I'm soooo excited to get to talk to you on Christmas!
What time will you be calling?Yeah I'm way excited to call. Last time I cried right when I heard Chads voice cause he actually sounded like a man. weird huh. So we will be calling around 2 or 3. Its going to be funn. I'm bummed that the whole family wont be together the whole time. Oh well I'll just give ash a call after.
Skpe? Did you ask your mission pres?No Skype sorry hahah I like the traditional way.
I just looked at all the photos from Sister Taylor on her blog. They were great fun!
Loved the snowman in the truck!
Your looking good! lost some weight!Yeah it was a hit. All the missionaries that have been in the valley there whole missions loved it. Our snow man was awesome. Sister Taylor loved it.
Yes I have lost some weight, ever since Captain crossfit. I played Racquet ball this morning. I'm ready to play Dad and beat him!
How's Bill doing? Ready for the baptism on Christmas eve?Bill is aweosme! He is now getting Baptized on Christmas right after sacrament. So we are having a WHITE Christmas.
We had such a good lesson with him this week. We went over the Baptism process and just solidified the Date. He is so solid now! His Testimony has grown so much Lately. He said " I just put my dealings and Struggles in Gods hand and everything just clears up" I love how he recognizes that the spirit is working in his life. Many of the people we teach don't realize it. Bill is just solid and we are super happy for him.
Any other baptism news?YES! Elder Nelson and I are really working hard to baptize weekly. Its going to happen to. we have another Baptism on Christmas as well. Her name is kylie she is a Miracle. So Shes not getting baptized in our ward. So She is Brother Rosencrans cousin. Kylie is 13 years old and has been through a lot in her life. Very Rough. So we saw her at the Rosencrans before they were getting baptized and she Sat in on the lesson. At first she hated us. Wouldn't even shake our hand. Then we started to teach about the gospel of Jesus Christ and she felt the spirit for sure. At the end we were just messing around and Inviting her to be baptized. We invited her to the Rosencrans Baptism and she came. At the Baptism she said that she wanted to be baptized. Bishop Tenney who is the MAN! Invited her to be baptized. It was way cool. So Elder Nelson is going to baptize her on Christmas Eve actually. So cool! Miracles do happen.
So we have 3 baptisms planned for January.
James he's in the Ysa and Referred himself. He is so legit! Right now he's in Reno back at home. He even went to church there. So SOLID. His Family are not members so I hope that he Converts them. I love this guy.
Then we had a really good lesson with John and Carol. we watched the Prophet of the restoration. It was so good. They Both Believe that Joseph smith is a prophet so we invited them to be baptized. They said YES. So there planned to get baptized on the 14th. we are pumped! I love this work ! It is so great. I love really do love it out here and I learn something new everyday. I understand the gospel and our plan so much more now.
I also want to send something to the couple that you live with? See's candy? What do they like?Well there really Old. The husband is Diabetic. So i don't know. you can think of something.
Any ideas for your Mission Pres Family?Just send a Christmas card or something haha
Is there anything else you would like for Christmas? For the Mormon messages you can buy a video set at Deseret book or something. And can you Down load the New Prophet or the restoration off of Lds.org?
Hansen sause pls. and Am i getting Christmas Pj's? Are all your missionaries getting what they need? Or do they need a secret santa GIFT?
Let me know!All the missionaries are pretty well of in our Zone thank you though. .
Anything else happening?YEAH, I went the temple on weds. It was So great! I loved every min of it. I can't wait to go more Often when I get home cause the Guidance I receive in there is like nothing else. I understood it so much better, this time going. I love the temple so much! I can't even put my love for it in words. It's just the best. Every time I go i put Justin Andersons name in the Prayer role, I love that guy and I want whats best for him. I hope he is doing well. Anyways yeah it was Amazing!
On Sunday Cameron Blessed the Sacrament It was so cool! He is such a Great Member and Priesthood holder.
Our Homeless friend Austin Came to Ysa out of the Blue. It was so Awesome. He is so lost and confused. The Gospel will help him so much! He said " I cant be here, there is way to much peace" He was wigging out. But he stayed and Loved it. That was another Miracle!
Please answer all these questions, even if it takes more time! I really need to mail these cards and gifts.thats my Companions Moms email. He is my fav!
I dont have any Addresses I'm sorry. Let me know if there's another family you want me to send something too.
Are you going anywhere else on Christmas Day?Just the Doyles and the Prongers right now :)
I love you a ton and have a great Christmas I will talk to you then. Love you !
