2 more days until Scott comes home, These past 2 years have been quite interesting. 2 years is a long time, but what a blessing it has been for our famiy to have Scott serving the Lord. I know that Scott will be blessed for his obediance. I know that he has been in the "Refiners Fire: Looking forward to hearing his stories and seeing the growth in him both spiritually and physically. This Mom is way excited to hug my boy!

Mista Mista

Let's get right into this bad boy!

So I got a couple stories, I have deep desire to express in this email. 

Okay, so Washington State being the great blue state it is has one very small flaw! So in the summer its low to mid 90s and around 100-155 percent humidity. And living in an apartment on the second ground with another full grown Male adult missionary, your apartment can get a bit toasty. And being the white kids we are, it's like we are marshmallows over an open summer fire while we our in our home of rest. And when you go out for a good amount of the day in the sweltering sun you shed off a couple of cookies. And the only time you have refuge from the furnace is when a kid person welcomes you into their house. But me and my companion whose name is Elder Gray. 

We are blessed enough to have a window AC unit in our house. I don't know why I'm so blessed in life but I am. So we had our little window AC in a window. Then last week we get a text from the mission saying we cant have it in our window because it can fall and injure someone (I've seen Happy Gilmore, and the Mista Mista Lady is just fine when one falls on her) so they tell us that someone is coming by to get it🏽 but me and my companion are not letting that happen in our U S OF A, You think for one second Imma just roll on over and die? You my kind Sir have got another thing coming your way. So like Jimmy Neutron I think hard! Then I find I can just put it in my sliding door and put a blanket over so no bugs can get in. (Photos in bottom) then I try and explain my great ingenuity to the people coming to steal my one true love my AC and they didn't understand what I was saying no matter how long me and my comp. explained they just had no idea. So they come over to see, and after about 20 minutes of explaining why we ain't letting it go,they let us keep it!!!! They ain't never gonna touch my dearly beloved AC unit. Go story. 

Now on to another story, so we are teaching a lady named Susan she is awesome she is like in her 50's and one of the nicest ladies you would want to meet. But recently she went through a divorce which is both a blessing and a curse. Of course it's a curse cause I think it would suck to have the person you love so much leave you, I don't want to imagine it not even a little, but her Ex Husband wouldn't really let her go to church of any kind because he absolutely hated it, but now that they aren't together anymore and watching her love for Christ and His gospel grow is truly a special treat. It's like a kid in a candy store she is praying and reading scriptures a lot which has always been something she has wanted to do. She has always loved her Savior, but her husband just wouldn't let her express that love. And watching her just indulge in the gospel and everything we teach her is just an amazing thing to watch. Right now since it's all a bit new to her she goes to any church that is open. Due to covid as we know a lot of things are shut down especially is Washington! She found a church which is a non denominational church that she goes to since our is currently closed. But lucky for her and us, our stake does a broadcast thing every week that she watches! She just really really loves being around people, but another thing, Watching and seeing how Christ is preparing her. She has an awesome neighbor, who is a member in our ward that has grown close to her over the years, and a couple other members stop by on occasion to say Hi and drop off a treat. It's awesome that her neighbor and her are already friends! And more then willing to help us. But that is Susan a great old lady that is the best! 

I could go on for days about all the stories through these past couple months, but that's a story for another time. Covid is still shutting us DOWN for the past 5 months, 3 of them have been in a stay at home order and the last 2 have been so restricted that you can't really do anything like how we used to. In this mission I would say finding people in the past has been about 99 percent door to door but now its made the mission focus on things like facebook and referrals which is super good but facebook as we know it is for Moms, so they reach we could have isn't the greatest because most people have moved on from Facebook which makes it a challenge. But we have adapted and continue to adapt. But now we have a new challenge with everyone foreign coming home, it is over loading the USA with missionaries which is good but for my mission which is smaller then a county and not a very big county we have gone from 180 missionaries to about 280 since the beginning of the pandemic and up to this point. Like on Monday we are getting 58 new missionaries to the mission which is great, but man we are very condensed but I'm assuming every mission in the USA is like we are. Both good and bad definitely weird times in the world.

Fun fact in the middle of writing this my right nostril opened up like a flood gate and blood started flying all over the place outta my nose. 

Well I hope all is well and love you all, Be safe!

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1. Picture of my district

2. Me

3. Me and my comp

4. my district 

5. Blackberry season

6. How I don't melt like the wicked witch

Well well well

Well well well, it's been awhile I bet y'all have missed me I'm happy I was finally  able to get one out with the whole corona virus, so some might wonder how it's effecting us. As most of you know, Most of the Corona virus cases are in my mission, and most of the deaths also; My mission doesn't even cover a full county, it's super small so that's really saying something. Half of  the stakes in my mission canceled church on Sundays, Most of down town Seattle and Bellevue aren't going to work, a lot of schools are canceled and Washington has gone into a State of Emergency! So much fun!  We can't shake hands or hug, and have been told to stock pile food in case of quarantine so it's a fun time. But I'm sure y'all have heard a lot of stuff about this. 

I'm in a town called Auburn and have been here for 9 months of my mission not all at once, but it's fun, I used to be in a trio which was super fun, we all really liked each other and it's been a great time. Last week I was  put back with one companion who's name is Jack Baptista, he's a cool cat from the bay area, good kid. 

All I can say is I hate clouds with a passion! They are the worst things on planet earth. People are like "oh it doesn't rain much" as people say🏻" but they don't say that it's always cloudy, I mean we saw the sun two times in the entire month of January! That's right 2 times  it was the worst thing! My skin is whiter then my shirt, it's creepy. And some of these cave crawlers up here love that a chair has more legs then days with the sun! And their all just the weirdest people. I worry about them, If you don't like the sun then you're not going to like it when Christ comes again. It will be too bright. But the sun was out a shining and happy today it was the best! I picked up a new hobby and it is pickle ball! Funniest thing out there, there is a member in our Stake with  pickle ball courts (they rich as it comes) and we just play pickle ball for hours, It's so nice. 

Well thanks for listening with your eyes about me ranting on, But I love my mission! All but the no sun thing kinda sad! But Christ is good! Life is good! 

 Photos!

1. That's me

2. My current companion

3. me and the boys at transfers 

4.thats me again.

6. The man the myth the legend Carson Childs 

7. I have a new name 

8. The trio RIP

Now that's a Tree Stump

I guess the server thought Scott looked like a Scrat!