Arthur's Seat

This is the famed Arthur's Seat or Pratt's hill as LDS people call it. It is a dormant volcano. Yes, Elder Ladle and I climbed it to the highest point on the left (822') with the new Scotland/Ireland missionaries and President and Sister Donaldson last week.Going up was not easy, but coming down was even more difficult because of the slipperiness of the trail.

Orson Pratt came to Edinburgh as a missionary in the Spring of 1840. He was 28 years old and one of the original apostles of the restoration, having been converted in Canada. His first companion was Samuel Milliner, a native Scot, also converted in Canada. Soon after arriving in Edinburgh he climbed Arthur's Seat and petitioned the Lord for 200 souls to build up the kingdom in Scotland. The two missionaries worked tirelessly preaching in the streets every day and seven times on Sundays. Progress was very slow at first. By the end of the summer they had only 23 baptisms, 7 of which were relatives of Samuel.

However by the end of March the following year his prayer had been answered and in the Millennial Star he reported, "I left upwards of 200 disciples under the watch-care of George D. Watt, a faithful and humble brother from Preston in England."

This is the side view, but shows the terrain well.