From Aberdeen to Dub City!

We packed so much into this week!!

 

Monday night, we drove up to Aberdeen for a conference. Sister Paxman, Elder Tullis, Elder Jones, and I instructed on planning and how to use the new Daily Planning Aid to best use every hour of the day. It went really well! I also got to catch up with some of my friends from Ireland that I hadn't seen in ages. Driving home from Aberdeen was a party as well, we had good banter. 

I had an exchange with Sister Wayne this week. She's been out about a month, but she is already a boss! Her teaching skills are really good and we had fun finding throughout the day.

 

That night, after the exchange, we flew to Dublin. WOOT! No problems flying over, but we didn't get to the flat til about 1am....ouch. It was a late night. The day in Dublin was great! We saw Boon, taught loads of Brazilians, ate delicious food, life was good :) I was with Sister Jorgensen, she is always good craic. 

 

Hanging with the Dub squad!

 

 

Boon made us a picnic!

Highlight of the week!!  We flew back in time for our friend Colins' baptism! He is a legend. We've been teaching him for about 2 months now, and he's had the coolest journey! He's from Scotland and is super solid. It was a great baptism, I got to speak about baptism. It went really well. Afterwards, the members had pizza and biscuits for us. It was so good, they just made it an awesome experience for Colin!

Wow, long one this week. Another bonus: the sun is out!!!!! It comes up around half 6 and doesn't set till about 8. Honestly it is such a blessing! The sun makes people so much happier here. I love it!

 

For P-day, we went to the Pentlands reservoir and explored a bit. It was so windy, it was actually crazy! We played capture the flag and frisbee. After all that, we came back to the mission home and played some games. We played signs, which went amazing haha. Then we played the cereal box game. It's where you have to bend down and pick up a cereal box with your mouth without your knees or hands touching the floor. You rip off a layer of the box every round, until at the end, it's just a piece of cardboard on the ground. Plot twist, I actually managed to get it. It was hilarious, but man I was so sore the next day!!

 

Food highlight of the week: Howies. It's this really nice British restaurant. A member from Washington took us. I had Cullen Skink...... it's actually amazing, despite the name. haha

 

Thank you all for everything, I hope everyone has a happy Easter! Remember the reason for it :) Love you!!

-Sister Stapley

Getting Tan!

On Tuesday we had an all Scotland conference. We presented about some new planning aids and it went pretty well.  It was fun seeing everyone, conferences are the best! We played a few fun games afterwards. In one game, we tried to eat a whole apple (core and everything) in three bites. Oh my days, my abs still hurt from laughing!!

Wednesday, we had exchanges. I was with....SISTER GARNER!!! Reunited! We had so much fun and taught some really cool people! There was a baptism that night for our friend, Victor. We went and took our friend, Cat.  She loved it! Sister Garner played the piano for a bit afterwards, it was so fun hearing her play again!

 

We had a couple other exchanges through the week. I was with Sister Muller from Switzerland. We had good fun! The best part of the week was definitely the sunshine!! Believe it or not....I'm getting tan :) Or more freckles....whatever. The sun has been absolutely beautiful! The joke is that this is our 2 weeks of summer, then it'll rain until I go home. But hey, I'll take what I can get!

General  Conference was good craic! I watched at the church with Rosen, Elder Stoker, and Elder Wright. We watched the AM sessions live, and went back the next day for the recorded PM sessions. I loved the talks about charity, they really seemed to stress the importance of loving everyone! When it comes down to it, treating others with love is the most important attribute we could ever obtain. 

Love you all so much, hope you get sunshine too!!