"Scots are good at being bold, blunt, and straightforward."

So first off, we are going to watch BOXING today at the Commonwealth Games!
It's at 1:00 pm and so I may not have as much time as usual for emailing. But it's worth it! And maybe if it's televised in America you can watch it with me!
Last week didn't seem to eventful, but it seems like most weeks I say that I end up thinking of cool things that happen as I type. So here we go.
We did a bit of service--painting--for a couple that the sister missionaries are teaching. It was kind of fun I guess.
We're still teaching Alistair. Hard to tell if he understands what we teach.
Also Frank (the guy who had cops at his house)...he was high during our appointment. We're pretty sure he smokes a lot of weeeeed.
We had a guy from the ward come with us, and he was straight up with him. He basically said "you need to repent of your sins, come to church, and get baptized.
It seemed a bit harsh, but at the same time perfect because the guy was raised in the same area of Glasgow (kind of a rough area) and he knows how these people think.
Scots are good at being bold, blunt, and straightforward. But yeah, Frank was straight up as well and said he can't desert his Catholic faith, even if he got an answer that our church is true. So we'll see where we go with him.
We keep finding more and more good potential investigators, and some end up being too "busy" or avoiding us or just never home...but eventually we'll find someone golden!
On the 24th of July we had dinner at the McKenzies' house. The mom is a member from Utah, and her husband is a non-member from Scotland. They invited us and all the other missionaries from the ward over for a Pioneer Day celebration. We had burgers and such. It was a lot of fun.
We played some football again on Saturday.
The stake president organizes it every Saturday, unless there's not enough people planning to go. It was fun, but I injured my NECK doing a throw in!
I guess I threw it too hard and it felt like I pulled a muscle. For the day it was very painful to move my neck, but when I woke up yesterday it was not as bad and now it's good as new.
We started teaching a guy from Sudan who is Muslim. He kept saying "Prophet Jesus" so we told him that if he reads the Book of Mormon he can gain a testimony of Jesus as more than a prophet, but also the Saviour. That is one of the purposes on the Title Page of the book, so we'll see if it works with him.
I heard of a Jewish lady who had such an experience last year somewhere in our mission...the Book of Mormon convinced her that Jesus is the Christ. Pretty cool.
Last night we were knocking some doors, and an African guy answered. After a couple minutes on the doorstep, he invited us in. He, his wife, and a friend of theirs were all there and seemed happy to see us. I was very hopeful, because it seems like a lot of missionaries in our mission have great success teaching African families.
The man who let us in, Freddy, offered to say an opening prayer. And it sounded exactly like the way we pray. And then he started talking about how he believes in Prophets, and that he would like there to be a prophet today who God could speak through.
He went on about this for about five minutes, and then said he would like us to tell him about Joseph Smith. He already knew the name, and they all three said they had a copy of the Book of Mormon from past encounters with missionaries.
So I kinda had a suspicious feeling that he wasn't as genuinely searching for the truth as he said he was, because if he really was then he would have embraced it when he first learned of the Restoration.
So yeah he asked us to tell the account of Joseph Smith, and immediately this led to a lengthy discussion/debate about the nature of the Godhead. It ended up a bit frustrating.
He and his friend were quoting scriptures off by heart, and then when it was almost 9:00 he went to get his Bible. I told him no, we don't have time for that, because I know from experience that once the Bible comes out, it will be hard to leave.
They were insistent that they share a few scriptures "just for 10 minutes!" but of course it went longer.
So we told them that we don't have time, but to be polite we said if they want we can come back another day. They wanted us to (so they could teach US) so we're going back later this week.
I feel like just lending them my copy of "A Marvelous Work and a Wonder" and telling them that we are called to teach people who are seeking the truth, not to argue or to be taught. We'll see how that goes.
It would be nice to bring Prince, a member from Greenock, who would be well-matched with them. Although Bible-bashing is sometimes fun, it never works because we all have different interpretations of the same verse, and there are verses that support both arguments. Every time.
Oh one cool thing.
We were going down this semi-busy street GQing (street contacting). We stopped a young man and young woman about our age to talk with them.
They were really friendly, and once I asked if they were familiar with our church, the girl said she had been to Utah, had toured Temple Square, had Mormon friends she met there, etc.
She said she worked at a scout camp at Bear Lake. I said "Camp Hunt?" And she was excited and said yes! So of course she knew Logan, she loved Bear Lake, and she said she went to a church service and loved it!
But she said she was too busy to meet with us, and wouldn't give us her contact info to teach her. Dang it!
But she has our number, and maybe she'll contact us. It was a fun conversation though...It's a small world after all!
Alright well that was my week. I guess it wasn't too boring after all. Now time to go watch some men beat each other up!
Have a great week. Love you all!
Spencer

Here's a few photos of that weird hill thing on Plean Street!

