Dearest
Family,
"OUR
LIVES!!!" This is Sister Pugh's favorite thing to say, and it has been so
true of this week.
This
is the story of two missionaries. They thought it would be a great idea to bake
some cookies for this cute old lady in their ward named Sister Brown. She is
sweet and probably likes cookies so off they went, using the recipe on the back
of the Chocolate Chip package. Although they had no vanilla, one of the
missionaries thought honey would probably work and so she squeegied a bit of
that in. The dough was delicious and so in the cookies went. Although they were
a bit burned on the edges and doughy in the middle, they were edible. :)
Now.
One of the missionaries hadn't lived here for a long time and so when she
turned off the oven, she didn't do it properly. This wasn't realized until
after planning when their carbon monoxide detector went off. Oh no, the
missionaries said! We'd best call the Elders in our area--they'll know what to
do! So after calls to the Glenrothes elders, the Mission Home, the Bishop,
Sister Brown, and the Zone Leaders, the neighbor lady came over smoking
her fag and gave the missionaries the number for the Scottish National Gas
company. Eventually, after sitting on their balcony writing in their journals,
the gas man came over at about 11:30 p.m., checked their levels and determined
them okay, turned off their gas, and went on his way (complete with a mormon.org card
and the sisters’ testimonies of the Church.)
All
should have been fine and dandy and the story could end with "And they
lived happily ever after" but where would a story replete with changes be
if there were only one conflict? And alas, the final conflict was a bit tricky,
because the landlord of the missionaries was in Kenya and wasn't coming home
yet. So these two sisters had to live without gas in their flat for a wee
while. Nay hot showers, nay heating, nay oven. Luckily they had a nice friend a
few minutes up the road named Winnie who let them use her shower. And they had some
nice members to feed them.
To
be continued------because we still don't have our gas. :)
We
seriously did so much finding this week; I'm pretty exhausted. Here is what I
wrote in my e-mail to President this week:
We had a great week--full of chapping--but we met a
wonderful girl named Kimberley on the street and invited her to learn about
Family History. She accepted and we went the following day to set up an account
and invite her to church. She accepted and then spent six hours with us
yesterday--between travelling to church, a member who invited the three of us
to dinner, and the Employment Specialists who pulled her aside to help her find
a job! She is absolutely brilliant and it was a great faith-promoting
experience. I feel my faith has been lacking lately and this was Heavenly Father's
way of helping me realize that good things can and do happen every day.
Dawn
is still on track to get baptized and is so excited. She asked the Bishop to
baptize her yesterday, and we have loads of joint teaches set up this week so
she can meet some wonderful people in our ward!
Those
were the main highlights of the week. I'm going to try and send some pictures
now, since I haven't my whole time here! Sorry about that. :) I love you all
loads! I'm sending a great Father's Day video link...because we are so lucky to
have such a great dad! Love you loads, Dad!
https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2013-01-002-earthly-father-heavenly-father?category=mormon-messages/mormon-messages-2013&lang=eng&cid=HPTU061014222
Love
you all!
Sister
Ricks
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