COW BRANDING?? & "Nice to see you Again!"

Hello family!! YA. i knew you were in Disney World WAYYY before you email me. I felt it in my bones. Plus i have connections up here in Lewiston.. But it's ok because I have decided to forgive you. Preachin the Gospel is greater than any wonderful....amazing...magical fantacy ride at an amusement park. Just Kidding I truly truly would not be anywhere else in the whole world right now:) IT WAS AN AMAZING WEEK! To sum a lot of it up: This week we got a mini missionary names Sister McCumbie. She is from Cheney Washington. Out here they do "trial missions" for ages 16- 18 and they get to live with the missionaries for a week to get a feel for a mission and prepare! It is the coolest thing. These youth over here are seriously incredible. I cant even imagine the generation of missionaries the Lord is preparing to serve! But she really opened my eyes to how big of an adjustment i've made to my life. Missions seriously change you so much. Well, the Lord does, but a mission provides the most perfect situation to really clue in to what is most important in life and let go of the things in the world you don't need! It's freeing..if that makes sense. Our first service we got to take her to was COW BRANDING. Yep thats right... the farm, the cattle, the cow ramps and machinery, the whole kit and cabootle, as they say (not even sure what that means) but we got to be legit ranchers this week. I of course did not participate in the harming of the animals, but I was front and center of the whole rounding them up and putting them into different pens..Its like an at I swear! they have this whole crazy awesome system! I was tryng to relate it to the gospel the whole time.. how we all experience trials that brand us..and ya..haha It was funny. I got to meet the most incredible indian man! The first day in the Lewiston ward I pointed him out to my companion and said, "I want to know his story" and my companion looked at me like I was some weirdo, but I remember feeling a great need to talk to him! (10 weeks later) we had ended up knocking on his door and him and his wife invited us in for a lesson! We had no lesson prepared and I again felt that strong feeling to ask them about their conversion story. He started to explain his back round of growing up a member of the Lacotta tribe in the black hills and how he swore he would NEVER join the Mormon church or get married OR have children (he's all that with 10 kids now) but one day he sat in on a lesson and held the Book of Mormon in his hands. He said something about the book spoke to him and how he knew that he needed to read it and that is was a story about his people! He is of Lamenite blood!!! crazy..anyway he read it and joined immediately. His whole conversion story is insane but one thing that blew my mind is that once he went to general conference and Elder Uchdorf came and shook his hand and said "Nice to see you again" and he had never met or seen him before! His tribe that he participates in every now and then is so completely connected to the gospel its amazing the similarities. but that just blew my mind. THE BOOK OF MORMON IS SO REAL. Which reminds me..the Book of Mormon musical is coming to our mission..yaaaaaay:)Its ok tho because the church get the whole 2 pages of the program to advertise "now you've seen the musical..go and read the book!" haha it should be fun to see the commentary..bring on the anti. which reminds me of something else! That pastor I taught the other week I invited him to come here me speak in sacrament! Pastor Budah..He is a great guy but he apologized for being so busy that day that he sent his son and grand daughter to our church to see it and said he would come another week when he's not so busy..planting seeds! But he invited us to attend his congregation and when I brought it up to our ward mission leader he got to excited we couldn't refuse(reminded him of his old mission days haha)...So yesterday i had great experience attending Pastor Budahs's congregation. It was cool to see but I just felt like something was missing the whole time. The spirit was so much different there and they're known to preach a lot of anti which brings a completely different spirit to the meeting...He ended up apologizing to us from the pulpit for the things he had planned on preaching but changed because we were there...that must have been eye opening to some people i hope.. but it seriously was the best experience for me. The Lord really helped me to recognize that there is no bit of doctrine or scripture that I could pull up to anyone that could convince them that this is Christs church. The spirit is the ONLY way to know and understand. Without an open heart and a willing mind the spirit litereally cannot bear witness. I'm learning that now, that conversion has absolutely nothing to do with me and the information I'm able to give. It's great so support their learning but unless they act in faith know sincerely whats true, it's just information. My purpose as a missionary is to invite others to receive that witness for themselves. and as much as it breaks my heart that Pastor Budah possible might not be ready..I truly feel in my heart that If i diligently plant these seeds, the Lord will nourish them in a way much better then I could . He is the master of the vineyard and He teaches me every​​day that “The work will be light and easy to bear if You will depend on the Lord and work. Love you all! -sister scott

Power of Prayer and HITTING THE MARK!!

