Saturday, July 25, 2009

Basin City 1st Ward's Newest Missionary

Elder Jarrin Price enters the MTC in Provo, Utah on August 4th. He will be serving in the Lansing, Michigan Mission. We are so proud of you. You will be an Awesome Missionary!

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

hey family! how is everyone doing this week? its only been 6 days since i last emailed haha but this upcoming week will be 8 :( so i guess it all evens out.. anyways things have been going pretty good with me.. today has been kind of a boring day we have just been getting stuff around and getting ready for tomorrow...so yup we moved into a new house jsut because we weren't living inside our ward boundaries so now we are.. we're living with a single woman probably in her late 50's and yes we are living the basement and its all to ourselves :) its way nice i took pictures and im gonna send my memory card home in the letter that i will send out.. so in my last email i told you taht we had a appointment with Mike and Linda and it went really well we taught them the 1st lesson with their kids there and then Saturday Elder K and i went over there and helped mike and linda paint their basement, it was an unfinished basement so they are finishing it.. so that was a fun time haha..we are heading out tomorrow morning to zone confrence and so thats all i really know of for the rest of the week, once we get back thursday evening we will plan for the remainder of the week.. oh and zone confrence is in the mountains at a church camp called RAGGED MT.. and we will be staying in cabins i think.. trust me i will take tons of pictures! :) things have been going good though, the weather is still hot as heck and i sweat all the time.. we are tracting like crazy and so yeah that's about it... oh we have another appointmentt with mike and linda sometime later this week.. we will hopefully get him baptized soon!? so ali is at ASB camp huh? how is that going for her? doesn't she get to make 1 phone call during the time she is there? LOL that is soooo funny about morgan waking up all the time and asking you those questions! ahha but im proud of her that she did that! i think she is the 1st Anderson to have memorized all the articles of faith! so good for her! what a awesome experience, she needs to continue to practice them though so she doesn't forget them! so your going up to Othello for the 24th huh? that is so sad to her about sister Pauley :( i will continue to keep her family in my prayers.. so yeah im doing good.. i hope that all of you are doing good.. thanks for all the letters and love and support you continue to give y'all have no idea how much it helps me! i love hearing from you! only 2 more weeks and im 6 months out! :) hehe love you and miss you tons! keep in touch! God Bless! love you!!love Randy Anderson

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Randy has a NEW ADDRESS!

I got this email today from the wife of the ward mission leader in Randy's area; Elder Anderson just called me and asked me to let you know that they are moving some new Elders into the house he has been living in, and he and his companion are moving to a new house here in Highlands Ranch. The move will take place Saturday morning, so as of then his new mailing address will be: 10286 Willowbridge CourtHighlands Ranch, CO80126.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

hey! :)hello family! :) today was temple wednesday and so we got to go to the temple early this mornign and then we were playing basketball and everything is just running a little behind schedule so we've been real busy today getting from one place to another.. so for next week my pday is on TUESDAY so make sure to email me on monday night or tuesday morning, its then becuase we have that zone confrence up in the mountains.. so im pretty excited for that, it will be a change of pace! :) but the temple went well and the rest of my pday is going good. tonight we have a teaching appointment then dinner then an appointment with one of our part member families! :) so im excited for that, but once again everything is so busy! so we have been working really hard this transfer and having fun, but the working hard part is paying off we can see the blessings.. we tracted this one street called Thistlebrook and we ran into 4 in-active members so we talked to them and 1 of them told us to come back and she thought she'd be interested in coming back to church.. so we were tracting this other st and there was a guy who was out on his lawn talking with another gentleman and so we started talking to him about normal stuff and then i asked him if he had spoken with missionaries before and he said yeah im actually reading the book of mormon and so he walked over to hsi lawn chair and picked up his book of mormon.. we were like holy cow thats sweet! so we talked to him about any questions he had for like 2 hours lol and then he invited us to come back but the coolest part of all is that he said that we were gonna have a bunch of converts on our hands here real soon! he said his mother is reading the book of mormon and he thinks his sister might be interested as wel! he is single and is in his early 40's bnut that was so cool.. he told us that just right before he saw us he was thinking that he ahdn't seen the missionaries in a long time and then as soon as he looked up we were walking around the corner knocking on doors! that is such a testimony that heavenly father leads us to those he has prepared for us! but i'll keep you informed on him and what happens there.. i went to a less active member in the wards house last night his name is Jason Leavitt and he is a chiropractor so he adjusted my back and is gonna give me some excercises to do, he thought taht my back is so tight and it hurts is becuase my legs are getting bigger and im not strecthing them enough.. but i went over there thinking he would be some rich snobb or something but he is WAY cool!! lol anyways so yeah i have been doing pretty good, this transfer is going by so much better and easier than my last. Elder Krawczyk and i get along and have fun.. so im doing pretty good, i hate the hot heat though.. i'll keep you posted on everything else that goes on.. i hope things continue to go well for the family.. y'all are always in my prayers! keep in touch and let me know if there is anythign i can do for you! how is work going for everyone? dad,mike,john,ali and whoever else i missed? let me know! that's funny that morgan has to have the articles of faith memorized! haha good for her though, make sure all of you are still reading your scriptures daily and saying prayers you'll be blessed for it! TRUST ME! and no i dont have them memorized! lol that's what the cards are for! we have them on little cards we can hand out. well it was good hearing from you! i hope that things are going well.. thanks for all the love and support! keep in touch! LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU ALL SOO SOO MUCH!!!! bye bye until NEXT TUESDAY!Love Randy Anderson

