"God is our Loving Heavenly Father"

TERESA - Hiya family!

So last P-day was rather interesting. We had a Zone Development where we had training and then an activity. Apparently the Dublin Zone has had problems with being really unified. Now I didn't realize what they meant until that day. Every zone I've been in previous to this one has always been super unified. We had some excellent training by the Zone Leaders about being exactly obedient by getting out of the way and allowing miracles to happen. I LOVED it. We talked about how when we truly want to be obedient we are repentant and we want to be better. And that was the wonderful part for me. It reminded me of my favorite scripture on repentance: Mosiah 5:2:

"And they all cried with one voice, saying: Yea, we believe all the words which thou hast spoken unto us; and also, we know of their surety and truth, because of the Spirit of the Lord Omnipotent, which has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually."

Because when we honestly have that change of heart we can always do good and have absolutely NO desire to commit sin anymore. Our Zone leaders wanted us to do a trial run for two weeks to be as exactly obedient as we all could. Now we would all mess up a little but we all WANTED to be the best we could be. That, I believe, was the point. We all are good missionaries, but it appears to me that there are the few that are struggling right now, ones who need that little dose of encouragement. I need to love, serve, and support them now more than ever. I LOVE this mission. I LOVE being here in Dublin. Every mission, no matter where they are has those few struggling missionaries whether you're aware of it or not. Our job is not to condemn them but to encourage them to be better. I think about the city of Enoch and think how that was pretty much the only city to be translated. And that was because every single one of them became of one heart and one mind. And that is our goal as missionaries in our missions. We want to truly become of one heart and one mind. And obviously that is quite the task but it IS doable, after all we've seen it happen with the city of Enoch! That gives me hope and comfort! So every body, the Scotland/Ireland Mission is working hard on being that kind of mission! This is a great mission :)

This week has been great though. Filled with meeting with investigators and less-actives and recent converts! Sister Ring and I, like I'd mentioned before, have been focusing on formers and we went by one this week named Helen. She is a wife and a mother of 7 or 8 kids! She is from Zambia and was SO loving and kind when we visited her! She became a new investigator and we are so excited to see her again. She said that she was going to feed us next time we came, so we are looking forward to that!

On Saturday we had a mission wide Zone Conference held in Scotland. Seeing as we are in Ireland and we have missionaries in Northern Ireland we obviously could not attend. So they streamed it live "conference" style haha. General Authorities were in attendance: Bishop Burton, Elder Cose, Elder Kerr, Elder Clayton, and all their wives. It was so great! They gave some brief testimonies and then they opened it up to a Q&A session. It was interesting to watch it and to not really participate! But I enjoyed it! It was very enlightening!

And then I was asked to speak on Sunday. And I actually took a talk I had from before but adjusted it to this ward. It was on how God is our Loving Heavenly Father (my favorite!). And let me tell you I was the praying the whole time that this talk would at least help someone, even if it were just one person that would be OK. I gave the talk and it went REALLY well. WAY better then the previous time I presented it! I was so thankful to my Heavenly Father for blessing me with the guidance of the Spirit! But when Sacrament meeting was over quite a few came up and complimented me. But there was one girl who came up to me after that made the biggest impact on me. Her name is Eoifa (pronounced Effa). She has a family who is all in the church except for her. But she comes every Sunday with them. She's about 19 and is starting uni. She has tattoos and piercings everywhere. She came up to me after and said that she has attended all the time but that no talk had hit her like the one I gave. She had tears in her eyes and was shaking too. I told her that I may have given the talk but it was the Spirit that spoke to her, telling her what Heavenly Father wanted her to know. She told me that she wasn't a member and I felt prompted to ask her why she wasn't. She looked down and then at me and said, "I don't know." I then asked if we could come by and talk to her and she said yes. This was a wonderful blessing and miracle! Sister Ring said that she had NEVER seen her like that before and has never been interested in having the missionaries teach her. My goodness! Isn't that amazing?! I can't even tell you how happy I am to go and see her!

