So y'all called it, i'm staying here in the area for another transfer with Elder Woollard. I'm pretty excited about it. i think the worst part about transfers is waiting for the call to see if you're staying or leaving because you have no clue what is going to happen. so yeah we got the call last night saying we were both staying which is awesome because we really think that we have lots going on in this area and that we will hopefully be able to get at least 3 baptisms this next transfer. at least that is a goal that Elder Woollard and i have set so we will see what happens.

We had dinner over at our bishops house last night and he was telling us about how good of a job we are doing and that we have the wards trust which is key when it comes to missionary work, cuz if you dont have their trust then you can kiss any referrals good bye. i was happy to hear him say that.

so there is this less active family that moved here 4 years ago from utah and we went over to visit them last week and invited them to come to church, it was really neat to see them show up at church on sunday because the members hadn't seen them in a long while but anyways they have a son who is almost 11 that we are going to start teaching, they seem like they are wanting to be commited in coming to church now so hope good things will come of it! :)

Leila Paula's baptism was going to be May 1st but her Uncle is going to be gone so they're pushing it back to mothers day so i dont know what time i'll call, ethier in the morning or later evening. i guess we'll wait and see what happens. but her older brother Steve who is 16 and just becoming active again is the one who is going to baptize her now so their mom is excited.

but yeah everything in the area has been going pretty well and we are doing great, especially since Elder Woollard FINALLY got his bike! lol i can feel myself losing weight already! lol NOT!! but hopefully soon. riding in this higher elevation can kill ya! ha no joke, but it will be good when i get back because i'll be used to this elevation and i'll be able to go for miles back home! anyways so he got his bike on friday and we put it together and so we got to ride up until yesterday we were on our way to dinner and he ran over a piece of glass and it popped! lol so we pushed the bikes the rest of the way but we are going to get it fixed later today hopefully. so yeah that was our week! :)

speaking of phone calls only like not too long 'til i get to call home! :) sweet!! it feels like i just called home though. would you be mad if i didn't call home this time? lol NOT!!!! i wouldn't pass that up for anything... but it sounds like y'all are keeping really busy still, i hope ya find time to relax... thanks again for the letters and things you send to me i love hearing from you all so much and i apologize if i dont respond right away i do my best! i hope the rest of the week goes well for you all and i cant wait to hear back! i miss you and love you bunches! :)

love Elder Anderson

It seems like it was just a couple days ago that i last emailed y'all, it is crazy how time goes by fast. but this next week pday will be tuesday so make sure to email monday night or tuesday morning if you want me to read it ha. transfers are on Wednesday just for this transfers so the time will be even faster between when we email! :) hah... well how is everyone doing? whats new up in the Basin? things over here in Aurora are going well ha as good as can be expected. i mean just the city life, not the work we have actually had a pretty good week.

Leila wont be able to be baptized this week because her uncle who is going to baptize her has been traveling back and forth to Hawaii with for this month so we aer set for May 1st and we hope that goes through. We asked if we could still come over once a week and share a lesson with the family since part of the family is less active and so the mom said we could and so we have an appointment there tonight. i really hope i'll be able to stay at least one more transfer, not really because of the area but because we have lots of things going that possibly could turn into something so i'm hoping i'll stay one more. Elder Woollard says that we are both staying one more and i always tease him and say nope i'm leaving ha but i think we both will as well.

this past saturday we had the chance to go to a primary activity focused on missionary work it was way fun. each of the kids went to a mission and they had like a fake plan that they got in and acted like they were flying out to their missions anyways we got to teach one of the break out sessions they had and it was fun. we were asked to teach the kids about the normal day of a missionary, so we acted it out pretty much and had them do things with us. like jumping jacks (for exercise), talking with people, eating healthy ha things like that.

then right after the primary activity we got to go to the temple because there is a somewhat recent convert that asked us to go to the temple because he recieved his endowment. the temple was so packed though i dont think i've ever seen that many people there at one time. there were weddings going on, and plus everything else happening it was awesome to see it that busy though because everyone is doing the Lords work. i thought i was pretty lucky being able to go to the temple twice last week! :) i 'm so glad we have a temple close by back home that we can go to. those are pretty much the high lights of my week.