Sunday, February 5, 2012
December 12, 2011
How are you?So this week went really. One of the best Sundays of my mission. It was just great! We got 2 referrals and we taught 2 families. I love getting referrals, There like gimme baptisms and it shows that the members trust you and are also doing missionary work. Also we had 6 investigators at church. It was just a wonderful day. We also got a pretty solid new investigator! And we set a date for jan 21 for James. James is the great and so solid.
So our lesson with James this week was one to remember for the rest of my life. So the day before our lesson, I gave him the restoration Pamphlet and told him that he was going to teach us the lesson the next day. So the next day comes around. We had cameron(recent convert) come to the lesson with us. So we started with a prayer and gave the floor to James and Cameron to teach us the lesson. They did so well and even asked us Inspired Questions and Committed us to be baptized. It was so awesome! The best part by far was when James said the First Vision, the Spirit entered the room so strongly. It was by far one of the best lessons and we didn't even have to teach it. Those guys taught better then some missionaries out in the field it was so awesome.
So this week was really good and really spirit filled.
Another Cool thing that happened on Sunday, was watching Cameron passing the sacrament. There is just something about watching your recent Converts perform there priesthood duties. I love it. I love being a puppet for the Lord.
Oh and I forget this. There was also 2 missionary Home coming talks and 1 farewell talk, they were all so great. I hope that my talk will be good and that every one will feel the spirit. Max leaves on his misson in 12 days Its crazy! His farewell talk was really good though. he talked about his conversion, he converted only 2 years ago. So awesome that he is going on a mission now!Did you get any packages?I Only got the Camera and thank you so much. It was way weird that I lost my camera and you wanted to buy me one. Crazy stuff! I'll be sure to take some good photos this Christmas! and yes we are making a Christmas card! You will get one:)
Sorry about the letter mix up. What time are you online now?About 10 or 11 is when we start.
That's great news about Bill!! Christmas Eve white Baptism! Maybe it will snow too!Yeah were way happy for him. we had a lesson with him at the Anderson's home. The Anderson's are awesome. brother Anderson is a big hunter and they have horses and tons of animals. We had Quail and Pork chops and Halibut for dinner. There pretty well off. He is a former stake President. The lesson was great! We taught about the spirit and how to feel it. And might i say the Spirit was very strong in there home. Brother Anderson is going to baptize Bill.
I want to give dad a commit to fellowship and baptize someone by the time I come home. No it is not impossible you just need to have faith. which equals you must work for it.
When do you get to go to the temple lights? Maybe the Weinburger's might bump into you.We go to the lights on the 14th ! I'm so excited to go to the temple. I understand it so much more now. I'm Pumped!
Are you spending Christmas with the Doyle's? If so I would like to send them some gifts. What would they like?YES, I dont know what they would want. I dont know what English people like. Give them something from the beach ahah
What else do you want for Christmas?Mormon messages Dvd's pls for my Investigators
Thank you so much for everything and I love you a ton.
So our lesson with James this week was one to remember for the rest of my life. So the day before our lesson, I gave him the restoration Pamphlet and told him that he was going to teach us the lesson the next day. So the next day comes around. We had cameron(recent convert) come to the lesson with us. So we started with a prayer and gave the floor to James and Cameron to teach us the lesson. They did so well and even asked us Inspired Questions and Committed us to be baptized. It was so awesome! The best part by far was when James said the First Vision, the Spirit entered the room so strongly. It was by far one of the best lessons and we didn't even have to teach it. Those guys taught better then some missionaries out in the field it was so awesome.
So this week was really good and really spirit filled.
Another Cool thing that happened on Sunday, was watching Cameron passing the sacrament. There is just something about watching your recent Converts perform there priesthood duties. I love it. I love being a puppet for the Lord.
Oh and I forget this. There was also 2 missionary Home coming talks and 1 farewell talk, they were all so great. I hope that my talk will be good and that every one will feel the spirit. Max leaves on his misson in 12 days Its crazy! His farewell talk was really good though. he talked about his conversion, he converted only 2 years ago. So awesome that he is going on a mission now!Did you get any packages?I Only got the Camera and thank you so much. It was way weird that I lost my camera and you wanted to buy me one. Crazy stuff! I'll be sure to take some good photos this Christmas! and yes we are making a Christmas card! You will get one:)
Sorry about the letter mix up. What time are you online now?About 10 or 11 is when we start.
