yesterday at church we had 79 people there which was awesome i thought it was a great turn out and we had people out of town so next week should be about the same. there was lots of people that haven't been to church in a long time that showed up so it was good to see them. it was really exciting seeing some of the inactives we are working with come. i was able to say the first prayer in the first sacrament meeting in the Parachute Branch! lol so i'm going down in history with that! ha not much though huh? all we had yesterday was the sacrament meeting because they haven't finished extending all of the callings and organizing things so this next week will be all 3 meetings. other than that not too much has happened, but i'm sure more things will happen by next week when i email.
oh and i am staying here in Parachute with Elder Castro for my last transfer! The Larsens told me that they would take me from here to Denver when it's time for me to head back. So in 42 days from today i'll be heading over to Denver to spend my last 2 days there then in 44 days i'll be seeing y'all! :) cant wait... i hope y'all have a great rest of your trip and you enjoy your time down there. everyone have fun snowmobiling for me! :( ha miss you and love you!!!
love Randy
Saturday, January 1, 2011
December 18, 2010
Well this week is going to be exciting i hope there are people around for us to talk to, it seems like lots of people are heading out of town for Christmas. Christmas Eve we have 2 meals lined up and we are going caroling then we are going to another families home to read the Christmas story and hang out and eat goodies so it should be fun.
then on Christmas day we'll do the normal thing and then at noon we are going to go to Rifle to play some football and then take off from there up to Glenwood to go to the Larsen's and I'm sure we'll stay there the rest of the day and that's where i call y'all from. so i doubt I'll all before 2, just a heads up. oh and we are in the same time zone since your in Idaho. so just have you're phone by you from 2 on.
we didn't have any investigators show up to church yesterday which really sucked but I'm hoping that with the branch opening this next week that we'll get a lot more people out. we've been going through the ward list again telling everyone about it opening up this week because when we went through the first time we weren't sure when it would open. it will be weird having so few people in the branch but it will grow as time moves on!
we we're able to do quite a bit of tracting this past week and got lots of potential investigators but it seems like they are just telling us to come back to be nice to us, which stinks i just wish people would be honest with us the first time they talk to us. because it's really frustrating when you go back to a door after someone told you to come back and then you go back and they say no they don't want to talk to us. we've been working really hard with the in-actives as well but are seeing little progress which also can get kind of frustrating. i love being able to worry only about helping other people but at the same time it is hard when you try so hard to help them but they put forth such little effort on their part ya know?
on a happier note it has been great in my studies this past little while to focus on the life of our Savior and all He has done for us! Let us all remember the true meaning of Christmas and why it is we celebrate it. Jesus Christ came into this world to fulfill His mission to organize His church and to Atone for our sins so that we might be able to apply the Atonement and the Gospel principles and ordinances into our lives so when the time comes we will be able to return to live with Him and our Father In Heaven. This is a great time of year and i am so grateful for my Savior and the many blessings He has and does continue to give to me!
Cant wait to talk with y'all on Saturday have a great week and be safe! miss you and love you!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
love Randy
then on Christmas day we'll do the normal thing and then at noon we are going to go to Rifle to play some football and then take off from there up to Glenwood to go to the Larsen's and I'm sure we'll stay there the rest of the day and that's where i call y'all from. so i doubt I'll all before 2, just a heads up. oh and we are in the same time zone since your in Idaho. so just have you're phone by you from 2 on.
we didn't have any investigators show up to church yesterday which really sucked but I'm hoping that with the branch opening this next week that we'll get a lot more people out. we've been going through the ward list again telling everyone about it opening up this week because when we went through the first time we weren't sure when it would open. it will be weird having so few people in the branch but it will grow as time moves on!
we we're able to do quite a bit of tracting this past week and got lots of potential investigators but it seems like they are just telling us to come back to be nice to us, which stinks i just wish people would be honest with us the first time they talk to us. because it's really frustrating when you go back to a door after someone told you to come back and then you go back and they say no they don't want to talk to us. we've been working really hard with the in-actives as well but are seeing little progress which also can get kind of frustrating. i love being able to worry only about helping other people but at the same time it is hard when you try so hard to help them but they put forth such little effort on their part ya know?
on a happier note it has been great in my studies this past little while to focus on the life of our Savior and all He has done for us! Let us all remember the true meaning of Christmas and why it is we celebrate it. Jesus Christ came into this world to fulfill His mission to organize His church and to Atone for our sins so that we might be able to apply the Atonement and the Gospel principles and ordinances into our lives so when the time comes we will be able to return to live with Him and our Father In Heaven. This is a great time of year and i am so grateful for my Savior and the many blessings He has and does continue to give to me!
