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

June 28, 2015- "Things were good this week"

She send this picture and said 'The Elders got some hand-me-down bikes and needed to use our flat for safe keeping. Well we weren't in at the time so this is what we found when we came home. That is... my bed! XD...

 Mom here: I thought that was a hoot! Is it bad of me as a mom and after laughing the first thing that came to my mind was... she didn't make her bed! I always say make your bed EVERYDAY!.... it helps begin your day great!

Hello all!

We're headed off to St. Andrews today! :D hopefully we'll get a good amount of time there. They have the oldest university and abbey over there so were excited. I sent some pics of it once before but we were only there for like 20min hopefully this will be more like an hour and then we can go see the St. Andrews castle. C: (unless you have to pay, then we'll just go get ice cream at one of the oldest gelato places ever! :D 

 

So this week is our Presidents last e-mail to us as president!! This Saturday we will be meeting our new president in Edinburgh!

 

Things were good this week. Wednesday was a bit difficult as ALL of our 5 lessons fell through. SO it was an entire day of traveling places finding people not in then going chapping or fishing, (mom here: chapping is tracking and fishing is street contacting) but it was ok after that.We were blessed with 2 new investigator friends this week! We actually ended up having a lesson with a Seventh day Adventist who tried to convince us that we were worshipping wrongly and breaking the commandments because the Sabbath was on Saturday.... *sigh* lets just say that patience really is a virtue when you're trying to bear your testimony of the restored gospel and they're completely not paying attention. haha so yeah he was nice enough, he was just trying to convert us.

 

 We're teaching a girl Emma, and her mom keeps saying 'oh well I can't really see her joining the church because she's living with her partner, she's not married and he doesn't like religion but she can always join later in life and it's good for her to know what we're talking about.' She has forgotten the point of baptism. yes it is to become a member, but ultimately it is the saving ordinance that we need in order to gain salvation!

Sorry if I dodn't get to reply to everyone I don't have much time today but I love you all and have a great week!

 

Quick thought this week.. So many times in PMG (Preach My Gospel) it says to exercise spiritual power. I'm positive that the morning work out for missionaries was also established to see the effects of a physical work out and apply that spiritually. If we are willing to work hard to maintain our bodies how much harder are we going to be able to work to maintain and exercise our spiritual bodies? It's awesome anyway... That's my random thought for the week... Love you all!!!  GTG bye!  GTG (means Got To Go.. sounds like she was in a hurry to get all of her writing in to head off for some fun!)

Sister McBride

 

 

Sorry, I'm not sure of the building she is standing in front of. She often times doesn't get enough time to tell me every time about the pictures. The computers take a bit longer to upload etc and it eats into her time so I know when I don't get a description she is short on time. But a neat building and cute girl none the less.  :)

June 22, 2015: ' HEY HEY'

Sister McBride with President Brown and his wife. This will be the last picture she gets with them. The new mission president is coming the 1rst week of July.

Hey hey!

So most people have heat and sunshine and we have clouds and rain. Came down pretty good yesterday but luckily we weren't out too much. it is warmer. I don't feel frozen fingers any more but I mean, I'll be honest, it's like the weather of mid November in Arizona here! Scotland gets like 3 real days of summer and then it's back to its normal self ;) But you've got to love life even with all it's crazy circumstances!

 We had an interesting relief society activity about funerals! What to plan, wear, coffins, what funeral plans to by, where and what different ways you can get buried. Did you know that there is a place in America where you can send them some of your ashes (well you family would send them your ashes) and they make you into a diamond?! Kinda creepy to have your family wearing you around on jewelery but also awesome to be able to literally become a diamond after you die.... but mostly just kinda morbid. There was this sweet funny older lady that is like out of an old black and white film. She's got that sweet high pitched voice and she's just super naive, in a good way. They were talking about spreading peoples ashes and that you have to get permission otherwise it's illegal and she says "Really? Oh, my husbands been spread over the swany ponds!" She's hilarious. It was definitely the most interesting relief society activity I've been to. I hope yours goes well mumsy! take pics and send me some! C: 

This week was good we met with our investigators Nick, Robert and Clinton. Nick has taken the lessons before and he was never baptized so we're not sure where to go with him, but he's nice enough. Though we actually took a girl with us as a joint teach and apparently she does not like him at all so that was a bit awkward! But Robert is cool though he flat out said no to coming to church says he's too busy. That just frustrates me because he's not too busy to meet with us every Wednesday morning! But he's nice and we'll get him eventually. Clinton is... interesting. He mainly just has a bunch of questions that he thinks are really deep and that we don't have answers to whereas we do we juts cant spout them out to him because otherwise he'll just get more and more confused. We keep telling him this and that we need to have a foundation first and that all of his questions are answerable. We had a good joint teach with us who is a returned missionary from Brazil, her names Rowan, she was really helpful.

