Monday, January 24, 2011
This past week has been kind of a slow one because Elder Castro has been sick and our mission Presidents wife told him to wait it out and see if it gets better and he wasn't feeling up to going out all day long so he tried sleeping it off and then we finally got him to the Dr on Wednesday and they said he had sinus and ear infections so they gave him tons of meds and then he took him and knocked out all day Wednesday also ha so we really didn't get out 'til Thursday, which still gave us some time to do work.
there is so much potential in this area i'm excited to keep in touch and see what happens with the work after i leave because there is easily 6 people that are close for baptism between part member families and investigators, so i'm happy for the area and the things happening. We had 88 people out to church this past Sunday which was way awesome, everyone is excited and happy about the work we have going on right now with less actives and getting them back to church. there is this one brother in the ward who hadn't been to church in 5 years except for once when his daughter was blessed but, he has been out 4 times now since i've been in the area and has been the last 2 weeks in a row! :) nothing brings me greater joy than to see this type of stuff happening because i know that their family is getting closer to going to the temple and being sealed together! i love being a missionary! :)
i was able to teach the Gospel Principles class in church this past week, it was the first week we've had this class since the branch opened up so it was awesome. they got a Branch Mission Leader called a couple weeks ago and so it has been good being able to work with him and trying to help him know what types of things he does. i also had the privilege to interview a whole family for their baptism that is coming up on the 5th of Feb. that was the first time i had interviewed a whole family, there are 3 kids and the mom and dad that are getting baptized. it is so cool to see them make this choice as a family and the story behind how they were introduced to the church.
i got permission from President Maynes to go to the sealing of Brother and Sister Benton on the night of the 5th, so i'll leave Parachute the morning of the 5th and head over with the Larsens, grab lunch or something and then they are going to go to the sealing as well! i'm met some awesome people out here and i'm so grateful to have had the chance to be out here amongst them.
take care and i'll see ya in 16 days! :)
love Randy
there is so much potential in this area i'm excited to keep in touch and see what happens with the work after i leave because there is easily 6 people that are close for baptism between part member families and investigators, so i'm happy for the area and the things happening. We had 88 people out to church this past Sunday which was way awesome, everyone is excited and happy about the work we have going on right now with less actives and getting them back to church. there is this one brother in the ward who hadn't been to church in 5 years except for once when his daughter was blessed but, he has been out 4 times now since i've been in the area and has been the last 2 weeks in a row! :) nothing brings me greater joy than to see this type of stuff happening because i know that their family is getting closer to going to the temple and being sealed together! i love being a missionary! :)
i was able to teach the Gospel Principles class in church this past week, it was the first week we've had this class since the branch opened up so it was awesome. they got a Branch Mission Leader called a couple weeks ago and so it has been good being able to work with him and trying to help him know what types of things he does. i also had the privilege to interview a whole family for their baptism that is coming up on the 5th of Feb. that was the first time i had interviewed a whole family, there are 3 kids and the mom and dad that are getting baptized. it is so cool to see them make this choice as a family and the story behind how they were introduced to the church.
i got permission from President Maynes to go to the sealing of Brother and Sister Benton on the night of the 5th, so i'll leave Parachute the morning of the 5th and head over with the Larsens, grab lunch or something and then they are going to go to the sealing as well! i'm met some awesome people out here and i'm so grateful to have had the chance to be out here amongst them.
take care and i'll see ya in 16 days! :)
love Randy
Monday, January 17, 2011
Yesterday was a record at church we had 105 people come out to church which is really awesome. There was a baby blessing so that brought in some of their family but even if that wasn't yesterday i think we would have had close to 90, i was so excited yesterday as we were greeting people at the door and i kept seeing people we invited to come actually show up! it was probably one of the best Sundays on my mission, and i even spoke at church and i still thought it was a great Sunday kind of scary huh? haha.. i thought my talk went well and i did it all without writing anything down ha i just talked and read some scriptures, which i probably wont be able to do with my talk in the home ward since you say it will be 30 minutes! lol you're kidding me, you better get an exact amount of time from Bishop Davidson so i can kind of start thinking about it.
Pauline one of the people that we are working with is set with a date to be baptized, i hope it goes through and we can do everything that we can to help prepare her for it. The only bummer is that it is the 12th of Feb ha so i'll be gone. :( but that's ok i dont need to be there for it i'm just glad that i've been able to take part in teaching her and bringing her closer to Christ.
