The Week of Champions!

Well This week was an awesome week! Jennifer continues to progress towards baptism! unfortunately We're going to have to wait a while before she can get baptized. we have to get first presidency permission first... so thats not so good but! she wants it so it shouldn't be a hard thing for her to wait for it! I'm quite excited.

So with the changes on missionary work... man It was awesome! the effect won't happen for the next few months but they made it sound like tracting is going out the window! for the most part.... and we're going to be at the church ALOT more. because we're going to be giving tours and other things Its going to be awesome! members are going to have to do alot more for the missionaries. we are not going to be leading the charge on missionary work anymore we are simply going to be assisting the members in it. now this is just What Elder Scott got out of the broadcast so who knows what is actually going to happen but whatever happens members are going to have to step it up.

I don't really know what else to write about this week so till next week keep being awesome!

-Elder Scott

What up!?!

June 17, 2013

So this one is going to be short because I have other things I need to do besides be here... sorry but I still love you!

So this Week I got rid of my trainer!... just kidding I loved Elder Kidd but I did get a new companion! His name is Elder Tuttle he is a boss! nuff said. I love him to death. We have had an amazing week! we found 9 new investigators! even though some of them haven't worked out already was are still working hard on it! so my area also got split this transfer and... where it was split was not where we thought it was going to be split.... and ALL of our investigators with a baptism date and are progressing are on the new sister's part of the area... its awesome. I was mad about it for a few days but the more I've been thinking about it I think its better because the sisters have the harder part of the area and they are both newer missionaries, one has been out for one transfer and the other came out with me, so what ever we can do to help them out is ok with me.

we are keeping one of our investigators. Jennifer!!! she was crushed when elder kidd left so we desided it would be better if we kept her, even though she is in the sisters area technically. but with jennifer this week we took her to the temple and had a lesson in the waiting room oh man it was awesome! the spirit was there.... well it was the temple the spirit is always there! but the spirit was so much stronger than usual you could litterally tell how much heavenly Father loved Jennifer and how excited He is for her to get baptized and man that was such an awesome experience so adam, jess if you have a temple close to your area use it!!! if you can. during the lesson one of the temple presidency came out and taught with us and an analogy that he used that was awesome is that out in the waiting room of the temple the pottery is porcelain, so its not that pretty but as you get a further into the temple the potery turns into bronze so its a little better quality, but when you get into the celestial room the pttery is made out of crystal. then I was like hey I'm going to use this and I was like jennifer right now you might be like porcelain not the best but when you get baptized and as you strive to endure to the end you can be refined and become crystal. you have the potentail to become a perfect person and I believe you can and will do it. Oh man I don't know where it came from but man it was good and spiritual I can't wait to see her get baptized she is so ready.

well i need to Email my parents or they might "Get on a plane come to kentucky and hunt me down" so peace!

-Elder Scot

Great Things In The GKLM

June 10, 2013

Sup ya'll

 

Well first off Brooklyn wins with the best birthday present. I got a letter from all of the Hill kids and in it there were a bunch of pictures the they had drawn for me, I loved all of them, and there was also 11$ on the one dollar bill there was a sticky note that said, "from Brooklyn for your Birthday. (Her Tooth Fairy Money)" man there was no better birthday present I could've got than that it made my eyes "leak" for a while. Someone better let her know how much that ment to me and how much I love her, cuz that was the best!

 

Second Elder Kidd is getting transfered... My Dad is leaving! I'm so nervous! cuz that means I'm in charge for the next little bit until the new Elder gets used to it here... Scary but its exciting. Good news I'm not loosing my car!!!!! I got a bike though for the best price ever! Free! I got it from a elder who is dying at transfers. My area is getting cut in two though so I won't have the whole county to cover anymore just half of it. So exciting things are happening.

 

Third Jennifer got her answer! SHE WANTS TO BE BAPTIZED!!!!!!! best news all week she got her answer while we were teaching her! we were talking about baptism again and what it means and I kept getting this feeling to talk about confermation and recieving the gift of the holy ghost. and when i finally desided to act on the impression the whole lesson dinamic changed. The spirit level just sky rocketed! IT WAS AWESOME! After we finished explaining the Gift of the Holy ghost she said I need that I want to be baptized!!!!!!!! SO AWESOME!!!!!! it was a great lesson now we just have to help her quit smoking... but I think that will come easier now that this is something she wants to do!