We haven't heard from our Latvian friend Dmitry, which is unusual so we hope everything is going oK... Hopefully we hear back.

Remember that the book of Mormon is the most true book on this earth and it will be the most helpful thing in strengthening your testimony of Jesus Christ. Never forget what studying the book of Mormon has done. There will be people that try and tell you that" the book of Mormon doesn't testify of Jesus Christ" or that "it can't possibly be right because why would we need anything more than the Bible". Listen to what your Heavenly Father tells you pray about the book of Mormon and your testimony will be strengthened.

I love you all and Hope you have a fantastic week! Yay for summer break!

Lots of love

Sister McBride

 Me and Sister Brown. I just LOVE her!

This was taken near where I live.

June 16, 2015- Great Week This Week!

Hey everyone! great week this week!

this Monday was Zone development where we get together with our whole Zone and play games and do sports and just have a bunch of fun! C: It's an all day thing and they have it because Scotland missionaries tend to get... well, depressed not only because of the weather but also the people are hardy and it is a very prominent country for Catholics and protestants and then the there's people in the middle that just see the bad that comes from religion and tell you to go away and stop causing problems. So Zone D is meant to enliven and brighten our spirits. and it works! C: Im super sore from running around everywhere though XD

This week was amazing we went on exchanges and I got to be with Sister Montgomery. We had a great experience when we were headed back to our flat for the end of the night from Hilltown (about 5min bus ride away). We caught a bus even though we could have walked (but I've been stuck in Hilltown before with 15 min to get in the flat for the night and it's a 20min walk! so we took a 22 bus) So we were almost home and I just randomly decided to push the the stop button and get of at an earlier bus stop and walk so that we could stop people along the way home. Well it just so happens that a guy got off at the same one and it was someone that Sister Montgomery had taught once when she was here for a transfer back in November or October! His names Nick and he was a former investigator but he had said that he had been reading the Book of Mormon on his own! we set up and appointment for the next morning (which never happens) and he said he wanted to start taking the lessons again! How amazing is that? That the Lord guided us to be in the right place at the right time with the right people! All we need to to is continue trying to do the right things! C:

We have 3 new investigator friends this week and it's great to feel like our efforts have paid off. Sister Reed and I have been working for a long time to be diligent in stopping and talking to anyone and everyone. We have now beun to see the trust that the Lord is placing in us as we do our best to talk to all of His children even if they don't want to listen. As Elder Holland said "Don't you ever! Judge anyone on whether or not they need the gospel. Christ talked to all. Your most effective tool that you have are words" How true?! especially in the account of Josph Smith 1st vision. The adversary can't kill him, he doesn't have that power. So the next damaging thing he could do was to bind his tongue. How crazy is that? So remember all- your words are important!

Got to go but 3 Nephi 14:9-11. Remember that God loves you and wants the best for you all you have to do it talk to him through sincere prayer. Our heavenly father loves us and will always give us the best gifts that He can. C:

PS totally didn't pull that scripture out from memory guys, I'm not that good XD haha..

Love you all!

Sister McBride

June 8, 2015- Elder Holland was pretty dang intense!!

Sister McBride and Sister Reed with sister Reed's new hair cut.

Talk about some spiritual intensity this week!

Elder Holland came to Scotland to have a broadcasted conference with the surrounding areas and it was great! The missionaries in Scotland go to have their own conference on the Saturday before his broadcast.

He is pretty dang intense! All of the missionaries in Scotland met at the church by the mission home at 3 o'clock sharp! We were all waiting in the hall ready to go into the chapel and we were whispering to each other about how people have heard that talks from Elder Holland are like 70% rebuke and 30% not! They were almost like horror stories of how we might be told how we need to be doing better and be more obedient. which ultimately through his teachings the spirit was able to let us know. Elder Holland has some bright piercing blue eyes though... totally made eye contact for like 2seconds and thought my eyes were going to light on fire....