Cant wait to talk with y'all on Saturday have a great week and be safe! miss you and love you!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
love Randy
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Christmas Letter to Missionaries
Dear Friends,
It’s a great time to be a missionary isn’t it! The work of the Lord continues to move forward faster and stronger than eve r, and we are so blessed to be a part of it. My brother in law once taught me a great analogy and I would love to share it with you. As he drove down the Gorge between Washington and Oregon he saw the Columbia River. The wind was blowing very strong and it was blowing the opposite way that the river was flowing, it was causing 5 foot waves pushing up current. Although on the surface it appeared the wind was pushing the water upstream, the great Columbia continued to flow e very strong. He related this to the Lord’s work. Sure at times we run into challenges or have difficult moments when Satan is trying to stop the work of the Lord from moving forward, but it will ALWAYS move forward. He worded it a lot better, but I hope you understand what it means.
It has been or is such a blessing to be a full time missionary I am truly enjoying my service to our Heavenly Father and hope all of you are as well. Enjoy every part of your mission both good and bad. I am grateful to all of you and your examples to me. Don’t get discouraged out here the Lord is on our side and we will win the fight. I know that Jesus Christ lives and speaks with our church leaders to help us know what we need to be doing. Follow their council in all that you do. I know the words they speak are scripture as is the Bible and Book of Mormon, study from them daily and you will be blessed.
I love you all so much and wish you the best this holiday season, and throughout the rest of your mission.
Till we meet again, God Speed!
Love, Elder Randy Anderson
It’s a great time to be a missionary isn’t it! The work of the Lord continues to move forward faster and stronger than eve r, and we are so blessed to be a part of it. My brother in law once taught me a great analogy and I would love to share it with you. As he drove down the Gorge between Washington and Oregon he saw the Columbia River. The wind was blowing very strong and it was blowing the opposite way that the river was flowing, it was causing 5 foot waves pushing up current. Although on the surface it appeared the wind was pushing the water upstream, the great Columbia continued to flow e very strong. He related this to the Lord’s work. Sure at times we run into challenges or have difficult moments when Satan is trying to stop the work of the Lord from moving forward, but it will ALWAYS move forward. He worded it a lot better, but I hope you understand what it means.
It has been or is such a blessing to be a full time missionary I am truly enjoying my service to our Heavenly Father and hope all of you are as well. Enjoy every part of your mission both good and bad. I am grateful to all of you and your examples to me. Don’t get discouraged out here the Lord is on our side and we will win the fight. I know that Jesus Christ lives and speaks with our church leaders to help us know what we need to be doing. Follow their council in all that you do. I know the words they speak are scripture as is the Bible and Book of Mormon, study from them daily and you will be blessed.
I love you all so much and wish you the best this holiday season, and throughout the rest of your mission.
Till we meet again, God Speed!
Love, Elder Randy Anderson
Monday, December 13, 2010
it has really hit me this week knowing how little time i have left, i was reading in the doctrine and covenants the other day and i realized how long i had left and i spaced out thinking about how i'm not ready to go home and how i wish i could continue. then a couple days after that i got a letter from the mission office telling me "now that you only have a couple months left you need to make sure you give it your best and endure to the end, to be an example to younger missionaries" and i had another blue day when i was kind of out of it! it's really weird though because i never thought i'd be to this point, i always heard of missionaries getting there but i always told myself i wouldn't be like that, and here i am feeling those same feelings.
i'm going to miss being a full time missionary being able to forget about myself and solely focus on other people and how i can help them. i love seeing the joy people can recieve in their lives and the awesome friendships i've built out here.
but enough sad stuff, this past week besides all of that was a pretty good week. we are offically our own "unit" down in Parachute, yesterday made it final that the Parachute branch was created. although we will not start meeting 'til the 26th of this month it is a branch and we found out who our branch Presidency is. it was a pretty easy guess though and i had 2 out of the 3 right. i'm really looking forward to it though, and so are most of the members down there. some of them are really sad that they wont be together with the same big group of people as they have been for the past however long they've been a ward together. but it is sweet knowing that the work of the Lord is moving forward! :)
the stake President came up to Elder Castro and i and told us that he is excited about all of the work we have going on down there, i thought that was awesome hearing that from him.
