July 27- It was a wee scary week! haha.. But it's all good!

I don't know the other two sisters but this is a sweet member Diane.

Sister Reed and I are going on splits all day this Wednesday with two girls named Chelsea and Holly. Holly has her call and is headed off on her mission in 3weeks so she will be going around with me, and Sister Reed will be going with Chelsea she's only 17 but she's so mature for her age and she wants to be a missionary so bad haha. It'll be weird being apart from my companion with out another full time missionary by my side for basically a whole day! It's been hard getting double appointments for that day though. We'll need a lot so that we can split them up but so far everyone wants to schedule on any day except Wednesday! haha It'll be fun though C:

We had our friend Jim come to church so that was great! He's a really nice guy and he's loving the gospel. He's already felt the Spirit in his life so it's easy for him to recognize truth. It's great he's such an easy teach. We thought our friend Robert was going to come because he confirmed with us the night before but he wasn't there and his phone was off again :/ So we'll see what happens. We'll see our friend Paula finally! She's been away in Turkey for a much needed holiday but we weren't able to follow up with her on if she felt good about her baptismal date before she left so hopefully she still feels good about it.

We were a little sleep deprived on Sunday due to an awful prank call by a private number! I was a bit dazed and answered it and for about 10 seconds there was silence and then for a half a second I heard this creepy voice on the other end but hit end call before it could get a whole word out. We weren't in any danger we were just super creeped because it kept calling us one right after the other that we didn't even have time to switch the phone off. it ended up calling us quite a few times before we managed to hit the power. Granted we also tried calling the Zone leader Elders and the Sister Training leaders but neither of them answered so we switched off the phone. We were both really creeped out that we stayed up for the next hour and a half first singing hymns and then just chatting to each other to try and clam ourselves down. The number never called again and we weren't in any danger it was just a strange experience. So yeah we were a bit sleep yesterday and today! 

  

AND, one of the ZL's Elder Wells scared me out of my skin Saturday morning! The window by our study table is by the walk way and you have to pass it to get to our door. They were dropping something off but we didn't know. The window is a bit higher up so Elder Wells jumps up to it and just screams this terrible sound. I'm thinking it's like some demented seagull (cuz those things are crazy) but when I looked up I saw the face of a man and because of the light shining behind him it didn't look like Elder Wells so I screamed really loud.... both him and Elder Lattin thought it was hilarious. I will admit it brightened up my mood haha so things are always interesting in Dundee.

But we really have been seeing miracles and we have been talking to such nice people lately! It's been great We were chapping just the other day and I thought to myself "wow, I really love missionary work! how great is it that I can be out here talking to people and sharing with them the restored gospel of our Saviour Jesus Christ?! In Scotland?!" It was a small but good feeling and it helped me remember that I am in the right place at the right time. C:

Yeah sometimes the bluntness of the Scottish can be fairly frustrating! I mean theirs a fine line between blunt and rude which not all people seem to be able to see. A common phrase is: "I'm not being cheeky but..." and then they go on to be condescending or round aboutly call us satanic worshippers. So that's fun. I'm amazed at the amount of patience I have actually! I mean I don't know where it came from but literally I hardly ever get angry at my companion or even people. Sure they frustrate me in the moment (especially when they ask me a question like well prove this and I get a total of one word out and then they interrupt me) but ultimately I don't really fester over anything afterwards I leave them on their way and have a prayer in my heart. it's crazy and definitely a blessing from God.

I got a set of mini scriptures for £4.50 they're awesome! I can carry all 4books and it weighs about as much as a... well I don't know but they're super light! C: It's awesome.

Also our Less active friend Ann (McHugh) we're helping her clean her loft and she has SO much stuff I mean just tons it's amazing anyway she has a ridiculous amount of shoes and she found a pair of clark boots that had been on sale that she forgot she bought and she said she didn't want them so she gave them to me! they're super nice and water proof I mean they will definitely last the rest of my mission. She's such a nice lady.

So yeah that's about all I can think of at the moment! It's been a great week and I'm looking forward to this one! We're having a great time!

