My Love Ones,
That song from Fiddler on the Roof, the "Wonder of Wonders, Miracles of Miracles, God did a Daniel once again...!"? Yeah, I want to sing that almost everyday as a missionary!
We had great adventures last P-day as we went with Kirsty and Dee (with permission) to Dalkeith/Midlothian, where Sister Passey has a great-great-great-grandfather who helped build a church! It was really cool, and they still hold services in there! We weren't able to go inside, but we peeked in the windows and saw the plaque with his name on it! We walked around the graveyard as well, looking for family names, and Kirsty expertly called the records office and found out that he is buried there, but without a headstone! All the old grave markers are so cool over here! All shapes and sizes! Abraham Moffat, Sister Passey's grandfather was a miner, so we drove over to the miner's museum to see if there would be any information about him, but the result was another source to email for records and information. Then... we went to CostCo! Haha, surprise! It was totally like stepping out of Scotland and into America! It was even organized similarly to the Sam's Club store in Idaho Falls! We mostly just walked around and tried samples, the highlight of which was my first haggis! (I'll send photos soon) I liked it. I admit it. It was herb-y. They had prepared it Greek-style (haha!) on a pita with Tatsiki (sp?) sauce! So funny, my first haggis was in Costco. Also, we got Krusteaz Pancake Mix! Huzzah! That's on the agenda for today... :) Kirsty and Dee were so much fun, and they take really good care of us. They even bought us CostCo hot dogs. Good stuff.
We had FHE with Linda Meade, a ward missionary, who's been really good at helping us organize cottage evenings, investigator/less-active lessons in member's homes. She's a good lady, and a good mom.
Tuesday we had a Zone Meeting in Edinburgh, which including a 20-minute walk to the church from the train station in the rain. And we were slightly luckier than a couple of elders... oh, everyone was wet. But it was a really great, inspired meeting about diligent, faithful finding! Forever finding, talking to everyone, faithful in that the Lord is preparing people, and preparing us to meet them! Also a new finding method to make goals and plans for each day- QGC's, Quality Gospel Conversations, which includes teaching, asking questions, testifying, committing and setting a return appointment! It really is stepping up the ante for our conversations with people.
We did some finding in Callendar Park, which was a good experience, met some good people, and chapped a couple of doors before we went to teach A NEW INVESTIGATOR!
SCOTT is wonderful. He is single, about 37, and works as carer in an elderly home of dementia patients. He's a musician and film junkie and a really, really deep thinker. The man can talk for Scotland. That is our main challenge with him. We'll be with him for an hour and a half and we've taught (or said) barely anything. But he likes that we listen, and what we have said he really likes, and the thoughts he's shared that he's developed (no religious background really) really go along with the Plan of Salvation and how God really loves us and is mindful of us, but he always emphasizes how we have to be motivated to do things and take advantage of what God gives us, rather than sitting and waiting for Him to make all the decisions. He is inspired. Some things will be a little hard for him to accept, like one specific person is God's prophet on the earth, but he has said himself how he feels like everything has been leading him towards this!
We spent so much time listening to Scott that we had to run with our pizza dinner in hand to the bus station so we could go see Sarah! We invited Sarah to make a list of qualities in someone she would date and/or marry. She turned 16 yesterday and says she'd rather marry her dog than a guy. Good attitude! Lol, jk.
Wednesday was a bit rough, we had a good time with Iris for lunch, got to meet her friend Andy, and see how wonderful and proud Iris is to share her testimony! Then we went out to Denny and had our appointments drop, so we chapped for a couple of hours without success, and were beat by the time we got back to Falkirk to walk up to the church for a Relief Society activity. The activity went great though, it was well-attended, there were crafts and Kirsty taught vegetarian cooking, which was delicious!
Thursday was absolutely marvelous, Sister Kew, the RS Pres. picked us up and we went out to Denny to have A SECOND NEW INVESTIGATOR LESSON!
NICK is absolutely golden. He has a friend who is a member and has been so great to share her beliefs with him, and he has accepted it all, because all the other religions he's learned about just don't answer all the questions and all the Christian faiths disagree and he is just so so prepared. I want to HUG his friend for all she's done to be member missionary! It was fate that we meet him when we did. I'm so so excited for him!
We had dinner with Kirsty and Dee and talked about personal experiences with the priesthood and they took us up to the church for missionary coordination meeting and ward council. We only had one bus ride all day! Thank you, Lord, for really great, caring members!
Friday we went and taught Betty, a less-active member and went and did service in Marina's garden again. Kirsty and Dee picked us up to go help them with a project for a friend. They've put up a garden gate up for her, because she's been battling cancer, and she really deserves some service. She had a ton of beautiful, ripe raspberries that I would've picked for her if I had had something to put them in. Then they took us out to a fish and chip dinner and gave us a lift to pick up Sophie so we could go see Jon. Jon is doing so much better, his head is basically healed and all the stitches have been removed. He has some great stories for his Family History!
Saturday we did service for and had lunch with Sister Downie and Sophie came with us to teach Scott, which turned out similarly, not much taught, but we did teach God is our Loving Heavenly Father and the Gospel Blesses Families, and learned a lot about his family and we tried prophets and dispensations, but it didn't work out before we had to RUN out for an appointment which dropped, so we did some chapping and had a QGC! We had dinner with Sister Kew, the elders and the Eagleshums, which is great. Sister Kew does so much, even though she's challenged by her health, having had a kidney stone for over a year and having to wait until September to have it removed. She works so hard, I wish we could help her somehow, but she's stubborn. More finding... met someone Jewish! That doesn't happen everyday!
Yesterday we had church, and we should always expect opposition Sunday mornings. Ach. But on the plus side, the elder's investigator Courtney finally made it to church! Our meetings were really great, Book of Mormon in Sacrament, Prayer in Sunday School, and Baptism in RS. Great for Courtney, wish we could've gotten someone there. But hey, it'll happen. Sundays are honestly the hardest day of the week. We tried to see Thomas, but he wasn't in again, but we were able to teach Marina and Flora, both of which are struggling with mental/emotional health, especially Flora, so keep her in your prayers.
So, that's me this week! I love you all so much. Thank you for your prayers and all the ways you have, do now, and will, bless my life. I know God lives! Miracles happen!
Love,
Sister Kirkpatrick!
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