Sister McBrides travles to Anstruther and St. Andrews

Sister McBride said they were off to go to Anstruther and St. Andrews. Here is a little bit of where they were going to visit. It looks like a  charming and fun fishing village to visit.

 

Anstruther was originally founded as a fishing village, Anstruther is home to the Scottish Fisheries Museum. Its main industry is now tourism, although other small scale manufacturing and service industries continue.^{[citation needed]} Recreational vessels are now moored in the harbour, and a golf course is situated near the town. Anstruther Pleasure Cruises operate sightseeing/wildlife cruises from the harbour to the Isle of May, the UK's primary puffin location, on board the vessel the May Princess from April to October. An abundance of other wildlife, including seal colonies, also inhabit the island. The Waid Academy, the local state comprehensive school, is a focus of the community and through its secondary role as a community centre. Anstruther has a parish church at its center that is perched on a small hill. This structure incorporates a tower/spire feature rare to Britain, but common to the area.

This is St. Andrews. Looks like another fun historical place to visit. Known world wide as the "home of golf" Looks like a lot of fun to be had!

 




 

 I wonder what they ended up doing and the places they saw. Maybe we will get some pictures next week of her adventures.

March 16, 2015- 'This week was good'

A short but sweet letter from Sister McBride today! as always though it would be great if you could pray for her (them) to have courage to open their mouths and proclaim the gospel. It might be easy for some but harder for others even if you have a strong testimony and love sharing it's message.

Hello! this week was good!

It's not been as rainy as everyone thinks it to be though. I can't say I've been out in pouring rain. It was almost there once and water was literally dripping from my beanie and into my face, but we weren't out for long and it really wasn't too bad.

We had a great experience with Lily and Mark yesterday. Lily told us that she kept being prompted by Heavenly Father to go to church! Well she tried and tried, 3 times but she didn't feel right at any of them/didn't like them. I knew all that but what I didn't know was that it wasn't until a whole year later that Sister Wilkinson slipped a mormon.org card through their door! I felt the spirit testify to me that I was meant to be here and to teach them and that I am so lucky to have the opportunity to know them and to get to learn sign language.

I got a flute! So they asked me to play the flute for a couple songs in the missionary choir. the President and his wife came and gave it it to me on Sunday! (they mainly came for mothers day) but I'm so excited. I haven't been able to play it yet, but I can't wait!

Also we're going to a place called Anstrutter and St Andrews today to see some historical sights so that will be fun!

Love you all!

March 2nd and 9th letters - Lilly's baptism and humility

sorry I didn't get her letter last week on here so  there are two March 2nd and 8th.

March 2nd letter

HIya!

Lily our deaf investigator was baptized this week!!! :DD She is the first deaf investigator that we came in contact with. She's from Malaysia and moved here to Scotland when she married her husband Mark who is also deaf. She basically awesome and bakes and cooks delicious Malaysian food! It's probably the best, actual spicy stuff I've had since I've been out!

Her baptism went so good. There were quite a few people from the ward (though we hoped for more). But Bishop Dewey, the professional translator from Ayr who's really been helping us out took the time to drive 2hours here and translate for us! He's way cool and super good. Lily really felt the spirit. her testimony is amazing! and now her husband is a lot more excited to be baptized and go to the temple! They're just the cutest! I'm hoping they'll be going through the temple just as I get off my mission and then I can go through with them! :D But we'll see. When lily was confirmed this sunday the ward was really inspired by her. Se teared up and was just glowing! Even though she didn't say anything, I was amazed at how much her spirit touched others. She is awesome!! Plus I love learning sign language!

This week was a hard week. I've still been struggling with stopping people on the street and getting a QGC, but! We went on exchanges. Exchanges are inspired! Sister Wilkinson and I were just kinda having a hard time not being annoyed with each other. You just go through those phases ya know? where you get along really well and then there's just days where everything you do annoys one another! haha anyway it was kinda one of those days. But on exchanges Sister Sawyer really helped me see how there are different ways to approach people and I kept trying to do it like Sister Wilkinson but it just wasn't natural. So I'm going to try different ways and see what works best for me C: It's just another experience where prayer has helped me through and has been the way that I have received answers.

