Wake Village, TX- Week #69

****McKennah is right now in a large district that has to share TWO computers on P-days. Her group email time is lacking because of it. Short email this week even for me, and no pics from her. Thank goodness for the kindness of other members***

Hey mom! 

That is soo crazy you have my release date! That is scary to think about! Time definitely flies by. It looks like you had a great week! I can't believe that those kids are juniors now. They look soo good.(: Man, I can't say that I am happy I miss football yet again! It is so weird but, I actually miss going to those kids games. It has been a long time! I bet they have grown so much and have become even more amazing kids and players. I am excited to see them keep killing it later! (: 

So..just so you are not going to freak out, I will not be sending a group email this week. I LOVE writing them and all but, it is not something that I want to do this week. I will try to do one next week though. Hopefully that is alright. 

YOU SAW SISTER KELLY!!! 😂😂😂 I miss that girl sooo freaking much!! She is an awesome sister missionary. It is hard to believe she has been home for as long as she has been. She is awesome, I am glad you got to see her! 

Emailing is a little bit different now, I am in a big district and we all email at the family history center in our church building, and they only have 2 computers and there is 6 of us. Just so you are aware, I may not be online at the same time I have been all my mission. 

Awe..tell the brock's that I love them! I love hearing everything that those guys are up to! They will be amazing missionaries! Tell them I said I MISS THEM AND GOOD LUCK! They will be amazing!

 Anyways, I love you so much. I have a letter that I wrote you that should be getting there any day now, but I hope you like it! 

Love, 

Sister Scott

The Brock's from the Hattiesburg Ward. Just turned in their mission papers and are awaiting their call!

Wake Village, TX - Week #68

McKennah and her new comp Sister Anderson

Hello everyone! 

Thanks for the emails that I got this week. I loved them all soo much!! 

As y'all know, this week was transfer week! They are always so bitter sweet and just so emotional sometimes! It was hard leaving Sandhill. I learned a lot from that area and from the companions that I have served with there. I got lucky! Sister Durtschi made my last transfer there a blast!! I miss will miss her!  It was amazing! It was all a miracle. I definitely have seen a lot of good come from serving there. I miss it soo much! But I also know that this is where I should be and I am accepting that.(: 

SO! My new comp is..drum roll please..SISTER ANDERSON! She has been serving for about 8 months now and has a ton of gospel knowledge on her belt! She is a great teacher and  has so much to offer. I am already learning a lot from her! I am excited to see what good miracles we will see this transfer! We are currently serving in ..TEXARKANA! If you haven't figured out already, that means Texas and Arkansas! Which Y'all know what that means too right?!? I am serving in ALL of the states of my mission! Pretty exciting stuff! It is soo crazy how different all of my areas have been. It is like a different mission for each state you serve in! haha that is the best I can explain it! We have a great teaching pool. We have 2 investigators preparing to be baptized this month and so we are pretty excited about that! 

This area is definitely different than all of the other areas I have served in. I honestly did not expect to be called here! In the back of my mind I have always wanted to serve in Texas, but then I also wanted to serve in all of the states in this mission too! This is probably my last area before I come home and so I didn't know which wish would happen first. God knew what I wanted so he gave me both wishes! I know he knows us! He is aware of everything that we are doing and who we are serving! 

This week I have been thinking about the will of the Lord. Sometimes we get what we want and sometimes God gives us what we need. Unfortunately we don't get to choose which he will give us but I know that he knows what is best. If we put our trust in him he will help us. I know that to be true y'all! I love the scripture Proverbs 3:3-5; When we acknowledge him and trust him he will guide our paths. I love you all! I hope you have a blessed week! (: 

Sister Mellor. McKennah's comp from Ruston.

Sister Alvey. A new sister serving in MJM. McKennah went to school with her.

Good morning momma! 

