Christmas Time

Well yesterday was Christmas. Skype was awesome with the family. Although the connection wasn´t the greatest it was still pretty awesome talking to you guys. The week was pretty good, let´s see....

With the holidays, working was kinda slow. The Familia Herrera didn´t come to church yesterday so we gotta go visit them. They´ll probably be getting baptized some time in January. We actually did have one investigator in the church yesterday. It´s this way old lady named Anna Maria, we´ve been teaching her for a few weeks and out of nowhere she came to church yesterday. It was cool. 

So for christmas we passed time with the other Elders of Albardon. They bought a lot of food, so we ate food and played soccer in our front yard/dirt road on Christmas Eve. We had to be in the pench at 6:00 so we had a lot of time. It was pretty dope. And then yesterday we had church and afterwards Skype. 

This week was really hot. I don´t know what I´m going to do with all this heat.

I don´t really have that much to say..... the work continues. I´m happy with my work in Albardon. We´ve had some good success and some time in the near future I´ll be leaving.... oh no.

I hope you all pass the holidays well. Eat a lot, and then set goals to lose weight for 2017. Haha sorry this is so short but I love you all!

Love,

Elder Anderson

The Skype Session

Thank You So Much For The Package!!

My Comp is happy, too.

watermelon on Christmas Eve

 

Merry Christmas

It´s been a good week. I never know how to start these letters so here we go.

On Thursday we had another Zone Conference. President Goates taught us a cool way to get investigators to church. We used it on a new family that we found a week ago and the totally said they would come but they didn´t. But that´s life. The Zone Conference was pretty good, and the food completely destroyed me, I was sick for the weekend but today I feel good.

So on Saturday we had the Christmas devotional in Rivadavia. It turned out good. I had to play the piano for a ton of Christmas songs for a bunch of choirs, it was cool. Then i was volunteered as the piñata boy because I was the tallest one there, I had to fool a bunch of blindfolded Argentines to not let them hit the piñata. It was fun. But, Rivadavia is super far away, (2 long bus rides) so we got back to the pench at like 11, and we had a meeting with the stake presidency at 7 am. But everything turned out fine.

Investigator update. Well the Herrera family is doing well, they just gotta come to church once more (Christmas will be hard) and they can get baptized. Yesterday we visited them and they gave us a bunch of grapes. The grape season is here, TONS of grape fields in our area getting ready for the harvest. We were supposed to have a baptism this week but Julian, the grandson, didn´t come yesterday. So we´ll keep working with him. We found a pretty cool family called the Flia Gonzalez. They have 5 daughters ranging from 1-11 years. they aren´t married (surprise!) so we gotta get on that. Other than that we´ve pretty much dropped the rest of our investigators. So yeah.

Yesterday at church I was playing the piano, todo tranquilo, (all normal) and we were singing the first noel, and i totally thought there were 3 verses so when we got done I just kept on playing and I felt really dumb. Oh well. 

The other day I did a baptismal interview for this 9 year old. When I asked him about the word of wisdom he said  ´you can´t smoke... you can´t do marijuana, uhhhh and no cigarettes or alcohol.´ hahah good job dude.

That´s probably it for this week. I hope you all have a very merry christmas and remember what it´s all about! 

love,

Elder Anderson

 

Zona Chimbas

all sweaty at the Christmas devotional

San Juan national sport.... watering your dirt.

chowing down on some grapes the flia herrera gave us.

piñata boy 

our dog, tommy (follows us everywhere)

 

Albardón Week 19

Things are going way good here in Albardon. If you hadn´t heard, it´s been super hot in San Juan. I just realized that as soon as I finish up this transfer I will have had 6 transfers in San Juan and 6 in Mendoza. So maybe I´ll head over to San Luis to finish my mission. I´ll be home in 6 months. My goodness how time has flown...

