Little purple pansies touched with yellow gold

Well, we've had a lot to do these last couple of days and the week coming up is going to b equally busy. In the next week we get to go to the temple three times oncefor the sisters conference, once for the spanish easter pageant on the 23 and oncefor the time we're going to help host on the 28th (okay that's more than a week but you know...=) )

this computers space bar doesn't work very well just so you know.

Okay, so this week... I have talked more than I every have when teaching andmost of the time the people can understand me.=) I'verealized that I'm doing the same things to Hna C that my past companions have done to me that I've hated. I was just there andI remember what it was like, but still I do the things to her that my past companions did to me that just made it hard for me to progress. I would guess this is kind of like being a parent. You always say before you have kids oh I'm never goingto be like that with my kids I'mnot going to be like my parents that way or oh I'm never going to do that and when you become a parent you end up doing the same thing. =) Not that I'ma parent oranything and not that I'm dissing on my own parents or anything. =) I'mjust guessing. I always tell Hna C that I haven't been the sr comp before andso I'm goingto make mistakes and that I really do want her to tell me if I'mdoing something that iskeeping her fromprogressing if I'm not lettinghertalk if I said something that she doesn'tagree with. I frequently just look at her and say how did you feel about that. How could I have helped you more was there a moment when I just didn't stop talking and you wanted to say something etc. And then I ask two orthree times if she'sbeing honest with me. =) I think sometimes she gets tired of it.

We have a lot of really good investigators. Like really cool, really awesome full of potential investigators. But they never come to church. We've had zero people at church in the las three weeks. It's really a bummer. And I'mat a loss of what to do. How many times can you teach them about the importance of keeping the sabbath day holy and taking the sacrament? Or how many times can you call them in the morning to wake them up orstop by? But wehave three people on date. One of whom has a mental illness. But he'sso cool! and he really wants to change. He even called us at 7:30 on Sunday morning to tell us he was coming to church...but then his friend who was going to give him a ride didn't come.=(

I learned something really really cool the otherday. And maybe it was somehting you've thought about before but it was new to me.So we were at an awesome member's house one night at 8:45 because we can't go home until 9 and we didn't have any miles to drive to anyone else. She gave us ice cream. Yes, it is warm enough for ice cream and for the air conditioner to be on. Then her mom says to us "what do you tell people when they say that we all believe in the same God?" I thought for a little bit then told that we agree with them. That no matter what religion you are we all believe in the same God. Then she says, "this is what I say, no. No wedo not believe in the same God. You believe in a God who is unknown. You believe in other gods like the Virgin Mary. You believe in a God who is different now than he was in the past. We do not believe in the same God." Okay not word for word but you got the idea. =) And it was in Spanish so I don't remember exactly how it was said. And I waslike...MIND BLOWN!!!. No joke. So all during church yesterday I was pondering this little bit of wisdom she had shared with us and I realized it really is true. Oneof the first thing lost during La Gran Apostasia was the naturaleza de Dios. People do not understand who He is or what His proposito is. They think He lives in the heavens, which He does, but really He is as close as our prayers. They don't realize or fully comprhend that He is involved in every aspect of our lives. That He loves us as much as He loves the people in Moses' time and that's why we have a profeta today named Thomas S. Monson. It was a pretty legit musing session for me during church the other day. =) Don't worry I was paying attention to the talks...ok no I wasn't. =)

Love you all!! Have splendid week!!

PS last week I learned how to water color. Hna Z taught me. Soon I will finish my picture of the mesa temple.=)

Hna Scott

Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things - Alma 26:12

And yet another week has gone by. We're already on week three of this transfer!!! Crazy sauce!! We have exchanges this Saturday, then we have Sisters Conference on the 21st (and we're doing a session at the temple in the morning!!! SO excited!!) then on the 27th Hna C Hna G Hna Z and I are all going to the Mesa Temple to help host for the Easter Pageant (again, so excited!), then after that we only have a week and a half until the end of the transfers. Yep the time is just flying by.

This week was pretty intense. We knocked door for 3 and a half hourse on Saturday and nobody let us in and only three people said we could come back. Two of which are single men. Have I mentioned the probably 70 percent of the people we're teaching are single men? which means we are not allowed to go in without a member, which is good because it forces us to get members to come out with us, but it also is hard because they all want us to meet with them in the middle of the day and most of the members work or take care of their kids during the day. Such is the life of a missionary. =) And have I mentioned that out of the three baptisms I've had they're all men.

