Buenos dias, familia!
Holy cow, I honestly can´t believe it´s Monday again. Seriously, this week flew by. That´s what everyone told me, though...the days are long, you sleep easily, but the weeks fly by. That is becoming very true.
Today is my feliz cumple mes!! I have successfully survived 2 months here in Peru. This week is exactly 9 weeks. If you say I have 16 months left, that sounds like a long time, but if you say I have 69 weeks left, that really does not seem like any time at all. It´s flying by, and it´s just going to go faster. It scares me a little bit.
Okay, first story is really funny. Last night, we had a family home evening with 13 people. It was so great and it reminded me of the Lattins and that crazy house. One of the brothers has a baby, who is adorable. We had just had this really spiritual lesson, and then the baby walked in to the middle of the room and just let out this HUGE fart. I seriously could not stop laughing. It was kind of embarrassing actually...I guess I´m still pretty immature. I was laughing at the baby, but everyone else was laughing at my reaction. What can I say, farts are funny.
Okay, serious now. This week was super hard. We did not have much success. In the mission, you have to be careful of how you measure success, because the people we teach aren´t just numbers, they are souls. That sounds cheesy, but it´s true. Our goal may have been to have 5 new investigators, but we don´t walk the streets thinking, "okay, gotta get one more, we need to beat the Elders this week" It´s not like that. That´s not how God thinks of his children, so we shouldn´t either. At the same time, it´s hard to feel like we aren´t making any progress. Plus, my companion and I argued a ton this week. I am not an easy person to work with sometimes...I am pretty stubborn, or really stubborn. I think I know everything. (I´ve always been a Daddy´s girl...haha, love you daddy) But it caused problems this week. That didn´t add to our level of success. I learned a lot about patience, and humility. I am constantly learning.
After a week with zero, yes ZERO new investigators, we were pretty discouraged. Not many of our investigators are progressing either. Yesterday, we prayed to be able to see a miracle. We prayed for humility, patience, and faith. It was a hard day, but we had some great lessons. The best was in that family home evening. We taught about the Restoration and the story of Joseph Smith. So remember, there were 13 people there. Two weren´t members, and one was already our investigator. The other was the wife of the guy with the baby. Actually they're not married. But anyway, 2 non members. We gave the most powerful lesson we´ve ever given. I just spoke in Spanish like I was speaking English, it was crazy. We just taught straight from the heart, and the spirit was so strong. It was one of those times when you just couldn´t deny the power of the spirit in that room. But we were about to finish, and my companion started to ask her if she wanted to be baptized. I was freaking out internally because I just didn´t know if it was the best idea in that moment....but she said YES. SHE SAID YES. What?!?!? It was amazing. It proved to me the strength of companionships, because she felt something that I didn´t, and it resulted in a miracle for us. The Lord blessed us in a way we never could have imagined. After a long, hard week, we were able to see a beautiful, yet simple miracle. This is the Lord´s work! I am learning that every day...The Lord works THROUGH us. We aren´t the ones that work miracles.
So things are good. Spanish is coming. It´s still hard, but it´s coming. I was pretty sick the other day. I hadn´t felt good all day, I had made a number of trips to the bathroom, and there was this moment when we were walking that I felt so sick...and I didn't know what to tell my companion so I just stopped walking, and in English said, "Stop please" Maybe that´s not funny to you, but looking back I think it´s hilarious. Life is interesting here, to say the least. But it is great.
I love you all so much. I hope that all is well, that the week was good, You are constantly in my prayers. Take care, enjoy the first week of October!! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Scott
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