If All Men Had Been Like Unto Moroni

Nov 23, 2015

Okay so like, nobody emailed me about the France-bombing-world-war-3 problem??! Like I need to know these things people!! Just a side thought.

Hai!! How is everyone?

So I have two quick stories. One is about a guy named Hermano Flores. Hno Flores has cancer. Having cancer in paraguay is a struggle because you have to pay for your treatment and all the materials. IVs, sheets, medicines, machines. All of it. So they said that most people just get pain medications and suffer. It's sad. But Hno Flores is pretty welloff so he can pay for it. But he is a great guy. His house has the Spirit like the temple. It's SO strong. And he is so warm and friendly, and his wife and him just have great understanding of the atonement. And so even though they are both suffering through this lifetime trial, they are making the best of it. So what does a Paraguayan man with cancer do in his free time?! He opens a 24 hour on call pizza place in his house!!! And then he invites over the sister missionaries!!! Hahah the pizza was amaaazing I ate like five!! hahah #worthit. So even if he is in a lot of pain, people can knock on his door and he gets up and makes them a pizza. I love this family, they serve in spite of struggle!

The other is Mauro!! Him and his "wife" Leticia came with their two little boys to church this week!!! AH! He has literally completely changed since we met him. His countenance is light, he's friendly, laughs a lot, loves his kids more,  and when he has questions, he smiles and asks them, and then he says "I guess I have to look for the answer in the scriptures."and we're like yesssss you got it bub! I wish I could show you the difference in him. He says we are his heavenly messengers because he gave up on religion until we knocked on his door with a book of mormon.

The Church is true yall. I've seen it work miracles this week.
Love,
Hna Scott


Bonus Content from her Mom letter. Kaitlin is answering specific questions I sent her:

 How do you get your laundry done? We do it ourselves, when we get home from proselyting. There's an endowed lady that could do it for us, but it would require trekking across town with large bags of laundry twice a week. Its not worth it hahah

Is your branch full of wealthier or poorer people - how do they get along?   (Like if there is a ward party and there is a person living in a house with plumbing and another person living in a one room shack with a dirt floor - does they guy with the house always have to bring the cookies?) Uhhh no its all even. You give what you have. Everybody has something. Like just because they live in dirt shacks doesn't mean they don't have money for food. Does that make sense? I haven't seen any kind of discrimination among the wealthier and the poorer.

Do you get spending money? What do you spend it on? We don't get spending money. We get money for rent and groceries. But I admit I buy icecream in the streets on hot days and empanadas when I'm really hungry hahahah

Do you think you will be changing areas before Christmas? Yeah we have a cambio one week before Christmas. I'm pretty sure I'll be staying in Itaugau, because my companion has been here for almost half her mission, so I'll probably stay to keep the area going. But I'll have a new companion.

What is the education level of the members? You mentioned at one point you were teaching a family that was illiterate.  Is that common? Education is the most important thing in the entire world. Lots of people can read but they can't read scriptures. The words are too hard. And they're too embarrassed to say so so then we don't know they can't read and like two weeks later we're like OHHH you can't read scriptures! Makes sense!!! No, most people have an education. But it's obvious in the culture that the education isn't that awesome like it is in the states.