Is it a bird? Is it a Plane? no It's CLOUDS

This week the clouds have been absolutely amazing!!! Honestly I can't get over the clouds here, it's almost an obsession, almost. The weather changes quite rapidly here in Scotland and I love watching the clouds move across the sky. This past week I've been looking up towards the clouds! Thought I would share one of God's greatest gifts of the creation with you from across the world. 

In other news in the East Kilbride area I have developed a new skill.....Changing toliet seats! A while back Sister Oswald and I were trying to open the window to air out the bathroom. Now our bathroom is old and the window has some moldy bits. Due to leaking the window seal drooped, in order to open the window one sister had to hold up the the wood to make room for the window to swing opened. I took it upon myself push the wood up allowing Sister Oswald to push the window opened. We were successful! On my way down off the toliet the cover slides and we here a CRACK! I jumped away from the toliet turn around and find that I broke the toliet seat cover.UGH! We didn't bother fixing it so we left it. Three months later I was fed up with a broken seat cover. yeah I know, I should have fixed it ASAP.

Last week I fixed it. Here are the before and after shots. 

Hope you all have a great week!

~Sister Garlock

What didn't happen to us this week

Honestly, this week has been very eventful and I want to share everything.

*Did you see a welcome mat?*

 This huge spider was spotted during planning and was quickly removed

 *TACOS!*

 I forgot how much I LOVE tacos! We made them for a less-active and they were delicious!

*Autumn*

 It was great to play in the leaves on our way to our next appointment. Autumn is the best season of the year!

*CANDY!!!*

Seriously, this is not a trick picture, it is in fact a reality. This is weeks of candy that we haven't eaten yet. We managed to give some to the other missionaries!

*Glasgow Museum*

Read first paragraph second line.... Even they knew we would be judged from the desire of our hearts! haha I couldn't help but giggle a wee bit

 Elvis- If he could speak i'm sure he would say "ye a cheeky besom!"

We were in a Trio with SISTER PARKS. She is great!

I found my Knight and Shining Armor! I had to travel half way across the world, but I found him!

*BAPTISM!!!*

We ended the great week with a BAPTISM!!!!!!

Bill Graham was found on 19 July 2012 at 8 O' clock pm. We taught him on a park bench, luckily the weather was nice to us and he was the first person Sister Hopkin EVER talked to, taught and invited to be baptized. Three months later he was!

I have one thing left to say. Don't be jealous. I'm sure you had a great week as well.

Take care, enjoy the leaves and buckle up for winter.

~Sister Garlock

What do you do?

Monday is our p-day. It was sunny and bright most of the day. We spent most of the day inside finishing up some items of business. At 6 o'clock p-day ends and we make our way to our appointment. Five mintues out the door and the rain comes. The rain is honestly lashing down as we walked AGAINST the wind. Our appointment wasn't in which lead us to our last appointment of the night, Family Home Evening at our Granny Green's. We get there and the first thing she says is "Oh my goodness, take off your skirts." She runs upstairs and gives us clothes to wear while she dries our drenched clothing.

Nothing gets better than being soaked on a way to an appointment. 

-On monday I treated myself. 

 I have been contemplating glasses for a while and finally decided "yes, i'll get them for reading." Since I've used them I feel like I read faster! haha Oh our mind is marvelous. It makes me happy while i study!

- Girls just want to have fun! And we do!

Five mintues

What can I tell you in FIVE MINTUES??????? The church is true, the lord keeps his promises. General Conference is in two weeks, INVITE, INVITE, INVITE. Everyone needs to receive revelation through a living prophet.

Think about conference. It's a special event that only happens twice a year. Prepare for it, be ready and excited that THE Prophet and his Apostles are taking time to speak to you directly.

Remember only TWICE a year we have the opportunity to "Listen to a Prophet's voice"

Cherish it, love it, CRAVE IT!

Have a great week!

~Sister Garlock

Sister Exchanges

My exchange was a good learning experience. Here are some pictures of how great it was.

All I have to say is a picture is worth a thousand words. Sister Morgan and I had a great time and worked really well together. We both saw miralces in one day and felt blessed by each other's strengths.

The exchange is different from what I expected. However, we weren't told anything about an exchange. I told my zone leaders that I felt like I was thrown in the deep end with the life savor thrown to the side of me instead of at me. I had an idea of what an exchange was, but I didn't know my role in the exchange. Either way, it was a good report and they will probably do it again next transfer....SO EXCITED!

In other news in East Kilbride. We were over at one of our recent converts house, Seda. We were closing and asked Eilidh to say the closing prayer. Eilidh is four years old, knows how to pray, but is rebellious. When we asked her to prayer she layed flat on the floor. I layed down next to her and asked "is this how we pray?" We all got the giggles and Seda had to take a picture! Don't worry we did pray properly....eventually! haha 

BEST BIRTHDAY CARD EVER!

 There is a cheeky old woman who we visit each week. This week was special because it was her birthday. I've been holding onto this card for roughly 8 months. Waiting for the right person to give it to; if that person existed. I thought I would share the laughter with you. What made it even more priceless is two weeks before her birthday she told us that she was not wanting to turn 80yr old, rather she wanted to start counting DOWN. She has been wanting to make it to 80 for so long and one day she decided that she wants to be younger. When she made that comment I couldn't help but share this card with her.

