Manchester Zone

 The Manchester Zone

 The Manchester Zone

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More Not So Good News...

TERESA- Hey Family,

Well, first with the really AMAZING news! Brother Ian Smith got baptized on Thursday and the majority of the ward was there to support him! His dad, Alex, even came to give him support so that was really nice. I asked his dad after the service what he thought about it and he said that it was nice, that he liked the scriptures and talks and all that. I asked him though how he felt about it and he said, “nope, I'm not joining your church”. I laughed and told him that I was just asking, he laughed too and said he did enjoy it.

Ok so I bet you are tired of hearing all these letters gone wrong! Because I have some more not so good news for you. Everything was going just great until Saturday. We tried to get a hold of Brother Smith and he didn't answer (that never happens). So we knew it was bad. We just ended up dropping by his flat to see what was wrong. Needless to say he was not fit for confirmation the next day on Sunday. I was heartbroken. We talked it out though with Bishop and President Griffiths and that made me feel a little bit better. But I was still way sad. He can still get confirmed but at a future date, when he's able to sort out his problems. Now just so you know, I am NOT the kind of missionary that rushes people into the font. They do it when they say they are ready to make those promises. We have worked so hard with him over these past couple of months and have invested SO much time in him that when he fails to progress and starts to digress I get so sad and disappointed. This is what parenting HAS to feel like. I just don't understand how they just don't get it, you know, the MAJOR importance of the gospel and how vital it is to our existence. After all, that is exactly WHY we are here. Nothing is more important than that because everything else then is just temporary. It was very saddening for me. But after talking to President, Bishop, and Sister Peterson I started to see that those things are real weaknesses for some people. It's not at all that Brother Smith wasn't taking it seriously, it was just a habit and a sincere weakness for him that he's had his whole life. I'm starting to understand that that's what the Atonement is for. Heavenly Father knew we would blow it and make mistakes and mess up, so that is exactly why he sent his son, Jesus Christ, to suffer for our sins. After ALL we can do, He will make up the difference. I realized as well that it's not my place to judge. I mean, look at me? I am FAR from perfect and I definitely have my own set backs and weaknesses that I have to overcome myself. So the last thing anyone else needs is someone criticizing them for their mistakes, I know that wouldn't make me feel good or worth anything. My job is to encourage, uplift, and invite. Our Redeemer will handle the rest. And what a wonderful thing that is as well, that I don't have to carry that heavy burden but that He's got it under control. So I am feeling better about the situation every day. It's OK, even President said that it's OK. Things will take work but we and him are willing to put in the time. Brother Smith is willing to do whatever it takes to be free of his addiction.

Man, do I ever have a testimony of the Word of Wisdom. It is truly one of the MOST important commandments we could ever keep. When the Word of Wisdom is not kept, it prevents the person from having the Spirit (most important thing) and it destroys the family. The effects of it affects everyone else who loves that person. This is another example to me of our Heavenly Father's huge amount of love for us to give us these commandments to protect us and keep us happy. After all, "men are that they might have joy." (2 Nephi 2:25).

I want you all to know how much I love you all. Dad, Mom, Sheila, Steven, Erika and Rachel - you all mean the world to me! This Sunday in Relief Society we had a lesson on eternal families and it made me think of all of you. It made me think of how short a time this life is and how much I don't want this to be the end of being together. We are a family. We are meant to be together forever. The thought of that not happening just makes me want to cry. I love you all with ALL of my heart and I want to be with you guys forever. I just wanted you to know that. I love you.

So as you can see this week has been pretty stressful. I also had to give a talk in Sacrament meeting on asking questions at every meeting we attend in the church. I thought it went well; I got a few compliments on it so I hope everyone else got something from it too. I hope they got what they needed to learn from the spirit. But I opened my talk with a scripture from 1 Nephi 11: 2 "And the Spirit said unto me: Behold, what desirest thou?" And I really thought about that for a bit. What desirest thou? Heavenly Father is constantly asking us that same exact question. So think about it. What desirest thou? What do you really need to know? Ask that question in your next meeting that you will attend in the church and I promise you that by the power of the Holy Ghost it WILL be answered. After you see it work for you (because it will) I would love to hear your experiences on that. :)

We had an excellent Zone Conference this past Tuesday. We had a Preach My Gospel Chase with two Zones and it was sooo fun! But my goodness, I got exactly what I needed as well. President Griffiths talked on something that I personally have been struggling with and I felt the Spirit SO strong! I knew Heavenly Father was trying to help me in my concerns and challenges. Hopefully next week I'll share some insights because I don't have them today with me. Sorry! Thank you for everything. You are the BEST.

