Prompting

So this morning I felt prompted to come early and check our emails. We came and it turns out my companion (hna. Zapata) had received some bad news from her family. Her brother had been murdered. Luckily President was in a meeting in our chapel right next to our house and we were able to go visit with him after his meeting. Hna. Zapata took it all really well and was able to talk to her mom for a while. While President had a ton of things to do, he took the time to take us out to lunch and give Hna. Zapata the comfort and love she needed. I was so touched by his incredible love for us. And the timing of everything just seemed to work out. I don´t know, I´ve just realized today, more than ever, that the Lord has a plan. There´s no coincidences. It´s not a coincidence that we studied the Plan of Salvation in companionship study, that we checked our email this morning, or that President was near by. The love of God is so great. I would appreciate your prayers for my companion and her family. I just want you to know I´m so grateful for you and I loved talking to you on Christmas. You are all the best!

Les amo,

Hermana Anderson 

Christmas adventures

I don´t have a ton of time to write due to some crazy adventures with President today (including lunch at McDonald´s with him and his wife), but I´ll try to explain briefly my wonderful week. Christmas was absolutely fantastic!! I think I ate more food than I have ever eaten in my life. Everyone just wanted to feed the missionaries! We ate posole, pig head and feet, tortas ahogadas, egyptian food and an array of other things. My favorite was probably on Christmas Eve when we went to eat with a recent convert family. The moms of our two recent converts were there and we were able to share with them the Christmas initiative videos and talk a little bit about the Gospel. At the end of the night we were able to give them their own Books of Mormon as a Christmas gift. They both came to church on Sunday and said they were interested in learning more. Neither of them live in Guadalajara, but we´ll be sending the missionaries to their houses soon. 

We also have a whole family that we were able to teach Christmas Eve. It a family that has some less-active members, recent converts, and now investigators too. We watched the Christmas videos with them as well and did some fun Christmas activities and shared stories. The Spirit was so strong and while they didn´t have any Christmas presents, or much to buy a big Christmas dinner, they recognized the real meaning of Christmas and we could feel that there with them. And then they all came to Church yesterday :) Did I mention I just love Christmas and the mission? 

Well, I´ll try to attach some photos to show some of the other highlights of my week!

I love you all and thank you for your support, love and prayers.

HAPPY NEW YEAR :)

con amor,

Hermana Anderson

With the Hermana Anderson and Elder Anderson

Cutting sugar cane to make Ponche (a Mexican Christmas drink)

Missionaries on Christmas Eve with the Contreras family

Christmas Eve with the comps

The Anderson family photo

Elder y Hna. Anderson--The Anderson family in Guadalajara

¡Feliz Navidad!

I cannot believe it´s Christmas this week!! It´s been an absolutely crazy and wonderful week all at the same time. We had our ward Christmas party, a Christmas district activity, and now this upcoming week is going to be filled with even more food and celebrations! We´ve  just been trying to spread lots of Christmas cheer all week long. I already love Guadalajara and all the people here. My favorite was when we went to one of the main malls here in Guadalajara with our district and a bunch of members to sing Christmas hymns and hand out the Christmas cards of ¨A Savior is born¨. Santa even came to help us out! I just love this time of year so much as we all join together in the celebration of our Savior Jesus Christ and His birth . And it´s been super fun to learn a little bit more of the Mexican Culture and how they celebrate Christmas. And the best part is that I can now understand all the words to the song ¨Feliz Navidad¨. 

Exciting news: I´m going to be in a trio...again! Hermana Kinikini´s companion had to go home today due to health problems and now she will be joining Hermana Zapata and I until she gets a new companion. Everyone always told me I´d probably never have an American companion, but Hna. Kinikini is #3! Haha What a unique mission I´ve had so far...a little over halfway with 10 companions and 5 areas. I´m just hoping the second half of my mission will at least be a little more stable...but wherever the Lord sends me is where I will go. 

