Spokane Valley- 5-mile Prairie Ward-Week #72

Temple Day!!!

What up, What up People!!! How was all of your Thanksgiving?!?! Mine was great minus the fact that I couldn't play any Football Thanksgiving Morning!!! 🙄 Its all good though! Its over now and I will get my full feel of the football when I get home!!  😂 Thats weird for me to think about that so I am going to stop now!! 😂 Anyways Thanksgiving was so great! We went to this super awesome Members house (The Beasley's) they fed us and filled us up big time!! It was an awesome Dinner.. Or Lunch I should say... 😂 Because we had it at like 1:00 PM... Which isn't out of the ordinary thats when we would have it normally back at home.. It is out of the ordinary for me because we were done eating by like 3... and that was our only Dinner.. #SadDay It was great though Sister Beasley's Brother actually lives in Syracuse!! Small world right?? He is actually in the Great Syracuse South Stake in the Harmony Bluff ward.. 😂 The church always finds a way to make the world smaller!! 😂 Speaking of that my Trainer (Elder Tsang) went home to Hong Kong about 3 weeks ago and when he got home he ran into a fellow ward member by the name of Sister Katelyn Anderson!! 😂 See even in Hong Kong the church is still there making the world smaller!! 😂 Thats pretty funny and great but its weird to think that November is already over!! It feels like it just started... We start December this week and we all know its about to start getting cold and snowy!! Buckle up ladies and gentlemen its going to be a bumpy ride! 😂 The faster we get this Winter over the happier I will be as a Missionary!! 😂 Anyways the work up here is really starting to pick up! Iove it!! This ward when I got here was pretty freaking dead... I think I told you all this, but my President sent me here and in my first interview with him told me that this area hasn't been worked in about 6 months... I was pretty shocked to hear that, and he told me that is the reason why I sent you here is to pick the work in the area. He told me he's seen me pick up the work in former areas and he wanted me to work the crap out of this area. (I was paraphrasing of course at that last part 😂) I don't say this to gloat, or to say "Hey look at me! I am such an awesome Missionary" I say this because Faith is important and attitude means EVERYTHING! Like President Dymock could have came in and told me that "hey this area hasn't been worked in 6 month have fun.." and end the interview right there. He showed that he has faith in me to trust God and do what he wants me to do. My or my companions attitudes could either make or break this area! If we walked around saying "This area is dead why are we even trying" then God will not bless us with miracles! That is some of the big things that I have learned being here is that we need to have Faith that God will put people in our paths and he will bless us with miracles to teach! If we don't believe he will then why would he do it for us then? I say this because people have been coming out of the Woodwork lately! Starting with the Sad news Margret (The one I talked about last week) dropped us Thanksgiving morning.. #SadDay she said she was very involved in her Lutheran church and she didn't want to waste our time... Its sad but God will prepare her when she is ready... Our other investigators are doing really well if we could meet with!! SATAN STILL NEEDS TO CHILLLL!!!! The rest of the world could do their missionary work easily because Satan is focusing all of his time and energy on 5 Mile Prairie!! 😂 I will update you all next week and to see if Satan has chilled since then!! 😂 Remember Miracles are happening in 5 Mile, Have the faith to see miracles, and Attitude means EVERYTHING!!! I love this work so much!! I love you all talk to you next week!!! LOVE YOUUUUUUUUU!!! 

Love, 

ELDER LOGAN SCOTT :) 

 Logan and his favorite zone

Saying goodbye to his favorite district and taking his car to the other elders

 Fish hatchery in his stake boundaries

Made you look!