So we have this one investigator, her name is Ameilia (one of the few women we're teaching, but we're also teaching her boyfirend and her brother) and she is adorable. Super nice, and she just wants to change really bad, but hasn't quite found the strength to do it. So we were teaching her the other day, and apparently, whenever I teach her I always stare at her more than everyone else. I've never noticed, but that's how she feels. And when we were teaching her just the other day she mentioned it, that even when I hardly talked while Hna G was my companion she said she felt like I would stare at her all the time and that she could see in my eyes that I see her as more than she is, that I see as how she can be, as something more. It was really a very cool experience for me, to have someone say that they could see that I saw them that way. IIt's a little hard to explain, but I've always had a connection with Amelia. And well, I love her very much. She'll get baptized eventually. Though because of certain circumstances it may be very hard for her. But we'll get her there. =)

Well, this is shorter than normal, but I've got to go. Love you all. Alma 26 is a lovely chapter. The church is true. I have a quote placemat that covers almost all of my desk as well as a quote notebook. I do love me some quotes.

Love Hna Scott

I'm a nut. I'm a nut. I'm a nut in a rut so what.

Well, I would like to introduce you to Hermana Scott the official senor companion.

Yep.

And it's hard man.


I think the whole senior jr companion stuff is silly. Like I understand why, but shouldn't it be equal? You talk then I talk. You share a scritpture I clarify and testify. You take the lead on this door I take it on the next one. At least that's how I think it should work out, but I still have yet to see it. My companion is Hna Carter. She's cool and legit. She's just only been out here in AZ for three months. And I've been out for five. I know am the one who knows more Spanish, I'm now the one who has to handle all those awkward situations that all of my companions had been fine handling for me in the past. Yep, now I have to be responsible. =) It's been stressful. It's like God is saying okay that trial is over but now I'm going to to give you this one of a completely different type. But it's good training because well, we had twelve Hermanas this last transfer, we got 4 new spanish hermanas last Tuesday, one Hna is going home and we're getting 6 new hermanas this next transfer. So that means everyone but 2 hermanas will be training this next transfer. CRAZY!!! So I'm just training to be a trainer probably.

Cool fact if you haven't heard yet, two saturdays ago they announced 58 new missions in the world, 2 of which will be in Arizona!!! Yep, that's right! There's going to be a Scotsdale and another one that I can't remember the name of right now. They'll be opening in July after all the new mission presidents get trained. And the mission presidents that are in AZ right now the ones over the tuscon and mesa missions they all go home this July so Pres T is going to be the only mision president in AZ that isn't new. Crazy. The Lord is definitely hastening His work. We got 29 new missionaries this last transfer and we are getting 20 more (that we know about) in April. Woah. Did I mention that it's intense? =)


Okay, so a little more about Hna C. She's from Washington State. She wants to be a writer or a lawyer. She's the oldest of four. She studied at BYU-I before the mission. She really likes animals. And we're both going to have to learn together how to teach, since we're both so new. It'll be good for both of us. She has MS and she has to take this shot medicine every morning. If there's another lesion (sp) on her brain at the end of this month it means her medicine is not working and she may have to go home to get it all figured out. She really likes studying Revelations which is cool. I don't quite understand because I think it's depressing. Except for the last couple of chapters when it tells us about what the kindgom of God is going to be like. But she likes it and people often have questions about what it says in Revelations. Together we had the first, not awful comp inventory of my whole mission. Comp inventory: when you talk about successes and ways to improve problems your having etc etc. I never did it with Hna P or Hna F and I only did it once in the MTC. So our comp inventory together was really good. We talked about things we wanted to accomplish this transfer and we wrote them up on the big huge white boad we have. It was cool legit and a nice change.


Well, that's about it. Questions comments concerns? If so please address them to Hna Scott 475 N 43rd Ave #104 Phoeniz AZ 85009. =)

You have a splendid week and remember the church is true and that God loves you!

Hna Scott

Mat 5:48 --> D&C 67:13 This is what I learned today in personal study today.

Love is a super power. Use it

Man. Sometimes I feel like I can't get more tired or that things can't get more intense...and then they do. =) It's pretty intense man.

Okay, Ryan I can't believe you went to Bountiful temple!!! I love that temple oh so much. It's super duper pretty. Unfortunately I've never been inside inside, but I will for sure when I get home. =) And thank you for the pictures. It sounds like you all had a splendid time Saturday night. Know I was with you in spirit and one day Ryan, in two years and two weeks, we will sit in the Celestial Room together and I will hug you. And there ain't nothin' you can do about it. =)

This week we've been finding a lot of people by using the former investigator sheets, the teaching records of people who had been taught previoiusly and never got baptized. We always talk to the neighbors when they're outside and if the person has moved we contact the new person that lives in that house. It's pretty legit. So we've found 18 people in the last two weeks. Now we just have to move them from new investigators to people with a date who are progressing. Yep, there's always room for improvement. =)

We went bowling yesterday for our zone activity. It was pretty fun. But very worldy. I had just finally managed to no longer get worldy songs stuck in my head and then of course just about every song that they played at the bowling alley was one I had had on my ipod. =) A couple of Zumba songs too. Dancing and singing to worldy music...man, it's a good thing there's repentance. =)

I have grown to hate Monday holidays. I'm sure you were all so excited that there was no school, but it also means the libraries AND the post office are closed. Which means no emails and no hand written letters. LAME. But I made it to Tuesday and recieved a whole bunch of emails from all of you. And a lovely letter from Melissa.

