Friday, February 27, 2009

Hello Everyone, This week has been better. I have started praying for the people that I am serving rather then praying for myself, and it is really helping. I have really learned to love the people by doing that. Nothing new has really happen here. We are still working with the same investigators and trying to get them to make commitments. I am worried that that is going to always be a problem, but I will try my best to work my hardest. I have had many opportunities to serve here. Yesterday, we did our normal service, working at the Habitat for Humanity Re-store, and then later that night we went over to one of the members home and helped them empty a moving truck. There was a lot of furniture. Service is a great way to learn to love people. I am going to update you a little on our investigators. Audrey, the 13 year old girl, hasn't made it to church in three weeks. We have her baptism date set for March 8th, but we keep having to move it back because she doesn't come to church. She was a great investigator at first but she has stopped progressing. Elder Hofheins and I sat down last night and talked about what we are going to do with her. We decided that it is time for us to stop holding her hand and see what she does. If she doesn't make it to church this sunday, we are going to give her some time to think about what she wants to do. In other words, we are going to drop her. The Potvins are interesting. They seem really interested in the gospel one day and the next they are bashing everything we throw at them. Michael came out and told us on friday that he was at a fork in the road and one way leads to bible school to become a pastor and the other leads to join the lds church. We are hoping for the latter. We had a fireside on friday night that April Potvin came to and the bishop taught the lesson. He is an amazing man. I think that April really enjoyed it. Brenda Subrick still loves to praise her Jesus. I think that she really likes us to come over because we are the only people that will listen to her stories. We keep inviting her to church, but she is struggling with health issues and can't leave the house. So we just keep praying for her in hopes that her health will improve and she will be able to come to church. Violet Farmer is a funny old lady. She loves to tell us stories about her childhood and her working as a counselor at a high school. We go over there every Monday and read a few chapters out of the Book of Mormon. She has received all the lessons but will not come to church. So she is in our prayers also. Then we have all the less active members that we go see throughout the week. They are a funny group. I am going to take the video camera around this week and hopefully they will let me video tape them. Also, the bishop gave us a new job. We are in charge of finding all the members that nobody has seen in a while. It has been really frustrating because it takes time away from our investigators, but we have also had some really great experiences with it. We Talked with a lady from Cuba, her name is Alicia Juncosa (Huncosa) and she stopped coming to church because she felt the she was not worthy. We talked with her awhile and she is hopefully going to come to church this Sunday. Also, we met Kathryn Vance. She is in a nucing home, and has Cerebral Palsy. She obviously can't come to church so we arranged visitors for her. We met a man named Gary Burgess, who we have been looking for since I have been here. He told us that he was just diagnosed with lung cancer and was going through many treatments and was never feeling well enough to come to church. Come to find out, he went to high school with some of the members in our ward, so we set up some visits for him to. Everything is going great. Still working hard and doing my best. Keep me in your prayers and also pray for my investigators. I love you all so much. Love, Elder Anderson

2 comments:

  1. What ward is Ian in or Stake? I have a close friend who lives in W Virgina.

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  2. Amy, thanks for putting this together. it is great to read about Ian's experiences.

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