That's great news about Bill!! Christmas Eve white Baptism! Maybe it will snow too!Yeah were way happy for him. we had a lesson with him at the Anderson's home. The Anderson's are awesome. brother Anderson is a big hunter and they have horses and tons of animals. We had Quail and Pork chops and Halibut for dinner. There pretty well off. He is a former stake President. The lesson was great! We taught about the spirit and how to feel it. And might i say the Spirit was very strong in there home. Brother Anderson is going to baptize Bill.
I want to give dad a commit to fellowship and baptize someone by the time I come home. No it is not impossible you just need to have faith. which equals you must work for it.
When do you get to go to the temple lights? Maybe the Weinburger's might bump into you.We go to the lights on the 14th ! I'm so excited to go to the temple. I understand it so much more now. I'm Pumped!
Are you spending Christmas with the Doyle's? If so I would like to send them some gifts. What would they like?YES, I dont know what they would want. I dont know what English people like. Give them something from the beach ahah
What else do you want for Christmas?Mormon messages Dvd's pls for my Investigators
Thank you so much for everything and I love you a ton.
December 5, 2011
So I didn't any mail from you. That's kinda a bummer.
Anyways this week went really well. Of course it snowed again, 4 days straight. So we are going to have a zone Snowball fight today. I'm way excited.
OH really good news. Bill has a baptism Date for the 24th and confirmed on christmas. I'm so pumped for him. I seriously love that man. We had a super Spiritual packed lesson and watched a video on the Apostasy. Something really cool. The whole morning before the lesson and Kept feeling that we should watch that video and not finish the lesson we started the week before. So I told elder Nelson and he said that's sorta what I was feeling as well. So we watched the video and It is one of my favorite videos. After Bill was feeling the spirit so strongly and He couldn't say no to baptism. He said " I don't know why I feel this way but there is really no excuse not to be baptized" The Spirit was Just taking over the lesson and he could not deny it. So there was a long little pause and then he said " I want to be baptized on the 24th and confirmed on Christmas". So I guess we would say that's ok. WE WERE SO HAPPY!!!! I love it when your Investigators commit themselves.
Another Cool experience that happen this week. We got a Referral from the media. This guys name is James and he goes to Embry Riddle the College. He's in Ysa. So I gave him a call and he wanted to meet up with us. So we met in the library there. He is way solid. He wants and church that is true and has a good foundation for the family. He is only a freshman and Has great Ideas for the future. So we taught him about the BoM and prayer..ect. That was on Friday and he also wanted to meet on Saturday so we gave him a church tour. Oh by the way the day before we gave him a reading assignment to read 3nephi 11. So we ask him how is reading went on Saturday. He said " Oh it was good, I read the chapter you gave me and then i decided I would really all of 3 nephi and then I had some time so I read 1 nephi as well" He said he was reading for almost 8 hrs straight and couldn't let go of the book. He is so solid. I asked him " So do you believe the BoM is true" he said YES. Then we committed him to be baptized he said Yes. But he is leaving town for the holidays. So he will be baptized in January.
This week was just great!!!!!
I loved every min of it. I'm learning how to drive in the snow too:)
Oh by the way other day in Captain Cross fit we did: 80 pullups, 160 real pushups, and 240 air squats. It was so hard!
Can you send me a journal? nice one
By the way I think I lost my camera and it had the big memory card in it. I only lost a couple pictures but i can just get them from Nelson. So a new camera for Christmas would be nice haha
I love you a ton and I hope you have a great Day and Holiday.
Love,
Elder Anderson
Anyways this week went really well. Of course it snowed again, 4 days straight. So we are going to have a zone Snowball fight today. I'm way excited.
OH really good news. Bill has a baptism Date for the 24th and confirmed on christmas. I'm so pumped for him. I seriously love that man. We had a super Spiritual packed lesson and watched a video on the Apostasy. Something really cool. The whole morning before the lesson and Kept feeling that we should watch that video and not finish the lesson we started the week before. So I told elder Nelson and he said that's sorta what I was feeling as well. So we watched the video and It is one of my favorite videos. After Bill was feeling the spirit so strongly and He couldn't say no to baptism. He said " I don't know why I feel this way but there is really no excuse not to be baptized" The Spirit was Just taking over the lesson and he could not deny it. So there was a long little pause and then he said " I want to be baptized on the 24th and confirmed on Christmas". So I guess we would say that's ok. WE WERE SO HAPPY!!!! I love it when your Investigators commit themselves.
