Hola!

So recently we've been struggling with getting members to our lessons and just working with the members in general. But, we had the awesome zone training and I've learned so much! So me and Hermana Woodbury and the Spanish elders in our branch discussed it all with everyone. So hopefully things are gonna change. It just stinks because our branch is so small that literally there's like 3 families that help us out and we feel bad always asking them because they already do so much for the Branch. That's the struggle right now but we are hoping for change!

 This week was great and I hope you all had a good week too. Here's a scripture for you all:

 Doctrine and Covenants 19:28  And again, I command thee that thou shalt pray vocally as well as in thy heart; yea, before the world as well as in secret, in public as well as in private. 

 I invite all of you to pray. Individually and with you family or friends whom you live with. Prayer is so important and I love it. It's the best way to communicate with our Heavenly Father...and he wants to hear from you, I know he does. Pray with a sincere heart and real intent and you will feel his love and his hand guiding you in your life if you do this. Te amo mucho! Los vemos el proximo semana! 

Mucho amor,

Hermana Scott️

Well hello everyone,

 How has your everyone been? My week went by so fast...like always. So
yeah I'm emailing today because we had transfer calls on Saturday so
when we have transfers we move p-day to Tuesday. It was weird not
having it on Monday but it's all good.

 Tuesday I had my 5-week meeting with the newbies who came with me and
their companions. It was a really good meeting and I asked some good
questions. The meeting was super long though! It took up almost our
whole day! We also got a new assistant his name is Elder Gammel and

he's really awesome. So now we have three assistants. They're all
really nice and helpful. We also taught an old guy named Guillermo and
he's so slow and talks FOREVER about random stuff. He always cuts into
when we are talking about the gospel and will just talk about
something completely random like making chicken or the Fourth of July
or something. It gets annoying but we got to see him a few more  times
this week and the lessons are getting better. We took a funny pic of
him in Hermana Woodbury's glasses haha. He's so funny. That night we
ate with the Serrano family whom I love so much! The husband is
seriously so famous in Mexico! He's like approved on Facebook and
Twitter with a blue check mark. He writes songs and people in other
countries sing them and play them on the radio. He also has a YouTube
channel and makes money from it because he has so many followers! It's
crazy! Haha. He's so awesome.

 Wednesday was good. We some some investigators in Folsom and taught
them some lessons. One guy named Hilario we just started talking to
him and I taught him the whole restoration by myself and it was like I
had done this my whole life or something. It was amazing to me haha. I
could understand him and just talk to him about the gospel. It was a
great lesson! We also taught Lupe! She's awesome and she knows this
gospel is true...but she has to go to church or she can't get
baptized. It's hard because she lives far from the church building and
nobody in the family wants to take her😕 So that's a problem we're
facing with her.

 Thursday we had our last district meeting with Elder Craig and Elder
Webber. Also it was Elder Flinks birthday so they brought us cake and
ice cream. I love the elderly couple missionaries ❤️ We went to talk
to a guy named Berto and we ended up dropping him because he's been
meeting with Jehovah's Witnesses and is gonna get baptized in their
church so sad.

 Friday we just had service at the Food Bank which is always fun. Then
we did Weekly planning and then had dinner at the Lopez families
house! They brought us Chinese food and it was so good. They're
a wonderful family❤️ Then we ended our night with talking to
Alejandro! He's so awesome I love talking with him! His roommate also
joined in on the conversation too which was nice. We hadn't seen
Alejandro in so long so it was nice to catch up with him and see how
he's doing.

 Saturday we just did a lot of finding and tried talking to a lot of
people who we wanted to see. A lot of them weren't home though and
that always stinks. We tried finding Hilario again but he didn't
answer the door. Me and Hermana Woodbury went to Smashburger for
dinner over in Folsom and I had never been before but it was really
good! She loves it there. Then that night we had transfer calls and of
course me and Hermana Woodbury are staying ❤️ But, we think next
transfer Hermana Woodbury is gonna leave because she's been in this
area Rancho Cordova for 7 months already! Her whole mission she's been
here. We also think she's gonna go to North Sac and be a Sister
Training Leader she does not want to be one lol. It's a lot of
work to be an STL, let alone a leader in general! But, sister Munk who
lives in our house left to East Sac yesterday I'll miss her!

 Sunday was a good Sunday. Our zone leader came to our ward with Elder
Ortega. None of our investigators came...so sad that's the biggest
struggle is getting people to church! It's very frustrating! Other
than that the mission has been great and awesome! I love it!

 Monday(yesterday) was an eventful day. We had to say goodbye to
Sister Munk. Then me and Hermana Woodbury decided to go biking for
the first time together! It was good and not as bad as I thought it
was going to be. The weather was perfect and although we didn't have
much time we still got to see some people. So on our way back home
Hermana Woodbury goes up a curb onto a sidewalk, so I decide to do the
same. But, I didn't angle my bike right and it skids on the curb and I
biff off the bike and fall right on the sidewalk. My knee and leg is
all scarred up now haha. I'm so embarrassing haha. My first day too
of biking! So we get back to our house with my leg bleeding and we
realized that we left the keys in the house...and all of the
missionaries were gone doing transfers. So we had to go to the
apartment office and get a spare key. Yeah it sucked. Haha. After that
we taught Guillermo and then tried finding other people. Nobody was
really interested but they were nice to talk to! Also, I got a call
and my mission debit card had been used all over the US and so all my
money is gone for the rest of the month. I had to cut it up and I have
to wait for a new card for 2 weeks. Then we had dinner with the
Macias and they made us little tacos in homemade taco shells! It was
good. So although I myself had a really bad, struggle day, I still was
happy surprisingly! Haha that's what the mission does for ya!

