Happy day from us in PJC. I can officially say Ive seen Brazil-- its cool. Its a pretty nice climate here-warm in the day and then it cools off and rains in the night.
Im starting to understand more guarani. I can say a few things. We have 2 investigators that are guarani only investigators, but they have family members who help with the translation. We have one investigator, Yolanda, who is brasileira but she speaks and reads spanish so no worries. I get all my languages mixed in my mind and so its kind of a fruit salad of phrases whenever I teach haha but whatever its fun.
We are fighting a lot in Spirit. We have seven investigators here that can be baptized whenever they decide to make the choice. Its been a long week of prayer and trying to follow the Spirit to get them to find answers to their prayers and doubts and motivate them to make the decision to get baptized. Ive been doing the best I can but this week nobody has progressed. Little by little. I have a lot of faith.
A cool experience this week I had is that I got to give a talk in sacrament meeting. I prayed a lot for the Spirit and when I was speaking I knew I had the Spirit with me because I was able to express myself perfectly in Spanish. It just rolled out of my mouth without annyyyy effort and I remembered all my words. So whoohoo Spirit!!!! It was a great experience, I was really grateful that the Lord could do that for me.
What else what else... uhmmmm took my pants to the modista to get them smaller, we had consejo de rama, we had ward night...
OH we met this SICK family this week. And the dad was like, yeah come by another day so we did. The dad speaks spanish but the mom and the kids only speak portuguese and it was way great because we taught the lesson and the spirit was SO Strong so I invited them to get baptized, and the dad was like, whooa, this is all really fast, and then his wife turned on him and was like, Well if you know its true wouldnt you get baptized?? And he said, well we just met them... and she was like but they said that when we find its true, and if I find its true I will get baptized!! And the dad was like oh yeah I guess I will too. hahahah pray for them. Familia Loreiro. They are awesome.
Me and Hermana Brunelle get along fine. She is really trying her hardest to be a good missionary and so its easy for us to work really hard. Thats nice.
Another thing is that we LOVEEEE the new christmas video! It makes me cry every time!!! SO watch it every day for me and plssssss invite everyone to see it because its awesome.
I know that the Lord loves us and that He knows who we are. One thing I love about the mission is that we can feel the great love and worry of the Lord. If we trust in Him, He will carry us.
Best food I ate this week? A donut type thing full of cream.
Most interesting moment? When I went to use the bathroom in one of our investigators house, and when I flushed, a frog hopped out of the toilet bowl.
#awkward
Funniest thing that happened to me? uh hermana brunelle scooted her chair a little wrong and totally fell in the middle of a lesson. The investigator was a young man who picked her up like a baby and sat her back down. Looool I died.
Have a good week yall
Hermana Scott
Monday, November 28, 2016
Monday, November 21, 2016
Bom dia, baeshapa?
So familiakuera I wrote this huuuuge long email about all my week and
then my computer suddenly turned off and when I got it booted back up,
my draft wasnt saved so that should explain to you about how its been
here in Pedro Juan.
The most important thing thats happened is that I got to go to the conference with Elder Rasband, saw some kids from the CCM there and Im really grateful Im not in the Asuncion South mission because they look like they have a lot less fun there, side bags and all. But whatever it was cool because we all got to shake Elder Rasband´s hand and he talked about how we have a great work to perform here, and he read the dedicatory prayer of Paraguay that talked about the expansion of missionary work and just a lot of cool things. He quoted president Hinckley when he said ¨all you need to do is do your best¨ and then he added, ¨but you need to do your VERY best.¨ And he asked us to find out how we could do our VERY best. Be more bold, more challenging, ask everyone to be baptized, study preach my gospel. It was good. I walked out of there feeling like I had been called to Pedro Juan for a reason and that we were going to see miracles in our area.
I hope one of those miracles is the gift of tongues because once again every single meeting at church is held in guarani. And the other half of the congregation speaks portuguese. And soooo Im going to do a lot of studying.