Elder Woollard will hopefully get his bike sometime this week so that way we can start riding bikes and i can start losing weight! not too much else is happening. i hope everyone has a great week and things go well for y'all. thank you for the email and the letters i love hearing from you! i miss you and love you! take care and keep in touch!

love Randy

Things have been going really well for me this week,

so yeah Confrence was amazing i always love hearing from the prophet and apostles like you know back home i really didn't care to watch confrence but being out here i've gained a better appreciation for it and i look forward to it evertime it comes up! i'm sure everyone kind got what the main focus was in confrence. The family and how important it is, i thought it was such a great confrence i cant wait to get the Ensign and go over them again. but it is so true because as you look around in today's society stan is doing everything that he can to tear families apart because the family is central to God's plan. and there is a reason God put us in the families he put us in. i'm so grateful for the the family he has blessed me with! i love you all so much and have most definitley gained a greater love for all of you!

we had the chance to go to the temple this morning and it was such a great experience i love just being around and in the temple because everything is so peaceful and quite, being able to sit in the celestial room and not worry about anything else going on just being able to feel that feeling you get while your in there. it's amazing! :) y'all should go to the temple as often as you can.

yesterday we went on team ups with the zone leaders and i went into their area with Elder Allred haha it was such a blast all we did while we were tracting is talk about football and farming, it doesn't get much better than that. i'm so glad that he is in this mission and i kind of knew him before, i'll be able to go out there and visit him. i enjoy going on team ups with different missionaries just for like a day just to get a change of pace ya know?

i also got the opportunity to give another baptismal interview, this kid is 18 and has been looking into the church for like 6 months and has finally made the decision to be baptized, it is always so neat interviewing people cuz i'm on 20 and sometimes they are older than me and like i was interviewed by Bishop Price and i just feel like shouldn't someone older be doing this? but it is neat hearing there testimonies.

Leila Paula is hopefully going to be baptized on the 17th of April we still haven't gotten a for sure answer but if not then may 1st. my companion is doing well and we are getting along great, President seemed to be happy with us during interviews and the zone leaders said that President is pleased with me , i dont know what for haha but thats cool! im going to be sad seeing him go! :( I fixed that piece of crap bike of my companions again and put a new connecting link on it so we've been riding some but he doesn't know what he is going to do to get his own. so who knows!?

transers are coming up here real soon, normally they are on thursdays but this transfer is going to be on wednesday because President Christison has a meeting to go to on thursday so pday will be tuesday the 20th of april and transfers will be the 21st so make sure to email a day early that week.

Easter went really well we had a great dinner, we had ham and funeral potatoes and a bunch of good food. the members in this area are starting to warm up to us and i feel a lot more loved this transfer than i did last haha i guess maybe because they didn't know me but are starting to get to know me? who knows, as for service we dont do any in this area really at all, it stinks way bad! we offer it to people all the time but no one will ever take us up on it.

i miss you and love you!!!!! i hope the rest of your week goes well!

love ELder Anderson

All is well here in Colorado, the weather is kind of overcast and it is supposed to be a high of 71 which is crazy seeing how last pday is was snowing and we had like a foot of snow! how is the weather over in utah and back home? this past week has been a pretty good one,

we have finished teaching Leila Paula the lessons and her family plans on having the baptism the 17th of April but might have to push it back to the 1st of May just because they are polynesian and want all the family to be there and so they might not be able to get them here in time for the 17th but ethier way i'm really excited and it has been fun being able to teach her and her family. they are such a great family! yesterday we had interviews with President Christison and like always i really enjoyed them! he is such a great guy, i didn't have a individual one because i didn't think i needed it but i think the next two (also last two) interviews i'm going to have one on one just because he'll be leaving so it will be good to be able to talk with him. it's amazing to see how he has a love and concern for each one of his 200 and something missionaries i think it would be so hard to be a mission president but he does such a great job!

so when Elder Perry came he gave us (the mission) a challenge to memorize the articles of faith and so this past like week or two i have been doing that and i got 1-12 memorized and recite them all the time when were out tracting. i cant believe that i actually did it haha because i have never had them memorized and it wasn't that bad. Morgan you had them memorized before i ever did! :)

ok so yeah monday night Elder Woollard and i were sitting in the living room just talking and someone knocks at the door and i looked and it was a pizza guy, i was like what the heck so i opened the door and he started reading the order off and i was like what is this guy doing, i said to him what address do you have and he read it and it was ours and i'm like thats our address but we didn't order pizza sir and he was like oh ok so he started walking away and i was like wait can i help direct you in another way and he read the address again and then said Judy Anderson and i was holy crap that's my mom! :) haha so he came back to the door and i signed the reciept and gave him a $50 tip lol just kidding mom but then he read the little note that you attached to it! :) thank you so much haha i wasn't expecting it i told president about it the next day in interviews and he just laughed and said you have a loving mom and he said to tell you that i know have diabetties and my feet are swelling cuz im eating so much at night time! lol but i do appreciate it, i was like sweet and yeah elder woollward was running around saying your mom is so cool, and i was like you dont have to tell me! lol but thank you!

well i hope that everything continues to go well i got to get going these other missionaries are ready to go! Elder Allred told me to tell the family hi so tell everyone hi or and since you are there with the Eppichs tell them hi as well! well i miss you all so much and love you! i hope you enjoy the rest of the time off! take care and be safe! haha :) love yoU!!!!

