I'M EXTENDING!

Just kidding;)

Hello everyone!!

hahah I probably got you good didn't I? I am my fathers daughter! Sorry for the heart attack mom..Love you:) What a week... 'Im a little flustered. I'm not gonna lie, so if this email is all over the place..oh well. How are you all doing!!!? Things have been going so great here. I got to give my first departing testimony to a group of over a hundred missionaries. It was pretty surreal. This has been a big week full of reflection and anxiety. haha one of the greatest tender mercies is that I feel so at peace with the work, I have done these past 18 months. I have officially pasted my 18th month mark and could not be more grateful for the week I have ahead of me.

Anna will be getting baptized on the 12th and confirmed the 14th. Wayne, her husband, has been free of tobacco ever since our sugar fast! He will be performing the baptism and the confirmation, as well as the blessing of his two children, Abbey and Everette. Wayne (the chicken murderer) bore his testimony in sacrament meeting yesterday and CRIED. Brother Wayne Marlatt cried everyone! I never thought this day would come. They truly are the best family in the whole world. They have been through so much and have come so far! They have a temple date set next year they will be coming down to SLC temple and get sealed as a family! Anna said she is already buying the  tickets so Wayne can't back out;) hahaha I will miss then terribly.

Miracle: My whole mission I have prayed for an investigator like King Lamoni's Father. The Lord answers prayers. This week a former investigator named Josh, called us this last week and asked if we could go meet him. We show up and he is a tattered mess. His eyes are blood shot from no sleep, and he hasn't eaten in days. His wife relapsed, took his two kids, told the police all these false things, and got him fired for it as well. The cops found evidence of her lies, but cannot find her or the kids. He was the most broken, humble man I have ever seen. We were able to read with him and teach about Christ Atonement. I asked how he was feeling and he said, "I feel peace for the first time in 9 days." I testified to him that it was the spirit. That is truly how God communicates to His children, If they will seek Him, and open their hearts. The spirit was so incredibly strong. With tears in his eyes, he said, "What can I do, to have this all the time. I will be baptized tomorrow if I can. Please, I need this." My heart was so full. It truly was a miracle. We put him on date to be baptized the 3rd of January, and he came to church yesterday and met with the bishop! He is on his way! I wish I could be there for his baptism, but I will be in spirit!:)

Wow, where to even begin to describe these past 18 months. There are no words. I have been stretched, I have been strengthened, I have been molded into a far better and happier person than I could have ever made myself. I will never go back, I will never digress. I know now, My will means nothing if it's not aligned with His. . Im so greatful for the Love He has put into my heart to do His work. My mission has provided pure evidence that He loves me and because of that I am able consecrate all to Him.

I would be lying if I said my mission has been comfortable, and for that I am truly grateful. It has pushed me to wholeheartedly rely on Him. THAT is the only reason I have seen any success miracles from my labor here. All good things come from Christ and I can testify that He is so Good. God is Good. He is Loving, He is Kind, and He is perfectly patient. His children have so many different paths and He will never force them to Choose the happier one. It's for us to find. I will testify with my whole heart forever, that Jesus Christ IS THE WAY. He has been with me this whole time, now I have the eyes to see Him.

My greatest hope is to share THAT gift with the world. From the hardest and happiest 18 months of my life, I can testify with my whole heart that there is no greater Joy.  My Savior Lives. His Gospel is back on the earth in it's fullness. We have a living, active, prophet to lead and guide us. Joseph Smith is my hero. I am living proof the the Atonement of Jesus Christ cleanses, strengthens, and heals. I will forever be about my Fathers business, this is only the beginning.

Thank you all for your love, support, and prayers. I am eternally grateful!
see y'all soon!

Love,
Sister Brooke Scott

Aren't we all beggars?

Hey there!

