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.