Richton, MS- Week #54

Hey y'all!

What a crazy week it has been for us! We have had lots going on this week and been staying busy which is great for us! Hope y'all have had a great week too!

I can't remember every detail of this week unfortunately, and I forgot my journal this time, so sorry!! I will be better next week! Thankfully we took pictures this week so hopefully it will load up this time!

On Tuesday: We went to the Nursing home to visit some really awesome old people! Today we came on party day! They planned to have a "country day" they had a karaoke machine all set up and everything! Of course, Sister Saunders and I feel like we are intruding, and so we were about to leave...NOT! The sweet old people that were sitting in the main room volunteered us both to sing! We still tried to leave, and then one of the elderly ladies said " hey, y'all have to listen to your elders! So come sing!" We are not really shocked they used the "elderly card" but it is a good thing we love them and sang anyways! Also, Sister Saunders was asked by one of the sweet old guys to be her girlfriend! haha it was so funny!

On Wednesday: We had zone training meeting!! I LOVE seeing my missionary friends! In Sandhill we never seen anyone because we are out in the boonies, but we love it here!! It was a good meeting, we talked about the mission culture and the importance of explaining the BOM simply. I love these meetings and the spirit I feel when I am with all the missionaries!

On Thursday: We met with katrina! She is a really nice lady! She works for Miss Gracie, and is super sweet! We taught the resto and felt super good about it that we extended the invitation for her to be BAPTIZED! Yay!! We were really excited about it! The spirit was definitely there and she said she would think about it! Please pray for her! 

On Friday:

 We finished weekly planning! We were pretty pumped about that! Recently, we have not been able to finish our weekly planning sessions because we have had set appointments which is great, but planning is important too! That night we went out to visit a few people and then we came home and usually as a missionary you do your nightly planning, and that is what we had planned to do! Usually we start with a prayer, and it was my turn to say it. Y'all would NOT believe what happened next! I started praying "Dear Heavenly Father, we are so grateful for this day, we are grateful for..." And next thing I know Sister Saunders taps my shoulder what seems to be 20 minutes later and said "Are you okay" and I was like yeah! I was just sleeping! And she said, " Sister Scott you never finished your prayer! You literally fell asleep during the prayer!" hahah oh my, I swear she was dying of laughter. I was super embarrassed! I have NEVER fallen asleep during my prayers. I guess that tells you how tiring missionary work is! It really is a lot of work, but I love it so much!

On Saturday:

We had planned to go to Leaksville, which is about a hour away from where we live. It felt like we were road trippin' together! hahah we had a good time though! My favorite artist to listen to in the car is the "Lower Lights" I am pretty sure they were made for missionaries in the south. It is the best thing ever! I will attach some of their songs on here for y'all to listen too! We were really relying on the map that was hung on our wall to help navigate us around because we don't own a GPS...hahah so Sister Saunders was driving, and I was holding this massive map and I couldn't even see outside because the map was so BIG! It is okay though, we managed to get there in one piece!  We went tracting  and we found some interesting people! One lady named Marie, who we thought would not be interested in hearing our message but ended up setting an appointment, a man who was outside just chilling with tortilla chips chomping in his mouth, and did I mention his mouth was not closed while he was chewing? EW! We already couldn't understand him, but the accent topped it all off! We also met a guy named Alex who was a student attending william carey junior college and it was a great lesson! He actually comprehended which was a good change! He took a Book Of Mormon and said he would read it. After that, we decided to go visit less actives in that area. Sister Saunders and I are not very directionally gifted..but God managed to help us find their houses! There was a family we were looking for, and we couldn't find their house. We were on the right street, but none of the houses had numbers on them! We decided we would tract all the houses to find them. We started at the bottom of the street, and worked our way up! We ended up finding the house but they weren't home! It was super sad! So, we decided to leave them a note, hopefully they will call us and invite us over sometime! Like I said earlier, Sister Saunders and I are both not directionally gifted. Well, we were on our way home and we were confident that we were going the right way, well come to find out we were on the wrong higway!! We were leaving the mission!! It was super scary! We were only 15 minutes outside of our area, but it was still scary! It took us a couple hours to get home, but we still had a blast! We just laughed about it all the way home! 

On Sunday: We had church and the Rogers family came again! We were hoping to extend the invitation of baptism, but then of course, THEY WERE ANTIED! This always happens! We cleared up their questions and concerns, and they were still willing to come next sunday. So grateful for that! Please pray for them!

It was a crazy week, we had a lot of fun though! I hope y'all had a great week. thanks for all your love and support. I miss y'all! Be safe this week! (:

Love, Sister Scott