Dear MOM and DAD,
Well transfer news is in... I'm
headed to Mesa East Stake and going from 4 wards to 5, and I'm still at
the Visitors' Center! YAY!!!! My new companion will be Sister Michelle
Shurtz, she's from Clearfield UT. She's the sister who had a sibling
pass away on her mission. I think I mentioned her before. She's a great
missionary and she works hard so it will be a good transfer.
Well this week was full of miracles! Sadee set a
baptismal date for the 8th of September. We think she'll have to go to
the ward she lives in but it's still cool that she's progressing and it
doesn't matter where people get baptized just as long as they do. It
also is a test of their conversion when they have to
transfer missionaries and wards, but she knows she might have to and
she's willing to do whatever the Lord would have her do. The Gospel Blesses
lives!
I don't know if you've noticed the pattern on my
mission but Heavenly Father just likes to randomly put prepared people
in our path. This last week we got a call from some random RM who said
that when he got home he told his aunt that he'd sic the missionaries
on her and her response was... "Okay, I'm ready for them now." We've had
two lessons with her and she is so prepared. She meet with missionaries
up in Payson AZ last year and then moved and was wanting to pick it back
up when she got settled and then her nephew got home and tada! Here we
are. She called a member in our ward to tell her that she wanted to set a
baptismal date, so Sister Bardin called us and we called Cheryl and
she's getting baptized on the 22nd of September! I'm sad I won't get to
teach her anymore but I'm really excited that Sister K gets to teach
her. She's never taught anyone all the way to baptism before so I'm
really glad she gets to be part of this miracle.
We went to the
temple this week and I was just full of gratitude for the Gospel and the
temple and my family and my friends. I was just grateful for
everything. Heavenly Father has blessed me so much and I don't even know
what to do with myself sometimes. Sister K was telling me how in her
thank you card she said that I talk about how amazing our family is all
the time. Well it's true and I love you all so much, how could I help
from bragging. She also told me this morning she loves the traditions
our family has, because I talk about those too.
The weather hasn't been too bad this summer. I think
it's gotten up to 115 three times and that's it, others may think it's
hot (and it is) but I'm grateful it's not 120. One of our ward mission
leaders was released and we didn't even know it till a week later...
still waiting on a new one to be called but I know that the Bishop is
being very prayerful about it all. I have loved the bishops in this
area. I'm just grateful for all the amazing people I get to meet!
That's all for today. I'll work on getting a contact
number to you. And thank you for doing all that school stuff for me as
well.
Miss you MUCH, Love you MORE!
Love Sister Anderson
In response to the quote no effort wasted -"It's not a waste of time... you'll learn you were an idiot!"
All
of today's quotes are from Jono (John-O), our ward mission leader in
the YSA ward, he served in England and he's super funny!
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