Teaching at the high school was a really cool experience. And a lot of fun too! It was so interesting because I was only a few years older than most of them. So I could really identify with them. Surprisingly the group that we taught (because our Zone Leaders also came and taught a group) didn't ask too many tough questions. They were all very respectful and asked great questions! What was the best part about it was the Spirit that was there as we testified of the Book of Mormon and the Prophet Joseph Smith. The Spirit was so strong there in that class room and it was impossible to deny. Another awesome thing that happened was that we put out about 15 copies of the Book of Mormon and all the main pamphlets out on a table. As all of the students left, all of the copies were gone in about ten seconds. That was so awesome to see. So now there's a bunch of Seventh-Day High School kids walking around with the Book of Mormon! There were definitely a lot of seeds planted that day.
We had a zone conference this last week and it was super great! My MTC companion, Elder Turley, was there! It was so great to see him again. And another crazy thing that happened. We got a training from this one guy from Salt Lake that's head over all of the fleet vehicles in the world in the church! And they installed these monitor things in our cars that tracks everything, speed, seatbelts, etc. It definitely makes driving way more nerve racking.
Unfortunately, we had to drop Bob. There came to a point where he refused to put in the work necessary. Hopefully this separation will be only temporary and he'll recognize the difference in his life without the gospel.
Dharma is doing great though! She's reading in the Book of Mormon everyday and she's loving it!
We saw Steve last Saturday. That was definitely the highlight of the week. The time that we had saw him before that we had bugged him again about setting a baptismal date. He gave us the same answer, he wants to be baptized but just doesn't want to set a date. So, we invited him to pray about it. Pray and ask your Heavenly Father if baptism is the thing that you need to do. We followed up with him on Saturday, and he told us that he had a story to tell. He wanted to continue listening to the Book of Mormon one night but he lost his spot (he has to listen to the audio because he has super bad eyes). So he just clicked on a random chapter to try and find his spot again. The "random" chapter he clicked on was 2 Nephi 31. This chapter outlines the doctrine of Christ: faith in Jesus Christ, repentence, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end. Absolute miracle. Steve also knew that him stumbling across this chapter was no coincidence. We then asked him if he took that as his answer that if he should be baptized. He said, "I know it is, the Lord if guiding me down this path." It was so amazing to hear him say that, and then he continued on to say, "So... how does a big guy like me get dunked?" Haha I loved that. We set a baptismal date for him for June 13th. Steve is an amazing man and it's been such an amazing blessing to teach him. His barrier is definitely going to be his physical health. He is one mighty man in a Spiritual sense, but definitely not so much physically. In fact he was unable to make it to church yesterday because he had some more health complications. So please keep him in your prayers!
Elder Shugart and I were able to both give talks in sacrament meeting yesterday. The topic? Missionary work! It was super great. Hopefully we got the ward excited about missionary work.
It's so amazing to see the people whom the Lord has prepared. It makes me so happy to be an instrument in the hands of God. I love being a missionary!
Love you all!
Elder Scott
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