Also! Another great experience with prayer!! *drum roll* I made it into the missionary choir!! I prayed to be in it.. which might be vain of me but I really wanted to be a part of it! But yay! I made it! And I made it as an alto! Basically they called me and I told them my choir background ( I knew there was a reason why I stuck with it for 7 years!) I made it in cuz I can sight read and I sang over the phone for them. There are only about 20people in the choir and about 5altos overall so I'm really lucky! (I didn't tell them that I've never sung alto in my life....) Anyway we have the music and we practice on our own and then get together and sing a a bunch of different castles basically! It's going to be so fun. Especially since it's easter (which is a slightly bigger holiday over here) and we get to sing all of the songs about the Savior and His Resurrection. C: I'm super excited.

Anyway there are a lot of miracles that happened this week and I know it's through prayer, diligent study and hard work that we can receive those things. I also know that the grace of Christ is sufficient for all. I love the gospel. and it's so great to know and see how the gospel can change people. It's definitely changed me and has helped me through so many things.I know Jesus lives and is our Savior and that this gospel is how we return to him.

March 8th letter

HELLO everyone!

Sister Wilkinson and I are staying together! I'm happy that we are since she's the only other missionary who knows BSL, but also stressed because that means next transfer for sure she will leave! So thats scary, she's been here all of her mission so far and she's only been out 2transfers earlier than me so it's been a while!

Lily is going to the temple next week! She can go do baptisms for the dead! It truly is a tender mercy and miracle that the ward planned to travel up to the Preston temple on the weekend that the deaf people go and have everything signed! Ah! So cool. Her Husbands not baptized yet so he wont go in, but he's said he's perfectly happy waiting outside. One of our investigators daughters came to church! Her mum just had a baby so she didn't come but her daughter has been struggling and she told her mom she wanted to go to church and the girl was just so happy when she was there, it made me smile. She's so shy, but her mom is really seeing how the gospel is helping her daughter and is more excited to learn about it.

I've learned a lot about humility while being out... I have realized that when we are frustrated with someone it is often because we are truly upset with ourselves for something we can't do/havent done. I have thought about that in moments when I'm upset and I am amazed at the truthfulness of it!

Love you all!

Sister McBride

Feb. 24th 'This week was hard, but full of miracles'

 over looking the ocean on top of the castle ruins

We didn't get a letter on Monday because of their Zone Development. She wrote today instead. This is a picture of a Castle in ruins that is on the beach that she and some other missionaries visited on their last Pday. 

Hi ya!

Yeah I hope jimmies blog is going good! and that you get my letter soon there's one that has a bunch of different letters to my friends in it. Like jacy kelli ect... if you manage to see them and give it to them that would be fantasmical! And Kelli! AH! So cool I am guessing.... Louisiana and..... Canada! haha I dunno that's so cool! I've not go a lot of time to write, so there won't be any pics, but I did get your package! Loved it! A lot! and I'm writing late because we had Zone Development in Dundee which is just where our zone gets together and plays a bunch of games and eats food and yeah! It's just a fun time! So todays like our mini p-day where we do shopping, e-mailing, etc.

Aw.. poor Conner! Just before his belt exam! (mom here: Conner had 4 teeth pulled) That's craziness, poor kid. I love telling people that he's a blackbelt though :) I think it makes me look cooler ;) haha. His Birthday I coming up sooooon! how do you feel about that mother? Your heart gonna be ok? C: 

I'm not going to lie. This week was hard. Full of miracles, but hard. There's a new member that we see very often (because she loves the missionaries) that wanted us over for lunch on Saturday. Only we didn't know! We accidentally didn't see her whole txt and then there was another one she sent that didn't get to us until the next day. Long story short she was very upset and it really distracted us the whole day. Not to mention that I was already feeling like crap because we hadn't gotten any QGC's (she does say what this is exactly but we think it's Question Gospel Contact or something similar) at all this week and that's mainly my fault. I just have trouble not only speaking with people in general but I find myself quickly getting impatient. I find it hard to persist and keep asking questions and getting an appointment. Once they've said no like twice I'm like ok lets go but so many other missionaries keep persisting and I just cant find the strength to do it! Ugh... I've been reading a lot on grace and thinking about 'the gospel gap' but I still can't seem to improve my contacting abilities. . . But! we met up with a less active who is very sick and can hardly walk to her door let alone go to church. She had a rough time when she was younger and lost her testimony of the church. So when we visited her she kept saying that we could keep coming over because she liked the company, but that it would take a miracle for her to go back to church. She wouldn't let us leave her with a prayer afterwards either but as soon as Sis. Wilkinson and I left we agreed that she would definitely come back to church. We felt the spirit so strongly when we were in there and we just know that with time she will come back.

