Hello there family! I hope you are all doing well today, and that maybe there´s a little bit of sun today that you can enjoy. The sun´s definitely out here, and I will do my best to enjoy it as sweat pours down my face :)
So I would like to share an interesting experience that I had this week. Remember how I told you that I jumped out of a window on my 3rd day in the field? Yeah, that was funny and all, but it was also one of the dumbest things I´ve ever done. So ever since that day, my foot has hurt. I´m really not trying to be dramatic, but literally, every day it has hurt. The doctors of the mission told me I had a little fracture in my heel bone and that it would take a while to heal, but whether I was walking or not it would be a while. So they gave me little foot shoe insole insert things, and they helped, but when I came to Cieneguilla they just stopped having any affect because we just walk everywhere all the time. So I had to go to a real doctor....and to make a long story short, they told me it wasn´t a fracture, but that something internal was damaged and that if I didn´t treat it, it would become chronic. (UH OH, Hermana Scott. Way to be a genius!) You don´t need to worry or anything, I´m fine, but the other day I went to the clinic to get a shot. And this was not your every day shot. It was a GIANT NEEDLE that they shoved in my heel. I was laying on this little doctor bed thing that smelled like babies, trying to play it cool, but as soon as he put the needle in I kind of freaked out. Because he didn´t change the location of the needle, but while this GIANT needle was in my foot, he just moved it around and inserted the liquid in the other parts. Does that make sense? There was just ONE little hole, but my whole heel got filled with this stuff, and he moved it around in the bone...oh man, it was the grossest thing of my life. So I don´t tell you this so that you worry, but I´m telling you because now my foot doesn´t hurt AT ALL! Seriously, everything is completely good. My foot is healed, and life goes on!
So this week was super fun! I told you about Luis and that sweet, awesome family last week. The
family went out of town this week, so we couldn´t visit them, but Luis told us straight up that he wants to get baptized!!!!! So he has a baptism date for the 22nd of THIS MONTH! How crazy is that??? It´s super exciting, and he is just learning and progressing so fast. We have another investigator, Ignacio, who we have been teaching for a while. He has a date too, for the first of March. He is so sweet, he loves the gospel so much. He studies the Book of Mormon SO thoroughly and understands everything. It´s amazing. These two guys were so prepared for the gospel, we literally didn´t do anything but find them in the street. God has been working on them for a long time, and he just put them right in our path.
I wanted to tell a little bit more about Luis...when we went to his house this week, we told him that we wanted to bring some members over to help him around the house, and to help him clean some stuff out since he lives alone and it´s probably been a while since there´s been a deep clean in there.
So he took us to go see the rest of his house, and literally never in my life have I seen so much gross stuff. Just piles of old, dirty clothes, buckets of nasty water (seriously, who knows what that stuff was), dust and dirt covering every thing, old food, trash, bottles and cans and so much stuff! It was
just a never ending mess. Hermana Mack and I were so surprised, because while we had been there before, we never even knew! We had no idea. Where we always teach him is in the front part of his house, which is still outside, and it´s just normal and clean. A little cluttered, but NOTHING like the rest of his house. We sat down after our little "tour" and he told us that he was so thankful for us, that after so many years, he could feel like he was changing. He kept looking around his house saying, "This is all going to change. I´m really changing everything." I´m telling you, this man is amazing. Though his house may be a disaster, he has really decided to give over everything he has and all that has been over to the Lord, change his life, and start brand new.
One time, a missionary who was about to leave said this in a big meeting of missionaries, and I´ll never forget her words. She said, "God doesn´t send us out here because he needs us. He could do all of this on his own. He sends us out here to GIVE US the oportunity of meeting these people, and having a small part in His great work."
Do you know how true that is? I can´t even being to explain how true that is. Even in the hardest moments, it´s an "oportunity". I just have to really learn to see it like that, even through those hard times.
Well, I am really happy! Hermana Mack and I are just having a blast and preaching the gospel here in Cieneguilla, Lima, Peru. You should look this place up because it´s probably the prettiest place I´ve seen in my whole life.
I LOVE YOU! Thanks for loving me, and just know that I love you more than I can say!
Have a great week!
ALL of my amor,
Hermana Scott
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