 

I'm not sure what else to write about nothing else amazing happened this week but it still was great!

till next week

-Elder Scott 

 

Me and Brother Spradlin trying out bannanas to see if they get rid of head aches

 

A rainy day Luckly we were weekly planning. thats what out of my appartment looks like

 

 My district this transfer!

 

 

The Tullis Family and Us, we don't get to see them any more because of the area split :( they were one of my favorite fams

 

 The Dollar Brooklyn Gave ME!!!!

June 3 2013

 

Sup Ya'll

 

This week was a pretty good week. It was my birthday! so it had to be a good day! on my birthday I got to sit around and write letters for once! that was good because i haven't got to sit down and really write a letter to everyone since I got out to the field because elder Kidd likes to do stuff on p-day... so usually we're playing basket ball or fishing or something. then after p-day was over we went and tried to see some people all of our appointments fell through like pretty much every other day. BUT we did meet this guy who is moving out here from utah and he took us to TACO BELL for dinner!!!!! little did he know he saved me like 5 bucks cuz thats what i was going to do for myself anyway!!!! it made my day.

 

Then we had a great week for finding this week we had 7 new investigators throughout the week!!!! WHATS UP!!!! that usually doesnt happen! we usually have 2 or 3 and then they fall through we've only had 2 of these fall through so there is potential!!! So we had a lesson with a new investigator named michelle she's pretty cool we brought brother Kohli, the guy that took us to taco bell, to the lesson with us because he said if we ever need help give him a text because he's bach-padding it up until his house sells in utah so he came with us and man this guy was a BOSSSSSS he was stinking legit!!!  the lesson went prefectly we set a baptism date and everything man every flowed perfectly, there's not really a way to describe a perfect lesson like that! it was awesome!

 

so this morning we helped set up the new appartment in our area... at transfer so next week if i don't get transfered our area is getting split and i will be on a bike its going to be awesome and hot!!!! I already come in soaked with sweat after a good long days work. I'm excited to see how it is going to be after a good long day sweating on a bike its going to be sweeet!!!! its going to be a good experience so i'm going to have to go buy a bike YAY! i can't wait!

 

till next week

-Elder Scott

I'm 19!!! i can go on a mission now!!! oh... wait...

May 28, 2013

Sup Ya'll

 

This week.... well this week was a pretty good one we had alot of good happen this week... and alot of weird. one thing that happened this week was I survived a real life round of angry birds!!!! so we were driving in our car on thursday and all the sudden you hear a THUD!!!! and then there was a bunch of red feathers on the wind shield! how cool is that we got attacked by and angry bird! not really a cardinal just desided to fly into our car. but still it was pretty funny.

 

so I can't remember If i told you about Andy or not but a little background on him he is supper smart. he knows more about the book of mormon than me and elder kidd combined and man he is just a boss! but anyway he's a former ivestigator we picked up a couple weeks ago. we've taught him twice since we met him and every time its just an awesome experience. he wants to be baptized!!!! and his family does to!!!! what up!!!!! man they are such an exemplary family they are litteraly the Nicest people in the world and well let me go back a little so we had been going through the formers in the area book and there wasn't a drop reason for andy so we thought that was weird and we decided to try and go meet him. but we could never get ahold of him. so we kinda gave up hope for picking him up again but then one very rainy day i didn't have an umbrella and i was just walking around in my rain jacket while elder kidd had an umbrella and a rain jacket so we had stopped to talk to a guy that had just had his car over heat so we were talking to him and andy pulls up gives me an umbrella says it looks like you need one of these and then tell the guy we're talking with that he can help fix the problem with his car and then we got an appointment with him!!!! miracles happen!!!! even when you're being dumb and just not wanting to carry an umbrella!!!

 

then also we had dinner with the Bednars this week... they're an awesome family you but man their kids are so mormon its awesome we were talking about the plan of salvation and their kids knew where the scriptures about the 3 kingdoms were found. which i didn't even know until that morning when i decided to brush up on everything about the Plan of Salvation. but holy cow talk about well learned kids. but i guess thats what happens when your grandpa is an apostle.

