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Good morning everybody! I hope all is going well. I am sure that it is. Wow. What a week it has been! I have learned so much this week here at the MTC. It has been amazing. They have firesides on Sunday nights and Devotionals on Tuesday nights and I swear that they are always meant just for me. It is awesome! I am learning all of the lessons right now and actually starting to get really familiar with them. I am on lesson 4 of 5 right now. I realized that I only have Thursday and Friday left of actual studying days so I have got to really buckle down now! I got my flight itinerary or whatever it is called. We leave the MTC at 5:00am on Monday morning. Our flight leaves SLC at 8:00 and we have a lay over in Cincinnati then off to Rochester. We get into Rochester at like 3:30 or something if I recall. I am so excited it is going to be awesome to actually get out there and start sharing the gospel with people. Oh and I already got the family names done mother. They are in the mail. Actually sent them to Suzy's apartment so get them from her. Thanks
It has been awesome to have Elder SHarp just three doors down from me. I talk to him all of the time and he is doing a great job. I don't remember if I told you or not but Elder Frederickson is like two doors down from me as well. So I see him all of the time. And Elder Jacobson and Elder Butterfield I see pretty much every day so that is nice.
Mom you said something about Hermana Bowman getting a picture together with all of the Bluffdale 2nd warders. Already done. We got it taken last Sunday.
Melissa I see Sister Ruegner(Chari) and Hermana Butterfield all of the time! They say to tell you hello and that they love you so much!
I hope all is going well at home as I am sure it is.
How is grandma doing? How is she liking being back at home? Oh and how is President Cowley doing? Is he okay?
So I know that in pretty much every letter I have gotten this week. Every single person has asked me how my health is? Well this might sound kind of rude but this is how I want it to be and think it will help a lot. My health is fine! The power of prayer and priesthood is amazing! Although my health is going to have some ups and downs over the next two years I just want to "FOCUS" on my mission, not my health. I am going to go through my whole mission without ever having a BAD day. I am here to help others come unto christ by receiving the fulness of the gospel. Not to think about myself and how bad or good my health is. I am trying to be a BLESSING not a BURDEN for everybody around me and everyone I associate with. In D&C 81:5 it says "be faithful....succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees..." I don't want to be the one that has to be lifted up. I want to be the "LIFTER" not the "LEANER." I know that my mission is going to be hard...yet it is going to be so glorious! The lord has asked me to come serve a full time mission for the next two years. The lord does not ask ANYTHING, save he a way. I am in the Lord's hands now. He will pick me up and carry me as long as I am STEADFAST and IMMOVABLE. I guess I have just kind of come to the conclusion that I have been called to be a missionary, and it wont help at all to just sit around and complain about myself. I just am going to get to the work! I am on the Lord's time now. No time for me or you to worry about my health. If the Lord thinks that I can do this....THEN I CAN! The lord has sent me to succeed, not FAIL! In the marines their motto is "SEMPER FI" this means, ALWAYS FAITHFUL. That is what my new motto is. SEMPER FI or always faithful. Always faithful to my family, my companion, my mission president, the lord, and my family. I promise I am fine and I will continue to be fine if I just do what I am supposed to do.
I am going to DO THE BEST I CAN! I am going to GO AND DO. I'm never going to quit just because it gets tough.
Now I hope that this didn't sound rude or anything. I promise I will let you know if anything "bad" happens or something really bad is going on with my health. But other than that. Please don't ask. I know it will be hard but I fill that it is what I need to do at this time to concentrate on the work.
Please send your responses today to that mail thing dear elder. I can read them a lot easier.
I love all of you, I hope you have a great week and cant wait to talk to you on Monday morning at 6:00am.
I love you guys,
Love,
Elder Anderson