Hey guys,
Well your week sounds like it has been really busy. Probably
a little bit more busy than over here in Cumbernauld. So to bring you up to
speed on my new companion. His name is Elder Bain. He is from Bountiful, Utah.
He has been out for a year and is a huge U of U fan. He is a fantastic
missionary though. He works very hard. Which is really great to have in a
companion.
Anyway, this week has been good. We were
able to visit with John again this week. We taught him the gospel of Jesus
Christ. It was a very good lesson. He seemed to learn a lot and felt the
Spirit. We have also been chapping quite a bit. Which reminds me, there was
this one lady who we chapped, her name is Caroline, and we told her who we are
as missionaries and the message that we are sharing and she was amazed that as
missionaries we go out for two whole years to a foreign country to be
missionaries. She then told us that we must miss home and gave us a bag of
chocolate biscuits and crisps (biscuits over here are similar to twix bars).
She was a very kind lady. She wasn't that interested in our message but told us
to come back if we needed anything. ( Don't worry Mom I am not too homesick.
Cumbernauld reminds me of northern Minnesota a lot which is kind of close to
home.)
It was very cool to hear that you were able to see the solar
eclipse. If there was one in Cumbernauld I don't think anyone would notice.
Haha.
So I do not really have a new Scottish phrase that I learned
this week but the accent is getting easier to understand. Hopefully I'll pick
one up next week. However, hardly anyone says 'yes' over here. Almost everyone
just says 'aye'.
Well I know you had a few questions for me so I will try to
answer them as best I can.
I haven't rode bikes in Scotland yet. Elder Bain and I take
a bus or walk everywhere. I did ride bikes in Waterford with Elder Plewe. We
would ride them to go to the church or to go chapping somewhere that was a ways
away. There are bicycle lanes in the street like the ones back home which is
nice. There are some areas that have bikes, like Waterford, but Cumbernauld has
a very weird layout. I've heard it is one of the weirdest layouts in the
mission. So it isn't as easy to ride bikes here. It's better to walk or take
the bus. I will try to get a selfie for next week.
Both Elder Bain and I take turns cooking. There is no
junior/senior companionship in the mission. President Donaldson likes having
everyone special assignment so each missionary has the same responsibility in
the companionship.
A typical p-day consists of us shopping at 8am, emailing,
and then going to Glasgow or staying in Cumbernauld. We do not always go to
Glasgow but we go there quite a bit because there is not much to do in Cumbernauld.
So in Cumbernauld we get fed anywhere from about one to
three dinner appointments a week.
Well, it has been great reading your emails and getting to
email you .
Love,
Elder Calley
I took a picture of this building last p-day from a museum
and thought it was interesting but true
