Devotionals at the archive was picking up the Book of Mormon and take turns reading a verse from where you left off yesterday. Now we are given a reference or topic and prepare a devotional on that once or twice a week. The first week it was on axioms and this week talks from General Conference. More time and inspiration in preparing for devotional is needed now.
We have windows to see out and can see what the weather is like. It doesn’t mean we get out of doors more often, but we sure do enjoy our windows.
We have lots more to learn and are being given more assignments daily to learn. We eat lunch with the others when there are transfers, and trainings going on where we help set the table and cook part of the meal while Sister Griffiths is busy in the training and greeting new missionaries. Of course that means some cooking and cleaning up is added to the assignment.
We see more of the younger missionaries now as they are in and out of the mission home for those trainings and coming and going. Also the couple missionaries are in for their mail and supplies so we see them.
The days are much longer now and we arrive a little later in the mornings. We wouldn’t go back to the archives but are anxious for the time we feel more comfortable with our assignment. We have heard three months and we will feel more comfortable. By then we will have a new Mission President and will see how much he changes and runs the mission.
I have been working with Sister Graham a lot this last week to learn some of the things she does so I can move into her position possibly when they go home the end of July. Bill has been given some extra projects from President Griffiths also.
This weekend we left the mission home just before 7:00 Friday night. So home, dinner, and relax is all we wanted to do. Saturday, we left the house later than normal and caught a bus into the city center so we could visit Holyrood Palace and see the new collection. Only thing was Royal Family Members were also visiting this weekend and the Palace was closed to us. So we walked the area and saw a garden and a museum and then headed over to a store selling suits so Elder Rasmussen could get a new suit that I wanted him to pick out for his birthday. So we have no new pictures to share. Oh that is another difference, nylons and dresses and church clothes everyday like all the other missionaries wear. No more casual pants.
Last Sunday, Elder and Sister Flynn invited us to dinner at their home. We knew it was a birthday dinner but was a surprise that Mike and Shirley and family and Jimmy and Margaret from the archives were also coming. It was a pleasant surprise.
The Assistants to the President sang to me on my birthday and gave me an ice cream bar, We ate altogether with the Connelly’s and the President and Sister Griffiths and other office staff and had birthday cake and ice cream for my birthday. I got a beautiful white begonia and a pineapple and some tulips.
For Bill’s birthday we also had dinner, only with the Elders that were in for training and also had brownie and ice cream with a candle and singing. He received two books about Edinburgh history and Scottish cooking. So we both had wonderful birthdays.
We have had a cold, wet week with lots of rainy days. Yesterday was nice and today is rainy with gale winds as they call it. A lot of our trees are losing their blossoms. It has been so beautiful here with the trees and bushes in bloom as well as more and more flowers.
Today is Mother’s Day in America but not here and so it really doesn’t seem like Mother’s Day. No mention made of it at church and so only Bill said Happy Mother’s Day. Of course you have said it to me as I have spoken to you this week. Thanks so much.
Mother’s Day is a special day for me. It is my favorite calling and one I will never be released from. I love being a wife, mother and grandmother. I am so grateful to my Heavenly Parents for their plan and my opportunity of belonging to a wonderful family with special parents and grandparents. I hope I can be as great as they were in teaching me. I hope all the women in my life will feel honored to have this experience.
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