Hello everyone!! Mini miracles: One day we had to leave our area to go teach this less active and her non member friend. We were already running late and forgot to call the elders to get permission to leave our area and go downtown. We pulled over to the side of the road right on our boundary line(we wanted to be exactly obedient ok?) and waited and waited for the elders to call us back. Finally I said "Ok sister, we need to pray. If we have sufficient faith, the spirit will prompt the elders to se there phone!" At the end of the prayer we get a call from Elder De Olivera saying "Hey is everything ok sisters? We were doing service for our neighbor and I got this strong feeling we needed to gte our phone in the house and call you." THE LORD ANSWERS PRAYERS! especially when you are exactly obedient:) Then one day me and sister Woodfield were giving a training and the video we planned to watch wouldnt work. I made everyone get on their knees right then and pray! haha In my prayer I asked according to our faith and His will to help the video to work so we could continue on with our training. The moment we said amen, we stood up and THE VIDEO WORKED! The Lord is so good. He is more than willing to help his children when they need Him. We just need to have the faith to see it! Something I have loved learning about with faith is that those is the scriptures see miracles and people healed from their faith. I have found it takes a lot greater deal of faith to NOT see those miracles tho. I often ask myself the question "Do you have the Faith NOT to be healed if its not the Lord will?" With that, the Lord is able to work a lot more through His children. This week we got to have interviews with our president. It's always good to see them! Sister Mullen is like my mother out here I love her sooo much. We could just talk for hours and hours about the gospel. She is so knowledgeable! She makes me want to be a mission presidents wife so i can study the characteristics of all the missionaries and completely figure out the human brain and the gospel at the same time! haha SHE IS INCREDIBLE! She has taught me soo much about how the gospel relates back to everything. One thing we talked about in our interview was how in order to progress we need to set a goal to reach for. One that will make us stretch. I'm seeing how the weight of the world can pull you to extreme that make you miss the "mark". Right now I'm just focusing on hitting the mark at all times. The mark is the Lords Will. No matter what banner i set for myself as long as i am progressing i can KNOW that my Father in Heaven is proud of me and i can find joy in that! My time here is so precious to me and I want to do ALL that I can, as hard as I can, for as long as I can. I don't want to waist a single second out here, but even that can push me to go beyond the mark. I know my Heavenly Father wants nothing less then for me to find joy so my focus is to not run myself into the ground but continually do all in my power, then give the rest to the Lord. Joseph Smith words ALWAYS bring me peace:) "Therefore dearly Beloved brethren, Let us CHEERFULLY do all that lie in our power, then may we stand still with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God and for His arm to be revealed" Standing still is different then doing nothing. Its having a confidence that as you do your best, His grace will enable you to hit the mark every time. We don't need to look to the world for approval or support, that is by far the fastest way to depression and emptiness. We must all "look to God and live". His love fills you perfectly every time! I'm living proof of that! This truly is His work and it cannot be frustrated by man! I'm learning a lot about relying upon the Lord for ALL I do, cause i know that's the only way to be successful. When I take it on myself, I gets heavy. With Him, my yoke is light and easy to bear:) I challenge you all to rely upon the Lord or ALL you do! Not just in the hard times but in the good times as well. its in those moments that we think we don't, that we truly need Him the most. I love you all sooo much!! Pray, read and share the gospel!!!:) -sister scott ps: shout out to the greatest father of all time HAPPY FATHERS DAY DAD!!!!!! no one in the whole world could have prepared me better for this time than you have. I reflect back to our "coffee talks"(life talks) ALL THE TIME! and every time I drink my herbal tea I think of you and get stoked thinking about our Isaiah marathons and deep doctrine studies with you when I'm home! there has been countless times that advice you have given me throughout the years has blessed the lives of so many I have taught out here including mine. You are my hero and my best friend. I LOVE YOU DAD! Me and My Best friend and Companion doing what we do!