It has been a great week:) It always is. There has been some miracle people poppin up out of nowhere! I have met so many people on my mission that have used the excuse of "I don't like the people of the church." They get offended or someone made a mistake and they hole these grudges for YEARS. I kid you not. Its like they do this stare down with God and refuse to budge, leading there whole family to darkness and confusion. Pride kills me. but we had the greatest tender mercy this week. We felt we needed to go to this house and they let us in and told us how they left the church because they were offended and he went off about how he is ready to come back. He said, "I realize now that It's not the churched fault for the imperfections of man. It doesn't take away from the perfection of Gods gospel." I just about fell out of my seat and said, "Why cant everyone be as humble as you!!?" I bore my testimony on the healing power of the Atonement and how all things will one day be made right because of Christs Sacrifice. It was a complete tender mercy.

Funny Moment: My last district meeting we had a recent convert come teach us about humility. He is this big red neck looking guy. He got so nervous he started to go off on football then turns to me and says, "So how many people have purposed to you on your mission?" I went bright red and burst out laughing. and that's not the funniest part, he says, "You know what you sisters should've done? you need to be at those high school football game and get yourself a quarterback! now you could go to the Seattle see hawks, y'all could get your self one a dem! they'd make great husbands!" then he goes, "Back to humility...(looks around the room and sees a picture of John the Baptist baptizing Jesus) There's a humble man!" he got on an off the subject so many times, we were crying, the elders were uncomfortable, its was hilarious. Best last district meeting ever. Converts are the BEST.

Gerson passed the sacrament for the first time on sunday!!! I had no idea he was going to do it then all the sudden I look up and there he was! I couldn't hold back tears, I felt like a mother seeing my son fulfill his priesthood duties! It was too much hahah He found out that I would be leaving in the next couple weeks and made me promise to come back for his year mark of going through the temple for the first time and when He give his farewell talk, HE WANTS TO SERVE A MISSION!!

The greatest tender mercy from this week is being able to work at the Warming Center in post falls. It like you walk in there and you understand why the Lord spent so much time around the beggars, and homeless. Every time I walk in there, they are like "Sisters!" and Im like "brothers!!" then we just talk and we sing songs, we make them food and serve them. They have the most amazing stories. Steve, taught me how to play the guitar! There is so much joy and love when you serve, we will be walking outside all day, freezing and all I want is to be in a car or a home, then we go serve them and It's like my heart grows ten times bigger and all I wanna do it get out there and serve some more.

My favorite talk this last conference is called "Are we all not beggars?" by Elder Holland. It

“Are we not all beggars?”11 Don’t we all cry out for help and hope and answers to prayers? Don’t we all beg for forgiveness for mistakes we have made and troubles we have caused? Don’t we all implore that grace will compensate for our weaknesses, that mercy will triumph over justice at least in our case? Little wonder that King Benjamin says we obtain a remission of our sins by pleading to God, who compassionately responds, but we retain a remission of our sins by compassionately responding to the poor who plead to us

Furthermore, I do not know all the reasons why the circumstances of birth, health, education, and economic opportunities vary so widely here in mortality, but when I see the want among so many, I do know that “there but for the grace of God go I.”18 I also know that although I may not be my brother’s keeper, I am my brother’s brother, and “because I have been given much, I too must give.”19

I have been contemplating the commission to hasten the work, and what the real purpose is behind assisting out Heavenly Father in His great work. With or with out us He can and WILL hasten His work. The question is, will WE keep pace? Will we change our ways of living in order to be a beacon and light to those around us or will we continue to live how we've always lived? The gospel is a gospel of change. Consistent repentance and growth. If we participate, we progress, we learn HOW to become like our Father in Heaven. That is why we are here. That is His great commission. Do His work, Become like Him. We cant return home until we do.

We cant do everything, but we each can do something. Be a little kinder. A little more righteous, a little more loving. His grace will enable you. It has done so for me every day for the past 18 months. I am forever changed and will never go back, or be idle. He has bigger plans than that for me. My prayer is that my work may be sufficient to be His hands on the earth. There is no greater commission than that. I testify this work is true. He lives, and through Him, I do to.