We have got a few other people that we are working with as of recent so the work with actual investigators is picking up which is awesome to see and as the members continue to do missionary work there will be more and more!
i also found out today in an email that Brother Benton from Highlands Ranch is going to be sealed to his wife the 5th of Feburary so maybe i can get over there early some how and i will be able to attend that. i'll have to talk with my mission President and see and also with the Larsens who are taking me back over to Denver to see if it will all work out.
well i cant wait to hear from y'all next week! :) i hope this week goes well for all of you! i miss ya and love you and i'll see you in 23 days!
love Randy
Pauline one of the people that we are working with is set with a date to be baptized, i hope it goes through and we can do everything that we can to help prepare her for it. The only bummer is that it is the 12th of Feb ha so i'll be gone. :( but that's ok i dont need to be there for it i'm just glad that i've been able to take part in teaching her and bringing her closer to Christ.
We have got a few other people that we are working with as of recent so the work with actual investigators is picking up which is awesome to see and as the members continue to do missionary work there will be more and more!
i also found out today in an email that Brother Benton from Highlands Ranch is going to be sealed to his wife the 5th of Feburary so maybe i can get over there early some how and i will be able to attend that. i'll have to talk with my mission President and see and also with the Larsens who are taking me back over to Denver to see if it will all work out.
well i cant wait to hear from y'all next week! :) i hope this week goes well for all of you! i miss ya and love you and i'll see you in 23 days!
love Randy
Monday, January 10, 2011
It's Official Elder Anderson will return Home on Wednesday, February 9, 2011
That's pretty crazy that y'all got that information this past week, that means that i must be getting mine some time this week. like you said it is weird to think that it is actually time, i cant believe that i go to Seattle from Denver and then back to Pasco haha i'm going to fly over Pasco on the way to Seattle. Too bad i cant parachute out of the plane flying over home haha. but i'm sure my letter will come this week telling me all about it like the one you got.
so you said that i'm on for the 13th to speak in church, that should be pretty sweet and i still am speaking for 20 minutes about whatever i want right? matt gets home the 18th so 9 days after me which is way crazy! ha and that would be fun for us to do a fireside i think. i still cant believe how fast all of this is coming, it doesn't seem real and i'm excited to come home but nervous at the same time ya know?
Dad, I love your hair cut, i didn't think you would do it that quick, it looks awesome and i cant wait to come home and see you and the family! y'all have been such blessings to me in my life and i know i wouldn't be out here on my mission helping so many other people if it weren't for you. i know that Jesus Christ lives, that He loves all the same and that He came to this earth to atone for our sins, He's paid the price all we have to do is repent and become cleansed and we've been promised eternal life which is one of the greatest gifts of God, and there we can life as families together. i know this is Christs church here upon thee earth and that we have a living Prophet who leads and guides it. The power of prayer is real, i love prayer and know that God answers prayers and He answers everyones prayer if we pray with faith and real intent which means we are willing to act on the answer we recieve. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is real and i have truly enjoyed being in the service of the Lord these past 2 years. i love you all so much!
So i found out yesterday that i'm speaking in church this up coming week, my comp and i are speaking with one of the members of the mission Presidency so it wont be to bad with 3 speakers i think they asked me to speak for 10-12 minutes. which will be nice because it will help prepare me for my homecoming talk. this past sunday we had a good turn out at church and even though it went down a couple from the previous weeks i'm counting on it being over 80 my last few weeks. we have been seeing progress with people that we are working with and so i know they'll be coming out here real soon.
i have loved being able to serve in the Parachute area and i'm going to miss it so much when i leave, the members are awesome and help us out with everything we need. i hope to be that great of help to the missionaries once i get home. We were able to teach primary yesterday because one of the teachers didn't show up and it was pretty fun, except there were 2 kids that kept talking to eachother and they were distracting the rest of the class.. ha it made me think back to when i was in primary or even sunday school as a youth and i thought of how big of a pain i must have been to my teachers. i should apologize to them. ha..
Well i had my last zone confrence this past friday and was able to say good bye to some good friends of mine. i hope i'll be able to see them at some point down the road. We were trainned on how to find more people to teach and the different ways. it was interesting but i feel like i have heard all of that stuff we covered at least 2 other times on my mission, it was still great though.
well thanks for the email and all the news i hope y'all are doing well and have a great week! i'm doing well and cant wait to see you! miss you so much and love you!
love Randy
so you said that i'm on for the 13th to speak in church, that should be pretty sweet and i still am speaking for 20 minutes about whatever i want right? matt gets home the 18th so 9 days after me which is way crazy! ha and that would be fun for us to do a fireside i think. i still cant believe how fast all of this is coming, it doesn't seem real and i'm excited to come home but nervous at the same time ya know?