Then after church we met with Chedu, one of our investigators. She had attended church and loved it. We talked to her and she wants to be baptized! She has a date for October 8th!!! This is SOOO great! This area is exploding with potential!! I feel overwhelmed with all these many blessings!

Honestly, I am loving this! Thank you for being here for Rachie and I! We love you all and appreciate what you do for us! WE pray for you every day! Love you all!

Love Always, Sister Teresa Kullick

P.S. So Rachel and I talked with our mission Presidents and serving with each other at the end of our missions is not an option. Personally I feel good about that and will be excited to reunite with her at the end! I get off a day before she does so I will do all my departing stuff and then I will take a train the next day to Manchester and well spend the day with her during all her departing stuff!! I am sooo excited about that set up! I feel really good about it and I know it's how we should end our missions! Then of course we will fly from there to California. That is the situation and I thought I'd let you know!

Called Of God

TERESA - Dear Family!

Ok so things have really picked up this week! This week Sister Ring and I have really been focusing on former investigators. I just have really felt that is the BEST way to build up our teaching pool. Well we phoned almost all of them up and got a few potentials out of that so that was wonderful! The wonderful thing about Dublin is that there are people from all over the world here even more so than what I saw in Edinburgh or Glasgow. We actually don't run into a lot of Irish but people from everywhere!

I had a neat experience where we met with a less active Brazilian family who is actually moving to a different part of Ireland but we went and said goodbye (well for me it was hello too!). They were lovely! The wife had really experienced a change in her heart to come back to church. She said by not going she felt ungrateful to her Heavenly Father and she wanted that support for her 2 kids. I don't know why but I felt an immense amount of love for them! WE all had tears in our eyes as we bore testimony of the blessings of the gospel how it simply brings REAL happiness. I'm definitely sad that I won't see them again but I hope they do well.

We had dinner at the Troy's - a member family whose son is a return missionary. The dad is from the states and the mom is from Ireland. And they are amazing! For the first time on my entire mission I was served Salmon for dinner! And it was made just the way I love it -- broiled and not deep-fried. That's a total side note but I thought it was so great! But we got some really good ideas for lessons and all that from the RM son. And I realized that my district is so talented! My district leader did loads of magic tricks and it was so fun! The family really enjoyed it and so did we!

And then for Sunday! Now this was the day! All of our hard work paid off! So this one woman named Krista brought her friend to church, her name is Chedo. She’s from South Africa and she’s already been to church before and has been reading the Book of Mormon and wants to be taught!!! Can you believe that? I couldn't, I was so thrilled! So we are meeting with her this week. And we met with another former named Blessing, she’s from Nigeria. And we taught her on Sunday and she definitely wants us back!! She was so nice because she said our church was different because we cared enough to go around and do missionary work. She also said that Sister Ring and I glowed and that she knew we were missionaries called of God! Wow! How neat is that? So we are seeing her this week as well. Then we met with another former named Kevin and he's Irish. He has some concerns but is willing to read the Book of Mormon and to find out if it's true. He knows that the outside influences of the world are just advertising things that are temporary and won't last anyway. He's looking for something that will last and WE know that is the Gospel of Jesus Christ! So in one day, we got 3 new investigators! In the history of my mission, that has never happened to me before! It was Amazing!

So this week has been pretty good. I am really focusing on finishing hard and strong. The wonderful thing is that every day is an opportunity to change. Or as my old Assistant to the President, Elder Young said, "With every 24 hours is the opportunity to change some one's life". And I'm included in that. I can let the gospel continually change my life so that I can become like my Savior. Not only do I have an excellent chance to help others come to the knowledge of the restored gospel but also I can let the Spirit work in my own life. It's funny because you teach these things to people and sometimes forget that it's for you too. Not always but sometimes. I absolutely LOVE this gospel! It is the most amazing thing ever! Thank you for everyone whose made this a reality for my sis and me!! I love this time!