Here´s a quick update on our investigators. The grandkids couldn´t come to church yesterday, and we went to go visit them, and apparently one of them is going to spend the summer in Rawson (far away.) So hopefully we´ll be able to baptize the other one (Julian) in the coming weeks. 

Susana and her son came to church again yesterday! We were pretty pumped. It was also the primary program yesterday, so it was kinda weird to have investigators there but it turned out okay. The kids just have a hard time singing along with the music (a teacher holding her phone to the microphone haha). But they did a good job.

It rained all day Wednesday and Thursday. I´ve never really ridden a bike in the rain. By the end of the day I had slung a TON of mud on my back, (like, a lot.) from the bikes. My companion was laughing pretty hard but he also slung some mud on his back so it was okay. The rain made it really humid so Friday was a sweaty disaster trying to work haha. But things always work out.

On Friday we had the Ward Christmas party. It was pretty fun. We enjoyed some all-argentine chicken from the oven, french fries and mayonaise, a couple of salads, and a lot of soda. It was all really good. This dude named Alberto (an investigator who has been investigating the church since the late 90´s) showed up and totally ate our chicken without permission. I´ve never visited the dude because all he wants to do is fight with us, but I always see him. But, maybe some day he´ll get baptized hahhaha.

Also, yesterday there was a Superclasico soccer game, Boca vs. River. (And Boca won 4-2) We were working in Campo Afuera when the game got over and we totally saw a big street fight (Campo Afuera is pretty ghetto). Soccer is life haha. 

This saturday we have a christmas devotional for the stake. The hermanas in Rivadavia basically signed me up to play the piano for the entire thing so I have some practicing to do today. God will provide hahaha.

Well I hope you are all enjoying the Christmas season and that you all remember who it´s all about. I´ve continued my study of the New Testament and I know that Christ lives! #IluminaElMundo (light the world.. i think) is a great way to celebrate and if you haven´t seen the ´25 ways in 25 days´ you should go check it out!

That´ll do it for this week. Have a good one!

love,

Elder Anderson

 

Food at the Ward Christmas Party

getting ready for the party

With the members

my mud slung back



brushing my teeth (I wonder if he can see Dumbledore's brother in that mirror?...)



the grapes are getting ripe



Art Center

 

Bring the Heat....

It was another way solid week here in the desert. It was like 42 degrees outside yesterday which in the USA is like 107 degrees. But the heat doesn´t stop us from doing some serious missionary work.

So yesterday we got transfer calls and I was hoping with all my heart to stay here in Albardon. Well long story short, I´m staying here with Elder Camargo! This will be my first area with 4 transfers, which I´m happy about. And now our investigators are all starting to progress so this transfer should be pretty solid.

We have been teaching the grandkids of a recent convert in the area for quite a while. Well they finally have starting coming to church. So if they come this week we will be baptizing them the following Saturday. So we hope they come haha. Also, the other investigators who came last week have a baptismal date for the 7th of January, the problem is the 3 can´t come to church all at the same time, because someone has to stay home and watch the house (it´s way insecure and kinda sketchy). So once they all come to church 3 times we´ll be able to baptize them. They all have 1 church attendance as of yesterday. So that´s that.

We got a letter from President Goates saying that transfers will be thrown through a loop with a new mission president.... so I´ll be coming home the week of June 13th. I don´t really know what to think about that but it makes me want to keep working until the end! Time has been flying out here in the mission.

Also this week we had a pretty dope zone meeting. The mission has set some high goals for this month so we did some leaderly motivation so we can reach our goals.

We didn´t really have a whole lot of time to work in our area this week because we had consejo and then intercambios with the assistants. It was pretty fun going and working with Elder Olorgtegui and Elder Agyin. Remember that old tie we found in the MTC? well Elder Agyin passed it to me, so I´ll have it for a little bit. I´ll attatch a photo.

Also the bishop´s wife made us some way good chicken the other day. Just thought I´d put that in here.

