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