hey!hey everyone! how is everything going for you all? i hope all is going well.. this past week for me has been alright..it was or has been kind of blue cuz i found out that bubba got hit and then it just made me think of home and how much i really do miss all of you! so that really sucks! but other than that things are going ok.. So on saturday we helped a guy move into his new apartment and he is the owner of invisi shield the place where michael got his iphone done at.. he is from midvale utah i think and then the other guy was from sandy, he was a way cool guy and i was telling him how i knew of his company! the other night we went out with the Elder's on the east side of the ward and we were walking up and down the street (Colfax is the st.) and my companion and i were on one side of the street and they were on the other.. and i guess they talked to a guy at some gas station who said that he worked at Hanford! i was like dang it i wish we could have been on that side of the st so i could of talked to him! but that made me think of home and how he would be that close to all of you in like 24 hrs! anyways the work out here is going ok things seem to be kind of slow we dont have any new investigators but we are still working with Teresa and both of the Margaritas so that is fun! Teresa knows so much about the gospel its funny she is a investigator that missionaries call "GOLDEN" i guess haha.. she is so gratefull for Elder Graver and i to be teaching her she always tells us how we are an answer to her prayers! we just do lots of tracting and then we try to stop in and visit some potentional invesitgators but not too many of them are interested! so i really dont have any cool or crazy stories this week.. sorry but i will hopefully have some sweet stories this next week? Today we are going to the Rockies baseball game so maybe you should watch some of it so you can see if you see me on tv? lol it is at 1 our time so 12 your time.. but yeah so we are down town right now in a HUGE library it is 7 floors haha it is the biggest library i have ever seen.. I hope that everything is going good for all of you! i am still truckin along taking it one day at a time! so continue to pray for me and i will continue to pray for all of you! how is work going for everyone? and school. Continue to send me letters please i enjoy them tremendously! i hope that the rest of your week goes well! take care! i love you!!!!! miss you! Love Elder Randy Anderson

hey everyone! My companions name is Elder Logan Graver i think i may have said taht before but he is from Pima Arizona..the names of the people that we are teaching are Margarita Oliva, Margarita Gomez, Teresa Williams, and Anson Holmes.. So those are the 4 solid people we are teaching thank you for praying for them! it will help out lots... We get to go to a Colorado Rockies game this next pday so im pretty excited for that i have never been to a profesional baseball game.. yesterday was zone confrence and the theme was coming unto christ.. so i really enjoyed taht and felt the spirit really strong... only 15 more of those to go! lol im moving along slowly.. nothing too exciting happened this past week actually nothing at all, we continue to teach those people and visit with them and so i am really Excited for their baptisms.. :) umm today we went down and played volleyball and basketball with some other elders and so we just got done and came to email. i am almost finished with the book of mormon so that will be a nice accomplishment once i get done with that! How is everything going for all of you? i was thinking the other day that i have been out of high school for dang near a year already! i cant believe it! it seems like just yesterday i was walking down the isle on graduation night! but yeah that is a random little thought taht i was thinking about! haha.. i talked with President Christison at zonce confrence and i asked him if he would give me some motivational talks that he has on a cd just to help me in my times of struggle, he said no problem and that if i ever needed anything he was just a phone call away! i love him so much and am so grateful for him! i feel like i can talk or tell him anything i need to! which is a huge blessing for me! how is everyone doing back home? anymore big news? i love you all so much and hope and pray that everything is going good. How is family scripture and prayer coming for everyone? i hope that you are ALL doing that cuz i know it will bring blessings to our family! well im gonna go we have a teaching appointment at 5 and we gotta go back to our place and get stuff then ride down there so i hope everything is going well once again! i love you all so much! take care and keep in touch! i miss you all! love youLove Randy

hey everyone,how is everything going for all for you? everything is going ok out here for me.. today has been a lot more relaxed of a pday with my new companion.. everything seems more relaxed actually.. so yeah he is a pretty good guy, he came out in the begining of october so he hasn't been out too long ethier.. but yeah he is from arizona i guess he is from a little town outside of tucson.. but anyways thank you for my easter package i loved it! :) no i did not hide the eggs but i loved them and wish i could have been home to do the old tradition.. For missionary work, we are still teaching the margaritas and there baptismal date is the 9th of may and i prob wont do the actuall baptizing which stinks but it will be nice to see them enter the waters knowing that i took part in it.. there is this lady that called us and wanted to be baptized i think i todl you about, well we have been teaching her and she doesn't totally agree with everything or hadn't but then we went over and taught her yesterday and she asked for a priesthood blessing so i was able to give her one! it was my first time ever, so you could imagine i was nervous as heck! haha but she jsut called us today saying taht a miracle had happened and that she recieved an answer to lots of questions that she had and told us her whole story.. but it was amazing and i know that my priesthood blessing had part to do with that! so that was a pretty sweet experience.. she told us that she wnats to get baptized as soon as possible, she was way excited and told us thank you as she was crying.. but yeah other than that we have just been doing the normal missionary work..Actually last night we were walking down a street called colfax and a guy stopped us and told us to come over and talk with him and so we did and he said that he knew who the mormons were and thought that they were the nicest people ever, so we talked for like a minute and then we were leaving and i turned around and asked if he had heard of the book of mormon and he said no that he would like a copy, so i gave him one and we stayed there and talked to him and his wife for probably about an hr, staying out past or curfew but it was so so cool talking with him he was telling us how he loves what we do and that he thinks its is so cool.. he and his wife are long haul truck drivers and he was telling me that he had been up through washington a lot and so i asked if he stopped at king city truck stop ever and he said yes that he loves there food there.. haha i was laughing and i told him how i always used to go there and that my dad goes lots! but we talked forever just about little things in the church and then also about life.. he definately made my night! my favorite talks in general confrence were 1 with i think it was Holland talking about the plan of salvation and then i also enjoyed i think it was pino? he talked about how families can be together forever and i really really enjoyed that talk because i never knew how much my family means to mean and how much i love all of you until i came out here on my mission, but it definately has opened my eyes and im so gratefull for the chance taht we can live together forever! but when the ensign comes out all of you should get a copy and read it! so yeah that is what is up with me.. i hope all is going good for all of you, i love you all so much and miss you like crazy! keep praying for me please! take care and keep in touch! i love you all SO much! until next week god be with you!Love Elder Anderson