This last week there were some instances where I felt like I´m definitely not prepared enough to fulfill my new assignment as sister training leader, but then I remembered the Lord qualifies those He calls, and He sure enough gave me the words to say and the strength to do all the I was asked to do. Being the only American STL, and with more than 15 new American sister missionaries, I received lots of calls from the new sisters when they felt frustrated or just weren´t able to communicate their feelings to their companions. It made me think back to my first three months in the mission field and helped me to see just how much the Lord has helped me grow and how much I have learned in such a small amount of time. The mission is incredible and helps a person grow in so many different ways. 

How grateful I am for this amazing opportunity to serve the Lord with all I am, and receive countless blessings in return. While I´m missing the snow, the Christmas gifts, family get togethers and such, there is no where else I would want to be during this spectacular time of year. I know this is where the Lord wants me. I hope you all have a very merry Christmas and I hope you´ll take some time to remember the real meaning of Christmas.

Alégrate, ha nacido un Salvador

FELIZ NAVIDAD

Les amo,

Hermana Anderson 

Hna Kinikini and I chillin´ in the airport

It wouldn´t be Christmas Caroling if we didn´t have awesome Christmas hats 

Christmas in the City

And this week was another lovely round of TRANSFERS. After a long bus ride of 8 hours, I´m in Cruz del Sur, Guadalajara as a Sister Training Leader with Hermana Zapata. So I´ll officially be spending Christmas here in the city. I was sad to leave Salvatierra....we have at least 3 investigators that will be baptized in January, but I´m grateful I was able to be a small part in their conversion process. Our recent convert and her daughter (one of our investigators), Monica, fasted this last Sunday and saw miracles. Monica needs to get married with her partner in order to be baptized, but he wansn´t willing to get married. After fasting, he proposed to her without her saying anything and they´re going to get married this week! The best thing in the entire world is to here one of our investigators say that they received an answer to their prayers and it happened 5 times this week. Many of our investigators were able to read the Book of Mormon, pray, and receive this answer that this really is the true church. The work of the Lord is progressing so fast here in Mexico!

This last we had a fun activity with the Salvatierra ward. I taught the Relief Society Sisters how to make Christmas Sugar Cookies and then the Primary Kids decorated them all, and everyone helped us make more then 200 packets with pamphlets, cookies and the Christmas pass-along-cards. We later sang Christmas songs and handed out the packets at the market. Nearly every person we talked to gave us their address to visit them this month. It was interesting trying to make cookies without a recipe, but they turned out really good and the people seemed to enjoy them! Haha.

Also this last week on Sunday we were able to watch the dedication of the Tijuana temple and it was beautiful! I love seeing the work of the Lord moving forward throughout the world. Sunday I stayed in Prados Verdes with the Sister Training Leaders to travel Monday morning. We were able to visit Hna. Angelita... she was one of my investigators while I was in Prados and now is a member...and we were able to have a family home evening with the Rodriguez Family as well! It was so great to see them. I just love these people so much. 

Well, I´m sorry I don´t have a ton of time to write today, but I´ll be sure to fill you all in on my adventures here in Guadalajara the next week! 

Enjoy your White Christmas up north there! Thanks for all your prayers and love!!  

¡Feliz Navidad!,

Hermana Anderson

Pescadores de hombres

It´s starting to feel a little more like Christmas. With two Christmas packages this week, a little Christmas shopping, our tiny Christmas tree we finally put together, and a couple degrees cooler outside, I´m starting to get super excited for my Christmas in Mexico. Speaking of which, have you seen the new Christmas campain from the church? #AMAZING I loved hearing those kids bear testimony of our Savior. And the videos made me think a little more this week, what would my life be like if Christ hadn´t been born? I´m infinately grateful for the knowledge I have that I have a Savior that lives and loves me. If you haven´t seen the videos, you should definitely go watch them right now. And don´t be afraid to share them and Facebook or in other ways to help others remember the real meaning of Christmas too!

