Sister McKay Dickson: Week 12: New Race Unlocked!

Hey All! Hope you had an awesome week! My week was SO great! Probably one of my favorites in the mission so far. One thing that made it so great was we got news that President LeBaron was changing the rules on messaging friends and family at home, and I'm now allowed to message everyone on Facebook Messenger on p-days! So if you're like me and hate emails haha feel free to message me throughout the week on messenger and I can respond on p-days! :)

Things to know:

Sister Bowman and I put our new friend John ON DATE! WOO! I found John on Facebook last Friday and sent him a video introducing my companion and I and what we do as missionaries. He loved our video and wanted to meet to learn more, and we have been meeting with Him every day since Wednesday! He shared that he had been searching for more direction in life and he knows that God led us to him and wants to learn everything from us! We taught him about baptism on Saturday night while reading in 2 Nephi 31 and I felt the spirit so strong to ask Him to be baptized, so I did and here we are! He is so excited and wants to do it as soon as possible so he is set for August 23rd as of right now so we can still help him prepare. I am just mind blown at how technology finding works and you can see such great miracles from it! I also saw my good friend from BYU Camryn Hinckley this week and it was the biggest miracle. I was so happy to see her!

Stories of the week:

Okay so this one has to do with the subject of my email haha since I know you're all wondering what it means. At least once a week on the mission I have someone ask me what ethnicity I am, and they never believe me when I say I'm white. I have gotten just about every race you can think of, so every time I get a new one our apartment jokes by saying "New race unlocked!" haha. I apologize if that is insensitive at all and I really hope that doesn't offend anyone, but I have to joke about it so I don't get offended myself (because some peoples comments are not very nice haha but oh well). Sister Bowman and I have also been killing it and everyone is super proud of us so that's what's up hehe.

Spiritual thought:

Here is your spiritual thought for today! It comes from the Daily Joy book by President Nelson: "Of course, we are keenly interested in conversions, baptisms, and strengthening members of the Church. But if you have only one convert during your mission, I hope it would be yourself. Teaching the gospel is sacred work. There is not a better way to get the gospel of Jesus Christ into your heart and mind than for you to be a missionary and teach to others the resplendent and glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ." Just thought this was a great quote and that is all:)

LOVE YALL

Sister Dickson