'We had our first district meeting in Omagh this week since the districts were changed. The sisters from Letterkenny and Elders from Londonderry travelled here together in the sisters' car. We had a good meeting together, they are a good group and a young group. The mission in general is very young right now. It was nice to not have to travel for the meeting but I think that will change soon. There are three sisters together as Sister Bleyl is here until she gets her visa to go to Arizona where she was called to serve. When that happens, they will no longer be able to travel here for the meeting so we will have to travel up to Londonderry. It felt strange not to feed the district after the meeting so we decided to have a snack ready for the next one. We have two recent converts here in Omagh, Dean and Neil. They have both been ordained priests in the Aaronic Priesthood and are progressing nicely in the gospel, both are very active. President Nelson asked me to meet with and mentor them to prepare them to receive the Melchizedek priesthood. So on Wednesday evening we met for an hour and had a lesson on the priesthood organization and responsibilities. It went well and I enjoyed meeting with them. We are going to meet weekly to continue the discussions. As part of the UK, Northern Ireland has a health care system not unlike the one we have in Canada. There are private clinics here in the larger cities, but for the most part people are provided health care under a publicly funded system. There is one Health Care Centre here in Omagh and inside it there are four separate clinics. You need to register in order to get to see a doctor so we went in this week to start the process. I just chose a clinic at random and there were forms to fill out. The only sticking point was proof that we lived at the address we gave them such as a utility bill with our names on it. We didn't have that but I had the mission home write a letter that we were indeed living here and they were paying the utilities. That seemed to work and the last step is to visit a nurse practitioner which we will do in a couple of weeks and we are registered so Maurene can get her prescription renewed. Besides the clinic, we got a lot of what I call maintenance things done this week. Both Maurene and I got haircuts. I borrowed a lawn mower from a member again to give our little lawn a mow, last one before winter I hope. The Elders have bicycles that have been in need of repairs since we got here, so I went and picked them up and took them to the bicycle shop where they had been purchased. I hope that will help them get around a bit better. We had our Elders over for supper this week which of course they always enjoy. Our home is heated by kerosene oil so I had EMO come over this week to fill the tank before the cold weather begins.
We got a call from the senior couple serving in Portadown, the Angels, on Saturday asking if we would like to join them for supper with the Winters, a senior couple serving in the mission home. They are over here delivering a new car to some sisters and are taking the opportunity to tour around a little. So we met them at a restaurant in Dungannon, about a 40 minute drive from here and had a meal together. It is always nice to get together with other senior couples and talk about the work.
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October 2016
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