them is from Saudi Arabia, and the other is from
Turkey. They both speak Arabic. </span><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Samara, is from Turkey, and she's Muslim. It's kind of
hard to teach her because obviously Jesus Christ plays a much different
role in our lives that He does in theirs. After church ended though <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1736348588" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Sunday</span></span>,
she told us that she was having a bad morning, but felt much better and
really peaceful at church. Her mom texted her after the service ended,
and asked why Samara didn't bring her too. Hopefully we can
help her learn to recognize the Spirit so she'll understand that we're
teaching her the truth. :)</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">We were also able to do service for a
member, and have several great member lessons! The Lord blessed us in a
matter of hours to get done what would normally take us two full
proselyting days. It was such a blessing! He'll magnify our efforts when
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">I
learned another really cool lesson this week! Yesterday, Sister
Seegmiller and I got home from church and we were doing some studies.
Sister Seegmiller jumped up off the floor and yelled, "oh my goodness,
that's so cool!" I about had a heart attack, holy cow! She was reading
an article in the Ensign by Elder Larry R. Larence, and there was a
really powerful quote in his talk. It says, "when he [the adversary]
hears murmuring, complaining, and criticizing, he takes careful notes.
Your negative words expose your weakness to the enemy." It was so
powerful! It really made me think about how I can do so much better at
being grateful for my blessings, instead of focusing on the things that
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">We
had a hilarious experience at Walmart last p-day. Sister Seegmiller and
I were in the produce sections happily picking out our apples. Content
with our selection, we then moved over to the grapes. While we were
picking our grapes, a couple entered Walmart, and they were obviously
having a rough day. The man walked past the produce section and kept
going almost to the back of Walmart while the woman stood by the produce
yelling all kinds of crazy things at him. As we headed over to the good
old bananas, he started yelling all kinds of crazy things back.
Everyone in Walmart was staring at them with their mouths wide open
wondering, 'is this really happening?' Sister Seegmiller and I thought
it was hilarious and we were dying! To top it off, we picked a bad cart
that had a broken wheel on the front, so while we're going through the
store still laughing about the unhappy couple, our cart wheel is making
this wonderful, squeeling/scraping sound. So instead of getting a new
cart like smart people would do, I just picked up the front and my
companion picked up the back, and we carried our cart full of fruit
through Walmart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">I love you!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sister Seegmiller cut over 6 inches off of my hair - headaches are gone!</td></tr>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-43725161537300306822017-04-24T18:56:00.000-07:002017-04-24T18:56:02.886-07:00Don't Ever Compliment A Lady On Her Cute Purse On A Crowded Bus.....The transfer is over and we're both staying!!!! We're so excited that we get six more weeks with each other!<br />
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exchanged with our Black Creek North sisters this last week, and I got
to go to Black Creek. It's a bus area, and it was my first time on a
bus! It was so much fun! You get on and the bus driver starts moving
right away, so you have to grab on quickly or you face plant (either
that or you land on the lap of the person in front of you, which is kind
of an awkward conversation starter if you know what I'm sayin'). There
are so many cool people to talk with, and it's so much fun! One of the
times we were on the bus, a lady came and stood in front of me. She had a
really cute purse, so I smiled at her, and said, "Hi, how are you? I
like your bag." She then proceeded to zip it up, turn away from me, and
then move to the other end of the bus as soon as it stopped. Hahaha,
looking back now, I see that it's probably not the wisest idea to
compliment someone on her purse on a crowded bus in the big city of
Toronto, especially since we were working by Jane and Finch; the
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Guess what we did yesterday? We made crepes! They turned out pretty good
actually. By the time we finished, we figured out the right temperature
to make them nice and golden with no brown. I'm so grateful for my good
companion! We were at church, and this young mom, Sister Low, came in
with her two kids, Grant and Maddie (hehe). All three of them were sick.
It was really cool to see that she was still committed to renewing her
covenants even though she didn't feel good. Anyways, Sister Seegmiller
leaned over and she said, "we should take them dinner." So we made them
crepes and took them over. When we walked in, she started crying, and it
was really cool to see how something so small and simple touched her.</div>
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We had an amazing experience with our investigator Janice this week. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1702486632" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Saturday</span></span>,
after getting back from exchanges, we went over to her house for
dinner. She had worked so hard to make everything perfect, and she had
dressed up really nice. She was so happy and had so much energy. It was
incredible! Usually when we go, she's really tired and kind of stressed.