I love you all sooooooo much!

Love Always, Teresa Kullick

P.S. Sorry this letter is so short!! Hopeful I'll have a longer one next week!

Liverpool Zone Conference

RACHEL - Dear Family!

Life on the Isle is beautiful and the work here is progressing more and more as each week goes by! This past week was a little different because we had a Zone Conference. Now usually that wouldn't seem an unusual thing but we didn't even get to be with our own Zone but with two other ones instead which I was OK with because there were more Sister Companionships in the one we attended. Throughout the entire trip all these Elders who had served in the Isle before kept wanting to hear about how it is and how everyone is. Let me tell you, all the Sisters are quite eager for their time to serve here, but I am grateful that the Lord trusted Sister Rothmund and I to be the first Sisters white washing. Seriously, I love white washing! If I had to choose between White washing and training, I would be more partial to white washing even though training was great! The Conference was on the Thursday so on Wednesday we took a ferry at around 4pm and arrived at the Liverpool docks for the Zone Leaders to come pick us up at around 7:30pm. Well, that was the plan at least because when they finally arrived, they couldn't even pick us up! Haha so we had to find our own way to the Liverpool Bus Station in the City center and then get a bus from there to the Sisters Flat. But they were very kind about it and gave us money for the bus fare and called to see how we were. We stayed with Sister Chao and Sister Gong, they are amazing and one is from Taiwan and the other is from China.

The next day we had a different kind of Zone Conference because it was a Church History Tour! We began at the Liverpool Docks and went through a Museum, which at one point depicted what it was like in the times of the Saints boarding up and moving to America. It was quite awful living conditions in those days. We took a Coach to our next location which was the River Ribble and then last but not least Downham. It was quite an interesting experience to be back there again because I had been there over a year ago with the MTC. We actually held a short Zone Conference in the Church that was there, in this very old and quaint, I guess you could call it a Cathedral. We learned more about faith and the assistants gave their personal experiences of mighty and simple miracles. They then spoke specifically in a passage of Enos 1:7-8 "And I said: Lord, how is it done? And he said unto me: Because of thy faith in Christ..." They then asked us that when we witness a miracle to turn to our companion and ask the other, how is it done?  They then gave us two seeds (faith) to plant on our next P-Day.

We headed back from the Preston Train Station and on the way home Sister Rothmund and I moved a little away each other so we could talk to people on the train. And I witnessed a miracle of sitting with this girl the same age as I and I taught her on the spot the entire Restoration lesson and even invited her to be baptized throughout our entire journey. We closed with a prayer as well. She was amazing, but I will not be able to see the fruits of that because she will have to be passed to the missionaries in the Preston area. I am very grateful for that opportunity! When we arrived back we taught our Investigator Jason Bickle and then went to teach a young man named Berry. Well, Berry invited his brother and friend to listen as well so we then had three new investigators! What a Miracle! They were very receptive and we are excited to see them progress!

The Saturday was a very rainy day but while we were making our way on the street to call by a Former Investigator, we stopped this young man and asked if he had a couple minutes to hear what we had to say and he said yes! So we moved underneath an overhang of a shop and taught him the entire restoration lesson and offered a prayer and we are seeing him tonight! We are very excited! We were able to have quite a few members come out teaching with us and don't worry it wasn't the same fellowshipper over and over again ;) It was for some Sisters in the ward their first time that they have ever came out teaching with Missionaries because there had always been Elders before. All of them loved it and are so willing to come and bear their testimonies! This is really helping build our Member trust. I have also found that having the members see you street contact is Very important. So many members at church commented on how they passed by in their cars and saw us speaking to so many people. They were very impressed and this ward is quickly coming to the realization that we are working hard.

