Grandma & Grandpa Anderson! :)
lol it sounds so weird saying that to you two, but so awesome at the same time knowing that you have a grand baby! that has to be so exciting for you. Raegan is going to be a cute spoiled little girl i have a feeling already ha. Isn't it crazy to think that not too long ago baby Raegan was up in Heaven with our father in Heaven and with Great Grandma and Grandpa Anderson and Edler? Make sure to give her lots of hugs and kisses for me! :) ha wow i cant wait to see her and the rest of the family! :)
So i was able to meet with our new mission President and talk with him and his wife. They both seem like really nice people and i look forward to getting to know them better. they are really quiet spoken and i think its mainly because this is all new to them and i know i was the same way at the begining of my mission. He definitely knows his scriptures he has taught seminary and institute all his life. it wasn't really an interview it was more of a just trying to get to know everyone type of thing.

i cant believe that next week are transfers already it honestly feels like we just had transfers. i am really curious as to what will happen, President Maynes complimented me for being in the area for so long and with the same companion and he said the Lord must be please with the things you are doing. i would like to stay another one but at the same time i'm leaning more towards wanting to leave just because i only have 5 more transfers and i would like to see more of the mission or be in different areas. i'll keep you informed as to what happens. the work is still moving along in this area the baptism is still on for this Saturday which i am really excited for. it is so great to see how much people can change if they apply the Gospel standards into their lives and start living the way the Savior would have them live. this family has completely turned around and it has been such a great experience seeing it happen.

We were able to go over to Jodi's home and share the first lesson with her and we have another appointment set for tomorrow night to share the second lesson. the first lesson went really well and we were able to answer lots of her questions. she expressed an interest to be baptized so we are both really excited for her.

On Thursday we went over to the O'neal families home with 6 Relief Society sisters and helped them pack up a bunch of things and help them get ready for their move. Unfortunately they wont be baptized before they move because of certain reasons but that's ok we will refer them to the missionaries down in Texas and have them go over and work with them.

We have been able to do some service work this past week and it feels good to be out doing some physical work besides walking or riding a bike ha. the weather has been really nice except on the 4th it rained really hard and then yesterday it rained as well. it is supposed to clear up here soon and be hot again. what has the weather been like back home?

I'm so grateful to know that families can be together forever through Heavenly Fathers plan! i love you all so much!!! this is such an exciting time! :)

love Randy

So i guess President Christison took off yesterday, i didnt they he was going to be leaving 'til Thursday but yesterday afternoon sometime the new mission President came in and he had his orientation then they had lunch together and then President and Sister Christison left. it will be interesting to meet the new mission President and see how he does things. i know i'll miss President Christison but at the same time i'm sure this new one President Maynes will have lots of good qualities as well.

so last p-day we had another set of missionaries move in with us because the members they were living with had housed the missionaries for almost 2 years and it was time for them to get out so they came over to our little apartment ha and it was so crowded and it was crazy having 4 big guys in such a small place, but we managed and they left last night to another members home. but the housing coordinators (a senior couple) Elder and Sister Morgenegg who helped move them out last night said that they got to meet the new mission President and they said he is a great man.

On sunday we had a lady speak in sacrament who has just recently become active within the last year because her 16 year old son was baptized and she has since been through the temple and received her endowment. well her roomate (a lady named Jodi) has come out to church a few times and just came out again this past sunday when she spoke. Well yesterday we were out tracting and we got a phone call and it was from her and she asked us when we could come over and start teaching her the lessons, we were like whenever works best for you! :) haha it is so exciting when something like that happens.

We went over to the Gaus families home on Saturday because it was Wryleys birthday and he was having a bunch of friends over so before his party we went and helped brother Gaus fill up 500 water balloons. Then on Sunday evening Brother Gaus was ordained into the office of Priest and so now he will be able to baptize his 2 kids on the 10th of July, Wryley and Hailey. Hailey is 8 so she will be a child of record baptism, but Wryley is 11 so he'll be considered a convert. it is so awesome to see how far this family has come since we first went over there, i've loved being able to go over there and work with them.

The O'neal family is having a huge yard sale this friday and saturday trying to sell most of their stuff before they head out, so we are going to go over there again with our Relief Society President and help pack things up and share another lesson, last week the lesson went well and they still seem like they want to be baptized before they leave but they haven't been to church recently so i dont know if it will actually happen or not but we keep praying for them.

thank you for all that you do. i love you so much and am so grateful that i have the chance to be out here on a mission serving the Lord. miss you and love you!
Love Randy

hey! :)
things are going good for me, it has been so hot lately. we got some rain sometime since i last emailed and it was hot out so it wasn't a cold rain and i enjoyed it and it was definitely needed. i'm really suprised as to how dry it is here in Colorado the dry heat kills.

we have just been out doing lots of tracting and trying to teach people, since it's Presidents last full week our zone wants to try and get 50 hours of accountability per companionship which is like 25 hours tracted and 25 lessons taught or it could be mixed up in different ways but we want to send him out with a bang and show him how much of an impact he has had on our mission. i still dont know where him and sister christison plan on heading to once they finish.

we are going to go over to the O'neal families home tomorrow with our Relief Society President and talk with her about the things she is wanting to do before the move. they weren't able to make it to church on sunday, i dont know why but we really hope that everything will go good and we will be able to teach and baptize them before they head out.

Elder Woollard and i taught combined young men and young women last Sunday, it was on missionary work and the lady who would normally teach asked us if we would do it, and we said we would. it was fun being able to talk to the youth about how they can be better missionaries to their friends.

well i love you and miss you so much! thank you for all that you do. tell everyone hi for me and make sure to enjoy your week! :) love you!!!

love Randy

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