Elder William Turrell Pixton's Mission 2023-2025

this isn't my weekly email, but here's this for you guys tuesday for breakfast I had some yogurt, i put toast in the toaster but I forgot to eat it. so now its still there. this morning we had to postpone personal study so we could go help this dude named Johnny. Johnny has no legs and he stockpiles a bunch of toys so he can give them out to kids. the problem is that none of them were sorted. they were all mixed in with eachother. so we went through them all and sorted them by gender and age group and all that fancy stuff. after that we went to the food bank to go help out again. we had a lot of people there so we pretty much just stood around in the cold for two hours. lunch was subway. I figured we should probably start using our subway giftcards... we have a grand total of 100 bucks in subway gift cards. after lunch we drove to Mayo to go say hi to a bunch of referals. there was this one guy who filled out a request for us to come by (he was also legless... if I had a nickel...

ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... ive officially been out for 5 months. last week was pretty solid. it was sad saying bye to all the people in Chiefland, but I know that Branford is where the Lord needs me right now. Branford is a small little town about 30 minutes away from Chiefland. its pretty much the same area except even more rual(somehow) and theres new people. last sunday we did a church swap with our friend Alex. a church swap is where we go to his church one week then he comes to ours the next week. it was really intresting to see some of the similarities between our church and his. Alex is a super cool dude, afterwords we had a lesson with him and we were able to give him good sources to go to for some of his questions. oh yeah, last monday was pretty busy with all the preparation day things so I didnt really have time to write this... our friend Alex came to church yesterday so that was awesome. Alex is already a member, he was baptized a long time ago and hasnt been ...

  Hey William, Hope your week has gone well.  I'm excited to talk to you tomorrow.  I hope that you and Elder Larkin liked your Elf socks.  Once I actually put them on I was disappointed in how uncomfortable they were, but they were still a fun way to feel connected on Conner's day.  I know in the past we have had you guys stay home from school and dad takes the day off, but we decided because the kids have missed a bunch of school from being sick and you are across the country that this year we wouldn't do that.  I decided awhile back to get the heart rocks because I knew we wouldn't all be together, but I didn't know everyone would get sick and miss school too.  I was actually recovering from a stomach bug that day, so dad went to the temple and did initiatories without me, and I cancelled my appointment.   So if you saw the pictures, you saw that we still did Christmas in color.  They've added a ton more singing guys.  It's ...

  This happened to come up on Instagram today.  Definitely an appropriate time for one of my favorite quotes. 

here's my email to yall from last week... tuesda today we embraced our inner STL and baked 5 dozen cookies to hand out to people. the sisters werent lying when they told us that giving peeps cookies was a good idea. everyone who we gave cookies to was so excited when we showed up. it was epic. but yeah, we pretty much handed out cookies all day. the other day someone gave us both $50 dollar subway gift cards so we did that for dinner. the lady forgot to put oil and vinegar on tho something that was kinda funny that I noticed... the trash bin had a hole for recycling and one for normal trash but they both went into the same container. after dinner we headed to miss angies to play cards and move some funature with Junior... we played progressive rummy and it was the worst. it was just like 5 crowns wensda its day 150 when I woke up this morning I was just insanely tired... we have district council a bit later today so we visited a bunch of people. there was this one dude we visite...

 

 Awesome art and one of my favorite quotes from Elder Holland.  The ministry is angels is one of the strongest parts of my testimony.  I thought this art was just perfect to represent the angels that came to visit the shepherds when Christ was born.   I had to take two screenshots to get the full quote  hope you have a wonderful day! Love  Mom

hey gang It's been a good week! we've had a bunch of meber participating lessons and even seen a few miricles. also... we got transfer calls fire lesson we have this one friend named Debi that we've been working with for a while. she believes in another church but she seems pretty interested in learning more about us. this week, we brought a member along for our lesson with her, and it went really well! the member bore her testimoy and even invited her to church. Even though Debi didn't end up coming to church, it was still really good that she got to meet one of the members. miricle ️ on Friday, we had someone cancel an appointment we made with them, so we didn't really know what to do. we decided to go visit a few members in the area who we hadn't met yet. the first one we stopped by invited us in. one of the members was about to head to the hospital because he had some problems with his appendix. we were able to give him a blessing before we left. it was just...

tyesday today weve just been driving all over the place visiting referals. we had a bunch of people respond to facebook ads lately so weve got a bunch of those. during lunch i went through one of our closets and found a ton of random knicknacks. there was a bunch of hats, pants, games, shoes, blankets, fishing gear, and a bracelet maker, all the things. there was even some lights to put on the tree so now its slightly more christmasy. after lunch we had to get our tire fixed so we headed up to Trenton. i just worked on making a braclet in the car the whole time. I dont think i did it right but it made a bracelet so it kinda worked i guess but guess what?? we got to go see Alex at TAB automotive!! i guess our tire has a crack in the side wall tho so were gonna go back tomorrow so he can put it on we just had the most insane chess game ever. it was epic wynsday i woke up this morning and tried to play the piano but the keeys and pedals were freeeezing i looked at the thermostat and it ...

  hello. I'm writing this on thrusday but I'm gonna schedule it to send on monday... you should send me the cookie recipe. we wanna make cookies and take them to people Mom's reply:

Hey William, We have been reading the story of the Brother of Jared this week. It is one of my very favorite stories. I remember a few years ago studying Ether 3 and coming across Ether 3:23-24. I don't know why I didn't learn it before then, but I think it was about 4 years ago when we were studying the Book of Mormon for come follow me. But this verse talks about the Lord commanding the Brother of Jared to seal up 2 of the stones with their history. These same two stones were still with the gold plates when Moroni gave them to Joseph Smith and they became the Urim and Thummim. Pretty cool that they gave light to the people on the barges, and brought light to them across the ocean for almost a year. I love the symbolism of light. How it brings understanding to things we can't see or comprehend with the darkness around us. I love Ether 6:3. When I read that I think about how Heavenly Father doesn't expect us to cross our own great waters in darkness. He wants...