Sister McKay Dickson: Week 11: Offroading on empty

Waddup everyone! Hope you all had a good Pioneer Day this week! I miss the fireworks a lot because we can't do them here since we have been having a lot of fires. This week wasn't too exciting until today haha so I'll have to tell about it in the stories section. Tomorrow is my new sister-in-law's birthday so if you know Jane, wish her a happy birthday! :)

Things to Know:

We are continuing to do tons of finding here in the Silver Valley, and it is hard work lemme tell ya haha! But its very worth it and I really am just loving being on that missionary grind. We saw a cool miracle this week on our way to contact this lady named LeeAnn who had dropped the missionaries in the past (they didn't want to be taught anymore). Sister Bowman and I both felt the spirit prompt us to go visit her, and so we show up and she isn't home. As we are walking away, we walk past this garage a couple houses down and see a man working on a motorcycle and we both felt prompted to talk to him so we looked at each other and then walked over. Turns out this guy was LeeAnn's husband, and after we talked to him for a couple of minutes, LeeAnn came home and met us and we had a super awesome lesson and found out she is interested in meeting with missionaries again! Miracles woo! We also had a new friend of ours invite himself to our church so that was awesome. As far as our progressing people, we don't have any news because a lot of our people have been sick or out of town. So fingers crossed for next week!

Stories of the Week:

Today we wanted to go on a hike as a zone, because one of the other members wanted to take us up to one in our area in Wallace. We were in a rush because some elders came but had to leave right after the hike, and so I didn't have time to get gas. After driving halfway up a mountain on almost empty, we stopped and I told the member we didn't have any gas. So he tells us that his cabin is 10 minutes up the mountain on this other dirt road and he has some extra gas tanks so we were like okay sweet lets go. So we start driving and I am straight up offroading in the Idaho mountains in a Chevy Equinox. It was so bumpy and full of rocks and I literally have never been so stressed in my life. Pretty sure I was seconds away from going into Cardiac Arrest. TIWI (what monitors our speed and driving as missionaries) gave me an aggressive driving, and I was really close to bottoming out a couple of times. We finally got up to the cabin on the VERY TOP of the mountain and I had been driving on empty for 30 minutes. It was so stressful I just sat and cried after we got up to the top lol. BUT, everyone survived! We got filled up on gas, and now I can say that I went offroading in a road car haha. The hike ended up being super pretty and the view was so worth it! And lesson learned in never going below a quarter of a tank haha. Also on a short little random note, Sister Bowman and I had another member from out of town pay for our meal haha!

Spiritual thought:

One of the days this week I had a hard day because every door we knocked on had rejected us and I was super worn out and bummed. The next morning I read in Nephi 1:16 when Nephi breaks his bow and Laman and Lemuel sit and complain about all the bad things that happened to them. Instead of complaining, Nephi trusted in the Lord, and went out and made a new bow and thanked God for all the blessings he had been given. I decided that I did not want to be like Laman and Lemuel and complain, but trust that this is the Lord's work and go out and work hard even if I get rejected, or "break my bow". I know that as I go out and work hard like Nephi, that I will be able to see blessings from trusting in the Lord and His timing. This is his work and I am just called to assist! I challenge you all to try and trust in His will this week and see the blessings that come from it!

I love you all and hope you have a great week this week!

LOVE,

Sister Dickson