Hello Everyone, It has been a while since I have been able to write. It has been hard to find some time to do e-mails. It seems like when our P-day comes around we don't have much time to do anything. Nothing has really changed here. We are still doing a lot of tracting. We are having a hard time finding new investigators. People just seem to be comfortable where they are at, but they just don't know what they are missing. This Sunday was fast and testimony meeting. It was a great one!! Anita Bennett got up and bore her testimony and she has only been a member for a few weeks. It is amazing to see the joy and happiness that has come into her life. Conrad (Anita's husband) is also going to be a very strong member. He is very quite but he is listening to everything that is going on. We went over to their house Wednesday, and talked with them about reading scriptures and about General Confrence. It is amazing to see the changes that come into peoples lives. This is really random, but Anita made us a Jello Cake. It was amazing!! I think that it is my new favorite cake. Tara French is still going strong as well. We are teaching her husband and her son. She has been a great help with them. Hopefully we can get Gabe (her son) baptized at the end of September. Roho is still struggling with making any commitments. I really don't know what else we can do to help him. Keep him in your prayers. Today, Brother Ganoe and Brother Wickline took us on a hike. I think that it is called Allageny Trail. It was really cool because we hiked to the top of a mountain and there was a building there that sits up on a rock. I took pictures so I will send them home. It was great!! I love you all so much and appreciate all the prayers in my behalf. Thank you!!! Love, Elder Anderson

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!!!

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

Hello Everyone, This week has been amazing. We have been staying really busy out here in Peterstown. We taught 24 lessons this week! That is great for this mission. Prayer has been a huge part of our success. The Lord has truly blessed us in our efforts. We have a baptism coming up. Her name is Tara French. She has been investigating the church for about 6 months, and she is ready for baptism and the Holy Ghost. We went over and talked with her earlier in the week, and she is really excited. She has a boy that is ten years old so we are going to see if we can get him baptized on the same day. We got home last night and got a call on our phone from one of our investigators. He said that him and his wife have been reading from the Book of Mormon and that they are really interseted. That is so exciting to see someone wanting to learn more without us pushing them. I gave my first talk on my mission on Sunday. It was great because there was only 14 people there. I didn't have anything prepared so I had to stand and teach by the Spirit. Scary!! I think that it went really well. After Sacrament, a lady from the branch came up to me and told me something really strange. She said that the whole time I was talking there was a women standing behind me. She tryed to describe this women but I did recognize her. I guess that I have a gaurdian angel. The people out here still amaze me sometimes. We taught a family and none of them knew how to read. I can't believe that there are people in America who can not read. How would you do anything? We have been staying really busy serving the Lord. I love you!! Love, Elder Anderson

Ian hasnt emailed lately but he has benn transfered and this is his new address RR 1 Box 357 Peterstown, WV 24963! In the letter he sent, he stated that he loves it there. This towns population is about 500. 25 members. and a whole lot of cows! Lives in a trailer. His new companion is Elder Hansen 5' 8" and Ian is 6' 3". That would be a sight to see, them walking down the street.

Ian always talks about the jumping spiders and we couldnt believe that he dared to go in this bushes!