Other than that, things are going way good! I hope you guys all have a good week. Remember to study the scriputures and strenghten your testimony!

Love,

Elder Anderson

 

Lifting weights

the whole squad

the fridge

with the assistants

the tie is back

 

 

 

Still Here

Well they just barely cut the internet in the entire province of San Juan. But, after a few minutes of waiting, the internet is back.

This week was really good. The familia Herrera came to church, we were pretty happy about that. So hopefully in the upcoming transfer they´ll be getting baptized, we shall see. Yesterday was a pretty good day at church, also some grandkids of a recient convert in the ward came that we have been teaching.

Today we are going to eat chorizo and bread. Hopefully it turns out good.

Yesterday there was a bike race in Albardon.. all these way professional looking bikers came. They did like 10 laps around Albardon so it was fun to see them doing their thing. We felt way dumb on our bikes going way slow.

Anyway..... it´s been getting hot up here in San Juan but the other day it rained really hard. We were soaking wet at the end of the day. But it was like Utah, where it like snows one day and then the next day it´s super hot. Yeah.

This week were basically going to be in Mendoza.. we have consejo and then intercambios with the assistants. Should be good... but we have like no time to work in our own area. Oh well. And on Sunday we get transfer calls (hopefully I stay) but ya never know.

That´ll do it for this week! have a good one and the church is true!!

love, 

Elder Anderson

Wind and Earthquake

I titled this letter wind and earthquake because yesterday there was.. umm.. lots of wind and an earthquake. but despite the weather this last week was pretty good. I´m going to give a rundown of some cool stuff that happened this week.

We have some investigators, named the familia Herrera, who are pretty interesting. We´ve had a few lessons with them, and they are going to pray to see if we have the true church. The problem is that they are way evangelico, and want to get baptized in a river so that their sins go down with the current. They accepted a baptismal date for christmas eve so hopefully they can come to church a few times before then. But they´re cool.

There is an active member who is divorced, so the weekends he gets the kids. His daughter has been coming to church quite a bit but lives with her mom. Well, we courageously went to her house to chat, and the mom is pretty nice so hopfully she´ll let us baptize her. We shall see.

Also this week something weird but amazing happened. I SAVED 2 DOGS. We were just riding our bikes down the street and we saw 5 like newborn puppies like running in circles in the street. We didn´t want them to get run over so we like herded them to the side of the road. But that was a bad idea because the side of the road has the acequia, which was full of water. So one of the dogs like fell in and totally started drowning, so I hurried and grabbed it as it was drowning. Then another one jumped right in and I had to save it too. It was like that part on The Grinch when grinch saves cindy-lou-who from getting crushed by the big presser thingy. ´Saving you? Is that what you think I was doing???´  so yeah then we herded them to a house and there they stayed.

Let´s see... This week we did some more intercombombs with the other Elders of Albardon. They had a baptism this week so they were pretty pumped. Their convert is pretty cool, I did his interview. They met him about a month ago and he is already like halfway through Alma in the Book of Mormon, so yeah haha.

Also, my comp turned 23 the other day so we went and bought some ice cream. Nothing too special but what do you expect haha. Wow, thanksgiving and Christmas are way close!!!! Time is going by way fast.

Today I was reading some serious BoM in Alma 32. We need to nutrir the good word so that it can grow. I´ve always heard about the whole ´faith is like a tiny seed´ but today I like understood it on a whole nother level. Like we have to protect our seeds of faith and shove out doubts and stuff. So there´s your sprirtual thought for the day.

that´s it for this week. Have a good one!

love,

Elder Anderson

Look closely at this picture.

so yeah we have a bunch of mice that run around our back yard thing. So we put a box with a stick and string, and put a bunch of cheese underneath and in like 2 seconds they came. haha then my comp grabbed one of them with a towell hahaha

just pondering life

 

Argentine Dream

I don´t know why I titled this letter Argentine Dream... i´m just running out of titles to give my letters. This week was pretty great. Let´s see...

