Hello Everyone, This week has been really busy, but it has been great. West Virginia is entering into spring and that means service. We have started doing yard work and we are still moving furniture. I love the opportunities we have to help people. It has really helped me learn to love all the people here in West Virginia. Also, we have been doing a lot of tracting this last week. We decided that instead of tracting Marmet we were going to go up on the north hill of Charleston. I have never seen more beautiful houses in my life. They were huge and well taken care of. The yards were perfect and green. It was something that you would have seen in a magazine of something. And the people up there are so nice. It is amazing to see the diffrence in people around here. In Marmet we get the door slammed on our face more then not and then on the north hill all the people have manners. We tought one lesson up there and he said that he wasn't interested but we planted some seeds. What a great experience. Audrey was confirmed a member on Sunday. It was so great to be able to stand in the circle and feel of the spirit. Audrey is going to be a great member for this ward. There is another resent convert named Aimee Cobb. She has taken Audrey under her wing and really has made her feel welcome in the ward. We are going over to have dinner with Aimee, Audrey, and the Zone Leaders tomorrow. We had an amazing lesson with Adrienne on Sunday. We discussed the Book of Mormon and read some chapters out of it. Elder Hofheins asked her if she would be baptized and she said that she would when she received her answer from God. Please put her in your prayers. She has a faith in God like I have never seen before. General Confrence is just around the corner. I have never been so excited for General Confrence in my life. We have the opportunity to watch two sessions over at one of our investigators house. I hope that she feels the spirit as the Apostles are speaking to us. We are so blessed to have a Prophet to lead and guide us in these latter days. Love, Elder Anderson

This e-mail was from March 24, I am just a little slow getting it in the blog.
Hey Everyone, This week has been great. We have had some amazing experiences and then some that are not so great. This Sunday, we finally got Audrey baptized!! She has had a baptizmal date since Nov 08, and we have had to just keep moving it back. The baptismal service was great. The spirit was so strong, and it was so good to see someone that I have been teaching be baptized. I asked her afterward how she felt and she looked at me with a great big smile and said that she felt happy. That was such and amazing moment. It is moments like that that keep me going. Also this week we had the oppotunity to attend Zone Confrence. What an uplifting meeting. In Zone Confrence we hear from President Thornock, Sister Thornock, the Assistants, and the Zone Leaders. They are all amazing people. I hope that someday I will have the knowledge that they have. This Zone Confrence was about being bold when extending baptismal dates. It was really great to hear about other peoples ideas. Also, this Zone Confrence, the President picked me to stand and give a five minute talk. Well, you know me, I just got up there and blubbered. I am such a baby when it comes to talking about the gospel and my family. I think that it went really well though. Yesterday, we went down to Marmet to talk with Nicky and see why she hadn't called us. She came to the door and told us that her husband didn't want her to take the lessons from us anymore. It was really sad to walk away from her like that. We are going to give her about a month to think about it and then we are going to stop by and see if she changed her mind. I hope that she will talk to her husband about it and his heart will be softned by the spirit. Keep her in your prayers. Everything is going great in the companionship. We are starting to become really good friends. It is really amazing to teach with Elder Hofheins. He knows so much about the gospel and about the Bible. I am learning so much from him. This week we decided to cover one of our walls in our apartment with Ensign covers. It may seem really stupid, but it was a great bonding opportunity. Spring is around the corner and everyone is outside cleaning up their yards. With Spring comes many service projects. This week we are doing service everyday. Even on our P-Day!!! It is really great to be able to throw on a pair of jeans and get down in the dirt. I also have never moved so much furniture in my life. It seems like almost every week we are either moving someone out of the ward or into it. It has been great to get to know so many people. I truly love the people here. Love, Elder Anderson

Hello Everyone, This week has been amazing. We are finally starting to has success with our investigators. Audrey (the 13 year old girl) is going to be baptized on March 22nd. She has been interviewed and is so excited to be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost. It has been really fun to sit down with her and talk to her about what is going to happen after she is baptized. It has been amazing to watch her testimony grow just in the last few weeks. Also, Olivia (the lady from Colorado) has a baptism date on April 19th, but we are trying to get her to move it up. She has already been through the dicussions and really remembers everything really well. We sat down with her yesterday and ran through a pre-baptism interview and she is ready. She is really excited to become a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. She has been to every sunday meeting since we found her. She is going to be an amazing addition to this ward. We have two new investigators that we found this week. One is a little nine year old. Her name is Tyonna and she is so smart and funny. She came to church with Audrey last week and she was asking so many questions. We sat down with her last night and went over the first lesson and she is just so excited about the gospel. It has really helped my testimony watching the joy that the gospel brings into peoples lives. Our other new investigator we found while we were tracting in Marmet. Her name is Nicky, she is about 25, and she has a job and a car!!!! We taught her the first lesson and the spirit was so strong. We asked her to read Moroni 10 and to pray if it is true. I am so excited to see her tomorrow and hear about her experience. It has been amazing to see the difference in myself since I have been on a mission. I remember the first day teaching Audrey and feeling like I didn't know anything. But as I have learned the power of prayer and spent as much time as I can in books, I have seen a huge change in what I have learned. I am really excited to share what I have learned with my brothers and sisters. The gospel has brought so much happiness into my life and it would be selfish of me not to share it with everyone I meet. Love, Elder Anderson

Hello Everyone, Everything is going wonderful here in the great state of West Virginia. This week was a strong testimony builder. I have been able to spend a lot of time in the scriptures and in preach my gospel. I truly believe that they are inspired books. They have helped me through many trials and I know that they will always help me. It has also been a humbling week. I thought that I knew the doctrine before I came out but I have come to find out that I still have a lot to learn. This week we finally got the ok from the bishop to get Audrey baptized. He was struggling with the decision because her parents are less active members and he didn't want her to be baptized into inactivity. But we got her mom to come to church this week and I think that is what made the bishop change his mind. Also, we have a new baptismal date for Olivia. We sat down and talked to her on Thursday and she said that she wanted some time to study and become familiar with the doctrine before she is bapized. We know from the begining that she was a dry mormon. Everyone at church thought that she was a less active member. On Saturday, we had the great opportunity to go the the baptism of Aimee Cobb. She has been taking lessons from the Zone Leaders for two weeks and wanted to get baptized as soon as possible. It was really exciting to hear about her and the changes that she was making in her life. Also another dry mormon. This Sunday was also and amazing day. We had two of our investigators there and we had some of the less active people that we have been working with. We had the Peters and the Massey's. The Peters were only there because their kids had a discplinary hearing. Oh, also we had Alicia Juncosa there to. She was a less active member that we were assigned to find. It was a great experience to find her. She was so happy and shocked to see us. She told us the reason that she wasn't coming to church was because she didn't feel worthy. We told her that that was the best time to come to church. So she decided that she needed to start coming again. This week the weather has been amazing. Early in the week it was nice and cool and then by the end it is up to 75 degrees, and it is so hot! We had to move our room into another room in our apartment because the only window the AC Unit would fit in was in this other room. So we moved everything this morning. We are working really hard. It seems like we are always on the go. I really like it like that because it helps the time just fly by. It seems like just yesterday when I got here, but here I am going into my second transfer. I am really happy that I have another six weeks in charleston. I love you all and miss you lots. Love, Elder Anderson

Ian sent us a news letter and this is the only picture of him on it! Sorry it is not very good but Ian has not sent us any other pictures!