Love Always, Sister Teresa A. Kullick

We have a car!

TERESA - Heya Everybody!

Well it seems like you are always taking holidays to St.George Utah! I hope you are enjoying yourselves! You know how Rach and I would love that weather, but to be honest, I'm not too sure if we could handle that now! After being here I've adapted and when it's warm here I roast like a mallow! Ha-ha But I'm sure that will wear off with time too :)

Ok, so last P-Day was really nice! Sister Green took us to Helensburgh and Loch Lomond! It was so nice to see more of Scotland and it's quaint little villages! It was also good for Sister Peterson to see Loch Lomond as well. The scenery was excellent and even though the weather wasn't all that great it was still WAY nice! Then we all went to Toby's Carvery (I hadn't been there since Edinburgh!) And that was delicious as it always is! Then we wrapped up the evening with a fabulous FHE. It was a packed house that night and we all had loads of fun!

So guess what? I forgot to tell you last week that we had our interviews with President...or wait, did I? I can't remember! But anyway, we did and it was great! It was really just what I needed - to sit down with President Griffiths and really talk about how I'm doing and how I can improve. He had me tell him what I've learned so far being out on my mission and it put a sick realization in me knowing that I don't have much more time left. It's funny because I still talk about going home like it's SO far away. But when I really stop and think I remember and it's not really nice. I just don't think it will hit me until I'm sitting there in the Mission Home waiting to leave! Or even when I'm on the plane! But really it is unreal, and I'm totally not exaggerating when I say that! I just hope I'm learning all I'm supposed to and won't regret a minute of it! But from now on, I'm not going to think about it! Rach and I decided that we are going to not even talk about it and just enjoy being a missionary! I think that's a good idea :) Oh but I forgot to tell you what I was originally talking to you about! Ha-ha, I talked with President and pleaded my case and now we are sharing a car with the Hamilton Elders!! YAY! Ok so here's the deal: My ENTIRE mission I have NEVER had a car EVER. And to be honest we travel far out to a lot of places that the time spent traveling is very ineffective because it’s on country roads! So I am bursting with joy having a car to get us from A to B. We do only have it for 3 days a week so that's not too bad and it's good to only have it for half the time so that we don't get too lazy! I'm not going to lie, it has been wonderful! And since my license expired in this country my companion gets to drive, so she's getting used to the left side of the road! It's been quite the adventure! He he!

We were only able to teach Joanne Wilson once this week (the girl with the flower in her hair). But it was a really good lesson. We've been having to meet in Starbucks (no worries, next time we see her we are moving it to the church). But this time we really hit a chord with her. We talked about the Atonement and how it can lift those heavy burdens off your shoulders. While we were sitting there I bore testimony of the reality of the Atonement and our Savior's and Heavenly Father's love for HER. While I was talking I noticed that Joanne started to cry. She said that would be such a nice feeling to have. We told her that she can and deserves to have it. She said that when she came to know more about our message and met with us more that she would be baptized. We were unable to set a date (not for lack of trying) but she wanted to just to work on it with us without any deadlines. I am so excited to see her this week! She is so wonderful and this is EXACTLY what she needs.

Since we are going through the lessons again with Brother Ian Smith we really have been focusing on the MOST important bits. We taught him on Wednesday and had a very good lesson on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was an object lesson and we had Ian stand on a piece of paper labeled earth and had him try to get to another paper across the room labeled Heaven. The catch was that he could NOT touch the floor! He tried but of course didn't make it! Ha-ha We then provided more pieces of paper as stepping-stones to get to one end of the room to the other. He could do it then and then we turned over each paper revealing the specific steps to the gospel of Jesus Christ (i.e. faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end) it was SO good! We all had loads of fun and really learned more about the doctrine in a fun and interesting way - thank you object lessons! We also taught him the Plan of Salvation with him again as well; really focusing on each part of the plan so that he would understand how each part is necessary. We put up pictures for each step that way it would create a lasting visual in his mind (after all, that's how we all learned it in Primary!). It was really really good too! He knows those lessons inside and out! We also taught him again the Word of Wisdom and went at it from a different angle as well. We really focused on the blessings of the commandment and really pointed out that ALL commandments are spiritual and that there are REAL spiritual blessings from keeping them, the two main ones we found were receiving personal revelation and having the companionship of the Holy Ghost. We told him that the adversary was going to get at him hard before his baptism and that he has to be ready, he has to be on guard. We talked about how he needs to put ALL of his armour on and that was keeping EVERY SINGLE commandment. Not keeping one would be like going into battle with out a sword or what helmet or whatever. Keeping all the commandments is wearing all of your armour.

