Thursday, December 29, 2011

Christmas in Montrose, Scotland

It didn't quite feel like Christmas due to the lack of Snow and apparently this winter has been the warmest winter in about 50 years! I feel honored that i'm here at this time.

Well a picture is worth a thousand words.. here you go:

1. This is Hannah Dibdin dressed up like Rudolph




2. The Maxton Family. fun family

3. The Glanvilles and thier Granddaughter Kayla. They have us over every Friday. Always something Sister Beck and I look forward to

4. The Lynches. We made a connection my first couple of weeks. We know someone from Ephraim. They Lynches know him as a missionary, I know him as a Stake President. What a small world we live in.

5. Sister Hutcheon. One of the Sweetest ladies you'll ever meet

6. Our fireplace ready for Christmas!

7. My stocking. I was a very good girl this year!

8. Look at Sister Beck's stocking!! I'll give you a clue as to what you are looking for. DETAILS!

9. The Sister's with our Stockings!

10. A gift hand made by Sister Bunton! She made is special for us!

11. Couldn't resist having it on our wall in our front room!

12. The Craib couple. Sister Craib is also one of the sweetest people you'll every meet.

13. The Farquhar Family. They put up with us on Christmas day. I think they were more excited to have us leave (j/k)

My Christmas was wonderful and most memorable. The Farquhars always play pictionary with us (they play every year). It was Sister Kerr's (Sister Farquhars mother) turn. Her teammates couldn't guess it. Sister Kerr drew a girl and just propped it up for her teammates to see. Guessing continued but they didn't get it. When the buzzer rang the answer was revealed. The cad read Mona Lisa! How in the world is a normal person suppose to draw Mona Lisa. We all had a great big laugh! haha

Hope you have a wonderful New Year!

~Sister Garlock

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Merry Christmas!

What a great Christmas Devotional. I know it's late but I saw it for the first time last night. There's only so much to do with the time difference. I don't have much to say about this week so I'll share some Christmas Favorites...
1. Every Christmas my family has the tradition to watch the famous theatrical play "The Christmas Carol" aka Scrooge. I always look forward to it because I get to spend time with cousins and family members. During intermission we eat Sees Candy; It's not Scrooge without our Sees Candy. I have seen Scrooge 15 times, yes it's THAT good. If you get the chance, WATCH IT!
2. Wassil- There is nothing better than walking into the house cold and smelling the warm wassil waiting for me to take a sip of it's delicious warm flavor.
3. Making and building Snowman, Snow Angels, sledding and skiing is always a must.
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4. This is something I've appreiciate more while being on my mission. The birth of Jesus Christ. Sister Beck and I try to ask investigators, members and less-actives a question before we watch a DVd about the birth of Jesus Christ. One of our questions is "Why was it important for Christ to be born?" My logic: You can't ask a question and not look for the answer. As we watched the DVD with a member I paid attention to that question and received and answer. For me it was to help people believe. Giving them something and someone to believe in. Alot of people have to see things to believe them. With out Christ people wouldn't believe that a new star came into the sky. They wouldn't believe Christ's words and wouldn't have been able to feast upon them.

Christ is the Savior of the World and it was crucial for him to be born and to set an example for each of us. I love my Savior and I'm so grateful to celebrate his birth. I hope all of you remember the meaning of Christmas. It's wonderful to recieve gifts from family and friends, but please remember the gifts that Christ has given you! Don't forget that he loves you and is always showering you with gifts through out the year.

*Merry Christmas*

~Sister Garlock

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Christmas Season Spreads good Cheer


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Our Christmas Card Picture!!! Haggis is delicious! (seriously it is delicious!). Not as bad as people said it woudl be. It is just lamb heart, liver and lungs cooked in a lambs stomach. I don't know why people complain!

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Senior Couple: Clarkes, The Sisters at the Re-dedication ( It was known to be a great day, weather wise!). My purple lips and numb fingers and toes beg to differ! :)


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Companions Sister Beck and Sister Garlock at the light house!! Beatiful lsn't it?

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Puffin Poo. A delicacy from Shetland Scotland! Thank you Vicki for bringing a wee bit a Shetland to us. A little background needs to be said about Shetland. Shetland hasn't had missionaries in over 5 years because it's TOO small. Residents have been trying to get missionaries in Shetland for some time but our Mission President hasn't budged on his decision. Puffin Poo is suppose to be a small preview of what we are missing in Shetland. We were informed that our Puffin Poo was hand picked by a local we are friends with!! :) Thanks for the love.


