September

It's hard to believe September is almost over. The temperture has dropped and we have had to turn on our little heater. Last week we went to lunch with Sister Waterson to the Brownlow Castle. It's right here in Lurgan and we had a delightful time.

The food was yummy and it was fun to be in a castle built in the 1800's. One of the younger castles we have been to.

Elder Holt relaxing.... This is a fun place for wedddings and on October 30 they are hosting a masqued costume ball...hmmmm.... wonder if we could go dressed as missionaries????

I am always amazed at the beautiful buildings here.

Lots of chimneys....

The next day, we went to help a member in the ward move. When we drove up to her estate, we saw this burnt car....still smoking in the car park.....

I guess this was the second car burnt in this neighborhood this week! Crazy! I think Lindsey is glad she is moving out of the area.....it's only about 2 miles from us.....

We enjoy Elder Evans and Elder Evans. They are wonderful missionaries and we just found out Elder D. Evans is going to Dublin this week. We will miss him.

Washing dishes after we all had dinner at Lynda Ross's home. Lynda is investigating the church and is a great friend.

District meeting with the zone leaders.

Our district.

Alice Greer was baptized Saturday night. We went to Lisburn for the event. She is such a cute girl, a great addition to the church and the YSA.
This is Bill. He is a faithful member who was in a motorcycle accident a few years ago. He rides his motorized bike to church each week.
The Elders Evans......
Elder and Sister Holt......
The Portadown chapel. We will be so sad to leave this wonderful ward. We are getting a new assignment and will be leaving the first of November. We don't know for sure where we will be, but are pretty sure we will be staying in Northern Ireland......which will be good. Then we can visit Portadown and keep in touch with our wonderful friends!

The Lammas Fair

Monday we had a Zone Conference with the Belfast Zone. We had two hours of training, lunch and Elder Holt organized some games for the zone activity. It's always fun to be with the younger Elders and Sisters! They are good sports and pretend they enjoy being with us too!!!

Tuesday, the McBrides invited us to go to Ballycastle to the Lammas Fair with them. It was a beautiful day so we jumped at the chance for an outing! The Lammas Fair has been going for hundreds of years. The streets were lined with booths of clothes, antiques, food etc. It was fun to walk the streets listening to the Irish singing country western! They love it!!!

Ballycastle is right on the north coast, the ocean is in the distance...

We stopped at this wee bakery for lunch. Sausage rolls, mince and onion pies....and of course a couple of pastries!!! We did try some traditional Yellow Man, a hard honeycomb candy, and some Dulce, dried salty seaweed....not my favorite!

These wee children were great performers! They were playing traditional Irish tunes. They were really cute!

Looking down another street. The countryside is always beautiful. There was quite a crowd!

Here the farmers were all gathering to buy and sell their livestock.

After the fair we went over to White Sands beach for a few minutes. Actually, it was the first time I saw people really swimming in the ocean! (most of them had on wet suits!) I guess everyone was trying to catch the last day of summer before the children headed back to school.

We were happy for the adventure with beautiful weather.....today it is raining!