The Atonement is REAL!!

Hello Everyone! I wish I could sum this week up is words but THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE..plus im horrible with words. I'll explain some of the highlights! First! a couple weeks ago I went to the UPS store to pick up a package from my parents. There was a man named Grant who helped us out and I felt really strongly we needed to share the gospel with him! As I turned to grab a card out of my bag he was gone! As me and my companion drove away we saw him getting in his truck and going to the gas station. Creepily(we do this a lot) we pulled in to get gas as well and did the whole,,"Oh hey! good to see you again" thing and gave him our card with a link to lds.org. He said he would check it out and if he would like to know more he will text us. Two weeks later I'm trying to find this package my parents sent me and I have stopped by both addresses and they said the ups man came and left 2x already. So one more time then the send it back! I get a text that night saying..Is this sister Brooke Scott? and Its Grant!!! He stopped my package right before they were about to send it back and he recognized the name from the card we gave him and was able to bring it to me!:) Miracles. He said he's not quite ready to learn about the gospel but to keep him and his family in our prayers and to try him a later down the road! He just needs a little miracle grow. Ok Next. One the day of my year mark we contacted a family in the street and got to share the message of the restoration with them! I was amazed at how open and receptive they were..especially cause they said their father was the PASTOR OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH. I seriously love the baptist people. They explained how they have wanted to go to our church to try it out so many times but never got the chance to. Their adorable 9 year old daughter ran to her dad and said "Dad this is the one i was telling you about! We neeed to go there! We need to go dad!" She is so elect. He says everytime they pass our church she is glued to the window and begs to go. They invited us to come help out at their churches free yard sale thing so we brought 2 other sisters with us. One is named sister Gosdis and she is actually a baptist convert of 2 years! she is an amazing missionary! Of course as we are helping out and meeting everyone the pastor of the church comes to meet us! Pastor Budah..that's right..Budah. I love Him. We talked for a while and he read some scriptures to us. He is the sweetest man! Despite the intention of mixing our doctrine and throwing little anti remarks, you can really just feel the love he has for our souls! haha Its sweet. Usually I would just smile, bear m testimony and be on my way but for some reason I felt we needed to share a message with him. The moment I mentioned that he ran and grabbed us chairs and we got to share bits of the plan and restoration with him! We got to answer a lot of his questions but he kept dominated a lot of our message, which i expected, so in my heart i said a prayer that the Lord would inspire sister Gosdis to come over and share her testimony! The moment I said amen, Sister Gosdis and her companion pulled up a chair and began to add into our conversation. With the testimony of 4 sisters..let me tell you, THE SPIRIT WAS AMAZING. He finally stopped his argumentative approach and said "all I want to know is if this is true". We challenged him to read and pray to know for himself and that if he was truly sincere the Lord would answer his prayer! IT WAS INCREDIBLE!! He offered a closing prayer and we all knelt together on the floor of the baptist assembly and he offered a very heartfelt and sincere prayer to know of truth. He invited us to come to his congregation anytime and that he would like to come and check our out soon! Not sure what will come of it but it was a very awesome testimony building experience:) Last awesome thing I have time to share is, this sunday a women called the church and ouy Ward mission leader answered it! She was sobbing askign for someone to come pick her up and take her to the church. He picked her up and called us to meet her there. I wasn't quite sure who she was or what we woudl say so her but i said a prayer in my heart and felt him saying "you will know when you open you mouth". She is a 19 year old convert of 6 months and said she fell away right after she was baptized. She got involved in the wrong crowd of friends and has had a lot fo horrible things happen to her. The moment I saw her I couldn't help but just run up and hugged her. She was shaking and sobbing for a good 5 min and we just held her and told her that she was safe and that we were going to help her. She was so excited that is was US because we saw her a couple weeks before at subway and left her with our card and she couldn't find it so she just called the church! When she calmed down She explained how she had made so many mistakes and that she even stopped believing in God for a while. In her darkest hour she prayed for the first time in a long time and was completely over come by the spirit and she knew that God was real, that he knew her perfectly (she is hysterically sobbing at this point) and she said words would never describe that feeling she felt of being forgive. She said there were stil many things she needed to go to the repentance process for and that she need us to meet with her everyday so she can prepare to serve a mission! She said she doesn't even know what that entails but all she knows is that Gods purpose for her is to be a missionary! I was completely blown away with how similar her story was to Amla the Younger. She said she feels that she can never be foregiven and that she isnt worthy to even feel the incredible love she was feeling in the church! She is a modern day ALMA THE YOUNGER! We promised her that there was no mistake too bad or sin too deep that the light of Jesus Christ atonement cannot cover. That was one of the most sacred lessons I have had my whole mission, and its all because the ATOMENENT IS REAL! It covers all pain, affliction, temptation, and sickness that we have ever felt in our whole lives. His arms and extended toward ANYONE who does one thing. Comes unto him. "Come unto me all ya that labor and are heavy laden and I shall give you rest." "tho your sins may be a scarlet they shall be white as snow" He says it over and over again and NONE are exempt from this promise! His atonement is so real, and I am a living witness that is works. This is why we do what we do. This is why the message of the restored gospel is so important and God wants ALL His children to be able to access the healing, cleansing, and enabling power of the atonement. Those who experience it cannot remain Idle. I want to invite all of you to pray to gain a deeper understanding of the atonement of Jesus Christ and how to apply it in your life. I know as you do this, you will come to a greater understanding of who you are and what your plan and purpose is here in the life! The Gospel is so true. and I will forever share it. Love you all!! -siser scott Mine and sister Calls year mark together!! Mtc companion and best friend in the whole missionary universe.

