Monday, June 18, 2018

EVERY WEEK HAS AT LEAST ONE MIRACLE:  ____ and ____ are amazing. We were able to teach them the Plan of Salvation this week and their questions were so good!  I love when our friends ask application questions instead of just surface level questions.  It is the best.  They were paying super close attention as well because I made cute little cutouts for the Plan of Salvation.  Another miracle is that they were able to come to church this week!

Scottish summer seems to have come and gone.  We're back to wearing coats, tights, and boots.  Enjoying the rain hahaha.

 

Monday, June 11, 2018 (Two days away from halfway point)

One amazing this was that we were able to give away a copy of the Book of Mormon every day this week!  We were also able to chap into this awesome Christian man that had met with missionaries before.  He was confused on many of our beliefs and we were able to clarify a lot of what he believed about our faith.  We will be going to visit him again as soon as he's back from holiday to Ireland.  

Unfortunately, ____ and ____ were not able to come to church this week because they were sick, but we were able to meet with them earlier in the week and it was amazing!  ____ asked _____ to sit in and participate in the lesson.  He came and he grabbed the copies of the Book of Mormon off of the shelf for them.  He was hesitant at first, but as we started to read the Book of Mormon his whole demeanor changed and he was excited to read with us.  At the end of our lesson they even asked if we could read another chapter with them.  We had to go, but we told them they could read it together.  We are so excited for them and love to watch their excitement.  

Sister Anderson and I became real adults this week.  We had to take our car in to get serviced.  We aren't allowed to approve anything ourselves, so we had to keep calling the Mission Home to ask about things and to pay as well, so I guess we weren't really real adults, but hey the service was done under the name of Mrs K Baker.  Yikes.  It was really funny too because we had to leave our area to get it done.  It only took 20 minutes to get there, but we were in an entirely new zone!  We laughed because 20 minutes one way is out of our zone and 3 hours the other way is in our area hahhaha.

Also when we had to take the car in we had to leave our flat at about 7, so we just woke up and got ready.  When we both walked out of our rooms we were matching and there was no time to change.  Comp unity on display for the day.  

Monday, June 4, 2018

MOVES CALL:  We're staying in Dumbarton/Oban for another 6 weeks!  We are glad to still be together, but pretty much all of our Ward is gone during the summer on holiday, so it might be just us here hahaha.  They seriously go on 6 week vacations.  Don't know how they do it.  We are so happy to be here to keep working with the friends we have right now and the friends that are waiting for us to knock on their doors!

The sun is always out!  We got to bed with it light and wake up with it light!  The good thing is most of the time you are tired enough it doesn't matter!  (In response to questions about it getting light at 4:28 am and dark at 10:05 pm.)

This week was full of sunshine...and rain...and whatever.  It was BEAUTIFUL all week until Saturday.  You read correctly.  I got a sunburn on Wednesday in Oban.  Luckily, by the following day it turned into a lovely farmer's tan.  Then on Saturday we got thunder (quite unusual here) and a storm.  It rained yesterday as well and today is just cloudy.  A lot of people say, "Well, hope you enjoyed the Scottish summer!"  And we just pray that it will last longer than what these people say!

The best thing about the lovely weather is that more people are outside and willing to have a conversation with us.  We ran into a man in Oban this week who was outside painting his fence.  We struck up a conversation with him and told him that we talk about how to grow closer to God.  His response was, "Go ahead."  He pulled up chairs in his front lawn and we were able to teach him there on the spot!  He was so sincere and open with us.  He told us about an experience he had at a devotional thing where he burst into tears uncharacteristically.  He said he didn't know why and we were able to teach him about the Holy Ghost.  He was saying how he isn't sure why he has drifted away from God in recent years, but loved talking to us and said he felt reassured after our lesson.  We are so excited for him.

The Highlight of this week is definitely from Sunday.  ____ and her family came to church for the THIRD WEEK IN A ROW!!!!!  She also told us how she is going to send her partner and daughters to Hungary, so her daughter can get a surgery there.  She will be staying here, but she asked us to find a church for them to go to while they are in Hungary, so they can keep learning while she is here going to church!  They were also invited over to our Bishop's house for dinner yesterday and really enjoyed that.  It's amazing to see them carve time out of their busy schedules to make God, church, and meeting with us a priority!

More spiders.  Hate them.  Got a sunburn in Scotland.   Thanks for all of your love and support.  Do good, be good.