Hello Dad,
This week has been really great. We are having so much success that we almost feel like we are cheating the system somehow. We are finding so many people that are willing to listen to us, which is really suprising because finals are next week. I think that they are hoping that God will bless them for listening to us. LOL
We had a great Sabbath Day. We had three investigators at church and a member brought a friend as well. This ward is so great for missionary work. Most of them are RM's so they are still really excited about the work. We taught six member present lessons and we taught six other lessons. Then to top it off, on Sunday we went to a lesson at a members home and set Eric Colley with a baptismal date. He is so solid!! He has already read through 1 Nephi, and he said that he has prayed about it and knows that it is true. He will be baptized on May 15th.
There may be a change of plans for me this transfer. There are only four missionaries leaving and ten coming in, so President Thornock has to decide which areas he wants to leave open. If this area stays open it is going to be a completely different form of missionary work. There is talk about spending half the week here in Blacksburg and then spent the other half in Radford. We would just live with members while we were in Radford. Or we would just travel around the Zone and help other missionaries in their areas. That would be really interesting.
The old truck was actually back in Buena Vista. I think that the name of the road was Keyes Mill Rd. It was all the way to the end and there was actually two old trucks. They are just sitting in the middle of a field rusting. I don't know if they would even be worth fixing up. I don't know if they were for sale of not. I don;imagine the owners would have a problem with somebody taking them.
I did get grandma's letter and I am planning on writing her back today. I just seems like i don't have much time to do anything on P-day. We are always running around town doing other things.
Jentry and Racael wrote me an Email finally. I don't really have time to write them back. I have a few people I need to write to first. Have you heard from Kasey Anderson lately? I wrote him awhile ago and he hasn't written me back. I worry about him.
It sounds like you are staying busy with your job and with the yard. I can't wait to come home and see everything that has been done. Speaking of coming home, I was looking at what transfer I would come home and it looks like I would be home on January 12th. That leaves me two days before school starts. I am thinking about asking President Thornock if I can come home 2 weeks earlier. I haven't decided yet.
Thanks for all that you do. I love you very much!!
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
How is everything going? I sounds like you are staying really busy. I bet your employeer loves you. You don't find people that just do things because they need to be done. That is great.
I really love the fire pit. It looks like it is really nice. I can't wait to sit around it as a family and roast marshmallows/hot dogs. Have you cracked open the pool yet? I miss swimming so much. Funny things that we miss when we have restrictions on what we can do. I have a whole bunch of pictures that I will hopefully be sending home today.
We went golfing last Tuesday. You know me, I am not a huge fan of golf so I just rented a golf cart and drove everyones golf clubs around. It was so much fun!!! It is the closest I will come to fourwheeling on my mission. What a blast!! I got a few pictures of me on the golf cart. Fun memories.
We had a baptism on Saturday!! The Lord is blessing us so much. I love the gospel. It is great to see people make covenants. I actually had the opportunity to interview someone for baptism. What a spiritual experience. He was only 18 so it was really fun to talk with him. I look up to him for accepting the gospel at this time in his life. What a great kid.
Missionary work has changed again here in Blacksburg. Finals are coming up and people really don't have time (or don't want to make time) to listen to the gospel. We are just doing a lot of street contacting and referring them to mormom.org. Hopefully they will do that. It is an amazing website.
Well, not to much to talk about today. I love you very much.
I really love the fire pit. It looks like it is really nice. I can't wait to sit around it as a family and roast marshmallows/hot dogs. Have you cracked open the pool yet? I miss swimming so much. Funny things that we miss when we have restrictions on what we can do. I have a whole bunch of pictures that I will hopefully be sending home today.
We went golfing last Tuesday. You know me, I am not a huge fan of golf so I just rented a golf cart and drove everyones golf clubs around. It was so much fun!!! It is the closest I will come to fourwheeling on my mission. What a blast!! I got a few pictures of me on the golf cart. Fun memories.
We had a baptism on Saturday!! The Lord is blessing us so much. I love the gospel. It is great to see people make covenants. I actually had the opportunity to interview someone for baptism. What a spiritual experience. He was only 18 so it was really fun to talk with him. I look up to him for accepting the gospel at this time in his life. What a great kid.
Missionary work has changed again here in Blacksburg. Finals are coming up and people really don't have time (or don't want to make time) to listen to the gospel. We are just doing a lot of street contacting and referring them to mormom.org. Hopefully they will do that. It is an amazing website.
Well, not to much to talk about today. I love you very much.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Hello Dad,
It was really good to hear from you. I got your letter yesterday in the mail. It sounds like you are still staying pretty busy. That is great that you got up to see Steve. I don't think I ever remember him being healthy. Poor guy. He is lucky that he has such a loving wife though.