All in all I feel pretty amazing and blessed to be here! I got the camera mom! Thank you and took pictures with it at the tour! I would show you the pictures it's just that the computer I am on right now is super old so it doesn't have an outlet for my camera cord :) haha so next week I will have them for you! I love you all and I do hope that you are all doing well and Teresa and I are grateful for all of your love and support! Take care!

Love always, Sister Rachel Kullick

Oh mom, I need original American recipes for a cooking cultural night they are doing in our ward, S. Rothmund is representing Switzerland and I want to represent America. It could be dessert or anything else! Thank you!

Excited to have Sisters

RACHEL - Hello!!

 

That is so incredible that Teresa is now serving in Ireland! I never thought that would happen, but I am so glad I am wrong! What an amazing experience this will be for Teresie and I am very happy that these two unexpected changes occurred for both of us at the same time! Amazing!

 

This past week we haven't been able to go back at all for lunch and tea to our flat because it is just too far away from the main city, Douglas. So we have been having lunches in the Chapel and watching the Preach My Gospel DVD's. The Elders before had already booked for us tea appointments at some member's homes and it has been wonderful! We have already began to get to know the members here and I love them!! They have such unique personalities and they are all very excited for Sister Missionaries to be here! Even the people on the Isle of Man are so friendly and are willing to speak to you about anything. This truly is a very sacred and special place to be. I feel very privileged and honored to be serving here. That means I must fulfil all my responsibilities as a representative of my Savior and invite others to come unto Him. I am very anxious to find the people that I am meant to find! There are so many people on this Isle that I really must speak to everyone I see! The other day, we say this police officer giving out parking fines right next to our car. So we ran up to him and asked if he gave us one, thankfully he said we weren't going to be given a fine. But then naturally we began to talk to him about the Gospel and scheduled an appointment to see him and his family! Honestly, I cannot assume that someone is too busy to hear about the Gospel. And it is also quite surprising how many of those "busy" people are willing to listen right then and there.

 

We were blessed to have met with the Investigators that the Elders already had and one of them is a 24 year old young man named Jason Bickle. He is wonderful! His parents joined the church about a year or two ago and now he has decided to learn more! He has a baptismal date for the 17th of September.

 

The members here in the Douglas Ward are incredible and they are very much like a big family! It is something I am very grateful to be a part of! Sister Rothmund and I have been blessed to have two new investigators this past week! We found one as we were meant to be calling by a potential Investigator, but it was a false address. The woman that lived there was very kind and let us in so we taught her instead! I love how Heavenly Father is truly aware of every one of His children.

We were blessed to have two Investigators attend church with us this Sunday as well! It was amazing how welcoming the ward was to them without us even saying anything to encourage them to greet them. They didn't need any encouraging! So many of the members have been found by wonderful missionaries that have come before me and I aspire to have the Ward members and the people trust us just the same! The ward members already are asking Sister Rothmund and I to sing a duet in church, haha so we will have to plan something. The only difficulty with being on an Isle is that the Mission takes us missionaries away for Conferences and Trainings for about a week! A Week! What they usually do is that they bring us down for Conference on the main land and then we stay until the first Trainings and this time it would have been two weeks! Well, we had a word with the office because that is just way too long to be gone off the Isle and now we are taking two trips both about a week and a half apart for three days each. We stay with the Liverpool Sisters within that time and work with them when we can and then we get back on the boat and head back to the promised land!

It's incredible, we run on the BEACH every morning! What a great motivation to exercise! Sister Rothmund and I have begun a nice sea shell collection already :) The member that we live with was away for a couple days so in the meantime we fed her cat, which was a weird feeling since us as missionaries are not allowed to have pets, but it was nice. We have become more settled into our quaint little abode and I just am so happy! Can you tell? haha I love it! Those that have lived here all their lives and grew up in the Isle of Man are called "Manx". They have their own language as well! I have learned how to say Good morning, afternoon and evening. Their flag is very interesting here and I desperately want one, the meaning of it is pretty wonderful and makes a lot more sense when you understand the background.