This week we taught the Law of Tithing to a recent convert in the ward. It's actually something he's been struggling with. But let me tell you, I know I've said this before but I LOVE this lesson! Honestly, I absolutely adore the commandment of Tithing! I know that it's real and that it's one way you can really show that you love God more than the world. Someone also said it is definitely one commandment you can be completely perfect in! So true! And I was thinking about it, we know that the money goes toward the church and for the use of missionary work and temples and all that, so in a way it's easier to pay it because you know where it's going. And I was thinking, what if you paid your tithing and it seriously just sat in a corner and was never used, would you still pay your tithing? Would you care if it wasn't going anywhere or would you pay it anyway trusting in the Lord showing Him that you care less about money and more about Him and doing what He asks? I was just thinking about that, quite the question I thought. :)

On Sunday it was Fast Sunday and Brother Smith's first one at that! He fasted and said he wasn't as hungry as he thought he would be! Haha But it was such a good one because Brother Ian Smith's baptism was announced for this week on Thursday August 11! And a recent convert, Brother McCafferty received the Aaronic Priesthood! It was so adorable because when Brother McCafferty sat down after it was announced he was all smiles and Brother Ian Smith leaned over to him and attempted to whisper, "Well done Glen!”. You could hear quite a few chuckles from the rest of the ward, it was funny and nice. I got up and bore my testimony that day and that felt nice to do; we also fasted for names of our next ward mission leader. The Stake President wanted us to submit two names to him of people we think would be good for it. But we had absolutely NO idea! But we fasted and prayed about it and I received two names! Sister Peterson as well and they were the same! Yes, it really works!

But I am just so happy at the right now serving a mission! I love it here being a missionary where life is easier and simple. I am so grateful for my family members and my friends and my home ward's help and support to Rach and I in our service! Thank you so much to you all. You are ALL amazing people! I love you!

Love always, Sister Teresa Kullick

P.S. I got an invite to Steph's wedding! I know I already sent a card telling her congrats but I'm so happy for her! Thank you so much Steph for sending me one on my mission that was really special. I hope all is running smoothly! Love you! –Teres

Only Sister on the roster!

RACHEL - Hello Family,

Wow St. George again, you all definitely love that place! Well, I hope you have a good time and enjoy yourselves!

On Monday we went to Manchester Piccadilly and Sister Bibb helped me find a bargain of an outfit and so that was a new experience to go shopping on a mission for cute clothes, but I enjoyed it.

On Tuesday we had our usual District Meeting that takes place from 10:30am to 1pm (including District Lunch that we all pack before hand and eat after the meeting). It was great; our Mission has been focusing lately on the importance of Teaching people not lessons and centering our teaching around their needs and their understanding. So it was good to learn more about that. After we went and taught Brother Daz Bennett (our Investigator) at Sister Helen's home and it was on the first part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is doing very well with cutting down his smoking and is aiming to stop completely on the 9^th of August so he can be baptised on the 20th! We then called by a potential Investigator who actually didn't end up being there but he had given us his girlfriend's address and so we taught her instead and she wants to be baptised! That was a true blessing and miracle. Then we had a visit with a less active who then drove us over to another less active's home so we could have Tea with them! They are Bill and Christine Lancaster and they are hilarious and they want to come back to church, it's just a matter of making that first step. Then we taught another investigator named Patrick and he serves in the military. At the end, we invited him to be baptised and he said he would and wanted to come to church! What I have come to understand is that each investigator is different (I know that's obvious) but sometimes we may place the same standard of pace on each investigator when it should be to their needs. So with him, it will take some time.

On Wednesday was our Sisters Meeting and it was wonderful! It was so amazing to see all the Sisters in the Mission and to speak with all of them to see how they are doing! It was a beautiful day and we had the meeting from 10:30am to 5pm and Sister Preston prepared the most delicious meal. It was great to get to know Sister Preston more and to meet some of her family as well! I just love the feeling I get every time I am in the Mission Home, a warm and familiar feeling that encircles you. Oh, it’s fantastic.

