Jan. 27, 2014

This week was alright.  I haven't received the letter that you mailed.  I guess the mail runs slow sometimes.

Well, Saturday night, I helped the Stake President break into a car that had its keys locked in it.  We weren't having any luck unlocking it with a coat hanger.  The Stake President turned to me and asked me to give a prayer, so I did.  After saying the prayer he was able to get the car unlocked on the first try.  Then he turned to me and gave me a high five and said "that was all you baby".  It was pretty funny.

I am getting transferred Wednesday.  I will be serving in Kennewick.  I'm excited about that.  I've heard that my new companion really likes ice cream, I've heard that his mission is almost over.  I have started packing and I'm not sure if I'm going to get everything to fit in my suitcases.  I may have to use some boxes that I have.  It's amazing at what you can accumulate.

We did meet with one of our investigators.  This one his dad is a polygamist and so is his brother.  His brother has 5 wives.  Anyway, our investigator has been reading the Book of Mormon and things are looking good there.

That's about it for this week.

I love you.

Love,
Scott

Jan. 20, 2013

Things are going ok.  It is a little challenging right now. 

We have found a couple of people to teach.  We found 3 a couple of days ago.  Things are improving.  I did find out that a few years ago this area had 40 baptisms over 3 years, the last baptism they had here was last April.

My companion and I and the sister missionaries that cover the ward next to ours went to do some volunteer work at a soup kitchen.  While we were helping we got asked to take our name tags off.  We told them that we had to keep them on so people would know that are missionaries for the Church.  They told us that we either had to remove our name tags or leave, so we left.  One of the sisters couldn't believe that we had got kicked out of doing service work for not removing our name tags.  So that was kind of fun.

Well that's about all that I can think of.

I love you.

Love,

Scott

Jan. 13, 2014

This week was went by pretty fast.  We attended the temple, which was a blast.  We fit 12 elders into a 10 passenger van.  We also went  to Far West and check out some of the scriptures there.  We stopped at Costa Vida to get something to eat on the way home.  When we got home we went to our dinner appointment then tried to find some people.

There is not much that happened that I can remember.  Saturday one of the Spanish speaking elders that covers our ward as well was sick so my companion stayed with him while the other Spanish speaking elder went to me.  I taught a lesson in Spanish then went to teach the Methodist family that we have been working with.  A member of the Stake Presidency went with us to that appointment.  Things were going pretty good.  We taught the gospel of Jesus Christ then they pulled out an anti Joseph Smith packet, answered a few questions for them then we decided to leave.  The member of the stake presidency told us after we left that we taught what we were suppose to so they made me feel good.

Today for p-day we went with our zone leaders and looked at some watches and some cologne.  One of the elders ended up buying a watch which was pretty expensive.

Tonight we have a dinner appointment then we are going to teach a member family the lessons because they want to have the lessons.  She is a life long member and says that she doesn't know much about the gospel and thought this would be one way to learn more.

That's about it for now.

I love you.

Love,
Scott

Jan. 6, 2014

Not much to mention this week. 
We are working with the members a lot more than we did before so hopefully we will gain the trust back of the members.  We have 12 families that said that they would invite someone to take the lessons.  I think we are on the right track.  Only time will tell. 

For New Year's Eve we played pool in the basement of where we live.  New Year's Day we tried to stop by and visit with some people but strangely no one was home or they were hung over from the night before.  Haha.

Transfers are in a couple of weeks.  I still think that I will be transferred .  We will have to see what happens.

Thanks about it.

I love you.  Stay warm.  It sounds like it is cold there.

Love,
Scott.