I know that this is the Lords work and that he calls imperfect men to do important things because He knows the blessings and knowledge we will receive from it. The Gospel is true in all its aspects and can therefore bless us in every aspect of life. I love the Lord in Him my soul delights 2 Nephi 4

Love you all,

Sister McBride 

 

 

 Here are a few pictures...

 

 

I beliee this is a panoramic view of dundee where she lives.

July 20, 2015 - ' A BAPTISMAL DATE is set!'

a sweet picture from Sister McBride

Hello all!

This week was good and crazy and everything! :) Our friend Jim accepted the invite to baptism on the 30th of August! :D he's awesome and is already very close to the spirit! We didn't see ANY of our investigators this week except for Jim and there are 6 of them all together so that's 5 total. :/ it was pretty lame. we're feeling a bit down on our numbers that we had to report but we have a lot of appointments lined up for this week so hopefully things will go well!

Our district leader Elder Penmann asked me to give a training on humility for our district meeting tomorrow so I've been studying up on that for the past few days and it's a hard one! At least for me it's hard to develop haha but as all christlike attributes not only is it a commandment to be humble but it's mainly a loving invite to improve so that our heavenly Father can bless us more. How awesome is that? This will be the second time I've given a training and the last one was at our last district meeting before transfers and I trained on what makes a progressing investigator progressing? So.. goodness fun times I hope I can teach my the spirit..! 

 

Prayer is definitely powerful the City Quay (key) Elders lost our keys haha! They needed one set of ours to open the church to find their keys but they were lost and then they lost ours a couple of hours later. Luckily we have two sets to our flat but only one to the church. They prayed to find them though and they did! In this big grass area of the park that should have been impossible to find them in about 24 hours after they lost them! I think it really helped them see the blessings of prayer.

 

 (they have a fan going in this library! It's perfectly fine in here, cold outside and they have a fan!..... only in Scotland...)

we also got to see The Singing Children of Africa! They are all from Kenya and it is a charity that is founded by a member from Scotland. Her and her husband went on holiday to Africa and were so appalled at the lack of education and basically everything that they started a charity and now their school funds I think 700 hundred childrens education! so a few choice children come to Europe and sometimes the US and do a tour to raise money. They range from the ages of 6 or 7 to about 12 and then 4 older guys went along to help do the drums and stuff. It's really awesome. Bought myself a bracelet and got to meet 2 of the teachers Grace and Stella because they were staying at the homes of the members and they were in our recent convert Lisa house so we shared a thought with them when we went over and they came to church with us on sunday! Stella walks an hour to church! I can understand why the church in Africa is booming because people over there are so religious I mean their churches are few and far away but so many of them take the day to gather together in them even though they don't always have ceilings and usually have dirt floor. Grace takes a bus for an hour and then walks 45 min to her church! They are basically awesome! I have a few pics.

LOVE YOU ALL!

Sister McBride

 

 

 

July 13, 2015 -Things are great here in Dundee!

Hello everyone!

Sorry I didn't get to reply to many of you today but know that I read your e-mails and I am so grateful for your support and love and I will write you back for sure!!

Things are great here in Dundee and we have a new investigator friend named Jim! We met him on the street and then invited him to church and he came! we had a lesson with him after and he actually read the pamphlet that we gave him! It was awesome. Also we have like 6 dinner appointments this week! I can't even believe it!!!! I feel like a Utah missionary. I'm going to be so fat this week.  we met a man on the street the other day named Jim and then we invited him to church (through txt the next day) and he actually came! and now he's an investigator so that was super cool!

 

Lots of fun for this week, we have Zone interview training which is a big meeting where the zone gets together and we have a training as well as an interview with the president! so it will be fun! Also Sister Griffiths parents know Elder Hornberger who I sang in the choir with and... He might still be in my zone not sure but yeah crazy small world! It's very rainy today so hopefully it will lighten up a bit. We had someone hammering above us in the wee hours of the morning this week! So that was frustrating but other than that it's been good

LOVE YOU ALL! Stay strong and believe in the wonderful.

With love always,

Sister McBride