"Is it weird that I kind of WANT to get punched in the face..."

OK got a bit more time so here's a quick rundown of the week!
I saw a guy with a "Glasgow Smile." Basically it's like the scars that the Joker has on Batman, but real life.
Apparently it's pretty common in the Glasgow drug/gang scene. It wasn't fresh, but I could see scars running from his mouth to his ears. It was kinda scary.
One of our investigators has a past with police confrontations and illegal stuff. We taught him last week, and right after we finished the Restoration DVD with him, the police knocked on his door.
He went to answer it, and they just wanted to ask him a few questions about someone he knew that got arrested. But he was being difficult with them, kept his foot against the door and wouldn't open it more than two inches.
We listened from the other room for a couple minutes and decided we should leave. He was kind of using us as an excuse to not let the cops in, saying that he's in the middle of discussing with us and can't be interrupted. So we decided we better leave. As we did, the cops kind of let themselves in thru the doorway. It was an interesting experience...
We started teaching this other guy. He's a bit of a hoarder, but a nice guy. He investigated about a year ago, so we decided to go by. He seems receptive, but a bit of something isn't quite right in his head.
We met a solid (so we thought) guy named Anthony while tracting. We were knocking his door as he walked up, and he said "that's my house" so we talked to him outside for a few minutes, and he invited us in.
We taught the first lesson, and he was one of the most agreeing, positive, receptive, and even "prepared" people I've found. He said it all made sense, more than any other church he's ever heard of.
He was super excited to come to church; we set a place to meet so we could show him to the church because it's a bit tucked away. We waited at the destination for a while, called him, his phone was off, waited some more, and then decided he wasn't coming. We've tried a few times since to call and he hasn't answered. So hopefully we'll find out what's up.
We met another interesting guy outside.
He says he believes in Jesus Christ, but can't possibly believe that Mary had a child without [procreation]. He was a bit drunk when we met him, but he asked legit questions, and seemed to want to know.
We set up a time to teach him the next morning. He said he lived in a little camp trailer in front of his grandparents' house.
He gave us the address, we went there, and sure enough, there was a trailer (or "caravan" they'd say here) we knocked on it, no answer. Knocked the house door, and his grandma said he wasn't there; he'd gone to stay the night at a friend's house. So we'll see what happens with him as well.
We played a bit of football with some members and investigators from around the stake on Saturday. It was fun. I didn't play too well but it was fun nonetheless.
Oh funny story: as we were walking down the road around 8:45 heading back in for the night, we saw this teenage couple on the other side of the street.
The girl looked like she was crying...and I guess I "stared" just to figure out what was going on. The guy just stood there glaring back at us, and then he yelled at me, "What are you actually looking at?"
I said sorry, looked down and kinda smiled, because I've learned on my mission that when someone gets mad, it's no use to get mad and by now I find it kinda funny.
But I guess he thought I was laughing at them, and then he got a bit more angry, "What the **** are you laughin at?!" He started walking across the street, saying some choice words to me, but his girlfriend grabbed him and pulled him back.
He was a bit crazy. Anger management needed. Is it weird that I kind of WANT to get punched in the face by a crazy angry guy sometime, especially on my mission? It would just make for a good story to tell my kids in the future.
Got the package this week, thanks bunches to all those who contributed items, effort, etc. I loved it!
Have a great week bretheren and sisters!
Love, Elder Burt

Photos
Glasgow conehead statue

Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014 sculpture thing

Half Birthday celebration

"...walked with my arm around his shoulder, his around mine. He smelled quite bad of alcohol."

