Quick Update

Wow, it's been a busy month. Our friends Jeff & April Rotunda, Pastor Jim & Susi Pegan, & Ana Post came all the way from NY to visit us. It was a great time and we were so happy to see them.

On a sad note, Marshall's grandfather passed away and we were not able to make it back to N.Y. for the funeral.

We are through with our first quarter & had our first Bible exam. I think it went well for us, but we haven't gotten our results back yet. We will also have our first evaluation soon.

We were blessed to spend Thanksgiving with family in Waynesville, N.C. It was a first for us to spend Thanksgiving with my North Carolina family, so it was a special time.
Soon we will be traveling back north to visit with friends and family in N.Y. and Ohio. Our plans are to arrive in N.Y. on Dec. 20th and spend Christmas there and then travel to Ohio for a few days before we head back to TMM.

I uploaded a lot of new pictures be sure to click on the OUR PICTURES link and check them out.

Bush Driving

Last week we had bush driving which was a fun experience. Dan took the men out one day, then it was the ladies turn. As Dan was taking us out to the path we were to drive on, us girls were thinking we were already on the path, which we thought was quite rough. Little did we know what was ahead. There were ditches down the middle of the path and rocks and boulders. And we each were to take a turn driving this path. We all survived and it turned out to be a lot of fun. The next day, the guys had to take this poor old Blazer out and get it stuck. The first attempt at getting it unstuck was too easy for them, so they decided it would be better to just drive it off the road. I posted a few pictures, which don't do the real thing justice. The first picture is of the first time they got it stuck.

Dan ( our teacher ) was used as traction :)

The guys had to take the truck out and get it stuck. The first attempt wasn't a big enough challenge, so they drove it off the road.
Believe it or not, it didn't take them that long to get it out.

These are the brave fools :) that drove it off the road.

Us girls having our turn bush driving.

Clover the Cow Clan Club

Maddison, Allison, Cameron, Devin, Kaiden & Preston
Yes! That's Marshall milking a cow! Her name is Clover.

The Clover Clan Club :-) (that's what we call ourselves)

Jeff, Gena, Preston, Madi, & Ali Cole, Heidi Brompton & us Dixon's

It's been a busy week here at TMM. We got our milk cow Clover last Sat. She is a sweet little girl and has been very good with us all learning to milk her. Heidi is the expert though. She comes from Colorado where her and her family have a farm. She has been milking by hand since she was 8yrs old. So she has been a huge blessing to us. We have been getting about 2 gals of milk each milking. We have also been making our own butter using the cream.

Another exciting thing that happened this week is that we had a film crew here working on the new Master's Mission video. They were here for two days and we had a lot of fun with that. The kids were even crazy enough to get in the water for filming. Marshall was filmed welding and I was filmed playing paintball. Seems like it should have been the other way around.

In my women's class, we have been learning the do's and don'ts of writing a prayer/news letter.

We have been enjoying meeting some of the families on furlough. Right now Jon & Becky Woodworth is here. They have been serving the Lord in Kenya for almost 10yrs. The have 5 children. 3 girls and 2 boys. Ofcourse our kids have been enjoying theirs. Devin keeps asking if we can go to Africa now instead of Ecuador. :) We just tell her, we'll go where ever the Lord needs us. We have really been thinking of home lately. Especially with our church's missionary conference this week. We will REALLY miss being there. We have the schedule and you all are in our prayers. God moved in our hearts last year during conference and I pray He will do the same for someone else this year.

We love and miss you all!

October already!

Hi everyone! It's been busy but we still continue to have a great time. We have been spending time with family in Waynesville NC when we can. This past weekend we went to my cousin Heather's wedding. It was beautiful and a blessing to have been able to be there.

Marshall had a test last week on air strip construction. He had to draw up a blue print of where he would put his air strip, here on top to the mountain at TMM. He also had to write up detailed instructions. Last week he also learned to operate the bull dozer and he gave me and Cameron a lesson today. That was interesting and fun to drive something that powerful.

Another exciting thing that is happening around here is that we are supposed to be getting a milk cow tomorrow! We are going in with two other families and 1 single canidate here to get her. Milk down here is so expensive and we have been trying to talk to Cole family into getting a milk cow and it's finally happening. The Cole's are on staff here at TMM, so they will keep her once we are gone. She is a Jersey cow and I'm sure pictures of her will be posted soon. You all know how much I (tracy) LOVE cows. I'm so excited. :)

I'm working on uploading pictures to add to our blog. Hopefully it will work. You might have to click on a link to see them.

