See You Soon

Well this is the last letter I will write here in Mendoza. I have no idea what is going on. My brain can´t get around the fact I´ll be leaving Mendoza tomorrow.

As far as our area goes, Nacho came to church. He´ll probably be getting baptized here in a couple weeks. My companion, Elder Banks, got transfered too. They closed Maipu B and the other Elders have all of our investigators and our whole side of the area.

I can´t really describe the mission in words... You just gotta go out and serve to see what it´s like. I love Argentina and I´m going to miss it a whole lot. I´m going to miss being a missionary and teaching the restored gospel to strangers. It´s so weird.. like you sit there and think that the end of the mission is coming your whole mission..... and now it came. I know that the gospel it true and people that live it are blessed. 

I wanted to thank my family for all the support and letters these past 2 years. You guys are awesome. I looked forward every week to going to the cyber and writing. It´s been fun. I got you some goodies hahah.

Jesus Christ lives. Serving him was the best decision I´ve ever made and I´ll continue to serve him throughout my life.

I could go on and on but there´s too much to say. I´ll see you all soon.

love,

Elder Anderson

Misión Argentina Mendoza

Getting Down to the Wire...

I´ve started the last week of my mission. I don´t know if I´m going to be able to write a letter next week so this may be the last.

We were able to find a cool family yesterday called the Familia Colombo, who seem really nice. We found them knocking doors and taught the restoration yesterday. We managed to have some success with Ignacio, because he came and played soccer with the youth on Wednesday, but he proceeded to hide from us in the weekend to avoid coming to church. Oh well. 

On Saturday we had an asado with the zone for all the people who sang in the choir in stake conference. We played some serious foosball (table soccer), and me and Elder Gato against all odds beat Elder Banks and Elder Keyes in like the 50th grudge match haha. It was like the Jazz beating the Warriors these days I guess.

My mission, to be honest, has flown by. I cannot believe it´s all coming to an end this upcoming week. I just keep on denying it. It´s crazy how the time has gone, I´m gonna miss Mendoza really bad. But it´s been fun. I think I´ll write more about this next week if I can, but I gotta stay focused for this week haha.

Well have a great week everyone!

love,

Elder Anderson

Zona Maipú.

Stake pres (former mission president in Buenos Aires) doing the asado

Maipú Week 13

Another week here in Maipú, all is going good.

So we have this investigator named Ignacio who´s pretty cool. He`s 17 and pretty open to everything. We were gonna go pick him up for church and he sent us a text saying he was gonna attend church in the stake center cause apparently he has friends there. Well we left Sunday School to go see if he was there and he wasn´t, so today it´s gonna be awkward if he thinks we don´t know that. We´ll see.

We let go of a bunch of our investigators, so it´s been back to the old grind of searching for new ones. But we´re pretty happy with the work that we´ve put in here in Maipú thus far.

We almost won a free asado. But we didn´t haha.

I was thinking this week about the subject of opposition in all things. I know that opposition is very necessary, like without it we wouldn´t be able to grow as people. There´s so much wickedness in the world and it´s pretty sad. There are so many people to attack the church but it still stands. And it brings so much happiness to the lives of people. I was thinking about my time as a missionary and the honor it´s been to share the gospel with people, even though every day is full of rejection and sorrow. It strengthens my testimony and it makes me want to be a more faithful member. There have been times in my mission where I have felt like a complete failure for personal faults and the decisions of others, but I know that the church is true and being a servant of Christ is the best thing I´ve ever decided to do.

I´ll be seeing you all soon.

love,

Elder Anderson

 Hno Celoni (the goat) at his 80th birthday party.

Last Transfer!!

This week was pretty great.

On Tuesday we found this 17 year old kid named Ignacio who had recieved the missionaries in San Juan, but then moved to Maipu. He seems pretty receptive and like accepts everything we say, so we´ll see how it goes!

We have this investigator named Fernando we´ve been teaching for a little bit. He´s always been pretty hard on accepting baptismal dates but at our last lesson we asked him if he had prayed to know if the Book of Mormon was true and he said no. So we invited him then and there to pray and it was all silent after the prayer in the spirit was way strong, and he accepted a baptismal date! It was pretty cool.

We´ve continued to talk to lots of people and try to get member references. It´s going good. If you´re reading this, give the missionaries in your area a reference so they love you.

