I wish I could draw how the roller coaster of my mission looks in my head! But I'll tell ya, it has lots of ups and downs and then a really high uphill, and now I'm looking down from the peak, and I can tell there's lots of twists and turns ahead! Photo of my 9-month mark attached! I look pretty thick from all the "warm" layers, haha.
Montrose is a wee town, beautifully sat on the water. It used to be really agricultural, but its become a bit more residential in recent years.
So, we worked a lot on our area book this week, it needed a make-over.... We do service at a Charity Shop (there's lots of them, kind of like DI) in Montrose, and there's a really nice manager who asks us a lot of questions there :) She's great.
We saw a lot of members this week, and I love them! I love feeling like I'm already building a family here! That's been the favorite part of my mission, is building a network of members, non-members, less-actives and investigators that will hold a bit of my heart forever.
I really feel like that this ward and I are a perfect match, at least for this point in time, and I'm so excited to help them be missionaries and see miracles happen here! My mum reminded me of something great: “God didn’t send you here to fail.”
I met some great, funny people and some awesome cooks! There's too much to say! Sis. Craib, the Watsons, the Glanvilles, Sister Rollo, the Jamiesons, the Farquhars! <3
But we got a wee bit... stuck when a bus left us behind, so we had to call the Hayballs to come rescue us, haha!
We had Zone Interview Training in Dundee on Friday, and we learned much about the basic of missionary work: The Doctrine of Christ, Involving Members, How to Begin Teaching, and of course, Loving the People. I know that the last of these is the very most important, because when we love and serve others as Christ would, everything falls into place. It was great.
A great Subway worker let me use the employee bathroom when I was desperate this week. That was great. This country seriously lacks public amenities.
The Relief Society had a super fun pancake activity on Friday! They all sat around and discussed different recipes and methods, just for pancakes! It was brilliant, and we got sweeet reward from it! Tracy (our investigator) even came! She's great. Sis. Morrison apparently has already introduced me, haha.
Speaking of sweet rewards, my mom and sister-in-law Merrilei and brother Kyle are legit for their birthday packages full of junk food. I'll just have to lose weight when I have to come home, haha.
I met the infamous "Grandma" this week! She's great, really prickly, cheeky, old-fashioned grandma. Dang. Bark is worse than the bite though!
I had to speak in church about tithing yesterday, which went well, but I kind of lost it when Sis. Rollo looked at the clock and looked at me and said, "Not long enough!" We were in a giggle fit right behind the conductor during the intermediate hymn, hahahaha!! Sister Rollo got up and said, "I appologize, I have no idea what that was!!" I just looked at her and started giggling! It was great. And then the Farquhars brought it up later when we were at their heart, and we already had been having a hilarious conversation, and I was SLAYED trying to explain myself! Ah.... I'm staying warm by laughing!
Well, bye for now! I love you!!!!
Yours,
Sister Kirkpatrick
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