As we were getting ready to leave, she told us that she's been reading
and listening to the Book of Mormon! We've been working with her trying
to help her read for about a month now, so it was so cool to see the
difference in her when she finally did it. I'm so grateful for the Book
of Mormon. I really notice a difference when I read. I'm happier, our
days go better, and you have the Spirit to be with you more.</div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">This week was really good, but holy cow...it went by fast! I can't believe it's <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_267854275" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Monday</span></span> again. Also, this Sunday is transfer call day already. There's no way it's already been a transfer! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">We
had so many cool experiences this week! My favourite though was our
investigator Tina got baptized! :) The Spirit was so strong, and so many
of the members came out to support her! The best part though was <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_267854276" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Sunday</span></span>,
after she got the gift of the Holy Ghost, Bishop let her bare her
testimony. It was so powerful! She's such an amazing example of faith!
In her testimony, she talked about a priesthood blessing she received
where she was counseled to stay strong, believe, have faith, and make
the effort. She then encouraged all of us to do the same. It's amazing
what the Lord can do in our lives!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">We had a cool tender mercy this week. When we woke up <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_267854277" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span>,
it was raining pretty hard, and we had quite a bit of tracting/street
contacting that day. We prayed that it would be able to stop raining so
we would be able to find people. We went to our English class, and it
rained hard all through the class. When we came out to go find, the rain
had stopped, and the sun was out! We were able to go
tracting/contacting without fighting the weather. Such a blessing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">I've
been reading in Jesus the Christ, and last week, I skipped ahead a
little bit, and I studied how the Saviour spent the last week of His
life. It made a huge difference for me! Every day last week was special,
because I knew what the Saviour was doing at that time when He was on
the earth. This week, my Saviour became more of a reality to me, and my
testimony of Him was strengthened. If you haven't studied Jesus the
Christ, I encourage you to start...your testimony of the Saviour will be
strengthened! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Here are some funny moments that I stole from Sister Seegmiller's email...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Funny
Moment: We were shopping at Shopper's and we went into the line to
check out. The lady asked, "did anyone help you?" "No," we said, "why?"
Oh well this is the checkouts and returns. Oh we said, seeing the
sign.." purchases and exchanges" we are not from here....( as though our
lack of seeing the sign could be justified by the country we come from)
it was so funny and we felt very foolish. Moral of the story... always
read the signs!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Another
funny moment was running our 5k:) We got this wonderful idea to include
a young woman who loves to run. So we planned the route, well she did. And
we went running on our p-day with Brittney. She is amazing, but she is
in very good shape, and lets just say Sister Dille and I have some shape
to get into. As we began to run and we saw the hill, we could not
breathe, we were laughing so hard. We felt so funny and we were saying,
"Wait! Slow down.. I think I might need to take a break..." But ran we
did, and we finished it <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_267854278" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">in 35 minutes</span></span>! It was so fun to be with the young woman and to talk about mission life with her. </span></div>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-84264293038370590982017-04-10T17:12:00.001-07:002017-04-10T17:12:57.825-07:00We Can Be Grateful In All Things.....Hola!<br />
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<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1247978333" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Tuesday</span></span>,
I learned a really important lesson... We were on exchanges with the
Hamilton STLs, and I stayed in Mississauga with Sister Holmstead. Our
plan was to go contact a referral a member had given us, but her address
had been deleted from our phone, and Sister Jo wasn't home to send us
the address again for a few more hours. So we went to the church to make
copies for a later lesson, and while we were there, Brother Gundaker
texted us, asking if we were free to come give one of his friends at
Home Depot a Book of Mormon. Because our plans fell through, we were
able to go have an awesome experience of helping a member with his
missionary work. I learned that the Lord's timing is so much better than
mine!</div>
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<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1247978334" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Wednesday</span></span>,
we had MLCs, and President shared some scriptures with us to teach us
about how powerful the Book of Mormon is. He shared 1 Nephi 6:4-6 with
us and it really strengthened my testimony of the importance of the Book
of Mormon. There is nothing in that book that will lead us astray,
because it's only things that are pleasing to God. Also, there is
nothing in there that is not of worth to us. It's so cool!</div>
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My companion is the best example to me! <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1247978335" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Friday</span></span>,
she was feeling really, really sick. But all day long, she didn't
complain and she was so happy. I asked her if she needed to go home and
rest, and she was like, "no, it's okay. We really need to have these
lessons." After our lessons ended, we went in for dinner, and she was
laying on the floor, under her coat, in pain. Then she proceeds to start
listing off all the wonderful things that happened that day, and how
grateful she is for x, y, z. Hahaha, I was like, "are you kidding me?!