Also we met 8 other deaf people this Saturday! We didn't realize that Lily was going to invite so many of her friends to a dinner she asked us to come to. Deaf people are like the kindest most receptive people of all time. We had some really good convos with about 4 of them. One of them named Angela came to church the next day and then 3others said they would definitely attend Lily's baptism! So cool! They are all just so nice!!! 

Prayers are miracles. I can't tell you how many times peoples hearts have been softened this week through our fervent prayers. I know that we can find strength through them, even though it's hard to see the blessings from them I know they always come. I know the Lord strengthens us by asking us to act in faith. I know he loves His children and wants them all to receive the blessings of this gospel in THIS life. Not later. This life is our biggest opportunity to become like out Heavenly Father and learn. it is the smallest, but the most important part on the eternal time line. (can it be a time line if it's eternal...? Hmm thats one for you to ponder ;) ) Anyway although it was hard it was a great week full of blessings and love!

OH! And I made it into the missionary choir for Easter! :D I think I'm going to be an alto! Woot! Also, I'm pretty sure we perform in Edinburgh castle at one point!! :DD SO cool. But you know whats cooler? Watching the way the light of Christ and the knowledge of the gospel changes people. I better go but I love you momma! Tell the boys I love them too! Tell conner happy birthday and that I have a package headed your way soon that will contain gifts for said birthday child and probably chocolate for everyone C:

Loves!!

Sister McBride

"Guys, I want a Castle"

Feb. 16, 2015

 Sister McBride and sister Wilkinson

Hiya!
It's had it's hard moments here on the mission, but it's amazing how the Lord helps you through. He knew Exactly who I would need as a companion. We are so able to be open and honest with each other, it's so nice. It's been interesting; together we have come to the realization that when we get upset or annoyed at each other, it's almost always because we feel insecure or are annoyed with ourselves. It's hard to take constructive criticism! Even when it's done in a loving way you can allow your pride to over exceed your potential. Say sister Wilkinson gave me some constructive criticism and I took it as a negative thing, then that would be prideful. I wouldn't listen to what she said and in turn wouldn't be able to change something that I should in order to help me become a better missionary. That's what I have been learning this week. Is that we feel like were not too prideful, but how do we react when someone gives us criticism? or suggests to us something that we could do better on? If we allow our pride to get in the way we will never realize our potential, because we are not willing to look inside ourselves and change. I hop all of that made sense. That's what I have been learning through experience this week! haha. I'm just so thankful to the Lord that I have such a great companion who is patient and has the same sense of humor so we can laugh together haha.

I unfortunately have not got your package. Basically what happens is that it goes to the mission home and it sits there until our Zone leaders can travel from Dundee to Edinburgh to pick up peoples packages (or until someone could bring the packages to them... i dunno if they do that) and then they have to travel to where you are and find out a time that they can drop it by for you. They like to hand it to you so it's not sitting on your porch for someone to steal... so yeah it's quite the process. I will get it i'm sure, just havent gotten it yet. C: I did get the cute valentines card! Made me cry happy tears C: and I got Dads letter. 

Transfers aren't until the end of February. Sister Wilkinson and I are really hoping to stay together (especially since we've been learning sign together) but she's been here for ages! her whole mission! WHich is 5months.. ish SO fingers crossed! 

I've been feeling good! Well you know you have those moments and days, sometimes just the morning is stink, but over all, I'm powering through C: As the old scottish ladies say here in Fife: "Ach dunna worry Hen" ;) 

OK so weird things.... uh their cheese tastes weird. it's very different. aaaand they bread is a lot better, though it goes out of date a lot faster because there's less preservatives. Everything is just smaller! most people have their washer in their kitchen and don't have a dishwasher, or a dryer. Some people have a dryer but not a lot. so we have to wash our clothes through out the week cuz we only have one rack that can only fit so many things on it! There should be a pic of our flat on one drive! It's the first level (not the bottom one but the next one. You actually can't see our door lol I took it very quickly but there ya go! that's where we live. It's kinda closed off, from the street, so that's nice. Also it's really close to the high street, also nice. We went to West Wemyss beach where there are caves and the MacDuff castle!! Cool beans right!? it was mostly ruins but you could climb ll around. it was pretty dangerous actually but that panoramic photo is from the top of it! C: We went with the Elders so that was... interseting. it's amazing how much more immature they become with regular clothes on ;) haha. it was great though! 

