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.

Derby Week

May 6, 2013

Hey ya'll

So this week was derby and literally it was like a week long holiday for something thats not really even a holiday... how? well the schools were shut down on friday for Oaks which was a horse race for the female horses. From what I could gather this race was all for helping the breast cancer cause. Saturday was the Kentucky derby and all of louisville shut down and I guess crestwood, The city i'm serving in, is close enough to lousiville that it shut down too... it turned our little town into a ghost town! there was literally no one arround they were all watching the derby or at a "derby party" so it was a pretty slow day. but that was okay so we got into a lesson on saturday around 6 and we thought the derby was done by then but we were wrong... the person we were teaching literally stopped us mid lesson and said we have to pause for 2 minutes now that was weird I thought then he turned arround flipped on the TV and turned it to the derby. so I got to watch the derby... after the derby we resumed teaching and it turned out to be a great lesson except for the fact that we watched the derby when we tried not to...

hmm what else happened this week.... oh yeah we were at our stake presidents house this week for dinner. We were talking then he brought up hoow he just had a meeting with president Woodburry and he was talking about elder kidd and I and how we had acctually turned this area around. then he said, "I knew that Elder Kidd would be a good trainer, and Elder Scott don't be too surprised if you train next transfer".......... Training after 2 transfers? it takes 2 transfers to train someone!?! I don't know if i could train.... but I guess if it happens its for a reason and I'll be able to handle it. It will just be supper stressful.

so we were tracting yesterday and nothing really good was happening, it was raining and people were being unusually rude. so it was a good day tracting. I'm not complaining I promise because something good hppened and made it all worth it! so we were about to head in for the night but we decided to finish the street before doing so. the second to last house that we were going to knock on we knocked and did our spill and he actually said we could come back and actually seamed like he wanted it istead of the usual oh i guess you can come back... anyway it was supper funny when he said we could come back Elder Kidd Was supper surprised and was like "really!?!" It was supper funny so 2 good things came from that house. The more important one we got a new gator! the second we got a good laugh out of it and now i can make fun of elder kidd for it hahaha I love it!

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-Elder Scott

we went fishing again!!!! and I caught a bass!!!

We caught a frog then elder kidd named it ryan then toad then dog... interesting

That my district from last transfer

People LOVE US!!!.... somtimes

April 29, 2013

hey guys!

This week was pretty cool I guess. We went Fishing AGAIN!!!!!! Man i wish we could do that every P-day but unfortunately we can't because Elder Kidd likes his b-ball. but anyways this week we were teaching Jennifer and she had been told that Mormons have more than one wife, and if she was to join our church she would have to join that too. Well she didn't care! she said that she was ready to do whatever the mormons do! Well we after she said that and before I could even think of what to say Elder Kidd explained that we don't have more than one wife and we set a dunk date (Baptism)! She is pretty awesome because she was ready to do anything to be with the LDS church so basically she is a pretty solid investgator.

Another thing that happened this week we saw a Former that Elder Kidd has seen once before so we were kind of going in blind. He was just a back up plan and our dinner that night fell through so we ended up going and seeing him. well him and he let us right in, Him and his family had just finished eating and there was 2 pieces of pizza left so they gave them to us and we started talking about the gosple and what missionaries had taught him before. So we weren't really getting anywhere with what we were talking about until we started to talk about what it would mean if the BoM was true. So we Asked him what it would mean to him if it was true and if was truely the word of god. and he just gave one of those half answers, something like well it would be more scriptures then we explained that if the BoM is true then Our church is true and the priesthood has been restored through Joseph Smith and he was truely a prophet. This caught his Attention then he's said well if what you're saying is true then I need a new BoM and I need to read And Ask God if it is true!!!!!! then his wife got home with and had a Pizza for us and said that she felt bad for not having more for us so she bought us a pizza!!! after that we had a prayer with himn and set up a return appointmentand left with our dinner for the night! It was an awesome lesson.

Mom you must be feeding the Missionary's or doing something right because There was 3 nights in a row this week that we either didn't have dinner or it fell through but then someone ended up feeding us so thanks mom! and dad i guess!!

well we taught other lessons that were awesome and set up a few more Dunk Dates So This week was Kinda AWESOME! this week there was so much opposition. this old guy let us in just to bash and then wouldn't really let us leave until I desided I was done and got up said have a nice day and walked out. so i got into my first bash. but i'm just taking it as we're doing something right because the work is speeding up and the opposition is increasing so I'm Excited for this next week.

Love ya'll


-Elder Scott