Well Spring is here in Blacksburg. We have been having great weather. It has been staying in the 60's, which is perfect missionary weather. It does rain here about once a week though. That can be interesting being on a bike and everything. Luckily the town of Blacksburg has a great bus system. It is really fun to ride the bus because you can talk to people and they can't walk away from you. You still have to share the messege of the Restoration really quick though because you don't know what stop they are getting off. I have had some great conversations with people while riding the bus.
This last week was event filled for us and the school. We have been tracting and following up with people like crazy. We found five new investigators last week. Things are going really well. We do teach the first lesson a lot though. It seems like we get them on a good day and then they are always to busy to talk. Oh well. The school held a "Walk for Life" Relay on Friday. It was really interesting to see so many students at that event. What a great thing. All of the money that is donated goes to cancer research. There was probably th 3000 students there. On the down side of things, there was a big protest on campus. Three years ago there was a shoting at Virginia Tech and 32 students were killed. Some church from Kansas came and was saying that the shotting took place because of all the sinning that is happening here. I can't believe that a church which claims to be christian would come in and protest about that. That is not Christ-like at all. So sad.
We are having a baptism this Saturday!!! Asa Gravely is going to be a great member of the church. He is so excited and ready to be baptized. He is even having trouble with his family but it just makes him want to do it even faster. We will be meeting with him tomorrow to conduct his baptismal interview and get the last minute details figured out for his baptism. I am so excited!!!
I didn't hear anything about miners getting killed. As a missionary you are kind of out of the loop. The only way we know what is going on is if members or investigators tell us about it. We don't even know what the weather is going to be like. I like it that way. There is less things you have to worry about and if it is really important, someone will tell us.
Elder Mills is from Mendin Utah, it is up by Logan. We are both leaving Blacksburg on May 5th. He will be going home in July. He is such a great missionary. I have learned so much from him. Sometimes I wish I could talk as well as he does. I guess we all have different talents.
Things are still going great here. We are teaching a whole bunch of people, and to be honest, I don't know half of their names. It is really hard because a lot of them are named Nick, Andrew, and Chris. I remember who they are by where they live. It has been so fun to be a servent of the Lord.
I love you very much. Thanks for the letter and the email. It is good to hear from you.
Love,
Elder Anderson
It was really good to hear from you. I got your letter yesterday in the mail. It sounds like you are still staying pretty busy. That is great that you got up to see Steve. I don't think I ever remember him being healthy. Poor guy. He is lucky that he has such a loving wife though.
Well Spring is here in Blacksburg. We have been having great weather. It has been staying in the 60's, which is perfect missionary weather. It does rain here about once a week though. That can be interesting being on a bike and everything. Luckily the town of Blacksburg has a great bus system. It is really fun to ride the bus because you can talk to people and they can't walk away from you. You still have to share the messege of the Restoration really quick though because you don't know what stop they are getting off. I have had some great conversations with people while riding the bus.
This last week was event filled for us and the school. We have been tracting and following up with people like crazy. We found five new investigators last week. Things are going really well. We do teach the first lesson a lot though. It seems like we get them on a good day and then they are always to busy to talk. Oh well. The school held a "Walk for Life" Relay on Friday. It was really interesting to see so many students at that event. What a great thing. All of the money that is donated goes to cancer research. There was probably th 3000 students there. On the down side of things, there was a big protest on campus. Three years ago there was a shoting at Virginia Tech and 32 students were killed. Some church from Kansas came and was saying that the shotting took place because of all the sinning that is happening here. I can't believe that a church which claims to be christian would come in and protest about that. That is not Christ-like at all. So sad.
We are having a baptism this Saturday!!! Asa Gravely is going to be a great member of the church. He is so excited and ready to be baptized. He is even having trouble with his family but it just makes him want to do it even faster. We will be meeting with him tomorrow to conduct his baptismal interview and get the last minute details figured out for his baptism. I am so excited!!!
I didn't hear anything about miners getting killed. As a missionary you are kind of out of the loop. The only way we know what is going on is if members or investigators tell us about it. We don't even know what the weather is going to be like. I like it that way. There is less things you have to worry about and if it is really important, someone will tell us.
Elder Mills is from Mendin Utah, it is up by Logan. We are both leaving Blacksburg on May 5th. He will be going home in July. He is such a great missionary. I have learned so much from him. Sometimes I wish I could talk as well as he does. I guess we all have different talents.
Things are still going great here. We are teaching a whole bunch of people, and to be honest, I don't know half of their names. It is really hard because a lot of them are named Nick, Andrew, and Chris. I remember who they are by where they live. It has been so fun to be a servent of the Lord.
I love you very much. Thanks for the letter and the email. It is good to hear from you.
Love,
Elder Anderson
Friday, April 9, 2010
Finally got into this blog. I don't know what my problem is but I have problems with the passwork each time.