The adventure has begun!

Hi this is Cameron. The adventure begins in my story. It's been a lot of fun here. Abby just came back from Florida. Madi and Ali Cole went to Ohio for a missionary conference and they will be back on Friday. We miss them so much and it will be really fun when they come back. We have been helping my dad clear the woods for a dam. My dad's real name is Marshall. We ate Bologna the other day at the Meyer's, they made lasagnia out of him. He tasted really good. Yesterday we were getting wood and found a lizard that was black with yellow stripes down it's back and it had a bright blue tail. It was really pretty. It also dropped it's tail because it got scared. That is what different kinds of lizards, salamandars and gekos do.
Bye!
cameron

How to reach us

Incase anyone wants to write to us. :)

PO Box 547
Robbinsville, NC 28771-0547

if you send a package, send it to:

2902 Mission Rd.
Robbinsville, NC 28771

The number we can be reached at is 828-479-6873
we will get a note in our box with a message of who called and we can
call you back.

Also, if you would like to send us support, you can do that online at The Master's Mission website, on the first page, click on the donate online link. Or you can send support to the address above. Make your check out to The Master's Mission and put dixon support in the memo line. Thanks!

Hi from Devin

We got to TMM last week.We have made lots of friends.It is LOTS of fun here. We get up at 6:30 then go to class. We have to be at morning devotion at 8:00 and then we do our school work in the classroom. We had a tea party at the Teasdales yesterday. It was a lot of fun. Our chicken's are doing well. Bye for now! Devin

Greetings from The Master's Mission

Hi everyone! We are all settled in and classes started this week. We are starting to get used to our schedule. Things are going really well and we are having a lot of fun. At first it was hard to break the habit of reaching for a light switch every time we walked into the bathroom and you never quite realize how much you use a microwave and a toaster, until they are not available. The other thing that was a bit hard to get used to is just how dark it is up here at night. But we are adjusting well. Right now Marshall is learning about constructing dams. They picked out a site and started cutting away a trail today. When I say trail, it needs to be big enough for them to bring in a dozer and it is down a ravine. I learned how to use a ringer washer today. Which is nice because I have been washing our clothes in the bathtub. So I'm actually looking foward to using it. I will write more when I have more time. There is so much more to tell but it's getting late and Devin's waiting for her turn to write.

Cameron's mission talk

We are going to The Master's Mission in 3 days and I am so excited to go. I have a friend. Her name is Abby. I can't wait to see her. We are going to bring our chicken's to the mountain. My brother Kaiden used to call them "bauk, bauks". I want to climb the trees at The Master's Mission. When we went to the barn, we went passed the fence and up the hill and saw the bull named Bologna. And then we ran backwards down the hill, so Bologna wouldn't charge us. It was fun. I fell running backwards down the hill, but I didn't get hurt. It was still fun though. We are going to be living in a cabin without electricity. When it snows, I want to take a sled and ride it down the mountain. That will be fun too. I have a lot of family that live near where we will be.
My grandma and grandpa from up here will be going down with us when we go, to help us get moved in. There will be others that will go too. And some of our friends are coming down to visit us in Nov.

Hi from Devin

We are going to The Master's Mission in 3 days. It will be a mission's training. We might go to Ecuador after that. We already have friends at The Master's Mission. I am excited to see them again. One of my friends name is Abby Teasdale and we have been writing to each other since our church's missionary conference last Oct. We got to see her in Nov. when we went down to see the school. It was a lot of fun. We climbed up the side of a cliff and we played with a cow named Bologna.

Our new journey begins.

In a few days we will be leaving for The Master's Mission. A lot of emotions are stirring. Excitement for what's to come and sadness for what we are leaving behind. We will miss our family and friends. We will miss what has been so familiar to us for so long. It really hasn't sunk in yet, which is probably a good thing. Marshall said that reality will probably hit as we are saying goodbye to those who will be traveling with us to TMM. When they drive away and leave us up on the mountain, then it may become real. Those who are planning on taking the trip with us to help us get settled in are, Joseph and Janice (Marshall's parents), Keith and Pat Hagenbuch, Gordon, Archie and Alechia Post and Shannon and Candy Scarem and their boys, Billy, Alex and Andrew. Hopefully we will have an uneventful, safe trip. We will let you know when we get settled in! : )