Spokane Valley- 5-mile Prairie Ward-Week #71

HEY WHATS UP HELLO FRIENDS, FAMILY, And Acquaintances!! Well you all thought I just didn't want to email yesterday!?!? WRONG!!!😂 I got my P-day changed from yesterday to today!! The reason being is that we are going to the Temple today as a Zone! President just changed it a few months ago that if we are going to the Temple we have to take time out of our P-day to do it. There are 2 days we are assigned to go, Tuesday or Thursday. If you are going on Tuesday your P-day changes to Tuesday, If you are going on Thursday you have to take time out of your Monday P-day for the Temple! While I was in Davenport we ended our P-day by like 1 PM so we could go to the Temple! Before the change P-day was normal and we just took time out of our Normal day to go to the Temple! Personally I like that better! I only have like 3 more times to go to the Temple out here though so I am not even mad! 😂 Anyways thats why I am emailing today!! Well HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!! On Thursday.... I wished it! You can re-read this email on Thursday if you want it from me correctly! 😂 This week was full of Miracles! I am so glad this week was as awesome as it was!! I had my Birthday which was awesome!! 5 Mile really knows how to make someone feel really good on their Birthday!! I had constant texts, Members coming to drop off some desert, Which our fridge is chuck full of now! 😂 And just making it a special day!! It was probably one of the best birthdays I have ever had!! It was so great!!! I am truly blessed to see that people care about me and they love me! I couldn't ask for anything more!! That was my Birthday and we saw some Miracles on that day! We went to go see this lady that I have talked to before! A little back story on this lady I don't remember if I have told this story already or not.. If I have sorry for the repeat of a story! 😂 This was back when I had Elder Holmgren as my Companion! We were tracting one day and we knocked on this door, this lady answers and we go through the whole thing. Saying "Hey were the Missionaries, we are looking for service..." The same usual tracting thing we usually say! 😂 Anyways she goes on to say "Sorry this isn't a good time...I have a lot of family over because my Husband just died a week or so ago..." AHHHHHHHHHH (That was what my response was in my head) 😂 I didn't really say that I didn't know what to say because that was the first time anyone has ever been that open with me on a doorstep conversation!! I'll be honest I floundered and I said something along the lines of "Sorry to bother, we will come by some other time" and we left...... 😐 WHAT?!?! Yeah that was me! I have been thinking about that woman for a very long time!! Finally on Friday we went by and she was home! I made sure to fix the mistake that has been taking a toll on me for a while! We walked up and I testified to the Plan of Salvation to this Woman! Her name is Margret by the way... I don' t think I mentioned that! 😂 Anyways I testified of the Plan of Salvation and told her that she will see and live with her husband again as an Eternal Family and that God just didn't put us down here in Families and then for us to go up to Heaven and to just not care about that. Thats not what God is like. He is our Father in Heaven and he wants all of us, His Children to come back and live with him again as an Eternal Family! She loved that and was really interested in learning more!! We are having our first lesson with her tomorrow! Pray for us and Pray for her especially!! After that I felt weights lifted off my back! I no longer felt guilty for missing an opportunity there!! I have high hopes for Margret and I know she will do what God wants her to do! 😊 Thats Margret! Last night as we were walking back home we met a Ex-Member of the church! His name is David and he told us I have learned things about the church and I don't want to shake your faith so I won't tell you! I told him to lay it on me because there is nothing that can shake my faith of this church! He goes off and says the normal anti that we normally hear, and we kindly answer the questions that he asked! He wanted to argue with us and to kill our testimonies. He looked me straight in the eyes and said "I know for a fact that Joseph Smith didn't see God! He was a chump and a liar!" That struck a cord with me there... I looked straight back at him and I told him I knew without a shadow of a doubt that Joseph Smith in reality saw God! He was called to be a Prophet and lead and restore Gods true church back on the Earth!! It didn't change anything with him but I know that to be true!! I know without any doubt that this is true!! That is one thing that he or anyone else can't take away from me is my Testimony... That is the one big thing I learned this week is how powerful a or my testimony is! No one can change it or tell me what I believe!! I love this Gospel so much and it has really made my life better! As crazy as it might sound it really does bless our lives and bless our families! Its just Amazing let me tell you!! 😊 Being a Missionary is the best thing I could be doing right now! It sucks somedays and there are days where I hate my life and I just want to come home! At the end of the day though its all worth it and it would be dumb of me to come home anytime before July of 2018!😂 Oh and one last thing!! One of our services that we did this week we got the opportunity to butcher some Chickens!! First time for anything right??: It was fun but sad at the same time! It was a good time though!! 😂 I want to leave you on a Spiritual note. I love this Gospel so much, God still loves and talks to us today through our Modern day Prophet Thomas S. Monson! He has been called by God to lead and guide us today! Its been the best Message ever that we could share with anyone! Don't take my or anyone elses word for it! If you have questions ask God! He will in reality answer you! I know that to be true! Missions are hard but they are all worth it!! I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!! Eat lots of Pumpkin Pie for me!! LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!

Love, 

ELDER LOGAN SCOTT :) 

Comparison of Logan's breakfast and his companions

 Elder Wright and Logan mud wrestling at the horse ranch. Logan said Elder Wright wrestled for  BLOOD, not for fun!

