Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Monday, April 16, 2018 - "Today is a great day to be a missionary!"

Last week on Pday I went to my first castle of the mission!  7 months, 1 castle.  How pathetic!  This wasn't just any castle.  This was a proper castle.  Inverary Castle.  Worth every pound.  People lived in it until 2001 or something crazy like that!  Also if anyone has seen Downton Abbey it was filmed there!  We had fun exploring the castle and the gardens.

15 MIRACLES:  Okay so 14 of the these miracles was the temperature.  It was 14 degrees this week in Oban and SUNNY.  We were walking around with no coats on, rolling up our sleeves, no scarves, praying to get a sunburn (we didn't), but it was soooooo nice!  The biggest blessing.  The 15th miracle is in progress.  We got a call from the recent convert in Oban named Donny.  He told us that a young man just moved in and they started talking about the Gospel.  Donny invited him to church and HE WENT WITH HIM YESTERDAY.  He also said that he wanted to learn more and would go to the scripture study this week that the senior couple puts on!  Yay for member missionaries!  We are so grateful for them, especially in an area where only 10 people attend church regularly.

Sad thing of the week:  So President Nelson and Elder Holland are on a world wide tour with their wives.  Their first stop was to the British Isles and they were going to do two broadcasts.  One for missionaries and one for the general public.  All the missionaries in the Glasgow area went to the stake centre to watch together.  Only one problem.  The internet wasn't working for the live stream and it wasn't recorded.  We found out about 45 minutes in that the construction workers at the church accidentally sawed through the internet cable and that there was no hope of getting the internet to work at the church.  We were all scrambling to see what we could do to at least watch some of it.  The Glasgow Sisters called a member (as we were driving to her flat) to see if we could watch it there.  Luckily we could and we caught the last 10 minutes or so of the stream.  We were glad we at least got to watch some of it!

One thing I took from the broadcast in the short amount of time we had to watch it was how President Nelson said he bounces out of bed every morning in excitement to see what that day has in store.  In our attempt to best follow the Prophet, Sister Anderson and I have started "bouncing" out of bed in the morning and saying, "Woohoo!  Today is a great day to be a missionary!"  I have noticed that little change to my morning routine effects the rest of my day and my attitude throughout the day.

Scare of the week:  I almost had to play the ORGAN.  It was 9:55 and there was no organist to play.  As soon as I sat down at the organ the lady who normally does it walked in.  Phew!  I was then told that everyone who could play would be going on holiday next week, so I get to play the organ next week!  YIKES.

One of the many highlights:  Scottish scenery!  The drive we get to do each week is seriously so beautiful.  We always see sheep and highland "coos."  We have been dying to get a picture with some coos and it was perfect.  We saw them on the drive and there was a little pull out.  We stopped for a few minutes to get some pictures with them.  We were so excited.  3 big ones and 4 wee ones.

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