Hello family!
So this has been an interesting week.
The things that stand out to me are the drunk people we met. The first one was outside of Tesco, the UK-wide grocery store.
We had to grab a quick something during the week that we forgot on p-day. As we left, a lady called out to us. So we went over. She asked if we help people with alcohol problems.
She wasn't super drunk, but we could tell her husband was, about 10 feet away talking to another guy. We said yes, and she agreed for us to come over the next day to teach her and her husband about the Church, and also about the Addiction Recovery Program.
Then as we walked to our destination, just two minutes later, a very very drunk guy called us over to where he was sitting on a bench. He asked if we could help him walk over to the other side of the street, where there was a fence he could hold onto as he walked home. So I walked with my arm around his shoulder, his around mine. He smelled quite bad of alcohol. But it was a good experience I guess. Then yesterday as we came out of an apartment complex after visiting a less-active member, a drunk lady kinda stumbled through the front door, looked at us, and asked if she could take a picture with us. We obliged. Her friend took the picture, and then they left. Interesting.
We had four appointments with either current investigators or seemingly good potentials; but they all cancelled or just didn't answer the door. Sad. One of them was with the alcoholic lady outside Tesco.
We had a zone meeting where I was re-united with Elder Dewsbery and a few other missionaries that I like. It was fun.
We were in Drumchapel visiting a less-active lady, and apparently there is an old LDS church that used to be a ward, but people moved away from the area and they had to close it down.
They sold it to some other church or organization, who shut down as well. So it's just an abandoned former LDS church. interesting sight.
I could kind of tell it was one, although the buyers painted some parts of it blue which looked a bit weird. It's on Kinfauns Drive; maybe you can find it on google street view!
We were doing a bunch of street contacting in the City Centre on Saturday.
As we did so, some organization called Free Palestine was setting up a tent/canopy/booth thing. As time went on, we saw more and more people gathering, with Palestine flags, shirts, etc. By the time we left, they were basically having a rally or demonstration of some sort, so it was probably not good for us to be there anyway.
So I guess in a way it wasn't too eventful of a week as far as missionary work goes; everything seemed to fall through. But I always enjoy interesting/weird experiences, like drunk people, "GQing" near a Palestinian rally, etc.
Thanks to everyone who writes and emails! I always look forward to reading your emails, definitely more so than I enjoy writing them.
Have a great week!
Elder Burt

Photos:
The Mascot of the Glasgow Commonwealth games: A thistle.

My new planner cover, taken from a water-damaged Book of Mormon. Also my american flag and my tartan-covered scriptures.

"We were glad to have a lock and bolt on our door."

