Tuesday, August 11, 2009

It sounds like everything is running smooth at home. That is great!! We got a baptism on Monday. Her name is Tara French. She is going to be a great new member in the Peterstown Branch. She was really excited and nervous to get baptized, but we talked her into it. ;) We had an amazing week this week. We have six people set for baptism and they all seem really excited and ready for it. We have been teaching the Gospel like crazy, and I learning so much. Dad, thanks for the milk money!! I thought that was great. Elder Hansen thinks that I am really weird for eating a bowl of graham crackers with milk. YUM YUM!!! Today we went hiking in the Cascades. It is so pretty. It feels like you are in the jungle. Everything is still really green here. Everyone says that the weather is really strange here as well. It has been raining none stop here. The storms are really strange because it can be sunny one second and the next it is poring buckets. We are still working really hard and the Lord is blessing us like you wouldn't believe. Thanks for all the prayers!!!! I love you all. Love, Elder Anderson
PS Do I have a treat for you!!! Elder Hansen and I have been recording a lot on the video camera. We are going to go to Walmart today and if I can find another chip I am going to buy it and send the old one home with all the new stuff. You are going to love it!!!

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Hey Everyone, Everything is wonderful. Peterstown is excepting the Gospel. We looked at all of our investigators and we have over 50. It is keeping us really busy. It seems like some days we are going from one appointment to the other. I am not complaining though. Who would have thought that a little town like this would be so productive. We are still trying to squeze in some tracting here and there, and it seems like everytime we go tracting we find a new investigator. The Lord is really blessing us here. Thank you all so much for the many prayers. They help more then you know. We have a baptism coming up on Monday. It has been really exciting to teach Tara French and her son Gabe. They are both really excited about being baptized. Hopefully, after they are baptized, we can start teaching her husband Roho. We are also teaching a couple, Cory and Crystal. The were a follow up appointment and we have been teaching them ever since. They are reading the Book of Mormon together and have told us that they feel the Spirit as they read. Everytime we teach them they both have a smile on their face. The Gospel does make you happy, and they are living proof. Unfortunetly, there is a Baptist Preacher who lives up the road from them and won't stop leaving them alone. He is pretty upset that they are meeting with us. We have had a few run ins with this preacher. We were tracting on "his road" one day and he told us that we couldn't tract within a mile radius from his church. Then he followed us in his car to make sure that we didn't tract there anymore. That didn't stop us though. Nothing can stop the work from going forward. I think he is just a little afraid that we are going to bring the Spirit into some homes there and then people will begin to question him. That is his salary. We are still continuing forward. Spreading the word of God. Love, Elder Anderson