Thanks for the awesome email! I love reading them and hearing from you each week. I got an email from Ayden that was the best thing ever! (: It sounds like summer is wrapping up and school is starting again. I can't believe it is that time of the year again! I absolutely loved Sandhill. It is definitely one of my favorite areas and some of the goodbyes were just heartbreaking for me! I miss the wonderful people there. I guess I do feel like I did a great job in that area, I got attached to the people and I worked super hard.We saw endless of miracles from the Lord. I loved the comps that served with me there, I got soo lucky! I felt that the Lord was grateful for the work that I did there, I feel accomplished and excited to see what this new area and transfer will bring. I am serving in Wake Village, Texas! It is actually Sister Durtschi's old area and so I have just been bragging about her to all of the members here. It seems like they really loved her too and so I hope that they will love me too! This area is actually pretty cool for a couple reasons. 1- IT IS IN TEXAS! 2-I ALSO HAVE PART OF ARKANSAS IN MY AREA! you know what that means right? YUP! I have served in ALL of the states in my mission!! I get to kill to birds with one stone! I am so excited about it! 

My comp is Sister Anderson. She has been out for about 8 months. She is super sweet and guess where she is from? WASHINGTON!! I am soo excited! That is a lot of our conversations are about! I am sure we will work hard together. She is an obedient missionary and loves the Lord. We will see what the Lord has in store for us! I love y'all! This was basically my week, aside the fact that I miss Sister Durtschi and Sandhill I am doing okay. I am excited to hear from you soon! 

Love,

Sister Scott (: 

A family McKennah knew in Ruston, living in Wake Village!

Richton, MS- Week #67

Hey all of my favorite people! This week has been a crazy one! I hope y'all are enjoying the Olympics! Fun fact about the Olympics! My Momma told me that one of the participants Tori Bowie is from SANDHILL, MISSISSIPPI! I REPEAT! SANDHILL, MISSISSIPPI! How cool right? Anyways, I thought y'all really wanted to know that. Who knew that this little town would have a cute famous olympian years later? Sandhill is pretty great! (: 

This week was pretty good! We finished up the rest of our snowball necklaces this week and gave them to the ladies at the nursing home and we gave them to all of the sisters in our Hattiesburg zone! It was really fun making them. The elders in our zone got cool blue ties and so the STL's wanted all of the sisters to have something too and so we made snowballs for everyone! It was awesome! 

We had ZTM this week and I got to see some of the greatest people I know! Always good to see missionaries! We learned about the importance of writing in our journals (which I need to do better) and the importance of having companion studies. It was a great meeting and a needed one. (: 

We also had exchanges this week with the STL's. I went with Sister Ali-Savory & Sister Greenhalgh. They are awesome! It was my first time in a trio..it was interesting that is for sure! I love both of those girls though. This was the first time Sister Durtschi and I were split up, it was kinda sad! We are attached to the hip and definitely best friends!! I LOVE her to death! (: 

While they were on exchanges Sister Durtschi and Sister Kay saw one of our investigators mom (Jamie's mom) and Jamie had been in jail so we haven't been able to teach him. WELL! His mom told us that even though we haven't seen him, he was reading the Book Of Mormon on his own and was sharing what he had learned with her! Isn't that sooo cool? Since he has been in jail he has missed reading the Book Of Mormon and had asked his mom to send it to him, and she said she would!! It is soo cool! I know that by reading the Book Of Mormon it really does bring peace to our lives. It makes me so happy that jamie loves to read it! (: 

On Friday, one of sister Durtschi's old companions came by to visit us! (Sister Frandsen) It was fun to see a missionary who just got home from her mission! The first thing she shows us was her.. drum roll...ENGAGEMENT RING! She will be marrying one of the elders from this mission at the end of December. Elder Hernandez and Sister Frandsen are super cute together. It was fun to see them reunite. Sister Frandsen asked Sister Durtschi to be her one of her bridesmaids!! Hahah it was way fun! (: 

We went to see the Ishee's again this week. They are one of thee BEST families I have worked with on my mission. I love part member families, they are fun to teach! (: I will miss them so much when I get transferred,  they are amazing! 