Other than that we had stake conference yesterday and President and Hermana Goates came, that was fun. We were in the choir and we sounded pretty decent I guess. 

After the conference I had the best asado of my mission, the best meat of my life. It was from Hno Banffi, he´s famous for his asados. He was my first bishop in Cementista and I had heard stories and it all became a reality yesterday. I`ll send some pictures.

Today I did some souvenier shopping, sadly. It´s almost time to go home. But, still got these last weeks to do my best,

That´s it for now.

love, 

Elder Anderson

Elder Camargo dies today. feat. President and Hermana Goates

the maipu squad with some jerseys on

hno banffi putting on some meat

Mother's Day

Well it´s been a good week here in the good ole city of Maipú. 

First of all, we had intercambios on Tuesday, I went with Elder Marin, from California. We went to this family home evening with a bunch of people we had never met, cause some members from a different stake wanted to have one with their less active cousins, who live in our area but it´s pretty far away. It turned out to be awesome and there was a ton of food. Elder Banks was kind of sad for missing out on the food.

We also starting teaching an athiest guy who´s really cool. We found him knocking doors. We actually had a pretty spiritual lesson with him so we´ll see what happens with that. We are pretty much dropping a bunch of our investigators because they´re not progressing and getting other better ones. The mission is really focusing on talking with everyone in your path, and I think it was on Thursday or Friday we talked with over 50 people in the streets between lessons and stuff. It was pretty awesome so this week we´re gonna cash in on those names. 

Skype was fun! It was good seeing you all again. Can´t wait until Christmas to do it again! We got hooked up by this member named Adriel so the connection was pretty good and yeah.

After Skpye we did another Capilla Abierta, it was weird, because it was on Sunday, which was a complete mistake because River and Boca played yesterday right during it. There were like 6 people that did the tour and most of them were people from the street the other Elders brought in. Oh well something is something.

Today´s P day festivities include us staying at the pench and washing clothes. It´s been a while. We actually saw a dryer on sale at ChangoMas for about 2200 pesos, which isn´t bad, so our socks don´t become all crusty when they´re dry, but we decided to not buy it. Today we might play basketball too. 

It´s been pretty cold these days, but it´ll be warm in about a month here.

Have a great week and I love you all.

love,

Elder Anderson

With some kids in the ward after church

look it's you

After 22 month I found a mango

squad in Adriel`s car (elder banks got shotgun)

at plaza independencia, this was a while ago

noche de hogar.

. from the asado last week, everyone´s being a little weird

Work of Salvation

This past week was great, I don`t really know how to start, I´ll do my best.

We`ve managed to get a pretty good pool of investigators, and I´m pretty excited for this week. That one way gold family is still doing good. We haven`t been able to teach them for a while but last night we visited them and things are still going good. Hopefully things will go well with them this week. We taught quite a bit of lessons this week to newer investigators, it`s been pretty good.

We did a good job at explaining the importance of reading the Book of Mormon to our investigators. One of them read the entire introduction and testimonies and EVERYTHING before and had tons of questions about where the book came from, so that was good. Another one, named Fernando, read like 5 chapters in 1 Nephi which is a lot more than a lot of other investigators. 

The Book of Mormon is true. I have received a witness by the power of the Holy Ghost. I have seen lives changed, including mine, by the pages. It´s amazing.

This has been one of the best eras in my mission. Elder Banks and I have been working hard. When we wake up in the morning the day goes by way fast. These have been times I know that I am a representative of Jesus Christ and that this is His Church. I can testify of that as well.

Other than that, things have been going really good. This work is very satisfying when you see others come unto Christ. I only have a few weeks left and I still need to do my best, haha.

There wasn´t anything really that out of the ordinary that happened this week, just pure missionary work.

Have a good week everyone!

love,

Elder Anderson

Jesús es mi Luz

Hello everyone. Welcome to another week in the land of Maipú, it was actually a pretty solid week.

We had some pretty good success this week in finding new investigators again. Elder Banks and I went pretty far to this street called 25 de Mayo and we had no idea how to get out of there. So we asked this woman where to go and then (of course) we preached the gospel for a little. She told us she had just barely, the night before, watched a documentary about Mormons and she was interested so we taught her the Restoration. It was pretty cool.

