California Redlands Mission: October 2013

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

An Exciting Week

We had the blessing of having Elder and Sister Walker visit the California Redlands Mission. He was truly a blessing to our children and also all of the missionaries.

Our wonderful departing Elders and Sister

Exciting to have two new visa waiters!

Our Sisters arriving from the new Mexico MTC

We received a total of 29 new missionaries. We have gone from 152 missionaries in July to over 220 missionaries in October. The work is hastening!

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Departing Missionaries

We will miss Elder Webb

Elder Buckley

Elder Harvey, Elder Andersen, Sister Jensen, Elder Lamb, Elder Crandall, Elder Conder, Elder Buers

Leaving October 29th - November 25th

Elder Dean, Elder Heilman, Elder Leiske, Elder Schultz, Elder Mackall, Elder Faka'osi, Elder LeVan, Elder Wellisch, Elder Soressi

Elder Littlewood

Our Great September Missionaries Arrived Safe

Here they come!

All of our English speaking missionaries!

Our wonderful visa waiters!

Our first missionaries from the Mexico MTC!

Sister Deroche

Sister Wong

Elder Gore

Elder Moore

Sister Howe

Our August Arrivals

We were so blessed to have so many new and wonderful missionaries arrive in August!

Sister Taboada

Sister Zamora

Elder Reber

Sister Southwick

Sister Harris

Sister Harper

Sister Whitford

Sister Davidson

Sister Lee

(A Fellow Mountain View Bruin)

Elder Potts

Elder Miller

Sister Straatman

Sister Randall

Elder Braithwaite

Elder Robison

Elder Weaver

Elder Griggs

Elder Null

Elder Allred

Sister Munoz

Elder Siddoway

Elder Riches

Elder Allen

Sister Kalke

Sister Lauaki - Sablan

Elder Perkins

Elder Pratt

Elder Morgan

Elder Potts and his companion Elder Potts!

Meet The Dixon Family

President Sean Romney Dixon is originally from Provo, Utah. He played basketball and tennis before serving a mission to Toronto Canada, Spanish speaking. After returning from his mission he met and married M'Shelle. They met standing in a line in the Traffic Office at BYU. He has a bachelors degree in Family Science and a masters degree in Education. President Dixon has worked for LDS Seminaries and Institutes as a seminary teacher and institute instructor. Most recently he worked as the Area Director for the Utah Valley South Area. M'Shelle Lundquist Dixon is from Bountiful Utah. She loves to dance. She also rides a unicycle. She graduated from BYU in Communications. She and President Dixon both work as directors for BYU summer camps; Especially For Youth and a new camp "Habits for Life" which teaches Covey's "Seven Habits for Highly Effective Teens." The Dixons have five children and have raised their family in Spanish Fork, Utah. Lisie, their only daughter returned from her mission a little over a year ago to Nashville, Tennessee. Jared returned from serving in Mexico, Puebla two months ago. Both are in school at BYU Provo. Rob leaves August 2016 to serve his mission in Barcelona Spain. Their two youngest Brad and Scott will be living with them as they serve in California, Redlands. "We are excited to be here and love the missionaries. We pray for them every day to bring others to a knowledge of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. We know that this is His work and that He leads it. Our only desire is to serve others and to be instruments to help bring people to a knowledge and understanding of the Lord's great plan of happiness."