hello! :)how is everything going for everyone back home? i hope all is well i love you all so much! things are going ok for me out here.. i found out last night about transfers, and my companion is leaving and im staying in my area with a new guy coming in, not like a new missionary but new to my area.. haha so keep everything coming to that same address.. its 1235 not 2135 lol! ;) jk... but anyways how is work and school goign for everybody? This past week has been goign ok for me.. i have had a couple moments of times when i was totally bummed out but then i got over them. general confrence was amazing hopefully you all will be able to watch or read about it... i loved it! so as for my week and things that i wrote down to write about.. haha umm the margarita's our 2 investigators moved there baptismal date up to the 9th of may so i will be able to do that saturday night and then talk to all of you the next day! talk about a awesome weekend! :) i got all the packages and things you ahve sent me! thank you so much for all the letters and support you continue to give me! i can never express enough appreciation! mom can you send me out some old ties that i left there.. whichever ones it dont matter oh and that other body wash taht you took back with you.. we were able to do some more service for an elderly lady and she told us that we were an answer to her prayers as well, there have been so many people htat i have come in contact with taht say that! it is so nice to have that kind of affect on people.. i might not know that i am but they sure do! oh a funny story this morning a lady called our phone and told us that she wanted to be taught and baptized in 3 weeks! haha so that is way cool so hopefully i will have her baptized in 3 weeks! :) oh monday night i went to bed feeling perfectly fine and then at about 12:45 i woke up and threw up in the bathroom.. then from then on until about 7:30 i woke up and threw up every hour.. no joke like 6 or 7 times taht night.. and my companion was doing it also, so we dont know if we got some kind of food poisoning of what? but it sucked so bad! the next day we just layed in bed cuz that is what sister christison told us to do.. and we relaxed and felt better later that evening.. but it made me miss home so much cuz after the first time i puked i laid there in bed and was waitign for mom to come otu and see if i was ok.. cuz that is what i am used to.. mom would always come and check up on me.. so i really really missed that :( it made me so sad! well i love you all so so much and hope that everything is going good for all of you.. Everything is going better for me it will just take time.. i enjoy letters from matt him and i give eachother the boost we need! so taht is nice to get letters from him.. but yeah i cant wait until mothers day! i hope taht school and work continue to go well for everyone! i miss you all so much and hope that you can keep the letters coming! :) take care and keep in touch you all mean the WORLD to me! ..love Randy

hey!well today is temple wednesday they call it that cuz the first wednesday of every month we get to go to temple in the morning.. so we are at a library near the temple. transfers are the 9th so yes mom every six weeks is transfers and i dont konw what will happen but if you all send stuff dont send it to my apartment past saturday cuz if you send something monday and i leave taht place then i wont get it.. so i'll let you know next wednesday! :) but please keep sending stuff! the weather here has been so crazy i think it the same thing happening in utah one day it was 78 the next we got 6" of snow and then it all melted off and then 2 days later we got 3" so i have no clue what is going on! haha i did recieve all the messed up letters and things like that so thank you so much! i love them and i LOVE getting letters and packages!! where at does matt mackay live down here in colorado? i know he is somewhere close but i dont know what city? somone should find out.. please? just this last sunday there was a guy taht was at our church and i went up and talked to him adn he was just here for hte day because his flight was cancelled so he wanted to go to church and he was from the dalles oregon! :) so i took him with me to all of hte classes and meetings, he said that he knew steve price because htis guy also works with the kennewick mission.. so i thought it was way cool talking with him.. the pictures of the temple you sent looks different.. but cool at hte same time.. thats good that you got to do sharing time mom, actually when i was erading your letter i thought it was ironic cuz i was just in alma 56 when you said that about hte 2000 stippling warriors! :) the othere night we were eating at a ward members home and we had waffles! i brought my own peanut butter that you sent :) lol they were making fun of me! but i loved it and made me miss home! but yeah the week has been ok just a normal week in the mission field, no really really exciting stories.. but the Margarita's the 2 investigators of ours have a baptismal date set for the 16th of may so that is really exciting i cant wait to t see someone be baptized and to know that i took part in bringing them unto the waters! i think that will make my mission go by lots easier.. so yeah we still visit with them and everything.. we teach probably about 10 sit down lessons a week and then we do lots of tracting and just try to contact people.. but i will continue to let you know what happens as things happen.. i love you all so much and hope that you are having a good time! i pray for EVERYONE all day everyday and i hope that you are doing hte same for me.. but yeah i dont know what else to write really, besides that fact that i love you and cant wait until mothers day! i love you all so much and hope everything is going good! thank you for all the love and support! keep in touch please!?love elder anderson