We were able to go on exchanges with our Zone Leaders this past week. It was a very good experience and I learned so much. I went down to Ephrata with Elder Hansen. Elder Hansen is an amazing missionary. He's been out for about 18 months and he's from Price, Utah. And he's actually a Spanish speaking missionary and we were able to have three lessons that night in Spanish. It was pretty tough. Since there's not much Spanish work here in Omak we don't get very many opportunities to use it. But it was definitely good to get some practice in.
Something pretty interesting happened two Saturday's ago that I forgot to mention. There's a small town in our area called Conconully and once a year for the past 20 years they've held a world renowned event: Outhouse races. They set up a race track in the middle of the road and people from all over the country bring their outhouses mounted on skiis. Haha it was fun to see.
We were unable to see Karen at all this week. This flu that's going around is seriously hitting all of our most progressing investigators. Thankfully she's still on date for the 7th of February. But we're really going to have to pick up the pace with her! So please keep her in your prayers.
This last transfer we've had a pretty big struggle with getting new investigators. For some reason we were just unable to meet anyone new. But this week we were able to get five new investigators. Which is such a huge blessing! The first two were Dan and Cynthia. It was a pretty interesting with them. They live together and they have only known each other for about six weeks. Cynthia had been homeless for the past few months and Dan found her in the Walmart parking lot and told her that she could stay with him till she gets back on her feet. They both have a VERY religious background. Dan is a very "spiritual" man and Cynthia has been baptized in pretty much every single Christian church you can think of haha, except for the LDS Church! So there are definitely some barriers with them, but it's going to be very enjoyable to see where it goes from here. Yesterday we contacted a referral from a member who had told us that he had gone with the missionaries to see an investigator before. So we decided to check it out! Their names are Brett and Flory. They have a nice big family and are very Christian. They have met with missionaries in the past and apparently Flory is a distant relative of Joseph Smith? Who knows! But since I've been in the field we've never been able to teach an entire family. So I'm sooooooooo excited to be able to start teaching them. And the last new investigator we had this week is Chris. We met his mom while tracting a few weeks ago and have never been able to meet with her again. But we tried again last night and we had a really amazing conversation with Chris. He's still in High School and he's very curious about the Book of Mormon. I'm so grateful that I've been blessed to be able to be apart of these peoples lives. And to be able to have a certain knowledge that will bring them so much happiness.
I think my biggest improvement this week is the love I have obtained for the people here. Every single of our investigators are just so amazing and I want so much for them. I'm so grateful for the Lord for placing these people in my life and for the chance that I have to serve them and in turn serve my Heavenly Father. I love this gospel and I love this church. It's brought me so much happiness in my life and it makes me even more happy to be able to share that happiness with others.
I love you all so much! And I'm so grateful for all you do for me!
Elder Scott
p.s. The 29th is Elder Pullman's ONE YEAR MARK!!! WOO HOO!!!
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