Eating paleo with sister Gosdis! Baptist convert of 2 years..She is amazing. And teaches me how to cook paleo all the time....I love it.

Year Mark!!

Hello everyone! Not a lot of time to write!! But I just want to share my testimony:) I hit my year mark this week in the 5th and I honestly could never expected how incredible my mission has been. It feel completely humbled as I look back on what the Lord has made of me in just a year. I will never be the same and I hope i never am! Every day the Atonement is changing me, and every day I understand I little more who I am and who my Father in Heaven is. I am a living testimony that He lives. I know that the knowledge of His gospel is what enables us to obtain all He has to offer and words cant even describe what that will be:) I love my brother Jesus Christ and I will continue to give all I am to Him and His work until He says the work is done! I want to share these scriptures and pard of Elder Bednars talk. Its changed so many lives of the people I've come to know and love and changed mine in the process! “And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he wil ltake upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people. “And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities” (Alma 7:11–12). Thus, the Savior has suffered not just for our sins and iniquities—but also for our physical pains and anguish, our weaknesses and shortcomings,our fears and frustrations, our disappointments and discouragement, our regrets and remorse, our despair and desperation, the injustices and inequities we experience, and the emotional distresses that beset us. There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul orheartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever confront in mortalitythat the Savior did not experience first. In a moment of weakness we maycry out, “No one knows what it is like. No one understands.” But the Sonof God perfectly knows and understands, for He has felt and borne ourindividual burdens. And because of His infinite and eternal sacrifice (seeAlma 34:14), He has perfect empathy and can extend to us His arm ofmercy. He can reach out, touch, succor, heal, and strengthen us to bemore than we could ever be and help us to do that which we could neverdo relying only upon our own power. Indeed, His yoke is easy and His burden is light. I know with my whole heart that THAT is true. I see it every day. I have such a fire burnng in me for this work. Be apart of it! Love you all!! have a good week! -sister scott

Brekken!!

