Heya everyone,
So got my son from the
mission home and his name is Elder Tullis. He actually knows Elder Beckstrand
personally, they are good friends.
We have just been doing lots of finding this
week trying to get some new investigators. We got a message from that Mark guy
asking if he could talk to us about the BOM and I was debating whether or not
to but my greenie was like let's just go see him so we did.
He wasnt interested
at all and didn't even have the book.
He did have lots of joints around the flat
and 2 massive bags of crack on the table though so we left.
Hey had to give my
greenie a great story for his first house he's let into, haha.
So we have to take a bus to the
church which takes about 10-12 min.
Elder Ward is the new District Leader in Pollock.
And yea I got to hike Pratt's hill again.
Well not much
else happened besides a guy we talked to say that he thinks that God lives on
Jupiter.
Take care!
Love ya,
Elder Tarbet (Wolverine)
Arthur’s Seat
Image downloaded from the Internet
The hill rises about 823 feet above the city.
On May 3, 1840, Orson Pratt
arrived in Scotland as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. He organized the first Scottish branch of the Church in
Paisley. Then, after laboring in several other cities, Elder Pratt made his way
to Edinburgh, where he found it very difficult to get the people to listen to
the message of the restored gospel.
Sometimes when things
seemed difficult, he would climb to the top of Arthur’s Seat. On top of
Arthur’s Seat, Elder Pratt prayed that the people would be receptive to the
gospel. He then went down into the city and preached for endless hours, trying
to establish the gospel in the city of Edinburgh.
In one of his prayers,
Elder Pratt pleaded with the Lord to help him find two hundred converts. After
working very hard for ten months, Elder Pratt left Edinburgh having seen more
than two hundred people enter into the covenant of baptism.
On New Year’s Day, 1976, a mission president named
Derek A. Cuthbert of the Scotland Edinburgh Mission climbed the same hill, for the same purpose. He,
together with a group of missionaries,
rededicated themselves for missionary work and asked the Lord for three
hundred men to strengthen the Church there. Again, the Lord responded;
before the end of President Cuthbert’s mission, almost exactly that many
new brethren were baptized in the Scotland Edinburgh Mission.
Since then new missionaries arriving in
Scotland climb the hill and set goals for themselves and for their work during the
next 18-24 months. When the are ready to go at the end of their mission, they
climb the hill one more time to reflect on what they have accomplished.
A tradition was born and Arthur's seat is now known as "Pratt's Hill" among the missionaries and Scottish Saints.
New Missionaries to the SIM on Pratts Hill July 8, 2015
Elder Tullis next to last on the right
Elder Tarbet Back Row Far Right
Travelling on the Bus
Elder Tarbet Fourth Row Back on the Right
Elder Tarbet on Pratt's Hill Eleven Months ago!
Elder Cluster, Elder Tullis and Elder Searle at the Aiport
Elder Tullis is from Centerville, Utah
Recent comment by a member:
I
met Elder Tarbet just over a week ago - had an interesting chat about
the Isle of Man, Wolverine and motorbikes. All because of the initials
TT.
