California Redlands Mission: Meet and Greets!

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Meet and Greets!

Our Excellent Senior Missionaries - The Housers

Elijah Always Loves the Missionaries

Palm Desert Zone

Yucca Valley Zone

Banning and Yucaipa Zones

Redlands Zone

San Bernardino Zones A and B

Fontana Zones A and B

Rialto Zones A and B

Sister Van Cott and the Fontana Zone Sisters

We had a wonderful time meeting with all of the missionaries during our "Meet & Greet" meetings. All of the children were able to participate. Elijah particularly enjoyed getting to know all of the Elders and Sisters.

We are extremely grateful for how obedient and wonderful the missionaries are. They are all working extremely hard and have been great examples to our family as we have had the chance to meet them all.

The work is hastening! We are looking forward to our upcoming transfers. It will be hard to let four of the Elders and one Sister go home. We are however going to be receiving around 28 new missionaries. Approximately half of the new missionaries will be Sisters!

We would like to thank any families that are following these posts for the great job they did in preparing these wonderful missionaries to serve.

President and Sister Van Cott

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."