I am going to work like a crazy person in the next six weeks. There is A LOT like A LOT of work to do here and with the Spirit and an apostles blessing I have no doubt we are going to see a lot of success.
Thanks for writing me. Enjoy your holidays. We cut out like four snowflakes and put up a dinky charlie brown christmas tree, but its better than last year.
Love
Hermana Scott
The most important thing thats happened is that I got to go to the conference with Elder Rasband, saw some kids from the CCM there and Im really grateful Im not in the Asuncion South mission because they look like they have a lot less fun there, side bags and all. But whatever it was cool because we all got to shake Elder Rasband´s hand and he talked about how we have a great work to perform here, and he read the dedicatory prayer of Paraguay that talked about the expansion of missionary work and just a lot of cool things. He quoted president Hinckley when he said ¨all you need to do is do your best¨ and then he added, ¨but you need to do your VERY best.¨ And he asked us to find out how we could do our VERY best. Be more bold, more challenging, ask everyone to be baptized, study preach my gospel. It was good. I walked out of there feeling like I had been called to Pedro Juan for a reason and that we were going to see miracles in our area.
I hope one of those miracles is the gift of tongues because once again every single meeting at church is held in guarani. And the other half of the congregation speaks portuguese. And soooo Im going to do a lot of studying.
I am going to work like a crazy person in the next six weeks. There is A LOT like A LOT of work to do here and with the Spirit and an apostles blessing I have no doubt we are going to see a lot of success.
Thanks for writing me. Enjoy your holidays. We cut out like four snowflakes and put up a dinky charlie brown christmas tree, but its better than last year.
Love
Hermana Scott
Friday, November 18, 2016
Icecream Drowns the Tears of Changes
Dear fambam,
This week we found out the incredibly sad news: I have changes. And Hermana Granados had changes. And so Im leaving Asuncion and Im going to Pedro Juan Caballero with Hermana Brunelle on Saturday. We have a big conference with both of the missions in Paraguay tomorrow to hear from Elder Rasband so we are not leaving to go far away until after the conference. And then I will have a regular pday again, starting on monday. (bonus woohoo) Elder Rasband´s staying at the Sheraton thats in our area so we were just like, maybe we should just stroll over there to contact... hahah #perksofasuncion
Pedro Juan is right on the border of Brazil. Im half stoked to finally FINALLY get my portuguese all polished up but really sad too because I dont want a new compaaaniiioooon but its okay. I only have two more changes and I can handle two more changes.
But sin embargo this week was full of a lot of tender mercies that were just like, wait, whaaat is this real life??
Number 1. President Evans and his family invited us to dinner unexpectedly and it was marvelous. We had sticky sweet rice. Its delicious.
Number 2. Hermana Alexander is also going to pedro juan so we get to go up there together!!!!
Number 3. We got to see the primary program on Sunday. It was the most spiritual sacrament meeting Ive been to in a long time.
Number 4. I got to say goodbye to the Cranneys before they went to the airport. I didnt even know but we came by at the perfect time to see them off. It was really nice to hug them and they promised to come to my wedding hahahahahahah
Number 5. I found almond milk at the super seis and YAY because I feel so much better. I didnt even know I felt bad until now when I feel better!!!
Also we found these two AWESOME totally prepared investigators which is great. They are both really needing the gospel and its nice when we have people with needs because it gives them animo to go to church!!1
ALSO number 6. Our investigator Noelia went to a noche de hogar with one of the best families in the ward and she brought all her kids. I got prompted to invite her and even though she came 30 minutes late she came!!! And it was so great for them to all share together.
number 7. We had breakfast for dinner with the Craners and their less active kid ate dinner with us for the first time ever!!! Also real bacon!!!! YAY
Number 8. There was something else cool that happened with investigators this week but I forgot it.