What I have come to realize is that the Isle is really all very close together, but it takes a while to get from one place to another because of how the roads go and as well the racing; (T.T. racing and Grand Prix) the roads shut down at all these different times. So I have gotten to know the area a little better with taking alternate routes and one of the members has already lent us a GPS so we can get around better! How kind is that! I am blessed and very grateful to be here! I hope everyone takes care and is having a great time as well! I love you all and thank you for what you do for Teresa and I!

Love always, Sister Rachel Kullick

Funny & Crazy Ward

TERESA - Hiya family!!

I can't believe that dad totally called our places in the mission! He is so dead on! Right on dad, way to be in tune with the spirit!

So we were in Glasgow City Centre in George Square on the day I was to travel to Ireland and it turns out that they are filming this HUGE movie there that is supposed to be taken place in Philadelphia, USA. Apparently, Brad Pitt is staring in it and it's called WWZ. I guess it has to do with Zombies and all that. But we got to see the set and a firefighter went in and took pictures of the set for us! Totally neat! But anyways, that was just a fun side note, I'll move on now :)

It was myself, Sister Oswald, and 4 other Elders going to Ireland. We took this long coach ride to the ferry and spent pretty much all day on that to get there. When we got there we took another coach and then we were picked up by the Zone leaders in Belfast (Northern Ireland) and switched companions there. That's when I got Sister Ring. Then Sister Ring and 2 other Elders drove to the Republic of Ireland, which took a while as well. And then we got to the church in time to go home! Haha Not too exciting but definitely different and fun.

The area I was transferred to was originally one and now they have split it up into two areas. Baldoyle, our area, and Mount Joy, the Elders area. They're white washing in but when we split the area book they ended up with all of the investigators so really it's like we're white washing in too! So we're learning a new area as well and helping the Elders get around. The wonderful thing is that we have a car, so I'm really happy about that! The Elders that came in are Elder Layton (Greenie), and Elder Wilkins (District Leader). I already know that this district is going to be one of the best that I have served in. We're already planning District t-shirts :) haha They're all really good missionaries and REALLY funny! I'm really excited to serve around them!! We are all serving in the same ward and it's called Finglas Ward. We all were asked to get up and introduce ourselves and bear testimonies yesterday so that was really good. It's a funny ward and a little crazy, but we're all really excited to help the work grow here. It's funny because when I served with Sister Britnee Sheffield, who is home now, she was apart of the original Ireland Dublin Mission and she had served here in Finglas and told me all these stories about it.... and they're all true! It's actually funny to be a part of it now!

