August 6, 2012
Dear Family,
How was your day yesterday? I mean how has your
week been? Can you believe it has already been a week since I wrote you?
On Friday President Barry asked where July went and said, "Time sure
flies when you are having fun!" :)
Wow! This week has been
crazy! We had another baptism on Saturday. Wahoo! We couldn't find a
piano player, so I had the opportunity of playing. :) Our weeks are
packed with appointments before we even get to that week. Ha we are
already going to have to start scheduling appointments for next week and
it is only Monday! We just need to get these people baptized so that we
can make more room in our schedule for other people. Yesterday a family
in our ward called us and asked if we had time to go over to their
house for dinner this week. We looked at our schedule and Saturday is
the only day we weren't already having dinner with people. So you don't
have to worry about us not being fed. The people in our ward are
fantastic! We had dinner with a family last week that had four boys that
were all pretty much the same ages as Spencer, Ryan, Kyle, and Tyler.
With Sister Gilbert there and the Mom we were just missing the Dad and I
would have felt practically at home. :)
Remember Lena, the
Catholic woman who makes us dinner every Sunday? I love that woman!
Well, we went over to her house and helped her clean the other day and
she asked us what we like to eat. When we told her she said that she was
going to have such a surprise for us on Sunday. She was so excited to
give it to us last night, it was kind of funny. She made us this really
yummy parmesian, sausage, and chicken pasta with vegetables and rice. We
talked with her for a while and for some reason I decided to ask her if
she does genealogy. She said that she didn't like it, which made me
wonder why I was impressed to ask her that question. But then we ended
up talking to her about it for 20 minutes and I was able to share a
scripture from the Book of Mormon with her. 2 Nephi 26:33, which talks
about how God loves and accepts all of us no matter what color we are.
And she let us pray with her over the food with her. Sister Gilbert and I
really want to find a way for her to let us teach her about the Gospel.
She has been feeding missionaries for ten years. What can we do that
the other missionaries haven't already done? I don't know, but we are
going to find out. :)
Last night as we were talking to her we
asked her if she knew of any service project that were happening in
around where we live. She asked us if we knew how to sew. Do I know how
to sew?! It just so happened I was wearing the skirt Grandma Scott
helped me sew! :) I'm not entirely sure what we will be doing, yet, but I
am excited! Thank you, Grandma, for teaching me how to fish, rather than just giving me a fish. :)
That
reminds me Lena knows the woman that we taught the first night I was
here, Chantay. When we went over to dinner at Chantay's house that night
she offered us some tea, because she knew we couldn't drink beer. When
we told her that we don't drink tea either she apparently did some
research and called a bunch of people about it. We called her last week
to tell her good luck on her surgery and she asked when we were coming
back over for dinner, and she told us that she found us some tea that we
could drink. Sister Gilbert and I don't really care even if it is okay
for us to drink it, we just want to stay away from all tea. However, we
don't want to offend her, especially after all her hard work trying to
find it for us. I think she even ordered it from somewhere... so we are
still trying to figure out what we are going to do about that.
It
seems that we find all of our new investigators when we are actually
looking for someone else. We were trying to find this man and we called
the number that we had for him. Instead of getting him we got a woman
whose husband just died. We thought, we have the perfect message for
her. When we got to the appointment we set up with her she told us that
she doesn't even go to her own church, so she really didn't need to get
involved with ours either. Too bad Sister Gilbert and I don't give up
that easy. We set up another appointment with her and went back last
Sunday. We talked to her about her job and her paintings and then when
we started to get into our message she told us that she didn't have much
time and that she wanted to take a nap. We shared some encouraging
scriptures with her and her son and gave her The Book of Mormon and
marked them so she could look at them throughout the week. Just as we
started to leave, that is when her and her son started asking us tons of
questions: "How did we get the Book of Mormon? Who is Joseph Smith
exactly? Who is Mormon?" These were just the questions we wanted to
answer in our lesson, but we were going to be late for another
appointment. We set up another appointment for yesterday to go back, and
Terri, the mom, wasn't feeling well. I was disappointed. This message
will bless all of their lives! Hopefully we can get in to see them on
Thursday.
The Book of Mormon speaks to everyone and it is
amazing! We went to see a woman named Sue a couple days ago. (another
person that we found while trying to find someone else.) Sister Gilbert
felt impressed to read the passage of scriptures where Aaron is teaching
Lamoni's father that there is a God. We each took turns reading a
verse, but Sue got so into it that she would read multiple verses before
she would pass the book to the next person. When we were done reading
she asked us, " Where do I get one of those?" I love having moments like
that! I love my calling!
I hope that all of you are doing
well. I pray about you all the time. Dad, I hope you had a wonderful
Birthday!! Mom, I am excited for you to be done with that class and all
the stresses that come with it! Rachel, I hope you are loving Mill
Hollow and that the fires are dying so you can go running again!
Spencer, I am excited for you to be a senior this year! Make the most of
it! Ryan, I hope you are having fun with Baseball! Kyle, I still meet
people all the time that remind me of you, and I love it! Tyler, Will
you please draw me a picture and send it to me? I love you!
That
reminds me! We contacted a referral this week named Harley. Harley has 4
children who are super cute! Her oldest three kept coming out of the
house with pictures for us. The little boy would draw a couple circles
on the page and then give it to us. Pretty soon we had half of her stack
of printer paper with pictures of circles. It made me happy. Harley
told us that she believes in God, but doesn't believe in a certain
church. She said that she doesn't believe in the Book of Mormon, but if
she did have to pick a church to join, it would have to the "Mormon
Church" because we focus so much on families. We left her with a copy of
The Family: A Proclamation to the World that I just happened to have in
my scriptures.
I love you all!! Thank you for your love and
your support and letters and e-mails and memories and basically
everything!! Have a great week!
Love,
Sister Scott
p.s.
I put together a box with all of the kitchen stuff Matt can borrow. I
know it has pots and pans in it, and I'm not entirely sure what else. He
is more than welcome to use anything in that box. Ask him to please
return them when he leaves on his mission, though. Please. :) Thank you.
p.p.s.
I just wanted to say that that the Book of Mormon is amazing! And you
should read it everyday! I really liked 2 Nephi 22:2, although the whole
chapter of about six verses is pretty great. Trust in the Lord, and
there is no reason to be afraid.
p.p.p.s. Go to the temple for me. :)
p.p.p.p.s. Can you please send me pictures of all of your beautiful and handsome faces? Please?
p.p.p.p.p.s. I love you!
p.p.p.p.p.p.s. I think that I'm actually done now... :)
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