So anyways its been really good, like, this has been the best change of my entire mission and probably one of the best experiences of my life. And Hermana C and Hermana G are like my Amy and Lisa or my Sam and Freddie or like my Ron and Hermione. Well really Im more like the Ron of the group hahhaha but still. But theres a great quote that Hermana C always has up that says ¨There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.¨
OH I remembered. Number 8. A less active lady came to our ward night and taught zumba. It was really great for all the girls but for the missionaries a little less fun. ;)
All in all life´s good. Thanks for writing me. I´ll be writing again on Monday because my pday is changing again, so you wont miss me too much. ;)
Love,
Hermana Scott
This week we found out the incredibly sad news: I have changes. And Hermana Granados had changes. And so Im leaving Asuncion and Im going to Pedro Juan Caballero with Hermana Brunelle on Saturday. We have a big conference with both of the missions in Paraguay tomorrow to hear from Elder Rasband so we are not leaving to go far away until after the conference. And then I will have a regular pday again, starting on monday. (bonus woohoo) Elder Rasband´s staying at the Sheraton thats in our area so we were just like, maybe we should just stroll over there to contact... hahah #perksofasuncion
Pedro Juan is right on the border of Brazil. Im half stoked to finally FINALLY get my portuguese all polished up but really sad too because I dont want a new compaaaniiioooon but its okay. I only have two more changes and I can handle two more changes.
But sin embargo this week was full of a lot of tender mercies that were just like, wait, whaaat is this real life??
Number 1. President Evans and his family invited us to dinner unexpectedly and it was marvelous. We had sticky sweet rice. Its delicious.
Number 2. Hermana Alexander is also going to pedro juan so we get to go up there together!!!!
Number 3. We got to see the primary program on Sunday. It was the most spiritual sacrament meeting Ive been to in a long time.
Number 4. I got to say goodbye to the Cranneys before they went to the airport. I didnt even know but we came by at the perfect time to see them off. It was really nice to hug them and they promised to come to my wedding hahahahahahah
Number 5. I found almond milk at the super seis and YAY because I feel so much better. I didnt even know I felt bad until now when I feel better!!!
Also we found these two AWESOME totally prepared investigators which is great. They are both really needing the gospel and its nice when we have people with needs because it gives them animo to go to church!!1
ALSO number 6. Our investigator Noelia went to a noche de hogar with one of the best families in the ward and she brought all her kids. I got prompted to invite her and even though she came 30 minutes late she came!!! And it was so great for them to all share together.
number 7. We had breakfast for dinner with the Craners and their less active kid ate dinner with us for the first time ever!!! Also real bacon!!!! YAY
Number 8. There was something else cool that happened with investigators this week but I forgot it.
So anyways its been really good, like, this has been the best change of my entire mission and probably one of the best experiences of my life. And Hermana C and Hermana G are like my Amy and Lisa or my Sam and Freddie or like my Ron and Hermione. Well really Im more like the Ron of the group hahhaha but still. But theres a great quote that Hermana C always has up that says ¨There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.¨
OH I remembered. Number 8. A less active lady came to our ward night and taught zumba. It was really great for all the girls but for the missionaries a little less fun. ;)
All in all life´s good. Thanks for writing me. I´ll be writing again on Monday because my pday is changing again, so you wont miss me too much. ;)
Love,
Hermana Scott
Friday, November 11, 2016
Bautismo!
Dear yall
I get a lot of complaints that I dont write enough about the mission. Well... luckilly families are eternal! Theres enough time to hear aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalll the mission stories. Nah Im joking. I am sorry, I will be better.* (*Phrases I learned on the mission.)
This week I had some of the COOLEST most SPIRITUAL experiences of my entire life.
The first thing was the awesome opportunity that we had to go see the familia Salas get sealed. Hermana Granados has been working with them for about 3 months, and we got special permission to go and support them on their special day. It was the first time EVER in my LIFE that I go to see a sealing. And so Im like the little slowpoke meme, like, guys, did you know that sealings are awesome??? Oh wait, yes you did. It was the most beautiful thing I have EVER SEEN EVER and I laughed, I cried, it moved me, Bob. Im not even joking I swear that is the most marvelous thing I have ever seen.