On Tuesday we had a ´special conference´ with President Goates and Hermana Goates. They gave us a training meeting about being Consecrated missionaries, basically just going hard and giving it your all to baptize people as we finish out the year. We also talked about the new Christmas thing in the church, it´s gonna be way awesome. So yeah, the mission has been doing great and we´re gonna do even better.

We had some intercombombs this week and I went with Elder Schelly, a new elder from California. He studied at BYU before coming out on the mission. We were able to work pretty hard, even though it´s been pretty hot....

The heat of San Juan has arrived. I don´t know exactly how hot it´s been but if you go outside like at 3 in the afternoon you basically are basically thrown in an oven. Haha we bought some sombreros and some heavy duty sunscreen to protect us. I might be passing new years here like last year, we shall see.

Also, congratulations to Tronald Dump for winning president in the USA. I hope everything goes well with his presidency haha.

 

The other day we saw a miracle. So we were just riding our bikes, heading back to the pench, when I heard a loud noise like as if something had exploded. Well something did explode, it was the front tire of my comp. And he was talking on the phone haha and riding with no hands. Well he´s basically a ninja, cause he did like this weird hop and everything was okay. So yeah. Then we ate some lomo sandwiches for dinner.

I taught gospel principals class yesterday at church. The topic was obedience. So I brought my bible and dropped some serious cane hahah just kidding. it was pretty fun.

well that´s pretty much it........... have a good week and be good!!!

love,

Elder Anderson

 

Albardon week 14

We´re still here, it´s been a good week, had some ups and downs, but it was good.

That golden family I mentioned last week already dropped us, I don´t know what we did wrong but they said they were good with being Catholic and don´t want to listen to us. Oh well, we were pretty close haha. We´ve got a couple other people we´ve found so we´ll keep working with them.

The heat of San Juan has already come... it´s been blazing hot outside every day. It´s been hard to work and find people early in the afternoon, because there is literally no one not inside sleeping. But we did manage to find some people and enter houses this week. The pench gets way hot but we have a little machine that generates cold air. it kinda looks like R2D2 hahahah

On Saturday we finished the Capilla Abiertas with our own ward in Albardon. It went alright, and we got a few references and stuff. And there was free food as normal haha.

We bought some sombreros to protect us from the sun. They were on sale for 65 pesos each. (score). I´ll send some pictures of that.

Hmmmm. I never really know what to write in these letters because the weeks go by and are pretty similar. So i´m trying to think of little things that happened... hmmmm... On sunday we only had sacrament meeting because the water systems in the church weren´t working. It was kinda weird. I got my haircut the other day and had a bomb conversation with the haircut lady about religion. I also made myself a fried egg like every day for breakfast. And we found out the Cubs won the world series hahaha wow. We also got on top of our roof  and drank some coke before bedtime.

Well the mission is still going haha. The mission is just kinda something you gotta go do to understand it... Everything is amazing and I´m learning quite a bit every day, even if it doesn´t feel like I´m learning a lot. I know that the church is true and if you don´t, I invite you to read the book of mormon and pray about it. Have a good week everyone and sorry for this letter being so short haha.

love,

Elder Anderson

the new first presidency feat. elder baldoví, elder camargo y elder manuico.

on the roof

my new hat

Colombian Swag

We´re still here in Albardon, this time with Elder Camargo, straight from the mountains of Colombia. This past week was way solid, we´ve been going way hard. Let me explain:

So we have a family of investigators that is pretty golden... Now, I don´t want to get my hopes up or anything but they´re way awesome. They are married and have a car, with 3 little kids. With Elder Balmaceda we taught the restoration and then we went back and they had actually read the Book of Mormon and had lots of questions. They had read 3 Nephi 11 TOGETHER outloud and said they felt really good about it. You have no idea how much of a miracle this is hahaha. So we got really excited and invited them to church, and they said they were gonna come, but for some reason didn´t. This isn´t over yet haha so hopefully next week we will have good news about them. If not, well, that´s the mission.