Well this week we were finally able to start teaching the daughter of our recent convert, Laura! Her daughter, Monica, came to the baptism a couple weeks ago, felt the Spirit and told us she was ready to see what we had to say. We taught about Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, and all the blessings of the Gospel. She accepted everything and asked us when she could be baptized. She then asked us if she could fast this Fast Sunday! Haha the bishop was a little surprised when he received a fast offering from our investigator. Unfortunately, I´m 99% sure I´ll be leaving Salvatierra this week to be transfered to another area..which means I won´t be here for Monica´s baptism. But it´s okay. We all have a different part in the conversion process, and while I might not be able to see the fruits of Moni´s conversion, I was able to help plant the seed and see it start to grow. This work is marvelous.

Well today was fun! We went to Ballesteros as a district, hiked a little bit and tried to fish our lunch. Let me tell ya, the fishing wasn´t very successful, but we had a good time and took some cool pictures. We ended up buying some steak and enjoying that for lunch instead. I guess it´s a good thing we´re called to be fishers of men and not fishers of fish cause between the 8 of us, we were only able to catch a 3 inch long fish. Haha. I love Mexico with my whole heart. While I´m sad I can´t be enjoying snow and the temple square light this year, I´ve got all I need to be perfetctly happy. There´s nothing quite like spending Christmas serving others and sharing this wonderful message that The Savior is born, He lives and He loves every single one of us. 

Go out and spread some Christmas Cheer.

¡Les amo!   

Hermana Anderson

Zone Christmas Present Exchange

Our 3 in. fish

Best District ever

Goin' on a little walk

Our tiny Christmas Tree

Typical selfie of Hna Gonzales and I

with Hna Marcia Scott 

Typical selfie of Hna Tupounuia and I

Con Hna. Lala por su cumpleaños

Our neighbors and their awesome Christmas lights

Tracting and Tacos for Thanksgiving

I kinda can´t believe I´m halfway done with my mission...and it still doesn´t feel like November. But we had an enjoyable week this last week! I learned this week that this is really the work of the Lord and He guides us. Here´s one example from the week:

Hna Gonzales and I were walking down the street tracting addresses we had recieved from talking with people in the street. We both felt prompted to find ¨Maricela¨. We went to the street that Maricela had given us, and as we walked, Hermana Gonzales commented, ¨Wow, look at that mansion¨ I jokingly replied with ¨That´s probably the house of Maricela¨ We were then shocked to find that the number of the mansion corresponded with the number we had for Maricela. We knocked on the door, and from the fifth floor window someone yelled out asking who it was. We replied saying we were looking for Maricela. Confused the woman came out and asked what we wanted. We introduced ourselves as misisonaries from The Church of Jesus-Christ of... before I could even finish saying the name of the church she excitedly said she was coming down to let us in. We entered the mansion and after a few minutes of talking with this woman we found out that 1. Her name isn´t Maricela, nor was she the woman we were looking for and 2. She´s a member of the church. She had moved from California a few years before and had never attended the church here in Salvatierra. Thus her church records weren´t even in the ward´s member list and it´s a miracle that we were able to find her. She said she had been praying for us to show up because she wanted to start coming to church again and also because her boyfriend isn´t a member but she want´s him to learn about the church. Crazy stuff, huh? This sister had lived nearly her whole life in the United States and loves celebrating US holidays so she then invited us to eat tacos with her to celebrate Thanksgiving haha. Best day ever. 

This week we bought a mini Christmas tree :) And I got to spend a day in Tarimbaro for divisions with the STL. And nothing much else really happened...but I´m super excited that it´s almost December which means we can sing Christmas Hymns everywhere we go and there´s pretty Christmas lights all around. I´ll sure be missing some of our normal Christmas traditions, but it will be nice to be able to spend this time focusing on others and the real meaning of Christmas. 

