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