Wake Village, TX- Week #72

Hello y'all! This week has been bitter sweet! Kinda sad to see this transfer over. Sister Anderson and I had a blast! I never have enough time with my awesome companions!! They have all taught me so much and I still have a long ways to go! I hope that I will continue to learn and enjoy this time I have to spend with them. 

I will make this pretty short, but this week we had exchanges with our STLs! I got to go with a sister who came out with me on the mission! We have never served around each other in the MTC or on the mission even and so it was cool to see how much we have grown and progressed in the 16 months that we have been serving the Lord! It was funny, we figured out that we both went to snow college and even had a class together there! (it was theatre) And we loved it! So many memories flowed through my mind as I talked with her! We had a blast!

Sorry this is really short. But all the time I have for today. I love y'all! Have a blessed week! (:

Dear mom, 

I soo needed to hear your response about what you think should happen when I go home. There are many pressures as I am sure you know that missionaries experience on the mission. I just have been thinking ahead as to what I want to do when I go home because  I want to make the right choice. I completely agree with you, I think going to work is the best option for me. That is generally the response I give to people when they ask me. I also mention how I will be looking for internship opportunities too. I guess my main focus is I want to be able to gain experience in different fields. I want to explore my options and find out things that I like about myself and put that into action and improve on that. I am excited to see where life takes me. The only way I know how I can do this is by faith. That is literally what will help me what God wants me to accomplish here on earth. 

Sonds like a fun week! We have transfers, and Sister Anderson will be getting transferred tomorrow! We will be spending the night with some other missionaries in Shreveport, LA! I am excited to meet my new comp, she may be my last one so this will be interesting! I am excited to see where these next two transfers will take me. I love y'all! I hope you have an amazing week! 

Love, 

Sister Scott

Ps- did you see my video that I sent logan? 

Pss- I had a dream about you mom! It made me cry this morning, I don't know if you have been having dreams about me

Wake Village, TX- Week #71

Hey y'all! Oh how I love you. Thank you for your emails and love that you send me each week! I love it soo much! Y'all are the best!! 

This week was a fun week for us! We had the opportunity to help one of our investigators Katie Lashley to be baptized!! It was soo much fun! we asked her what she would like us to do for her big baptism day and she said she would like us to make cheesecake for her! We were soo down to learn how to make cheesecake! We figured it couldn't be that hard and that we could do it!...WE WERE SO WRONG! We ended up spending a lot more time trying to make that cake than we really wanted to. It took us 3 attempts to make this thing!

The first time we made it, we had just made the crust and we put it in the oven to cook because that is what the directions told us to do! Well, when we took it out of the oven it was BURNED! We were so sad that it didn't work and so we recommitted ourselves to try making it again! We then threw out the burnt crust and started over again. The second go around we thankfully didn't burn the crust, however when we added the filing and it created cracks in our crust!! The directions said specifically if we had cracks in our crust we HAD to start over again. At this point Sister Anderson and I were about to give up on this cake. We decided to do missionary work for the rest of the night and then see what more we could do with the cake later. When we came home, we decided that we would just add the filing that we had on the cake already and smash it onto our crust to prevent anymore cracks in our cheesecake! For our topping, we added cupcakes and milk and we just mixed it all up and froze it! I know that sounds super gross and not that great but we had to do something because this cheesecake was just not working out! We knew that we didn't make the perfect cheesecake for katie's baptism, but we definitely tried our best! At the baptism everyone enjoyed our cheesecake and we still had some leftovers so we brought it to our potluck at church on Sunday the next day and everyone ATE IT ALL! It was amazing! 

Now I know that y'all are probably thinking, "why are you sharing this story Sister Scott? It is just a cheesecake?" To me, this cake taught me a very important lesson. It made me reflect on Christ's Atonement. Regardless of how many times we may sin or make a wrong choice through Christ's grace and mercy we can be perfected. All of us literally at one point or another need to rely on Christ's mercy. We will continue to sin whether we like it or not and the only way we can be saved is through Jesus Christ. The best part of it all is that He will help us. We don't walk this life alone. Katie has gone through a lot of things in her life, she has been searching for truth and has a great desire to be like Christ. This weekend she was baptized as the newest member of the church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints. She has been cleansed of all of her sins and is on the pathway to eternal life. It was amazing to see that happen and also have this experience with the cheesecake. We will all sin, but as we turn to Christ, all the things that are WRONG in our lives can be made RIGHT through His perfect Atonement. I love President Monson's quote from last conference, "If we choose to follow Christ we would be making the correct choice."

I love y'all! Have an amazing week! 

Love,

Sister Scott 

McKennah always surrounded by the kids.

Dear Mom, 

It has been an incredible week filled with the spirit! I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!! It has been so much fun for me! It sounds like y'all have had a fun week. I got to be honest, listening to Logan's voice on his videos is soo weird to me because his voice is so much deeper! The twins look soo different. I guess it is kind of hitting me that things have changed back at home and they are continually changing all around me! The boys are in High School!! They are about to be Juniors! How weird is that?? Man time flies. I just have a couple questions that I wanted to ask you about as far as coming home. Have you and Dad talked about what will happen for me when I return home? I have some friends here that are starting the Myplan program and I will be starting it really soon and I was just curious what y'all had in mind with me coming home? It just has a lot of questions about what I plan on doing when I return home and I was just curious what y'all were thinking about! 

