OKAY SO HERE ARE THE ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS MOTHER: my Pday is on Monday unless its a holiday cause we write at a college library. please send money food clothes some sweet ties possible a better bed and bascially everything else i shouldnt have on a mission! haha no im just kidding. im doing pretty good i figured out how to eat off of $20 a week, which i didnt think was possible but it actually is. Food tastes awful no doubt but its fuel not food!! haha I would definitely love some sweet ties though. Im already bored of mine. Send some really crazy ones that people will ask about, maybe ill make some more friend haha and some photos of the family and stuff so all the members can see. i dont want to take my camera everywhere.
so news of the week! I taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ and i start every morning doing that by simply brushing my teeth!! haha thats the moto in the mission. that everything you do, even brushing your teeth, should bring people to Christ. So my teeth have never looked so good ;) haha this week was bit of a hard one for us. Cause it was so busy everything got out of order and nothing really got scheduled. My companion has a leadership meeting wednesday so i went on exchanges with some english elders. It was way fun!!! besides the fixing three flat tires all moring biking 12 miles and teaching an EXTREMELY RACIST BLACK LADY WHO HATES BLACKS!!!! oh and she is afraid of the sun and is mentally unstable..... By the end of the lesson all we taught was that we need to become like Jesus, she took that a little to far as she thinks we now need to become jews..... and anyone who knows me knows that i was dying of laughter this whole time!!! IT WAS PRICELESS!!!! After that incredible lesson we came outside to find we had another flat tire...these bikes blow....so we had to walk to a store 7 miles away to get a new tube... and it started pouring rain.... totally what i thought a mission would be hahahaha but we ended up getting some pizza which was sweet!!! and we made a new homeless friend. That was cool too!
So this week we focussed everything we had to getting everyone in the neighborhood to a ward party that we were throwing! Everyone in the ward represented their orginal country and made food from it!!!! It was so sweet!!! There were like 9 different countries represented there and of course we repped good old America!!! Nothing like hot dogs and cookies hahaha but it was a way fun night with dancing and eating and it was a great turn out!! I got some guys in the ward to get on the stage and do a dance as like a talent show! It went extremely awful in a total good way! The ward laughed so hard and enjoyed me making a joke of myself. But it was really fun!
As to the real work, this was a tough week. Silvano is an investigator who is blind and has studied his whole life as a Catholic and he is one of those born catholic die catholic even if i dont believe it. So working with him is way hard cause he is super intelligent and knows the bible like the back of his hand, so he butts heads with us a lot. The Valdez family, my homies, commited to being baptized on October 13! That was way cool, but we have a lot of things to do to prepare them but they are the cooliest family!! Way crazy and funny and its way hard to keep them on subject but its way cool to be teaching them. Lucia and her family is the ones we found a week ago during the hour of power, and they came to the party saturday and loved it!!! They felt right at home and felt so good about the atmosphere!! So we are working on setting dates with them.
As of this week there was a couple more sketchy situations but its all good!!! hahah i have just learned to ride my bike really fast!!! haha there are way to many dogs here. We live in an area that use to be way nice until hurricane katrina hit then all those people moved to this area cause it was cheap, so we have ALOT of gang activity and drug cartel.
So far my spanish still sucks but everyone loves the energy i have and how i make everyone laugh and feel loved. I have really hit it off with the youth, since ive been here we have reactivated 7 youth which like double the youth in the ward. The members are amazing!! Wish i could understand them, and one day i am sure i will!!!
Well all i can say is that estoy viviendo el sueno! Its rough but i wouldnt rather be doing anything else. I know this is where i am supposed to be and i know how much different i will be in two years. I am so grateful for this chance to learn and grow. I love you all so much and wish you all the very best!!! Keeping doing whats right!
Con amor,
Elder Anderson
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