Sister Brooke Scott

WHat up everyone!! its sista scott! Ok so this week just as the rest have been amazing. I bet your all waiting for me to write one week and say..geez this has been a horrible week. BUT NO. litereally everyday theres more miracles than I can count on both hands. One gift I've been praying for is to recognise God's hand and his tender mercies everyday. BEST thing I could've asked and heavenly father truely does answer prayers. For instance. Tim our investigator I told you about last time (trying to quit his smoking addiction) but one day me and sister hood were praying about what to teach him that day and she stopped mid prayer. I felt something tell me "you need to drop tim" I of course ignored the prompting and thought It was crazy because the second we do he would relapse and we would have to cancel his baptismal date. She said amen and she looked at me in tears and said "We need to drop Tim." I told her I know and it would be hard but Heavenly father knows what his children need a lot better than we do so that night we "broke up with him" as we call it haha. He started to cry too but we felt it was time for him to start relying directly on Heavenly father instead of us pushing him to do all the things he needs to so he can prepare for baptism. We stopped all contact with him and prayed a ton that he would be able to stay off cigarrets. This last week we were riding bikes and sister hood stopped (like she always does when she gets a prompting) she asks me where we needed to go and I said lets go right. All the sudden Tim turns out of the gas station and we pull over and talk to him. we say "TIM!! how are you??" he says "Im feeling pretty good I've been reading and praying everyday and feel my relationship with HF has really grown!" (miracle) "Thats good! how has smoking been?" "I havent smoked since we last started meeting but it's been getting pretty hard and i've been asking him to help me stop" Sister hood looks at him and says "tim you just bought a pack didn't you" He says "yeah but i've been doing good for a week now and I think I diserve just one!" Sister hood reaches out her hand and says GIVE ME THE CIGARRETS TIM. even I was scared of her at this point hahah but he laughs and very hesitantly hands them over. We prayed with him right there in the middle of the street and he repented and asked for help and he immidiately felt the urge go away. It was amazing! Heavenly Father works in SUUCH miraculous ways but we've been praying about when we need to "get back together" with tim and just as it did before, last night me and sister hood felt it was time. We prayed about a baptismal date and I randomly blurted out july27 and when we told him he said really? thats my birthday! hahahahaha God is good. We were walking arounf on the fourth trying to find people to talk to and we met thee coolest lady!!! she walked us around her garden which was literally around her entire house and beyond! It took about and hour to see everything and we got to eat from her Cherry tree, apple tree, rasberry bushes, Dill weed (ha ..ha ha dilly..) and her, peach tree, and mulberry tree, peas, carrots, cellery, and strawberried! hahah she says she basically live and only eats in her garden! theres a lot of crazy gardeners here but that was by far the coolest one! We also were directed to a random persons house that was super nice and we taught him the whole Book of mormon, the restoration, AND the first vision from Joseph smith. he started to cry and I (for the first time) asked him "will you follow the example of jesus christ and be baptised?" and he said YES!!!! woh..craziest and best feeling in the whole world. The elect are truely out there and they know without a doubt its true once they just start talking with us. They feel it and they don't know what it is but they know its not from this world almost like they heard it before BECAUSE THEY HAVE! before this world of course.. but I'm coming to know how REAL this missioanry mantel is. We can literally preform miracles (under the direction of the holy sprit) but there has been so many times that I've been told to promise people BOLD blessings. Blessings that would seem impossible but its not me making it. I'm learning that I really am a deciple of Jesus Christ and I'm on HIS errand. Its not me teaching lessons or promising these blessing or asking inspired questions. Everthing we do (get up early read pray eat study and pray some more) is so the Holy ghost can dwell in us and we can be an instrument and messenger of what Heavenly Father wants his children to hear. Its a crazy concept but watching myself say things I KNOW im not smart enough to explain or watching miracles come from blessings I was told to promise them actually come true, theres no other way this could all be possible. This is God's work. I've seen too many miracles and things happen to think otherwise. I love this Gospel!!! I will forever be a missionary! Love you all and I'm praying for you all daily!! see ya'll soon! until next week!!:) ps: me and josh were on at the same time yesterday and were talking from Pokane to Costa Rica!! Answer to prayers! craaazy! haha and as if that wasn't cool enough we found out our Credit cards expire on the same day meaning we should get home the same week if not the same day!! hahaha crazy but we'll see how it all works out! (Miraculously Im sure) Love ya'll! -Sister scott This is on the fourth! and this is my companion and the other two Hermanas (sisters) in our apartment!