Week 68: Wanted for breaking the Sabbath

 Haha I procrastinated writing this again. Another great week and I am just feeling so grateful lately!!! Here's the highlights:

Things to know:

- CISSA GOT BAPTIZED!! it was so amazing. the spirit was SO strong and i have never met someone with a stronger desire to be baptized. we are taking her to the temple this week too. so happy.

- Went to lunch with the district and to crumbl with the sisters last pday so that was super fun!

- Today we drove up to Moscow and had a sweet pday and went to bdubs again #inmemoryofmyfavoritezoneleadersrip

- Transfer calls this week what theeee

- Also Sister Hart if you're reading this I came to Troy on exchanges with Sister Fotu and the Teare's say hi! MISS YOU!!!

Stories of the week:

- Yeah so we like didn't break the Sabbath because we got permission haha but we went to Walmart to get my comp some antibiotics because she has a double ear infection. Hope it wasn't from the fish.

- But I actually am wanted. No kidding. Okay I am kidding. But I did get pulled over for going 30 in a school zone. #Miracles tho and God is good because I didn't even have my license on me and he gave me a WARNING because I was a missionary!

Spiritual thought:

- How I've been feeling lately:

"2 Nephi 4:20 - My God hath been my support; he hath led me through mine afflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep. 21 He hath filled me with his love, even unto the consuming of my flesh"

Love and miss ya'll! :))

Just living and loving life

Sister Dickson

Pictures:

happy quote

Best baptismal interview!!!

BEST DAY

Cissa's Baptism

Crumbl w- the sisters

District lunch

Idaher's perty

In memory...RIP

Oops

Second best gift

Weekly planning vibes

Broke the Sabbath

Week 67: My companion licked a fish

 Accidentally forgot to write this earlier so ya'll are just gonna get the bulletpoint highlights!! :))

Things to know:

- MIKE GOT BAPTIZED!!! it was the most amazing day and his wife came so that was a HUGE miracle

- Zone Conference!!! i got to see literally all of my friends and it made me so happy! even some ones i didn't think i was gonna see haha!

- Had interviews too and they went super good!! I love my mission president. He said he considers me like his own daughter 

Stories of the week:

- Not really long stories but we did service for a lady this week and we literally cleaned spiders and cobwebs off of her house :,))

- We went down to the boonies for a ward BBQ some non members came to it so that was awesome!! This lil kid scored a fish and long story short my comp licked it.

- Miracles: Our members gave us a referral for their aunt that wants to get baptized and she came to Mike's baptism!!! WOO

Spiritual thought:

- I don't have time to copy a scripture or say anything profound but I just know that God is so good and I am finding happiness because of Him even through the ups and downs of life!!!

100 days left 

Love you all!

Sister Dickson 

Pictures:

:)

Brandon's 1 year!

Isn't she perty

Justin!!!

LOML

Mike's baptism

Moscow NATION

My happy place

Plymouth wya

Rip elda huckaba

Rip elda neerdog

Sis Belly

Sis Fowler

Sis Jackson

Sis Lundy

Sis Nygard

Sistas + President

Spiders + Doggos

The fish

Winchester Lake

sunflower

arm & a leg

Week 66: "Right now SUCKS..."

 Haha just kidding. That was from an inside joke this week. This week was truly one of the most amazing weeks of my mission. So many miracles and good lessons learned. I always wish that I could be able to share every single experience and thing I learn out here but we would be here for awhile hahah.

Things to know: 

-GOD IS GOOD! We saw sooo many miracles this week. 6 of our friends came to church and we only invited 2 of them?! Haha so I guess I just have to reverse psychology to get people to come lol...

- 2 of those friends are our friends on date! I will talk more about one of them below for my story, and the other one is our friend Cissa! She is on date for August 27th and she came to the elders baptism this week and said it made her so excited for her baptism!! She is the coolest I am so hyped.

- I went on 2 exchanges this week, one with Sister Schnebly and then with Sister Rethke in a trio with Sister Lundell and I!! They were SOOO fun. I love all my sisters :,))

- I hit 15 months. I'm in denial rn

Stories of the week:

- Our other friend that's on date is MIKE!!! I AM SO HAPPY! Long story short we had the most amazing lesson with him this week and he told us he knows the book of mormon is true and so we invited him to be baptized again (he had his records removed in the 90's) and the spirit was SO strong and he said he is ready to be baptized right now and wants to be more involved in the church!!! It was truly the best day of my life. This gospel is so amazing and it is so cool to see it soften the hearts of others. He is getting rebaptized this next Saturday! Pray for him and his wife because she is not supportive but he is still choosing to follow God and we don't want this to drive them apart!!!

