March 17, 2014

I got my new companion.  He told me upfront that he has asbergers and ADHD.  I'm glad that he told me up front, so that will make it easier to handle and get a long with him.

Our investigators are doing good.  We met with our investigator that really wants to get baptized but is on parole.  He is probably our most solid investigator right now.  He also asked if we could watch 17 Miracles, we told him that we would have to get permission from Pres. Ware.  We did get permission to watch 17 Miracles so next time we meet with him we will watch it.

We also did some service this week with the guy who knows Elder Bednar and Pres. Uchtdorf.  He mentioned that Elder Bednar would keep a football in his office so that he could go and throw it with random students during his lunch break.

Saturday my zone had breakfast at a member of the Stake presidency's house, so that was pretty cool.  When we left there we went and saw one of our investigators.  When we got there all he wanted to do was argue with us so we ended up dropping him.  We then went to a less active members house to do service.   While we were there we cleaned out a trailer for them to get ready to sale.  He told us that he believes that 90% of any ones mission could be done by any missionary but 10% of it can only be done by you.  He also told me that he is part of my 10% and that it would take someone like me to get him and his girlfriend to church and to reactivate him.  He told me that I'm probably more effective as a missionary doing service than I am knocking on doors as far as making an impact on people.  Every time we have left he told I'm making an impact on his whole family.  So that made me feel good.  He also said that there is a reason why he didn't have the other missionaries that come through the ward come over as much and spend time with him.  He said to him there were just guys in white shirts and ties.  I'll have to figure out how to manage my time to be effective in finding people and in helping him and his girlfriend.

That was a cool ending to my week.

I love you.

Love,
Scott

March 10, 2014

This week was a good one.  We found a new investigator that wants to join but he is currently on parole.  It looks like he has another year until he is no longer on parole so this will be a long term investment and will need to do some fellowship.
We also did some less active work and went and hit some baseballs.  The less active member and his girlfriend and her kids were there.  So we had a lot of fun with them.  We also stopped by some people.  So it was a good week.
My companion is all packed and ready to go.  I will be with the missionaries that serve in the ward next to mine until I get me new companion on Wednesday.
I will probably be sending home some of my long sleeve shirts soon since it's starting to warm up along with some other things.
We also helped a couple of people move this week and while we were moving them I ripped a big hole in the seat of my jeans, but the lady we live with said that she can fix them.

That's about all that I can think of.

I love you.

Love, Scott

March 3, 2014

This week was pretty good.  We had zone conference which was pretty good.    We had some good training.  They talked about teaching and the commitments that we leave with our appointments.

We stopped by some less actives in the ward.  One that we stopped by in a part member family.  He know some deep doctrine but doesn't come to church and his wife is not a member.  We will have to see if we can get him to start coming back to church.

Friday night the Elders Quorum had a pinewood derby which we were invited to.  They fed us steak which was really good.  There was also a less active member that came and brought his girlfriend.  We talked to him for a while.  We found out that he served his mission in Frankfort Germany.  He mentioned he had dinner with Pres. Uchtdor a few times.  He also attended Ricks and was on a first name bases with Elder Bednar.  It was cool to here his stories.

This is my companions last week in the mission field.  Come Monday I will be in a three-some until Wednesday when I get my new companion.

Thanks for all you do for me.  I love you.

Love,
Scott

Feb. 24, 2014

This week was a long one.  All are appointments that we had scheduled had canceled so there wasn't too much that got done.  We did have a great lesson with a less active.  She wants to come back to church so we are working with her.

The elders in the ward next to us bought some balut eggs (half developed duck eggs).  We cooked them before we ate them.  They were pretty gross and give you terrible gas.  

Today for lunch we are going to the mission home and having lunch with Pres. Ware.  It's a tradition that he has to have lunch with the elders after Stake Conference.  I'm looking forward to that.

I love you and have a great week.

Love,

Scott

Feb. 19, 2014

Sorry it took so long to finally email you.

This week was pretty fun, though the beginning of the week was pretty boring.  Tuesday we had our zone meeting then we went to see if we could stop by and visit with some people.

Thursday night someone who served his mission here in Kennewick a few years ago came back to attend a funeral.  He stayed with the lady we are staying with.  We visited with him in the evenings while he was in town.  It cool to hear what the mission was like a few years ago.

Friday we went to the High Priest Valentine's social.  We spent most of the night there.  Saturday we had Stake Conference.  The Saturday night evening session the mission president spoke on the members helping the missionaries.  Sunday there were some really good talks on the Atonement.

Monday was p-day.  The libraries were closed so I was unable to email you Monday.  We did go bowling and played some basketball.

Tuesday one of the elder in my zone was sick.  I went with his companion while my companion stayed with the sick one.  We went to an appointment that they had scheduled but they ended up canceling when we got there because of some family matters, we did give him a blessing before we left.  We went to their next appointment, someone who is having some health problems, so we gave her a blessing too.  Before we left her house she gave us some food which we took back to the apartment.  They had some hot sauce called "Da Bomb".  I decided to try it.  It was so hot that it made my eyes water and I couldn't talk for 15 minutes.  One of the elders looked at the bottle of hot sauce and it was 1.5 million on the heat scale.  I won't be doing that again.  That night after dinner I stayed in with the sick elder while my companion went out.

So that was my week and why it took so long for me to email you.

I love you.

Love,
Scott

Feb. 10, 2014

This week was a pretty good week, although it was rather cold.  It got down to around 5 degrees last night.  We've really had to bundle up to stay warm and the wind made it even colder.  Some of the coldest days were on the sunny days.

Friday it started snowing and Saturday when we woke up we had 4" of snow on the ground.  We called the other set of elders that are in our ward to see if they wanted to go have lunch with us.  We meet up with them that morning and ended up shoveling snow for 5 hours then had lunch and shoveled more snow.  Saturday night it snowed again and we got another 4" of snow, so with all the shoveling that we had done on Saturday it looked liked we had made no progress.  Church was cancelled Sunday due to the weather so we went and did shoveling.  Needless to say I'm a little sore and my back hurts.  haha.

This week we taught a less active whats called the 15 step program to quit smoking.  He is very excited about that.  We had him crust his cigarettes and then took them from him.  As far as we know he is doing pretty good.  We will see him on Wednesday to follow up with him and to see how he is doing.

We found a couple of investigators last week.  We are teaching them the Restoration and will show them the Restoration dvd and answer any questions they may have.

That's about it for this week.

Love,
Scott

Feb. 3, 2014

Well, I made it Kennewick and so far everything is good.  When I left Wenatchee there were 4 inches of snow on the ground.  My companion and I shoveled 2 driveways before I left. 

My companion I have now is from Utah and will be going home at next transfer, so this will be the second companion that I will send home.  I've heard a lot of great things about the ward that I'm in.  There is a member here that is from Norman, he told me that he would only let me in his house is if I was a Sooner fan.  So we talked for a while.

Saturday we found a new investigator and they came to church on Sunday, that was pretty cool.  

It's suppose to get down to the single digits this week so it will be a cold one and I'm in a walking area. It's a good thing I have my thermals and compression shirts.

As far as the Superbowl goes, we were at a members house that didn't care to watch the game so we read scriptures with them and played mexican train.  It didn't get too crazy when the Seahawks won, there was a cannon that went off and that is how we knew that the Seahawks had won.

Well, that's about it for this week.

Love,

Scott