Dundalk, Part 2

Vern's Questions:

1. Do you have your BRP (your residency permit) yet?

2. If so when did you get it?

3. How much money do you get each month to go on?

4. Is it on a prepaid visa or something else?

5. How many missionaries in Dundalk?

6. How many missionaries in the Dublin Zone?

7. Where do you shop for groceries in Dundalk?

8. How far out of Dundalk does your area extend?

9. How many people are on your records in your Branch?

10. Is your Branch President's name President Nesbitt? 

11. Do you have a full three hour block of church or is it less?

12. How long was the Ferry ride across the Irish sea?

13. How long was the bus ride from Preston to Edinburgh? 

14. Did the bus from Belfast to Dublin drop you and Elder Scholz off in Dundalk?

15. Google Maps shows your apartment is about 3 km from the ocean, is that true?

16. Google Maps shows your apartment is right on the corner of the street being #8, so I'm assuming Alice's is #10, is that correct?

17. Do you guys have to mow your lawn?

18. How many kms do you have to use in a month?

19. What kind of car do you guys drive? 

20. Is the car fitted with a black box monitor?

21. Is your church building a rented space for meetings? 

Is it available to the members all week or just on Sundays? 

22. Do you have any Aaronic Priesthood? 

23. Are you still blessing and/or passing the Sacrament? 

24. Do you teach or give a talk each Sunday? 

25. I noticed your Visa worked...what did you buy? 

26. What time do you get up?

27. What time do you leave your flat?

28. What time are you supposed to be home? 

29. What time is bedtime? 

30. Do you exercise in the morning?

31. Where do you email from?

32. Are you getting enough to eat?

33. Was climbing up to Arthur's Seat a tough climb?

Cody's Answers:

1. Yes

2. At the mission home

3. I'm not sure. I started off around 500 euro

4. Yes, prepaid visa

5. Just me and Elder Scholz

6. Many

7. Tesco, Lidl, or Aldee

8. A few towns, 15-20 minute radius, outside of Dundalk

9. Quite a few, but only one actually lives in Dundalk (our neighbour Alice)

10. Yes

11. 3 hours

12. Must have been 2 or 3 hours. It was hard to tell, the time just flew by

13. It wasn't 6 hours, I was wrong. Only 3ish

14. No, just in Dublin, then we drove to Dundalk. It was quite a process, I'll tell you the full story sometime

15. Well, I can't see the sea, but if I saw the sea I wouldna be surprised

16. Mhmm

17. No. 

18. We aren't limited, but we still try to be conservative

19. Hyundai, of some manner. That's kinda all I know. I'll find out more later

20. No. Which stinks, because it's really hard to find our way around since neither of us have been here before. 

21. Yes and yes, available all week. But the lease is going to expire in a year, so we're under pressure to up the activity level.

22. Yes, a few. Adults. 

23. Sometimes. 

24. Not always, but we prepare to just in case. 

25. A light jacket and a...simpsons t-shirt that Elder Scholz made me buy

26. 6:30

27. 10:00

28. 9:00/9:30, but we've been kept a bit later once or twice

29. 10:30

30. We are supposed to be. We're getting back on track with that this week. 

31. ...from gmail...OH, we go to an internet café

32. Too much actually. There's a cheap but very good bakery in Lidl, and we go there a lot. Also a restaurant called Roma.

33. Not if I wasn't so fat. It was just a hill. Absolutely breathtaking view of Edinburgh. 

That all sounds so exiting, with trek and all. Honestly, I wish that those activities were being organised over here so we could get some friggen involvement! Actually though, a few of the members try to be very involved. Keep it hushed, but we're trying to play missionary matchmaker with a member and an investigator. 

I'm eating well, so I'll pretend not to be super jealous of the birthday food. 

Jeez you guys, missionarying is hard. It's hard because people don't want to talk to you, and other churches think they're better than you. And the Catholic church is clearly under the constant influence of the enemy, but they all think it's God! *heavy sigh*. Just tough is all. Tough to keep my spirits up. It's really good to hear about growth in Lethbridge though. And I'm pressing forward believing it will happen here as well. I miss Laura. 

James is absolutely darling. He looks like he's done a bunch of growing already. 

anyways, thank you all for being awesome. I'm actually not worried about any of you, I know you're all very strong. Listen to your dad, and your Heavenly Father. 

Love, Elder Lybbert