 Celebrating Elder Robert's year mark! Burning of the shirt

 District weekly luncheon

Multiple birthday celebrations for Logan! Logan's birthday package from home.

Logan's surprise morning greeting. Sister Wallace and her kids delivered balloons and his favorite pumpkin and apple pies from us. We also sent him video greetings.

Tayler, Lindsey, and Sisters Hawkins, and Lotu decorated his bedroom with balloons

  Filled with 20 reasons that they loved him

 Worked on a chicken farm this day. Sad.

and a bit gross.

Spokane Valley- 5-mile Prairie Ward-Week #70

Logan in his new Tripanionship. Elder Roberts and Speckhard

HEEEEEELLLLLLLLOOOOOOO EVERYONE!!!!

My goodness I am actually emailing again!! I have felt like this has been the longest week that I have ever lived TBH!! 😂 I still had a lot of fun and talked to a bunch of unique people but just this last week felt like 2 months! 😂 Anyways a lot has happened!! Elder Speckhard and I got our new companion Elder Roberts this week! 

Elder Roberts

He is super cool and way funny! He makes things interesting and he keeps us on our toes thats for sure!! 😂 He is a good time and he has a really good heart! I love Tripanionships so much!! Instead of having only 1 Person to learn from you have 2! I love it! Also if you get annoyed with one of your companions, but you still want to talk to someone you have another guy to talk to ! Its great all around!! 😂 We saw a lot of miracles this week! We found 2 new investigators! Their names are Jake and Kate! They are a younger couple and they are pretty awesome!! Elder Speckhard and I talked to Kate about a month or so ago! It was either late September/Early October! Anyways we talked to her outside and she said she had a "Mormon" Friend! She explained to us what her friend told her and I don't know where this guy was going and what religion he was but whatever he was telling her was not right at all!! 😂 We helped her with it and we've talked through a lot of things! Then we met Jake separately and he said they would be down to take the lessons with us! WooHoo!! Come to find out later that he used to date a Mormon girl and she tried to have him take the lessons and what not. Then they broke up and he didn't have any contact of intent of getting in contact with the church!! Now look where they are now! They are too down for the lessons we gave them both a Book of Mormon and challenged them to read to Second Nephi by our next lesson on Wednesday! Kate is an English major and its only 53 pages that is super easy to do! 😂 Hopefully they do it!! I have faith sufficient!! 😂 We hit it off pretty well! They just roast and make fun of me a lot of the time! #Storyofmylife #Whatsnew But when its time to get serious we get serious and we have an awesome spiritually felt lesson!! I love it the spirit is really the best teacher!!😊 Other than that not a whole lot has happened.. We did a lot of prep for our apartment to become a Tripan apartment, we did a lot of finding still! We were supposed to have one of our investigators come to a baptism but Satan planned to have her Washer and Dryer show up right at the time of the baptism! Curse you Satan!!  😂 Things are happening in 5 Mile I am so happy about it!! Well thats all I got!! I love you all so much!! DBD, LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!

Love,

ELDER LOGAN SCOTT :) 

Making room in the apartment for Three! Bunk beds and another mattress!

TBH You mentioned we should be planning on what I should do when I get home that pretty much almost made me poop myself to be real honest!! That is so freaking weird to think that we are already talking about what I am planning on! Woah really?? You have been saving up money to cover me for a full year?? I had no clue at all!! I love the UVU idea! I emailed Ty and asked what his plans are for school after and he said that he is going to UVU and that we are going to be Roommates! I told him I am too down!! I had no clue I was originally planning on going to Weber to save some money up first and I thought it would be a good place to go! I would like UVU a lot better I know a lot of people down there and it would be way too fun!! As of now it was just Trent and I that were planning on moving out together! Its kind of hard to plan with Josh at this point because he is some other time zone than us! 😂 I did hear and talk to Josh that I think he will be going down to UVU also!! I love that and if I have a job waiting for me there too I would just love that!! Well that takes a lot of stress off my back!! 😂 Trent and I have even talked about UVU anyways out here so it will all work out! My group of friends would be pretty awesome (Me,Trent,Josh,Ty,Wilson, and Hair) I would really be too down for that!! Yeah I talk to Ryan a lot sounds like he is just working a ton, I haven't heard from Jace in like a month or so. Probs should check up on him! I don't want to come home and waste time! I am about to do crap with my life I'm telling you! My gosh!! I like that thanks for telling me that Option!!

