Sep 18, 2017
Hey guys, so this week has been surprisingly pretty dry. It
has hardly rained at all this week which has been nice. We were on exchanges
quite a bit this week. We were in Airdrie for exchanges with the district
leader, Elder Baklan on Wednesday, and were in Glasgow on exchanges with the
zone leaders on Friday. It is interesting to be in a different area even if it
is only for a day. Airdrie is a smaller town. It's about 35,000 people. The
ward there is about 60-80 though every Sunday. Glasgow however is just huge. It
is a pretty big city. There are endless places to find. I was with Elder Wang
for the day. He is a convert from Beijing. They have quite a few Chinese
speaking Elders in Glasgow because there are a lot of people who come over to
university here. They also have two wards in Glasgow and they are both good
sized.
We also taught John and Gordon this week. We had a really
good lesson with Gordon. We essentially came in and sat down and listened to
his concerns and within five minutes he had solved them himself. At the end of
the lesson, he said that he knew that the church was true and that he should
probably start attending regularly. That was a really cool moment because he
has been waffling back and forth between attending a born again church in
Glasgow and the church here in Cumbernauld.
So yesterday, I had to give a last minute talk on family
home evening. Because it was last minute, I mainly just shared a lot of
personal experiences. I realized that I have some pretty good experiences of
FHE.
Wow, I can't believe that you guys fly over the pond on
Friday. It's a long flight. That's interesting that the French seem to
dress nicer than Americans. I would say that Scotland and Ireland dress about
the same as back home.
So the Scottish word for the week is 'ken'. Instead of
saying know most people just say ken. For example instead of saying I don't
know they would say 'I donnae ken'.
By the way the new shoes are holding up. They are water
proof and definitely should survive the wet weather. So usually for zone
conference all of the missionaries in Scotland will gather together so it’s
about an hundred missionaries. I would say about 8-10 missionaries get together
in Glasgow on P-days though. I haven't gotten called to play piano at church
yet in Cumbernauld and when it comes to zone conferences, there is always
someone else who is assigned to do it.
By the way, every Saturday we always go and do service in
this garden with John and some other elderly people. I thought I would include
a picture of it.
We did talk to a lot of Chinese people. Sadly, that Chinese
class I took in middle school didn't help at all. We've been better at
exercising this week. . Hope
you have a great week too!
Well, I hope you guys have a safe trip. I love you guys.
Elder Calley