In Rifle every year about this time they have a community Christmas choir event when the choirs from the the Catholic church, Methodist church and the Mormon church all go to one of their buildings and they sing. that was last night and i really enjoyed it, it was held in our church this year and the whole chapel was full and all the way back into the gym. the different choirs got up and sang and then at the end of it all of the congregation got up and sang together, it was really neat to see all of these different faiths together singing and worshipping our Savior Jesus Christ! We had 2 of our investigators show up which was great, our Branch Presidents wife brought them for us because they weren't able to drive themselves so it was a good opportunity for them to fellowship them as well!
Other than that we had an average week, we were able to go tracting, and we taught 17 lessons and we even got to do some service! :) so it was a good week.
i love you all and cant wait to talk to you in 12 days! crazy huh?
love Randy
i'm going to miss being a full time missionary being able to forget about myself and solely focus on other people and how i can help them. i love seeing the joy people can recieve in their lives and the awesome friendships i've built out here.
but enough sad stuff, this past week besides all of that was a pretty good week. we are offically our own "unit" down in Parachute, yesterday made it final that the Parachute branch was created. although we will not start meeting 'til the 26th of this month it is a branch and we found out who our branch Presidency is. it was a pretty easy guess though and i had 2 out of the 3 right. i'm really looking forward to it though, and so are most of the members down there. some of them are really sad that they wont be together with the same big group of people as they have been for the past however long they've been a ward together. but it is sweet knowing that the work of the Lord is moving forward! :)
the stake President came up to Elder Castro and i and told us that he is excited about all of the work we have going on down there, i thought that was awesome hearing that from him.
In Rifle every year about this time they have a community Christmas choir event when the choirs from the the Catholic church, Methodist church and the Mormon church all go to one of their buildings and they sing. that was last night and i really enjoyed it, it was held in our church this year and the whole chapel was full and all the way back into the gym. the different choirs got up and sang and then at the end of it all of the congregation got up and sang together, it was really neat to see all of these different faiths together singing and worshipping our Savior Jesus Christ! We had 2 of our investigators show up which was great, our Branch Presidents wife brought them for us because they weren't able to drive themselves so it was a good opportunity for them to fellowship them as well!
Other than that we had an average week, we were able to go tracting, and we taught 17 lessons and we even got to do some service! :) so it was a good week.
i love you all and cant wait to talk to you in 12 days! crazy huh?
love Randy
Monday, December 6, 2010
The new apartment is pretty nice, a smoker lived there before us so it stank like smoke when we first moved in but we have candles going and smell good things plugged into the outlets ha so it's gradually getting better. we got everything moved in Saturday morning, the only thing is we only have 1 chair in the whole apartment so we eat breakfast and lunch sitting on the ground ha but we are hoping to get more chairs sometime this week. I'll have to take pictures of the place and send them to you,
it is pretty nice living in the actual area we work in now because that drive was getting pretty boring everyday twice a day and it was a waste of time. the members down there are excited that we got a place down there because the branch is coming soon! :) this upcoming Sunday (moms 50th ha) the stake President is going to announce the new boundries and the ward split and present the callings to the congregation and on the 26th of December we will have our first meeting down there! :) i'm really excited and looking forward to it, i think with the branch opening up down there it will get a lot of the in-actives coming out again because they cant use the excuse that it is too far to drive. something else that is pretty neat is the day the branch opens will be exactly 2 years after i took my endowment out!