You almost made me cry telling me that Ayden didn't make the Basketball team! That makes me so sad!! His senior year and he got cut!! That makes me so freaking sad gosh dangit!! Football didn't pan out too well and now he didn't make the team! That really makes me sad!! Dangit!! Good thing he will still have something fun to do for the rest of the year! Junior Jazz!! YESSSSSSS!!! Please do it!! They will still have fun no matter what they do!! 

Well I emailed Ty we talked about it a little and I would be too down to do that!! I just feel really good about it and I will let you know if anything changes! I think it would be the best for me! I still get the college feel and I still get to have a bunch of my friends from home come with me!! I would really love that!! So I would have to say a Yes on that one!! :) Super weird talking about it! 😂 

Thanks for telling me!! I got nothing else to update on! LOVE YOU BOTH SO MUCH!!!!

Logan's 2nd district to lead!

Sisters Nikle and Hawkins, Elder Speckhard, Elder Jones and Elder St. John

 And his awesome ZONE!

Spokane Valley- 5-mile Prairie Ward-Week #69

Elder Speckhard, Logan, Elder Jones and Elder St. John going on exchanges

Great!! This is just great!!! Its only the beginning of November and the dang snow has already started to fall!!!!! Ask me if I am a little bitter..... YES I AM A LITTLE BITTER!!!!! 🙄 Ok I am joking I am pretty stoked for the snow to fall! You know the earlier it starts the earlier it will leave! Right?? If any of you say differently I don't want to hear about it! 😂 Love you all still! 😂 Anyways we got our Transfer Emails today! Yes I did say email, they changed it in our Mission where we will be getting our Transfer "Calls" via Email now! Pretty weird though but its good I guess! I can't complain I just work here! 😂 Well with what is happening to me I will be staying here in the amazing Five Mile Prairie Ward!! WHAT WHAAAAAAAAAATTTTT!!! I am so excited to still be here!! Take that ward members that thought I was leaving! 😂 My current companion Elder Speckhard will also be staying with me here! There is a twist though, we will be in a Tripanionship! #6thTRIPANIONSHIP Woot Woot!! With an Elder named Elder Roberts! He is pretty well known throughout the whole Mission! He has some mental problems, He is Autistic, and he's got Ashburgers? I spelled it wrong probably but you all know what I'm talking about hopefully! It was an awesome thing to get this call from President and he started out the call with "Elder Scott you have helped a lot of Missionaries in this Mission, while you've been out. The Lord has given you one more to "Fix" so to say" It was a real blessing to hear that President trusts me so much to give me these Missionaries to help them out in there Missions! He said he's trusted me with these struggling missionaries for quite sometime now! I am so glad and blessed to know that he trusts me so much! What a blessing it is though! That is what is happening with me this Transfer! Be ready for some crazy things and loads of miracles to come!! What up!! 😂 We have so much work to do this transfer and a lot of people to get baptized! I have faith sufficient to bring these people into the fold! If we don't bring them in this transfer I will ask to stay one last one so it can happen!! This area has been the hardest I have ever worked ever on my Mission! Its been a blessing to see where it is at today compared to how it was when I got it! YAY for 6 more weeks in this great area!! 😂 Some crazy/funny things that has happened this week was that we spent 3 or 4 hours at the Mission Office on Wednesday... Its because I had to get my Driving Privileges back.... Curse you Colville for wrecking my score!!!! Elder Aaron Hair vouche for me!! Well after a lengthy 45 Minute video, a no brainer test, and an interview with President Dymock I got my driving privileges back!! WOOT WOOT!! My interview with President said it could be done over the phone but then it turned into a 45 minute interview!! Honestly my longest interview with that man.. With only talking about my driving for like 3 minutes! He says he doesn't worry about my driving anyways! WOOHOO!! #Blessed 😂 I went on Exchanges with the other Elder in my District...Elder Jones... What a fun time! Well I don't think I have anything else for the great week! Transfers are over and done with I am ready for a Miracle filled transfer!! WHAT UP!!!! I love you all talk to you all next week!! LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUU!! 

Love,

ELDER LOGAN SCOTT :) 

 Halloween night

Halloween mess trying to open some dum dum treats 

 Logan and Elder Stuart at the Horse Ranch where they perform a lot of service

 Hike day with the Zone!