Ok so here are some cool things that happened this week.
A bit of backtracking...about a week and a half ago, BBC did a documentary sort of thing where they followed a missionary around for a few weeks with cameras and interviewed him occasionally. It was a missionary from England somewhere and he is serving in the Leeds mission.
We thought it would probably be a good bit of press for the church and for us serving in the UK, because loads of people were talking about it even before it happened; investigators, members, everyone.
We heard mixed opinions of it; apparently the lady who narrated/conducted interviews was super annoying. Kept asking awkward questions about the law of chastity, garments, why temples are secret, why she couldn't interview the missionary on his own, etc. and she just looked for the negative things.
We heard quite a bit, and we wanted to watch some...President Brown in his email to the mission said it would be a waste of time and we'd be better spending it out proselyting.
But we were at a less-active family's house on Monday saying goodbye and they had it recorded, so we figured we might as well watch a wee bit. It was stupid; the lady really just kept prying and wouldn't stop asking why she couldn't be in a room with the elder alone, without his companion. It was stupid. But I noticed that everything the missionaries or others from the church said on camera was just brilliant, and I could feel the spirit to a degree, and whenever she talked it went away and there was nothing but contention. So that was interesting. I wonder if you would be able to find it online...it's called "Meet The Mormons." So that was interesting, we had a few people ask us about it when we meet them in the street but not much more. Wow, that was a big paragraph all for a stupid tv show.
So the best thing ever was when we met up with Chris on Tuesday for me to say good bye...he was totally different!!!
He started off by saying that even though I'm leaving, he'll still take the lessons and come to church, and he's still up for baptism on August 23.
Took me by surprise, I didn't think he was THAT serious about it. Then as we discussed more he said he had a toothache over the weekend, like really bad, and so he prayed and asked God to comfort him. And he said he felt the holy ghost! And it basically changed everything for him.
Before that, he still didn't really believe in God, he was just trying to build up his faith. But he said after that he is definitely a believer! And then he said the most surprising thing ever, "So yeah, I hope to be with my Heavenly Father in the Celestial Kingdom someday! Not terrestrial or telestial, but celestial!"
We were just dumbfounded. I honestly didn't think he was that into it! I told him "Wow, you have a really good memory!" and he said "Well, I wasn't just sitting there not listening when yous taught me. I was taking it all in!"
He's a super smart  kid. Excited to hear how things go with him!
As I finished packing up Tuesday night, I realized my small statue of Christ was still out, and I had no way of packing it without a risk of it being broken, so I put it in an envelope with a note and told Elder Spackman to give it to Chris as a gift from me.
So Traci has one, Chris has one, and if I'm correct, I have one waiting for me at home!
Ok now the rest of the week.
The ferry was fun. I hung out with Elder Stewart and Elder Thomas mostly.
Friday was the 4th of July! It was kinda sucky; it rained allllll day.
But we had a lesson with a new investigator named Frank. It was funny; he is a devout Catholic and although he says he respects missionaries a lot and he wants to read the Book of Mormon, he won't change religions...but toward the end he said "Well, if I get an answer that the Book of Mormon is true, then I'm F***ed because it means I'm following a false church!"
It was great, because we just taught the restoration lesson pretty simply. So that was cool.
Then an American lady from the ward invited us over last-minute for dinner. So I got to spend the 4th with one American. We didn't do anything cool though. Although I did tape my small American flag up to the wall. So far only 30% of my companions have been Americans, isn't that weird?
On Saturday we met two true, genuine truth-seekers, and had good conversations with them, and in the end neither one wanted us to come teach them later!!! It was kind of frustrating.
I seriously felt like they were the sort of people we hear about from the early days of the Restoration, who had been searching for truth from church to church and couldn't find it. But for some reason neither of these people were interested in learning about our church. But they agreed to research on the website.
So the last few days I've been trying to pray and exercise faith that they WILL research it, that they WILL feel something, they WILL desire to learn more, and they WILL contact us through mormon.org.
I've never been good at that sort of thing; I sometimes feel like faith and prayer won't change anything, because if God's will is for something to happen, it will happen, and if it's not, then it won't.
I don't know if that's a false pretense or what, but recently I've been feeling impressed to have more faith and to believe that miracles happen, and to pray for specific things and I guess we'll see if it works. (Thoughts on this matter? I've always wondered about this...)
We also met an alcoholic guy who wants help, so we're gonna see him on Wednesday and hopefully teach him a bit and help him with his addiction.
He reminded me of our dear friend Joe, who we taught in Greenock, who passed away the day after Jim Craig and two days after Grandpa. They're probably all having a party up there!
Sunday we had church.
There are two wards in the same building here; it felt ALMOST like being in Utah! Except it's the only church building in the huge city which I guess that's where the difference lies.
It's interesting; there are lots of Chinese members, one Brazilian from Sao Paulo, one Mexican guy, and one Peruvian girl. And a few Africans. Very diverse! I never expected to meet Latin Americans in the UK, but here they are.
Apparently Glasgow has a bad reputation for crime and stuff, but I haven't seen anything dodgy yet.
Although on Saturday night we could hear a guy downstairs banging on the front door to our apartment block yelling curse words and such. He buzzed our buzzer, and everyone else's in the block to try and get into the hall, and I guess someone let him in.
Then we heard him pounding on the door of someone downstairs, and yelling and swearing a ton. We were glad to have a lock and bolt on our door.
Then he eventually left and about 15 minutes later the cops knocked on our door to ask if we heard anything. We told them what we heard, and they took our names and addresses. So that was an interesting first weekend in Glasgow!
Don't worry though (Mom), I've got God's protection to keep me safe. And a bit of common sense too, I hope.
Love you all!!!
Spencer

"...we were in Belfast at the same time as The Queen!"

