We had our last zone conference with President Christison on Monday and i got a picture with him and sister Christison, it was a cool zone conference. we just went over everything that they have trained on throughout their mission and talked about it all. i love President and Sister Christison and cant wait to see them after my mission.I'm sure President Maynes will be a good President as well.

On Sunday we taught the deacons quorum, because the lesson was on preparing for a mission and it was awesome to be able to talk to them about some of the things i wish i could of done better to come out.

the Paula family has a daughter who is 17 and she has a boyfriend that has sat in on a couple of the lessons we've taught them and he also went to Leila's baptism, anyways he told us that he wants to take the lessons and eventually be baptized, we were like that is so awesome!

also there is this family that we worked with like right when i first got here but then we dropped them because they were not progressing, anyways last week they called and asked if we could get the ward to help out with them moving and getting things packed up because her dad is dying down in texas and she wants to be down there with him. anyways while we were talking with her she told us that she wants her and her two kids to be baptized before they leave. we are so excited and it is is awesome to see the Lord blessing us for working hard.

so if all goes well we could have 4 or 5 baptisms by this next transfer.

later today we are going to go throw the football around.

i miss you and love you so much!

love Randy

Yeah i was kind of bummed that i didn't get that package on Saturday, but i did get it on monday and everything was still there, no complaints ha. all of the chocolate was melted so i stuck it in the freezer trying to get it to harder up, it's all deformed ha but it's still good! :) thank you for that, i love get packages from you. and it's been really awesome i told Elder Woollard how the family normally writes me every sunday and then sends it out monday so he told his family to do that and they have been so he has been happy with getting mail and what not so i'm happy for him. i cant wait to get your letter that you sent on monday! :)

well this past week has been a good week for me but at the same time it's had it's things that have brought me down. Sunday morning our phone rang and it was Sister Wallace a lady from my last area she called to let me know that Brother Dean Van Vleet the member that i lived with passed away earlier that morning, i guess he was having heart problems and breathing problems but they were away at a rock show in Price Utah and he passed away in his sleep. i know that he is in a better place but it was still hard to hear because i was wanting to go back and introduce the family to him, he was and is such a great guy. his grandson called me later that day to let me know and i told him that i had heard, he seemed to be doing alright but was kind of stuggling so i was able to talk with him. i'm so glad that i have a testimony of the Plan of Salvation and know that we can be together with our families again after this life. i asked our mission President if i could go out and attend the funeral and he said that it was probably best that i didn't.

anyways late in the week last week i was riding my bike through a bike path and it was swampy and this bird hit me in the back of the head and landed between my back pack and my back and so i look back and i saw one fly off and i thought it was gone so i reach back to feel were he pecked me and the dumb this was still there ha so i hit it and he flew off, Elder Woollard was behind me a ways just laughing. ha so i can officially say that i've been attacked by a bird. ha..

We are going to push back Wryleys baptism to July 10th because his extended family wont be able to make it the 19th of June. But we are still going over there weekly and working with the family.

we got to teach Dave Parker and Holly Josephson the 2nd lesson on Sunday and it went really well, they are talking about getting married so they can be baptized, we aren't sure when it will happen yet but we are excited.

Ok so 2 Sundays ago i let Elder Woollard take the dinner calendar to church with a binder that we take on Sundays, anways we get back that night and he doesn't have it! ha so as of right now we dont have a dinner calendar and we rely on those that are feeding us to call us if they remember ha! we have serched the apt, the members home who we had dinner with, the member who took us home from church and still no luck! so we keep praying that we'll find it.