He had this clip on mic so he was able to walk around and there was one point towards the beginning that he asked us a question and then he bends down and grabs this Elder sitting on the edge of the pew by the back of the head gets close and stares him in the face shaking him (almost shouting) saying "Elder! Do you know!?" He releases him and says something like: "just checking" Poor elder was scared out of his mind! It was amazing to have an apostle expound scripture to us. We talked about Nicodemus and why he misunderstood Christ and how Christ was able to go to his level of understanding and help him have a spiritual experience.

He would do this thing where he would be talking and explaining and then he would say very sternly "don't you EVER! forget your mission" or "let one moment pass to share the gospel" etc. He said don't you EVER a lot. It was way cool I wish I could tell you everything in one e-mail! I'll have to give more info next time! But it was definitely amazing seeing him and I got to shake his hand! all the missionaries did. I didn't get many pics of the actual event cuz we were mostly in the chapel... so yeah no pics with elder Holland but I took one with my mind! C: He has a strong testimony and something that I loved of what he said on Sunday is that when he was a missionary he could 'testify' of the gospel, but now as an apostle he can 'witness' of its truth fullness. Isn't that awesome?!? it was great I got lots of chills and I am now more motivated to become the best missionary I can possibly be!

 We had a great lesson with our investigator Dimirty and hopefully we will have him with a baptismal date soon! And our investigator Kris is doing awesome. he doesn't always keep his commitments but he is also getting himself off of drugs and it's amazing to see the change in him! His eyes are becoming so much more clear every time we see him it's great!

The Lord is directing his church and this is His gospel. We can find the fullness of joy through living it and continuing to grow. He loves us and always will! He desires the best for us and all He asks is to strive to do go and talk with Him through prayer. The Book of Mormon is the word of God and your greatest source of help. Please don't forget to read it.

With love to you all,

Sister McBride

 

 

Here are a few of her pictures from her Mission Eastern Conference to see Elder Holland.

 

 

On the Dock. Not sure quite where.

With a couple of missionaries in her District. I don't know their names.

On the train ride.

 Another picture on the dock.

On the train ride. A few elders from her district.

 

 Sister Reed, Sister McBride, and Elder Scheuermann.

June1, 2015- Getting locked IN your flat!

Dear Everyone!

Apparently there is a train strike going on in Scotland right now...? I had no idea but it's going to make things extra difficult since we are traveling a TON this transfer! We have East Scotland Conference Friday, Elder Holland Saturday, and an all Scotland conference on the 4th of next month for the new mission president coming in! (exciting and sad, I love Pres and Sis Brown!) All of these are in Edinburgh and it takes about 45min to get there by train so if we have to take a bus O-O like and hour and a half maybe? Buses are horrible! they're OK for inner city but for long distance travel.... no bueno. So this will be an interesting transfer haha. Also we had some interesting things happen this week. On Wednesday Sister Reed and I got locked in our flat. yes, in. We have one of those skeleton keys and lock and when we went to go open it to get out of the flat it wouldn't turn all the way! So we called the Zone leaders and they came by. They ended up just telling us to call the mission home so we did and they got in contact to send someone over and get in and fix the door. it turns out that ours was just really old so it broke when we tried to turn it. it was fixed but not until after I had climbed over out brick wall (it's pretty short) outside our wee back porch and tried to open it from the outside. I of course changed into trousers. But even better we had a lesson with our friend Martin in about 30min and we were still locked in so we got in some trousers, climbed the wall, brought our skirts with us, changed in a public bathroom in city center and met our friend. Luckily when we came back the guy had the door open and all was fixed! So we have a new lock and I get to bring home a skeleton key! :D That was probably one of the most interesting events of this week haha XD

Sounds like it's nice and warm over there.... it is still freezing here! I thought it would be warm by now T_T I mean I've only got 1 layer of tights instead of 3 but I'm still using my coat and sometimes a scarf or beanie...  Luckily it's not rainy today so that's nice

We had a really great lesson with our friend from Latvia Dinitry. We talked about the Atonement and how Jesus has felt all of our pains and sins and therefore can perfectly help us through our trials. He thinks for a min and says to us: "I also thing that in order for him to understand us perfectly he must also have felt all of our joy and happiness"..... needless to say my mind was blown! I dodn't even thing of that he's very studios... anyway best go!

love you all!