We finally had some investigators come to church this week. One of our investigators, David, and his pareja (wife but not legally) Laura came to church. They are way cool so hopefully we can slap a baptismal date on them this week. They have 2 little kids so it would be awesome to baptize them. The ward did a good job and saying hello to them and swooped right in and were way nice.

Other than that it was a pretty normal week, I don´t really know what else to say. We´ve been working pretty hard and seeing blessings, hopefully before I leave we can get some of these people baptized. I also want to read the Book of Mormon again before I leave. So that´s that.

Have a good week!

love,

Elder Anderson 

eating hot dogs with the new elders in maipu, elder gomez and elder keyes

The Mountains from our roof

tacos with cheese and buttery tortillas

the zone at burger king last p day

Rain

Well this letter is titled rain because it rained a lot this week. But we managed to have a good week despite of it.

We were able to teach the Restoration to a couple of solid families we found. The weird thing is that we talked with both families a loooong time ago but we felt like we needed to try again with them and it worked! So that was good. The other investigators we have are doing well! Still not any in church but that will change soon.

We had a zone conference this week and it was pretty great. They talked a lot about getting investigators to pray. Because if we don´t see them praying in the lesson, there´s no way they´ll be praying by themselves. So that was good. Not to mention the lunch they served us afterwards, haha.

It was a pretty normal week, we had to do trámites again, so we went to the offices to do that. Other than that we´ve just been talking to a lot of people and teaching lots of lessons! Hopefully before I leave one of these families will get baptized. That would be pretty cool. 

Today for P day we are in Mendoza centro, we just got done playing soccer at this big park. We´re at the computer cyber I went to when I first started in Cementista, it´s really weird. 

Sorry this is so short, pretty much same old same old this past week. Have a good week everyone! The church is true.

love.

Elder Anderson

Maipú Week 7

This week was great, here in the promised land of Maipú. 

As far as investigators go, we got Carlos a Book of Mormon in english so he can read better. That was his excuse for not reading it so hopefully that helps. He´s doing good. The Flia Vega continues to be clutch, they couldn´t come to church for family reasons, but this week is going to be good for them. 

Another investigator, Gonzalo (the soccer player), we found out he actually plays in the professional league in Mendoza. So wanted to go to the game today, but we asked the Zone Leaders and they gave us a huge no. Dangit.

It´s actually been pretty rainy this week, sadly. This week was also Semana Santa for Easter and stuff, so it´s supposedly hard to work, but we managed to teach a bunch of lessons, it´s really all about attitude. We taught this guy named Fernando yesterday the restoration and then he gave us some way expensive chocolate bars. It was great.

The mission is making a huge effort to talk with everyone, cause God has put them in our path for a reason. Elder Banks and I made the effort to talk to everyone. We got to the point that when people pass us and we don´t talk to them we feel bad. Haha.

I was studying a lot this week about the pride cycle in the Old Testament, the whole Prosper Pride Wickedness and Destruction. I was just thinking about how we must remain humble even if we are prospering. If things are all going well there is a better chance they will stay well if we thank God for it, instead of thinking that it came from ourselves. Without God we are nothing. 

On Friday it was Elder Banks´s birthday, turned 19!!! I told the members we were eating lunch with and they gave him some super awesome dulce spread. That was fun.

Well that, my friends, will do it for this week. Have a good one.

love,

Elder Anderson

Cool Week

This week was pretty awesome to say the least. I never know how to start these letters so let´s just dive in.

First of all, we found a family called the Familia Vega. They were a reference from a member in a different stake. Well let me just tell you that they are really prepared to hear the gospel. I´ve never been able to find a family like this before. They are really accepting of the gospel, and Elder Banks and I are really excited to teach them. They weren´t able to come to church yesterday because the mother got sick, but they called us to let us know. We have high hopes for them, so we´re crossing our fingers! (hopefully by the next letter they haven´t dropped us haha.)

Other than that we were able to find a dude that plays for the Maipu soccer team (he´s got some serious swag). We taught him and his family the restoration and he´s pretty cool.

Carlos is doing good. He consistently comes to church and we gave him the word of wisdom lesson. He needs to stop smoking and also needs to gain more of a testimony of the spirit, he told us as soon as we leave he´s gonna stop going to church so there´s some work to do there haha.