Just a side note, I got a letter from two of my recent converts from when I was serving in Chorley almost a year ago. One from Patricia Kent (the one that got baptised and not confirmed) and from the Smith Family! I hadn't heard from them since I was transferred. I cannot express the joy I felt as I opened their letters, in fact I could barely read them because of the tears that flooded my eyes. At that moment I realized that just getting them baptised is not the only thing that matters, but helping them stay converted throughout their entire life is what really counts. I cannot make their decisions for them, but I can continue still being their missionary and friend no matter where I am. Oh, I love them with all of my heart! Debbie Smith and Jessica her daughter attended the temple to do baptisms for the dead, I was so overcome with joy when I read that. It is such a blessing the satisfaction that comes from ONLY missionary work, no other work compares to this feeling that I had as I opened their letters!

Saturday would have been more interesting and I will tell you why. The Assistants to the President mentioned a way one of the stakes here and the missionaries could be more united and that was a football match between the Missionaries and Members. This happened on Saturday and I was informed this by one of the Assistants at the Sisters Meeting about this. He mentioned how it all just came down to Elders that were chosen to play but how I was the only Sister that they put on the roster to play as well. Although in the end I didn't play, (because they I would have been the Only Sister on the entire field) I still felt extremely flattered to be mentioned and on the list! Today, we are playing football for a Zone Activity and the elders keep building me up and say I play amazingly, but my goodness I am so out of touch. Ha-ha Its fun anyway.

Sunday we attended the Mission home Fireside with Brother Bennett! It was sooo crowded there that us missionaries waited out in the back yard and even though I didn't hear a thing, Bro. Bennett enjoyed it so much! And it was nice to catch up with some of the Sisters!

I love this work and I love my calling! I wish everyone the best and I love you all! Thank you for everything that you do and have done for Teresa and I!

Love always, Sister Rachel Kullick

Liquid Sunshine...

RACHEL - Dear Family,

I hope everyone is doing great! This past week for me was not all that eventful to be quite honest so this may be a very short letter. Sister Bibb and I are now teaching Brother D.B. His scheduled baptism is on the 20th of August and we are excited for him! He has a difficulty with the Word of Wisdom but we took the necessary time helping think of great substitutes and past times he can occupy his time with. I will let you know how things continue to progress as soon as I know.

We made several appointments for next week for potential investigators and so we are excited for both of those. Just a side note, I have been having this new goal to drink more water since I am awful at that. I have been doing well so far and very happy about that. Not a big deal but just thought I would mention it. :) The weather has been really warm lately and now we are beginning to have the usual liquid sunshine (rain) again so this brings a nice change.

Today, Sister Bibb and I are going to Manchester Piccadilly to explore the city. So we are rather excited about that. Missionary work is great and wonderful and no other work in this world brings greater satisfaction. I am grateful for my purpose as a full time missionary and hope I will always be a full time missionary in everything I do. I love this work and gospel!

Love you all and hope all is well! Thank you for the love and support from everyone!

Love always, Sister Rachel Kullick

Bad & Good...

TERESA - Hi ya!

The news about Grandpa Coombs is terrific! I am sooo happy that he is progressing! I have been praying for him every night to recover and I know that I'm not the only one who's doing that. The power of prayer is real!! And yes, I did get the tapes from dad! Thank you! I've been listening to it lately, it's nice to hear your voice again dad!

This week has been really crazy and I mean really crazy. A whole lot of bad and good stuff has happened. Let me start from the beginning...

Remember on Monday I was talking about the girl we found named Joanne? Well Sister Peterson and I did something we'd normally NEVER do! When we found her we had such a strong impression that she was special that we were meant to find her. She wasn't free until this week and we wanted to schedule her as soon as possible so we planned her in at 2:00 p.m. on Monday. Yup, Monday. That is our P-Day if you didn't remember! Now that may not seem like a big deal to you but for a missionary it is! You have only 1 day a week where you can get everything sorted and do fun activities and we planned an appointment?! Ha-ha But we both felt really good about it and knew it was way more important than a great activity somewhere. That is after all what we are here for right? Missionary work? Anyway, we saw her on Monday and it was excellent! She is so solid and she is totally interested to learn more about the gospel. She said she'd be baptized when she found out it were true! She is 19 and super nice. We were so happy about that appointment. It definitely made the day a thousand times better! That day we also went to dinner at Bishop Cook's house and that was so fun as always. And then we had FHE at Sister Green's and our whole group was there! It was way fun :) Honestly, BEST P-day ever!

