Another week closer... ha 'til my birthday, 'til i call home, 'til i get home! lol i really cant believe how fast time goes by, it seems like it was just 2 days ago that i emailed home but it's been a full week already! and i'm not getting trunky that's not why i was saying all of that but i am excited! :)

ha so it sounds like y'all are staying really busy and have been doing lots. we have been staying busy with the ward list and teaching people, with some tracting in between. we have really narrowed down the number of people on the list, i think when we started it we were over 300 and we've knocked out just over 100 so we're still pushing along. we checked up on this one lady that is less active and the spanish Elders tracted into her about a month ago and she told them that she wanted nothing to do with the church anymore but earlier this week i felt like we needed to go over there ourselves (english Elders) and talk with her to see what's up, so we went over and she invited us in and was really nice, i told her how we are asked by the first presidency to teach 20 lessons a week and i asked if we could come by and share the lessons with her maybe every other week and she said that would be great. We were pretty excited because we are always looking for people to teach, whetehr they're members or they are looking into the church it's always good to teach.

it's amazing how in 1 month someone could change, but i guess maybe if something happened in there life that they felt like they needed a change it would most definitely do something. we met with Anji Timmons as well this week and we are trying to finish teaching her daughter the lessons so she can be baptized but it has been really hard to get a time when they are both home together and we can teach them. her daughter Mary is 10 and wants to be baptized but they want to get lots of the family together to do it, but her grandpa lives in Canada and his health doens't allow him to travel so that is the big hold up with them. we are hoping to help them see the importance of baptism and as hard as it is to not have the family around for it, that it needs to be done instead of continuing to push it off 'til later and then never have it happen ya know?

i dont know if i mentioned it in my email last week or not but Dave Parker a brother from my last area was finally baptized last weekend! it is so great to hear news like that especially when you're having a hard day, it turns things around really quick!

so this past sunday there was a little girl that was baptized she just turned 8 so it was a child of record baptism. anyways a bunch of her family came into town, and before the baptism i was talking with her Grandpa and told him where i was from and he was telling me that he has a son that just moved to Richland and also that he was related to Clair, Craig, and Darren Gibbons, lol i guess they are 1st cousins. i was like no way that is so cool, i was telling him how i was really good friends with their kids. it is such a small world, the brothers name was Dennis Gibbons, so maybe you could mention that to the Gibbons family. i thought it was pretty cool.

this past Saturday we went over to the Page's house and helped them chop firewood, except it wasn't really chopping because they have a hydralic press that does it so we just had to put the wood on it and it would split it, whoever made up that idea probably made lots of money. ha i loved being able to help them with that, and was glad that we were able to do that!

so things slowly picked up this week and it was pretty eventful, our Stake Confrence is not this week but next, then it's General Confrence 2 weeks after that! :) i'm so excited for it! ha weird huh?

i cant believe that i'll be 21 in exactly 2 months! ha oh i forgot to tell you that i got a call from the mission office yesterday and they were telling me that i need to extend my drivers license and i was like i'm already on top of it, i did it last week i told them and they were impressed! ha so it's a good thing i did it last week.
The work does and will continue to move forward! i'm so grateful that i can be out here right now trying to bring the lost sheep back into His fold.

love Elder Randy Anderson