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

how is everyone doing this week!? Things are going pretty good for me, we are almost a full week into the new transfer and things are going good. My new companion's name is Elder Krawczyk and he is from Buffalo, New york.. he has been out for 19 months and we are CO-senior compaions.. so that is pretty sweet. he is 23 years old and yeah he is a way cool guy.. so far i have liked him the best out of all my comps.. just cuz we can relate to alot fo things from back home and he is just down to earth, he has had his fair share of problems before the mission.. we get the work done but yet have fun at the same time which is something i really haven't been doing with any other comps.. well having fun but working.. so yeah i think this transfer will go well.. so on the 22nd and 23rd of July we are having zone confrence up in the mountains so i hope i will be able to email before we go up but im not positive so i'll hopefully let you know for sure next week.. but that should be lots of fun.. the Riley's finally left and headed for Utah, we helped them pack up the rest of there stuff and so yeah it was hard saying goodbye to them. i had got so close with them and it just reminded me of saying goodbye to the family so that was hard.. Our families taht we have been teaching i think we will start back up next week sometime cuz they have been so busy with things.. so hopefully that will go well next week if we get to meet with them.. other than that we have been doing tons and tons of tracting.. my 4th was lame and made me miss home but hey what can i do right!? i hope all of yours went well.. now to respond to the email! :) but yes i kind of knew about it before you asked me to get new pictures for the blog.. so i hope that those are ok and you were able to use some of them? i have cut my own hair twice, well shaved it.. but other than taht i had it cut by a lady in one of our wards she has a little shop in her basement.. so yeah thats awesome that you touched base with Nancy and were able to figure out who it was.. i cant believe how small of a world it is in the mormon church! lol CONGRATS ALI!!! 98 huh? sweet im sure you were nervous as heck huh mom? lol i said a couple prayers for her! haha so hopefully those helped.. but that is crazy only 1 more kid and mom and dad wont have to drive people around anymore! that poster sister Riley made was for me and she made one for elder fauvell.. but no she doesn't make those for everyone.. she just liked us i guess. she started crying when i had to say good bye to her so that really sucked! :so yeah i love being in this area just for the fact of how awesome the ward members are. im doing pretty good i hope that all of you are enjoying your summer., i hate the heat! but thanks for all the love and support that all of you continue to give to me! take care and keep in touch please!? love you bunches! miss you!!!Love, Randy Anderson

Monday, July 6, 2009


I asked Randy for some updated pictures. Here is what I got. Isn't he
a handsome missionary!!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

hello everyone! i hope that things are going good for you all this week.. things have been going pretty good for me.. it has been really hot here these past few days and i got really sunburnt last saturday i took pictures and sent them to you today so you should get this next monday or tuesday.. i sent them ups with a package! i hope you enjoy the package!? :) the work has been going pretty slow lately all of our investigators and their families are out of town or too busy with other things so we haven't taught anything really for the past 2 weeks.. but we still tract and try to find people.. so tomorrow is transfers and i found out that i am staying in my area for sure and my companion that is coming in is from out west so i wont get him until thursday night so i'll be on team ups with another elder until both of our companions come at like 6 thursday.. anyways so i dont know if i will be a senior companion or not but i will find out tomorrow morning during transfer meeting.. but anyways things have been going pretty good and yeah i think we are gonna go out to lunch today with some other elders and hang out for a little while.. then tomorrow morning bright and early is transfers.. so im kind of looking forward to that but at hte same time im kind of nervous to see who president gives me, im sure he will give a great companion..so that's about all that is going on for me.. i have had a few times this past week when i got totally homesick and i think its just cuz elder fauvell is leaving.. so in that category im doing pretty good.. oh so the other day we were going to do service and we stopped to watch a high school baseball game and we were siting there in our p-day clothes and a guy came up and started talking to us and it turns out that he is a first cousin to the Haw's lol so he knew scott and lana, also nancy and wade..he took us out ot lunch., but i was like wow what a small world.. and his last name is Bailey.. i got to give a brother in the ward a blessing the other day.. his name is brother Riley.. his family is so cool,but they are moving to Salt Lake for his work... oh so i guess this is a cool story but sad, we were at a ward members home eating dinner the other night and i guess there 7 year old boy has lukima cancer and he has been doing chemo and things like that.. i think its so sad that he is 7 and has cancer but i guess his survival rate is 95% so tahts the cool part! ok now to respond to the email... that is so cool that jarin is getting ready to go through the temple.. i cant wait to hear how he does on his mission.. i bet he is gonna be an awesome missionary! so yeah thats about it.. :( i hope that things are going well for everyone and you're still enjoying the summer.. i miss you all so much and think about you all the time! keep in touch and take care of yourselves! :) let me know how things go? LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU!love Randy Anderson