Thank you all for your love, Support, and example through this time! You are continually in my prayers.

Love, sister Scott.

This is Steve. He taught me how to play amazing grace on the gee-tar. He loves Jesus and taking his dog Bella to the park. I love this guy.

I Sure Am Grateful!

Hey there!

I got to go to the temple today:) Can't describe what an experience it has been to go to the temple as a missionary. The moment you walk through those doors, you can just feel the angles slowly lift the mantel from your shoulders. That Is what I'm most grateful for. I will forever be Sister Scott, but in there, Im just His daughter. Its the best. Im grateful when you come out they don't just smach the mantel back on but the drive away is where you start to feel it settle back on, but its different. You feel stronger cause you have received renewed strength! I love being a disciple of Jesus Christ. It is the single most hardest thing I have ever done in my life and I would do it all over again if He asked. This peace beats everything.

Just because Im getting closer doesn't mean that It gets easier. It's quite the opposite in fact. haha He continues to pour out His tender mercies tho, that's for sure. Our Sugar fast for Brother Marlatt has provided an amazing miracle, ANNA (his wife) Is on date to be baptized!!!!! To make it even better its the SATURDAY BEFORE I GO HOME!!:) The Lord is good. Before we left there home after a lesson He turns and says, "Hey remember, when you tried to give us a date to work towards? well...we could probably do that now." YES!! It was awesome.

Autumn and her daughter Elizabeth are doing great! she brought her son to boy scouts this last week and during out lesson I pulled out the restoration pamphlet and Elizabeth stopped me and said, "I already read that whole pamphlet." hahah and when I asked her what her favorite part about reading the Book of Mormon is she said "I thought it was amazing how Neh-fie slayed Lay-bon." Ya I like that too haha.they are awesome. Im sad I wont get to be here for there baptisms but I told them I would be there in spirit:)

I finished the Book Of Mormon this morning for the 2nd time on my mission. It's amazing how you can read and read and read and the spirit teaches you so much more than the time before. Line upon line. The greatest thing I got from the Book of Mormon this time is just how merciful the Lord is to His children. I cant even Fathom the pain He has felt and seen from the disobedience of His children and yet His arm is stretched out still to ALL who will humble come unto Him.

I love how this is described in Helaman 3.

 27 "Thus we may see that the Lord is merciful unto all who will, in the sincerity of their hearts, call upon his holy name.

 28 Yea, thus we see that the gate of heaven is open unto all, even to those who will believe on the name of Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God.

 29 Yea, we see that whosoever will may lay hold upon the word of God, which is quick and powerful, which shall divide asunder all the cunning and the snares and the wiles ofthe devil,(awesome promise) and lead the man of Christ in a strait and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery which is prepared to engulf the wicked—

 30 And land their souls, yea, their immortal souls, at the right hand of God in the kingdom of heaven, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holyfathers, to go no more out."

I love how He doesn't say It will lead them AWAY from the gulf of misery but THROUGH it. We all will go through trials and for those who do not hold to the word of God, Satan has prepared their fall. I have seen so many tricked into the "cunning snares and whiles of the devil." Not all of God children will make it, but He has made it possible so we can. He has left that decision up to us. I am so grateful for my Savior. He is the "way the truth and the life." He has become my best friend. This last first in Helaman describes what I have received.

35 Nevertheless they did fast and pray oft, and did wax stronger and stronger in their humility, and firmer and firmer in the faith of Christ, unto the filling their souls with joy andconsolation, yea, even to the purifying and the sanctification of their hearts, which sanctification cometh because of their yielding their hearts unto God.

There is no greater joy:) I testify of that with my whole heart.

Love you all! Have an amazing Thanksgiving! I truly am grateful for all of you.

“And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more.” (D&C 78:19).