And I walked out of that thing, like, why did nobody tell me how great this is??? And then I was like... oh... Why did nobody tell me that? That is is exactly why I am on the mission!!! It was like a little lightbulb like DING here´s why you decided to serve and you didnt even know. I feel like Im doing this whole mission thing backwards. I work and work and work and work and after one year of working Im like, oh, I think I get why we share the gospel! I always tease Ben that he´s really slow to pick up on things and here I am like it only took me 20 years of my life to figure out what ¨families are forever¨ means, gosh. But whatever! Better late than never! Literally THE BEST. God is AWESOME.
Other things that happened that day is that Valeria got baptized!! All her family are members so it was really cool. Her cousin came to baptize her and I think we had a good 45 people in attendance-- like about the size of Sacrament meeting here-- of just her family members and friends. It was awesome. She was awesome, gave a great testimony, she got confirmed, and shes going to the temple this weekend so there you are!!! Set!
Its been just great. We have seen some awesome miracles. Noelia and her family accepted a baptismal fecha again, Rafael accepted a fecha, Jose our friend is significantly happier and warmly welcomes us to his house, he also accepted to get baptized. Its awesome!!! Also I had another lightbulb moment when I was studying preach my gospel and I realized that all missionary work really is is sharing your testimony with random people all day every day. That made me feel really good too. So wow. Three months left to work with the knowledge I should have had since day one! Wooohooooooo
Also hermana Christiansen said something really profound this week. ¨Eficiency is not a requisite to get into the kingdom of God, but patience is.¨ Theres your deep thought for the week.
God lives. He loves us. He has a dang good plan and we are like way blessed to live in the last dispensation and be able to participate in ALL the ordinances that have been revealed. Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, dangit, and the Book of Mormon is the Lord´s tool to prepare us for His second coming. Work hard.
Love and hugs.
Hermana Scott
I get a lot of complaints that I dont write enough about the mission. Well... luckilly families are eternal! Theres enough time to hear aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalll the mission stories. Nah Im joking. I am sorry, I will be better.* (*Phrases I learned on the mission.)
This week I had some of the COOLEST most SPIRITUAL experiences of my entire life.
The first thing was the awesome opportunity that we had to go see the familia Salas get sealed. Hermana Granados has been working with them for about 3 months, and we got special permission to go and support them on their special day. It was the first time EVER in my LIFE that I go to see a sealing. And so Im like the little slowpoke meme, like, guys, did you know that sealings are awesome??? Oh wait, yes you did. It was the most beautiful thing I have EVER SEEN EVER and I laughed, I cried, it moved me, Bob. Im not even joking I swear that is the most marvelous thing I have ever seen.
And I walked out of that thing, like, why did nobody tell me how great this is??? And then I was like... oh... Why did nobody tell me that? That is is exactly why I am on the mission!!! It was like a little lightbulb like DING here´s why you decided to serve and you didnt even know. I feel like Im doing this whole mission thing backwards. I work and work and work and work and after one year of working Im like, oh, I think I get why we share the gospel! I always tease Ben that he´s really slow to pick up on things and here I am like it only took me 20 years of my life to figure out what ¨families are forever¨ means, gosh. But whatever! Better late than never! Literally THE BEST. God is AWESOME.
Other things that happened that day is that Valeria got baptized!! All her family are members so it was really cool. Her cousin came to baptize her and I think we had a good 45 people in attendance-- like about the size of Sacrament meeting here-- of just her family members and friends. It was awesome. She was awesome, gave a great testimony, she got confirmed, and shes going to the temple this weekend so there you are!!! Set!