We were able to do some service work this past week as well, on Friday a family moved into the ward, there son is in the bishopric anyways we helped them unload the 53' moving truck that they had full ha and it was the hottest day of the year yet. so we got a great work out! ha and then right after that the next morning we helped a member break a pattio of concrete and then load it up into a truck and take it to the dump. so i've had quite the work out this past week, between riding bike and lifting a bunch of things. we have lots of potential in this area and pray that we will be able to see success.

well thank you for the email and the letters that you send. take care and have a great week. i miss you and love you so much! let me know if there is anything i can do for you! love you! :)
Elder Anderson

Well everyting or anything that i thought would happen didn't happen! lol i thought for sure i was going to leave the area or that Elder Woollard would leave but we are both staying here in the area for another transfer! :) ha I'm not sad or anything like this is what i wanted and what i have been praying for so it will be nice! that means that the next transfer i should be gone, not saying i will be but i bet i will. the next transfer is also only 4 days before Karie and John have the baby, well Karie has it ha but you know what i mean.

This last Sunday the Bishop gave the 5th Sunday lesson in a combined class and he talked about missionary work and he said that we have two of the best missionaries we've had in this ward with us right now so we need to make sure that we are inviting our friends to be taught by them. i dont know what it is but i always love hearing things like that from members or the ward. i mean i dont have a big head thinking that i'm the best but it sure helps me want to try harder so they will invite their friends to be taught.

President Christison leaves in like 29 days so everyone is trying to get things ready for the new mission President to come in so he can just pick up and continue to have things rolling because i guess when President Christison came into the mission it was in a slump and it took him 6 months to get it up and going so he is doing all that he can to make it easy on the new mission President. i'm going to miss him so much,

i'll let you know as i find out. this past week has been kind of blah it has been really hot and humid so when we are out all day i get really sweaty and gross ha i dont like it! the only plus is that it's helpin me lose weight faster.

oh we did start teaching this one couple that wants to be baptized they have 5 kids and aren't married yet, they just thought they didn't need to i guess but they told us that they want to get married so they can be baptized, i dont know how soon we will be able to get all of that done but at least we have started and i know the Lord will provide a way to have it all get done in a timely manner.

we still go over to the Gaus family and the Paula families home once a week just to continue to try and keep them going strong. they are all such great families.

On monday for Memorial Day we went to 2 barbeques! :) ha it was so good, i miss barbequeing food! the members treat us so well here i love it. we haven't had any opportunities to give service work any time recent which kind of stinks but i'm sure something will pop up.

it is so great being a missionary not having to worry about anything besides trying to help other people whether it's sharing the Gospel with them or helping them with whatever they need help with. you can totally forget about yourself and not worry about what you need. I'm glad i chose to come out here and do this.

well i cant wait to hear back from you, i hope everything continues to go well. thank you for all that you do. i love you and miss you all so much! let me know if there is anything i can do for you. love you!!! :)

Love Randy

of course i know you too well mom, ha so i made sure to let you know that i wasn't going to email later than normal because you'd probably go crazy and wonder why i didn't email. but it was a good reason, at least i think so maybe you wont think it is. ha

so we had this competition type thing within our zone. Because we are supposed to get 40 hours of accountabliltiy each week, which is like 20 hours of tracting and 20 lessons taught. i hope all of that makes since ha. but if you got 40 hours of accountability 2 weeks in a row then they put the companionships name in a hat and drew 3 companionships and ours was one of them. so we got to go to the temple this morning at 10 and President and Sister Christison went with us, then after that they took us out to lunch. so we had a great day today! :)

Also we had our last interviews with President last Thursday. i loved being able to talk with him, he is so awesome and he is always so inspirational. he was telling me how he has loved serving as my mission president and how he has seen so much growth in me since i first came out. he told me that he see's me having a great future with whatever i do. he also said he couldn't wait to meet my wife and 7 kids lol i was like no President i dont plan on having that many kids and he said my wife will have a say in that! ha

i have mixed feelings about what will happen this upcoming transfer i kind of think that i will stay here again but then again i think i'm leaving so i really dont know. what do you think will happen?

i had the chance to give another baptismal interview sunday morning and the baptism was sunday evening it was pretty funny because they just set the person with the person with the baptismal date the night before and he was baptized the next day then moved away the next day after that ha.