-Sister Scott

They call me the "Black Sheep"

...but I just don't get it!

11/17/2014 Gerson's confirmation and CHICKEN SLAUGHTERING!!

Hello Family!

Wow what an awesome week. So Monday night of transfers we get a call at 10:20 from my best friend in the world, sister Call. She says "So..did the ap's tell you you're getting my companion?" NO. then BAM sister Tureson shows up the next morning:) WE ARE NOW IN A TRIPANIONSHIP! We call ourselves the tri force. Its legit. You should see us all 3 riding our bikes down the street in our black jackets and skirts... we look like a biker gang! I would be terrified if I saw us. We look awesome.

We now live with 5 sisters...one bathroom. Pray for us. So far things are going great! We have seen so many miracles! We all three got to speak in church on sunday. I taught the restoration, Sister Shelton taught the plan of salvation, and sister Tureson taught the gospel over the pulpit. It was so powerful!

Gerson was confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of latterday saints yesterday and his mom came to church!! She talked to a lot of the Spanish speakers in the ward so that was awesome!

We also started another sugar fast for one of our part member families, the Marlatts. The Wife is a non member and is dying to be baptized but wants her husband to be able to baptize her before Christmas so they can get sealed in the salt lake temple next year around Christmas time. She has had this plan layed out for MONTHS! SO we decided to fast together to help him quit chewing tobacco. So far things are going great and she should be baptized the Saturday before I go home! Im so excited for them but cant WAIT to see them in the salt lake temple. They both grew up on a farm and invited us today to go slaughter chickens today...Sister Tureson grew up on a farm as well and was WAY too excited. So looks like that for our family fun activity for the day. PRAY FOR ME. The things you do on your mission... I swear. The Marlatts say, "all these traits you learn on you mission will prepare you to find a mate!" and I say "Ya nothing says romance like a chicken with it's head ripped off!" So we'll see how this goes down.

I am continually being humbled to see all the tender mercies around me. There is nothing like being a full time servant of the Lord. I will forever be a missionary. I love this gospel with my whole heart. I see the Atonement working each day, building me, strengthening me, and comforting me. My Savior Lives. There is no doubt about that.

I love you all! have a good week!
-sister scott

Words can't describe last weeks horror.... Al I know is... if there is a Zombie Apocalypse I will be able to feed my family chicken in the wilderness.... I'm a real boy!

Tri Force.... ENGAGE! 11/10/2014

Hello Family!

Wow what an awesome week. So Monday night of transfers we get a call at 10:20 from my best friend in the world, sister Call. She says "So..did the ap's tell you you're getting my companion?" NO. then BAM sister Tureson shows up the next morning:) WE ARE NOW IN A TRIPANIONSHIP! We call ourselves the tri force. Its legit. You should see us all 3 riding our bikes down the street in our black jackets and skirts... we look like a biker gang! I would be terrified if I saw us. We look awesome.

We now live with 5 sisters...one bathroom. Pray for us. So far things are going great! We have seen so many miracles! We all three got to speak in church on sunday. I taught the restoration, Sister Shelton taught the plan of salvation, and sister Tureson taught the gospel over the pulpit. It was so powerful!

Gerson was confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of latterday saints yesterday and his mom came to church!! She talked to a lot of the Spanish speakers in the ward so that was awesome!

We also started another sugar fast for one of our part member families, the Marlatts. The Wife is a non member and is dying to be baptized but wants her husband to be able to baptize her before Christmas so they can get sealed in the salt lake temple next year around Christmas time. She has had this plan layed out for MONTHS! SO we decided to fast together to help him quit chewing tobacco. So far things are going great and she should be baptized the Saturday before I go home! Im so excited for them but cant WAIT to see them in the salt lake temple. They both grew up on a farm and invited us today to go slaughter chickens today...Sister Tureson grew up on a farm as well and was WAY too excited. So looks like that for our family fun activity for the day. PRAY FOR ME. The things you do on your mission... I swear. The Marlatts say, "all these traits you learn on you mission will prepare you to find a mate!" and I say "Ya nothing says romance like a chicken with it's head ripped off!" So we'll see how this goes down.

