April 20th: ' We got moves call! '

 

 

Hello everyone! We got moves call!

I am leaving Kirkcaldy! D: No it's really not that bad, I'm staying in the same Zone. I'm headed to Dundee, Bingham ward which is the building where we have all of our zone meetings so I'll actually still get to see my companion at zone stuff. I am very sad to leave the people that I have gotten to know. Especially my deaf friends :C I love teaching them and talking with them. I hope I don't lose the sign language that I've learned! I'm going to be really diligent in studying and using it when I can like when I say prayers and stuff. So on Wednesday I'll head out to Dundee, which won't be too bad. Takes about 45min to get here by bus.

Did I mention that there is the Biggest Market in Europe happening here in Kirkcaldy?! It's called Links Market. Probably because it's all up and down links street by the shore. I haven't gotten to see it because.. Well it hasn't been p-day and now since I'm moving our p-day is different and I'll have too see it when it moves to Dundee, but it wont be as big. I know lame sauce, a one-in-a-life-time-chance, but I really don't mind that much. I'd rather go see people who need our help. And I think just being in the same town as it, it good enough for me. C:

Also! J.K. Rowling lives not too far from the mission home! I found that out on choir tour. So cool. Also we walked by the coffee/bakery shop where she did a lot of her writing and ideas and stuff. Waaay cool beans.

Marks baptism was great! Stressful.... super stressful. But awesome. We just had a lot to do. the font wasn't filling up fast enough (luckily it was warm we've been having trouble with icy cold water) Mark and Lily didn't bring church clothes to be in.... so they had to rush home (which is 10 min away) Lily wore nice clothes to her baptism so we assumed they knew... I  so we had to make sure that their deaf friends that were there were able to talk to people so we forgot to set up the projector because we wanted to show a video (one with just words) for the deaf, the bishop and one of his councilors was nice and did it for us. then we just chatted with them for like an hour afterwards. Which is tiring! It's hard work talking with your hands and understanding what they're saying. With deaf people you have to kind of get used to the way that they sign things and really read between the lines because you don't know what all the words mean. You have to pick things up here and there and then assume what some sign are... anyway it was tiring, but so good. And I got to interpret the baptismal prayer and his conformation blessing for him on Sunday so that was way cool. It said a lot of things in there that just testified to me that the priesthood is truly the power of God to man. Mark and Lilly have grown so much together and it has been wonderful to watch the gospel change their lives. I'm going to miss them. But I'm happy that stake conference is soon because that means I'll get to see them!

I've been studying a lot on Diligence and Hope this past week and It's amazing how in-depth you can go! There are some good studying tools in the PMG! I encourage everyone to read it. Especially doing the activities in the Christlike attributes section.

We also met this girl named Hannah who is Golden! I mean you have your How to begin teaching points that you use. They're basically sentences that help people understand who we are what we do and how the gospel will help them and that we will ask them to do stuff like prayer and reading the BOM, but we didn't have to force any of that. She asked us like, how would I come to church, how do you pray, what are Mormons about etc. all really good questions she's very blunt and very open which is nice. the Lord is truly blessing this area but I'm excited to head off to serve with Sister Reed! Thats her name I think she came out a transfer before me but there will be no Senior companion, which doesn't happen often so that's a bit strange, but I'm super excited! (I hope one day to go to Ireland. I have this feeling that I'll stay in Scotland for a while. which is fine! There are a lot of gypsies in Ireland.. like real ones that travel around, cant read and write, and they steal from people. Don't worry mom Scotland isn't like that and I think it's only certain places in Ireland) Anyways I best go I hope you all have a good week and remember to read your scriptures! haha

Welp I have to get going. Have a great week everyone!

Sister McBride