This weekend was a special weekend for the Montrose Ward. Montrose land was Re-dedicated for missonary work. Elder Kerr (A 70) gave a short talk about being a light unto the people. A brief summary on Elder Kerr. He was the first missionary to leave the Montrose ward. His parents and sister still live in the ward. It was special to have someone everyone knew come and give the dedicatory prayer. The ward members met at the light house to listen to Elder Kerr at noon. Even in the middle of the day it was still cold and being by the sea shore didn't help any. However, it was a great opportunity to show our faith and willingness to participate in missionary work. It was a lovely service. Sister Beck and I haveseen that the field is white and we have had great success in harvesting it. We are booked full of appointments this ENTIRE week with members, investigators and less-actives. Members came up to us at chruch yesterday to see if we had time to visit them and we had to schedule them in for the the following week!! Just to give you an idea of what our week is looking like... We need 5 joint teaches (members coming with us to teach single men in their houses; We aren't allowed to teach a single man by ourselves, it's for our safety). On top of the joint teaches we have roughly 3 more appointments scheduled, there abouts.

Bishop wanted to make the Re-dedication a light house theme. We all know the significance of a light house. It allows sailors to know where the rocks are and where to come in for the harbor. Light houses are used to bring ships into safety from the rough sea. Bishop wanted the visual of the light house ergo why we had the Re-dedication at the light house. Elder Kerr expanded and said that other people notice that our church is different and how we should cherish it and take advantage of having the light of christ with us.

Religion has diminished throughout time. Before Everyone was part of a religion and attended chruch everyweek now, only the elderly attend church and religion is a touchy subject for most people. A member pointed out that people are not sending Christmas Cards. They are sending Winter Cards. Wishing you a Merry Winter Season. Why would you want to be reminded of how cold it is? It doesn't make sense. Being an example and having the light of Christ is SO important for the Montrose Ward. I was excited to hear Elder Kerr and I think the ward memebers were as well.

MERRY CHRISTMAS! and may we all remember whose birthday we are celebrating and how much Christ means to us.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Transfer

Six weeks have past and moves call came in on Sunday NIGHT! (torture for someone who doesn't like anticipation). I'm staying!!! Which means Christmas with a ward family, Boxing Day (26 Dec) with my Scottish Grandma, Carols with Companion and Driving in slush!

My weeks and days are all forming into one memory. I'll tell you a great experience I had this week:

We were visiting Valerie Murphy, as we usually do. We planned to teach her about The gospel of Jesus Christ (faith, repentance, baptism, holy ghost, enduring). We wanted to focus on faith and read a chapter of the Book of Mormon with her. As we did it was great. She was involved and enjoying the conversation and discussion. Towards the end I had a sudden feeling to share that Jesus Christ loves her, I followed the prompting and to my surprise more things kept coming out of my mouth. The feeling was like the Holy Ghost took control of my body and starting speaking through me. As words kept coming I knew that the Holy Ghost was taking over and I just relaxed and let the spirit tesify. When the Spirit was finished, I came back to reality and witnessed the wonderful expression on her face. I saw tears starting to form and I knew that she needed to hear those words. Sister Beck and I have gotten her in the habit of rotating prayers between the three of us. One of us will say the opening or closing and Valerie Murphy will say the other. Sister Beck said the Opening. As we closed the lesson Val picked up her reminder pamphlet on 'How to Pray' stared at it and said, "I can't do it."I knew we shouldn't push it because she was too emotional. I asked her if she would like to me say the prayer. After the prayer she thanked me for the kind words I spoke. We said our goodbyes and left the spirit lingering!

What a great feeling it was to be taken over by the Spirit. I hope you had a great week, good luck with finals. Study hard and remember to put the Lord first!!

~Sister Garlock

Monday, November 14, 2011

My Area

My stories won't make much sense unless I tell you a wee bit about my area and the people. I'm in a city called Montrose Scotland. My area covers four cities: Arbroath, Forfar(for-ferr), Montrose, Brechin and Letham and all the small cities inbetween. It's quite a big area! Here is a little infor about the people I see every week

The Dibdin Family: They are a young couple in the ward with four kids 3 girls and 1 baby boy. Their family is HILARIOUS!! Their girls are active and run area and are wild, but also very nice. They always draw pictures for us! We like to visit them once a week for Dinner appointments.