Good times in East Kilbride!

Have a great week

~Sister Garlock

MiRaCLe

First I'm going to tesifty that Heavenly Father keeps his promises even in the most stressful inconvient circumstances. This week I felt like the wind swept us off our feet. Usually scottish winds are all directions but the wind this week caught us off guard. I'm not actually talking about wind, more like challenges.

This week we were in Edinburgh for follow up training with all the new missionaries. We found out a week in advanced and scheduled accordingly. On Monday we receive a phone call from our Zone Leaders informing us that we were going on EXCHANGES with the Edinburgh sisters and it would take place on wednesday. Needless to say we spent most of monday and tuesday re-scheduling and planning for the exchange (exchange experience will be next week when i can upload pictures).

A little background. President Brown trained us on teaching 20 lessons a week. He showed us a promise from L. Tom Perry saying that if we taught 20 lessons a week we would double the baptisms in our area. I've been in East Kilbride 7 months and I've always taught at least 20 lessons each week. Our trip to Edinburgh and the exchange as well as planning day and p-day we didn't have a whole lot of time for lessons. We had about 3 1/2 days taken away. We were worried about achieving our goal, but did our best to plan our appointments. Saturday night we planned for sunday and realized we didn't have enough lessons. We thought of someone we could visit (pretty soild appointment) and went to bed.

Sunday morning we go to Stake Conference, come home phone the lady who usually is soild and she informs us that she doesn't want a visit.......oh no. Along with all of this Sister Hopkin and I managed to catch colds from other missionaries. Each of us catching different colds from two different missionaries. However, we both were determined to get 20 lessons.

After studying and planning we head to our appointment, had a great lesson and head up to a less active. We had about an hour of time to either find someone to teach or try by less actives. We choose less actives because that is what we are focusing on. Long Story short our less active wasn't in and we only have 45 minutes. Time was running out. I was sick, sore, coughing, trying to stay upbeat when inside I was desparetely wanting to go home, get warm and take the longest nap.

Instead, Sister Hopkin and I prayed and asked for guidance. We tried by another less-active who didn't answer their buzzer. We stood there for a couple of mintues trying to recieve inspiration. A lady walks up to the door and asks us if we are here to see someone. We say yes and she lets us through. We chap the less-actives door. The wife (non-member) answers the door. We say "Hi wer..." interuppted she says "NO, not again, you always come around at this time." We say "we are looking..." interuppted again with "NO, this is my house and you're not coming in, go away!" and slams the door. We stand there wet and stunned by a harsh rejection. We heard the wife yell with anger "It's the mormons, they always come around this time. What did i say about them." We look at eachother with sadness in our eyes knowing that we probably were not going to reach 20 lessons when all of a sudden a man opens the door, it's the less active. He takes one look at us and we could see the sorry in his eyes for his wife's behavior. He says "you're wet...come on in" We say "are you sure?" he says "yes, come in"

We walk in the living room and meet the wife, again. She is stiff as a board and hardly looks at us. We officially introduce ourselves and end up having a great conversation. As soon as we started asking questions about their family and about how they met etc... the wife's appearance changed within seconds. As soon as her countenance changed i felt more comfortable. We were rude and came around dinner time (I guess the missionaries in the past always showed up around dinner and expected to be fed). We apologized and told them we wouldn't take much time, just that we wanted to get to know them.

Things were winding down and we managed to share a scripture, our testimonies and have a prayer! Basically we had a lesson! We left feeling so uplifted we thanked our Father in Heaven for hearing our cry. I knew Heavenly Father would keep his promise, but I didn't know how. I'm so grateful to be a missionary and be a witness of his tender mercies.

It was a great way to end the week. The church is true, God is real, and prayers work

Have a great week!

~Sister Garlock

"I'm Skyard"

Sister Hopkin and I had dinner at our Bishop's home monday night and one of their wee ones said she was skyard (scared and tired put into one word, just in case you did you know!)

She summed up how I feel quite well - I'm looking forward to my nap today.

Anyway, more exciting news. Sister Hopkin never has had thortons icecream before and it may have been our last p-day together so we decided to get some. 

 As you can see, it's desireable :)
We brought a member with us (I think I might have already shared this.....oh well it's worth sharing again). His name is Brother McCafferty, we have been telling him for months how delicious thortons is and he has been dying to try it. We invited him and had a great time! What a character he is! 

Here are some other pictures of us. 

 Sister Hopkin and myself; mother daughter.

 This is one of many great sites we see every day.

The days are getting colder and we are expecting snow at the end of october.....buurrrrrr. It was so cold one morning I almost unpacked my winter gloves and scarves. However, Scotland has VERY unpredictable weather. The mornings are cold, by afternoon we want to shed all our layers and night is right inbetween. haha Never thought weather would be such a barrier as a missionary! I still love the work and wouldn't change it for the world.

Have a great day!

~Sister Garlock