On Saturday we went to the baptism of Graciela, the convert of the other Elders in Maipu. That was the woman that Elder Banks and I knocked her door our first day in Maipu because we didn´t know the limits of the area. Wow haha. In fact, it was the FIRST DOOR we knocked that day. Crazy.

Yesterday we had this stake meeting in Maipu about missionary work with members with none other than Hermano Luis Wajchman!! He´s the man that delivered my package in San Rafael almost a year ago. It was a great meeting and we´re excited to be able to work more with members here in our area. Hno. Wajchman is such a great man. He has a very strong testimony of the gospel and I wish I could go to one of his institute classes here in Mendoza.

Yesterday we got transfers, Elder Banks and I are staying here in Maipu B. But they washed Maipu A, and Elder Keyes (an old friend in the mish) is coming to train there. Sweet. This week we also had a zone meeting, and I got My Plan, which a packet that you have to fill our for your last 6 weeks. Scary stuff haha.

Today for p day we are gonna go play some tennis or raquetball at this place right by our pench, should be pretty awesome.

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

Love,

Elder Anderson

With Hno. Wajchman

Gettin all ready

on our roof

General Conference

This past week went by really fast, it was solid!

First off, our main investigator, Carlos, came to the last session of general conference yesterday. And since he speaks english, he watched it in the Gringo Room with us. The talk by Elder Costa really helped him we think, about getting baptized and doing what the missionaries say! His only problem is that he needs to stop smoking, which he said is going to be hard for him, but anything can happen.

Friday we had a ward activity and we spent like the entire day getting ready for it but none of our investigators came so we kinda wasted the day. On saturday we wanted to bounce back but we had district meeting and 3 sessions of general conference. But we worked between sessions and we were able to contact and teach a reference, and then teach another new investigator the restoration! It was weird cause I´ve never taught a lesson with a suit on but we did it. The reference is named Griselda, the friend of a member in Godoy Cruz but she seems super open, so hopefully we can baptize her!

We also did service at a member´s neighbor´s house. We cut a bunch of grapes that were out of reach for him. That was fun. And then it rained like all day that day. It´s actually been pretty rainy over the past week.

We also started teaching a Jehova´s Witness this week, that was fun. We knocked his door and he said ´Come back on Thursday´ so we did just that and we started ´teaching´. He had his bible and started showing us all these scriptures and stuff, it was fun. Based on what he told us he was bascially the equivalent of a High Priest for us. But he agreed to talk about the Book of Mormon next time we visit him.

Yesterday I got pretty sick, I don´t really know what happened to me, but today I am feeling better. And as I am writing this Carlos called to see if I was better. What a guy hahah.

And General Conference altogether was pretty awesome. I enjoyed a lot of the talks. I really liked Elder Oaks´s talk about the Godhead, some good stuff there. I also really liked Elder Renlund´s talk about the Shepherd and his Sheep. That was really good.

I think that´ll do it for this week. Have a good one!

love,

Elder Anderson

Another Week

This week was pretty normal, it went by really quick though.

First off, we have this investigator named Carlos who has come to church 3 times already! He has some crazy stories about when he lived in the United States and has desires to be baptized! He´s a way cool guy and speaks english. So hopefully this week we can keep him progressing. (He lives across the street from our pench so we always see him haha.)

We´ve also been able to find some more new investigators, we talked with another guy who speaks english, he was raised in New York. I´m telling you, I have never met so many people that speak english. But we have been talking to a large amount of people every day so maybe that´s why.

Yesterday we were teaching a lesson to this woman named Sara and we were reading 3 Nephi 11:15 and the spirit hit me so hard. Like I have never felt it like that. Just the part where the people give testimony that it was Christ. It really strenghtened my testimony of the divinity of Jesus Christ.

But other than that nothing new, we´ve been working pretty hard, the days are long but the weeks are short, it´s weird how that works. Not a whole lot of new stuff but everything is going great.

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

love,

Elder Anderson

toda la facha (all the swag)

My boy Elder Zagal (chile) brushing his teeth

and a chicken in some member´s yard

Maipú Sión!

This past week was pretty great, Maipú continues to be a great area!

On Wednesday we had a zone meeting which was good. They told us how to use the area book a little bit better so it´s ´más brillante que el sol´ (brighter than the sun). Then afterwards we ate pizza as a zone, that was pretty fun.

