Sister McKay Dickson: Week 52: "Just goofin pot-boofin"

Hey y'all! What an amazing week. I am honestly thriving out here in the boons, I forgot how much I missed it since being in the Silver Valley at the beginning of my mission!!! Also Sister Hart and I have too much fun and have the same humor, it's kinda scary. Hope everyone is doing well!:

Things to know:

- I ran out of contacts and have had to wear my glasses this whole last week. I hope you all enjoy these pictures while they last, because I will never be wearing glasses again once my contacts come. That's all.

- We have about 7 different small towns that we cover, and we rotate through them one/two days a week. This makes time FLY because we are somewhere different each day, and the people are all so fun.

- Everyone here is so receptive, we easily made 7 new (in the city we had to GRIND and would barely hit the standards), and saw lots of miracles with finding people we never would have found if we hadn't opened our mouths to talk to everyone!

- We have a friend named William who is getting baptized on May 28th and we went over for a lesson and he asked if he could move it up to the 25th to do it on his birthday!!! William is so cool. Miracles.

- We are over a ward in Troy and a branch in Potlach, but have to rotate each week because someone had the great idea to put them both at 10. We went to the Troy Ward and Sister Hart spoke, and two of our friends came! William came to the branch and so did another one of our friends! :D

- Tomorrow we have MLC and Friday we have interviews with President, so should be a great week! (Full of lots of driving too haha, it takes 2 hours to get to Spokane).

- I hit one year this next week and honestly I'm starting to feel really weird the more I think about it. I'm not ready to have 6 months left haha, time is going by too fast.

Stories of the week:

- We went to a meeting for new trainers/leadership this last Thursday and I got to see Sister Skinner & my roomies again (Woohoo! I was so happy!) because Sister Allen is 2nd training Sister Skinner and Sister Bird was getting a new missionary. Sister Skinner got to sit in on the meeting so she didn't have to be alone in the hall, and she made a super awesome comment during it. I was having a proud "mom moment" after because she's just so awesome and I was blessed to be her trainer, and President called on me after her. So I said: "That's my baby" before I shared my comment and President stopped me in the middle of my sentence and chastised me in front of 50 missionaries. He said he doesn't want us using terms like 'baby, mother, father, son, daughter, etc' when we refer to trainees or trainers because we should respect our titles. It was easily one of the most embarrassing things that have ever happened to me, and I could literally feel the second-hand embarrassment from the entire room. But it's alright because my goal of humility last transfer prepared me for it, so the corrections from leaders hardly faze me at this point. I'm just glad it was me and not Sister Skinner or another newer missionary that probably would have been haunted by President yelling at them.

- We got AWESOME news on Wednesday night that President is allowing us to message over messenger again! So that was super awesome. Someone in the MLC responded with a hilarious text message and I about lost it, because everyone is always so serious in that chat. So funny.

Spiritual Thought:

- This week I was studying in Alma and I loved this verse in chapter 40 that says:

"Now, I unfold unto you a mystery; nevertheless, there are many mysteries which are kept, that no one knoweth them save God himself"

A lot of people we meet lately want questions answered for everything. They are on an endless search to fill a void inside of them, that can only be answered by the gospel. Because of the gospel we have the necessary questions of the soul answered, and with our testimony of the basics it leaves us trusting the rest of what God has in store for us. Don't get me wrong, I still have a multitude of questions, but I don't let them get in the way of what is most important. I wish I could help everyone understand that, and how once you have a testimony of the basics it makes it easier to have patience for God's mysteries. I know that God has a plan and everything will be answered according to His time, because of the scriptures and all His promises that have been fulfilled. Luke 12:2 - "For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known" (Seriously can't wait for this day though!) I know that God will answer your questions and make the hidden things revealed as you ask, seek, and knock in faith. It will just be according to His time :).

Quote of the week:

"If a creek is a crik, then are the greeks actually griks?" - Sister Hart

Have a good week!!!

I love being a missionary

Message me on messenger if you're cool

Love ya!

Sis Diggy

New addy if you need it:

116 No. Main St. Troy, ID 83871

(Also if you lived in my last apartment and are reading this, please give my sunglasses and my boots to the ZL's so they can give them to me at MLC haha LOVE YOU)

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