Anyways, but first I have to tell you about Friday. With the new 12 week training program they told us that Smart Start Conference that I had attended first in the mission was no longer going to happen because of the new program. But lo and behold Sister Ring finds plane tickets in her e-mail for both of us, flying us to Edinburgh for the Smart Start Conference on Friday! Nobody knew about this conference because we were told it wasn't supposed to happen. On Friday we get up at 3:00am to catch a plane at 6:30am. We go to the airport and thank goodness I had Sister Ring because I would have been SO lost! Probably would've gotten on the wrong plane or something! She's a pro though so I wasn't worried. Seriously NOT a trainee at all, she knows what she's doing, it's great! At the airport we met up with the Elders from Sligo and all boarded the plane. Ryanair. Remember this name. I sure do! Hour and a half later we landed in Edinburgh and the Assistants weren't even out of their flat yet to pick us up. So when they finally arrive we piled into the van and drove over to the mission home and began training. Funny thing to, we were just told we were doing a training model in front of the whole group so we had to plan this in the airport. You can probably tell how good it was. Haha not. So we did training all day and that was really fun though. We learned a lot and for Sister Ring and I just getting together we worked really well as a companionship so that was a relief. Now this is where it gets better. Training ended at 3 pm but our flight wasn't until about 9:10. Sister Griffiths had us fill out return wedding invitation envelopes for past missionaries! Ironic huh? We do that for a couple of hours and then we went out chapping for the Assistants until we get dropped off at the airport at about 8pm. When we arrive and after the Assistants leave, we find out that our plane has been delayed till after midnight. It was broken. Ahhhhh! And then, we make friends with security after going in and out of it 3 times and the last two times I had to get patted down because the thing beeped! Yeah, that was too funny! And the whole time phoning the Assistants and President a thousand times it seemed to ask what we were supposed to do. Eventually we were told to stay until the flight took off but if it didn't take off by 12:20 we were to take a taxi back to the mission home and stay the night. But actually it wasn't that bad. Mostly funny. I guess that may be because we were too tired to care at this point and just thought the whole situation was hilarious. (Mind you we had been up since 3 in the morning!) It was definitely a great icebreaker and bonding experience for Sister Ring and I! Now there is nothing we can't handle! RYANAIR had us sitting on the plane at 12:20. We get back off the plane and try to find our way to the car and end up getting off at the wrong stop and have to walk all the way to our car. We finally find our car and eventually our way out of the parking lot and headed for home. We get home and we're in bed a half hour shy of being up for 24 hours straight. So that was exciting. Quite funny, quite a day! We got permission directly from President that we could sleep in. That was very kind of him!

On Saturday we got our way around to see some of the members, which was nice. And the Elders were with us as well. They don't have a car so we taxi'd them around. On Sunday we went to Church and so far so good. We went around and got quite a few dinner/member appointments set up for next week. I'm really excited to be here and to be serving in the Finglas ward! Side note, after I bore my testimony, this woman named Sister O'Connor came up to me and asked if I had a twin. Apparently she served in the Preston Temple when Rachel was serving in Chorley and fed her for Christmas I'm pretty sure. It was so great! She told me that we were exactly alike which is nice to hear after all this time. It's interesting because when you've been with your twin your whole life and you go on a mission it's like you aren't anymore because no one knows you're a twin and no one knows your sister, so it's really refreshing and homey to have people talk about how similar we are and even just know who she is. So that was a neat experience! I

LOVED it!

So today is P-day and our district is out to see Dublin for some District unity! I'm really excited to see the city! So unfortunately I don't really have too much to report in the way of the work right now just because of all of the craziness and scheduling that has gone on. But don't worry; next week I should have some solid missionary experiences/stories for you. Even though we don't really have a teaching pool at the moment I am excited to build up one with Sister Ring and to see conversion in Baldoyle!

Thank you so much for everything you do for Rachel and me! I love you all and I pray for you every night! Thanks SOOOO much again!!

Love Always, Sister Teresa Kullick

Serious... I'm whitewashing to where??!!

RACHEL - Dear Family and friends!


I am higher than a kite right now! I feel on top of the world and I will tell you why. It is transfers today and I wasn't quite sure what was going to be happening to me but with whatever happened I knew that that is where the Lord wanted me to be. This last Saturday, we became a trio companionship... only till yesterday. It was an amazing experience. Sister Allison (my previous companion in Stafford), who was serving in Withington Manchester at the time came and joined Sister Bibb and I in Swinton. Her companion, Sister Lovell who had only been out for two transfers had to be sent home on an emergency flight due to severe illness. Can you keep her in your prayers? She is going to come back; it is just a matter of when. In the meantime it was a wonderful few days as a trio and our unity was spectacular, we had a great time! Then the most unexpected thing happened. I got a call from the President on Sunday. You only get a call from him on Sunday if either you are training or whitewashing into an area. I was very excited as I picked up the phone to speak with him and we exchanged pleasantries and then he said, "Sister Kullick, I am calling to let you know that you are now going to be white-washing into The Isle of Man." Needless to say my response was less than calm as I exclaimed into the phone, "President! Are you SERIOUS??!! Ha-ha it was indeed a shock of a lifetime but the best one I could have ever dreamed of! There have not been Sister Missionaries on the Isle of Man for about 4 years and it had been every Sister's dream (and Elder's) to serve on the Isle of Man! President Preston went on to tell me, "My Assistants told me that I have better give you a call because if they would have called you, you wouldn't have believed them!" I definitely agreed with that statement because I honestly wouldn't have believed them. I said goodbye to my Recent Convert Sister Helen Cunningham Paterson and she got very emotional but says she will write me and will see me soon. Oh I love her!

