Pues para empezar....well to start, we decided to do p-day a little different. we went ahead and shopped, Cut the good ol' hair, and then played some soccer for a few hours and then we went to a Brazilian Steak house and now we are here. The nightmare comes to us in the rare form of stupidity brought to us by the people at the Brazilian Steak house. We told them to charge us 16 missionaries separately. We get to paying, and they can only accept 6 cards....what why.....they put us all on the same bill and the bill can only take 6 cards.....now the manager is mad. OK nobody has cash...so I'm just like, get me cash asap, but I will pay now, so we can leave. I pay, and it is $100.00, and we are like, what? why so much?....there are 6 of us, which would be 75......and the guy is like, well you guys should have paid separately, and we were like, excuse me, you can't do that. So I was charged too much, which got fixed when Elder Arouja paid the difference.....but these guys wouldn't give us the money....so he went off in portuguese on these guys, and we ended up just walking out. We can't have contention....not right now...
So this week was interestingly freaky....just so you know...don't be near Salem near Halloween, it is spooky...and there are a bunch of idiots....in terms of wearing all black and jumping out in front of cars at night time......ugh...guys....do you want to die?, hello? think about it....living or not?...ugh
Ummm also this week, we had a mission conference in Weston....that is the town name....and Elder Lawrence came, he is a 70, and he taught us of our lineage and about consecration and the gathering of scattered Israel. Normally, when he does mission tours, he ends up speaking about obedience, and he didn't here. He then said over the pulpit...."I know exactly what Elder Holland was talking about a few months ago, this mission is the best mission I have seen in a long time....you guys have a real chance at getting to the next level...in fact you are the closest I have seen....it was sweet!"
Let me see here...in the mission, we set a goal of baptizing 70 people in the month of November as a mission total....historically, the Massachusetts Boston Mission has never baptized more than 59 in a month. So we set this goal and currently we have 110 dates set for the month. OK here is the catch. In order for us to accomplish this goal, we have all, as missionaries, and some members, decided to sacrifice something in our personal lives, such as 30 minutes of sleep every day for this month, or candy, or sugar, or things of the sort. Something that is important to us, that we enjoy and love, but are willing to do without to show our Heavenly Father that we want this Goal....its a sacrifice for more Blessing. So, if you want to help out, you are invited to. Pray about what it is that you could give up for a month to support the goal over here. It is a stretch, that WILL HAPPEN. WE WILL DO IT. There are no doubts over here. In all of our prayers, public and Private, we are praying for this as well.....
IM SO PUMPED TO DO THIS.
We had a zone meeting this week, and I had to help the ZL's in motivating the Zone and helping the Zone to create a Zone Sacrifice as well. AND i realize now that for some reason, I like motivating people......its something that lets me be fun and energetic and lead....its sweet.
Let me see here.....we don't have heat in our apartment...so we are living at 64 degrees....It isn't too pleasant...but we found out today that we are moving either this week or next week...so yippee. We will be getting a gym near our new place...and so I'm pumped for that as well.
Something cool that we learned as part of the mission conf. was that the reason people are most likely interested in the message we share is because they have what Sister Lawrence calls "Believing Blood". What that means is that they are most likely Descendants of Abraham and with that they are naturally inclined to heed to the message and precepts taught because they are from that blood line. They are the chosen people of the Lord, literally. Those of us who are Descendants of Abraham, or of the covenant people, we are more inclined to like it.....food for thought....and I encourage all who don't really know too much about their lineage, to study it and understand their role in the building of Zion on the Earth today.
Well love you, and have a great week.
Elder Scott
pic1...so i had an itchy back....and i grabbed what was closest, and i thought i grabbed a closed pen and use the back of it. turns out it was wrong....way wrong....completely and 100% wrong. but it sure did feel good at the time before realizing it...we got the stain out though....so no worries.
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