(MELISSA!!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!! Girl, I love you sooooooooo much!! Loved your letter and I WILL be writing you back next P day...next tuesday. Love you girl. From the very bottomest of my heart.)

Okay, I apologize. I just couldn't contain myself. =)

So there's this one apartment complex in our area, and it's not one of the safest areas to be, but we have an investigator who lives there and a few old investigators as well so we go there often. And for some reason there's always this one apartment that we knock. I'm not sure why we knock it, but we do. And no one answers. Well, at least until yesterday. =) We knocked the door and this little old lady opens it and lets us in, because we're two women. We start talking to her and she tells us she's Christian and loves God all this stuff. Then she tells us that if we ever hit on hard times, if we can't pay the bills we are always welcome to come live with her. Ok, that may sound creepy, but it wasn't. It was one of the sweetest things I've ever heard. Her house was so full of love and peace. It was so cool. God really does put us exactly where we need to be. =) I also understood everything that she said to us. I understood the whole conversation. =) WABAM. That's right. I, mas o menos, know Spanish. =)

Well, that is all my dear friends, until next tuesday (because it's transfer week).
Much love.
Hna Scott

Jericho, Jericho!! And the walls came tumbling dow ow ow ow own!

Okay, so I have the best family ever.
It's just that simple. Scotts from Colorado, thank you so much!! One we've been driving around listening to the same two cds the last five weeks and I was just about ready to pull my hair out, two I love that song that MOTAB does about the wall of Jericho. I heard it in the MTC and immediately fell in love. How did you know? =) It was also really time for a new toothbrush. =) You all rock.

This week was good. It was slower but good. We started seeing Olivia again. I don't know if you remember her, but she's a lady I met when I first got here. We knocked on her door and she let us in even though I didn't make sense. We taught her for a while. She had two baptism dates two interviews, one of which she passed, and in the end she said she didn't want to get baptized because of Joseph Smith and his thirty three wives. It was sad, but we had to let her go. Well after a month Hna Garcia and I decded it was time to go back. So we've seen her about four times since we decided to go back. The last lesson with her was intense intense. Like REALLY actually intense. I'm not just saying it.

We went in with this scripture chain in mind to share with her. (my mind has just been connecting scriptures into these chains during my studies lately, I'm not really sure why) We went in wanting her to understand that the Book of Mormon in the key stone to our religion, that if the book is true, Joseph Smith was called as a prophe, meaning the church that he restored is the same one Jesus Christ established when He was on the earth. We also wanted her to understand that the Book of Mormon is centered on Christ and that everything in the book will lead one to do good. So it started with 2Ne 25:23,26. That the bofm was written by prophets so that we would know that they knew of Christ that they spoke of Christ rejoiced in Christ and knew they could look to Christ for a remission of their sins. That was the first scripture we read with her and explained a little bit about it. Then we read 2N 30:10. Which says if you believe in Christ you will believe in the words of the bofm because the book of mormon will always lead a man to do good. After that we read Joseph Smith words about the BofM, that a man would get closer to God by reading the BofM than any other book. And my goodness gracious, the Spirit was so strong. So strong. Then I bore down in pure testimony with power and authority. I can count on one hand how many times I've felt like that, that I've known God was speaking through me. And...well, it's intense. =) It's probably one of the coolest/scariest feelings ever. I can't even possibly describe it to you, as much as I would like to. Afterward I was shaking and super tired and super drained. I kind of felt like Lehi after he has that vision and it says that he caused him to tremble and he cast himself on his bed. Yeah well, that what I wanted to do. But we had another lesson. =) So we went on.

It's interesting because, well, after feeling like that, you want to feel like that all the time. Feel like you're teaching with that kind of power all the time. And it just made me think. Can one always have that kind of power when they talk? If they do, they can't have it because they want to, because they like the way it feels, because it has to be for the edifying of another. You can only have it if you are truly doing and saying exactly what the Lords wants. It's like how the mission will change you, but it won't change you if you're always thinking about how it will change you. Or about how we must develop the Character of Christ, but we can't develop it if we're always thinking about developing it because the character of Christ is looking outward when the natural man would look in. Okay now I'm confused and I'm sure you are too. I don't know. It's just a little something I've been thinking about lately. But in that moment, I know with my whole heart and soul I was saying what He wanted and that the Holy Ghost carried it to her heart, now she just has to chose to let it in her heart.

Oh and transfer news: I'm staying in Encanto once again and Hna Garcia is leaving. I can't seem to keep a companion for more than a transfer. =) Maybe God is trying to teach me something...something about how change is god and I shouldn't resist it. =) Who knows. =)

And I'm off
I hope you all have a splendid week until we meet again, next week.
Hna Scott