Hiya Fam!
I remembered to say "Happy
Mothers Day" to Mom before I ended the Skype, but I forgot to say it to
Laura, Kate, and Marie. So Happy Mothers Day!
It was great seeing you guys!! Elder
Ward says he's feeling very trunky, but I'm actually surprised at how normal I
feel! It doesn't even feel like I saw you yesterday! Poor Elder Ward... It's
probably because his girlfriend, without telling him beforehand, had come to
the Skype. Girls... Claire, don't date a PM (Pre-Missionary)
Anyways I've already told you about
our investigators, for the most part. So I'll just tell you how our week went:
Tuesday was crazy full!! We had
appointment after appointment after appointment!! After emailing, we went to Sister
E H, a wonderful older lady in the ward who seemed to think she was catering
for an all-you-can-eat buffet rather than feeding two missionaries and their
Joint Teach!! First time in a long time that I had corn on the cob again. I
missed it. After that we went over to S's, but the bus we needed to catch never
came! We were almost an hour late for our appointment!! Only had time for me to
meet him and get to know him a bit before we had to rush to our next
appointment! C G was having us over for dinner again. Chicken curry. It was a
miracle we had room in our stomachs for that after Sister H's!! We then had to
go over to a new investigator's place, who wasn't in. So we went by G, who
lived nearby, to see how she was doing. We helped her put new windows in her
car, then she gave us a lift back to our flat.
Wednesday was the All Scotland
Conference! It was incredible, really fun, and scary all at the same time! It
was particularly weird seeing missionaries from my own group go up and give
their outgoing testimonies!! Freaky. On the way home from that, we were walking
down the street to the train station when we heard a loud BANG! We turned
around and saw a guy intertwined with his bike, lying prostrate on the middle
of the road!! We rushed to help him, along with a few other people (one woman
actually got out of her car while she was in the middle of traffic to help
him!) An ambulance was called, and we stuck around until he was taken care of
by the emergency people. I've never seen that much blood before! It was a head
injury, so it looked more serious than it really was. His main worry would have
been concussion, probably. I'm sure he's fine now. After we got back to
Falkirk, we arrived just in time for our Coordination meeting with the Branch
Mission Leader, which went well.
Thursday, to celebrate Cinco de
Mayo, Elder Ward and I went out for Mexican burritos after Weekly Planning.
Delicious! Then we had a real appointment with S. He's so cool! He's German and
is really into computers and creates software for people. After that we met
with E to do more Family History, then went to BSL class. That went well! After
that we went by several referrals, GQ'd for a bit, then came home.
Friday morning we met with M A again
and we watched a General Conference talk. After that we went out to Bo'ness to
contact several referrals of ours out there. That's where we met E! I told you
about him, I think. We came home, went by a few more people in Falkirk, then
had dinner with W and his Mother. Had another delicious dinner with them.
Saturday we did some service for the
Majors, which, like I told you, went far longer than we'd planned. But we were
still able to have time to go teach M S again. That went really well! The Plan
of Salvation is so reassuring, isn't it? We also met J on the bus over to the
Majors in the morning. He was talking about a friend of his, who only recently
has started coming to a church, and how his mom died about a year ago. But J
said it was so sad because he couldn't tell his friend that everything would be
alright with his mom! I gained a much greater appreciation for the knowledge
that we have from that experience.
After church yesterday I planned for
our District Meeting, then we met up with M and E to Skype you guys, then after
the Skype they took us to another referral of ours. Wonderful family! SO
nice!!!
That was our week! Loved loved loved
talking to you all yesterday!! Wish I could have gone on longer! 40 minutes
isn't enough!!
We're going to be discussing the
Book of Mormon in our District Meeting. So I was studying Chapter 5 of PMG to
prepare for it, and that chapter is full of the many different ways the Book of
Mormon can and ought to be used for missionary work! It's there to establish
our church's divinity, to testify of Christ, to answer the "deep questions
of the soul", to resolve concerns, to bring us closer to God, and probably
a plethora more!! What an inspired book!! I am going to make a greater emphasis
on it these next few weeks, and I hope you are too!!
Oh, and I'm also sending you a
recording of my farewell testimony. You can't hear President's comment, and it
takes a bit to get to my testimony, but I hope you enjoy it!
Have a great week! Love yas!! :)
Elder Bates
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