This morning we found out about transfers, and  I will be leaving Sandhill. I kinda have a lot of mixed emotions about it...I love this place it is definitely home to me! I hate saying goodbye, but we do it a lot as missionaries! It is something that we all have to do at some point or another. I will miss Sister Durtschi! Dang, I got soo lucky to have her as a comp. She has definitely taught me a lot and continues to teach me. She is definitely one of the best people I know. She will kill it here in Sandhill! We will party when we get home that is for sure! (: This may be my last stop before I come home. I know that the Lord will lead me to those that need me! I will keep y'all updated and let you know what happens and where I will go! I hope y'all have a blessed week! Thanks for your support that you constantly give me. It has been such a great experience so far! Also here is the address for letters and packages again if any of y'all were thinking of sending some this week! Thanks!!

Sister Mckennah Scott

SAYING GOODBYE TO SANDHILL, RICHTON AREA: 

McKennah, Sister Durtschi, and Sister Betty Silas

 Sister B and her son Joe they fed McKennah and her companions EVERY Monday

Petal District

Sister Miller, Sister Maughn, McKennah, Sister Durtschi, Elder Brinton, and Elder Hill (District Leader)

Hattiesburg Zone Sisters: Sister Kay, Sister Horrocks, Sister Coleman, Sister Miller, Sister Maughn, Sister Ali-Savory, Sister Greenhaulgh, Sister Elliott and trainee

McKennah and Elder Brown

Bobbie, Margaret, Billy, and Hazel (she's a member) Ladies from the nursing home that McKennah went to serve each and every week

 Saying goodbye to the sweet Price family. Daughter Nancy, and son in law, and their kids Elise, Madeline and Gabe

Final Goodbyes for these two! Served well with each other and have become the BEST of friends

Richton, MS- Week #66

Good Afternoon Y'all! How is everyone doing? It is pretty hard to believe it is school time again. Time seems to always go by so fast! 

SO. Y'all know the phrase 3 strikes and your out? Yeah well that should be the theme of my life this week. Apparently this was Sister Scott's week of Struggles. Hahah Yes. Struggling Scott it is real. Wanna hear the 3 strikes? Be prepared! 

Strike 1) We were on our way to district meeting and we are just trucking along and then comes a TURTLE in the middle of the road (Sister Durtschi would tell you differently) and I was driving over 50 Mph and so I couldn't stop and I killed the turtle. Now she calls me the "Turtle Killer". Apparently that is my new nickname! 

Strike 2) We were on the phone with our fleet coordinator, ( He runs all mission cars) Elder Edwards. He is a way funny guy, he actually served here in Sandhill with his wife as a Sr couple! Anywho, so we were just talking about our car and the multiple problems that accompany with it. To make the call less awkward, I thought it would be fun to sing a theme song as he was looking up info about our car! I started singing the Indiana Jones theme song!! hahah and Sister Durtschi started to sing with me! (It went something like this "Ba bah  bah BAH ba ba bah Ba ba ba BA ba ba ba ba BAH!)  Next thing we know Elder Edwards puts us on speaker in the mission office so all of the missionaries there can hear us! Now every single time we call or they call us they will start by singing the "Theme Song". It was super funny and made all of our days. It is the perfect song for Sandhill.  gotta have fun somehow! 

Strike 3) We were having dinner with the Ishee's family on Thursday night and silly me left the keys in their truck! So..we were car less for a day. Hahaha we made it work though! They came by on Friday and dropped off the keys. We figured Blue Bell would be a fair trade and so we had ice cream with them

On a different day we saw them we were all dying of LAUGHTER! We were laughing so hard that we were crying. That is something that I miss doing, just laughing all of the time! The funny thing about all of this is the reason why we were laughing so long. Apparently everyone was laughing because of MY laugh. They just thought it was so funny and it led to tears in our eyes. Of course this led us to teach the Ishee's the "true laugh" and we just laughed some more. It was a fun day well spent with them! 

So there you have it. Funny stories for the week. There is actually one more funny story that my comp shared in her email and so I will forward that to y'all because it is hilarious! 