Hello!
So I am moving to  the "Clydeband" area, in the Glasgow Ward of the Glasgow Stake/Glasgow Zone. From what President Brown said, it is near the City Centre and I'll do a lot of contacting there.
He said the area wasn't doing too well and he needs some dedicated hard work. So I'm glad he trusts me to do that.
I've found I've always been good at FINDING people to teach, but then actually teaching them effectively and helping them progress is not my strongest point.
I'll be serving with Elder Schmidt, from Germany. So another foreigner! Looking forward to serving with my new companion :)
So let's see. This week we were in Belfast at the same time as The Queen!
We were driving to lunch with the zone leaders after district meeting, and we saw whole blocks lined with police cones and cars and tape, and then we saw like 10 black Land Rovers with undercover blue lights flashing.
We had no idea, until someone told us it was The Queen's entourage. So that was kind of cool.
Elder Spackman insists he saw HER, because he saw a woman get out of one of the cars. (He said she looked like Lady Gaga at first, until he heard it was The Queen and then he changed the story.)
On Tuesday I went on exchange with Elder Stoker (zone leader) here in Lisburn. It was a lot of fun; we used a "Restoration Board" in the City Centre (pictures).
It has been in our missionary flat for years, and I'm sure it took a lot of effort to create and I thought it would be nice to put it to use, both for our own finding efforts and also to honor the creator of the board, whoever it was.
Elder Spackman, nor any of the other elders I exchanged with the past two transfers, were down to use it. But Elder Stoker was.
So we propped it up against a lamppost on High Street, where there's no cars, only pedestrians, so it was perfect.
We just handed out "Truth Restored" passalong cards, and if people stopped, we talked to them.
The board honestly didn't do that much to help us as we expected, but our investigator Chris saw us and came up to chat. He read the board, and said "Oh cool, I see you've got Joseph Smith there" pointing at the First Vision painting, so that was good to see that he understands most of what we have been teaching him.
And one member with his girlfriend saw us and they looked at it. She's sort of investigating; she goes to church in a different ward every week but her parents don't want her baptised till she is 18. But she read it and asked a few questions.
I think we expected people to just come up and be intrigued by the board and read it, but in the end only people that we already knew looked at it.
Oh well, it was still a lot of fun and we got some good potential investigators. Next step: Soapbox Sermons! (maybe...)
Tom Henry came to visit us again. He's so nice. And funny. I recorded two of his HILARIOUS jokes (actually quite dumb but I love the way he tells them) on my camera. Unfortunately they're too big to send but you'll see them someday.
We did another "pamphlet drop" with the ward. Had a good turn out. It's a good way to involve members in missionary work in a non-threatening way.
We did some service for the Ballard family in the ward. It was fun. Then they invited us to join their family BBQ afterward. It was nice.
So there we go. That's my week. So excited for Glasgow! Just not excited to pack. I need to learn to throw things away. But it's hard.
Love you all!
Elder Burt

Pictures:
Restoration Board

This is what the Primary kids in Lisburn do after church is over. Seen here is the bishop underneath a bunch of them.

"...it was not cancer. So we just gave an overall blessing of health and comfort."

Hello!
Well being in the UK, football (soccer) is a big deal. Everyone watches the World Cup. Everyone talks about it. So I'm trying to make the most out of it.
We're not allowed to watch TV, but sometimes if we go to a member's house and they have a World Cup match on
I'll watch for a tiny wee bit :) sue me!
It's quite easy to follow; I just have to ask any member for the day's scores and they almost always know.
Spain, the defending World Cup champions, are already out of the competition. As is England. But USA is doing very well! I figured out that if we win or draw against Germany, we'll be through to the next round. And even if we lose, we still have a chance at getting through!
I've been filling out a little results chart I got from a member. Lots of fun being surrounded by football fans and talking about it, while my all-American companion has no idea what's going on.
Let's see, what else.
After we emailed last Monday, we went and played basketball at an outdoor court with the Portadown elders, and Jason and Robert Howse (members) it was super hot!
I think I got a bit of heat exhaustion, but I got over it after taking a shower, drinking water and Gatorade, eating some fruit, and laying down in shorts and a t-shirt before we went out to proselyte in the evening.
Elder Spackman's lasted longer; he was feeling quite out of it when we went to a dinner appointment at the Howses' at 6.
I was on exchange with Elder McDonald on Tuesday. He served in Lisburn about a year ago, and he is going home in two weeks, so we spent most of the time going to visit members he had known and loved.
It was very fun; I need to do more visiting of active members. Sometimes I get into the trap of just wanting to find and teach investigators and less-actives and shun anything that doesn't directly contribute to that. But members are essential. And they are fun!
When Elder Spackman got back from his exchange the next day, he was sick to his stomach. And he has been practically all week.
There's been tons of sickness between us for the past two transfers. It's probably been one of my least productive times so far in my mission.
Oh well. I'm hoping for a new area, just to have a fresh start to give it my all for the last quarter of my mission.
Later in the week we gave a priesthood blessing to an investigator's daughter.
She had a tumor removed recently that they thought might be cancerous, so David (who has investigated on and off for YEARS and his siblings all joined the church and moved to USA and Canada) wanted us to give her a blessing.
But when we got there on the day he scheduled, they had just gotten the results that it was not cancer. So we just gave an overall blessing of health and comfort.
Hopefully she and her mom and dad all felt the spirit and it sparks something.
I think if his family took an interest in the church, he'd be able to get over his fear of going to church if he had someone to go with. The daughter (20's) did ask a lot of questions, and she seemed interested so we'll see if we can teach her as well in the future.
We had an appointment with Silvana on Saturday. We confirmed it the night before, and arranged a man from the ward (Joint Teach) to come with us. And she didn't answer. We knocked three times, called her phone, and could hear it ringing inside the house, and no answer.
She called us about an hour later, after our Joint Teach had gone home and Elder Spackman had gone to bed to try and recover from his sickness.
She was drunk, and angrily asked why we didn't come. I told her we did, and she said we were liars and we didn't knock on her door, but her neighbor's. It was definitely hers though. Oh well. We'll see how she ends up this week.
Mom and dad, I know you say I'm very patient and Christlike for teaching alcoholics but I'm starting to lose my patience with her!
So that's this week. Lots of time spent in our flat. I took little naps, cooked, cleaned, and read Ensigns while Elder Spackman was sick in bed. It will be weird to go back to a solid 10am-9pm hard-working day after this spell of sickness.
Thanks for the love, prayers, and support dear family!
Love,
Spencer Ashcraft Burt
Elder for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Scotland/Ireland Mission
51 Spylaw Road
Edinburgh EH10 5BP
Scotland
United Kingdom

