Brooke and her Companion Sister Seastrand!

The Look on her face says "EVERYTHING"!

Tender Mercies :)

Hola mi familia!

guess what. I've been reading the Book of Mormon in spanish and Im basically fluent. Nah just kidding..but I can pronounce almost everything semi correctly and sometimes the gift of tongues tells me what I'm reading! haha I have had a lot of exchanges with the Hermanas lately and I love it so much. Being able to go on exchanges has seriously been the biggest tender mercy in the world. We see miracles every single time! Yesterday I was looking in some other sisters area book and felt we needed to go see a referral. When we saw they had moved we still felt we needed to go see them. That morning we walked to the home and as soon as we pulled up, a man walked out of his home and we started to talk to Him. He said that he is in the army and that his faith in Jesus Christ is what kept him alive. We shared a message on the Book of Mormon with him and invited Him to be baptized and He didnt even hesitate. The Lord always puts us right where He needs us when he needs us every time!

There was another HUGE tender mercy this week from my amazing parents. Mom, I am seriously amazed at how inspired you and dad are every time you send me something. I love you guys so much and wish I could fully explain how grateful I am for everything you guys do. To explain a bit.. this last thursday we had an awesome day with our members at a garden party! right after that we got a call from a potential that was absolutly horrible. We thought she was calling us to tell us that she wants to be baptized buuut she dropped us in not the nicest of ways..Going home, we felt pretty discouraged and upset. Literally min later, we walked in to this BEAUTIFUL vase of flowers with a note
from my parents telling me how proud they are of me and that they love me. The Lord provides so perfectly. Mom and Dad, thank you for being so inspired and listening to the promptings of the spirit.

We had elder Golden and elder Call of the 70 fly in to speak with us. The spirit was so incredibly strong while he spoke to us! He talked a lot about how "this world is not what we suppose if only we could have the eyes to see" He paused for a while then said "there are even many that are here looking upon us now.. and there are much more that are for us, then against us." Everyday I pray to see with spiritual eyes. I know there is so much more to this work than we could ever imagine. I thank my Heavenly Father everyday that I can be apart of it.

"We are not alone in this sacred trust.. There is no greater joy. It is worth every sacrifice."

I love you all so much! have a great week and do all you can to help His work along!
-sister scott

She loves being a missionary and it shows!

Sister Weinman Miracle!!

Hello everyone!!

Yesterday we had a less active miracle!! So me and me last companion met Sister weinman the first week that we get into the belle terre ward. We were looking for names to contact and sister Weinman immediately stuck out to me. We saw her that week and have been seeing her every week for the last 7 months. She is SOOO stubborn but these past few weeks she has made a HUGE change in her life. She has let go of so many things that hold her back and she has committed herself to read the scriptures every single day and pray. She has had so many experiences that the Lord has shown her she is on the right path. So finally this last saturday I had a strong feeling we needed to go see her. The Spirit was stronger in her home than I have ever felt with her before and at the end I told her"C'mon sister weinman! come to church!" and for the first time in 7 months she said.."You're more stubborn than I am sister Scott..you'll never quite will you? ALRIGHT! Im coming!" hahah She came yesterday and had the time of her life. The absolute best part was when she took the sacrament for the first time in years. That has been the main focus of all our lessons with her and the amazing blessing and power of renewing those covenents with your Heavenly Father. The classes were all of the temple and at the end of the day she told us she wants to start preparing to enter the temple!!! Im so excited for her!!!

Oh my goodness it has been a wodnerful week. I also have been praying a lot about what my purpose is here in belle terre. Every investigator I have had has either fallen off date from not keeping commitments all the way from legally not being able to(kelly-hedi-angela- and heather from ex husbands bannning them from taking missioanry discussions WEEKS from their baptismal dates) Its been a bit discouraging. haha But I recieved a priesthood blessing this last week and In my blessing it said specifically that my Heavenly Father is aware of my desires and that through accepting His will in all things I will witness miracles. It mentions OVER and OVER how I will bring "many" to Christ but not in the way I think. It kept mentioning the worth of souls as well and I never fully understood what that had to do with bringing many until this last friday!

We took sister Colvin(recently reactivated) to the family History Center and there isnt One person on her side of the family or her husbands that has been baptized. As she got started she has found so many names and her desire to attend the temple has increased so much. Her fear is completely gone now and she want me and sister seastrand to go with her for the first time and baptize all of them for her in the temple!! She looked at me and said "There will be many sister scott and they have been waiting for a very very long time." and the spirit instantly confirmed to me that there is so much more to Our Heavenly Fathers plan than we can see! His will is ALWAYS better than the one we can make of ourselves. As we're patient and dilligent in doing our very best, He will provide miracels. He always does!

I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY! I know this church is true. Oh my heavens It is. there is nothing in this world that I believe more strongly than that.

alma 29: 9 I know that which the Lord hath commanded me, and I glory in it. I do anot bglory of myself, but I glory in that which the Lord hath commanded me; yea, and this is my glory, that perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy.

I love you all!!

Pooor Poor Gene....

Hello everyone!!:)

This week i got to go to my second mlc meeting, and I gave my first training by myself at zone training! I trained on "Finding". I thought it was pretty funny how i was assignesd that because that has been something our area had been REALLY struggling with so as i was praying on what to train on and prayer kept coming to my mind. I ended up giving my whole training on how we each have such different area thats the only way we will be succesful in finding is if we recieve that revelation from the Lord. I invited all the missioanries to kneel down right there and we all said prayer on how to recieve new investigators. We each wrote down different things and just as we stood up the evergreen sisters got a call from someone and ran outside. After taking with them they say "sister scott we have a new investigator for you!! She just called us and said she found a book of mormon and wants you to come over and teach her about it!" Miracles. and from applying this training Our area has found 6 new investigators this week! 3 we sent tot he ysa elders but STILL! point 6 for teach Jesus.