Sister McBride

May 25,2015- I'm staying in DUNDEE!!

at our stake conference with sister Wilkison and Lila and bishop brown. Mom here -- sorry she didn't give me the names of the elders. This is her old companion sister wilkinson. Sister Reed her companion now was taking the picture. These are people she new and baptized from her last area.

HIYA!

I hope you all had a great week this week!

First of all I'm staying in Dundee! :D And Sister Reed is still my companion! Yay

Secondly, I get to see Elder Holland! He's coming next week to Edinburgh and is giving a devotional for all the missionaries!!!! SO COOL! He'll be here on the 6th! :DDD

It has been a good week though. We've had a lot of blessings. We saw one of our investigators that has been trying to get off the drugs but we lost contact with him cuz his mom said he was back on them and she kicked him out. But we ran into him at a bus stop in this crazy city! And we were actually super late for an appointment with his mum, but if we hadn't been late we wouldn't have seen him. Not to mention I've never seen his eyes so clear, usually they're pretty glazed over. So that was cool. AND! There is a charity shop here in the Wellgate (which is basically just a mall) that's for deaf people! It's called Deaf Hub. Not sure why, but Sister Reed and I are totally volunteering there and are going to meet some awesome deaf people and I'm so excited!!

I've been studying 2 Nephi 3 which testifies about the BoM and Joseph Smith because one of recent converts has had a lot of questions and some doubts about those two things and reading that chapter has strengthened my testimony of them. I testify that if you want to know if this gospel is true, that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that Joseph Smith was a prophet study the BoM. I read something that says we should start study with a prayer. write down questions and choose a specific block of scriptures to read then answer the questions as you read. Pray again and ask God to help you understand more deeply the things He wants you to know and then read that block of scripture again, revise answers and then pray at the end to know if it's true. My mind was blown when I read that! Because study truly needs to be us communicating with God frequently. I have loved doing this and I find myself understanding more and feeling the spirit more in my study. I love the Book of Mormon and this gospel and I testify that it bring us everlasting happiness.

Have a good week all!

love, Sister McBride

May 18, 2015: HI YA! from Scotland, it's been a stressful week.

Got this pic from her today. I thought it was so cool. On the streets of Scotland. Her yellow skirt just pops with color against the cobble street. We also got a dropbox link of the Easter choir tour where all the sister and elders have their own folder where they can upload all the pictures they took. It has been fun going through them. This is one of the pictures from that link. 

Hello everyone! I hope you're all well!

We got and interesting wake up call to our phone ringing at 6:20! it was the elders asking if they could use our church key to go to the church for their work out this morning. I guess they forgot theirs... Lets just say Sister Reed and I didn't like missing those 10minutes! But its ok... they're nice enough elders ;)

This week was a bit crazy but good! we had a LOT of people drop our appointments, members, investigators, just all around everywhere haha. Which is fine. gives us more time to do finding!

We had stake conference this week! I got to sign for Lily, Mark and Andrew! So fun. the new sister, Sister Skagen, is like way good! She took ASL classes for 3 years so she's a super good interpreter! Our stake conference was a lot about the attitude of positivity. I learned that positivity is the mind-set that will lead to a change in us and in others. It was a really good stake conference! There is and Elder Boehme (baymie) from AZ that's going home this transfer. He is an amazing Elder and we're going to miss him.

I was just thinking the other day when we walked by this awesome church. ( I think it was one) It was crammed on this little street next to a bunch of flats but it was beautiful! It even had bells in the bell tower! So that was cool. I just still don't understand how people can graffiti or litter on or near something to historical! I mean we went to some caves back in Kirkcaldy they had ancient carvings. Like before Mideval times and some guys took a car in there and lit it on fire causing all of the carvings to go away! Bah! how even do people do that....? Anyway haha it's not too often you hear a horror story like that XD

Miracle yesterday. I took a nap during lunch( haha that's not the miracle). basically slept all the way through it! Knocked out cold! When I woke up I was still super exhausted and I think my blood sugar level was low so I was feeling a bit shakey. But I knew I had to go out and do the work so I prayed tht Heavenly Father would bless me with the strength and energy to go out. And he totally did! The more and more people I talked to the happier I felt and the more energy I received, it was awesome. C: The Lord watched over us.