I am continually being humbled to see all the tender mercies around me. There is nothing like being a full time servant of the Lord. I will forever be a missionary. I love this gospel with my whole heart. I see the Atonement working each day, building me, strengthening me, and comforting me. My Savior Lives. There is no doubt about that.

I love you all! have a good week!
-sister scott

All for one and one for all!  Huckleberry truffles are the BOMB!

Happy Halloween Errbody....!

Hey family!

got my last transfer call last night:) I will be staying in Post Falls until the end! Sister Shelton will be my co pilate on this magic carpet ride...I'm super stoked.The Lord has blessed us so much this week!! We have had so many new investigators popping up out of no where!

Gerson was batized yesterdayyy! It was such an amazing baptism. His parents (both non members) picked us up and drove us to the church. It was awesome getting to talk to them. Their hearts were really softened at the baptism. His seminary class sang Joseph Smiths first prayer. His best friend from school baptized him (I think he was more nervous than Gerson was!) It was so sweet! Afterwards Gerson bore his testimony and spoke about how he knew there were two boys in heaven who promised they would find each other and the one would bring the other into the gospel. It was the most spiritual baptism I have ever been to on my mission! He truly has such a great path set before him. He is meeting with the Bishop next sunday to talk about getting the priesthood and getting a temple recommend to do baptisms! He has expressed how he wants to serve a mission in the next couple years. This guy is just on fire with the gospel right now....NEXT STOP CELESTIAL KINGDOM!

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Heres a miracle:
So a few weeks ago we get a call from the CDA sisters. They have a referral of a girl who named McKenzie who is dying to be baptized but they have no phone or address where she will be living, just that she will be moving into our area. GREAT. So we pray and pray for this gal and nothing happens for weeks.

Just this last Saturday we were riding around in the rain and I forgot to layer up on my jackets. The wind was blowing and going back home to layer up sounded SOO tempting. The house was about a mile or so away and I wanted to hit these houses before we went back for dinner. We cross the street and there is no soul in sight. No one is answering their doors and Im like "Ok Heavenly Father. what do you want us to do? cause if its knocking all these doors and no ones home, I'll do it, but I feel you got something more for us out here." Finally we go to Jessica's home, a former investigator and we see a family moving stuff from their van into the house. We hop off our bikes and start helping them. First thing she says "You sisters always seem to find me no matter where I go." I looked at her kinda funny and just said, "God works in mysterious ways." When I asked her name she said. "McKenzie." oh cool....hmm....MCKENZIE from CDA! I tried to calm myself down a bit.." Well McKenzie, Could we share a message with you and your Father?" she smiled and said, "Yes please come in." We got to share the Book of Mormon with her father for the first time and on top of all that we found out she is living with a less active family that the ward has been trying to see for years! So we're teaching all of them now!

If there is one thing my mission has taught me its that, we have absolutely NO idea what the Lord has in store. All we can do is be obedient, have faith, and work! My favorite story right now in the Book of Mormon is in ether 2. The story of the Brother of Jared where he is told to cross the ocean to the promised land. The Lord specifically tells him NOT to stop at the shore but to continue on to the promise land.. and what does he do? Camps on the shore for 4 YEARS. The Lord Chastens Him for not calling upon him to do what the Lords needs Him to do next. I find myself forgetting to call upon the Lord all the time and "Settling" when I could be progressing and striving for His will and promise land.

This story has taught me that the Lord has a far greater vision for us than we could EVER obtain ourselves. Our will is but a seashore when His is the PROMISE LAND. Why should we EVER settle for anything less than that? We got to stay in communication with Him, Repent, and go to work. Keep going forward no matter how much or how little of our path we can see ahead. If we are living His gospel, We are on course to the promise land. With Him as our guide, we will never be lost. He lights the path to true and lasting happiness.