We had a miracle! We met two new potential investigators last night when we went to go visit a less active. We had no idea they were going to be there and they were both people we have met before! they are boyfriend and girlfriend but we met the guy Gary when we were teaching a family (who we lost contact with) and then the girl Diane on a bus and we showed up to our LA house and we were like "Hey! we know you! " haha it was crazy! the lord provides. Also Lily's baptism date is for the 27th basically because we wouldn't be able to teach her fast enough all of the baptism points haha other than that she's totally ready and so excited to spread the gospel. AH! She's just awesome... Anyway.. that's quite a lengthy e-mail but there you go! I hope that will keep your heart song happy throughout the week ;) 

Here's a fantastic quote!

"Obedience is the Price,

Faith is the Power,

The Spirit is the Key,

Love is the Motive,

CHRIST is the Reason" ~Unknown

Alrighty Have a super duper great week!

Sister McBride

 

 Their flat. They are on the second level

Feb. 9, 2015 Letter Baptism update!

HiYa!
AAHHHHH!!!!!! EV HAD HER BABY!!!! (mom here: Ev is one of her best friends that just had her baby. She got married about a year ago and I sent her pictures) oh my goodness he is just about the most adorable thing AH! I am going to e-mail her and ask her why she hasn't written me! oh yeah... cuz she was having a baby... haha. anyway thanks so much for the pics I love them.

I've been writing in my grateful book you sent me! C: It's been fun. and I've had an extra amount of things to be grateful for this week! We've been meeting with our deaf investigators, Lilly and Mark regularly. Lilly is so ready to be baptized and was very sad that her baptism date wasn't until March 18th. We thought she would want to wait for her husband Mark to be ready but she just cant wait any longer! She basically said that she wants to bring others to the gospel but she can't be a disciple of Christ until she's baptized. She is so cool!! Ah! She's awesome and Mark is awesome. He just has a harder time understanding things since he doesn't have a religious background. He hasn't been praying either but our last Lesson we finally helped him understand who God is. That he has a body like us, but that it's perfect and that He is the Father of our souls and He wants us to talk to Him and etc. after that you could see a light bulb go on and we're sure his praying will go better C:

Andrew is Marks very good friend. He has his date set for March 25th a week after Mark (Lilly's is on the 20th of Feb!) Andrew just loves! What we teach him. He couldn't wait to learn about Joseph Smith and is diligently reading the children's picture BOM we gave him. We taught Andrew at lilly and marks house to help them remember what they had learned before and Bishop Dewey a guy who went on a signing mission and knows sign because his brother is deaf was able to be there with us in person! He lives quite far away in Ayre and so usually we skype, but he was in Edinburgh so he came over! He's awesome and has been just so helpful. We have to give Lilly mark and andrew the children's BOM since english isn't their first language. Usually people who sign have the reading ability of that of a 4th grader. They just don't use words like 'review' or 'benefit'. they just say 'go over again' or 'it's good for you' , if you see what I mean so a regular BOM doesn't really do it because they wouldn't understand it. Anyway Andrew is great but his mum has told him that the Mormons are bad and that we take peoples money so he was very conflicted at church. We had a wee lesson with him though and told him that no one in the church gets paid and that we're not out to get people's money. He felt better after that and said he would tell his mom and pray for himself to know if Joseph Smith was a prophet. He's so cool!

They are just about the most patient people ever! We are just not very good at signing yet but they understand and say 'it's ok, you'll get better. Step by step' haha they're fantastic! 

We also had a Zone Interview Training up in Dundee ( about an hr away). I was awesome to be able to drive through the country and then be in a big city. The building were beautiful! And it was a good time! 

Anyway I hope your week goes good and that those missionaries are grateful for all you do for them mommy! Your the best! Your packages make me happy C:

If you're looking for anything to study Mosiah ch4and 5 are really good! Kind Benjamin is awesome!