Ian has a new address:
314 Reynolds St Apt C
Blacksburgm, VA 24060
Here is Ian's lastest e-mail
Hello Dad,
Wow, wasn't confrence amazing?!!!! It was probably my favorite one so far. Powerful speakers. I do have to admit Priesthood Confrence isn't the same without having you there.
I love how bold the apostles are. They just say it like it is. I loved Elder Hollands talk about Love vs. Lust. He is probably one of my favorite speakers. Also, I love President Eyring. What a spiritual giant. I hope that one day I will be able to talk about the gospel like he does. When he speaks, you just know that he knows. I am so greatful to be part of Restored Gospel. How wonderful it is to hear from the mouth peice of God.
We are really blessed here in Blacksburg. I feel like the Lord is just handing us people to teach. We were walking through campus the other day and we noticed that there were two people sitting on the steps reading their Bible. Well, that doesn't happen very often in on a college campus. We went over and talked to them and gave them both a copy of the Book of Mormon. They were both interested in reading it. I am so greatful that I have had the opportunity to serve here with the college students. It has helped me with my teaching skills a lot. It seems like everyone likes to talk religion here, and they all have a lot of questions.
We had Zone Confrence yesterday, another spirit filled day. It is interesting to notice how tired you are after you have had a day filled with the spirit. We talked about planning and how it will help us be more productive missionaries and son and daughters of God. Also, we learned more about extending commitments to everyone that we talk with. It is amazing how the Lord prepares us for things to come.
After Zone Confrence, we taught a lesson to a girl named Stacey. We were talking about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how we need to have Faith, Repent, be Baptized and receive the Holy Ghost, and then Endure to the End. She expressed her concerns about being worthy to receive the promptings of the Spirit (she always asks the right questions). We found out what she felt was holding her back and committed her to stop doing what she was doing and turn to the Lord. She was hesitant but was willing to change her life to know God better. I knew at that moment Heavenly Father was so happy with her. The Spirit was so strong in the room.
I love teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I am so blessed to be able to open my mouth every day and share this wonderful gospel with others. I can not tell you all the ways that this experience has blessed my life. Today is my 16 month mark and it has made me reflect on the many things I have done here in the West Virginia Charleston Mission. How time flies when you are in the service of God. I love this Gospel, I know that my Redeemer lives, and continues to lead this church. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. It makes me so happy everyday when I read it. What a wonderful blessing that is to have the Book of Mormon in our lives. I wish that everyone around me could just feel the same things that I do.
I love you very much Dad.
Ian has a new address:
314 Reynolds St Apt C
Blacksburgm, VA 24060
Here is Ian's lastest e-mail
Hello Dad,
Wow, wasn't confrence amazing?!!!! It was probably my favorite one so far. Powerful speakers. I do have to admit Priesthood Confrence isn't the same without having you there.
I love how bold the apostles are. They just say it like it is. I loved Elder Hollands talk about Love vs. Lust. He is probably one of my favorite speakers. Also, I love President Eyring. What a spiritual giant. I hope that one day I will be able to talk about the gospel like he does. When he speaks, you just know that he knows. I am so greatful to be part of Restored Gospel. How wonderful it is to hear from the mouth peice of God.
We are really blessed here in Blacksburg. I feel like the Lord is just handing us people to teach. We were walking through campus the other day and we noticed that there were two people sitting on the steps reading their Bible. Well, that doesn't happen very often in on a college campus. We went over and talked to them and gave them both a copy of the Book of Mormon. They were both interested in reading it. I am so greatful that I have had the opportunity to serve here with the college students. It has helped me with my teaching skills a lot. It seems like everyone likes to talk religion here, and they all have a lot of questions.
We had Zone Confrence yesterday, another spirit filled day. It is interesting to notice how tired you are after you have had a day filled with the spirit. We talked about planning and how it will help us be more productive missionaries and son and daughters of God. Also, we learned more about extending commitments to everyone that we talk with. It is amazing how the Lord prepares us for things to come.
After Zone Confrence, we taught a lesson to a girl named Stacey. We were talking about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how we need to have Faith, Repent, be Baptized and receive the Holy Ghost, and then Endure to the End. She expressed her concerns about being worthy to receive the promptings of the Spirit (she always asks the right questions). We found out what she felt was holding her back and committed her to stop doing what she was doing and turn to the Lord. She was hesitant but was willing to change her life to know God better. I knew at that moment Heavenly Father was so happy with her. The Spirit was so strong in the room.
I love teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I am so blessed to be able to open my mouth every day and share this wonderful gospel with others. I can not tell you all the ways that this experience has blessed my life. Today is my 16 month mark and it has made me reflect on the many things I have done here in the West Virginia Charleston Mission. How time flies when you are in the service of God. I love this Gospel, I know that my Redeemer lives, and continues to lead this church. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. It makes me so happy everyday when I read it. What a wonderful blessing that is to have the Book of Mormon in our lives. I wish that everyone around me could just feel the same things that I do.
I love you very much Dad.
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