24 "For behold, ye shall be as a whale in the midst of the sea; for the mountain waves shall dash upon you. Nevertheless, I will bring you up again out of the depths of the sea; for the winds have gone forth out of my mouth, and also the rains and the floods have I sent forth.
 25 And behold, I prepare you against these things; for ye cannot cross this great deep save I prepare you against the waves of the sea, and the winds which have gone forth, and the floods which shall come.."

Holy Smokes I love the scriptures. FEAST upon them every day!! I love you all!

-sister scott

Gerson's baptism

"Hey, would you like to see my puppet collection?".... "sure"....
HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!

Trunk or Treating!!

This is what the Lord is teaching me.

Hello Family!

Its been a great week:) Im gonna email you in a few days so I'm just gonna make this one short. But I truly am so grateful to be here. I love this gospel more than I could ever explain In words. The people I have met out here have changed my life for ever. I am humbled everyday. I am growing stronger each day too. The atonement has truly taken affect on me these last few months and I'm beginning to see how much the Lord truly has changed me. I am so much happier. He has taught me where and how to find true and lasting happiness. This world is so confusing and empty without the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I see people running on this hamster wheel of life and getting so tired, and It just makes me want to cry. I wish everyone was humble enough to accept the message that their Savior offers. Accepting the agency of others has probably been the single most hardest thing my mission has put me through. It has given me a whole new perspective of the Love our Father in Heaven must have for us. Agency truly is a divine gift!

I was reflecting back to an experience I had a few weeks ago. I just experienced a pretty rough set back and was praying to have to strength to continue in the path. You know that feeling when you make a mistake and you feel this burden of guilt? I do. everyday haha we all make mistakes and our soul desires to be freed from it! There is typically two voices that enter my head. One says "Your an idiot, why couldn't you have just don't THIS or do that? You are just not good enough" and the other -completely opposite says, "Don't you dare lose hope, I'm still here, Its never too late," And repentance seems so sweet. This is a quote from a talk in general Conference I read that helped me to better discern which thoughts are from my Heavenly Father and which aren't.

6. Accept trials, setbacks, and “surprises” as part of your mortal experience. Remember that you are here to be proved and tested, “to see if [you] will do all things whatsoever the Lord [your] God shall command [you]” (Abraham 3:25)—and may I just add, “under all circumstances.” Millions of your brothers and sisters have been or are being thus tested, so why would you be exempt? Some trials come through your own disobedience or negligence. Other trials come because of the negligence of others or simply because this is a fallen world. When these trials come, the adversary’s minions begin broadcasting that you did something wrong, that this is a punishment, a sign that Heavenly Father does not love you. Ignore that! Instead, try to force a smile, gaze heavenward, and say, “I understand, Lord. I know what this is. A time to prove myself, isn’t it?” Then partner with Him to endure well to the end. Spiritual confidence increases when you accept that “often trials and tribulations are allowed to come into [your life] because of what [you] are doing right” (Glenn L. Pace, “Crying with the Saints” [Brigham Young University devotional, Dec. 13, 1987], 2; speeches.byu.edu).

I LOVE THAT! Partner with Him and endure well. THAT is was His atonement provides. When all others fail, HE is there to lift you to the finish line. His grace is sufficient to carry you through any trial, set back, or disappointment. My prayer is that none of you EVER listen to a voice that is not Loving, patient, and Kind. He loves you perfectly, I am a living witness of what His love can do for a person.

favorite scripture of the week: Isaiah 10:27
" And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing."

I Love you all, I love this Gospel and testify of its truthfulness. Have a great week and find the joy is all you do! Its there, Promise!

-Sister Scott

Well lookie here...

Downtown Coure 'd 'alene boardwalk.