Thank you so much for your tips!

I spent some time working the scales today and they are so much fun to play. The grid is finally making sense. It's all starting to come together. I will keep working at these basic ones like you suggested. When I first started learning how to play in July I became fixated on playing melodies and that's all I did for nearly two months! I started regretting that once I started strumming because I felt like I spent too much time on melodies. But alas, my time on the guitar is never wasted. Now all that string work and memorization I did is paying off and I'm able to play the scales a little better than what I would have I think.

Thanks again!