Tuesday we had District Meeting at the Stake Center in Glasgow. I always LOVE those! WE got to see our whole zone again and the senior missionary couple provided lunch for us! It was delicious and nice to catch up with everyone. We met with a former investigator that day too and made him a new again! We are hoping things will work out this time seeing as how we don't exactly know what went wrong the time before. He just kind of disappeared on us! So we met with him again and things went well. We are just hoping that the same thing doesn't happen again! That night we went to dinner at a member's home that we never usually see. Sister Cranston. Remember she's the single mom whose son and girlfriend we taught that one time? It was such a great time to get to know her and it was really fun! WE are definitely gaining the trust of the members here in East Kilbride! Things are progressing well.

Ok, now this is where things get sad. As you might of known, we were expected to have a baptism this week. Well we didn't. Unfortunately, when we were to have our lesson with him on Wednesday he didn't exactly show up ready for his baptism the next day. I really can't go in to detail but we said we'd see him tomorrow and that we'd discuss a game plan then. We want him to be the MOST prepared he can for this sacred covenant and he just wasn't ready at this time. I may sound ok and composed now but I can't even tell you how devastated I was. I was so glad Sister Peterson and Sister Buchanan were there to give me support when I was falling apart! We phoned Bishop and he was so great about everything and said that we'd all meet together the next night to figure things out. I phoned up President and he made me feel way better. He really helped me put things into perspective for me and realize that it was not the end of the world but that there is still hope and not to become discouraged because this has happened but determined. That REALLY helped. Needless to say I felt a lot better after those calls. I guess a lot of why I was upset was because of trivial reasons like it being the day before his baptism and us having to tell the entire ward that the baptism has been postponed and have to deal with all the questions and raised eyebrows. But in the end it didn't really matter at all about those things. And I'm glad I was able to see that eventually. I am doing much better now and I am very hopefully about the future! We discussed with Bishop and I.S. and figure that a good date to work toward baptism would be August 11. So keep praying! I'm just so glad this work isn't all left up to me because if it were I would mess everything up! President Griffiths said something that really struck me as well, he said, "You need to remember that this is the Lord's work." When you remember that then you aren't too concerned about the social things. This isn't about me (I'm repeatedly learning this lesson!) this work is so much BIGGER than me. And thank goodness it is. I'm glad I have the help of the ward members, Bishop, fellow missionaries, and President. And especially the help of Heavenly Father and my Savior. With all that help, support and love, how can we fail? It was a hard but helpful learning experience.

Sunday was such a good day! Sister Peterson gave a talk in Sacrament Meeting about trusting in the Lord. And Brother I.S. was there! After church we had the best lesson with Brother I.S.! It was centered on the restoration, specifically focused on Joseph's prayer. We all learned so much and we were able to help I.S. relate it back to him. He's really getting things now and we are so happy about his speedy progression! He is doing so well! We also had a lesson with him on the Book of Mormon and what exactly it is and what we can learn from it. That was a good one too! Honestly, there is nothing better than a really good lesson! And last night as well we went chapping and everyone on the street was rather rude and just not interested. And what do you know but the very last door on that street we met Karen. She has a little family and said we could come back and tell her more about our message! We set up an appointment with her for this upcoming week. I never thought I'd have "the last house on the street" story ha-ha, pretty neat that we did :)

But anyways, today we are going to Loch Lomond again. Sister Peterson hasn't been so it'll be nice to see it again. And we will be having dinner with Sister Green out some place and the Family Home Evening! I LOVE Mondays! But I just want to say thank you and I love you all to bits for all you do for Rachie and I. We would NOT be here with out you!

Love Always, Sister Teresa Kullick

Sister Peterson's dog

TERESA - Hello Hello!!

How are you all doing? I hope you are doing swell! Things are looking pretty snazzy over here in East Kilbride Scotland! I.S. passed his interview this Sunday and is getting baptized this Thursday the 28!!! I am so excited for it! It has been amazing to see his coming along in the gospel. He is really looking forward to it as well and has invited people to come, so hopefully we will meet them! And the ward has been very supportive with everything. Everyone I talked to has said that they'd come on Thursday! Success! Haha Ok now onto my week...