Hello! :)

how is everyone doing this week? things have been going really well for me, we were out tracting yesterday afternoon and it started hailing and then it turned into snow and hasn't really quit since we got just over a foot of snow over night. they say it is supposed to quit sometime today and warm up within the next couple of days, i dont understand this weather because just last week i got sun burnt because it was 60 something degrees and here it is a week later and we got snow! crazy but it sounds a lot like the weather up in driggs.
yeah i've feeling better it was only that night and then the next day i dont know why but it wasn't fun. and yes i lost weight while i was sick but i've gained it all back already and some! haha i'm going to come back in great shape though you watch!

so this past week has been a pretty good one, we have done i think to be a record high or tracting haha but we have seen the blessings come from it. we have got a lot of people ask us to come back and share more with them. we had zone confrence on monday and the theme was the atonement it went really well and i enjoyed learning more about it but i dont think i'll ever come to understand completely. we weren't able to have interviews right then but we are having them this upcoming tuesday so i am looking forward to that. Presient and Sister Chrisison leave here in like 3 months i still cant believe it! :( oh it was cool the other day Elder Woollard and i went to lunch with Elder Allred and his companion Elder Bragg to some resturant anyways the waitress asked us what we did and she made the comment that we brought a peacefull feeling into the resturuant when we came in, we were all like that is so sweet that she recognized that.

i was also able to give another baptismal interview to a gentleman named herb, he was a part member his wife was a member and he wasn't but he just got baptized this past saturday and here in two weeks is going to baptize his sons after he recieves the priesthood. it is so awesome seeing things like this happen out here, he is most excited about being able to go to the temple next year and be sealed to his family! i would have to say that is one of the messages i love sharing the most out here, is how families can be together forever! what great joy can you get than that? As for Elder Woollards bike there is a member still looking online for him to find a nice cheap one, because walking is not fun!

anways things continue to go well for me and i think we are going to go play basketball the rest of the day but i got to get going because the other Elders are ready to go.. i'll keep you in my prayers. i miss you and love you so much! take care!!!


love randy

i cant believe it is already St Patricks Day, time goes by too fast sometimes. how has the week been going for everyone so far? anything new been happening besides the things that you mentioned. things have been going ok for me, definitely not the best week in the mission field haha but everything is good and we're stilll plugging right along...
so yup i got a new companion obviously haha because my last companion ended his mission. but this one's name is Elder Woollard, he is from Payson Utah which is just south of Spanish Fork. so i'll kind of give you a little background about him without talking about too much. so y'all remember my companion Elder Krawczyk? like the coolest companion ever! haha well anyways Elder Woollard came out at the same time as him and that MTC group but he went home after being out 2 months because he had some things that he needed to clear up so he went home and got that taken care of. he is a great guy and has a strong testimony of the atonement so i have a feeling that this transfer will work out to be a great one! we have been doing lots of tracting and when i say lots of tracting i mean it like 6 hours on monday and 5 1/2 yesterday. it was pretty funny yesterday we were out tracting and we saw these black kids playing football and a couple of them were members so i was like alright we gotta show these kids up, haha so we set our stuff down for a bit and played with them, it was definitely a blast just having a good time playing a little bit of football. this past week we have actually gotten quite a few potential investigators, people that have invited us back so i pray that something good will come of it. although tracting isn't my most favorite thing to do i know that as we continue to tract the Lord will provide people by guiding us in the way he would have us go. we are going over to the Paula families house on Thursday, we still haven't taught them because she wants the whole family to be there and with all the kids they have there always running differend places, so we hope it will go through tomorrow. everything else has been going well, i did get the package with the white shirts, thank you! :) i'm wearing one right now! haha

so Elder Woollard didn't have a bike, and so we borrowed the same one Elder Harmon borrowed from a member and then the stinkin chain busted on it again but i fixed it once and then like 2 days later the connecting links fell off and we found one of them and it was bent really bad like as if one of the teeth were bent and kept pulling on it or something. so we are on foot again! but there is a member that is looking on craigs list for him and he will just buy one off of there. so hopefully he'll get a bike soon! my legs and feet and back kill from walking all the time!

Elder Allred says hi! haha we are emailing here with them at the library today, so i gotta get going. we are going to go throw the football around here in a bit so yeah. thank you so much for the email and the letters.

i miss you so much and i love you all! take care and i hope that things continue to go well for you!!!

love Randy