Elder Camargo is 22 and from Boyaca Colombia. He plays the recorder and knows all the hymns haha. He goes home 1 transfer before me (with Elder Lybbert). So it´s all been good, we´ve been wrecking it. 

So here´s a fun story. We had to do the Capilla Abierta in barrio Los Pinos this week. We didn´t really know where the chapel was so we left pretty early, but we got lucky and found it way quick. So we sat outside under some trees for quite a while (it was the siesta, there was no one outside) and a bird of some sort left me a huge present on my shirt. I´ll send some photos haha.

Today in Pday we´re gonna go play soccer for a little, and then we gotta go to consejo at 6. So we got a little vacation for a couple of days but then we´re gonna get back at it. 

Happy Halloween everyone, eat some candy and be happy.

And Birthday shoutout to my old man, turns 49 tomorrow!!!!! love you dad!!!!

Well that´ll do it for this week. Hope everyone has a good week! the church is true!!!

 love,

Elder Anderson

Waiting in the terminal

Outside with Elder Camargo

Then came the bird

hermana sepulveda cleaning off the poop

Transfer 10 in the books

Well another transfer ended. Last night the assistants called and my new companion will be Elder Camargo, from Colombia. I´ve never really gotten to know him but he seems cool. Elder Balmaceda is going to mendoza centro and will still be zone leader there.

We went to Mendoza on thursday because of Elder Balmaceda´s knee. He got it checked out by this doctor, and has to go back on Tuesday, basically to find out if he has to go home and get it operated on or not. But transfers are tomorrow so I can´t tag along hahah oh well. Also on Thursday, after the doctors appointment, we went to President´s house. It was way weird, because the last time I was in his house I had no idea what was going on, like 14 months ago. We went to his house because he wanted to talk to my companion about his knee and stuff. Side note: Their house is in the middle of mendoza centro.. it´s the 6th floor of an extremely rich people building that has 7 houses. I forgot the word for that in english haha oh well. But yeah, it brought back memories from a long time ago, wow, time flies.

We did divisions with the Elder´s Quorom yesterday to get our goal of lessons with member. I went with Hermano Céspedes. He´s pretty cool and basically was converted into the church because someone offered him free food at a church activity, haha. But he´s a great guy and we were able to reach our goal. Swag.

As far as investigators, we´ve been able to find a couple of families who have potential, it´s just a matter of seeing if they want us to come back after the first visit haha. On monday we entered a house with 7 people in it, and then we came back and no one really wanted us there. But that´s how it is haha.

Today we´re gonna visit some members, eat some asado, and be happy haha. 

I started reading the New Testament, mainly because we´ve been talking with a ton of people who just want to fight with us haha. But one thing that I discovered, that´s AMAZING about the gospel/missionary work is this:

Most missionaries of other churches start their conversations with a ´look, here´s a scripture that says we´re right and you are wrong.´ but the very first thing we teach investigators, or like the very first point of the first lesson is this: God is our loving Heavenly Father. 

The weather in Albardon is weird. It´s been getting really hot, but randomly there are days when it´s super cloudy and mildly cold, like today. But there is a good chance I´ll be passing christmas and new years here with my new companion. That´d be cool.

I think that´s all for this week, have a good one!!

(I highly doubt that photos will load on this computer but we will see.)

love, 

Elder Anderson

when you´re in a bus and they show inapropriate movies.

me

capilla abierta round 3, tired face.

15 Months

Well this week I hit 15 months on my mission. 

Let´s start from the beginning, last p day we went to the pench and slept, made hot dogs, and played a game that involves throwing a tennis ball into a large plastic cup. It was pretty fun, but really hard. 

We had a district meeting like normal, and this peruvian elder, Elder Mañuíco, made us a peruvian dish for lunch. It was way good. Some members also gave us some pizza so we ate that, too. I took some photos of that so I´ll send them.

