Elder Dittmers Journey to New Mexico

This week has honestly been quite slow for me. We caught some kind of bad cough with a sore throat and we actually stayed in a couple of days because of how bad it was. I'm still sick, but I can tell that I am recovering. 

It turns out that a lot of the city also has the same sickness, and it has even hit the entire branch presidency here, as well as many of the members. I was waiting for the day when I would finally catch something, so I wasn't very surprised when it happened. Over the past week we have had a hard time sharing messages with people because of the sickness as well. The way I look at it is that I'm lucky to have caught the disease so that I can build my immune system to prevent me from catching this contagion again. 

We went to a baptism out in Ramah on Saturday! I think I forgot to mention that there aren't missionaries in Ramah right now so we go to Ramah every Wednesday with the ward mission leader. Anyway, the baptism was for two young sisters who are 14 and 16 named Madeline and Leslie. I had never once taught a lesson with them, but I certainly got to see how converted they were and how excited they were for the baptism. Also, there was food. 

The first picture is of the baptism, and the second picture is of a Plateau that is in Zuni that Elder Briscoe climbed a while back.

Thanks for supporting me!

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Dibeh means sheep in navajo.

di-BEH!

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The yummiest thing I probably ate is butterscotch pudding. I love that stuff. also cookies from the baptism 

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I (JoAnne) spent the week in Durango, Colorado this week visiting a friend and met three sets of missionaries from Isaac's mission.  I saw this, which made me laugh:

"My mom met Elder Redding

She was in Durango. I'm a little weirded out right now. Heh!"

Our dear friends, The Robisons, were wonderful and had the idea to send Isaac a box for FHE, so we collaborated and got him a fun Valentines box sent.  They even sang him a song on the voice recorder and their oldest two bore their testimonies.  

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Isaac sent this photo to Jacob, saying this is what he's built with Legos he's found.  I'm glad to see his personality is  alive and well.