Tuesday was quite the day. We had gone emailing at lunch and Sis Peterson had gotten some bad news. Her family dog that she'd had since she can remember had to be put down. Needless to say she was a little upset. But having gone through a similar experience I totally understood. She wasn't exactly in the right state to go finding which is what we had planned to do after. So I said we should go back to the flat for a bit till she felt a little bit better. She felt good about that as well since she didn't want to be crying while stopping people! After we'd taken that time we went out to our next appointment to meet these 2 potentials that we had found a few days before. While we were waiting no one showed up so we decided to carry out the plans we had originally put in place for after email - finding. As we were waiting for the bus we were in line and there was a girl standing behind us (about our age) and Sister Peterson complimented her flower in her hair. She was super nice and friendly but we were moved along on the bus. I felt like we should talk to her but it seemed that opportunity had passed. We were kind of lost on the bus, we hadn't been there before and we weren't to sure about which stop to get off at. But we decided to get off before we got anymore lost. As we were getting off, who gets off too but that same girl from earlier? I asked for her help with directions and then we talked to her about the gospel. Her name is J. and she definitely believes in God but struggles in the hard times. She was so cheerful and bubbly and wanted to see us again! We set up an appointment and called and confirmed so it's on! Honestly though, a whole lot of things had to occur to make this happen that never would've originally. If Sis Peterson's dog hadn't died and we'd gone back to the flat then we would've gone finding out there and missed meeting J.! Sis Peterson sees that it is all thanks to her dog, haha. No but seriously, after we'd met J. and we stood there for a bit and walked around the area we were in, we felt like there was no reason to be out there anymore. Like we had fulfilled our purpose because it was to meet this girl! And we topped the day off at dinner with the Lang's!! I LOVE that family. It was a very good day!

Wednesday we got to see P. and her family! We went to their house and talked with her and her sons, A. and J. We also saw her two girls T. and M. It was really nice. They are doing so much better and A. is recovering really well! We had a really good natural talk with them about their lives and how the gospel could only help it and enhance it. They are really so positive about hearing our message when they definitely shy away from what other churches think! We have set up a time to see them next week and really sit down with them a talk about the Plan of Salvation. I am excited!! That day we also had an excellent lesson with Brother I.S.! We talked about daily prayer and scripture study. Those are the areas he's weakest in, at least the daily prayer part. We had Sister Buchanan and Brother Irvine there and they bore powerful testimony! And we really drove this home using the scriptures. All the times in the past I try to explain it myself and it makes no impact! So I'm glad I figured it out and used the most powerful tool I have - The Book of Mormon! Better late then never right? He really got it. In his closing prayer he said how much now he really sees how daily prayer and scriptures study is the ONLY way he's going to find his answers! Right on! It was great. Then we had dinner with a few ward members, The Lewis's and then taught Brother McCafferty! Not a bad day at all :)

Thursday was kind of lame at first. Our finding for this past week has been dismal and so that was the definite trend on Thursday! Not good but we did go out to Sister Lloyd's and she took us out for Chinese! She is SO great! I love her too! And as we were traveling back, whom did we run into but P! He is a former investigator who just fell away on us. But we talked with him and got an appointment set up to see him. How neat!

We had another lesson with Brother I.S. on Friday and we had Sister Buchanan there and also Brother Thompson, the High Priest Group Leader. We showed The Restoration DVD and it was amazing as always. Our joint teaches bore excellent testimonies and I. said that he felt uplifted and we later explained to him that that was the spirit. He was happy to hear that!

Sunday was wonderful! The talks were so well done. Brother Robert Hay, a recent convert, gave his first talk and it was so great! Sister Green gave one as well and she did marvelously. Brother S. had his baptismal interview and he made it! We then talked about Lehi's Dream and the watched Finding Faith in Christ. It was a really good Sabbath.

But yeah, that was pretty much my week! Sister Peterson and I are getting on more and more as time progresses! She is really great and honestly is NOT at all like a greenie! She's a natural pro :) But yes, things are going smoothly and by the way, the weather has been terrific! Really sunny with hardly any clouds in the sky. Sometimes I have to remember that it's still Scotland! Man, I love this place!

I love you all!!! Thank you for everything you do! Rach and I are too lucky to have such great family and friends! I love you!

Love Always, Sister Teresa Kullick