October 19, 2015- IRELAND

Sorry I don't have much time to write just now, but no worries I'll e-mail again later (hopefully) so when you come to Ireland you have to get this things called a 'garda card'. Garda is the Irish word for police.. I have no idea what this card is for so.. don't ask. all i know is that I need it but no one told us about it!! So the STL's (sister wilkinson and solum) called us at 5:45 and said hey! no one told you, but you need a guarda card and were 30minutes from your flat to come pick you up! So right now I just got through the RIDICULOUSLY long line that wrapped almost all the way around the building. They gave me a ticket that said 101 and told me to come back in 2hours! So I'm at an internet cafe in Dublin City! Fun stuff. This week was fantastic! exchanges with sister solum where we discovered that she might have hypo glycemia like me because she has all of the same symptoms haha. It was nice to talk to someone who knew how I felt.. people don't believe you when you say yeah... i just fall asleep but I can't help it.... she understands though so I don't feel as lame anymore! haha. basically we had so many miracles this week with meeting new investigators Leanne and Diane who have both committed to baptism! :D (Fabio dropped of the face of the earth and we haven't been in contact with him for 2weeks...) but we really saw the Lords blessings this week and I know it's because I have been striving to be more obedient and that this area is ready to have things happen and I was put here to help those things happen! I am excited and both anxious to try and do my best :)

Anyways-I have to go!

Love

Sister McBride

October 12, 2015- "Zone interview training"

this week was good with Zone Interview Training as well as Stake Conference. So far I know about 5members haha since we haven't had a regular Sunday in 2 weeks. I received a lot of help as well as revelation this week. I have felt the Spirit testify to me that this is the time of hastening! The Lord is performing his great work and we need to be right there with Him. It was a bit crazy getting to the church on our Zone Interview Training though. We had to take a bus from CLonsilla into Dublin city centre and then another form there to the church. Only problem was there was a TON of traffic. We were on one bus for about and hour and 20min! SO we got off early and ran through town to catch the other one and made it just in time for the start of the meeting (they like you to be there 30 min early in the room studying your scriptures but we missed that bit) When we rushed into the building president was there to greet us... oh no... Was what I thought. But he simply said "so glad you made it Sisters, now stop worrying and take a breath." haha. I wondered how he knew we were coming since he was in the sacrament meeting room with everyone and then I realized when we went in and sat down that there are windows and probably everyone saw us running along side the building... awk!

 We are teaching a Brazilian named fabio! He's awesome and is totally prepared for the gospel and has a baptismal date for the 7th of november!  but he's also really busy and we haven't been able to get a hold of him. And we're teaching a guy named John. Not sure where he is from? maybe nigeria? but hopefully we will be able to set him with a baptismal date! Thats about it. Our teaching pool is faily small we have a LOT of recent converst that we are working with! One of them named James. He's been a member for about 2months and he is so great he knows so much about the gospel already and he has really turned his life around from the drugs and smoking and is sharing the gospel with everyone at his work! He is so cool!


The gospel is True!! tell someone! C:

love sister McBride

Oct. 5, 2015- "IREALND IS GREAT!"

IRELAND IS GREAT! (she was moved to a place called Clonsilla a suburb of Dublin)

 Ok I will do my best to remember everything cuz this library is weird and you have to log on for an hour and then log off and get up and go re-log in and you could possibly not get the same computer! Blah but other then that Ireland has been AMAZING!

