Sister McKay Dickson: Week 5: Milked my first goat!

What is up my people! I am officially a month old as of June 12th. And this was my first full week in the field too! Crazy how fast its already flying by. This week was awesome and I want to tell all the awesome stuff. So I hope this won't be too long of an email haha.

Things to know:

First things first: I did indeed milk a goat and it was fun hahah but also really weird. I also got to hold baby goats and I drank the goat milk too and it honestly was pretty good. So you can call me a farm girl now. Sister Wilson and I eat subway almost every day and it is our new obsession hehe. We also got CPR certified on Tuesday so now we can save people spiritually and physically. We also had a sweet day of service on Saturday as a zone and we chopped some wood! Sister Gibby (one of the senior missionaries) came and had lunch with us and we got free minigolf at the pizza place and it was so fun! OH AND! WE HAD 3 OF OUR FRIENDS COME TO CHURCH YESTERDAY! INCLUDING AMY! I was so happy. One of the others is a guy in his late 40s named Randy and we haven't even started teaching him yet and he asked to come to church. So that was dope. The other person is Cayden and his whole family was baptized before we got here but he has hesitations. So please pray for him! Also pray for Amy and her mom because she wants to get baptized but her mom doesn't want her to until she's 18. We need a miracle people!

Story of the week:

We had exchanges on Friday after our JDC (Joint-District Council) and I got to go with Hermana Tobias in her area in Hayden Lake. We had some hilarious experiences tracting there bahaha. One guy was seriously just trying to mess with us, and was saying all this weird stuff about how if nobody drove cars the pollution would look like Tokyo. And then we gave him a pass along card and he said "Yeah no don't ever come here again" and shut the door. So funny. The next guy we met was saying our church wasn't true because we don't teach the "real" Bible. Apparently his "real" Bible says that Jesus is Adam reincarnated, and that we live in a Binary solar system with a second sun called Nabiru and every time it orbits close to earth that's when "crazy things" happen (like Noah's flood, the parting of the Red Sea, and the Star of Bethlehem). So watch out guys, next time Nabiru comes around, apparently that's when the second coming will be. Lol. People are so interesting. Anyway, the exchanges were super fun and entertaining and Hermana Tobias is my twin and I love her! And those are all my crazy stories.

Spiritual thought:

My spiritual thought this week is on Obedience. I had to give a spiritual thought in JDC about obedience and I feel like I learned so much more about it after studying about it. Obedience means doing what is asked of us because we love God. God is waiting to give us blessings, and as we are obedient he pours them unto us. And even though we might not know why we are asked to follow the commandments and obey, we just have to trust in God and Jesus Christ because they know what will benefit us! And remember that exact obedience brings miracles! Mosiah 2:41- "And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it."

Anyways sorry this email was a little longer but I hope it gave you all some good laughs. Don't forget to please pray for Amy and Cayden! Email me if you are bored! I love you all and miss you just as much!

Love,

Sister Dickson