Dad, I love your hair cut, i didn't think you would do it that quick, it looks awesome and i cant wait to come home and see you and the family! y'all have been such blessings to me in my life and i know i wouldn't be out here on my mission helping so many other people if it weren't for you. i know that Jesus Christ lives, that He loves all the same and that He came to this earth to atone for our sins, He's paid the price all we have to do is repent and become cleansed and we've been promised eternal life which is one of the greatest gifts of God, and there we can life as families together. i know this is Christs church here upon thee earth and that we have a living Prophet who leads and guides it. The power of prayer is real, i love prayer and know that God answers prayers and He answers everyones prayer if we pray with faith and real intent which means we are willing to act on the answer we recieve. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is real and i have truly enjoyed being in the service of the Lord these past 2 years. i love you all so much!
So i found out yesterday that i'm speaking in church this up coming week, my comp and i are speaking with one of the members of the mission Presidency so it wont be to bad with 3 speakers i think they asked me to speak for 10-12 minutes. which will be nice because it will help prepare me for my homecoming talk. this past sunday we had a good turn out at church and even though it went down a couple from the previous weeks i'm counting on it being over 80 my last few weeks. we have been seeing progress with people that we are working with and so i know they'll be coming out here real soon.
i have loved being able to serve in the Parachute area and i'm going to miss it so much when i leave, the members are awesome and help us out with everything we need. i hope to be that great of help to the missionaries once i get home. We were able to teach primary yesterday because one of the teachers didn't show up and it was pretty fun, except there were 2 kids that kept talking to eachother and they were distracting the rest of the class.. ha it made me think back to when i was in primary or even sunday school as a youth and i thought of how big of a pain i must have been to my teachers. i should apologize to them. ha..
Well i had my last zone confrence this past friday and was able to say good bye to some good friends of mine. i hope i'll be able to see them at some point down the road. We were trainned on how to find more people to teach and the different ways. it was interesting but i feel like i have heard all of that stuff we covered at least 2 other times on my mission, it was still great though.
well thanks for the email and all the news i hope y'all are doing well and have a great week! i'm doing well and cant wait to see you! miss you so much and love you!
love Randy
Monday, January 3, 2011
yetserday we had 76 people turn out so just a couple less than we did last week which kind of stinks but a couple people were still out of town for the break because people dont start school until tomorrow down here. we need 80 people for a constant while for them to start building a building so i'm sure it will happen here within the next two years there will be a nice full size building in Parachute which will be sweet to go back and visit and see how much everything has grown!
we found a new investigator this past week. it was Pauline and Brittanys friend, she had heard that she was visiting with the mormon missionaries and so she told them that she wanted to sit in and listen as well. we were way excited when we heard it. you never know how or where you can find people to teach that's why you always need to be looking for people and opportunities whether it's actually talking with people of just being an example everywhere you go. we hope good things come of this.
We had quite a few people show up this past sunday that normally dont show up and that didn't show up last week so that was awesome. i get really excited when i see people pull up that we have been trying to work with it just makes my day!
i know this is a pretty short email but i feel like there isn't a whole lot to talk about so i'll just hear from ya next week and then talk with ya in 37 days! lol so crazy to think about. but i hope that school and work go well with everyone starting it back up. thanks for all you do and i'm looking forward to getting the pictures soon. i love you all and cant wait to see you! :)
love Randy
we found a new investigator this past week. it was Pauline and Brittanys friend, she had heard that she was visiting with the mormon missionaries and so she told them that she wanted to sit in and listen as well. we were way excited when we heard it. you never know how or where you can find people to teach that's why you always need to be looking for people and opportunities whether it's actually talking with people of just being an example everywhere you go. we hope good things come of this.
We had quite a few people show up this past sunday that normally dont show up and that didn't show up last week so that was awesome. i get really excited when i see people pull up that we have been trying to work with it just makes my day!
i know this is a pretty short email but i feel like there isn't a whole lot to talk about so i'll just hear from ya next week and then talk with ya in 37 days! lol so crazy to think about. but i hope that school and work go well with everyone starting it back up. thanks for all you do and i'm looking forward to getting the pictures soon. i love you all and cant wait to see you! :)
love Randy
Saturday, January 1, 2011
December 27, 2010
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
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
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
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