(Mom here: on moves day I woke up about 2 am feeling anxious and the need that I need to pray for her. I also had her on my mind most of the next two days. which is a bit unusual for me I often never really have a anxious feeling other than missing her. Her dad also expressed to me some feelings of the same. Then her grandparents texted me saying the same and a few others so it was interesting I had told her this and this is was her reply that is why she starts out like this) 

 So what happened was, we went to the Corstorohen (place near Edinburgh) to stay with the Sisters there on Tuesday night (their flat is seriously NICE!) anyway, bright and early on Wednesday mornin' at 6 o'clock the Edinburgh ZL's picked us and some other missionaries up in a big van and took us over to the bus station, which then took us to the ferry. (The only bad thing about those suitcases is that since it's 2big ones it takes up a lot of space and the Elders are always like.. man how are we going to fit anything else in here.... so yeah probs should have come out with a big one and then a medium one but that's ok! Because the plus side is that once i get rid of all the things I don't ever use I will only have 2 cases while everyone else has 3... sometimes more even smaller ones. haha so there's that. Anyway the ferry was soooooo cool I felt so posh! they had this neat sitting room and then a place where you could buy food and a little wee store. It was nice. A ferry is a lot bigger then I thought. It was really fun, despite the slight fog in the distance it was an otherwise lovely day.

I would imagine that the time you were praying for us was when things went a bitty wrong... So after we got off the ferry in Belfast what we were ment to do was take a bus that would take us to another bus station where we would get the X1 bus to Dublin. However all of us being pretty confused (as well as lazy and not checking our plans like we should have... Guilty!) we though we were getting a bus straight to Dublin. So we missed the bus to the bus station! And didn't know for about 40min or more until we asked the receptionist. Long story short Elders in Dublin brought their car and shoved all (most of) mine Sister Wilkinsons and our other traveling companion Sister Butters luggage and us in the car! lets just say it was way cramped! but we all had seat belts! They took us to the bus station where we had an hour to wait for the next X1 and they were going to try and get all of the other6Elders and their stuff back there.... in an hour. it didn't work so us sisters were some hoe left with an Elder Taylors luggage (no idea who or where he was). Basically the X1 came and no one was there to get Elder Taylors luggage and we had no idea if we were to take it with us. So we left it with the bus attendant people and then heaved our luggage onto the back of this bus which for some reason had the bottom of the compartment level with my chin. So it was exciting! Luckily Sister Wilkinson has hauled hay! and then we Made it to Dublin at 9 instead of 5 and we stayed with some sisters in the city and traveled to our area the next morning.

So Sister Dias is awesome! She is so nice! and fun! She took me out to Eddie Rockets for my B-day (aka Johnny Rockets? I think it's basically the same thing as that in america) I love her but I got a burger with some 'special' sauce on it and their 'special' sauce is gross. blah. It was a greenish color.... but it was ok anyway the meat was good :) She was way excited to be my comp. She loved her last companion but I guess she suffers from a lot of things that made it hard to work so I think we're both excited to have a normal missionary schedule. haha. Her English is pretty good! though sometimes she says "how do say..?" or "I love him so bad!" She uses bad in place of much haha she's so cute! It's hard though because we are teaching a couple of Portuguese speaking people and I have no clue what they say to each other. Also the other sisters in our area are both from Mexico and Spanish and Portuguese are very similar so they speak to each other and I'm just kind of left out... but that's ok. :) they're nice anyway. 

So yeah I had a TON of people wish me happy birthday! People from the ward as well as Sister Wilkinson and her comp called me at 6:30 am to sing happy birthday, The ZL's sang, and my district leader and his comps (who is my old ZL Elder Wells! Crazy!) and Sis Ferguson sang to me as well!  And then yesterday Babs fed all the sisters at GC and she brought a cake and candles and they sang to me as well! So I had a really great birthday. and yes there is a post strike.. sorry just remembered that.

Anyway it's been good I'm excited to be here. It's interesting, Ireland feels like where I'm supposed to be! Would it be cheesy to say it feels like home?? because it does! The leaves are falling and you would love it here mom C:

I loved Pres. Uchtdorfs and Elder Hollands talks WOW! I only get to see the Saturday sessions and the Sunday morning one. We have to watch Sunday afternoon on our own time because of the way it's broadcasted it's to late for us missionaries to watch.

LOVE YOU ALL!