The People He Places in our Path

Hello Family!

This has been a pretty interesting week. It kinda feels like not much really happened.

We had a pretty rough time this week having lessons. It seemed like none of our investigators were home and everyone we met didn't really want to talk to us! So that was pretty rough this week. But our main progressing investigator Bernice is still doing really well. We were able to commit her to live the word of wisdom this last week! We're still working with her with the whole marriage thing... So she's coming along.

There are these huge fairgrounds right down the street from where we live. And this last weekend there was this huge, crazy music festival. Crazy music and loud, obnoxious crowds aren't very fun when you're trying to sleep--thankfully it's all over now! 

We're having stake conference this weekend. We're all pretty excited for it. Elder Johnson from the First Quorum of the Seventy is speaking. And apparently he's a fireball! He was also born in Mexico, so Spanish is his first language and he's doing a session just for the Spanish Branch all about missionary work, which is super exciting. We're really hoping that it will get all members here even more excited about missionary work!

Pretty interesting experience tracting this last week. Three different people in a row that we met were expressively opposed to the church. With all three people we had respectful, good conversations, but all three had very strong anti-mormon feelings. The odds of running into three in a row, all of them having absolutely no affiliation with each other, but they all tried to tear us and our beliefs down. It's very interesting sometimes to think about the people that God places in our path and the reasoning behind it. At times it's difficult not yield to those temptations of being discouraged, but I have definitely come to know on my mission that every single thing that we face in this life is for our good. Every trial, hardship and heartache that we experience is meant to build us up, make us stronger and mold us into the people that we need to be.

Thanks for all of your love, prayers and support!

Love you all!

Elder Scott