We had a little harder time this week. Sister Durtschi got sick, and then a few days later I wasn't feeling good either, it was a bummer. Here in Sandhill all of the kids are getting ready for school and so we didn't get a lot of success because everyone was busy! It is all good though! Once everyone gets in the routine of school again we will start having more success. I know that to be true! God will provide a way somehow. He always does.  I am so grateful for prayer, I am grateful we have direct communication with our Almighty Creator who LOVES us. He hears our pleas, our cries, knows our hopes, and he knows our hearts. I know he hears us. He will help us find our way! 

I hope y'all have a blessed week! I hope that for all you who are starting school again will have great success and start off on the right foot. I love y'all! 

Love, Sister Scott 

Mom, 

Here is a letter I received from my mission president this past week. Words cannot express how much this letter meant to me this time. Mom, I am truly trying to work really really hard. I have been trying to do my best in helping the Lord in His vineyard. I really do try to do it cheerfully and effectively. I definitely had my air share of experiences here in Sandhill and it really means a lot to me what president sent. Here it is word for word from his email to me. It is incredible! 


Sister Scott,

Thanks for the candor in your report. You have an excellent knowledge of who you are and why you are here and that touches hearts. Thanks for your efforts in Sandhill, despite and challenges you are facing. You have been obedient and dedicated to the work, despite the obvious challenges. We continue to work hard with the attorneys to get clearance for tracting and hope that will come soon. I appreciate all that you are doing and want you to know that we cannot succeed in this work without the continuing diligent and faithful efforts of missionaries as capable as you. Thanks for all that you are doing.

Love you,

President Olson

Richton, MS- Week #65

Heeyyyy y'all!

Sooo this week was all crazy,exciting,exhilarating,exaughsting, emotional, insane, fun ect. I could go on for dayyyss trying to explain all of the things that happened this week! First of all I wanna share some news with y'all! First the good news because I am too excited to share it and then I will share the not so good news. 

So here is the good news...

MY INVESTIGATOR RACHEL GOT BAPTIZED SATURDAY NIGHT IN HATTIESBURG! IT WAS SOO AMAZING! 

Lemme tell you about Rachel. We tracted into her husband this time last year! He was not all that interested at first. We taught him the Plan Of Salvation and he literally laughed at us. Fast forward about 3 weeks and that was the first time he started to PRAY for us. Then Rachel started to participate in the lessons. We showed them the Restoration video and Rachel loved it! Thomas was still not sure about it all, but Rachel was definitely changing. THEN fast forward about a month later Thomas started to read the Book Of Mormon. He can't read hardly, but we read verse by verse with him. Eventually he read pages. It was amazing! Unfortunately they didn't start coming to church when I was there but they continued to meet with the missionaries. As a result of the missionaries coming after a whole year Rachel decided to be baptized!! Something that I failed to mention was Rachel's granddaughter. She had been there through it all. She was sooo quiet. She never really opened up while I was there. The amazing thing about her granddaughter is she was baptized FIRST. I did not realize the impact we had on this family! Rachel chose to be baptized because of the example of her granddaughter Alex. She told me at the baptism that "If Alex can do it and have these changes in her life, then I can too." So what did she do? She quit smoking. She started to apply the things that the missionaries asked her to do and she CHANGED. Isn't that amazing! And now her husband Thomas will be baptized in two weeks. Y'all. I have a STRONG testimony of planting seeds. Yes it is sometimes hard to see the results of your labors, I mean, I had to wait a whole year to see it all pay off!  I know that people are watching the examples we set. We may not even realize the impact until later, but we do affect more lives than we realize. Just like the prophet Alma says in chapter 32:43 about planting seeds. If we will exercise faith with ALL diligence, we will REAP our rewards. 

Sister Coleman, Thomas, Rachel, McKennah, and Sister Horrocks 

(These are the sisters who they are currently working with! They are some of my greatest friends! I love them to death! (:)

Sister and Brother Snyder

As for the not so good news..we found out that the tracting situation probably wont be fixed until September. We are praying that it will be fixed sooner! We are hoping maybe in August they can get it all cleared up! Please pray that it will be! We have so many potentials here in this area we know we are to find! 