this past sunday Pauline and Brittany came to church and brought Brittany's boyfriend! my comp and i were so excited when we saw there car pull up! it was fast and testimony meeting also so it was great for them to hear so many testimonies, the spirit was so strong there! i even got up and bore my testimony! :) but afterwards i asked pauline what she thought of church and she said it was different than any other church she had been to and i asked what she meant and she said it was peaceful and she felt calm and happy! i was like that's the spirit you felt here today, and read with her the scripture in Galatians 5:22 talkinbout the fruits of the spirit. then we took them on a church tour and showed them all the paintings and explained them and showed them the baptismal font. and when we were at the font the daughter and boyfriend were like what is this and so we said this is the baptismal font and Pauline (the mom) said just like Jesus Christ was baptized by John the Baptist and we were like exactly! ha the only way of baptism is the baptism by emersion by someone holding the Priesthood authority of God. and we have an appointment with them this week and we are going to try and set them with a baptismal date! :)
it was a great day yesterday! :) then last night my companion and i were able to give to Priesthood blessings to a part member family. we gave the blessings to the husband who is not a member and his mother, i know that their hearts will be softened from the experience they will have by witnessing the power of God.
i haven't put my bike on craigs list because i think i'm just going to sell it to Elder Castro. it will be lots easier and i wont have to worry about it. we are heading up to Glenwood today to go get some exercise so that's what we have planned today.
i hope everyones week goes great! i miss you so much! thank you for all the support and letters you send to me! i love you! :)
love Randy
it is pretty nice living in the actual area we work in now because that drive was getting pretty boring everyday twice a day and it was a waste of time. the members down there are excited that we got a place down there because the branch is coming soon! :) this upcoming Sunday (moms 50th ha) the stake President is going to announce the new boundries and the ward split and present the callings to the congregation and on the 26th of December we will have our first meeting down there! :) i'm really excited and looking forward to it, i think with the branch opening up down there it will get a lot of the in-actives coming out again because they cant use the excuse that it is too far to drive. something else that is pretty neat is the day the branch opens will be exactly 2 years after i took my endowment out!
this past sunday Pauline and Brittany came to church and brought Brittany's boyfriend! my comp and i were so excited when we saw there car pull up! it was fast and testimony meeting also so it was great for them to hear so many testimonies, the spirit was so strong there! i even got up and bore my testimony! :) but afterwards i asked pauline what she thought of church and she said it was different than any other church she had been to and i asked what she meant and she said it was peaceful and she felt calm and happy! i was like that's the spirit you felt here today, and read with her the scripture in Galatians 5:22 talkinbout the fruits of the spirit. then we took them on a church tour and showed them all the paintings and explained them and showed them the baptismal font. and when we were at the font the daughter and boyfriend were like what is this and so we said this is the baptismal font and Pauline (the mom) said just like Jesus Christ was baptized by John the Baptist and we were like exactly! ha the only way of baptism is the baptism by emersion by someone holding the Priesthood authority of God. and we have an appointment with them this week and we are going to try and set them with a baptismal date! :)
it was a great day yesterday! :) then last night my companion and i were able to give to Priesthood blessings to a part member family. we gave the blessings to the husband who is not a member and his mother, i know that their hearts will be softened from the experience they will have by witnessing the power of God.
i haven't put my bike on craigs list because i think i'm just going to sell it to Elder Castro. it will be lots easier and i wont have to worry about it. we are heading up to Glenwood today to go get some exercise so that's what we have planned today.
i hope everyones week goes great! i miss you so much! thank you for all the support and letters you send to me! i love you! :)
love Randy
Monday, November 29, 2010
This past week has flown by but at the same time it has gone by kind of slow. so how is everyone doing? i hope that work,school, and everything else is going well for y'all. things are going great for me out here, this winter weather and long nights make me really tired all the time. i agree about being used to having pdays on wednesdays and having to adjust to monday, i'm not so sure if i like it or not.
i think later today we are going to go up to Glenwood and play basketball and football. we were originally planning on moving out today into our other place but yesterday we had ward council and my comp was the one that was in the meeting and he didn't get everything organized with the ward so it will probably be later this week sometime. he was the one in there because we were on team ups temporarily so all 4 of us wouldn't have to be in the same meeting, only one from each area.