 

Love 

Sister McBride

 

Mass email

 (mom here: sister McBride sent out a mass email and I thought I would put it on here. The other letters she has send she has asked me to put them on the blog. She didn't ask with this letter but I thought I would. I did correct some spelling errors the keyboards there are set up different so she as more mistakes then usual. The picture above is one she sent. She lives right by the ocean. I think they came across it one day.)

  Hello everyone! sorry it's taken me so long to get something out to all of you. I'm not very good with mass emails,

So here's the deal. Basically we have these golden investigators who are deaf. They were already contacted when I came out so when I was assigned to be here in Kirkacaldy with Sis. Wilkinson she told me we got permission from the president to have 30min of language study each morning. So for the past couple of months I've been learning British Sign Language! it's been really fun and it truly is a different language. Sign language has it's own crazy grammar and everything. I'm told it's similar to German. Anyway here's the story. Lilly and Mark are married. Lilly is from Malaysia and was a type of missionary back at a church there where their was a good deaf community who all went to church and she was kinda at the head of it. So when she came here to Scotland she told us that when she would go to bed at night she kept feeling Heavenly Father tell her to go  to church! So she tried all these different ones but none of them felt right or no one knew sign language. but then! one day Sis. Wilkinson and her previous companion Sis Johnson were chapping (or tracting) and they slipped a mormon.org card with their number on it through the letter box on their door. (because of course they didn't hear them knock) Lilly said as soon as she saw the card she felt the spirit and she just started crying and was co excited because she knew the Lord had given her an answer! So she text the missionaries! How cool is that!? She is so awesome. Our sign language is very simple so we often can't explain things well. (mark  has no religious background at all) But Lilly will totally understand what we are saying, Perfectly and will explain it to Mark! She is fantastic and they have already brought a friend named Andrew who is also deaf to church and we have now committed him to baptism! It's so interesting that they are so diligent in coming to church. Even though we are horrible interpreters and they cant hear a thing and cant really communicate with people they come excited every sunday. The people who can't hear anything are the ones who have been the mostl willing to take an act of faith to hear the words of God. It is truly amazing.

We also got to teach the lesson yesterday in Relief Society about .... wait for it.... missionary work of course haha. It was good. We feel the sisters are more excited to do missionary work and feel that it is accomplishable. C:

So the Presidents mom and Sister Presidents mom both live in the ward and they are just about the sweetest old ladies of ever!! seriously. so sweet! Ah... hardy scottish old ladies are the best!

The Lord has a work set out for all of you to do! and he is looking to you to help Him in bringing other to the church, whether thats being a friend and example as a member or setting out on a mission. It's our duty as members to give others the light that we have to that they can have great happiness. Don't let the adversary tell you any different 2 timothy ch1 Fear doesn't come from God.

anyway have a great week!

Hopefully the pictures that I attach will go through.

Love Sister McBride

Miracles Happen!!: Prayer is one of the greatest things EVER!

 

 A couple of pictures that sister McBride sent today. Sister McBride with her companion and Elder Gates the one on the right and Elder Perry the one third from the left have both left to go home this week.

Looks like a great bunch of missionaries! 

Sister McBride's weekly letter:

Hi ya! to answer your question about our new baptism scheduled for Feb 19th well, Mark and Lilly are awesome!! Basically Lilly has quite a bit of a religious bckground. Her and Mark recently married though they're probably in their late 30's or 40's and Lilly used to live in Milaysia. She said when she moved she felt Heavenly Father urging her to go to church but all the churches she went to didn't feel right to her but the Sister Wilkinson and Sister Johnson (sister before me) slipped a Mormon.org card through their door and Lilly said she got so excited and felt the Spirit and teared up and everything. She told Mark this was the one and she txt the sisters later that day! How awesome is THAT!

We taught them after church yesterday and they brought a deaf friend named Andrew who also really likes learning about the gospel so we have another investigator! :D The spirit is very strong when we teach them. Lilly is able to understand so quickly. She said (when were explaining the Plan of Salvation) that she heard someone telling her and helping her understand what we were saying and then she was able to help Mark better understand because he's had no religious background! It's so cool how she understands a great deal more than what we signed to her. They are so cool!! They really want to start bringing their friends and stuff and they're just amazing.