It is so beautiful here and we are living practically right on top of the beach! Ha-ha it is unreal; I have had to pinch myself a few times. The place is beautiful and there are palm trees everywhere and you can smell the ocean air as well. The Downtown right on the coast in Douglas is draped with lights and is so clean. We are living with a member in Castletown, but in her extension. Her name is Sister Radcliffe and she is wonderful and has been housing missionaries for quite a few years. I am serving with Sister Rothmund who is from Switzerland and is 24 years old but has only been out for 12 weeks. We are getting along so well and she studied English Literature at BYU Hawaii for quite a few years, so needless to say she loves the Isle of Man too :) We have a car here and so I obviously cannot drive so Sister Rothmund is a tad nervous but she is doing just great!

We left on the Tuesday (a day earlier from Transfers) and Sister Rothmund and I with the help of the Assistants, helped us arrive at the boat on Tuesday evening on the Liverpool docks. The boat left at 7pm and we got picked up, got home, and got settled (well almost) and got into bed past 12 in the morning. We were given permission to sleep in the next day till 8am so that was needed! It has only been 1/2 a day and yet I have fallen in love with this Isle and the people! One the Assistants, Elder Gallacher, encouraged us to Boat Contact on the way over to Douglas. As we were waiting to board the boat, we spoke to this mother and her 9-year-old daughter. What made me stop to speak to them was that the little girl had a field hockey stick and was playing around with it. Since I love field Hockey I went over to speak with them. They don't have any religious beliefs but were very open to learn more so we scheduled an appointment with them! We congratulated them for them being the very first people we knew on the Isle of Man and they are excited for our visit. Then while we were claiming our luggage we spoke to this young man from Slovakia living on the Isle for the racing (it is very big here apparently). He does not have a belief either but we exchanged details to set up an appointment with him. I really do know that all those that partook in these transfers were inspired for this great change. I can feel that wonderful things are going to come from this!

I am so happy right now and am very excited to get to know this Isle like the back of my hand. I am grateful for this opportunity and the Lord and President has showed great trust in us to be here. We are the only missionaries here, not even a Senior Missionary couple. We have no District (So I guess that makes me the closest thing to being a District Leader here on the Isle of Man! ha-ha just kidding!) We are in the Liverpool Zone, which I am very excited about since I have never been apart of that Zone before. We will have to catch the boat back and forth from the main land for Conferences and such but it is a pretty big boat (like a very mini cruise ship) so it is lovely!

I love you all with all of my heart and wish the best to each and every one of you! Thank you so much for all those who have helped Teresa and I be here on the Lord's errand. We love you!

Love always, Sister Rachel Kullick

P.S. Congratulations to Mike White on the wedding! Wow, I was surprised but very happy for him and his new wife! Thank you mom and dad for the camera!! Dad, I will keep you in my prayers and I hope your knees feel better, I love you! Take care!

I'm going where??!!