 

but thats all for this week love ya'll!




there was an airshow so I took a picture of it.

 

 

 I caught a fish that was actually worth keeping!!! but... I let it go

The Bright Days

May 20, 2013

Sup ya'll

 

This week... this week was a weird week with lots of ups and downs and well frankly, I don't really know what happened with this week. it just flew by like no ones busieness. so monday we played some frisbe with the Elders in the district that was fun. We had a TON of dinners this week we got fed twice in one night twice this week it was pretty awesome! actually no it wasn't if i keep getting fed like this i'm going to get very fat!

 

other things that happened this week... um... we helped break into a safe at member's house that was cool... well to be honest this week wasn't the best on the missionary work side of things. we found about 5 new investigators and 7 of our investigators dropped us including those new 5. but we keep trudging onward and upward we can't let things get to us because thats when the work starts to slow down and doesn't go as well. so this coming week will be awesome we are actually going to be able to meet with our progressing investigators!

 

Last night Elder kidd woke me up at 2 in the morning because he was trying to turn on the lamp that hasn't had a light bulb in it for 3 or 4 weeks now. it was supper funny Because he didn;t know what he was doing after i said something to him. He does stuff in his sleep all the time its spper funny when i'm actually awake for it. sometimes its not though because sometimes he'll think its time to wake up and wake me up last time that happened it was a little after midnight.

 

well theres not a whole lot more to write about... oh we're going fishing today again! hopefully we'll catch a fish worth cathing today!

 

love ya'll

T'was a good week

hey ya'll

This week was insane first off we met a ton of interesting people this week unfortunately we aren't teaching any of them but it was pretty cool to meet them! we met a legit dumpster diver this week! I was on an exchange with elder Potter and we were contacting a gas station, he was over by the dumpster so we went and talked to him. we started talking to him and he asked do you guys love jesus? and i was kinda confused with why he was asking i thought he was going to turn around and bash with us but anyway i answered him yeah i love jesus. and he yells YEAH? ME TO! I LOVE JESUS AND I PRAY TO HIM EVERYDAY! and then he asked us to come talk to him while he works. so he went to the dumpster and started looking through it and we talked about god and our message and as we were trying to leave he's said now keep doing what you're doing its great! but whenever someone says the big guy or the guy up stairs make sure to tell them its god almighty not the big guy. then he started yelling again " and don't be afraid to yell and proclain to the world, I LOVE JESUS and I LOVE GOD!! haha it was awesome we couldnt get a return appointment but he was deffinately a cool dude.

Then there was a baptism that the zone leaders had last weekend so we were trying to find a person to come to it on thrusday after we found out about it at district meeting. we couldn't find nobody but then we desided to text one of our eternigators jake, he's basically a dry mormon he believes everything just doesn't come to church all that often and hasn't been baptized. and he's really hard to get in with so we just desided to text him and see if he wanted to come. and surprisingly enough he said he would come. then later that night at like 11 i think i was laying there awake for some reason when the phone goes off... i role over and see what it says and its jake and he says "can i get baptized on saturday?" and i was half asleep but it was still really cool unfortunately we had to say no but you can in a few weeks. so we're setting a bap calendar up with him this week so thats way sweet!

all in all it was a great normal week in the mission can't wait for more this week! I love it!
Love ya'll

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-Elder Scott
Oh i forgot to tell you about something else! so on friday it was pouring all day!!!! Like there was so much rain some of the highways out here were closed down because of flooding!!!! it was crazy!!! luckly that was the day we did weekly planning so we didn't have to be outside all day in the rain. but after weekly planning we did end up going contacting in the rain! it was awesome! I'm glad i have a rain jacket! but i didn't have an umbrella so my hair was drenched within like 30 seconds of being outside. when we were close to being done a random guy pulled up and gave me a umbrella! and then it turned out that he was a former we had been trying to see for many weeks and couldn't ever get a hold of so supper cool blessing right there and we actually saw him this morning before emails and he is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO smaart literaly he was teaching us it was a sweet lesson! but he understands and believes everything of our church I can't wait to teach him again.

. this is just a picture of us at the temple unfortunately we haven't been able to go in yet.