Hello everyone!

This has been probably one of the longest greatest weeks EVER. We went to spokane twice and got to hear from Elder Audukitas! He is the boldest, bluntest, most inspiring person I have ever heard speak. Hahaha we got quite the chastisement, but it was all out of love so the spirit filtered it into motivation! He really was so incredibly powerful! Because of him i have set goals for my mission and what I truly feel the Lord wants me to do these last 6 1/2 months. I cant even type that without cringing...anyway. The Lord has been teaching me a lot about faith and the power it has to produce miracles!

So we were given the opportunity to volunteer at the world series baseball thing here for LCSC. There is a billion baseball teams here and its been amazing to walk around and represent the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!! (Dad I promise I combed my hair) I havent been to an event like that in so long, It felt so weird. SO many people, and SO little time to tell them about the gospel, I WAS GOIN NUTS! Our 1 shift of service we worked in the consessions stand and we had to be there at 11. Of course I just so happened to lock out keys in the apartment at 10:50 along with our car key so we had NO way to get to service. We prayed and asked the Lord to open the door if it was His will and MIRACULOUSLY...........it didnt open. So we walked. BUT we talked to this guys on the way who lives with a member and had a bunch of questions so that was awesome.

We finally made it to our shift 25 min late and went strait to the main consessions and started to work. There was a girl named brekken who was working with us and the whole time I was praying for a way to share the gospel with her. She ended up asking us a question about our name tags. She said she had some sister missionaries come to her door once (the ysa sisters that we live with) and she had been thinking about them ever since they left and she lost there card and couldn't get ahold of them! I think we spend a solid hour and a half talking through our shift about her life and what she is looking for right now. ITS THE GOSPEL! In her own words she said, "I have spent my whole life looking for fulfillment, I know its not at the bottom of the bottle, it's not with they guys and parties, It's not in my work, it's not in my school...It's like I keep searching everywhere and never fully feel complete." I told her, "It's because what your seeking for, the world cannot offer you. The Savior and His gospel is the only way to feel lasting joy and happiness." The spirit was so strong and she just started to glow, "How can I get started? I want to learn more." It was like a dream! Everything she kept saying I was blown away at how much the Lord had been preparing her. She told us, "I wasn't even going to come in today but something told me I needed to, then I got a call from the manager asking me to cover for someone so I raced right in!"

As if that wasn't a great enough miracle, Later that day when we got back into our home and car we listened to a voice mail from the manager and she said "Hey sisters, you haven't shown up for your shift and we are going to go ahead and call back up, If you plan to come later let us know." THE BACK UP WAS BREKKEN! If we would not have locked our keys in the house and been late, Brekken would not have came in and we would not have worked together! The Lord works in mysterious ways. Brekken is now meeting with the YSA sisters and is on date to be baptized!:)

Update on our some investigators:
-Kayla and Nick and planning to be married this Friday and kayla will be baptized on Saturday!! so excited for them! I hope all goes well. Satan has been attacking that family like crazy and things have been going wrong left and right. So if you could keep them and their son jayden in our prayers that would be awesome:)
-Jack just got our of surgery and is doing awesome and his wife Jessica is now in date to be baptized for the 21st of june! When we prayed about a date, that one stuck out and when we told her she said, "That's my husbands birthday! so now I know that date was inspired!" IT WAS CRAZY! hahah
-Rodney has officially quit chewing tobacco- thanks to mine and sister woodfields sugar fast! Me her and Rodney are going on day 8 sober;)


Something I've really been thinking about is the power our agency give us. Heavenly Father loves us so much that he will grant unto us our desires whether they be good or evil. He give Joy and eternal life as His option but hHe will never force it upon His children! As a Father, that takes and incredible amount of love and I catch a glimps of how much more and more each day.