Its been just great. We have seen some awesome miracles. Noelia and her family accepted a baptismal fecha again, Rafael accepted a fecha, Jose our friend is significantly happier and warmly welcomes us to his house, he also accepted to get baptized. Its awesome!!! Also I had another lightbulb moment when I was studying preach my gospel and I realized that all missionary work really is is sharing your testimony with random people all day every day. That made me feel really good too. So wow. Three months left to work with the knowledge I should have had since day one! Wooohooooooo
Also hermana Christiansen said something really profound this week. ¨Eficiency is not a requisite to get into the kingdom of God, but patience is.¨ Theres your deep thought for the week.
God lives. He loves us. He has a dang good plan and we are like way blessed to live in the last dispensation and be able to participate in ALL the ordinances that have been revealed. Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, dangit, and the Book of Mormon is the Lord´s tool to prepare us for His second coming. Work hard.
Love and hugs.
Hermana Scott
Sunday, November 6, 2016
This week we had a great family night with the family Fariña. I think I wrote Ruth about that. We are also prepping for Valerias baptism which is tomorrow!!! She is so great. She has such a light of Christ in her eyes and she, more than anyone, is really ready to take on the baptismal covenant.
Our English class is going great. Im learning a lot about being a good teacher. Its probably better to start now in a free english class of the church than make the same mistakes in a real classroom hahah. Its actually been really successful, we have had a lot of investigators coming and we almost always can go visit them in their houses after the class. Its good because it gets them to feel comfortable in the Church. Also this week we taught them to pray in English, we teach sentences like I am a child of God and stuff like that. And then afterwards we had a great ward night, we all played volleyball and had popcorn. It was great. Actives, less actives, investigators, recent converts, and we had SO much fun. It was really the best.
And what else.... uhhh we are still teaching Jose. He is good. He doesnt feel prepared to get baptized and I dont know why but I hope and pray that he will!!!
Me and the pph [my companions] are doing awesome. They are so wonderful Im pretty sure they are going to get lifted up like the City of Enoch because they are both perfect.
Im gonna send pictures.
Today we are going out to eat at a fancy restaurant and dye my hair again! And then I think we are going to get to go to a sealing for a family.. That will be cool too! We are celebrating because its hermana Christiansens one year on the mission.
***
with valeria and my friend raquel-- she came with me on divisions
us with the flia fariña with noche de hogar
our activity was how to build a happy and successful family. it was really fun! you had to get this little piece of paper and pass it person to person in a funny way, like from your ear to the next persons elbow, or from the foot to the head of the next person.. well in the end all the papers had little things that we can do to have a successful family!
Sooo heres me in English class... me at lunch.. and some other random things if you were interested
Our English class is going great. Im learning a lot about being a good teacher. Its probably better to start now in a free english class of the church than make the same mistakes in a real classroom hahah. Its actually been really successful, we have had a lot of investigators coming and we almost always can go visit them in their houses after the class. Its good because it gets them to feel comfortable in the Church. Also this week we taught them to pray in English, we teach sentences like I am a child of God and stuff like that. And then afterwards we had a great ward night, we all played volleyball and had popcorn. It was great. Actives, less actives, investigators, recent converts, and we had SO much fun. It was really the best.
And what else.... uhhh we are still teaching Jose. He is good. He doesnt feel prepared to get baptized and I dont know why but I hope and pray that he will!!!
Me and the pph [my companions] are doing awesome. They are so wonderful Im pretty sure they are going to get lifted up like the City of Enoch because they are both perfect.
Im gonna send pictures.
Today we are going out to eat at a fancy restaurant and dye my hair again! And then I think we are going to get to go to a sealing for a family.. That will be cool too! We are celebrating because its hermana Christiansens one year on the mission.
***
with valeria and my friend raquel-- she came with me on divisions
us with the flia fariña with noche de hogar
our activity was how to build a happy and successful family. it was really fun! you had to get this little piece of paper and pass it person to person in a funny way, like from your ear to the next persons elbow, or from the foot to the head of the next person.. well in the end all the papers had little things that we can do to have a successful family!
Sooo heres me in English class... me at lunch.. and some other random things if you were interested
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