Another Cool experience that happen this week. We got a Referral from the media. This guys name is James and he goes to Embry Riddle the College. He's in Ysa. So I gave him a call and he wanted to meet up with us. So we met in the library there. He is way solid. He wants and church that is true and has a good foundation for the family. He is only a freshman and Has great Ideas for the future. So we taught him about the BoM and prayer..ect. That was on Friday and he also wanted to meet on Saturday so we gave him a church tour. Oh by the way the day before we gave him a reading assignment to read 3nephi 11. So we ask him how is reading went on Saturday. He said " Oh it was good, I read the chapter you gave me and then i decided I would really all of 3 nephi and then I had some time so I read 1 nephi as well" He said he was reading for almost 8 hrs straight and couldn't let go of the book. He is so solid. I asked him " So do you believe the BoM is true" he said YES. Then we committed him to be baptized he said Yes. But he is leaving town for the holidays. So he will be baptized in January.
This week was just great!!!!!
I loved every min of it. I'm learning how to drive in the snow too:)
Oh by the way other day in Captain Cross fit we did: 80 pullups, 160 real pushups, and 240 air squats. It was so hard!
Can you send me a journal? nice one
By the way I think I lost my camera and it had the big memory card in it. I only lost a couple pictures but i can just get them from Nelson. So a new camera for Christmas would be nice haha
I love you a ton and I hope you have a great Day and Holiday.
Love,
Elder Anderson
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Change of address!
Please make note! The address on the right has changed you can now mail things directly to Elder Anderson!! Get on it! He will love to hear from you!!
November 7, 2011
So this week was pretty tough!
On Tuesday we had zone leader council, It was really fun we went on a hike at 7 in the morning with all the zone leaders and President and sister Taylor. I love them so much. Anyways it was pretty spiritual cause we had like a whole plan of salvation back round to it. Like we stopped at view spots and described the less view as the Telestrial kingdom and then we got to a higher spot and described as the terrestrial kingdom and then when we got to the top after a hard climb we reached the Celestial kingdom. It was really neat and a good bonding experience with the other Zone leaders in our mission. Then after that we had our big meeting. In our mission were doing like this whole name 2 people that you will baptize next week that you are working with right now. And pray for them every day. So were in charge of reporting all the names and I totally forgot our list at home so that was a little embarrassing.
Then the next day we just stayed in the valley cause we had a leadership training on weds. So we just stayed in surprise and worked with some other zone leaders it was pretty fun cause they live in the Surprise house, there are 6 missionaries living there. Some one just donated there house to the missionaries. Its way to much fun. So after our super long meeting on weds we drove home.
Thursday morning I wake up to my companion throwing up it was pretty funny. He was way sick. Thursday night he was still sick so we made some visits and went home. It was kinda a depressing day. I hate sick days but we still worked! Then Thursday night at 12:30 i woke up and threw up haha it was pretty bad. But the good thing about being sick is that you lose weight:)
So I was sick all friday morning but i hate staying in so we went to work that evening and Cameron had is baptism Interview. He passed too! So he is going to be baptized on 11/11/11 the coolest date ever. Im so excited for him. seriously I love that guy. We'll take pictures at his baptism. So that was are friday. Good thing for us our sickness only lasted one day. I feel good now:)
So Saturday was just a hustle day cause we didn't really get any work done in our area all week. So we had like back to back lessons and knocking on doors.
So super good news! The Prongers court case passed and now the kids can be baptized! I was so happy. So were going to see if we can set a date for them to be baptized in the church. I don't know if I've talked about them much but they have been coming to church for like 4 years, their father is a convert and step mom is also, they just went to the temple like 3 months ago. So the kids will be baptized and then they will be sealed as a family. I'm so happy for them. Seriously I have put so much prayer into that family.
Cool story: Back round so Zach is a member who ran away at age 17 and went down to the valley. He finds a girl down there and is living in an appt. Now he is back in prescott living with is family again, but the rule was he had to marry his gf so he did. Now their both living there. Crazy stuff. Their not the best looking people on the out side all tatted up and piercings all that jazz. Anyways Zach is building back his testimony and his wife is not a member, so we are teaching her. In our lesson I asked them where they lived before and they said Peoria and I said "where in Peoria?" and he said " the sun tree appts" Thats where i lived! So it turns out that I have contacted them before and Zach said he remembers me. One thing he said to his mom when he was going through a rough time he said " Mom I keep seeing all these missionaries, I think God is trying to say some thing." So that was way Cool.
