Elder Scott Takes on Spokane: Spokane, WA -5-Mile Prarie Ward- Week #103

This message was probably sent to Logan quite often!

Holy Crap!! Is this real life!?!?!? I have a week left on my freaking Mission!!!! I seriously can't wrap my head around that one people!!! I have seen so many people go home and I honestly thought I would never go home!! Obviously that is wrong and you will be home before you know it!! 😂 Man its my Last Week as a Missionary... Lots and lots of thoughts have been going through my head lately... I got another week to think about that though! 😂 I still have to make this last little bit count!! I am excited for the next chapter in my life though I can tell you that!! 😂 Anyways this week was more than amazing!! We saw a lot of miracles and the hand of God in our proselyting efforts!! Crazy story though as I begin this email! The day was Thursday and we just got done with our Coordination meeting with our Ward Mission Leader, and Ward Missionaries. After Coordination we go on splits with either Brother Frank (Our Ward Mission Leader) or our Ward Missionaries (Brothers Strom and Peffer). Elder Heaton goes with Bro Frank to Joe and Katies (A couple we are teaching) and Bro Peffer and I go to Mark and JoAnne's (Another couple we are teaching). The lesson falls through of course because they are pretty flakey, so we decide to go and try and see some Less Active Members! We see some older lady in the ward that is on Bro Peffers ministering route and that was pretty nice, then we drive up the road a little more and I see a name of this lady that I have never seen before. I ask Bro Peffer if he is down to go see her and he of course says yes. As we are walking over he asks me if I have ever met these people before and I respond with "Nope I have not!" He laughs and tells me that he is going to follow my lead then. We get to the door and we knock a man answers, and I say Hello and ask if a Lucinda lives there. He completely overlooks my question and gets in my face and asks me (in more of a yelling tone) if Jesus or God called me to be a Missionary. I respond with yes I have been called by God to be a Missionary. He then asks when, then I respond with when God called a Prophet on the Earth again. Then he yells "BULL CRAP!!!" (Obviously he had a more colorful language than that). Then he just goes off on how much he hates me, how much he hates Missionaries, how much he hates the church, etc. He is yelling, cussing, calling us names, the whole 9 yards I'm telling you!! 😂 After he feels that he has sufficiently yelled and brought me down enough he starts going at Brother Peffer! Mind you we haven't said a word since I told him God called a prophet on the Earth again. He's just going at us and creating this scene in the middle of the neighborhood! The more he talked the more angry he got with us! He told us multiple times that he was going to beat the crap out of us and literally throw us off his property... We kept trying to leave but he kept yelling at us. We were in the process of leaving and this man is still yelling and telling us to get off his property, Etc. He also tells us to make sure to tell our people to stop sending people over to his house, I got pretty smart with him and asked if he wanted it to say anything specific... Oh boy did that make him more mad!! I now realize that was probably not the smartest thing to do.. especially as a representative of Jesus Christ but I am still human and I still have my faults. I am not too worried about it though we made it out alive! We left and all we could do is laugh about that situation! He was probably the most angry man I have ever talked to on my Mission! Note to self don't go back to his house! Funny thing was I saw him at Walmart today, and I think he still had some bitter feelings with us at his house... I can honestly say that was not what I was expecting to happen when we went to his house! It made for a really funny story and a good thing to write in the journal though!! 😂 I thought it was good! Anyways that was my crazy story for the week! Other than that not a whole lot happened. Lots of people were busy with doing 4th of July festivities, so we didn't get to meet with a lot of our Investigators... We were trying to get out and find new people to teach though! #Outheregrindin We have made so much progression with Joe and Katie though! After almost 9 Months of being in this area they have finally told us that this is something they want to do! YAY!! We have been having a lot of good Gospel conversations and lots of questions that have been bugging them and we have been the only ones that could answer them! Joe finished the Book of Mormon this week! YAY!! We are about to have a long talk about it next time we see them!! They are progressing a lot faster than they have in times of past, they are most definitely on the rise!! What I learn from this is that We should never give up on people! I found these people like week 5 of my first transfer here.. That was back in September of 2017 and now here in July of 2018 they are finally ready to take the next step! God is softening the hearts of many and he is preparing people for us to teach!! It might not happen on our time table but God knows everything and he is very mindful of all of our situations and what is going on in our lives!! We didn't give up on Joe and Katie and they truly believe that was a sign that God did not forget about them! You never know what is going on in peoples heads and what they are thinking!! Listen to the spirit and do what you know to be right!! Lots of lessons like this have been learned throughout my entire Mission! I could not have learned these anywhere else!! I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve my Father in Heaven for this short time! I have loved my Mission and I still have one more week to make a difference here in Spokane, Washington!! I love you all so much and the last thing that I wanted to say is that when I get home (On Wednesday the 18th) we are planning having people come to my house instead of the airport or something! My Mom has kindly said that they would have me home by 3:30 that day! I would love to see a lot if not all of you on this group email there!! My address is:

561 W. 2400 S.

Syracuse, Ut

Thats all I got for this week though!! More miracles I am sure to come this final week of my service!! I love you all and remember the church is freaking true, the book is freaking blue dangit, Don't be Dumb, July is literally over, ALWAYS pet the dog, There are a lot of angry people in the world, people can always change if they have time! The Gospel means so much to me I hope you all know that!! For all of you at home.. I will see you all next week!! LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!!

Love,

Elder Logan Scott :)