Elder Scott Learning, Living and Sharing the Gospel in Perú: Questions, Answers, and Service Projects

I haven't received an actual letter from Elder Scott this week, but he was able to send me about 55 journal entries and a load of pictures, so for this week's post I will be pulling thoughts he recorded in those two mediums.

This past week the Elder's from the CCM had the opportunity
to provide service to a school for disabled children that is
located across the street from the CCM. It looks like they had a
wonderful time doing this and further strengthened the bonds
they have with each other.

Last week I wrote Elder Scott a series of questions and asked him to let me know the answers in the next couple of weeks. He took a picture of the questions so he could look at them later and recorded his answers throughout the week in his journal. Here's the first 3 of 10.

1. What do I like about my companion? I like that he is so willing to learn and really pushes himself to learn the language. He’s a very hard worker. How has he inspired me? Elder Weller has inspired me by pushing me to learn the language. What has he taught me? He has taught me that I need to kick harder in soccer, ha-ha. Does he have a quality that you want to magnify in your own life? He is very humble and light-hearted and I think I could work on those characteristics in my own life a bit. Do we have fun together? I believe we do, there’s not a lot of time to really play around due to the packed schedule, but I would like to think that in the time we have that we both have fun.

2. What has been my favorite P-day activity so far? (side-note: P-day is short for Preparation Day which is the one day of the week Elder Scott has an opportunity to read letters from home, respond to those letters, do his shopping for the week, finish laundry, etc) So, to be honest, our p-days are super laid back with the temple being closed for maintenance for 4 weeks (just one more p-day to go before it’s reopened) so there hasn’t been much to do around here. My favorite activity would be writing my family, but besides that it would either be playing soccer or last week they put on Meet the Mormons which I hadn’t seen before. It was really good. Besides that our normal p-day schedule so far has been to wake-up, have personal study, have a 45 minute breakfast, go change, do nothing for an hour or so, go have a 90 minute physical activity time, (here he writes he had the death of his first pen, how sad. Good thing he took like 50...the kid is obsessed with pens lol) go and write our families, go for a 45 minute lunch, do nothing for 2 hours, wash our clothes, dry our clothes (they normally take a few times to actually dry so we don’t take them out in the time we are technically supposed to) go to dinner, come back, teach our progressive investigator, have a class, plan for the next day, and then go to bed. Once the temple reopens we won’t have the extra free time because we all will go through the normal cycle in the morning and then we all go to the temple in the afternoon.

3. What’s been my favorite overall moment so far? Um, that’s a hard one, lol. It most likely is our first District devotional the first Sunday I was here after the devotional by Elder Rasband We all went around and shared our testimonies about the devotional and our mission calls. The spirit was so powerful! What’s your least favorite moment so far? Hmmm, that’s also a hard one, ha-ha. There really hasn’t been many at all. It would probably have to be that special meeting they scheduled for District Leaders, Zone Leaders, and Sister Coordinators last week. They had us all gather, but then he presented it all in 3 minutes in complete Spanish so I understood very little of it, ha-ha. But, from what I gathered it wasn’t very important at all so it’s okay, lol.

There's even more questions and answers to come, but for now I'm going to wrap up this post with some photos of great Elder's he's already met at the Lima Perú CCM along with names of those I know so far. Thanks again for all your continued love and support while Elder Scott is serving his mission. If you have a minute today send him an e-mail. He LOVES hearing all the normal, everyday things from friends and family: kyler.scott@myldsmail.net
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