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| McCaig's Tower |
October
26, 2013 (Saturday) (Week 4 Cont.)
Fun day today, we traveled to Oban
to do a flat inspection with the Elders serving there. Oban is northwest of Glasgow on the coast
about 90 miles from Glasgow, but it took us 2 1/2 hours to drive it. Oban is really
out of the way, but it's still part of the Glasgow district, and there are
people to seek out and find. The elders gave us some history of Oban, and
it sounds like it is a place where people came from all over the world to enter
Scotland, so it has a long history.
The
road we took was narrow and winding. The speed is posted from 40 mph to
60. I know Elder Browning is a fast driver, but he wasn’t willing to go the
posted speed until he hit wider and straighter roads. (Thank goodness, because
being a passenger is very scary especially on narrow roads.)
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| Very narrow roads |
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| This is a little wider road and yet it's still very narrow! The truck takes his side plus some of yours... |
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| On the way back we had rain and darkness to deal with. |
The elders drive it in two
hours when they come to zone meetings. They must take a different route to cut
off that much driving time.
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| Photo taken from car window. |
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| We stopped and took a picture of the Bay Turbet Hotel. |
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| Second photo of the hotel. |
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| If two photos are good, why not three? Nice fall colors. |
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| This is a park by the hotel. |
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| On the road again. We followed Loch Lomond. |
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| Beautiful countryside. |
We enjoyed our time with the elders.
Their flat passed inspection, as did their car, so we took them to lunch...They chose the spot.
The eating cafe is a three generation business, and the grandson is running the
shop. He does a great business. We found out that he doesn't like fish. Oh
we'll, I guess you don't have to like fish to serve it.
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| The helpings were very generous - look at the size of the fish. |
We have wanted some fish and chips since we arrived; so they took us to,
what they consider the best in town. It was very good, especially with
some Irn-Bru to wash it down. "Dinna need to worry," Irn Bru isn’t banned according to the
Word of Wisdom. It’s a Scottish soft drink. But it does have plenty of punch.
We went down the street and had a
batter dipped deep fried Mars Bar. It was surprisingly very good.
One of the Elders is a huge Jame's
Bond fan, so he told us where to go to see the layout of one of the scenes from
Skyfall. We will do that another day.
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| McCaig's Tower |
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| Wonderful old buildings - Columbia Hotel |
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| Regent Hotel - Can you pick out Elder Browning in this photo? |
When we left Oban, we took a different route home. It was a beautiful drive. Have I told you lately how beautiful Scotland is? Following are a few photos we took as we traveled back to Glasgow.
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| Left Oban and took another route home. |
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| Castle Stalker - It's on and island and is privately owned |
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| There is a cafe that overlooks the Castle Stalker |
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| Another old hotel - Ballachulish Hotel |
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| Lonely phone booth! |
We only had time to drive up to Glencoe
and go to the visitor's center before we had to hurry back to Glasgow for the
ward Halloween party. Glencoe is beautiful, so we really want to go back and
take our time seeing the countryside.
We made it back in time to join in the festivities of the Glasgow Ward Halloween Party.
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| A cute little princess. |
The ward Halloween party was no
different from any other ward party in the States with a lot of children except
this ward is as diverse, culturally, as any I have been in. It was great fun.
Here's a video of one of the activities for the kids.
At the Halloween Party, they read from the darling children's book Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. It tells the story of a friendly witch who is traveling on her broomstick and drops a few things. She meets three animals who help her find her missing items and then help save her when she is about to be eaten by a scary dragon. The ward members dramatized it as a play, and it turned out to be a darling play. Here are some photos.
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| Here is the story teller, the dog and the witch. |
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| The witch and the bird. |
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| The frog, the bird, the cat, the dog and the witch |
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| The scary dragon... |
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| The supper broom - there's room for everyone... |
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| The cast - The bird, the dog, the frog, the cat, the witch. |
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| And the dragon. |
I found out that not only is it a book, but it's also a DVD.
As the week comes to a close, we
again bear witness that the work we're engaged in is the work of the restored
gospel, that Jesus is
the Christ, and that He directs His church through living prophets. (See clip below about why we need living prophets.)
“Because Heavenly Father loves His children, He has not left them to walk through this mortal life without direction and guidance.”
—President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We Need Living Prophets
Love to all and cheerio the noo,
Here’s another Scottish saying.
"A pritty face suits the dish-cloot"
If I was fussing over what to wear, this Scottish saying was Nanas' stock answer. Basically it means "A pretty face suits the dish-cloth". I think this probably still needs some more translation.... the general idea is 'if you've got a pretty face, it doesn't matter what you're wearing'. Of course, it usually didn't help with my immediate problem ;o)
"Ah
dinnae ken"
This one
is short and simple, translates to "I don't know". That's all you
need :o)
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