Scott Boys' Mission Adventures: [Mason] Me vs. the World

This last week was Fantastic, And the Duties as a Trainer dont even seem real anymore, because im so far past them. We are really getting along great. Elder Vizcardo has a great Knowledge of the Bible and I do not.....and so he, almost daily, reviews the bible with me, and so now I don't have to worry to much about certain stories that we refer to, and then I take over and I teach him how to be a better teacher and how to be a more focused and effective missionary...he also corrects and helps me with my Spanish....but its all good.

Alexander and Ariana.....our two awesome investigators......we taught them the gospel of Jesus Christ and invited them to be baptized, just a soft invitation, and they accepted.....and we then decided at that moment to not set a date, but to re-invite with a date after we teach the Plan of Salvation......now we had planned on teaching the plan of salvation, but things change according to what God wants....right?

We taught Jesenia and Santos, our Couple of 21Yr olds, and we have finished all the lessons so far, and now they cant get enough of Gospel Principles, so we are beginning that right now.

Amelia and Raisa.....slowly progressing. Amelia needs work off so that we can set a Date with her. Raisa is Catholic and likes being catholic. She believes in the BOM.....so right now she has homework to answer a Question we left her.

Rolando and Soila.....we haven't seen them, they keep cancelling....but not cancelling because for reasons that are classic.....they are legit reasons,,,,,,so we are patiently waiting for an appt to be set again.

Jade Shawn and Awilda are in limbo in terms of the fact that sure they want to learn, but they don't keep commitments nor do they answer our phone calls or the door....so we are kind of dropping them.

Emily, angel and Angie.....we haven't seen them for a while.....they kind of disappeared. and the member kind of slacked off, and she was our communicator for them.

Sonya caba is slowly getting into the BOM....and we have left everything in her hands.....if she wants to continue...ok great.....lets go...bu we are waiting for her to make the choice.

Stephanie velez.....ugh...answer the door and phone......

Maria came to church last week, not this week, but we are waiting for the divorce of Sergio's wife, so that Maria can Marry Sergio and then get baptized and so we are waiting for that stuff to process.

So ya we worked with a lot of members as well

But the message of this week is that we all encounter various levels of stress in our lives, and a lot of it is accumulated through our own selves not accepting the will of God. Now I don't mean that in the same way as doing what God wants us to do. We have things that happen that cause us to be mad. I am a witness to this and i testify that this is truth. things that don't go our way Make us unhappy, and until now i never realized that when we get unhappy and stressed and mad, we are not accepting the Will of God and we are making ourselves Prideful. Thursday, our day when we normally weekly plan, was destroyed by some key miscommunication that really made me, Elder Scott mad. I have a hard time accepting and being ok with things that are out of my control....so what happened was that somebody needed our keys...and so we gave them up with the agreement that we will see them in an hour at our chapel, where we will do our planning. It turns out that they never went to our chapel, and didn't let us know, so we show up, and nobody there, and then by the time we locate the keys....we have an appt. and so we couldn't go get them because they were 45 minutes from us. after the appt., we left to get them, picked them up and had to drive an hour back to another appt that was already far from the church. so we missed out on a revelatory experience and on some good solid planning for the next week. ....so the whole day I was mad...up until the end of the night, when Vizcardo say, crap dude we didn't go get that thing at Walmart for so and so....and so on our way home, we stopped by. while here, we met the most wonderful lady ever, and it made my day better. now if the keys wouldn't have been lost, and the time "wasted" through endless driving, we would not have seen her nor talked to her.

All things happen to help us get to where we need to go, not necessarily where we want to go. I pray that we can all accept the hard cold truth, that God has his plan. and His plan is not Our plan unless we make it our own. let us all be willing to put a smile on and take the next step on the path.

So, as we are all pretty aware, my brother and I are nearing the good ol' 1 Year Mark in the Mission, as well as the Big 20th....whew....and all I really want here is to help the people understand that the Savior Really can help them with their troubles. The Savior can do anything which is why he is our Savior. He will save us from our lives. He is also our Redeemer. for her will redeem us of our mistakes. I just want the people here to listen to this message. it will help them. I know it will, it has helped me. Christ has healed me and lifted me up, and now all i want is for the people here to have the ability through Christ to Stand up and move forward.

As I learn more of how to be an even better missionary, I find better was to how I can truly help people understand this message.

Have a good week, and Remember that Jesus Christ Lived, Died, and Lives. Remember is a powerful word. it means: to have in or be able to bring to one's mind an awareness of (someone or something that one has seen, known, or experienced in the past). We all knew him before.

Love,