I hope you´re all enjoying the cold up north there and I just want you to know it´s currently 75 degrees here in Salvatierra :)

Love you all! 

Feliz casi Navidad,

Hermana Anderson

Snow? Thanksgiving?

I still feel like it´s summer down here in Mexico...so I´m not quite sure what you´re all talking about with snow and Thanksgiving. Maybe we´ll have to buy some tacos or something to celebrate Thanksgiving this Thursday, but other than that, no one here really knows what Thanksgiving is. My companion thought I was crazy when I first tried to explain Thanksgiving, and even more crazy when I tried explaining black Friday haha. Oh America and our crazy holidays and traditions. 

Well this last week went by sooooo fast. We were busy with trips to Morelia, meetings with Elder DeHoyes, and our baptism with Laura. I used to get stressed when there was so many things to do in such a short amount of time, but I´m learning that if we do everything we can do on our part, everything always works out and there´s absolutely no use in getting stressed about it. And honestly, everything went perfectly. Laura´s baptism was easily the highlight. She was able to bring her kids and grandkids and her mom was even able to come despite her health problems and everything. The Spirit was so strong during the baptism and one of Laura´s kids asked us to visit her this week to start teaching her. After the baptism we had an activity with the whole ward where we ate Pasole and enjoyed talking and being together. It was great to see so many members there supporting Laura and her family. It´s absolutely the best thing in the world to see someone change so drastically and enter the waters of baptism to make this sacred promise with the Lord. 

The other highlight of the week was that at one of our meetings with President Egginton and President DeHoyes, I saw my dearest Hermana Sutherland! We worked in the MTC together before the mission and spent a lot of time together in at BYU. We became super close friends and now she´s in the mission with me! We even were able to do the special musical number and sing ¨Be Still my Soul¨ together. She has about 2 weeks in the mission field now, and is still learning Spanish, so President had me sit by her and translate the meeting to her. It was a good just to see someone from home and to be able to talk to her. 

There´s very few things in the mission that I don´t like, but one of them is the fact that sometimes we have to decide to stop teaching someone. I realize it´s necessary, but it´s hard for me to stop teaching someone when I can see such great potential in them. So it´s always a decision I make carefully, and a decision I make with the Lord. Yesterday in the morning I was praying to know whether we should leave one of our investigators or not. Latter that evening, we received a message from a member that her friend wanted us to visit her. When we met this friend, we soon found out that it was the mom of this other investigator we were about to stop teaching. The mom shared with us some insights on their lives and perhaps some of the reasons our investigator wasn´t progressing. Needless to say, we´ve decided to keep teaching them both, and I´m excited to see them progress together. It´s just always interesting to me the different ways the Heavenly Father answers our prayers. 

Well, that´s all I really have for this week! Life is just flyin´ by and we just keep on working in the work of the Lord. I wish you all the happiest Thanksgiving! 

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Kirsten Anderson

Amazing Experiences

I feel like a once a week email is far from suffcient to tell you of all my amazing experiences here in the mission. It was a great week this week. I`m pretty sure we`ve eaten tacos everyday and we continue to have progress and many Spiritual experiences. I don`t know how the Lord does it, but He continues to have infinite patience with us imperfect servents of His and help us to find the people who are ready for His truth. Last week we knocked on a door looking for a woman who I`m pretty sure had moved out of that house long ago, but coincidently it was the same name of the daughter of  the woman that opened the door (who doesn`t actually live there), so it caught her attention and she let us in. Long story short, this woman had just lost both of her parents and was praying to know where they had gone. We taught the Plan of Salvation and shed many tears together as she felt the truthfulness of this plan. The Lord is aware of every single one of His children and their needs.  

