Sister McKay Dickson: Week 25: Bill & Ted's EXCELLENT week

Heyy Happy Halloween everyone!! Hope you all had a fun weekend and got so many cavities from candy. Holidays are weird on the mission, it just feels the same as any other day haha. Anyway, this was a great week!! >>>

Things to know:

- Our friend Chris is getting baptized! His date is TBD for right now haha, it was going to be the 5th but we have to push it back so he can be fully prepared ! :))

- We had a booth at the farmers market and it was really fun! We handed out 2 Books of Mormon and met some new friends to teach! It was awesome!

- Sister Archibald and I also made 9 new friends total this week!! So awesome

- I went on exchanges with Sister Wilkinson and it was so much fun! I got to be back in the boonies for a day and it made me reminisce on my first area :')

- We had interviews with President and it was sooo good to get to talk to him and Sister LeBaron, I had so many things I wanted to talk to them about and I received so many answers!

- We had a ward trunk or treat and all our families we are teaching came to it, and then they all came to church the next day too! I almost cried I was so happy

Story of the week/Spiritual Thought:

- Had a huge miracle this week! I lost my favorite tag on Monday night, and wasn't able to find it anywhere for a whole day. My companion and I said so many prayers, and God kept telling me to "look outside". We looked everywhere anytime we went to the churches and anywhere we had been the day before. I said another prayer and felt like God was now telling me that someone had found my tag, and no sooner than 30 minutes later did we get a text from someone that they found my tag outside the church!!!!! So not only were my prayers answered with me finding my tag, but I was able to recognize him guiding me and that everything would be okay! I have been learning to better trust in my ability to hear the promptings from the Spirit and this experience was so amazing to be able to see that He is providing me with guidance if I am listening and trusting! Sometimes I think we way too easily doubt if the Holy Ghost is speaking to us or if it's our own thoughts. My advice is from the quote "Every good thought comes from God"! 9/10 times the first prompting or thought we get is the right thought (learned that from the Prophet Joseph Smith but I can't remember the exact quote!), we just need to trust in ourselves & the Spirit and act in faith. I promise that if you act on that first prompting you will see miracles, because I have seen them in my own life as I act on the first good thought that comes to mind. Plus, wouldn't you rather trust the first thought and be right 90% of the time?

I love you all and I hope it was a fantastic week for you all. I love and miss you all dearly, and just wanted to say a quick thank you to everyone who has influenced me up to this point in my life. I am so grateful to be on my mission and to be learning things that will bless me for the rest of my life. Missions are awesome even when they are hard, because the end growth is so worth it!!

I love you!!!

Sister Dickson