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

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