I've been studying a lot in D&C... as I'm sure I've mentioned... But in section76 Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon receive revelation concerning the 3Kingdons of glory. Its way cool, but I love that it talks about the Celestial Kingdom first. Because that's the one that we're striving for! How awesome is that?

Also the more I'm here the more I believe that Tolkien modelled hobbits after the Scottish people. Also for those of you who want to visit here someday be prepared for the amount of smoke and the really bad B.O. agh... sometimes the buses are the worst.... But other than that (and the rain) Scotland is beautiful! :)

Hope you all have a great week!

The church is true and the Book of Mormon is the word of God. It will help you through anything. Any problem you face you can overcome through Jesus Christ and reading Gods word.

Skyping was awesome! And I DROVE!!

Hello all!

I got to drive on Wednesday! Yes drive! I was scary and I'm pretty sure Sis Sawyer thought we were going to die haha. We went on exchanges and I was going with her to Dunfermline while Sis Reed and Sis Montgomery stayed in Dundee. (they are like an hour apart) But Sis Sawyer doesn't have her license cuz she's from Whales and it's super expensive to get them. So I drove and I nearly clipped the side of a bus, well I did, but it was only the mirror and it bends anyway so it wasn't too bad and then I drove on the wrong side of the road at one point... but in my defence I thought it was a two lane road! Other than that We were fine and I was driving all day so I think I did pretty good! Don't worry I won't be driving anytime soon ;)

I've been studying some in Alma 18 about Ammon and I love how much it shows that Ammon teaches by the Spirit! Not only does he discern the Kinds thoughts but he waits. I think that Ammon waited for the king to speak for an hour partly because he didn't know what to say! I'm sure he realized the importance of the situation and was earnestly praying and seeking for guidance. He probably also knew that the Spirit was speaking to Lamoni and that he needed to be quiet. Basically Ammon is awesome!

Lots of blessings this week we're teaching this cool guy from Latvia!

gtg

Love you all, the Lord loves you most!

Sister McBride

PS back in Kirkcaldy, I hiked a "hill" basically a mountain! I had a great view though!

Dundee is awesome!

Sister McBride and her new companion sister Reed.

Hello everyone!

Everyone thinks it should be getting warmer here... well we thought so too until yesterday! Of course the one day I don't wear my water proof boots is the one day where it rains all day (no joke) and we decided to go chapping (knocking on doors) for an hour and a half. Woot woot! Not to mention we have to walk to church so that's always fun ;) I was ridiculously cold, lets just say that. But we had a great lesson with one of our investigators from Latvia named Dimitri! He's pretty cool and is going to Uni (I thing that means the University) here in Dundee.

Dundee is awesome! Things are going good. But it really is so hard not working with members. Sis Wilkinson and I were seeing at lest one member a day, but since Sister Reed doesn't know very many and the bus system here is absolutely ridiculous! We don't see very many members so sometimes we struggle finding things to do cuz we're like... welp we have 2hrs in between these 2 appointments... what are we going to do?!.... find, chap, GQ which are fine it's just really hard to do for 2 hours! Anyway its going good though. We're slowly building up member friendships and a potentials list.

Dundee is actually pretty sunny. We're technically on the shore of the river Tay right across from the towns Newport and Tayport but were right next to where it empties out into the ocean. Though were not as close and it's not as easily accessible as the beach was in Kirkcaldy which is unfortunate because I actually enjoyed running when it was on the beach! haha. There is a great view from the Dundee chapel that I'll have to remember to take a pic of!

We had Zone Interview Training this last week and the mission president come over. It was my last interview I think! Since the new mission Prez is coming in in June. It was so good. Every time I go to these conferences I always learn something-multiple things!-that I feel are tailored to me and my needs, to encourage, motivate and bring me back to reality! They are so good. Truly inspired of God and I love them.

Remember God loves you and you can pray to Him for anything. He loves hearing from you. I know that.

Have a fantastic week!

Love,

Sister McBride