i do have my new address so you can start sending stuff to that address, because we have the keys to the place and have been taking a few things with us every time we go down there. the address is
854 W. Battlment Parkway L-101
Parachute, Co 81635
this past week was kind of a slow one for work because most of the families we are working with were out of town for the holiday, but we were still able to teach a of couple people. so last monday night we left here in Rifle at about 6:30 and headed up to Frisco, the roads were good most of the way except for Vail pass which is at 10,680 ft so you could imagine it getting snow. but we made it to the cabin safely and spent the night there. it was such a beautiful cabin i loved it! they had 10 sleds just sitting outside so of course i had to go and start one up and smell the beautiful smell of snowmobiles! ha i wanted to ride it so bad but we didn't asked the member that owned them so i decided it wouldn't be smart!
tomorrow we have a miniture zone confrence here in Rifle and also interviews, so it will be good to talk with President Maynes and have him help me out on how i can be a better trainer. It's crazy for me to think that this will be my 2nd to last zone confrence.
so when we were up at that leadership training it hit me for the first time that i'm really going to miss being a missionary, i was talking with Elder Allred and he brought up how much time i had left and the fact that i was the oldest missionary there and it really hit me then how close it is to me going home, i'm excited to see all of you but i like doing what i'm doing.
So yesterday during sacrament a young man from the ward gave his farewell talk and it was on how he prepared for a mission. towards the end of his talk he said how he knows it will be hard at first but he hopes to be a great missionary like Elder Anderson. lol i thought to myself what the crap, no way you dont want to be like me ha. but he was being serious and he talked about me for like 30 seconds ha. although i dont think i'm that great of an example i think it's really neat that he thinks that of me.
Saturday night we had a lesson with the Trujillo's which is a part member family and the spirit was so strong there i invited him to pray to know if the things we teach are true and after that invited him to follow the example of Jesus Christ by being baptized by someone holding the priesthood authority of God and he said that he would if he recieved an answer! it was awesome, but the thing is getting him and everyone else to actually pray. because i know that if anyone takes the promise found in Moroni 10:3-5 seriously then they will recieve an answer.
we had a great Thanksgiving, we were able to play football for a couple of hours in the morning and then we went and had two meals! i felt so fat afterwards, well i was so fat afterwards!
i hope that everything is going well for all of you and you have a great week! happy early birthday Aunt Janet, you're getting old! haha and mom you're gonna be .... i dont even wanna say! lol miss you and love you all so much! cant wait to hear back. Christmas is just around the corner and that means i get to call home! :)
love Randy
i think later today we are going to go up to Glenwood and play basketball and football. we were originally planning on moving out today into our other place but yesterday we had ward council and my comp was the one that was in the meeting and he didn't get everything organized with the ward so it will probably be later this week sometime. he was the one in there because we were on team ups temporarily so all 4 of us wouldn't have to be in the same meeting, only one from each area.
i do have my new address so you can start sending stuff to that address, because we have the keys to the place and have been taking a few things with us every time we go down there. the address is
854 W. Battlment Parkway L-101
Parachute, Co 81635
this past week was kind of a slow one for work because most of the families we are working with were out of town for the holiday, but we were still able to teach a of couple people. so last monday night we left here in Rifle at about 6:30 and headed up to Frisco, the roads were good most of the way except for Vail pass which is at 10,680 ft so you could imagine it getting snow. but we made it to the cabin safely and spent the night there. it was such a beautiful cabin i loved it! they had 10 sleds just sitting outside so of course i had to go and start one up and smell the beautiful smell of snowmobiles! ha i wanted to ride it so bad but we didn't asked the member that owned them so i decided it wouldn't be smart!
tomorrow we have a miniture zone confrence here in Rifle and also interviews, so it will be good to talk with President Maynes and have him help me out on how i can be a better trainer. It's crazy for me to think that this will be my 2nd to last zone confrence.
so when we were up at that leadership training it hit me for the first time that i'm really going to miss being a missionary, i was talking with Elder Allred and he brought up how much time i had left and the fact that i was the oldest missionary there and it really hit me then how close it is to me going home, i'm excited to see all of you but i like doing what i'm doing.