That is soo cool that Logan has read the Book Of Mormon in 40 days! We did that as well just this past transfer! I have started it again and I am currently in Alma. I LOVE IT! We received the same challenge to read the Book Of Mormon and highlight Christ's name and His Attributes. It was probably one of the most amazing and sacred experiences I have had on my mission. I know that if Y'all do it with a prayer in your heart and with real intent, that your experience reading the book of Mormon will be amazing. It will be real and mean something to you in your life. I love it! I will definitely do it with y'all! 

This week was really good. Lots and lots better. We are enjoying this time here together and falling in love with the people of Texas AND Arkansas. It was amazing! We had a baptism and it really opened my eyes with how much God loves His children. He knows us. It is truly incredible. 

We do have transfers this week, we have it next tuesday and so it will be interesting to see what happens! It is hard to believe I only have 2 more of these transfers..my heart is here in Mississippi. I love the people and it will be a very sad day when I leave this place! Anyways, sorry for the late email..in case you have not noticed emailing this transfer has not been on a  regular schedule anymore..we share 2 computers with 6 other missionaries and so we take turns using the computers, sorry about that!

I hope y'all had an amazing week and are getting excited for conference! It is almost here! I love y'all! 

Love, 

Sister Scott

Wake Village, TX- Week #70

Dear family and friends, 

Howdy Y'all! How has everyone been doing this week? I know for me it has been probably the best week I have had this transfer! We got a lot of work done and have seen many blessings! It is hard to believe that it is week 5 of the transfer, time seems to go by soo fast and it just doesn't slow down! It is so crazy! 

 

We have been really focused on our investigator Katie! She has just barely finished the Book Of Mormon and had been searching for an answer whether the things we were teaching her was true for about 5 months now. She has been doing a great deal of praying/fasting for months, been coming to church weekly, keeping her commitments each time we see her ect; She had just been a little bit frustrated because she felt that she was doing everything that we asked her to do but the answer was still not coming. She knew that God would answer her prayers in His timing and His way but she felt that she was worthy to have an answer NOW especially with all of the work and effort she had made on her part to find the truth. Sister Anderson and I didn't really know what was stopping her from receiving her answer and we were confused too as to why he didn't answer her yet? We continued to fast and pray with her and we even suggested her to try and rephrase the questions she had for God in her prayers because sometimes we will ask him a question and it would be to vague of a question and we expect a very specific answer on God's part. It doesn't really work that way. After doing that and waiting for a response from God her answer still didn't come. Finally we suggested to Katie that maybe we need to stop asking God and start looking for miracles, to start looking for possible answers that can come at any given moment. She decided that she would take our suggestion and start looking more. Katie gave us a call on Sunday night and told us that for several years she had been having these "dreams" but she never really knew what they meant. She explained to us what was in her dreams and told us that tonight she found out the interpretation of that dream. She told us that it was about the church, and about Joseph Smith. What sparked her to think about her dreams that night was because she was reading in the Doctorine and Covenants and read "Joseph's name in one of the first 3 sections.She said that the spirit really hit her. She knew that he really was a prophet and that he was called of God to bring about this church. She said " I am ready to change, I want to be baptized as soon as I can". The spirit was so strong! We set a date with her to be baptized this Saturday. 

Katie and her daughter Erika

I know that each one of us at one point or another has asked the question "Why hasn't he answered me yet? Or sometimes we may ask "Has he answered me yet?" I am sure that we have all felt that God hasn't answered our prayers at one point or another. These questions at times may be hard to answer, because each one of us has different trails and circumstances that we face. The spirit speaks to us all so differently and sometimes it is hard to hear what he is trying to say to us. I just want to let y'all know that God hears our prayers,our cries, and our pleas. He knows us. I know that he will answer our prayers. It may not be in the timing that we want our answers to come in, but he does hear us. Just trust that he knows you better than we know ourselves. He truly does have a plan for us, if we are patient and rely on him we will reap so many blessings. I love y'all! I really do miss each one of you, time is winding down pretty fast for me and I know that I will be seeing y'all very soon.  Have a blessed week! 

Love, 

Sister Scott 

Dear Mom, 

I loved your email this week! It kinda made me cry a little because believe me, that is the same reason why I send you such long emails or tell you random things that go on. I miss seeing your beautiful face and laughing my head off with you. These 15 months have been so rewarding, and I cannot wait to see what else is in store for me these next short 3 months. I have set some goals coming out here on a mission and it has been so cool to check them off as they are accomplished. I definitely have developed, grown, and have been refined through the refiners fire. It is truly incredible as I look back on my experiences here and how they have molded me to become the person I am today!

Dang, it sounds like Jaret's car has not been that much fun at all! You will have to keep me posted as to how everything is going. I am glad you loved my letter! I have been waiting truly 15 months to send that sucker off! I just thought it would be so much more meaningful after you have watched me serve and grow for sometime and then I wanted to give it to you when it truly meant so much to me and that I had actually valued and cherished my time as a missionary. I am glad I gave it now because  I KNOW that I am a representative of Jesus Christ. I KNOW now that I legit stand in his place. It is crazy how that "title" of being a missionary has changed on the course of my mission and my life. Standing in His place and serving his children has changed me for the better. I just have a different perspective on missionary work and the love that God truly has for his children. It is incredible! I just wish I could have you see everything that I see. I wish you were here! I love you mom and I hope you have a great week! Be SAFE! I can't wait to hear from you again. Keep smiling and being awesome! 

Love,

Sister Scott

McKennah and her friend Sister Coleman

McKennah and her companion finished a 1000 piece puzzle after 4 weeks