TERESA - Family, listen to this!!
I have some CRAZY news for you! OK first of all, I am running out of time on my mission!! Nooo! Ha-ha This is really unreal. I can't even tell you how weird this feels! I still feel like I've got an entire mission in front of me! I cannot believe it for a second. So that is definitely one BIG thing I had to express!! Ha-ha

Also, Moves call was last night!! Now I had a feeling that I was going only because Bishop had me speak in church because he felt that I was going to be leaving the ward soon (he has NOT been wrong so far!). Also, everybody kept saying that I was a goner and I was leaving! Honestly, I didn't think that way only because I'm in the middle of training AND I only have 2 moves left (AHHHH!!) and I could very well die in East Kilbride, after all I did stay in Dundee (home sweet home!) for 9 months! So I really had no way of knowing what was going to happen actually. But last night we got them. You ready for it? OK I'm staying the same in East Kilbride... ha-ha Just kidding! Well, Sister Peterson is staying here but as for me...I'm going to Ireland!!! I've been called to serve in the Republic (Southern Ireland – North and South are two different countries) And I'm going to be in the Dublin Zone!! Yay! My specific area in Dublin is Baldoyle. I am going to continue to follow up train and the Sister's name is Sister Ring. She was in Sister Peterson's group and she is super nice. She's also from Canada, neat huh? But can I just tell you how excited I am?! My whole mission I never thought that I'd go to Ireland and now I'm finishing off my mission there! This is so great. I hear the people there are really friendly but the work can be a bit more difficult with the Catholics verses the Protestants troubles. But I'm totally up for it! I will definitely miss East Kilbride and my lovely Scotland but change is progression so I'm really looking forward to it :)

Brother Ian Smith is doing MUCH better. He was having some really hard times there for a bit but he's coming back strong. I hope he can stay steadfast on this path but that is what the Atonement is for after all. He has not been confirmed yet but is progressing in that direction. I'm not too worried about it. It's when he's not coming to church that I would be concerned, but his heart is in the right place and I do have confidence in him if he continues to place his trust in his Savior. Things are really looking up :) So nice!

But lets see.... what are the happenings lately? Well on P-day the Glasgow Zone went to the Stake Center in Glasgow and played games, it was really fun. And also this week we have really tried to get into some other members homes and visit with them, you know, besides the regulars. And we were able to meet with some others and they were just SO nice! It's a shame I won't be around any longer to see those relationships progress :( But I'm excited for the new companionship to experience that. We visit a lot of widows and one that I like especially is Sister Gaves. She lost her husband 4 years ago and is still completely heart broken about it. She is such a lovely lady and she wants me to send her a wedding invite when the time comes! Ha-ha I thought that was so sweet and she said that would mean a lot to her and she'd look forward to receiving it! (That may take a while though! ha-ha) But that just shows me how seemingly simple things like wedding invite make a huge difference to people. It shows that you care and want them to know what's going on in your life. I am definitely going to send some to the people I've served around! Just a side note :)

One day this week we went blitzing with the district. Where we all go to each other's areas at a time and work in their area for an hour. It was sooo fun! I've done it once before and I love doing it. It helps the other missionaries and it sure helps in your own! But we were able to find a potential investigator that day! She seems so great and I hope the sisters will have success with her :)

Today we went by Pamela Galbraith. Man, I missed her loads; it had been ages since we've been able to see her. And thank goodness we did, she has been struggling really badly for a while and we were able to invite her to come to church and to really meet with us to learn more about how the gospel can really help her. She was totally up for it. She said that she wanted to go to church, not just for her girls but also for her. She really wants that help in her life. It was wonderful and I was really sad I had to say goodbye. But she wants me to write so I'll be able to stay in touch with her and her family. Good thing too, because I would hate to loose that relationship. I hope she progresses.

But this has been great! I really am going to finish hard and enjoy every minute of it! This mission has been an opportunity for growth that I would've never gotten if I hadn't decided to go. I love this mission. I love these people. And I love this gospel. It is true, it really is and I am SO grateful that I am apart of it.

Thank you for helping Rach and I with everything. You all are the best! I love you family! Love Always, Sister Teresa Kullick

P.S. Mom, since I went to Loch Lomond twice and went in different ways I would say that I definitely took both the high road and the low road! Ha-ha Love you more.