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!
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