the work has been going kind of slow lately, i mean we have Wryley set with a baptismal but that's not 'til June 19th and we dont have anyone that close, so we continue to do lots of tracting trying to find people to teach. everything has been going really well though. i'm enjoying it.

well i hope y'all have a great week. things are going good for me, and i cant complain. i love hearing from all of you and want to thank you for all that you do! :) keep in touch.. love you!!!

love Randy

I agree i cant believe that we are so far into May already... time continues to fly by and the weeks seem like days and the months seem like weeks. ha. things have been going good for me the weather here is still crazy, it has been nice for the most part but these past few days it has been raining and blowing so that kind of stinks but rain is a lot nicer to do missionary work in than snow at least i think.

Well we have Wryley set with a baptismal date, it isn't 'til June 19th but it's set. it isn't 'til then because his little sister is going to be turning 8 and so they want to do them together that way family can come in and be there. i'm so excited, since we been going over there and teaching the family they've done a complete 180 from where they were, it's so awesome to see all the good things the church can do for people.

So like mid last transfer probably late March we tracted into this lady that had been a member but was not anymore for certain reasons, but anyways we talked with her and she was saying how she needed to come back to church but just didn't think that it was time yet. so Saturday we got a phone call and it was her and she was like i want to come to church on sunday where is it and what time, so she came! :) it was awesome, we are going to start teaching her in the next week or so. but she wont be able to be baptized for awhile because of certain things.

we went over to the Paula families home again earlier this week and visited with them and shared another lesson, i love that family so much, they are great people. The ward has been so good to us, it is awesome to feel the love and support they give us as missionaries, all we need them to do now is give us referrals lol.

so yeah my last interview with President Christison is tomorrow, i'm excited and am looking forward to that but at the same time it will stink knows it's the last one. we've been doing lots of tracting as always just because we dont have too many people to teach so we are out there trying to find people that we will be able to teach. i hope with what we have going on in the area that i'll be able to stay at least one more transfer but i guess we'll wait and see.

Elder Woollard enjoyed the package and told me to tell you thanks, the little note that you wrote with it he put up by his desk. ha he had a great birthday and he said it was one of the best he's had.

i hope that everyone has a great rest of the week, thank you so much for the email and the updates. i miss you and love you all! keep in touch! love you!

love Randy

So i woke up this morning with like 3 inches of snow on the ground lol, the weather here is so crazy, it's the middle of may and we got snow. but i guess it's supposed to melt off by this afternoon. how has the weather been for y'all back home? it was so awesome being able to talk to all of you on the phone Sunday i cant believe that it will only happen one more time... i always love hearing the families voice. Morgan's voice sure has changed since when i was back home, it is so crazy. but yeah i like to think back to all the memories of growing up and talk with the siblings about it.

thank you for sending the ensign and some other misc stuff, i hope i get it today just cuz i love getting mail! hah i did get the pizza and everything and when the delivery guy came this time i knew it was for us ha, and i gave him a $3 tip or something like that. thank you again for doing that!

since we talked on mothers day not too much has happened, we've went out and done some tracting, shared some lessons and given service work so it's been a pretty well balanced week. a member in the ward called us and asked if we would come help him put his transfer case back into his suburban so we went over there monday night from like 7-9 then from 10-1 on tuesday morning. i loved being able to wear normal clothes and do like actual physical work! ha i miss them days... but today for pday we are going to go over to one of the church buildings and "Rocky" the Denver Nuggets mascot is going to come because he is in the zone leaders ward, anyways he is coming and is going to give out a bunch of free stuff and he is bringing trampelines and we are going to jump on them and dunk it and stuff like that. i guess he competes in competitions and so he is going to show us how to do it. so i'm excited. we have some apts lined up throughout the week so it will be good.

i hope that everyones week continues to go well. i loved being able to talk with everyone, thank you for all that you do and for the great family that you are! :) i miss you so much and love you!!!!! take care! love you!!!

love Randy