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.