We also got to do a lot of service this week! We helped a less active clean her house! We spent a good 6 hours doing that one day and it was a lot of work, but I know she really appreciated it! We also made and delivered cookies with a member..which resulted in a Cookie dough fight!! Sister Durtschi would tell you differently...but she started it! We had a blast! It was soo much fun! We also got to go to the nursing home! We are learning how to make "Mississippi Snowballs"! It is a neckalce and we will be making about 12 of those for the ladies there. They are not easy to make, but I am learning how anyways!  This week was all about service! It was awesome! 

There you have it! That is basically what our week consisted of. We had a lot of fun! I will attach the pictures and the talk by Elder Oaks because it didn't work last week. I hope y'all have a blessed week! Thanks for all of your support and love! I love you!!

Love, Sister Scott

Richton, MS- Week #64

Hey Everybody! 

How are y'all doing?? How is life going?? Summer is almost over I hope y'all are soaking it up! 

So, this week was not that eventful so I apologize in advance! We have been kinda all over the place! This transfer we have not really been able to tract at all, the stake presidency is still working out the kinks with the city council and so hopefully we will be able to go save some lives soon! God has had his hand in Sandhill! He is has provided us with people to teach, has helped our branch members give referrals, and we were able to do some of our own finding without tracting which is super awesome! We have had our schedules filled with things to do! I am soo grateful for that! 

This week I just wanted to share some miracle stories that have happened this week because there were too many! Sister Durtschi and I have been studying a talk entitled "Miracles" by Elder Oaks. I will attach the talk on here at the end! It is such a good read! 

This week we were able to see the ROGER'S! We haven't really seen them much since they have been baptized and so we were happy to see them and teach them again! Bristle (Recent Convert) has already been a stellar missionary and invited her friend Willey to take the lessons! He is super cool, we taught him the restoration and it was awesome! He had a ton of good questions which is a good sign and we invited him to come to church with us on Sunday and he said YES! It was super amazing! He actually did come and Bristle came too! It was such a huge blessing and a MIRACLE! 

Another miracle that we saw this week was Clynt Walley. He is a less active that Sister Saunders and I started teaching about 4 months ago. He has been through a lot in his life, and continues to have some struggles with life now. He is a senior in high school, and he found himself in the wrong crowd of friends. He got into chewing tobacco, and he also dips. He has gotten himself in trouble with some girls from school and it is just all a bad situation. It is AMAZING! The past four months I have watched him slowly, but surely he began to read the Book Of Mormon, he started to say sincere prayers in lessons. He INVITED his dad to join in on the lessons. Eventually after 5 YEARS of not coming to church he came to church yesterday. Isn't that amazing??? 5 YEARS Y'ALL! How many of us believe that an less active of 5 years of not coming to church would actually come? I know before my mission I would think that is crazy! This week we have been telling the branch members that he was going to come, but no one believed us. It was amazing to see him walk in the church, in his Sunday best and participate in sacrament. I think that is soo amazing! The spirit was soo  powerful. The Clynt I know 4 months ago would not have came, but he did. This is a miracle to me. 

In the talk by Elder Oaks he talks about how there are Macro Miracles (Big miracles) and Micro Miracles (small miracles). He goes on to say that one of the  biggest macro miracles is the Saviors Atonement....but even GREATER miracle than the atonement is a CHANGE IN AN INDIVIDUALS HEART! Think about that. That is GREATER than the Atonement Of Christ. This is why missions are so amazing. We see these MACRO miracles all of the time. I know that God is a God of Miracles. He loves us. He will show His hand in our lives. Miracles surround us at every corner. We just have to watch for them. Both Macro and Micro miracles are. I know this is true. I love y'all so much! I hope you have a amazing week! 

Love, Sister Scott 

Goofing off with Sister Durtschi

Pics she found on a SD card she forgot she had

McKennah and her district in the MTC

MCKennah and her first companion in the MTC Sister Bartsch

McKennah and Sister Lauren Daniels