The Crawford Family: Brother Crawford is the ward mission leader! He is the father of Pauline Dibdin! Brother Crawford is very animated and is talented with accents. Him and his wife can talk broads scot which is basically 'the accent' everyone THINKS the Scottish speak on a daily basis. I still have yet to hear an example of what it sounds like.

Bishop Stronach: We have dinner every sunday with the Stronachs. Sister Stronach is the BEST cook. We tried one of her recipes. Easy and delicious!! We are so grateful for her! She gives us variety in our diet! They are the traditional Scottish couple most people would image. Accents, looks and lifestyle!!

Grandma Tough: Oh wow, what a firecracker she is! She is stubborn, hardheaded and SO CHARITABLE!! She is always trying to help people, but she thinks her way is THE right way and only way! She cracks me up. She is a HUGE John Wayne fan and tells people John Wayne is her boyfriend!! Granda is COMPLETELY opposite! He just smiles at her and accepts her for who she is. It's so precious. Also, Grandma is VERY punctual! If you are one minute late for dinner, you might as well not show up because she will give it to the dogs. However, she loves us so much that she'll wait if we call her in advance! :)

The Lynches: Sister Lynch is someone you don't want to upset. She has a glare that kills people! She has very strong opinions! One week I told her "Hey why are you sitting in our seats, didn't you know these are our seats? oh boy, she gave me a glare and a snappy comment! (don't remember sorry). I just started laughing and moved to another seat. Luckily she knew I was kidding! Brother Lynch is.....hard to describe. He likes to watch people's reactions so he'll try things out on people to see what's going to happen. best i can do. i'll give it a think and get back to you.

Those are the people that are dear to my heart! Every vist is a delight with them

Happy Thanksgiving!

-Sister Garlock

Monday, November 7, 2011

Tesifying through Music

What an exciting day Sister Beck and I had this Saturday. We were out and about visiting investigators and inviting them to church. One of our investigators live off of high street(state street). The investigators name is Sebosh, he is from Nepal. Sebosh agreed to come to church with us!!!!!!! On our way back I felt like we should say hi to a part-member family dad named Kev Croall. He is a non-member and his wife and two kids are members. We see Kev once a week at his in-laws (his in-laws have us over for dinner every friday!). We stopped by to see Kev, but wasn't in.
Sister Beck and I started home for lunch when we stopped and talked to a guy named UD. He was part of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. His congregation was setting up to sing on high street. Sing songs about Jesus Christ. Chit Chat happened, more people joined our conversation and all of a sudden they asked us if we sang. I said "Not in public!" his reply: It's not about you, it's about Jesus Christ! (ouch!). he contined "It's about letting people know that Jesus Christ is the foundation for our lives, we sing for Jesus Christ. Would you like to sing a song about Jesus Christ? " My head was screaming " NNNNNNOOOOOOO!" but Sister Beck said "Sure! yeah, we can do that! " He said we would be on in 20 minutes. Sister Beck and I looked at each other and said "We are singing on high street in twenty mintues......What did we get ourselves into??"
Once we were over the shock. We realized this was an opportunity of a life time. We went home and choose two hymns to sing. We had no choice but to sing accapella. We practiced three-four times in our flat. The time came and their congregation asked us which instruments we wanted. They said "We have drums, guitar, saxophone, piano, what would you like?" The only instrument we could use was the piano, but I WASN'T singing alone and we only had our mini hymn books so it would quite impossible for Sister Beck to play from the mini hymn book. We replied "Nothing, we are going to sing accapella." They looked at us like we were crazy!

As we sang "I know my redeemer lives (two verses; 1 & 4) and all three verses of "I stand all amazed." We both felt the spirit of comfort and peace. People didn't stop and listen, but they looked over and smiled! It felt SO GOOD to be able to voice our testimonies about Jesus Christ through music. It was a testimony to us that there are many ways to bear a testimony and many ways to bring people to Christ.

This is the man who invited us to come sing about Jesus Christ. I knew you wouldn't believe me if I couldn't prove it!! haha

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Bring one in: Bring one back

Hope all is well with everyone! Things in Scotland are great! The weather has bee quite sunny, but we hear it's going to be a cold wet winter. This past week Sister Beck and I have been focusing on getting Less Actives (LA) to church. We also have been focusing on our Stake Goal: "Bring one in, Bring one back" In order for this to work each family has been given the assignment to make a family mission plan to help "bring one in, bring one back." We have going around visiting as many members and LA as we can. We had a goal to get three LA to church and we had a shocking 5!