So one of our investigators, Carlos, came to church again yesterday. He´s fed up with all the bad things in this world and basically is looking for positive things in his life, which makes it easy for him to keep commitments. He lived in the United States for like 30 years so he speaks really good English. On Friday we taught him the restoration, and at one point he switched over to English to express himself better, and I did something I have never done in my mission... I testified of Joseph Smith in English. It was insane. The spirit was very strong.

We´ve been able to find quite a few investigators, it´s really weird because Carlos isn´t the only person we´ve found that speaks English. We taught a dude and his wife, they´re really young and they travel to Canada quite a bit. We also found a dude named Jeremy that lived in Texas for a few years. This has never happened to me before, but Elder Banks loves it cause he can understand them perfectly hahah.

Elder Banks and I have been getting up in the morning to play basketball. We found an outdoor rec center kind of thing so we ball hard... It´s a lot better than try to do exercises in the pench at 7am.

Hmmmmm.. what else... every tuesday we eat lunch with this really old member named Hermano Celoni, he´s the GOAT of references to missionaries. He gave us 5 references during lunch, and then we went back to do a family home evening with him and his sister and he gave us 2 more. We were actually able to teach 2 of those the restoration. He´s awesome. I invite you to give references to the missionaries in your ward. They will love you and put you in their letter home.

That´ll do it for this week, all is going good in the hood, still going strong. Thank you for your prayers, have a good week!

love,

Elder Anderson

Capilla abierta round 7 (my face says it all hahah)

noche de hogar with los Celoni. (the GOAT)

We ate some tater tots we found at Chango Mas

Maipu Madness

Well here we are again, another week gone by. We had a great week here in Maipú B.

First off, a quick update of the investigators. We have 2 investigators with a baptismal date that came to church yesterday. They are two youth that were investigators of the other elders that we kind of robbed. But they are cool so hopefully they´ll get baptized like last month. We had some good success in finding new investigators this week. Right across the street there is an orphanage, we kind of went to it on accident. Well the owner of the place has been through quite a bit in his life and we taught him a good lesson and he came to church the next day! It was pretty cool.

Something funny that happened the other week to share:Elder Banks and I were looking for the church in our area to start talking to people (this was like our first day together). We found the church and knocked this random door right by it, and a woman answered, and, she´s going to get baptized in a couple weeks. We weren´t even in our own area (we didn´t know where we were) but we passed the reference and she´s pure gold, haha.

Today we did an asado in the house of an investigator of the other elders of Maipu. We had a ton of chicken and it was awesome. We played a little bit of soccer too.

This week we had zone conference. It was really good. We learned a lot about just talking to everyone about the gospel. That´s really worked for us lately in our area, cause you never know who is ready to recieve the gospel! So we´ve set some high goals to find more people to teach, and it´s worked.

My companion, Elder Banks, continues to be clutch. He´s super new but he´s already adjusted to everything and has been going well. But yeah.

I don´t really know what else to say. I can´t believe I´ve made it this far on my mission. It´s gone by extremely fast and I´ve gotten to the point where I gotta start running faster, cause the finish line is in sight. But not think about it too much, haha.

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

Love,

Elder Anderson

All the Elders at the asado

 

La zona maipú. Elder Sosa, to my left, has a sign that says 1 año because he hit 1 year. I don´t know if that´s allowed but oh well.

Juan cooking the chicken

 

Maipu!

Well, as you were all informed last week, I was transfered from Mitre last week to open up Maipu B and train. Let me fill you in:

So we had the same ritual recieving our sons as last time, with ties. My son is named Elder Banks, from Minnesota! (yes, he´s a Vikings fan!) He´s a really cool guy. He´s pretty much into every sport, he played football in high school and knows a lot about sports! He´s already caught on to a lot of things and we´ve been doing great!

So yeah we basically took half the area of the other Elders that we already there. (thus, Maipu B.) It´s in the city of Mendoza, so large buses aren´t necessary to get to the offices. We took a taxi, and it was nuts cause we had like 6 large suitcases in there with us. Fun fact, one of the Elders in Maipu is Elder Harrison, who graduated with me at Bingham! we had a couple of classes together, so it´s a small world.

We´re basically starting from 0... not a whole lot of progressing investigators but we did manage to find 5 new investigators this week. Elder Banks also invited one of those to be baptized, I was so proud. So yeah. We´ve been meeting with members and stuff to get the hang of things, but time is gonna fly here. It´s pretty fun being in a pench of 4 elders... we all work pretty well so there´s not a problem there.

