Email from Mission President

Dear Brother and Sister Syphus,

On 27 July 2018, we welcomed Sister Syphus to the Scotland/Ireland Mission. She arrived safely from the Missionary Training Centre and we are excited to have her in our mission. I interviewed her and felt her spirit and desire to serve our Heavenly Father.

One of our very best missionaries, Sister MacNamara, has been assigned to be her trainer and they are assigned to the Dundee Zone, Dundee District and attending the Montrose Ward. If letters are mailed they can be sent to the office or directly to her address

13D Railway Place
Montrose, Scotland
DD10 8HN
United Kingdom

P-Days are on Monday.

I will have the opportunity to meet with Sister Syphus for a personal interview every six-weeks. In addition, your missionary will be writing me a weekly letter of her activities as well as a personal note. She will also meet regularly with her district and zone leaders where she will be trained with other missionaries. Therefore, with interviews and our weekly letters, I should be able to help her meet any challenges she may have.

We are grateful for the part you have played in preparing your daughter to serve in this important work. We would encourage you to write her weekly letters of encouragement. Letters from home provide a powerful sustaining effect on the confidence and morale of our missionaries.

We testify of the truthfulness of this work and are grateful to be a part of it.

Sincerely,

Mark A. Macdonald

Mark A. Macdonald, President
Scotland/Ireland Mission

PS: Stirling, Scotland, 1898, David O. McKay: “I was homesick and a little discouraged on this day. As we were coming back into town, I saw an unfinished dwelling, over the front door of which was a stone on which there was a carving. That was most unusual, so I said to Elder Johnston, ‘I’m going to see what that is.’ I was half way up the gravelled walk when there came to my eyesight a striking motto as follows, carved in stone: “‘Whate’er Thou Art, Act Well Thy Part.’ I said to myself, or the Spirit within me, you are here as a representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. That afternoon, I accepted the message given to me on that stone, and from that moment we tried to do our part as missionaries in Scotland”