Here is a funny story:
So Gene is a 60 year old investigator that i seriously love soooo much. He has had so much contact with missionaries he's kinda an eternigator BUT i really feel that is gonna change soon. So we decided we just need to have a bold lesson with Him and put him on date to be baptized. We called and called our ward missionaries and everyone was busy. There was one last ward missionary we could call but i was SO hesitant because she is the most blunt, firecracker, intimdating, says EXACTLY whats on her mind without sugar coating a SINGLE thing, kinda member. SO with that said, she ended up coming of course. We explained to her we wanted to me "bold with LOVE" (biggest mistake) hahah She was definitely Bold. Our lesson started off super strong talking about the Savior and why He was baptized just as we started to ask Him if he knew the church was true and he says haha "Yes i do, Im just not sure when I want to be baptized" Just as i opened my mouth to invite Him Sister Jones Starts to go off on him! haha she basically told him he is going to be damned if he's not baptized! in my mind i was screeming "NOOOOOOOOOO" it was so horrible but Gene is a real funny old man so He was just smiling and laughing and wasnt even quite sure what was going on. haha She staretd using words like procrastination, idleness, and slothfulness and wrote down words in the Bible dictionary for him to look up! sweet gene was just smiling away and writing things down, I looked at my companion and she was literally steaming from the ears i couldnt help but BUST out laughing. soon enough my companion started to laugh and sister jones started to laugh and the whole lesson was just a complete mess. hahah it was one lesson from my mission i will never forget.

One scripture that has helped me a lot on my mission is Helaman mosiah 5:15

15 Therefore, I would that ye should be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in agood works, that Christ, the bLord God Omnipotent, may cseal you his, that you may be brought to heaven, that ye may have everlasting salvation and eternal life, through the wisdom, and power, and justice, and mercy of him who dcreated all things, in heaven and in earth, who is God above all. Amen.

I couldnt think of any better gift in the whole world than him to "Seal you His". at the beginning of my mission all I wanted to do was to give everything to my mission and to Him but i didnt know how. I did my best but there were always things i would hold onto that kept me from giving my whole will up to Him. The atonement has helped me Let go of anything that goes against the Will of my father and these last 9 months He has taught me how. I feel free and light. I feel stronger and happier. Im the same person but I am soo different and i hope to never go back and only progress until I become like Him. I love being a missionary. Love you All and encourage you to do all you can to be about your Fathers business! there is no greater Joy!

-sister scott

HALF WAY MARK!!

woooooooooh there mission. slippin alway faster than ever.
I cannot believe tomorrow is halfway!! This seriously have been the fastest 9 months of my whole life!

today someone paid for my jimmy johns. It a great day to be a missionary. It has been a wonderful week. We still dont have lots of progressing investigators but we have a TON of less active work and I absolutely love it. Sister weinman is really progressing, she commited to read the book of mormon every single day and she has kept it for 2 weeks!! She Loves it! sneaky sister colvin texted us saying she needed to talk to us and when she tried to explain that she doesnt want to see us upset if she doesnt make it to church for the next little while (its just been hard for her breaking that habbit) and i looked her in the eyes and sais "sister colvin! dont you dare give up or give in! You have come way to far to turn your back now! I basically told her i refuse to quit until i see her walk into the doors of the temple and by the end of our conversation we were both just crying and she knew that that was exactly what her Heavenly Father wanted for her and the spirit was so strong! I dont know if i've ever been that bold before haha but I love her so much and she knows that so thats all that matters:)

We aslo had an incredible miracle with Kelly (a former investigator). Her and her son were set to be baptized and weeks before it her ex banned both of them from meeting with us or even attending church. 2 moths later i felt I needed to text her and invite her to this womans conference our ward was having. When i texted her i told her that we hoped everything was getting better and we had been praying for her. She texted us back saying "You can continue to pray but things have only gotten worse. It would take a complete miracle for things to get any better."that about broke my heart. she has been through so much and her faith is completely shaken. She ended up coming to the womans conference and at the very end of our stake presidents talk he paused for a long time then said. "I feel like i should invoke upon all of you a priesthood blessing and specially one of you who is searching for miracles. I bless you know that your Heavenly Father is aware of you and Miracles you are seeking are possible." I looked back at kelly-who was now sobbing- and afterwards she gave me a huge hug and said "I will see you soon". Hopefully she will continue in have hope and the Lord will continue to provide for her!

These past 9 months have changed my life. My mission means absolutely everything to me. This has been my time to put the world to the side and gain a greater perspective on who i am and what my plan is in this life. The only way I have come to that knowledge is by learning about my Savior and what He taught when He came to the earth. My mission hasn't changed me, He has. Im so much happier and free because of His atonement. Im so much more able to use the gift of agency my Heavenly Father has given me. Just as helaman says in chapter 14:30 and 30-31 "God hath given unto you knowledge and He hath made you free" This gospel is the greatest knowledge we have in this life becuase it bring to us a rememberence of who we were before this life and what we must do now to return to live with Him. I love this Gospel. I love my Savior. and I am here to do the Will of my Father till He calls me home.

"But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me a commandment, even so i do. Arise and let us go hence." John 14:31

-sister scott

30 And now remember, remember, my brethren, that whosoever perisheth, perisheth unto ahimself; and whosoever doeth iniquity,doeth it unto himself; for behold, ye are bfree; ye are permitted to act for yourselves; for behold, God hath given unto you acknowledge and he hath made you free.