Sister McKay Dickson: Week 21: Bye Spokane...

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Happy (late) Conference weekend! They say Conference on the mission is the best ever, and they are completely right!!! I hope you all had the chance to listen to the awesome messages that were prepared by our inspired prophets and apostles, and that you had a good week! My week was awesome:

Things to know:

Yup you read the title right, I'm getting transferred... again. Haha I actually had a hint a couple weeks ago, so I wasn't too surprised. What happened is the AP's called me randomly on the 18th and asked me to be a Tech Specialist!!! I get to oversee the missions Instagram page so I'm super excited and a little nervous haha, but know that the Lord called me to do this for a reason. So follow @Comeuntochrist.pnw for some awesome stuff! When I got the call they didn't tell me I was for sure being transferred, but I figured I would go to Spokane Valley (where the rest of the Tech missionaries are). I am here to announce that I am being transferred to Moscow Idaho!! Haha I was super surprised but so excited because I will be over the YSA because the University of Idaho is there! The reason why we got called so early was because the two current missionaries over Instagram and Facebook are going home/to their original assignment, and so they wanted to be able to train us before they left. So on Wednesday I got to go on exchanges with Sister Clark from my high school! It was soo fun. I also got to meet my new companion because she was on exchanges, her name is Sister Archibald and we are the same person. I love it. I am super sad to leave this area and Sister Pardo though :(! Oh yeah forgot to mention that Sister Pardo is leaving too, so we are sweeping out of this area and Sister Archibald and I are sweeping into our new one! Adventures. We have said some bittersweet goodbyes already to the members, those we are teaching, and my friends in the zone :(( But I am looking forward to all those that I will meet in my new area!

Stories of the week:

While I was on exchanges with Sister Clark, we saw a HUGE miracle! We were at a church in Cheney, Washington to film a story for the missions pages, and this man named Sonny walked up to church building and tried to open the doors. He started to walk away but we ran up and found out he has been going through some tough times, so we shared a message with him and he said he is totally interested in meeting with the missionaries and coming to church!!

Sister Pardo and I also found someone named Russell over Facebook and we put him on date for October 23rd so that was awesome!! He lives near my new area so I'm hoping to get to go teach him in person so we can get him baptized! Such a miracle.

I also got to see my aunt Lisa this week!!!!! My mission president allowed me to go for an hour and share missionary experiences with her and it was so great to see someone I love so much! Makes me look forward to the day I will get to see you all again.

Spiritual thought:

My thought is on general conference (no surprises there) and how willing Heavenly Father is to answer our questions. I prepared some questions during conference and received multiple answers throughout all the sessions and it was so amazing!!!! I have been loving learning more each week and how truly blessed and loved I am as a daughter of God. I know that He loves me, and that I can show my love for Him as I serve those around me. I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve a mission and learn more about Him, my Savior, and myself. I have been learning and changing more each day and cannot wait to see where I will continue to go with His help. Please write down a question and listen to conference if you didn't have time for it. Don't be too busy to receive answers that God is waiting to give and bless you with. He loves you, pray and ask Him for help and He will show you the way.

I HOPE YOU HAVE AN AWESOME WEEK AND IM SO EXCITED ITS OCTOBER WOO #SPOOKYTIME. For real tho follow the missions Instagram @comuntochrist.pnw and follow me too (@mckaydickson) if you don't already because I'm about to be back on insta posting some Christ centered content and use social media as a tool in the Lord's work woo!

Love ya SO MUCH

Sister Dickson