Photo:
2 Nephi 12:2

Jason and Robert Howse, and their pet snake

"It's inspiring how humble and receptive she is."

So this week seemed kind of uneventful.
I'm still congested and allergy pills don't seem to make a difference, but it's definitely not a cold...mission president's wife told me to go to the pharmacist first to see if they have any over the counter stuff to help, and if not then I'll get checked out by a doctor to see what's up.
It's just my nose, the rest of me feels ok. But nevertheless it was a good week.
A few cool things did happen though.
A funny and feel-good experience was when I was waiting in line at the ATM to pull out money, the lady in front of me was in a real hurry and when she finished her transaction she just pulled her card out and started walking away, and two seconds later about £50 popped out!
I grabbed it, tried to yell at her, and she didn't hear, so I ran up and said "Ma'am, I think you forgot your money!"
She was real surprised. Probably a bit shocked that she almost forgot to grab her money from the ATM, and probably very thankful that a missionary was standing behind her, not a thief.
It's probably what any good person would do, so I'm not trying to sound like a hero, but it felt good to be honest, ya know?
We found a new investigator this week.
We were walking to a less-active member's house with a member, and as we walked past Silvana's house she yelled at us to come back. We talked to her over her fence for a few minutes.
She thought we were undertakers at first haha! But she said she is a Christian, and also an alcoholic.
The member with us took the charge and asked her if she'd like us to come back and teach her about the church and also about the Addiction Recovery Program. I've never actually taught it, so we'll see how it goes.
But we scheduled an appointment with her, but were unable to get a Joint Teach. So we taught her out on her back patio.
She was drunk both the first time we met her and when we showed up for the appointment, so we were very surprised that she remembered we were coming. It was a bit of an off-topic discussion, but it was good in the end.
She said the closing prayer and promised God she would read the Book of Mormon, so that was really good! We'll see if the Gospel can change her life.
You might remember Billy and Kim, the members who are just so sweet and feed us every week. Well, this week we watched a Church History dvd with them.
Kim, a recent convert of about six months, is just so spiritually receptive. While we were watching it, she says "This is brilliant," and her eyes are fixed on the screen.
She did the same thing when we watched The Restoration with her too. It's inspiring how humble and receptive she is.
Yesterday at church, we had four less-active members come because their dad, who is a super solid member, told them that that was the only father's day gift he wanted. It was really cool!
I bet it had a big impact on the kids to see how much priority he places on the Church, and hopefully they'll realize why soon.
We visit one of his sons every week, and we're trying to start working with the others as well.
We did some weeding for a member, our zone had interviews with the mission president, we tracted some streets...the usual.
So yeah that's my wonderful week. Hope you all had a good one too.
Love,
Elder Spencer A. Burttttt

Photos:
Eating a dead crab on the beach in Newcastle

Pallets stacked in preparation for the 12th of July Bonfires!