Quick Week

It's been a fast one. The weeks are just slipping by now. It was a pretty routine week for us. We had another lesson with Denise this week. We taught her about the commandments. It went great. She agreed to live them all when she gets baptized. She is still doing great. 

The Evergreen area has been tough haha. We haven't been able to get in with anyone the sisters were teaching. But most of them haven't been home so we will keep trying. 

We get Facebook this week so that will be nice. We'll have to see how it goes. We get trained on it a Zone Conference on Thursday. It sounds like it will be sweet. 

Honestly that's all I got for this week. Not much new. Hope all is well back home! 

Love you!

Elder Anderson

Busy Bees!

Man this was a busy Sunday. We now attend two wards, Woodbine and Evergreen. One starts at 9, Evergreen, and the other at 11, Woodbine. That means two ward councils to attend, two sacraments to attend, and two times the names to learn and remember! Haha it's a ton of fun though. We have more than a couple of double booked dinners this week haha! That is going to be interesting! We only just got the area book on Sunday so there wasn't much we could do in the Evergreen area until then. On Sunday though we did some stop by's of less actives. Didn't see a single one haha. Good start. My new companion by the way is Elder Johnson. He is awesome! Really good guy. We are going to have a lot of fun this transfer. I can't believe how fast time flies! It is insane! Thirteen months down. Two more and I will be in single digits when it comes to months left!

 

Well cool story for the week. Denise is on date!!!!!! We are so pumped! She is a stud. We had a lesson with her on Saturday. She was feeling sick but she came anyway. We went in planning on teaching Lesson 4, which is the commandments. At the last second, while sitting with her, we changed it to Lesson 3, The Gospel of Jesus Christ, due to the Spirits request haha. It went amazing! She liked everything we talked about and then accepted to be baptized on February 21!!! HAHA we are so pumped for her! She was still feeling sick Sunday morning, but still came to church as well. All three hours!! She moved her schedule at work around so she could come to church now! She is seriously the best. She is progressing so well and doing so great. It is amazing how well she recognizes spiritual experiences she has. It is a gift that God gave her. She will tell us about how she would be feeling bad, then think of when and what we would teach her and she would instantly feel joy and be happier. She is great at recognizing the spirit. She said how even though she feels sick, when she talks with us and goes to church, it doesn't bother her and she doesn't think about it. She is going to be a powerful member of the church.

 

Well the next couple weeks will probably be a little crazy as we are still figuring out the new area and what not but it should be fun. Here's a great story on the Pollards for you. Elder Johnson and I visited them a day or so after he got to the area. We went over and it was a fairly normal visit, except for a couple things. They gave us juice, which they always do, but they didn't give us Chips Ahoy cookies which they usually do, and we didn't see Lincoln (the dad) with his shirt off, which we usually do. So the next time we went to visit them I told Elder Johnson that we usually always get juice, Chips Ahoy, and see Lincoln with his shirt off. Well, we show up, first thing they offer is juice. Then they give us two bags of Chips Ahoy that they said they saw in the store and bought us. I knew it was going to be a good visit right then. And then, as if to fulfill the prophesy, as we are leaving, Lincoln comes down with... no shirt!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Oh man they are the best family ever! Hahahahaha they never cease to amaze me and make me laugh. We laughed all the way to the car! I absolutely love the Pollards. We are eating dinner with them on Saturday and I can't wait until then! They are so much fun and an absolute riot!

 

Well that's about it for the week. It was a good week. This should be a great transfer and I am looking forward to it. I hope all is well with you back home. Keep up the good work! #JustKeepSwimming!

 

Elder Anderson

 

P.S. By the way. FYI. Just so you know. We will be getting Facebook by the end of the month. I'll keep you posted but that's all I know. Love you!

So far it has always worked out on my mission so I'm sure what the Lord has in store is what's best.

Well there is not much to write about this week. It was a slow week for missionary work. Not too much was going on. People are getting settled back down after the holidays so hopefully things will pick up. We currently cover the Woodbine ward, but the sister missionaries just got taken out of the Evergreen ward and we will be taking over their area now. So we will be covering two wards. It should be fun. It will be my first time covering more than one ward. That should make us busier and have more work. The Evergreen area is doing really good too. We are excited to pick up the area.

 

Other than that, not much else is new. Elder Olsen is getting transferred so I will be getting a new companion on Thursday. It will be sad to say goodbye to Olsen. He has been a great companion and lots of fun. We will see what the new guy is like. So far it has always worked out on my mission so I'm sure what the Lord has in store is what's best. He knows all things.

 

Hope all is well back home. Hope it is warmer now. Haha I can't believe it snowed. It better not snow when I get home! Hahaha That would be a bummer. Well take care! I love you!

 

Elder Anderson

Brrrrrr!!!!

It's cold. Really cold. And I don't like it. It hurts. Stinkin Canada! Every day I am more and more convinced that this is a glacier that just froze to the States. Summer is still probably four months away too! It could still snow in JUNE!!!!!!!! Oh man. Woe is me! But it's ok. I like Canada. It's a good place.

Well not much happened this week. We were able to reach Denise though. It went great. We taught the first lesson and she was super accepting. She told us her concern right away and didn't hold back. That is the best. She wasn't able to come to church but we have another appointment with her this week. We are super excited.

We also have an appointment to teach Austin. He is this lady's son in the ward. He hasn't been baptized yet so hopefully we can fix that! He's 12 right now. We are trying to set up a lesson with Diane too. She is tougher to get in contact with. But usually we make it work.

Well we went to the Pollards yesterday! Hahahaha oh so good! Geeta was sick. Mathew was sick. Chrystal was getting sick. Lincoln was getting sick. Hahaha they are dropping like flies! The first thing that happened when we walked in was an argument between Geeta and Mathew of who was more sick! Hahaha each was convinced that they were more sick than the other. After the argument died down they would make under the breath comments to us that they were really the "more sick" one. It's too good. My little bird buddy wasn't out yesterday which was a bummer. Neither was thumper. Also known as digger! Which meant it was a pretty relaxed visit. We are all best buddies!

Well hope all is well back home. I don't think I told you this yet but it's cold here. Like super cold. Hopefully I will get frostbite so I can send home pics of some cool looking frozen skin. It's one of my new years resolutions! Love ya!!!!

Elder Anderson

Jake said this is called "Loco Moco" and he said he loves it!
It's rice with a hamburger patty and fried eggs, covered with gravy.
Oh Canada, what have you done to our boy?  : )