07.15.13

Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond

Highlands



Preaching to some sheep.



Highlight of the week starts now. 

We went to Oban yesterday and it was amazing. It took us about 2 and half hours to get there cause we stopped off at Loch Lomond to take some pictures for about 10 minutes. The highlands of Scotland are pretty dang amazing. You should all look up pictures of Oban on google or something cause it's one of the prettiest towns I've ever seen. They are actually going to be putting missionaries there next move, which is one of the reasons why we got permission to go. We got lost for awhile on the way, so I preached to some sheep on top of the highlands until we could get someone on the phone to give us directions. ha I will send a picture.  

So, to start off, we had our church services in a classroom at the local high school cause they don't have a building. We were asking about the average attendance and the Branch President said the average attendance is 2 to 20. haha That's a pretty random average. Oh ya, the Branch President's last name is Frost and he does a lot of work on Pine Valley Mountain and Pinto. He knows quite a few people from Cedar and spends about half the year there. So maybe someone knows him? He spends a lot of time with the Wood family as well. 

The biggest miracle of our day in Oban was definitely the lesson with Natasha. During church, the Sunday school lesson was about the role of the relief society from the Lorenzo Snow manual. She got asked to read the part about how the relief society helps the poor and the fatherless and she couldn't finish it because she started to cry. The spirit was soo strong. She is one of the most kind people I've ever met and she's really shy, so it was obvious that this must have deeply affected her. 

We taught her an actual missionary lesson later on in the day. In their huge mansion house on top of the mountains. The only concern that we've ever had with her was getting parental permission, so we were planning on talking to her about that yesterday, but by pure coincidence, her Mom showed up to visit. Which is a huge miracle  because her Mom lives over 2 hours drive away. Her Mom was soo happy that she had found God and even sat in on our lesson. We talked a lot about baptism and asked her if she had prayed about a date. She is going to get baptised on August 3!!!!! Her Mom was so supportive and excited about it. She is so so so prepared. I've never seen anything like it. 

Well, that's what's on my mind these days. The weather has been pretty warm and the people here don't know how to handle it. haha. They don't have Air conditioners or anything, so they are mind boggled by the warm weather. All the guys just walk around without shirts on whether they are fat or not. ha! It's pretty funny. 

One more funny thing. We had interviews with President Brown last week, and after he interviewed me, I walked out with him and it was really quiet, then I just announced to everyone that I had been called to be the new mission president. ha President Brown thought it was hilarious. He is the man. Sister Brown is soooo cool too. 

I love you all soo much! 

Elder Goodwin