We just follow Him and He does it all

Hey there family! I hope you had a great week, I love, LOVE the picture from graduation. Seriously, it makes me feel slightly weird but at the same time I love it and I am really happy that I could kind of be there to support the big stud on his big day :) Thank you family, for being weird enough to bring a giant cardboard picture of me to a large public gathering. If that´s not love, I don´t know what is.

I´m writing you today from my new area, Canadá en San Luis, Lima, Perú! It happened, transfers came. It´s been a little rough this week, I really do honestly miss Cieneguilla like crazy. I cried a lot the first few days, during breakfast, during lunch, during dinner. Sometimes during planning at night. In the bathroom. The good news is that I´m not a super dramatic crier. Just a few tears that come from the soul, as I like to say. But I think that I´ve cried enough, and the truth is I really like my new area. I just have to learn to love it just as much as I love Cieneguilla. 

My new companion is really great. Her name is Hermana Arratia, from Bolivia. These days, she´s been really supportive when I´ve been a little sad about leaving Cieneguilla. She was originally called to serve in Venezuela, but she had to wait for her visa so she started in Bolivia. Four days before Christmas, they sent her to Venezuela, and just 2 months ago she came to Peru because the situation is really bad in Venezuela. So all of her transfers have been a little bit more intense. She is really great, and she teaches really well. We get along really well...we´re really different, but it´s okay. It´s working out well for now.

Something really cool happened the other day. We were walking to an appointment, and a guy stopped us in the street and told me he had a Bible that he wanted to give me because it was in English and he didn´t know how to read it. It made me laugh at first, I thought "How do they ALWAYS know I speak English?" but he went into his store to look for the Bible and we waited for him outside. When he came out, I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time, because it was a Book of Mormon!!! I couldn´t stop smiling. He said, "I really want to read it but I don´t know how, so when you passed by I thought you might like to read it." It was just one of the sweetest moments of my life. We talked to this man about the Book of Mormon, told him that we were going to send missionaries to his house, and gave him a Libro de Mormon that he can actually understand. It´s pretty amazing how God works. I always say we don´t do anything; we just follow Him and He does it all.

I want you to know that I am really happy, I love being a missionary, and I love you so much. I hope you have a great week, know that I love you and I will be talking to you soon!

ALL of my love,

Hermana Michelle Scott