Another quick story, we were waiting at the bus stop with two women who had a bunch of kids. I was about to talk to them and ask if they wanted to hear our message when I heard a still small voice, ¨wait for them to talk to you¨. That  goes against basically everything we`re told as missionaries to do, but I listened. A bus passed by and while it wasn`t the bus we normally take, I felt like we should get on. The two women also got on behind us and sat in the back. At this point my companion was so confused as to why we were on the bus, and the only thing I could tell her was to wait. About 3 minutes later one of the women tapped my shoulder. ¨Can you two come visit me and my family?¨  Of course we excitedly said yes and set an appointment. We taught the lesson yesterday and she accepted everything we told her about Joseph Smith and the Restoration. She told us she has been really confused and wants to know which church is true to be able to take her kids and teach them about God. So prepared. 

This Thursday Laura will be baptized! It`s a miracle how her mom, who is a member and fighting cancer, has gained enough strength that she will be able to attend the baptism as well. What a blessing! Laura will be the first of my investigators that I have found, taught, and seen baptized. It`s been so wonderful to see the whole process and this great change in her life! El Evangelio es hermoso.

We swtched our P-Day to today to come to Morelia and have a Zone Activity and we will be staying the night to have a conference with the President of the Area, Elder DeHoyes tomorrow morning. I love everything about the mission, the meetings, the activities, the lessons, the ups and downs. I know this is the work of the Lord!

A lot of other great things happened, and I don`t have time to explain everything, but I`ll send some photos of this weeks highlights!  

Thanks for all you all do for me! I love hearing from you and feeling of your support and strong spirits. Keep up the great work!

Con todo mi amor,

Hermana Anderson

Christmas lights are here!! 

Hermana Sobeida-- la mamà de Hermana Laura

Family Home Evening with some investigators 

Enjoying tacos as a distrito with Hermana Angelina

Zone activity with the fantastic 4

Oliver and I 

Family Photo with Hna Carmen, Andrea y fam

Laura`s house is basically a butterfly garden  :)

No such thing as a bad day in the mission

I´m convinced there´s no such thing as a bad day in the mission. I mean, yeah there´s those days where all of our appointments fall through and no one wants to listen to us, but what a privilege it is to be working in the work of the Lord, to be walking with Christ by our side trying to do and say the things that He would do and say. The people didn´t always accept His teaching, it wasn´t always easy for Him, so why should I ever expect it to be easy for me. And I´m learning that the joy of seeing someone accept the Gospel is waaaayyy more rewarding than whatever rejection we might receive. Remember the reference I mention last week, from our recent convert, well, she came to church this week! And she also took us to visit one of her friends who has been struggling with a lot of different family problems. The Gospel applies to EVERYONE and EVERY SITUATION. When we teach, these people just light up and get the biggest smiles on their faces with tears in their eyes and there´s nothing better than seeing someone feel the Spirit for the first time. It makes me feel even more blessed that I´ve had the blessing of the Gospel all my life. We should never ever stop recognizing the blessings of the Gospel and the Spirit in our lives.  

So I received the best compliment this week....we were talking with this guy in the street and when my companion said she was from Peru, he asked me if I was from there too, and then when I said no, he said, ¨So you´re Mexican then?¨ hahahaha he said my Spanish was too good to be American. We were laughing about that all week. We then invited him to our English classes we have every week, and he came! I love teaching English. It reminds me of the MTC when I was trying to learn Spanish for the first time. 

So Hermana Tupouniua and I completed 8 months in the mission this last week...what better way to celebrate than by eating 8 tacos. The guys at the taco stand were a little surprised when these 4 girls were asking for 32 tacos...and then we were even more surprised when we actually finished all of them. 

Well, everything´s going well down here in Salvatierra. We´re working hard, having fun, and enjoying every moment. Oh, also, Hermana y Elder Anderson (our relatives) arrived in the mission this last week! It will be fun to have some more Anderson´s here in Mexico.  

