Wow!!! Blog time again!
Some of my favorite times here in the mission field are going on joint teaches with the sister missionaries. Elder Blick is our chauffeur. We are teaching a 32-year-old college student from Sudan. He is amazing. He read the Book of Mormon in a week! His baptism day is coming up in five days. I've born my testimony to him about the Plan of Salvation and Tithing. He's so humble and eager to learn.
Can you say, "Stone Fences?"
One of our YSA's got her mission call to the Illinois Chicago Mission. So excited for her!
She leaves in three months. It is fun to see them do good things!
Sister Blick found a Hobbit Hole!
Never thought it would be enjoyable to cook this much. Always baking or cooking something for the YSA activities, or zone meetings with the missionaries, or taking a dessert here or there to members houses after they fix us a lovely dinner. The YSA are so cute and appreciative of everything we cook for them. I was only a mother of five, so this cooking for 25-36 is a bit of a challenge for me, but I'm grateful for the experience.
Beautiful lush land that we love.
These people are so wonderful. Always wondering how we're "keeping." They take such good care of us. In a couple of weeks we will be going to a Silver Jubilee Garden Party Celebration in honor of Queen Elizabeth's sixty years of Queendom with our wonderful Institute teachers.
Chris Shearer and Robyn Beattie, two of the most amazing Young Single Adults EVER!
We checked out Stormont, Northern Ireland's Parliament Building, and took a tour. Got to spend the day with Alex Sharpe. She's a former singer from the group "Celtic Woman," an amazing singing group from over here that we've known about and loved for years in the states. She's LDS and Sisters Chichoni and Olsen know her from when they were serving down south in Dublin. She and another acquaintance came up for the day and spent preparation day with us. We didn't know that any of the Celtic Women were LDS!
Us with Alex Sharpe, one of the Celtic Women. She retired 3 years ago to spend more time with her son.
We are in the business of helping our sister missionaries find a new flat. The one they are in is in a pretty questionable part of town, is dark, dingy and run down, not to mention it has mold and their landlord is not very responsive. It's time they get out of there. Being exposed to mold can be a rather serious health problem, : / so we have been looking around for another flat that's in better condition and in a better neighborhood for them.
A horse with a mustache?
We had an additional treat this stake conference. Elder Jay E. Jensen of the Presidency of the Seventy came to talk to our missionaries here in the Belfast Stake, the youth, and our YSA along with the regular stake conference adult session and general session. He and sister Jensen are amazing people. We feel so blessed to be able to glean from their wisdom.
Newcastle, Northern Ireland with the Mourne "Mountains" in the background
Hiking the Mourne Mountains
With a whole lot of love,
Sister Blick
Wind your neck in - calm down
mucker - friend
dazzled - blinded with bright headlights
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