- We also put our other friend Katee on date for September 3rd! She has been thinking about baptism for awhile and has come to church sooo many times and she said she thought more about it this week when she was washing dishes! Haha she is the cutest little 15 year old and already tells everyone she is a member of the church and she loves us. Pray for her too!

- Funny one from this week has to do with the title. During a lesson we asked someone how they were doing and they said "Right now sucks ....." and said a not so nice word. It was so unexpected I fell off of the bench. It was almost scary.

Spiritual thought: 

We have been talking a lot about personal study and how it is not only for us here on the mission but to help us learn habits for after. If we can build good habits here on the mission then we won't fall back into who we were before the mission. If you want to keep your testimony you have to keep doing the small things! I've realized when I didn't feel God in my life before it was because I wasn't making time for him. You can't expect Him to be there if you aren't there for Him like any other relationship!

Anyway I love you all

And I love God & my Savior

They live 

And love you

And so do I

Love,

Sister Dickson

Pictures:

15

A special night

Food trucks

Kamiak Butte

Michelle + Kylie!

Mission Creek

Moscow Zone

Prayer Knot fail hahah

Sis Rethke!

Sis Schnebly!

The heavens are open

rainbow

Week 65: Down in the Cul-de-sac

 What's up everyone? This was a good week. There were some ups and downs as usual but honestly I learned some great lessons this week and I am #grateful !!!

Things to know:

- We had MLC this week! I know I said like a month ago that the last MLC had changed my mission, but this one changed it too! We talked about some culture we can change in the mission and how we can better focus on finding quality people versus the quantity. I had been stuck in a rut and felt like I was just going through the motions and I realized it was because I was lowkey taking the spirit out of missionary work. So I made some changes and honestly things have been looking up! I feel a lot more purposeful.

- Got to see some good friends too and it made me happy, but sadly some of my favorites are leaving this transfer.

- We found some cool new friends to teach with some spiritual experiences/miracles that I'll talk about down below!!

- Mike came to church again and we met with him like 3 times this week! He is the coolest and is progressing so well.

- Someone else we are teaching asked if we wanted some root beer, and then he accidentally handed Sister Lundell a beer. He is really old and has a hard time seeing sometimes, but it was pretty funny.

- Also my trainer surprised me again and it was SO good to see her! Love my Ash :))

Stories of the week: 

- So here's a little miracle finding a new friend this week: Tuesday night after MLC we are on a spiritual HIGH yanno, and so we are like "K where does the Lord need us to go tonight?". And I say I feel like we should go see this referral that lives out in Cul-de-sac (which is the sketchiest part of our area out in the boons, and we need a priesthood holder to come with us), but we don't know if we can get someone that last minute. We call up our WML and he tells us that tonight happens to be his only night off?! So we drive all the way to Cul-de-sac and turns out the referrals address doesn't exist... #rip. So we are like okay who do we actuallyyyy need to see here then and Sister Lundell says we feel like we should go see this man Chuck. So we go and he doesn't even live there anymore and we are like whattt the, but the lady that lives there said he lived in this blue and white trailer up on the hill so we go on the hunt for it. Suddenly ALL of the trailers were blue and white?! So the spirit tells us to go to this one in particular, and we knock 3 times and no one answers. At this point I am saddened because we felt so prompted and were so excited to see a miracle. We are walking away and are halfway down the road & we hear "HEY!". I turn around and there is a man standing in the trailer doorway and I was like I did not come all this way for nothing! So I sprinted to his door of course. It was Chuck! He was super interested and we made him a new friend being taught and went back again on Saturday and taught him the whole restoration! Anyway sorry this was long, but it was such a big miracle! And I have never actually ran to tell someone about the gospel and it felt pretty good.

Spiritual thought:

- This week I had a lot of spiritual experiences so I don't know how to sum them up here, but I'll just share a lil thought from a scripture that hit me this week! :

"I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive" 

I loved this because honestly lately I had been being pretty selfish and was always focused on what my companion or others weren't doing for me because I had felt like I was going out of my way to serve others and was getting nothing in return. This scripture hit me like a truck and I realized that I totally had the wrong mindset. I was very humbled and I'm grateful to see that as soon as I stopped making it about me is when I became a lot happier! So remember that "its not about you" and you'll start to focus on what you can do for others and not what others aren't doing for you. 

Kinda called myself out with that one bit felt like I should share! Anyway love ya'll!

Have a good week!

Love,

Sister Dickson :))

Ashy <3

Cul-de-sac

E. Huckaba

E. Neerings

Hahah

Happy days :)

I <3 Idaho

Mike!!

MLC!

On the farm

Sis Belly

Sis Cravens

Sis Evans

Sis Jackson

Sis Lundy

Sis Nygard

Sis Wooly

THE table

Uhhh

:)