Thankfully the weeks are picking up their pace again. We're staying busy and working hard! We experienced somewhat of a "heat wave" this week. It went up to around 35 degrees which actually made a pretty big difference when we are out tracting. Much better than being out in the single digits.
We received some pretty bad news last week. We've been volunteering at the elementary school weekly ever since I got here. Normally that's very against the rules! Because we're supposed to working with kids at all. But the school district superintendent is also on the stake high council. And he was able to get permission from President Ware himself. So we've been going every Tuesday helping the little kids read. It's been so awesome! We've been able to meet so many people and plant so many seeds. But this last week, we had one of the senior couple missionaries come and observe us. And we were told that we would no longer be able to continue with the service project. Pretty big bummer. But the couple missionaries told us how great of a program it was and how much missionary work we were doing. It's just that rules are rules!
We were also able to volunteer for the food bank again this week. This time we went to a grocery store and sat at a table and accepted all of the food donations. It was lots of fun and we were able to talk to a TON of people!
We got one new investigator this week. We were knocking on doors last week and this woman answers the door with her husband and immediately invites us in. Her name is Marsella and she is very very kind. And she speaks Spanish! When we went inside she told us they were pretty busy but said we could come back on Friday at 4. So guess what we did... We came back on Friday at 4! And we had an amazing lesson about the Plan of Salvation. When we got to know her a bit more, she had a lot of questions about the afterlife and our discussion really helped out a lot. Unfortunately, her husband at the time wasn't very interested in joining in on the discussion. But we'll work with that! She's really great and I feel so blessed to be able to have all of these people fall into my lap and be apart of their lives.
Good news and bad news about yesterday. The good news is that Tom came to church! The bad news is that Rosemary (his wife) did not. Apparently last week they went through a VERY rough patch with their marriage. So Tom is kicked out again. We haven't been able to contact Rosemary at all. But Tom is still making a lot of good choices. He's relying on Heavenly Father and the Atonement to help him through this time. Keep them in your prayers!
Last Saturday we took our investigator, Eric, on a church tour. It was a really cool experience because I've never done one before. So it was really fun and it had a very strong Spirit. Until... we invited him to attend church. After the tour we asked him if he will come with us to church this Sunday. And he said, "...I'm okay. I'm happy with my church." But we're not giving up on him yet! He's already read to Jacob in the Book of Mormon. So he'll come around!
So we just heard some CRAZY news. The Washington Kennewick Mission is being split! Again! About a year and a half ago they created the Vancouver Mission out of some other missions in Washington. But now they are making ANOTHER mission it's called the Washington Yakima MIssion. It will be split this July. And the area that I'm in right now is in that missions boundary. So I have no idea what mission I'll end up in. But either way, it's pretty exciting stuff!
It's been a great week! I continue to learn so much everyday and I'm so truly grateful for this opportunity that I have to be a missionary and bring eternal happiness to others.
Love you all!
Elder Scott
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