Gracias por todo,

Hermana Anderson

Zone Conference

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Pase lo que pase y disfrutalo

What a week! Haha we still have the sisters from Acambaro (Hna
Tupouniua y Hna Trejo) living with us. Which is super great cause we
all have a super good time together. Also we had el día de los
muertos, interviews with President in Morelia and then some late night
traveling to Guadalajara to visit with President again! There was some
super great moments as well as some stressful situations and such, but
we´re learning to just take it all as it comes.
The best thing happened this week, Alberto (our recent convert)
introduced us to his friend to teach, and she is GOLDEN! We got to the
first lesson and she not only had read all of the pamphlet about the
restoration, but also searched all the scriptures and answered all the
questions in the back. We basically didn´t have to teach anything
haha. It´s great to see how a member first introduced Alberto to the
church, and then how he introduced someone else, and now she even
wants to bring someone else to church on Sunday. It´s the ripple
effect of missionary work. Speaking of missionary work, a young man in
our ward received his mission call to Tucson Arizona! He´s going to be
super great.
So those were some of the super great moments, the super stressful was
Sunday night when we received a call from the secretaries asking if we
were in Guadalajara...what, we had no idea we had to be in
Guadalajara. So we received special permission from President to
travel all night to get to Guadalajara for the meeting in the morning.
We got to the bus station, and the last bus had just left 5 minutes
before, so we had to wait, and then we got to the next bus station,
and the last bus had just left 5 minutes before. So we spent our time
in the bus stations enjoying hot chocolate and reading the scriptures.
We finally got to Guadalajara at 6:30 in the morning...and then after
the meeting we got to spend the rest of the day coming back to
Salvatierra. But it´s all good. The mission has taught me to just
kinda go with the flow and stop stressing about the things I can´t
control. And it was some good bonding time for Hna Gonzales and I...14
hours in the bus together in 1 day. Haha
Have I mentioned I love the mission? Well I do. There´s nothing quite
like putting all of your energy and focus in the work of the Lord. I
realize this time is so very short and so very precious, so I really
am trying to enjoy every little moment. These people suffer so much,
and I love being able to offer the hope and joy the Gospel brings. I
can´t even express how grateful I feel to have this Gospel in my life.
I know with all my heart that this church is true.
Les amo,
Hermana Anderson

 last comida con Julio y Pepe 

Hot Chocolate at 1 am in the Morelia bus station

Junta de 12 semanas en Guadalajara  

En la casa del Cruz del Sur. Hnas. Gonzales, Mortensen, Morales, Garcia, yo, Allen, Zapata

Hermana Kinikini (Hna Tupouniua´s cousin) and I at the 12 semanas meeting

Tranquila

Ya, estoy bien. No os preocupáis. The hurricane was a little rain with
some wind and not much else. It was more of a challenge to explain
daylight savings to my companion than it was to survive Hurricane
Patricia. Nothing can stop the work of the Lord. This week was truly
fantastic (as is every week in the mission). We found a bunch of new
people to teach and can I just tell you, there is no way we would be
able to find these people without the help and guidance of the Lord.
For example, we were searching an address we had of a young woman
named Angeles. We searched the street like 4 or 5 times and the house
number we had just didn´t exist. So we said a little prayer and felt
inspired to ask this young man that was sitting on the sidewalk if he
knew this young woman. Turns out it was his sister, and they had
actually just moved houses, but the young man was able to tell us were
their new house was and when we got there, the whole family warmly
welcomed us into their home and intently listened to our lesson about
The Restoration. But really, what are the chances. The thing is, there
are no coincidences in the mission. Another day we knocked on the door
of another address we had to contact. We didn´t find the person we
were orginally searching for, but rather a middle aged woman who´s
father had passed away that week. The Spirit was strong as we taught
her the Plan of Salvation and that families can be together forever. I
have no doubt that the Lord leads us to these homes. He prepares the
hearts of these people.
Laura is steadly progressing toward her baptism! She came to church
yesterday, and since the ward went to the temple on Saturday, many
shared their testimonies of the temple and the work we do there.
Afterwards she told us that while she still didn´t completely
understand what they do in the temples or what they are, she really
really wants to go after hearing everyone´s experiences. Haha. Some of
our recent converts were able to go for the first time and do baptisms
and they shared some beautiful experiences with us. Some other
families from my previous areas were sealed together. It made me so so
happy to hear all the wonderful things that are happening as the Lord
hastens his work here. I feel so grateful to have been able to do a
little of my family history and attend the temple frequently before my
mission. It has given me a stronger testimony of everything we do here
in the church.
Other than that, I had companion exchanges with Hermana Vargas here in
Salvatierra and that was good. Also the hermanas from Acambaro are
staying in our house until they find a new house due to safety
concerns. But one of the hermanas is the Hermana Tupounuia...my
companion from the MTC!! We´ve basically been in the same zone our
entire mission and now we get to live together! It´s fun to reminise
on our first days in the MTC and in the mission field. It helps remind
me just how far I´ve come these last 8 months. But really, it´s been
great to have someone to share these experiences with throughout my
entire mission. So many blessings in the mission.
I love you all and thank you for your prayers. They really help.
Les amo,
Hermana Anderson

