End of Transfer 1.

Hola familia, here comes another letter from Elder Anderson. This marks the end of transfer 1, halfway through my training in Cementista. 

This week was pretty crazy, with visa work and General Conference. We didn´t get a whole lot of work done, but it was still a great week nonetheless.

On Thursday night I went on splits with elder Later to the offices in Godoy Cruz (he needed to do his visa work too. he has 6 months in the mission). There were about 20 other missionaries there who were either noobs or super old and need to be legal to leave the country. We slept that night at the office pench nearby and got up at 2 am. We took a van to San Luis and there we basically followed around Elder Benedict, the mission secretary. He had all our documents and stuff, we just had to sign stuff to be legal. We had meals in this restaurant which was pretty awesome. Then, on Friday night, we did ALB which means abrir la boca which means open the mouth which is basically street contacts. Me and Elder Later got assigned to the plaza in downtown san luis, so it was pretty cool. Then Elder Later wanted to go on intercambios so I was with elder nielson, an elder in my group at the MTC. We walked around and managed to talk to people. We started talking to this guy in the plaza and he told us after a little he knew english, and it was pretty good. it felt super weird talking to him in english. he gave us his address and now the missionaries there are hopefully teaching him.

Last night was transfers. I´m not going anywhere, cause i´m still training. Elder Later is being transfered to San Juan, the northern, hot part of the mish. Elder Lafleur was crying, not cause he´s leaving, but because the Rubiks cube is Elder Laters, and Lafleur can´t play with it anymore. haha. Elder Leytton was on the phone forever last night. Apparently our zone is super capo (cool) now. His last comp, aka my "mom" is now our zone leader, so he was pretty happy about that.

General Conference was really awesome. I enjoyed listening to every talk of every session Saturday and Sunday. there was a room in the back of the Stake Center for Gringos where they had a TV with it on in English. there were 6 of us gringo missionaries, (5 from the states, 1 from australia) and tons of members in the chapel watching. I enjoyed all the talks, it went by super fast. I hope the new Elders will be like the new Elder Holland and Bednar, but I don´t know about that. 

I have lots of pictures to send this week after we used crappy computers last week.

Things are pretty awesome here, I couldnt be happier. I know the Lord is looking out for everyone at all times. He always has his hand stretched out, and it´s up to us, through earnest prayer, to accept his offer. This week I felt great and remained happy, so I count those blessings.

A little advice. It is your decision to be happy or not. Regardless of what happens you can still be happy. I have been associated with people who get upset easily, get angry easily, and seem sad a lot. I made the decision to be happy all the time. Things happen, but it´s still the way you react to it. Reacting negatively puts you 180 degrees around the way Christ wants you to be. Things happen, but if you remain positive and happy, the thing that happened isn´t that big of a deal. I´ve had hard times, as everyone does, in my life and on the mission, but that doesn´t mean I´m changing my mind. Sufrir con gozo.

Anyway, this week upcoming week should be great... I can´t wait!!!

 

Love, Elder Anderson

New Argentine Haircut

The Asado last week