Hello
Everyone! I hope you're ready to hear about another awesome week in Scotland!
Monday ~ Half P-day and One Sketchy
Neighborhood!
Because it’s the week
of transfers, we had to be done emailing and shopping by 3pm, and then it was
back to work! We visited this lady we met on the street the other day; she
invited us over to help her break her addiction to alcohol! Unfortunately she
happens to live on the most ghetto street I’ve ever seen! We've driven passed
it before on the bus and I always just thought it was abandoned, there isn’t a
window in the place that’s not smashed in, dead birds on the sidewalks, barb
wire on the side of the flats, and there were even trees growing through some
of the windows! But the lesson still went well. It’s always a great feeling to
help someone kick an addiction!
Tuesday ~ You can get a teaching appointment
in Scotland! Even if they are a junky...
I woke up, and was
excited to get out of bed for the first time in my life! Our Hot Waters back!! It
felt amazing to have a hot shower again... The first one in three days! Today
was pretty epic. We were able to set up 5 different teaching appointments, and
then go on splits with the Branch pres, and his son in order to get them all
done! Everyone we thought today had a pretty serious drug addiction of some
kind. It's really sad to see these things controlling their lives, but I’m glad
that they are looking for help and ready to make a change!
Wednesday~ Our real P-day and Wet Largs
Today was our full p-day,
it was really weird to have it on a Wednesday but I wasn't
complaining! When we woke up it was BEAUTIFUL outside! I could see blue sky!!!
So we decided we would go down to the isle of Cumbre and ride bikes around the
Island! (It’s a big tourist thing to do) I was so stoked but when we got to
Largs, it was pouring rain! Shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up I guess... Long
story short we ended up just hopping from shop to shop. The highlight was when
we went to this ice-cream shop It was called Nardinis, and it was amazing! Everyone
calls it the best Ice-cream in Scotland! To finish off out p-day we had a long
conversation with some Muslims in Pundbacket (kind of like the dollar store)
Thursday was
rough... Because Elder Clawson is the new District leader he had some big
training in Edinburgh. We ended up meeting another companionship in Glasgow and
did an exchange. So there I was with Elder Rich in the middle of Glasgow central
which is like time square in NY and probably the busiest area in Scotland
at 7AM and nothing else to do but talk to people for 9 retched
hours... I don’t think I’ve ever walked, or talked that much in my life. We
ended up having an extremely successful day though, we placed 6 Book of
Mormons, and got 3 potentials!
Not much to talk about
for Friday, we planned for 3 hours and spent some time finding and having a
coordination meeting in Dunoon.
Saturday ~ Service and Dinner with the Higgins
Saturday was
awesome! We did our normal 2 hours of asking for ££ at British Heart Foundation, help some dude move stuff in this ancient dusty house, Then had a
lesson with Saffron and Dinner with the Higgins! All I have to say is Kizzy and
Gavin Higgins know how to make a mean roast!!!
Sunday was
another amazing day! We did an awesome lesson in Gospel Principals, and I gave
a talk in sacrament, but the highlight was watching Gavin going around with the
sacrament trays for the first time! I loved every minute of it!
PS There has been a
massive cruise ship right outside my flat everyday this week! Tourists are
everywhere!! I even got to meet some members on vacation from Australia!
PPS Just to give you
an idea on how much it actually rains here in Greenock, Greenock is the second
rainiest area in all of Europe. But wait there’s more!! As of a couple weeks
ago, this had been the rainiest summer Greenock has ever had. Ever! Sense the records
began at least! In fact... it’s raining right now!
Thank you all for
reading and keeping me in your thoughts and prayers ~ Love Elder Cluster
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