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lucky day.com

I dedicate this short post to me being probably the luckiest person ever... I could ramble on about how lucky I am... (especially when talking with Todd Altom ;) ) But I won't...

Tonight after church, I was just hangin' out with the fam, and then had to run to David and Rachel's place for some AWESOME CIS homework... so right before I went to their house, I took off my tie, and then just stood there thinking, "I'm not gonna 'dirty' some other shirt just to do h-dub...." So I slapped my tie back on (idk why...), went over there, spent like 4 hours on homework we thought we'd knock out in 45 minutes, and drove home, rather quickly... so quickly that a Mesa Police Officer pulled me over... asks me for just my license... (Which is fortunate, considering I have failed to put the insurance card in the car yet...) looks at it... looks at me... bends down in the window and asks,

"Eric, what ward are you in?"

so yeah.... we talked about the singles ward a little bit - found out he's a convert... yada yada yada... and I found myself driving home ticketless...

I'm still not sure if my oversized scriptures on the front seat gave it away... or the fact that I was still in my church clothes - I like to think it was the clothes - THAT'S the reason I slapped the tie back on. ha ha

the p-word...aka procrastination

I told myself, and even made a goal that I would make regular blog posts... And that lasted about a week in December... ha ha... so now I'll try to post random things slash pictures slash quotes every once and a while to capture the moments of a 21 year old going to MCC...

Today in church, I heard a guy say,

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"Procrastination is the thief of life..."

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That, my friends, might be the most accurate quote ever... and ironically, I should be reading, or doing homework, or further enriching my life with good things, but... I am Blogging - which for me means I am procrastinating and putting off that ever-growing To Do List... That good old p-word has stolen a lot of LIFE from me over the years, but quite frankly, that's ok - - I really am ok with it... for me, that awesome feeling/adrenaline I get when I FINALLY finish that project at 3:30 in the AM, makes it all worth it... some of us dixon kids are just cool like that.

Mongolian Christmas

Well it does feel strange being Christmas Eve and all... but I love the season... the music, cheerful people, and recognizing Jesus Christ in our lives. It seems like only a day ago I was in Mongolia celebrating Christmas... 2006 style...

Last night I was introduced to some new friends, and we talked a little bit about the mission... and what Mongolia is like, etc... After coming home, I couldn't help but think about the wonderful Christmas I celebrated there. So I'll show you all what goes on...

A few of us missionaries got together and sang the National Anthem to start off the Christmas Party 2006 in our suits...

(Elder Snow, Elder Howard, Me, Elder Al-tom, Elder Brown)

I only took about 70 pictures at that party.... : / ... So I won't throw them all on here, but I've gotta represent for the Mission President and his wonderful wife.

(Sister Bryner, Me, President Bryner)

This is probably about 60-70 percent of the missionaries posing after our Christmas Party

(me = front row, 2nd from left)

That's just a sneak-peek of a Mongolian style Christmas I guess...

Welp, Merry Christmas to you all!!!

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I returned home from serving for 2 years in the Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on November 23rd, 2007. It was a wonderful 2 years... I'll never forget that time, and a day won't go by without thinking about the people I met with, taught, and made friends with... I gained a true testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ there in Outer Mongolia. The gospel is true! I am confident that I'll be able to say that every single good thing in my life came from serving the Lord in Mongolia.

I'm in the process of organizing all the thousands of pictures and countless videos recorded in Mongolia... then I'll post them online...

It took me a whole week from returning off my mission to get back in 2007 and get the "necessities" of life - a cell phone, computer and iPod... (i feel like a geek saying that... but ya know... I've got nothin' to hide...)

My mother taught a wonderful lesson today at church, and I had the chance to tag along in order to provide "technical support"... aka I setup a short slideshow for them to watch on the T.V....I actually snatched this slideshow (below) off YouTube... Enjoy.

Welp, my goal is to continue making posts to keep up with the other bloggers out there... This is all way new to me, so we'll see how i do...

I have church in 9 minutes....!