You're dying on the floor, and you're still talking about how grateful
you are?!" It taught me that we can be grateful in all things.</div>
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Other Highlights:</div>
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- We had zone council <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1247978336" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Friday</span></span></div>
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- We were able to find three new investigators this week!</div>
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- The weather has been so nice! It's 23 today! </div>
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- We had a lot of amazing, spiritual lessons</div>
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- We took our new convert, Lisa, teaching, and she shared a really powerful testimony!</div>
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Love you!</div>
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Sister Dille</div>
John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-79835402790359690482017-04-03T18:20:00.000-07:002017-04-03T18:20:18.361-07:00Finding Ginco....Finding Ginco....<br />
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This week was so amazing! I have
developed a stronger testimony of the word of wisdom...Sister Seegmiller
and I have been going running and trying to eat healthier, and it's
amazing how much better we've felt! We're able to work harder throughout
the day, sleep better at night, and be happier. Your physical health
really does affect you spiritually! </div>
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I loved
President Monson's talk during general conference! It was short, but
powerful. I know that what our prophet said is true, and that reading in
the Book of Mormon everyday is so important. So my encouragement to you
is to follow our prophet's request to read it everyday. It will bless
your life! :)</div>
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We had an awesome district meeting <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_657716312" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Wednesday</span></span>!
It was on the Restoration of the Gospel. We talked about the Great
Apostasy and how it was a time of spiritual darkness, then as the
Restoration unfolded, more and more light came with it. Our district
leader did a neat demonstration to teach us this principle. When we
walked into the room, all the curtains were closed, but the lights were
on. So we had a good amount of light, enough to get by anyway. As we
talked about the Restoration though, he walked to the back of the room
and started pulling all the curtains open. More and more light came into
the room. One of the elders shared a neat thought. He said something
like, "I didn't really notice how dark it was until we had more light."
The gospel brings so much light into our lives, and as we study it and
live it more and more, the light in our lives will increase! :) </div>
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We had two pretty awesome experiences this week...</div>
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Number
One...I was on exchanges with Sister Zick, and we were driving to an
appointment. Now, for some reason, the closer you are to the city, the
ruder the drivers get. So in Mississauga, we get honked at quite a bit. Well,
we were in the left hand lane because we were about to turn in 300 or
so meters. The speed limit was 70 k/hr, but I was only going 65. The
driver of the minivan behind me was quite put out that I was slowing him
down by a whole 5 k/hr, so he proceeded to follow super closely and
honk his horn again and again and again. Meanwhile, I'm driving and
singing to myself, "he is a child of God..." Hahaha, I love grumpy
drivers!</div>
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Number Two...On exchanges, Sister Zick
and I found this man named Gino who said we could come back the next
day to share a message with him. So the next day, Sister Seegmiller and I
went to drop by. But! I wrote down the wrong house number. (Hehehe,
oops!) So we said a prayer to be able to find Gino, and started re-knocking on all the doors we had knocked the day before trying to find
him. Well, I'm sure you're all familiar with the moving Finding Nemo,
where Dory can't get Nemo's name right and calls him Bingo, Fabio,
Cheeko, etc. We had a wonderful reenactment of the movie as we knocked.
My hand writing must've been sloppy or something, because Sister
Seegmiller thought his name was Ginco. We'd knock on a door and she'd
ask, "hi, we're looking for your neighbour. He's a tall, older, Italian
man, etc... His name is Ginco." Then we'd leave their doorstep and I
would start laughing my head off, and remind her that his name was Gino.