Celebrating Hermana Trejo´s birthday with sparklers and cake

Cause there´s just so many pretty flowers and colors here in Mexico

Hurricane Patricia in Salvatierra

Hermana Gonzales and I enjoying the Park on P-Day

The fantastic 4

Walking Down the Street

This week as we were walking down the street a man working in a
car-repair shop stopped us and asked, ´You two pass by every morning
smiling and greeting everyone that you pass, why are you so happy?´
The answer was simple...it´s because we´re spreading the Gospel of
Jesus Christ, a message of hope and happiness. And can´t even put to
words the joy that this work gives me. This last week, one of our
investigators, Laura, told us of her different experiences she´s had
with prayer and the Book of Mormon, and her desire to be baptized.
While her husband wasn´t to fond of the idea, God softened his heart
and he gave her permission to be baptized. She told us, ´I´ve made up
my mind, I´m going to be baptized and no one can stop me.´ I don´t
think I stopped smiling all day. Her mother is a member of the church
and is currently living with Laura due to cancer and other health
issues. She can´t walk or say very much, but she shared with us how
she has been praying for her daughter to receive the Gospel everyday
since she was baptized more than 15 years ago. Nothing makes me
happier than to see families united in the Gospel.
Yesterday we had stake conference so we got to go to Moroleón to
attend. We had members from Salvatierra, Moroleón and Prados Verdes
there. a.k.a. all of my areas so far in the mission. I enjoyed seeing
all the members and I was so happy to see previous investigators there
now as new members of the church. Many were surprised to find that now
I can actually speak Spanish, unlike 6 months ago. Haha The church is
growing rapidly here in México and I feel so blessed to be a small
part of it.
The mission has taught me a lot. I´ve gained a stronger testimony of
my Savior, The Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, and many other aspects of
the Restored Gospel. I´ve learned what it means to have patience, with
myself and with others. I´ve learned to trust in the Lord and follow
the Holy Ghost. And I´ve also learned that there are consequences when
I don´t fulfill all my responsibilities... like paying the electricity
bill. Haha we didn´t have any food this morning to eat, so after our
studies we went off to the market to buy some things. We got home, and
quickly started making some tacos and smoothies. With meat and
tortillas on the stove, and strawberries in the blender, we soon
realized nothing would turn on. That´s when I remembered we have to
pay for electricity. So we went and bought some pizza and spent a
solid hour of our P-Day today waiting in line to pay for the
electricty. I´m pretty sure I won´t be forgetting that ever again.
I am loving it here and I can´t believe how quickly the time is flying
by. I appreciate all of your love and support!
Les amo mucho!
Hermana Anderson

Pizza for breakfast cause we
didn´t have electricity

 Salvatierra at Sunset