We did some intercambios this week, I went with a new Elder named Elder Hale, from Utah. We taught a bunch of lessons. We went to this investigators house named Ruben, and taught him and his friend. Well at the end of the lesson Ruben pulled out a HUGE spider that they found in the grape fields... it was a tarantula. ( i don´t know if that´s spelled right.) Everyone started freaking out but we stayed calm. Boom. We found 12 new investigators in one day.

On Saturday we had Capilla Abierta round 2 in none other than Retiro. It was pretty good, pretty normal. Towards the end of the evening I went with Elder Oveson, (the companion of Elder Hale, who are currently in Retiro) and visited Pablo, the dude we baptized like forever ago. I had heard he had been falling back into old habits (sigh) so we went to  visit him. He seemed pretty well. I invited him to remember his feelings in his baptism and do his best in the future. That was fun.

Fun story, the other day I was just minding my own business on my bike, and I got a really bad bloody nose and it totally stained my tie, dangit. But then I remembered that, like the atonement, even the worst stains can be cleaned. So yeah.

That´s it for this week. On a more serious note, just remember the truthfulness of the gospel and the Book of Mormon. In every dispensation, people have rejected the prophets, and the trend continues.... people are rejecting our latter day prophet. Like the primary song says, ´If you don´t believe it, go and watch the news´ . Remember to feed your testimony, because if your testimony isn´t growing, what is it doing? 

Have a good week!!

Love,

Elder Anderson

District Lunch



Intercambios with Elders Oveson & Hale

La Paciencia

It´s been a pretty long week. But it was good. I learned quite a bit.

 

The other day we were in a packed bus going home, and there was a child that was SCREAMING the entire 45 minute bus ride. I looked at my companion and said ´Life is just a game of patience, and we have to decide if we are winning or not´. That was sort of the theme for the week. We´re still going strong, just a little bit frustrated because we haven´t been able to get investigators to progress. But it happens, I mean, you just gotta do your best. 

This week our stake started the ´Capilla Abierta´ (chapel open house) to get more people to come to hear about the church and stuff. The first one was alright, me and Elder Balmaceda stayed in the street inviting people in, and got rejected like 500 times haha. But there were a few people who entered the chapel, God bless their souls haha.

Last p day, I forgot to mention, we ate a bunch of hot dogs and played sports with the entire zone. It was pretty fun. Today is going to be really low key... we are pretty exhausted so we´re gonna go take a giant siesta in the pench.

I don´t know if I´ve mentioned this before, but I have to play the piano every week in Albardon. It´s pretty fun, but it´s also not fun sight reading a really weird hymn and then messing up hahaha but it happens. Yesterday we sang pretty common songs so all was well there.

Yesterday we had lunch with a less active family. It was pretty solid. I ate like 6 milanesas and I was WAY full, and then they brought out the dessert. It´s called batata, which is like this weird solid jelly that´s supposed to taste good, and they serve it with this cheese. Well I wanted to be polite and eat it but I honestly couldn´t. I hate batata and I was way full. but luckily one of the daughters realized and saved me by saying ´you don´t have to eat that.´ whew.

I am running out of things to say. Just remember, study the scriptures, go to church and say your prayers. that is the key to success.

Love,

Elder Anderson

capilla abierta

in an elevator

even the Peruvians know what´s up

a tree house thing

Conference Weekend #3

It was another good week here in the Pueblo of Albardon. We were really busy last week with meetings, interviews, etc. One of those weeks. 

First of all, General Conference was awesome. I feel we are very blessed to have living prophets and apostles in our day to help guide us. I left the conference with desires to become better and change. If you are feeling this too, I invite you to actually do it! Faith without works is dead. 