 Thank you all for reading my emails every week! I love sharing what
I've been doing it helps me recognize the many spiritual and hard
moments I have throughout the week! I read Elder Dieter F. Utchdorfs
talk this week from this past conference and I loved reading it over.
It's such a good talk and it helped me recognize the Lords hand in my
life and how this gospel has blessed me. I love the work. Thanks and
Have a great week!

Love,
Hermana Scott

Hola!
 Well, this week went by so so fast! But, we had a lot of good things
happen. Our zone goal for 2 weeks ago was 25 new investigators and
we only got like 22. So, we set a new goal for this past week of 27
and we've found 38!!!! It was awesome! Our zone worked really hard and
me and Hermana Woodbury found 8 of them....8!!!!! It's the most
Hermana Woodbury has ever gotten in her whole mission so far! We are
so excited! Everyone's been asking us how we've gotten so many and we
really don't know...we just put our trust in the Lords hands. Usually
we only get 1 maybe 2 new investigators during the week but this week
we got super lucky.

 Tuesday was a good day...that's when we found most of our new
investigators. We had team ups with the STL's and they really helped
us find some new people. Then we went and has an appointment with the
13 year old girl Lupe, but she wasn't home😕 But we got to talk to her
mom and ask how she feels about us teaching Lupe and how she feels
about baptism. She's all for it and really wants Lupe to go to our
church! Seriously so awesome! We're gonna see Lupe again tomorrow so I
can't wait. That day we found 2 other guys outside so we talked to
them for a while and they're so nice. They want us to come back so
we're excited about them too! We also went to see a referral and he's
a cute little old guy who just loves to talk haha. He'll go on forever
about random stuff like Avocados or something lol. So that was fun.

 Wednesday we had service at Habitat for Humanity and it was fun. We
had to set up camping stuff to see if they worked and it makes me miss
camping. We also tried finding a lady named Ana in Folsom and another
one of our investigators was at her house because they're friends and
we got to talk to both of them. But, we found out that they're not
really too interested and they're always busy so we "released" them as
President Jardine would say. We also taught the 2 sisters Cesely and
Amaris the plan of salvation to review for them. They're mom still
hasn't made a decision yet on whether they can get baptized. So we're
hoping we'll find out sometime this week. Then we tried to see this
referral from the Rossmore sisters and we knocked on the door and the
kids told us to go away and flipped us off, so that was fun haha😂😂
We tried going over again another day but the guy just looked at us
through the window and then just ignored us...so we released them too.

 Thursday was good. We had district meeting and we did How to Begin
Teaching. I learned a lot and it has really helped us try to figure
out which of our investigators want this or not. Elder Craig our
district leader is leaving for home this week!! It's crazy! He gave
his farewell testimony at district meeting and it's so sad. But, he's
super awesome and was a great district leader. We also tried to see
some new investigators but we found out that all they want is money
from the church lol😁 We had to tell them that our church doesn't do
that and then they really had no interest in talking with us. They're
from Spain though and really cool. They speak a bunch of different
languages too.

 Friday was great! We had a special Zone training with President and
his wife and the assistants. We also were with 2 other zones so it was
nice seeing a lot of other missionaries😊 Missionaries are just so
awesome and I love it when we are all together! The training was great
and I learned a lot too. We also has weekly planning and we went to
the park and did it there👌🏼it was so nice. Then we had dinner with
the Lopez family and they're really really great. They speak English
so I love talking to them haha. All this week during my 12-week
training we had to watch all of the District 1. I actually don't mind
the videos, they help me a lot. We always laugh though because they're
funny sometimes. Haha😂

 Saturday was just a service-full day! We had Habitat for Humanity and
had to set up a king bed. The other sisters had no idea what to do so
I took the screw driver and drilled in the boards and they were all
surprised that I could do it haha. I told them that my dad does this
stuff all the time so I learned from him. Thanks Dad❤️ We had a
little time after to see our investigator Elsa and see how she's
doing. Then we ate dinner at our house with the other sisters and then
headed to our other service. Which was so much fun! Rancho Cordova had
this iFestival thing and we got to volunteer for it! It made me miss
festivals and carnivals but we got to do face paint for little kids.
It was so fun. The zone leaders also were with us and it was
just fun with all of us together.

 Sunday was fun and we had a good day. Our branch took a picture
together and it was fun. We had an English speaking too and so Elder
Ortega had to translate for him...but he did so well translating! Also
Elder Craig gave his farewell testimony at church in sacrament so that
was good. We went and tried to see a couple of our investigators and
one that we met on Saturday we were gonna see so we started walking
around this corner in these apartment complexes and I just see his arm
and he just turns around and books it to his house and ran away from
us so we can just say he doesn't want to see us anymore lol.

This week was great and my favorite thing about being here, especially
in Spanish work, is that I get to meet so many people from different
countries and hear their stories of how they got here. I meet people
from Guatemala, Mexican, Peru, Spain, Romania, Brazil, Chile and a
bunch of others! I also get to try all of their food too so that's
awesome. I love the work and I invite all of you to reach out to
someone you know to talk to them about this gospel. Share the
Hallelujah video with them or invite them to church or an activity. Do
service for them! Whatever it is you can do it! You're missionaries
will be so glad you did.❤️ thanks everyone and have a good week!

Hermana Scott