Margret is great, but she has a lot of problems 'knowing' things are true. You know like we say we know we can return to live with Heavenly Father but she has trouble saying she knows. She believes but she tells us  we can't really know.... anyway well figure her out soon enough

Last story: miracles happen!!! So..  Sis wilkinson and I were at Alisons house (a recent convert of about a year who feeds us and goes on joint teaches with us and is basically just fabulous) in Woodside. We were waiting for a bus but thought we'd missed it so we started walking to a different stop to hopefully catch another. Of course just as we got far enough here comes the bus! so we book it back to the stop just in time! (picture me with a heavy side bag spriniting in boots and a skirt... it's pretty rediculous :) ) anyway in that process I lost my wallet but did'nt know till we got on the bus and it drove away! I was freaking out! (it was about 8pm) Sis wilkinson called Alison and asked if she'd go out looking. All this time I'm just praying an praying that someone kind will find it! It's got my mission debit card, my regular debit card, my library card for the computers at the library, and my weekly bus pass! anyway we were lucky and Alison came across a group of girls who had found it and asked her if she was looking for a little black purse. They were so nice and were about to turn it into the police but luckily Alison came by just in time!!! Prayer is one of the greatest things of ever!!! It was a miracle!

Jacob 7 is also, so good! (random scripture popping into my head)

Anyway I hope everything is going well with you all. Tell dad sorry I didn't get to write to him personally but  I am staying warm and I do have those holy crap I'm in Scotland moments.... haha.

I love you all a ton!! Pictures will come later today! The gospel is true! and changes lives... 

This is a picture a sweet sister took of her at one of their dinner appointments and the sweet sister send it to me via FB message. Love that sweet missionary of mine!!

MISSION MAP

A friend told me about mission maps. I had no idea they had this! So I went on a mission...so to speak... to see if I could find a map of her mission and I found it. I thought it was so cool that I would post it for everyone to see!

The highlighted portion is her mission. The red dot is Edinburgh where the mission home is located. Her mission is Scotland/Ireland.  Southern Ireland is an independent country and not part of the UK. BUT Northern Ireland is in the UK and  IN her mission! It's a bit confusing. There is a great video explaining it all here.

 She is serving right where the arrow is pointing to Kirkcaldy. She is right on the ocean! She says she can walk a block from her apartment and can see the ocean. How cool is that. 

The big picture is a more detailed map showing the areas, towns and cities broken down and showing where the Stakes are and the wards in those stakes over the entire mission. I'm sorry you can't see it very well I can't give you a link to go to it because you have to have a LDS account to have it linked to and I can't get it to link up. If you have an LDS account you can log in then go to the tool bar at the top click on resources then on mission. It'll direct you to the mission page. At the bottom of the side bar on the left click on mission maps. it'll direct you to a download of the mission maps. Click on the image that says Europe. Then scroll down until you find Scotland/Ireland mission. It's all in Alphabetic order. You can click on the paper size which is the one first icon and the map above will appear or the poster size which is the second icon and of the map below. The second one is much bigger and gives a really good view in more detail of the mission. It's my favorite one because you see all the details and gives you more of an idea of where she is. 

Remember to pray for the missionaries today. Everyday. They need lots of your prayers, love and support. Write a missionary today. It'll help you feel closer to the Lord and brighten a missionaries day!

Jan 19th... A baptismal date- WOOT!

 Sister McBride and Sister Wilkinson outside the church building they call 'The Kirk'

 Hello! everyone sorry the emails have not been coming regularly. With the crazy holidays and then I had the flu last week for a few days but it's all good now! and the computers we use are... OLD... LOL...and often crashes...

 We have a baptismal date!!! set for Lilly and Mark! They're the deaf couple we've been teaching. Unfortunately I wasn't there for the lesson when they set the date. We were on exchanges with the Sisters from Dunfermline. Sister Martin is super cool! I'll send a picture of us with this lady from Tonga named Sepi. She's a member that moved from Tonga to be here with her sister. her English isn't very good but her sister isn't LDS so she didn't know where the church was. She sent a referral to have the missionaries come over so we did and she cried because she was so happy to see Sis Martin and I and that she could go to church on Sunday cuz she missed it so much. She is such a sweet heart! Anyway so yeah the other sister (Sis Wagner) and Sis. Wilkinson saw Lilly and Mark with an interpreter who knows BSL from his mission, a BSL missionary, and were able to resolve some issues they had about baptism. Now it's all set for Feb 18th!! WOOT were super excited. they're just so ready for the gospel it's ridiculous C:

