How is everyone doing? I hope y'all are doing great! It is so fun to hear from most of you every week, but there is some of you that I haven't heard from. Please feel free to shoot me an email anytime! I will do my best to respond asap!
This week was my first week in Sandhill area! I live in Richton, MS. It is super awesome! I am really enjoying the area. I love all of the green trees, and beautiful fields! I love Mississippi! My new companion is Sister Saunders and she is the sweetest thing! I love her to death already! We are serving in a branch of 25 ACTIVE MEMBERS! Oh man, that was quite the adjustment for me. I have been in wards my entire life up to this point. It was pretty weird! Not to mention they were all WHITE PEOPLE! hahah I am sorry y'all, I know that sounds racist but I really am not. It was just a culture change that is all! (: It will definitely be weird to go home. I can't imagine what that would be like! Speaking of home, I am actually about to hit my year mark in JUNE! Yay! It is going by so fast and I can't get time to slow down, I love, love, being a missionary. I have the best calling in the world!
Dear mom-
WOW! I AM BACK IN THE HATTIESBURG ZONE!! It is a strange feeling, but I am so excited to be back! The area I have been serving in has been opened and closed over a thousand times! I am in the Richton, MS, but the area is called sandhill! I will give y'all the email in a minute. president gave me some council and told me that I am needed here in this area, he doesn't know why but he felt directed by the Lord to send me here. What an honor! I have had so many tender mercies! My companion is Sister Saunders, she is from Kaysville, Utah! Yes, she is by far! My closest companion, it is awesome! We were super excited to be called to serve here together! She has been here for a transfer and so she is taking the reigns in this area. Usually, I am the one that does that, but it is kinda nice to have a break from that for a while! I am actually serving in a branch. There are exactly 25 active members here! That is not even the hardest part..it is a branch of all WHITE PEOPLE! hahah who knew right?! man, it will be hard to come home! I didn't even think about the adjustment I would have to make, it will be interesting! This is my first time in a branch, I was pretty darn nervous! It will be an adjustment for sure, but this is where the Lord needs me right now! Sister Saunders and I get along great! We will party a ton when we both get home! I am so excited! I sent her mom and family a really lengthy email, I want to send it to you to read it! I think y'all will like it! Her daughter has some hearing loss too, but she wasn't born with it. Sister Saunders wanted me to share my story with them, and so hopefully it will help them! she says it is a hard thing they are going through and felt that my story was inspiring! We have seen so many miracles since I have been here. Sister Saunders last companion was kinda ready to leave this area. She said it was really hard, especially since this area is a toughy. We know that there is 1 person bound to be here for us, we just have to develop the faith to find them! I have never been so enthusiastic and excited about missionary work. Heavenly Father definitely has us in his hands. We planned for a family history class and while tracting we found a lady who really wanted to find out where her roots are!! We are super pumped! We also found an investigator who has already got a head start on the BOM! That never happens! Anyways, we have had blessings coming left and right! I am excited to see where this area will take us! I am confident that we will find those who are searching. On Sunday we decided to fast and as a result so many miracles came! We read in the scriptures about how the prophets have Prayed in MIGHTY prayer and FASTING, and as a result baptized thousands of people. The principle is the same with us! I don't understand why we can't have the same similar experiences! We just have to have the faith to do it! Anyways, that is what has been on my mind, I miss the black people! it will be an adjustment! i love y'all! Have a great week! (:
Good morning Sister Saunder's Family!
I just wanted to say how incredibly grateful I am to have your daughter (and sister) as my companion! She really does have a heart of gold!! I know with all of my heart that she is supposed to be my companion. We have some good things coming along in this area already! Our first 3 days together were pretty intense with feeling the spirit, and just all of the tender mercies that God has given us! I just figured I would take this time to share them with you because to me they are sacred and Sister Saunders totally agrees with me on this one!
My name is Sister Mckennah Scott, I am from Syracuse, Utah! Y'all are pretty nearby so, that was already one huge tender mercy to me! She is definitely my closest companion as far as distance goes, I will have to come visit y'all when I arrive home! It will be so much fun! Like I said earlier, God really has blessed us and given us many tender mercies. One of those blessings was the instant connection we had from the get-go!
I went to Northridge High School in Layton, Utah! That is where some of my favorite memories were created. I loved it so much! School was kinda a struggle for me..I had a pretty hard time with it when I was younger. When I came into this world I was born deaf. now, Sister Saunders told me that your daughter has a tough time with hearing too, and that was another blessing I received. To know that somebody understands kinda how I feel! I remember when I was very young my mom would make me watch these "ABC's letter and sounds movie". I will never forget it! My sweet mother worked super hard with me to have good speech, and good listening ears! On that movie I remember in the right hand corner there would be a video of this moving mouth, and it was a mans voice and he would go through every letter along with its sound! he would say something like "APPLE! A- A, APPLE! A-A,APPLE! and then he would go to B! and say, BUG! B-B, BUG! Ect. And it would go through the whole alphabet, not to mention the screen would change colors for every letter! hahah I watched that over a thousands, and thousands of times! But honestly, that movie saved my life.
Elementary and Junior high was a little bit rough, I remember having one best friend. She is actually serving a mission right now in Wisconsin! her name was Hannah and she is one of the nicest people I know. I had some other friends too, but they didn't make great choices and so I stayed away from them. Friends were definitely hard to find, true friends anyways! I always had my ward friends and they were definitely my rock more than anything else! I know God was mindful of me even during that hard time.
When I got into high school I chose to attend Clearfield High! I went there for a couple reasons. 1) Because my best friend was there. 2) Because it was in my boundaries. As I look back on that experience I wish I was a little more prayerful about that decision because I could have saved myself from another year of heartache and just feeling alone. I repented right after that year of school and made a choice to be prayerful about where the Lord wanted to place me. I told him I would go where he wanted me to go, regardless of the situation. I debated about Layton, Syracuse, and Northridge high! I remember writing down the pros and cons of each school, but I remember one of the cons I wrote down for Northridge was that I knew only one person that went there! Over the summer as I contemplated about these pros and cons the answer came clear to me. I had a specific school logo pop into my head, it was Northridge High School logo! I remember receiving my answer and thanked heavenly father for hearing my simple, but important prayer. In my Fathers blessing right before school, I remember my dad telling me that Heavenly Father will provide friends who will lift me up and strengthen me throughout my life. I really needed to hear that!
When I went to school and signed up for my classes, I signed up for choir and Theater. It was so fun for me to try-out for these classes and meet so many people along the way. At the end of my Junior year, I had gained double- even TRIPLE the friends that I had. I know that God hears our prayers. He hears our cries, and he feels our joys. I know it to be true! My life stands as a testimony of that. I cannot deny the power of God, he truly has given me so much. These past 11 months I have had the privilege of serving him after all of the times he has served me and helped me. This trial that y'all are going through is not going un-noticed. He is aware of you and the things that you are going through. I know that God has great plans for your daughter, she will be successful in her life! I just wanted to close this with a scripture that I love and one that has changed me forever. It is in 1 Nephi 17:8-10. I invite y'all to read it sometime! But I KNOW that Nephi built that ship AFTER the manner the Lord showed him, not after man, or his brothers, but after the Lord. I know that as we seek the Lord's Will and live as he has taught us we will never fail. I love y'all already, I don't even know you! I am sure y'all are amazing. Sister Saunders is always telling me good things. I hope you have a great week!
love,
Sister Scott <3
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