Today for p day (my first p day in mendoza for about 15 months) we went to a Costco place and dropped 1500 pesos on food and stuff for the 4 of us for the month. It´s actually a pretty cool place, I can´t remember what it´s called. We bought stuff in bulk so it can last. After this we´re gonna go play soccer with the zone (another fun fact: Elder Camargo is in my zone now so that should be fun. He opened up this area called La Gloria which is the most dangerous area in the mission by far. So pray for him haha.)

Things are going really well! yesterday was fast sunday with testimonies. I got up and bore my testimony to gain the trust of the members here and stuff. Well after that my son, Elder Banks, got up and bore his testimony as well, in Spanish, on his first sunday!! What a stud!!!!!! So yeah, it´s all going good. This ward is pretty average, it has about 70 or 80 people in sacrament meeting.

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

love,

Elder Anderson

First Photo with Elder Banks




last photo with Elder Vega in the terminal of San Rafael.



Elder Agyin is also training and dying. my smile is weird, sorry.

we sprayed a strange liquid on our clothes to get rid of mosquitoes.

 

Transfer 13 Complete

So with our main investigator, Marianela, we had a way solid lesson this week that made her feel not as pressured to get baptized. We spent like an hour planning the lesson and it went perfectly... so she´ll be getting baptized on the 11th of March, si Dios quiere (´if God wants´, a common Argentine phrase). 

We also have the cousin of a member who just needs to get married to get baptized. But she like moved from Buenos Aires to San Rafael and has to get special permission so basically we are just waiting for a letter to show up in the mail saying she can get married in San Rafael. But we think the letter got lost because it´s been like a month. But you never know.

Other than that we worked pretty good. Elder Mena, an elder from our district finished his mission so we were with an elder named Elder Stanford all of yesterday and today. He´s way good at finding new investigators so we went out to work yesterday and I´m not joking but THE FIRST house he knocked let us teach them. Dude´s a machine.

Hmmm. What else happened this week. We did service with some members on Thursday and Friday. We painted their house. (the main room and the kitchen) We actually did a pretty solid job for a couple of noobs. The members here are way dope.

Well yesterday came transfers. After 1 transfer I am leaving Mitre to go to the zone Maipu to train (apparently they are splitting the area in 2 ). I don´t know how I feel about this but it´s what God wants me to do. So I´ll be training for 12 weeks and then I´ll have 3 weeks left. I´m kinda sad to leave Mitre already but at the same time I don´t have to worry about doing zone leaderly stuff anymore. I´m gonna be dying pretty happy.

That´s it for this week... next week I´ll be letting you know about my new area and my new companion. Thanks for the support, love you guys!!

love,

Elder Anderson



intercambios featuring Elder Long and Elder Udall

painting with Gustavo

Elder Mena went home

Me when I found out I´m already leaving Mitre (sarcastically, don´t worry)

Vamos Todavia

This week was pretty great. It´s awesome to be a missionary in this place and time.

Ok, here we go with investigators. Remember that family from the Dominican Republic? Well one of the daughters (Alabaylis) came to church with us yesterday. We were pretty surprised. Our ward is pretty good with like fellowshipping investigators so they all swooped in and said hi and stuff, so hopefully it´ll go well. Our other progressing investigator, Marianela, probably won´t be getting baptized this week because she feels pressured (because our bishop announced her baptism like 2 weeks in advance and got scared). But probs in March she´ll be getting baptized. 

So here´s a roller coaster of emotions for ya. So last week at church a member invited a friend to attend church, named Vanina. On Monday she agreed to meet with us and we taught the message of the Restoration, it was awesome. So then she told us she lives a little farther away so we passed the reference to the Elders in Barrio 3. They taught her every day and she was PURE GOLD and was gonna get baptized and everything up until about 5 mintues ago, she sent us a text saying her family can´t support her and she´s already done. Dangit. 

This week the stake president, Presidente Fajardo, randomly sent us a text and told us to go to the stake center. We were kinda scared, but he just wanted to talk about missionary work. Cause the area South America South for the next 3 years will only be talking about missionary work. We have awesome plans to work with the youth and do some activities to get the ball rolling. Then the next day we had lunch with Pres. Fajardo. It was cool.