ALMA 29:4

1 O that I were an angel, and could have the wish of mine heart, that I might go forth and speak with the trump of God, with a voice to shake the earth, and cry repentance unto every people!
 2 Yea, I would declare unto every soul, as with the voice of thunder, repentance and the plan of redemption, that they should repent and come unto our God, that there might not be more sorrow upon all the face of the earth.

 3 But behold, I am a man, and do sin in my wish; for I ought to be content with the things which the Lord hath allotted unto me.

4 I ought not to harrow up in my desires the firm decree of a just God, for I know that he granteth unto men according to their desire, whether it be unto death or unto life; yea, I know that he allotteth unto men, yea, decreeth unto them decrees which are unalterable, according to their wills, whether they be unto salvation or unto destruction.

We are here to LEARN how to use ageny righteously and to do so will bring us closer and closer to becoming all He has created us to become. The choice is ours! have an awesome week I love you all!!:)

-sister scott

Transfer Calls!!

Hello everyone!!

 

Another week In paradise, Its been so crazy busy and next week should be even worse! I LOVE IT. Elder Audikitus is coming to speak to the missionaries tuesday for the leaders and wednesday for all the missionarues so we have to drive 2 hours to spokane to do that then back, then wake up the next morning up and drive 3 hours to hayden lake then back. Lets just say there will be lots of lessons over the phone those days. haha Its gonna be crazy!!

 

Transfer calls brought no change which im STOKED about because I absolutely LOVE my companion and we work so well together. We are both sister training leaders so we get to work real closely with the sisters and for trainings and things. Our teaching pool has trippled this transfer so I could not be more happy that im staying to work with all of them!!

 

I dont have much time to write but I have had amazing experiences with all the people we have been meeting. A member in our war dcame up to us and asked if we could go and visit ehr grand daughter. She was excommunicated when she was in her 20's and she said she has been on her mind all week. She was in the elders area but she begged us to go saying, "If she's open at all I know it will only be through sisters." so we tried her and when we first saw her she was very hesitant and cold. We told her we were sister missionaries from the church and you could literally see a light come from her. She didnt even know the church had sister missionaries and she invited us right in. Within 2 min of talking she was sobbing. She asked usto come back and share a message with her and her 14 yr old daughter. Her daughter Chloe is the most elect person i have ever had in my whole life. She has NO religious backround and she is so open and close tot he spirit. We taught the plan of salvation and I asked her why she thought Heavenly Father would send Jesus Christ to the earth. Her answer was "I feel like, we wouldnt be able to make it back home by ourselves, and Jesus Christ was sent to kind of light the way back. He helps us succeed." I about passed my tag over to her. She's incredible. We tookthe both on a church tour last week and Chloe wants to be baptized as soon as possible and her mom just started the process to be re baptized!!

 

There are so many other miracle stories of the Lord preparing His children that i wish i had time to share! Each one confirms that THIS IS HIS WORK. There is no greater Joy than to be apart of it. I want to encourage all of you to get on your knees and ask your Heavenly Father what your role is. We all have one and we all can contribute differently, but i promise once you start you will not be able to start! Someone who is truly converted cannot remail idle! Get out there and do the work you have been sent to do! I know its true with my whole heart. The peace that comes from this gospel is incredible. I refuse to ever quit living it. and spreading it! 

 

“Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”⁹

 

“shake off the chains with which [we] are bound, and come forth out of obscurity, and arise from the dust.”¹¹

 

Love you all!

-sister scott

 

pic1)This is my classy disctrict (i swear thats my hand on sister woodfields shoulder..not the elder behind her.ahahahha that woudl be apostate;)

pic2) Zone leader Elder de olivera on guitar and me and sister woodfield as lower lights singers

pic3) merica 

BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!

Lewiston, Idaho

Hello family and friends!!