So yesterday during sacrament a young man from the ward gave his farewell talk and it was on how he prepared for a mission. towards the end of his talk he said how he knows it will be hard at first but he hopes to be a great missionary like Elder Anderson. lol i thought to myself what the crap, no way you dont want to be like me ha. but he was being serious and he talked about me for like 30 seconds ha. although i dont think i'm that great of an example i think it's really neat that he thinks that of me.
Saturday night we had a lesson with the Trujillo's which is a part member family and the spirit was so strong there i invited him to pray to know if the things we teach are true and after that invited him to follow the example of Jesus Christ by being baptized by someone holding the priesthood authority of God and he said that he would if he recieved an answer! it was awesome, but the thing is getting him and everyone else to actually pray. because i know that if anyone takes the promise found in Moroni 10:3-5 seriously then they will recieve an answer.
we had a great Thanksgiving, we were able to play football for a couple of hours in the morning and then we went and had two meals! i felt so fat afterwards, well i was so fat afterwards!
i hope that everything is going well for all of you and you have a great week! happy early birthday Aunt Janet, you're getting old! haha and mom you're gonna be .... i dont even wanna say! lol miss you and love you all so much! cant wait to hear back. Christmas is just around the corner and that means i get to call home! :)
love Randy
Monday, November 22, 2010
My new comp is Elder Castro and he is from LA California. He's 21 as well and excited to be on his mission. it has been great serving with him so far, he is really quite when we are in appointments so i do most of the talking ha but i totally understand because that's exactly how i was earlier on in my mission.
I still pray that i'll be able to do a good job while i train him because i'm really nervous and dont want to mess his mission up. it is really a humbling experience helping him because as i teach him how the mission is, i see the things that i need to work on myself. i'll take a picture of us and send it to you as soon as i get a picture and get that other sd card back.
well i've been told that they found us a place to live down in Parachute so that will be cool i guess, i was kind of hoping that we'd be able to stay up here in Rifle since they only have 4 of us in the duplex now. we are going down there later today to get our keys and all the info. so if you have things you were planning on sending between now and next monday go ahead and send it to the 695 McCarron Ct and i'll get it from there 'til i get you my new address.
so tomorrow we have a leadership training up in Frisco at 9. We were originally planning on leaving early ealry tomorrow morning but since it is snowing now we are going to head up there tonight around 6 and stay in a cabin that a member owns up there. my comp will be on team ups with another missionary 'til i get back. and i'm the one that gets to drive our group up to Frisco so it will be awesome driving in the snow and staying in a cabin tonight! :) i'm so excited!!!
we didn't have any of our investigators show up to church yesterday because of the snow, if they really wanted to they would have made it but i think satan just gave them ideas not to go.
so i heard another story of when the branch is supposed to open, either the very first sunday in the new year or the last one in december because they are wanting to have the last Chirstmas service be together.
we have been seeing progress in those that we are working with and that always makes it worth it. anyone who will listen and ask with a sincere heart will progress in my opinion, i've loved seeing the blessings and progress that people can make and recieve as they apply the teachings of the Gospel into their lives. i hope y'all are being missionaries in your own way. it's our privilige to share with others those blessings we have and can recieve from living the teachings of the Gospel.
ok so last wednesday we went up to eagle to drop off my companion and then i was on team ups with another missionary for that day 'til i got my companion the next day and he had been having stomach pains all that night before and throughout the whole day on wednesday, so we got back into Glenwood Springs and we were just resting at their apartment and i was like we should call someone to see whats up. so i called Sister Larsen and asked her what the symptoms of having an appendicites and she was telling us what they were and it was the same things he was feeling so we got permission from Sister Maynes or mission President's wife and i took him to the hospital and they put him through a CT to see if it really was or if it was something else and sure enough he had one. we went to the hostpital at 1:30 and he didn't go into surgery until 6.