Brother Crawford (Ward mission leader) gave a presentation yesterday about how simple a mission plan is to create and had the missionaries (us) help with the presentation. We've known about the presentation for a week, but had NO IDEA what Brother Crawford wanted us to do for the presentation. We talked to him on saturday, he told us what he was going to do and said something about our part, but Sister Beck STILL didn't know what he wanted us to cover! We followed the spirit hopping what we planned would work and IT DID! We got a surprise call this morning from a family. This was the conversation: Maxton Family: Hi sisters we are calling to tell you our family mission plan us: (my thoughts: I'm sorry what did she say? is this really happening? we've been pulling teeth to try and visit people and encourage them to do their family mission plan and someone is ACTUALLY calling to report that they already did it?)  me outloud: Oh that's great ....

HOLY COW!! our work paid off and our presentation worked! Sister Beck and I felt so blessed that we dropped to our knees in gratitude. Miracles do happen when we push forward and do all that we can do!


This past weekend was the Ward Halloween Party....Oh it was SO FUN! and can you guess what I dressed up as??????? A Full Time Missionary!!!! yes i've never been a missionary for halloween and thought! "Hey i'll save some money" ok the REAL reason is that our Mission President said we couldn't dress up :( Sad moment for us. If we could dress up we were going to go as Dweedle Dumb and Dweedle Dee! It would have been amazing!
The YSA was in charge and they assigned us to tell a story to the children. This wasn't just any story, it was an action packed story that involoved food, staying quite to avoid waking vampires and finding a baby vampire fang!!! I have a wee bit of an idea of how to describe it, i'll try. We had to use food elements to help embellish the story. When we were looking for the fang we looked in the kitchen and had the kids feel inside bowls. the bowls contained witches eyes balls (grapes) and goblin Fingers ( hot dogs). It was SO funny because some of the kids would be truely grossed out! hahaha It was honestly the best ward halloween party i've been to!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures... none this week, sorry. Also, feel free to e-mail or write me. I can't e-mail back, but if you have BIG news that needs to be shared feel free to shoot me an e-mail! My address should be on the blog (right hand side??). Hope school is going well

Monday, October 31, 2011

Halloween Week Pictures

Fitting don't you think? This is a classic old fashion candy/icecream shop! This is where to come for special sweets!

This is what it looks like in fall! Beautiful isn't it? The picture doesn't do it justice. This road is out in the middle of nowhere. It leads to a city called Edzell. Some members lived out there. We enjoy the drive

We discovered we drove over a hedgehog! never thought i would ever see one of those! haha

Brother Dibdin. He is one of the families in the ward who is VERY supportive of us missionaries. He has Three girls: Erin-8, Hannah-7(Eden's twin, i'll send a picture soon!), Sarah-5 and baby Joshua - 1 month. Sister Beck and I LOVE the Dibdins. He came up with nick names. Sister Becks are : Sister Best and Sister Pest ( he gives us two; good and bad, depending on whether we need cheering up or need to be humbled!) and mine Sister Goldilocks and Sister Hemlock(poisionous flower! i think it suits me! ), Headlock (He said mine were a lot harder to come up with, I still don't think he found one that will stick! haha)

The ward Halloween party, fun costumes!

Companions at the sea shore!


Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Pictures!!!

I was playing soccer and with my mad skill I was able to get hit! My hand was up and the ball magically hit my palm and sure enough my wrist starting hurting. I went to President Williams (he is a hand specialist!! :) and he told me that I popped a blood vessel and instructed me to ice it and it should be better by morning. Well President Walker( President of MTC) found out and pulled me out of study time. He gave a delightful story about how magnets can help blood flow. He offered that i give it a try, so i did. I had to wear it until my wrist felt better. I wore it for about a day in a half. My discoveries: 1. Magnets really do help blood flow. 2. There are A LOT of metal items in the MTC! I would sitting in a chair and reach down for something when all of a sudden I feel my wrist being pulled in the direction of the chair and I would hear a 'cling' It happened often through out the day. So often that my companions would wait for an opportunity for me to get caught by metal! haha


The entire MTC in front of the pond.


River Ruble: where people were first baptized in England 
Gordon B. Hinckley's first flat (apt). This is where is dedicated himself to the lord.




Best award of the year: Gave us a long good laugh!