    AHHH! What an amazing day yesterday. It was so good to see you all and hear your voices!! Some missionaries worry that skyping will distract them from the work and make them focus on home for the next little while but GOD IS GOOD! I have never had a problem with things like that my whole mission. If anything it gives me that extra drive and push to try my best each and every day. I absolutely LOVED getting to hear about your missionary work. That means more to me than anything in the whole world. "The true sign on conversion is to share the gospel", I KNOW THATS TRUE! its incredible what sharing what you know to be true can do for your testimony. Conversion is a real process and a daily decision! Your understanding of the gospel and desire to learn more just burns within you and you soon enough you can HELP but share it!

This week I have been studying a lot about faith and how it is SO much more than just a belief in Jesus Christ. Faith is a principle of ACTION! and as we act in faith then the Lord is ABLE to work miracles according to your faith in Him. Me and my companion gave a training on planning with faith and binding the Lord to the goals that you set!  We taught them " In order for the Lord to work through you, you must have limitless faith. Break the bands you have set for yourself and with faith let the lord do His work!" WE HAVE SEEN MIRACLES!

To further explain.. President Mullen gave a training to our whole Zone. We met at the Moscow university church building and President told us of a little faith experiment he wanted to do with us as a Zone. He sent out 2 missionaries to contact on the street. He would give them 5 min and if they didn't bring someone back to be taught then he would send out 2 more missionaries and so forth until they had some one to teach. WE WERE TERRIFIED. First off we were on a huge hill so it would take forever to run were there were actually people outside. After 6 min the sisters brought back a young adult girl named Haley. President explained to her that two missionaries would teach her at the front of the room so we as a group could understand how to be better teachers. She was a totally sweet heart and gladly excepted! As the missionaries began to get her religious background Haley said, "It's actually funny that you ask because I haven't really grown up with a firm belief but lately I have tried praying..and I asked God to help me learn more about Him." EVERY missionaries was on the edge of their seat. They taught her the whole restoration and the Joseph Smiths first vision and she was listening so intently and answering ever question perfectly! The spirit was so incredibly strong there was not a dry eye in that whole conference. The president then told her he would ask her some questions to evaluate the missionaries teaching and Haley stopped him and asked president if the missionaries could continue teaching!! They gave her a book of Mormon and she clung onto it and said she would read it. They then asked her to be baptized and she looked up crying and said yes!! President later asked her how she knew it was true and she said, "I could feel something as the missionaries taught me and it told me that it was true, and when they asked me to be baptized I felt it the strongest." She looked out into the crowd of missionaries and smiled with tears in her eyes and said "thank you for finding me!"

IT WAS LIKE A MOVIE!!!! it was so unreal it was incredible!!! President said he has done that experiment with all the zones and they have seen miracles every single time. It was the greatest testimony builder that THIS IS THE LORDS WORK. He is the one placing them in out path from our faith combined as a zone! He wants so badly for all His children to come to the knowledge of His restored gospel and He is more than capable of providing the means if we will just have faith and be obedient to do His work!

Words could never describe how grateful I am to be a part of that work and I will FOREVER be His missionary. God is good. His church is so true. His plan is perfect. What else can I say... I am happy:) I LOVE THE GOSPEL! The One and only way to come to come to know these things for yourself is by living them. Ask the missionaries..they'll teach you how!:)

I love you all soooo much!!! thank you all for the incredible love and support:) I wouldn't be here without you! I'll see y'all soon:)

-Sister Scott

I've never been sung happy birthday to "Sister Scott" before!

Braiding a Horses Hair!

Best Birthday Present Ever!! Skyping her best friend Elder Cude in Costa Rica with his Companion Supervising in the Background.... :)

Drawing the Plan of Salvation with the Side walk Chalk I gave her for Easter!  Glad she made great use of it!!

This is a PIcture of Lewiston, Idaho... Brooke affectionately calls it LEWISTANK! Because of all the paper factories!