"I love being a missionary!"

Hello Everyone!

Man, it's been a pretty slow week this week. We've really had some trouble getting in with some of our investigators, which is pretty unfortunate, but we know that this next week is going to be great!

We've mainly been struggling with our investigator who's on date for baptism, Rashel Stanley. She's been really sick lately and we haven't been able to see her at all. We're afraid that we'll have to reschedule her baptism date. She still having a lot of trouble with coming to church and with the word of wisdom.

Something really amazing happened on Saturday night. We visited one of our investigators, Karen and her granddaughter Abby (who's a less-active member). And when we first came over, we knew that it wasn't going to be a very good lesson. Karen had some friends over and they were crowded around the TV watching the Seahawks game. It was very loud and it was very hard to listen to the Spirit. But still, we continued to do all that we could to have a descent lesson with her. She was telling us about how much she loved the Book of Mormon and the Restoration pamphlet that we gave to her. She even answered all of the questions in the back of the pamphlet, which I've never seen anyone do! We answered a few questions that she had about it. And as we were talking, her granddaughter, Abby, jumped in the conversation and said, "Grandma, have you been baptized?" Karen then said, "Well, I was when I was a little girl in the baptist church..." We then told her more about the restoration of the priesthood, and about proper authority. By then, we were pretty reluctant to invite her to be baptized, because of all of ruckus from the game going on and people screaming. But then I remembered something that we learned about in our Zone meeting--never hesitate to ask someone to be baptized. So we did! And she excepted. She's planning to be baptized on February 7th. And we're so excited for her! And she also came to church yesterday and really enjoyed herself. Keep her in your prayers!

We had a zone meeting this last Saturday. And we were all given a piece of paper that went over all of the technology policies in the mission. And after we all read through it, one of our zone leaders said, "President Ware wants us to be prepared for when they come." And we ALL knew exactly what they were talking about--iPads. So I guess we might be getting iPads pretty soon. We think that it will be right after the mission splits.

EVERYONE is getting sick around her. Honestly, when we go tracting, probably one in every three people have the flu. It's pretty crazy. And neither Elder Pullman or I have had any symptoms--yet! So we're really doing our best to stay healthy!

We're going on exchanges tomorrow with our district leader. And I'll get to take over the area! I'm actually pretty excited! I've never been able to do it before so I'm really looking forward to it.

Thank you all so much for all that you do. Thank you for keeping me in your thoughts and prayers. I love being a missionary! And even when we have pretty tough weeks like this when the work was slow, I'm still so grateful for this opportunity to serve the Lord.

I love you all!

Elder Scott