oopsie daisy: 6 Months!

January 21, 2013

Dear Mom, Dad, Rachel, Spencer, Ryan, Kyle, and Tyler,

How are you all doing? Guess what? I have officially been on my mission for 6 months. -p.s. Rachel, happy 1/2 birthday! :)

This week was pretty exciting. Sister Delaplane and Sister Patton came for trade-offs again. This time I was with Sister Delaplane and we found two new investigators together. We found one who has a little 3 year old who has Autism, and I am excited to teach her. She has a lot of faith, and she said that she has picked up the Book of Mormon a few times since we first met her which was before Christmas and she was busy with the holidays. We are going to see her tomorrow before we go to St. Augustine to do trade-offs with the sisters there.

Sister Delaplane and I also went to visit someone who had been investigating the church about a year ago. He wasn't there, but we talked to his daughter who is a senior in high school and had stayed home that day because she hadn't been feeling well. We talked to her a little bit about the Book of Mormon and told her that we could come by Monday night when we would be in the area again. She asked us if we were doing anything that day. We said that we had a few appointments, but that we would actually be back in the area that night. She said, "Oh, I was hoping that you could just come in right now... do you have anywhere you need to be?" I think I just about fell over. We were about to go in for lunch. But that could definitely wait. :)

We went in and talked to her a little bit about her family. I could see her eyes glancing at my Book of Mormon every so ofton. So after a few minutes I told her that we wanted to share a little more about the Book of Mormon with her. She seemed pretty happy about that, which made me pretty happy as well. I asked if we could start with a prayer. We decided that I would say the opening and she would say the closing. As soon as I finished saying the opening prayer, she immediately started saying the "closing prayer." I thought it was so cute. It didn't occur to me that people pray differently... We then taught her about the Restoration and why we have the Book of Mormon. She had lots of questions and she was really engaged in the conversation. Sister Crowton added her on facebook and sent her a message. She responded and told us that she had been praying and researching and had lots of questions and she said that she is excited to see us on Tuesday.

I also got to go up to St. Mary's on trade-offs this week. Sister Sheffer says that she loves my family. :) I think that she even said that my family is the greatest! :) Thank you so much for loving and supporting her. It makes me so happy and proud to be a part of such a wonderful family. I love you too!

So while I was anticipating going up to St. Mary's I thought that it would be just so great if I could go see the Walters. But I don't really have any control over where we go when we go up there. They have a schedule already planned for us when we get there. Well, when we got there Sister Richards showed me our plans. And guess where we were going? ...to the Walters!!! I was so happy. They are doing great and they asked how you were doing. The message we shared was about the refiners' fire. When someone refines sliver, they put it in fire. They way they know when it is done is when they can see their reflection in the silver. We are like the silver, and Jesus Christ is the refiner. We are put into trials to refine us, and we are meant to reflect Jesus Christ.

Sister Richards also did an object lesson with a tea bag, and talked about how our faith will lift us higher.

Basically Sister Crowton and I didn't spend a lot of time as companions this week... and we probably won't get to this week either, because we are going to St. Augustine and St. Mary's again.

I hope that everything is going well! I continue to pray for Darren and Kimberly's family. Tell everyone that I love them! :)

I love all of you so much! Have a grrrreat week!

Love,

Sister Scott

p.s. There is a cute little old lady in my ward who wanted me to tell my family hi for her. So, hi. :)

This lady also told Sister Crowton and I to tell people who wouldn't let us in that an old lady sent us and they should let us in. ...We just might try that!