By the time we finished knocking on all the doors he could've lived at,
we had probably repeated that phrase about 10 times, and it got funnier
and funnier every time. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard on my
mission. </div>
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Other Highlights...</div>
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- We went on exchanges with the Churchville YSA South Sisters, and it was so fun!</div>
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- We got to go to the temple.</div>
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- General conference was fantastic!</div>
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- We found a new investigator who wants us to come help her son stop drinking!</div>
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- The weather was so nice!</div>
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Love ya!</div>
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Sister Dille</div>
John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-10462337304256960352017-03-27T20:02:00.001-07:002017-03-27T20:10:49.530-07:00Fourth Floor, Last Door....Hi Guys!<br />
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Happy birthday yesterday, Dad! I hope you ate a piece of cake for me, hahaha! :) </div>
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This
week was so great! We had so many blessings, that we were exhausted by
the end of the week from all the happiness. ;) There were so many
experiences where we saw small little miracles that reminded us that God
is helping us in the work. </div>
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We had zone
conference this week in Oakville, and it was so good! The first part of
the meeting was about the Doctrine of Christ. We talked a lot about
repentance, and President Shields told us that coming on a mission is
like coming to "Repentance U" (university). It's so true! On your
mission, you really realize your sins and weaknesses, and you get
opportunities everyday to repent, change, and improve. I realized this
week, that this is the only time in my life that I'll be able to focus
100% on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We can give all of our time to
studying and applying His gospel. I'm so grateful for this time I have
to focus on other people and learn how to live the Gospel. The second
part of the meeting was all about music. We got a new senior couple in
our mission, and one of them plays the piano beautifully. President
Shields let him bear his testimony to us through playing a song, and it
really brought the Spirit into the meeting. After that meeting, Sister
Seegmiller and I decided we were going to be more picky about what we
listen to, so we can have the Spirit to be with us more fully.</div>
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We have an amazing investigator named Tina, and we had two amazing miracles with her this week. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_23436041" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Tuesday</span></span>
night, we were on exchanges, and I was with Sister Rhodes in
Mississauga. We were teaching Tina about the Word of Wisdom, and we were
a bit nervous because it was the first big change she would have to
make in her life. But it went so well. She told us she didn't have any
problems with it. She said, "Baptism is something I really want to do,
and I know that it's going to require some changes." Miracle! Miracle
#2...<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_23436042" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Friday</span></span>
night, Sister Seegmiller and I were teaching her about keeping the
Sabbath Day holy, and again, she willingly accepted the commandment and
committed to making the necessary changes so she can obey God's
commandment. She's such a good example of having faith, and being
willing to act upon it!</div>
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Our investigator Lisa got baptized <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_23436043" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span>!
It was such a good baptism; the Spirit was there! It was really cute,
because she has an eight-year-old son who watched her get baptized, and
as soon as she came up out of the water, he said, "when can I get
baptized?" So now Dave is preparing to get baptized too. :) Later that
day, we got to FaceTime into Peter's baptism back in Bowmanville. That
was such a miracle for me. I felt the Spirit so strongly, and it was
amazing. You can tell he's made changes to his life, and that it's
brought him peace and happiness. It was probably my favorite memory of
my mission so far! </div>
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I got to work in a YSA unit
for the first time this week. We went on exchanges with our Churchville
East sisters, and so I went to Toronto with Sister Kim, a Korean
sister. We got to go talk with people close to the York campus, and it
was so much fun. We got to talk to a bunch of college kids about the
gospel. After about an hour, we started walking back to the car. As we
were walking, we saw a girl coming towards us. We got to talk with her,
and she agreed to let the sisters come back <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_23436044" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Sunday</span></span> before general conference. It was like Elder Uchtdorf's <i>Fourth Floor, Last Door </i>story. </div>
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Sister Dille</div>
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John Bronson Dillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421850578734367457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550759207358029142.post-83727640981957134142017-03-20T17:02:00.002-07:002017-03-20T17:02:28.407-07:00I Love Diversity!!!!Hi Guys!<br />
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Holy cow! I love my new area so much! It's
so much fun!!!! The ward is amazing and it's so diverse, just like the
city. You can walk down the hallway at church, and hear conversations in
Tagolic, Spanish, Mandarin, English, and French all at the same time!
It's so cool. I've met people from the Philippines, Ethiopia, China,
Thailand, Nigeria, and a whole bunch of other places that I can't
remember. </div>
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Mississauga is huge! It's so
much fun because there are always people we can talk with. I love the
diversity. I never thought I'd say this, but I love being in the city,
haha.</div>
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My new companion is awesome! She's from
Orem, Utah! She's a diligent and obedient missionary, and she knows how
to teach by the Spirit. I'm learning so much from her! </div>
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We had a really cool experience yesterday afternoon. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_494046592" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Saturday</span></span>,
I was sick, so we had to come inside for a bit. I was in the bedroom
taking a nap, and while I was asleep, Sister Seegmiller called 200
people! One of the people she called (Shina) said we could come and
visit her. After church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_494046593" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Sunday</span></span>,
we went and taught her the Plan of Salvation, and it was such a good
lesson! We were able to help her recognize the Holy Ghost and answer her
questions about what happens after we die. She told us she had been
wondering for four days where we go and who we go to when we die, and
then we just happened to call her up. So cool!</div>
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I love you!</div>
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Sister Dille</div>
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