Telephone booth

 This is Sister Wittmaack (pronouced: Vittmack). She is the German teacher at the MTC. She is one of favorite peopel in the MTC. She always sits with the Sisters to chat and laugh with us! She was raised on a farm and always refers to herself as a Tough farm girl! haha


Me killing a spider above my bed.

New bangs/fringe

Monday, October 17, 2011

A Plea from Z...

Hello friends and family of Sister Garlock!

I'm Z, Lisa's friend who gets the sublime opportunity to be in charge of her blog while she's away.

I have a favor to ask of all of you.

My brother and sister-in-law have been trying to have children for 6 years--and despite their best efforts and all the medical miracles available (they've tried everything), they are unable to conceive.

So...they want to adopt! I'm so proud and excited for them, for they are going to be marvelous parents. The adoption process takes a long time, and after a year of paperwork, they have finally been approved as a candidate family.

What next?

They need to find a baby.

So please, if any of you know of somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody, let me know!

You may email me directly at a2zparks11@gmail.com OR look at Mitch and Brooke's info page at

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Thank you so much for your help!

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Great to be a Missionary!

Wow it's been a while, sorry for the wait. I didn't get much of a p-day last week. It was workshops ALL day. Alot to say in a short amount of time so i'll be brief with my stories.

1. I DROVE IN SCOTLAND!!! yes it was a great experience and no, it wasn't scary. My companion/trainer Sister Beck let me drive the second day! It was A.W.E.S.O.M.E It takes a little bit of getting use to just like anything else. I still need help/reminder when I come to round abouts, but i'm at the point where we take turns driving! The left side of the road is just as good if not better as the right side.

2. Grandma and Grand dad Toughs( pronounce Tukes). Oh how I already love them. Grandma(the name everyone knows her by) is loud, loves John Wayne(has her own cowboy hat, outfit and shed), is a less active, bold and PUNCTUAL! Grand dad is oppsite. :) She told us that missionaries stayed with her once upon a time ago. She told them if they were two minutes late that their dinner would go to the dogs and you better believe she stuck to her word. First lesson learned: Be on-time to grandmas, probably be early. Funny story, we get through a lesson and we say a prayer. Grandma asks me to say it. I start..I start by giving thanks, than i bless their home(using their first names) and i pause for a second to think of what i'm going to say next and the before i spoke i hear grandma say 'toughs, our name is toughs' I wanted to bust up laughing, but i managed to bless the Tough family and end the prayer!!!! It was SO funny! I could hardly stand it.

3. My companion/Trainer is Sister Beck. She was Sister Chichoni companion before the move(transfer). She is great and we get along great! She loves sports and is willing to play with the Elders (awesome). She is excellent at football(soccer). We played soccer with our zone yesterday and she pretty much could dribble around any Elder that approached her! It was a great site to see.

4. Success story. Sister Beck is not afraid to talk strangers. She really will talk to everyone and anybody on the street! We approached a polish father and asked him if we could come over and teach more about Jesus Christ. We got his info and planned to see him and his family on sunday. Sunday arrives, we find their flat and are buzzed to come in(blessing in itself). The father wasn't there, but the mother and child were. All we had was a polish pamphlet of the Restoration, Gospel fof Jesus Christ and a Book of Mormon. Keep in mind that the mothers just as much english as we do polish. I know nothing in polish, maybe three words if i REALLY think about it, hard. Fortunately, her 6 yr old sond spoke english and ended up translating most of the lesson. His attention span couldn't last the entire 45 min lesson. We read through the Restoration pamphlet, read the last two paragraphs of the introduction and with the power of the spirit I invited her to be baptized, she said yes and we set a date for the 9th of Nov. However, We have to make sure that she truely understands what we asked of her so for our next appointment we are bringing translated questions and testimonies to make sure she understands what baptism is and making sure it's something she wants in her life! At the end of the lesson SHE prayed (We asked her pray to start off the lesson and she said no, but her heart was softened and i felt like she trusted more by the end). It was funny because we asked her to pray and she said yes so we knelt down and waited for her, yes we waited about two minutes before she started. What could we say? nothing really, we let the spirit comfort and testify to her. I also don't think she understood what we asked of her, which is why I don't think she fully understood the invitation to be baptized!

