Week 5: Scotland

Not much to report this week since I got to skype home on sunday. Good to see the fam! But it honestly feels like yesterday when i got dropped off at the mtc. These past 6 weeks have flown by!

Last week was a bit harsh.. We had a few really really good lessons on the street, in each we gave out a book of mormon and the people all wanted to know more and each got return appointments but they all ended up falling through. Breaks my heart.

Wednesday we were in Dundee again! Then we went straight from there to Dunfermline on exchanges, and when i say straight, i dont mean it because we missed two trains and some buses so we didnt get into Dunfermline until about 5:30 then we went to a members for tea. Oh incase i havent told you, tea is dinner. I should just type up a big long list of cool words and vocab that i now use in my emails so everybody understands me. But anyway, our exchanges were me and sister galbraith going there and then sister mccary and sister lund coming to kirkcaldy with sister hopkin. We got to hang out with sister hansen, who is really cool! It was an awesome night! We spent the night in their flat, which is above a funeral home! super cool! Its on a way steep hill and we had to walk up hills to get everywhere it felt like. Dunfermline is just like a busier, bigger version of Kirkcaldy, with more shops and people. We also went and visited a less active of theirs that they have been trying to get to church. She had like 13 cats i think she said... Which is really no suprise here because people have atleast one cat and usually more. Poor sister Galbraith is allergic so she sneezes her face off most nights. Luckily i conquered my allergy to cats.

Fun fact: In Scotland they don't use z's very much. So they use s's in most words like, recognise and baptised and organise, and so forth.. Its cool, but it messes with my head sometimes because i don't think i'm spelling words right the first time because they look wrong.

Its been very very rainy this last week. But with more rain comes more rainbows. i have seen like tripple rainbows and i always get really excited and yell double rainbow but neither of my companions have ever seen that youtube video so they dont get me.

Well I love you all! Have a fantastic week!

Love, Sister Hulet

 

Some fun Scottish Vocab:

Flat: appartment

Tea: Dinner

Chips: fries

Crisps: chips

Phone: to call (I will give you a phone back)

Hoover: vacuum

Biscuits: cookies

Da Kin: I don't know (people say this one all the time and so you have to pick up on it cuz they say it so quickly)

Ya kin: I know, or Do you know

Aye: Yes (I've found myself saying this one already!)

Cheers: thank you (love this one!)

Garbbage: Rubbish!

Trolley: shopping cart

Stroller: Pram

 

My pictures this week are small in number.. sorry.. But there is one from the train crossing the water to Dundee. Bad quality but the rain ruins most pictures through windows. and then a great looking rainbow from our flat window :)

(A note to her mother this morning!)

Mum!

I am so so sorry i forgot to tell you happy mothersday yesterday! I feel bad... but now i'm telling you! I hope it went well, sorry you had to miss church and thus miss out on the awesome present the ward usually gives you! Roof Stoof! But i will now tell you a story that i am only telling you because you are my mom and i can brag to you! :)

So if you'll remember a few weeks ago we met sean in the street and he was our whowhatwhenwhere of the day and he was awesome and we had to turn him over to the elders to teach? WELL the elders have in fact been teaching him and he is coming a long great! so they were talking to him about when we stopped him in the street and he said that he really liked ME! like i guess when we stopped him i was the one that got his attention and made him want to learn more because we started talking about Jesus and stuff and he said, oh no, i think i just believe in science. and i guess i started telling him how he can believe in science and god and how perfectly the work together and stuff and he told the elders he really liked that because i was bold and i made sense to him! which is really crazy to me because that is one thing i have been working on a lot is being BOLDER. because i found a scripture that i sent to ryan saying like be bold because if you love christ you should be afraid of anything or anyone. so i was trying to focus on that, and the fact that he told the elders about me and that he used the word BOLD! was just too cool to me! Like it made me so happy! But like i said, i just thought i could share that with you cuz you're my mum and i didnt want to sound like i was bragging in front of my comps yesterday when we skyped!

also, i noticed you had an actual list of questions and if you wanted to just type them up like

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down the page then i could hury and go through and answer them in short answers if you wanted. But anyway, it was great seeing you guys yesterday, i hope you had a swell mothers day! I love you!

Love, Sister Hulet