St. Thomas Photos

Zone Conference

president alvarado had a teriffic zone conference. we flew to zone conference in st kitts. great zone conference.  Just reiterating what dad has told me my whole life. cant come home and grow a beard. or wear a blue shirt. or have one button undone. leave the old man of sin and be a rm. not a ex-missionary. it was also about preparing for your release. and teaching doctrine.  so much more in the journal.  Thanks for everything.


Love you

Gratitude

dear family,

how are you all doing this wonderful valentines day weekend. i hope all is well with you today. we had the opportunity to eat dinner at the house of an American family last night for valentines day. the Day Family. we showed up there and ate chineese food and then wathced the john tanner movie. im not sure if you have seen that movie before. you should watch it, if you haven't. it is a good movie about the law of consecration. we then ate fondu and had a "gay ol time" just like the flintstones. i love that we have american families here on the island with us. they are very hospitable and makes it seem a little bit like home. how are the missionaries doing back home. 

we are doing good here on the island of st tommys but we got news that we will have zone conference in st kitts this weekend and that really is cool until this morning. the senior missionaries gave us our flight itinerary for the flight this weekend and it also had the reciept on it. $800 dollars for me and elder smoot to fly to st kitts for a mission conference.. dang i hope i am making the best out of the Lord's investment. i appreciate all that you (the parents) do for me out here on the mission. i also know it is a sacfrifice to have a family so i appreiciate that as well. you are great parents and i just love these expierences becasue it makes me think. what more can i do to make sure that this usage of money from the church is worth it. i know it is true. i know that the book of mormon is true and that has a lot of strings attached to it so go to make sure we are sold on it first. i am sold on it. i got a long way to go and a lot of room for mistakes but i know that i CAN do it becasue of the savior Jesus Christ who came to this earth and sank below all so that we all can rise up. His death was important but would not have meant anything if he did not raise from the grave 3 days later.  i love you all. take care of the missionaries and each other. happy valentines day. good ol st valentines day.  i love you all.

love elder scroggins

ps i loved that davinci quote and alsot that scritpure in 3 john 1:4

 Our Ride

 From Island to Island

OUCH!

ST. THOMAS

Dear Family,

Well how do i tell you this? I had a couple of options. I was just going to go use my crdit card a couple of different places so mom got a call from wells fargo. or maybe i could have to look up the FBI's top 10 most dangerous place list of 2011 at number 7. or  i could just tell you. Me and Elder smoot got moved to a new area

ST. THOMAS!!!!!

President Alvarado gave us a call last Sunday and told us to pack. I already had but Smoot packed his bags and we got told we needed to be in the mission office at 9 the next morning. So we packed. President then called us the next morning to tell us where we were going. Flight left at 11. Small 8 person plane. 45 minute ride. to st thomas. Spanish. English. French? so i got ot learn me a little bit of that now.Got a sweet view of the harbor. all these cruise ships every day. blue waters. talking bout Jesus Christ and the Book of mormon everyday. i love it.

I can only count to ten in french and say hello my name is... but i will be asking everyone in the street for some french because almost everyone here speaks french, criole, spanish and english. and then some crazy island dialect. it is great. got people form perisa, iran, couple of muslim moscs. i love the islands. thanks for your love and support and letting me got to Catalina scout camp when i was younger. and that cruise was sick too.

i love you all. january is so nice here. no cold at all. just a little ocean breeze in the morning.

love elder scroggins

Transfer to ????

presdient called last night and came over to the house to visit. ......... he also let me know that i would not be staying in aguas buenas for another transfer. elder smoot is going to train another missionary so i am am going to move to another area. he wasn't super clear but told me to pack my bags. and get ready to leave today or tomorrow. so we will see. got my bags packed.  thanks for taking care of me.

random thoughts

This week we got some Christmas soap from this person in the ward. It looked really good. Had the green poinsetta on it and everything. It almost looked like fudge so i took a bite of it and faked my comp into thinking it was fudge so he bit it starting chewing it and it was just soap. other than that. not much this week. we went over to the rosarios house this new years to play some board games. stayed there til bout 9 then went home. woke up at midnight because of allthe fire works. they are called m80's aka quarter stick of dynamite. so wack. we didn't go outside to look at fire works because at midnight everyone with guns just start firing in the sky. all the "hiberos" (hillbillys) shooting up in the sky. last year 3 kids and a bunch of dogs died from it. crazy guys. i am sending my memory card home today. Thank you for everything. thanks for the christmas presents and thanksgiving presents.