Giving the invitation to baptizm was natural. We practiced giving invitations all the time in the mtc and i was use it to it. oh i have another success story, real quick

This happened while in the MTC. The preston mtc does street proselyting, bascially we get on a train and go teach people in manchester. On the train ride home My comp Sister Jones and I sit across from a wild couple. We sit and they pull out beers! i'm thinking 'beers, cool, this is going to be fun' we talk, get to know their religious background and start talking about the gospel of jesus christ. The girl belived in spiritality. As soon as she said that I KNEW I could teach her and that her heart was ready. I asked if i could share a message (the restoration) brought out the book mormon invited her to baptism she said yes. she commited to read and pray about it. She gave me her information for the missioaries in her area to contact her if she found it to be true and we bid her farewell! I have to admit the one fault of the lesson. My companion didn't say ONE WORD. Seriously I spoke through the entire lesson. I even turned to my companion and said 'is there anything you would like to say?' she said no so i kept going! The lady's name is Amy and shewas off the wall loud and outgoing. One of the best things about our conversation is the compliment Amy gave to me and my companion. Amy said that she could see the excitement in my eyes to share this message with her and she could see (in both our eyes) the love we have for the Book of Mormon and Jesus Chirst!!!

Great to be a Missionary!

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Week 1

Today we went to the Temple which is only a block from the MTC. oh my goodness!!! it is BEAUTIFUL! We were able to do a session and take a tour through the Temple. Sister Smith, a teacher said that they normally don't give tours, but the coordinator for the day was once the MTC President that he has a soft spot for the missionaries. The baptism font was INCREDABLE. I couldn't pick my jaw from the ground, it truely was a treat/delight to see. It is and will forever be my favorite baptismal font in the world.

A few facts about MTC life. There are only 30 missionaries here; 6 Sisters and 24 Elders. The Sisters are awesome. Sister Spencer has our Random fact of the day. I've learned that on average people lose 50-100 hairs a day. I tested the theory the next day...I only counted about 30. There are 140 million types of Spiders in the world and 40 million of them are poisionous and only three of them live in the United States! and I learned about black holes today. Sister Spencer is our dictionary! Sister Olsen, oh dear so much to say about her. With Sister Olson it's more how she says things that make it funny! Sister Jones is quiet, Sister Brown is loud, outgoing, always laughing and is always the first to volunteer to anything and last Sister Schulze(German) is quiet, but tells the truth. The other night we were eating dinner and being girls we were talking about how we are fat and need to stop eating. We asked Sister Schulze if we ate too much and she replied 'yes' we all laughed because we knew it to be true. She is sweet and is always making sure we are ON TIME!!!

In case you were wondering all the teachers here are british and have an accent so hopefully I can pick some of it up. Well that's it for this week. My p-days are on tuesdays so the next update will probably come tuesdays or wednesdays!

Hope everything is going well

Sister Garlock

Thursday, September 15, 2011

After the Long Flight

Why Hello Family,

10 hours later and i'm finally in the preston england mtc. it was a long and great flight. I always had someone to fly with. I met Sister Brown at the SLC airport. She is serving her misison in the Leeds, England Mission but we became good travel buddies. We met up with four other missionaries in chicago! it was great to see other missionaries. I love how you can spot missionaries from a mile away! hahaha
My first flight was only two hours long. I sat next to a guy named David who is a Lutheran. We talked the entire two hours. David loves learning about the history of things. Towards the end of our flight I had him read The Proclaimation to the World/Family. I mentioned that i want to be a stay at home mom and he said that when he looked for a wife that is the ONE thing he wanted (he is divorced and has twins). I told him that I got my inspiration from the procalimation to the world and it's what our church believes in. I had the young womens values marked and those were the sentences he found the most interesting. He was still showing interesting and asked if he could read...of course i said YES! he read the introduction, three witnesses, 8 witnesses and Joseph Smith experience. It was amazing! i got his information and i'm going to use it as a referral!!! AWESOME DAY!!!

Love you

Sister Garlock

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Letter Time!

If you find yourself saying "What should I do right now?" I am hear to tell you. I have a solution!
Send me a letter!




Sister Lisa Garlock
Scotland/Ireland Mission
51 Spylaw Road
Edinburgh
Scotland EH10 5BP
United Kingdom



Letters take TWO weeks to get to me so make sure you send it quick so i'm not reading old news.

Take Care!

Monday, September 12, 2011

The Call



"Dear Sister Garlock:

You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the Scotland/Ireland Mission. It is anticipated that you will serve for a period of 18 months.

You should report to the England Missionary Training Center on Thursday, September 15th, 2011. You will prepare to preach the gospel in the English Language."