I already talked about Cameron. He's getting baptized on 11/11/11 haha I love typing that. The coolest thing about Cameron is that he has been taking the missionary lessons for 2 full years. Crazy! He was pretty much a member for 2 years just not baptized. We call those Dry Mormons hah. So now he is getting BAPTIZED!
Well this week was way awesome! And a little sad due to sickness but everything pays off with blessing.
I love you a ton and thank you so much for all that you do.
By the way it is snowing here and I still dont have any sweaters haha
There are 3 things i would like if you able to get them.
1. August rush Soundtrack
2. A good Journal
3. the Double chin work out thing that dad has.
p.s I might buy a Pee coat or some sweaters. So dont be surprised if im out of money haha. I figure if i buy a nice coat now I could wear it next year at school in utah. haha Crazy
I love you
On Tuesday we had zone leader council, It was really fun we went on a hike at 7 in the morning with all the zone leaders and President and sister Taylor. I love them so much. Anyways it was pretty spiritual cause we had like a whole plan of salvation back round to it. Like we stopped at view spots and described the less view as the Telestrial kingdom and then we got to a higher spot and described as the terrestrial kingdom and then when we got to the top after a hard climb we reached the Celestial kingdom. It was really neat and a good bonding experience with the other Zone leaders in our mission. Then after that we had our big meeting. In our mission were doing like this whole name 2 people that you will baptize next week that you are working with right now. And pray for them every day. So were in charge of reporting all the names and I totally forgot our list at home so that was a little embarrassing.
Then the next day we just stayed in the valley cause we had a leadership training on weds. So we just stayed in surprise and worked with some other zone leaders it was pretty fun cause they live in the Surprise house, there are 6 missionaries living there. Some one just donated there house to the missionaries. Its way to much fun. So after our super long meeting on weds we drove home.
Thursday morning I wake up to my companion throwing up it was pretty funny. He was way sick. Thursday night he was still sick so we made some visits and went home. It was kinda a depressing day. I hate sick days but we still worked! Then Thursday night at 12:30 i woke up and threw up haha it was pretty bad. But the good thing about being sick is that you lose weight:)
So I was sick all friday morning but i hate staying in so we went to work that evening and Cameron had is baptism Interview. He passed too! So he is going to be baptized on 11/11/11 the coolest date ever. Im so excited for him. seriously I love that guy. We'll take pictures at his baptism. So that was are friday. Good thing for us our sickness only lasted one day. I feel good now:)
So Saturday was just a hustle day cause we didn't really get any work done in our area all week. So we had like back to back lessons and knocking on doors.
So super good news! The Prongers court case passed and now the kids can be baptized! I was so happy. So were going to see if we can set a date for them to be baptized in the church. I don't know if I've talked about them much but they have been coming to church for like 4 years, their father is a convert and step mom is also, they just went to the temple like 3 months ago. So the kids will be baptized and then they will be sealed as a family. I'm so happy for them. Seriously I have put so much prayer into that family.
Cool story: Back round so Zach is a member who ran away at age 17 and went down to the valley. He finds a girl down there and is living in an appt. Now he is back in prescott living with is family again, but the rule was he had to marry his gf so he did. Now their both living there. Crazy stuff. Their not the best looking people on the out side all tatted up and piercings all that jazz. Anyways Zach is building back his testimony and his wife is not a member, so we are teaching her. In our lesson I asked them where they lived before and they said Peoria and I said "where in Peoria?" and he said " the sun tree appts" Thats where i lived! So it turns out that I have contacted them before and Zach said he remembers me. One thing he said to his mom when he was going through a rough time he said " Mom I keep seeing all these missionaries, I think God is trying to say some thing." So that was way Cool.
I already talked about Cameron. He's getting baptized on 11/11/11 haha I love typing that. The coolest thing about Cameron is that he has been taking the missionary lessons for 2 full years. Crazy! He was pretty much a member for 2 years just not baptized. We call those Dry Mormons hah. So now he is getting BAPTIZED!
Well this week was way awesome! And a little sad due to sickness but everything pays off with blessing.
I love you a ton and thank you so much for all that you do.
By the way it is snowing here and I still dont have any sweaters haha
There are 3 things i would like if you able to get them.
1. August rush Soundtrack
2. A good Journal
3. the Double chin work out thing that dad has.
p.s I might buy a Pee coat or some sweaters. So dont be surprised if im out of money haha. I figure if i buy a nice coat now I could wear it next year at school in utah. haha Crazy
I love you
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