We're also teaching a nice older lady named Margret who's like 75 or something. She makes us scones C: she really liked how we think family history is important and she really enjoyed the story of Joseph Smith. We've only met with her once so we'll see how things go today. hopefully she's still interested C:

 We had a south Scotland conference? I bleieve that's what it was. Cuz it was more than just our zone but not all of Scotland... I'm not really sure what it was lol. It was about what our goals are for this year which is two baptisms per missionary per year! So yay! I think it's very accomplish-able and I'm excited to do it. It was a very good spiritual conference. I also had my first district meeting last Tuesday. We didn't have it for so long because of the holidays. Plus Elder Bailey the DL was new to the area. Moves are next week! crazy right?! Sister Wilkinson and I will probably stay since I'm in training but we're not sure about the Elders.

Yay for the letter from francis! (mom here: Sister Francis had heard when Sister McBride had gotten there that I was concerned about the skyping since I we hadn't gotten any email and I didn't know when etc. She told sister McBride that she would write to me and tell me she is taking good care of her, which she did, it was a lovely sweet letter and it said "not to worry that I'm taking good care of the lovely sister McBride when she visits every Saturday"... So sweet!)  I'll have to tell her you got her letter. She's our mission presidents mother-in-law. She's like 5 foot nothing and 94! She is a hardy Scotts woman..haha... so sweet.

Sister Wilkinson and I sang in Church yesterday. We sang where can I turn for peace. Sis. Wilkinson is like a genius at piano and made up this beautiful arrangement off the top of her head.

 Well, I only have about a minute left... Gospel is true everyone! share it! love you all A whole ton!!

~sister McBride

 

Sister McBride, a member named Sepi and sister Martin. She was on exchanges with her.

Jan 12th Sorry- No letter this week

 


Sorry everyone, there's no letter this week. Praying next week is a bit better. I know she has  had computer issues in the past and she tries really hard. I know  it makes it really hard for her and she wants to write home.  Hopefully, things will work out for her next week and she can get things working like she would like so we can here from this awesome missionary! we love her and she needs lots of love and support! I will try to stay more positive. I get sad when I can't hear from her.

One month down! - going strong

It's gone by very fast! I realized on the 1st that I was almost out a month. It's different though cuz I've only been in the field for 3ish weeks so yeah. It has been quite cold. there was one day where is was all just frost. Everywhere. I think that was last Monday actually. Ah! It was freezing. I could feel the cold seeping in through my clothes...haha but it hasn't been like that very often. It's quite mild today. I judge that because I cant see my breath haha. My coat holds up fine with the rain. It's only mainly sprinkled. No heavy rains yet.

We are teaching a family of 3! Plus a friend! So we met this lady on the bus and we scheduled a time to go to her place and give her the first lesson. Well turns out she has two kids Robert who is 25 and Melisa who is 24. Robert is... interesting but he is progressing as an investigator. We take members with us for a Joint Teach (JT) They had a friend over the other day who we'd never met and he said he had been taking lessons in France whilst on holiday and that he was still interested in taking them! We have high hopes. C: 

Mark and Lilly are a deaf couple that we are teaching. We've been studying sign language in the mornings so that we can better communicate with them. BSL is super fun and we're having a sign language class night for like 30 min so people in the ward can also learn how to communicate with them so that will be fun. They're super nice and are just golden investigators. They saw an lds.org card and called up the sisters. and they came to sacrament meeting yesterday! Woot!

I saw a castle. The ravenscraige castle. It's small and mostly ruins but it was still cool! I didn't have my camera but it's right on the beach... Ahh it's so pretty. C:

I can't believe it snowed! That's crazy. It hasn't even snowed here!... Another year gone. New Years is quite the holiday here. It's probably bigger that Christmas which is sad. We had to be in by 6 New Years Eve (or Old Years Night) and then the day of we were at a members house where we had crackers and paper crowns like they do at Christmas. It was fun. Jan 2nd is also a holiday which is lame and makes no sense so that interfered with proselyting time... but it's finally over and we can get back into the swing of things!

Share the gospel! it's awesome!

Love,

Sister McBride