Transfers

Well transfers have come and gone and I'm staying in Sligo. I'm getting a new companion. His name is Elder Keenan. He was my last companion's last companion. He should be getting here by 10:00pm. then it's off to Sligo in the morning. I'm ready to work and go hard. I'll be honest I'm not feeling great but I know that will change. Nothing to do with missionary work, I'm just sick and sore. It's been a long day running missionaries all across the mission. It's what happens when you stay in Dublin over moves. I don't have a whole lot to say, It's a good day, I'm with good missionaries, and I get a day in Dublin with a friend from the MTC.

Here are pictures from my p-day in Mullingar last week.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Fancy weeks

Wow this week has gone by so fast. I feel like I was just emailing you guys. Good news is, our new mission president is awesome, and our last p-day was WAY cool. We couldn't find the forest, so we just went driving. Our area takes about 2 hours to cover it all, so we just drove. We found ourselves on a back road behind the north side of Benbulbon, in what they called a horseshoe, basically where the road follows the curvature of the mountainside, and we got to see skeletons of old houses and barns. I took a lot of pictures and we had a fantastic time. Well bad news is I didn't bring my camera with me today. We are doing a district p-day, so we drove to Mullingar this morning and are planning on going to some abandoned cathedral or something. I don't know, but we'll have pictures from the other missionaries for this one.

Not a whole lot else is going on. I feel great. I'm enjoying Ireland. We are in a drought, (some of the God-fearing insist that it's God cursing us for the vote on abortion a bit ago... Well.) 

Transfers are next week, which means there's a chance next you hear from me I'll be in Scotland! Won't that be awesome! I may be staying, but I guess we'll find out right?

I have learned a lot about who I am on this mission. And although I have a long ways to go, I'm grateful for how hard I have been on myself, and how difficult I've made the missionary work become, because If I hadn't, I wouldn't have learned that what I was doing was wrong. I've learned a grand and simple principle, "if it's not working, change it"

 

I love everyone back home! Missionary work is tiring, but if there is one thing I would say to the return missionaries in the ward, whether you just got back, or you served 30 years ago. The mission didn't change you, Christ, and his atonement changed you. And you can have the same spiritual experience at home as you did on your mission. The reason you may be feeling this way is because you were on a spiritual diet of 2 hours of scripture study per day, and how many times were you praying in those days? Are you doing so now? You cannot say "oh I miss the mission, I miss the spirit I felt there" because you are entitled to that same spirit now! I would encourage all those to carefully consider how they can once again feel the full loving embrace of the Savior and his atonement work in your life. The spirit didn't cease to touch your heart and teach your mind once you were released, but once you stopped letting it do so.

 

Elder Fisk

 

 

 

 

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Week 17/99

Wow when you put put it like that the mission seems a lot shorter than 2 years. I mean sure i've got a ton of time left but at the same time it don't know if it really has been 16 weeks! wow that's just weird! 

ok so this week looking back... 

It's been pretty average actually! I'm surprised that It's already July! This past transfer has been really awesome. It helps a lot when you have a companion you get along with. It's also weird to think I've been in Sligo for 11 weeks. I remember finishing my first 12 weeks of training, and now i've nearly spent 12 weeks in the same area. wow. This last week flew by, hard to remember everything really. Highlight of the week was probably how hot it got. It was 33 celcius on Thursday! That means 91 degrees! with 80% humidity!! When people talk about never getting dry, I understand now what they meant. you start sweating when it hits around 70, and it just gets worse and worse the hotter it gets.

As we were walking in town on thursday, a lady came up to us and gave us popsicles. HUGE blessing at the time. I've taken the task of learning the piano. Maybe by the end of the mission i'll know how to play a few hymns. who knows? I don't really get much time to practice other than for about a half hour after church on sundays but it's good time. The weather is in it's extremes now. pretty soon the country will be facing a drought. Ireland hasn't ever really needed water storage since it rains all the time, but it has only drizzled about 2 times in the last month! Ireland has never needed to pray for rain but... It may end up happening! I guess I brought the utah weather over here didn't I?

Well I don't have any pictures this week, but today i'm taking Elder Siswick over to hazelwood forest so you can expect more good pictures for next week. I hope all of you are doing well! Enjoy the sun and the warm temperature for me! It's not fun when it's 80% humidity all the time.

til next week! 

Elder Fisk