I think that´s it for this week. Missionary work is awesome, we´re still going strong. Next week we have transfers, but we´ll probably stay. so yeah.

have a good week everyone!

love, Elder Anderson



The only photo for this week

Mitre week 4

Another pretty good week here in Mitre, nothing too out of the ordinary happened, but Mitre continues to be a way solid area.

We will be having a baptism on the 25th, the wife of a less active member. She has been reading the Book of Mormon quite a bit and really likes the idea of Eternal Families so yeah. 

We will be having a ward activity called Meet the Missionaries, in which we will be making a video about missionary work. It´s gonna be dope, but we kinda gotta start on it.... hahah.

I went on an intercambio this week with an Elder from Ecuador named Elder Figueroa, he just barely started his mission. We found a family in which the mother gave birth to her son 3 days before. So that was fun and we talked about the plan of salvation.

That´s pretty much it for this week, sorry it´s so short. If this computer works I´ll be sending a lot of photos.

I love you all, and have a good week!!

love,

Elder Anderson

 

 

Oh, I totally forgot to mention.....

We had the capilla abierta in Barrio 2 (basically El Cerrito) and we were able to see all the member there. It was way awesome. I love El Cerrito.

 

capilla abierta in the street

trying to work in the rain.



hno perez

flia jerez espierrez

Obispo and Family

my boy Elder Nowjack

the whole squad

 

Mitre week 3

This week went by pretty slowly but it was good to say the least.

We had Consejo Monday and Tuesday, and then on Wednesday we had a zone conference. They were some pretty good meetings but we were pretty burned out with meetings when they got done.

Then we did some intercambios and I went with an Elder who went to Davis high school named Elder Skonnard. He´s pretty cool and we were able to find some dope investigators. We found a family that moved from the Dominican Republic and are looking for a religion because all the profecies in the Bible are being fulfilled. They speak with a crazy dominican accent but they are way cool and know the Bible pretty well. So that was fun. We´re looking forward to going back there this week.

We also have an investigator who just got back from vacation (her husband is a member) so we hopefully will be able to baptize here in the upcoming weeks. We shall see.

There is a new initiative in the mission in which we work with the youth of the ward and talk to younger people in the streets and stuff. So yesterday at church we showed the mormon message ´gracias a el´ and invited them all to share a video with someone who needs it. It´s super easy to do so if you have the Mormon Channel I invite you to send something to someone who needs it.

Also this week we took advantage of the new and improved schedule and we´ve been getting some good sleep... I haven´t really been all that tired this week, which is awesome.

I can´t really think of that much to say. We´ve been teaching and focusing a lot on the sabbath day observance. When we make an effort to change and prepare spiritually for the sacrament, that is when we can retain a remission of our sins. (3 Nephi 18) But yeah.

That´s it for this week. I wish you all a great week!!

Love,

Elder Anderson

 

Mitre

It was a great week down here in Mitre, I really enjoyed it.

We had a baptism this week. His name is Claudio, he´s the brother of a member here in Mitre. A few weeks ago the member had a really strong feeling that she needed to visit her brother with the Elders, and well, he got baptized on Saturday. He had a pretty bad problem with alcohol but was able to overcome it.

The other day we were knocking some doors, and to mix things up a bit my comp grabbed a cat from the street and we went around knocking doors to see who wanted it. Well after like 3 houses this dude named Julio answered the door and wanted the cat, we taught him the restoration, and he totally came to church yesterday. It was a miracle haha. 

Like I said before, Mitre is a huge ward... It´s full of a bunch of RMs and young families. They´re all pretty willing to give references which makes our job pretty easy.. We´ve been teaching quite a bit and we have some pretty solid investigators. But my feet hurt a little from walking so much again (I miss my bike in Albardon). 

We had the worldwide training meeting where they announced the new changes to the schedule. It basically lets us sleep a little bit more which will be pretty awesome. They gave us more flexibility and stuff as far as studies. It was a pretty good training, and they also gave us 2 more hours on P day. Boom.

Today we´re going to Mendoza for consejo tomorrow, same old same old. We have a ton of meetings this week so it´s gonna go by slow, oh well. 

I can´t think of anything else to say. Have a good week and I love you all!

love

Elder Anderson

Claudio

Now with his family

my comp with a horse

a large bug we found. (juanito)