I'm Going to Oregon!

It's been quite the eventful week! It was really good though. Never a dull moment in the mission field.

Well, I'm getting transferred. We're getting doubled out actually. It's pretty crazy and VERY unexpected. This is the third time in a row that I've been doubled out of an area. I'm being sent to Boardman, Oregon in the Hermiston Zone! I'm pretty excited. If there was one place that I could choose to go this would be the place! It's another "Zebra Area". So it will be both English and Spanish. I've heard a lot of great things about the area and I'm really looking forward to it. And Elder Freestone is getting transferred to College Place! My favorite place in the world! So I'm really excited for him too. It was pretty sad yesterday at church though. I've come to love the members here so much and it was pretty heartbreaking to say good-bye to so many. The mission really is so full of bitter-sweets. 

We had a great Thanksgiving. WAY too much food. We had two full dinners practically one after the other. I don't think I had ever been so full in my entire life than I was by the end of that day. Really great though.

We got a new Branch Mission Leader here, Hermano William. Probably one of the biggest bummers about leaving. Because he is just one of my favorite people in the world. He's a convert of only about a year and a half. But has one of the strongest testimonies that I've ever heard. Pretty crazy story with him that happened. Last weekend he got jumped! Outside of a restaurant, these guys stole his phone and wallet and busted up his nose and hurt his foot. And yet even in his condition we still had our correlation meeting. At the meeting he bore testimony to all of us that God gives us trials for a reason. And all he could think about was how sorry he felt for those people who hurt him. And that the experience he had made him want to share the gospel even more to those who need it. He's such an inspiration and an amazing missionary. 

We're doing something pretty cool as a mission. From now until Christmas, we're all reading the four gospels. It's about six pages a day. But I love it! I've been learning a lot and if I keep it up I'll be finished on Christmas day!

Here's my scripture for this week. Romans 8:35,37

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?... Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us."

Love you all! Have a great week!

Elder Scott