Monday and tuesday consisted of traveling and meetings in Mendoza, like normal. On Wednesday, we had interviews with President Goates, which, as normal, were amazing. Dang, President knows so much. He´s a great help and recieves revelation to help out the mission. They´re not even interviews... it´s just a time to talk openly about anything with president. It´s sweet. Wednesday evening President came with us to work in our area. It was pretty awesome, a little different. But we had a car in our giant area to we were able to teach like 4 lessons which is quite a bit. I also think its the first time an iPad has ever been in Campo Afuera and all the kids were way interested in president´s swag. 

So then friday we had our zone meeting and Saturday and Sunday was General Conference. Like normal, I watched it in the Gringo Room in English, with Elder Morgan and Elder Jorgensen, the other Gringos in Albardon. We watched all 5 sessions on the little computer but the quality was good. It´s amazing how technology has changed... like dang we saw the same conference live as the people in Utah watching it from home. 

I learned quite a bit from the conference. I really enjoyed the talk by W. Mark Bassett. I basically learned that we shouldn´t worry about deep doctrine when we can´t even recite the 5 points of the Doctrine of Christ. There are simple truths in the gospel that we must study even if we think we already know it. Also, I learned that president monson has given 230 general conference talks. fun fact.

I don´t know if I´ve mentioned this before, but Elder Balmaceda´s first name is Socrates. Pretty much describes him hahaha.

Well that´s it for this week. Have a good week and apply what you learned in the conference. I know that those men and women and chosen by God to convey His Word to the world. I know that missionary work is way important and brings blessings that are hard to describe.

Love,

Elder Anderson

Gringo Room



The Countdown



I wasn't ready

Albardon Hogar

Well hello everyone. It´s been a fantastic week up here in Albardon, we´ve been doing some serious missionary work here. 

Wednesday was a pretty good day. We found a neighborhood REALLY far away, and we´re pretty sure missionaries have never set foot there. To make a long story short, we found 24 new investigators in one week which is the most I´ve ever found in one week by far. The zone did pretty well too and we are really happy. In the neighborhood we found, we saw a bunch of people illegally racing dogs. That´s how far away it was haha.

Right now we´re writing in Mendoza. This morning we go up early and took a bus to mendoza, we have consejo again tomorrow. We went and ate pizza and ice cream in the house of some beloved members in Cementista for our p day. it´s been a good day today. I was in Cementista one year ago, wow. 

I´ve been reading a lot in the book of mormon, in those little chapters towards the beginning. Omni, Enos, and Jarom had some good words. I feel like sometims we forget about those books. Not to mention the Words of Mormon. every part of the Book of Mormon was put there for a reason, so we should take advantage of it all, yanno?

The week passed pretty quickly, pretty much the same old. Sometimes I feel like these letters are a little repetitive but it´s all good. 

That´s all for now. have a good week!!!

Love,

Elder Anderson

to whom it may concern

Welcome to another letter from Elder Anderson, I hope you enjoy this week´s edition of the life of a missionary in San Juan, Argentina.

We first of all I realized that me la mandé (I messed up) with my letter from last week, actually I´m starting my 10th transfer of my time in the mission field. So yeah, just so you know.

We were able to get 3 investigators in the church yesterday, so we were pretty pumped about that. One of them has been an investigator for a long time and just has to get married to get baptized. But what happened is that her future father in law is in critical condition in the hospital and she said she´s gonna get married and baptized. So hopefully all will go well there.

Quick update, my son, Elder Bingham went home the other day. His knee was really bad, so hopefully he´ll be able to get back down here soon. 

We´ve continued to find a lot of new investigators in Albardon. Stuff has been awesome. This letter is going to be extremely short, as I am running out of time here. But, I will send lots of pictures.

Some scriptures I´ve been reading include Alma 40 through 45. Those are some good chapters. 

Once again sorry for the short letter but here come lots of photos.

love,

Elder Anderson

we had a quick district meeting on tuesday

we cooked some chicken, too

pondering the scriptures

balmaceda putting oreos in some pudding

the night of transfers