Only one more e-mail from Mason after this one!! Mason actually called me earlier today!! There is a missionary that is sick and is coming home. President Donaldson called Mason and asked him since he doesn't have a "traveling partner" when he is coming home if he would like to come home THIS SATURDAY with the other missionary. So, Mason called to see what I thought. I told him we would take him any time he wanted to come home, but after talking for a few minutes I could tell he really wanted to stay and finish the last two weeks and end his mission with the rest of his group. The first day of his mission they climbed Pratt's Hill and they do that again on their last day and a few other things that he decided he didn't want to miss out on. He called President Donaldson back and told him if the other missionary needed someone to travel with him then he would be willing to go, but if not, he would prefer to stay and finish the last two weeks. I got an e-mail a few minutes after I talked to him, and he said he is staying until the 16th (which is probably a good thing since we are in the middle of repainting and redoing a few things in his bedroom!!). So here is his e-mail today from Orkney Islands.
So a change of pace
for this week I am on the Orkney Islands right now (Orkney Islands are islands northeast of mainland Scotland). I'll tell you more about
that later in the email.
So for this week on
Tuesday it was a lot of finding. But then we went and had FHE at Lee and
Naomi's which was fun, they said it went better then they thought it
would.
Then Wednesday we
chapped all day.
Thursday we did
finding most of the day. But we did manage to get a lesson with this one girl
named Fay. We have had one lesson with her before. But we had dinner with one
member family who lived just outside of Thurso, but the opposite direction from
Fay. But Elder Arave was able to get us there on time, and we had a good
lesson.
Friday was
service day. We went to the Winkles in the morning and helped them out with the
living roof they want to do. We had to put a rubber mat under the stone tiles
of their roof so we had to take off the bottom two rows of tiles then but them
back on. It was pretty tricky but really fun. Then we went over to the Tolworthys and mostly just mucked out the outside horse pen. Then during that we got a call from Elder Hornberger. The Orkney branch was having a baptism and
they needed another witness and they asked us if we would be able to go on
Saturday for that. We said we could go up on Saturday, then Elder Hornburger said the zone leaders would call us and let us know what was going on.
So Saturday morning
we got a call from the zone leaders and they said that we were going to Orkney
until Wednesday! We thought we would just be going to the baptism and back
since the ferry is only an hour and a half. But president said if we were going
we were going to do some work up here. So we had to pack really quick. Then we
went to New Start, but we had to leave a bit early. Then we really quick got some
lunch and then booked it to the ferry which we almost missed but we just made
it. Then we went to the baptism which was nice. Then the senior couple up here
took us back to their flat. We are staying with them while we are up here. Then
we chapped up here the rest of the day.
Sunday we had
church then we chapped the rest of the day.
So the unexpected trip
to Orkney was a bit hectic but it is really cool to be up here.
But for my schedule my
last week as far as I know right now, I'll be going to Inverness Saturday night.
Then Sunday I'll be going to church there, then somehow getting to
Edinburgh Sunday night. Then Monday we hike Pratt's hill and then
whatever we want in Edinburgh. Then Tuesday we fly out.
All Scotland (conference for all missionaries in Scotland) is going
to be on Thursday of this week.
Love and miss you, it
is so crazy that I only have one more emailing day after this.
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