Sister Larsen works at the hospital so she came down and spent a lot of time with us making sure he was alright and she had brother Larsen come into the hospital to help me give him a Priesthood blessing before he went into surgery. then i went on team ups with Brother Larsen for like 2 hours while he was in surgery and recovery and the Glenwood Elders went to the hostpital and waited for him to come out.
so because he had surgery he had to spend the night in the hospital and so i was privileged to stay with him! ha it was awesome though because before brother Larsen and i went back they took me to wal-mart and got us stuff we needed like showering stuff and then they bought me dinner to take back with me. they spoiled us like crazy and i'm so grateful for them and all the help they gave us. The Glenwood hospital is probably the nicest hospital i've ever been in, it is so fancy and the rooms are awesome! i was hoping we could have stayed another night ha. but he is doing great now and is out doing work. it was lots better than i can describe. ha
Oh this Thursday is our pday this week because of thanksgiving and we have 2 dinners lined up! maybe we'll get another one we'll see.
Happy early Thanksgiving, i hope y'all have a great week together! think of me! ha all is well with me down this way and i cant wait to hear back from you. i miss you and love you!
love Randy
I still pray that i'll be able to do a good job while i train him because i'm really nervous and dont want to mess his mission up. it is really a humbling experience helping him because as i teach him how the mission is, i see the things that i need to work on myself. i'll take a picture of us and send it to you as soon as i get a picture and get that other sd card back.
well i've been told that they found us a place to live down in Parachute so that will be cool i guess, i was kind of hoping that we'd be able to stay up here in Rifle since they only have 4 of us in the duplex now. we are going down there later today to get our keys and all the info. so if you have things you were planning on sending between now and next monday go ahead and send it to the 695 McCarron Ct and i'll get it from there 'til i get you my new address.
so tomorrow we have a leadership training up in Frisco at 9. We were originally planning on leaving early ealry tomorrow morning but since it is snowing now we are going to head up there tonight around 6 and stay in a cabin that a member owns up there. my comp will be on team ups with another missionary 'til i get back. and i'm the one that gets to drive our group up to Frisco so it will be awesome driving in the snow and staying in a cabin tonight! :) i'm so excited!!!
we didn't have any of our investigators show up to church yesterday because of the snow, if they really wanted to they would have made it but i think satan just gave them ideas not to go.
so i heard another story of when the branch is supposed to open, either the very first sunday in the new year or the last one in december because they are wanting to have the last Chirstmas service be together.
we have been seeing progress in those that we are working with and that always makes it worth it. anyone who will listen and ask with a sincere heart will progress in my opinion, i've loved seeing the blessings and progress that people can make and recieve as they apply the teachings of the Gospel into their lives. i hope y'all are being missionaries in your own way. it's our privilige to share with others those blessings we have and can recieve from living the teachings of the Gospel.
ok so last wednesday we went up to eagle to drop off my companion and then i was on team ups with another missionary for that day 'til i got my companion the next day and he had been having stomach pains all that night before and throughout the whole day on wednesday, so we got back into Glenwood Springs and we were just resting at their apartment and i was like we should call someone to see whats up. so i called Sister Larsen and asked her what the symptoms of having an appendicites and she was telling us what they were and it was the same things he was feeling so we got permission from Sister Maynes or mission President's wife and i took him to the hospital and they put him through a CT to see if it really was or if it was something else and sure enough he had one. we went to the hostpital at 1:30 and he didn't go into surgery until 6.
Sister Larsen works at the hospital so she came down and spent a lot of time with us making sure he was alright and she had brother Larsen come into the hospital to help me give him a Priesthood blessing before he went into surgery. then i went on team ups with Brother Larsen for like 2 hours while he was in surgery and recovery and the Glenwood Elders went to the hostpital and waited for him to come out.
so because he had surgery he had to spend the night in the hospital and so i was privileged to stay with him! ha it was awesome though because before brother Larsen and i went back they took me to wal-mart and got us stuff we needed like showering stuff and then they bought me dinner to take back with me. they spoiled us like crazy and i'm so grateful for them and all the help they gave us. The Glenwood hospital is probably the nicest hospital i've ever been in, it is so fancy and the rooms are awesome! i was hoping we could have stayed another night ha. but he is doing great now and is out doing work. it was lots better than i can describe. ha
Oh this Thursday is our pday this week because of thanksgiving and we have 2 dinners lined up! maybe we'll get another one we'll see.
Happy early Thanksgiving, i hope y'all have a great week together! think of me! ha all is well with me down this way and i cant wait to hear back from you. i miss you and love you!
love Randy
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