This week has been amazing!

(Hermana Anderson with Elders from her MTC District.)

Hey there!  It's so good to hear from all of you!  I miss you all lots.  Thank you for your letters and the package, they mean so so much to me.  

Wow, the temple dedication sounds amazing!  You have no idea how lucky you all are to have temples close by.  The temple truly is the house of the Lord.  When I'm in the temple I feel Him and His love for me so strongly.  It is such an amazing place of peace, strength, love, comfort, joy, contentment, learning, and so much more.  I always try to remember the temple because I can't go.  

They said that hopefully the Gilla Valley Temple will be done in the spring and that we might be able to have zone conference there one time.  I sure hope so!  

I think sometimes people forget how important the temple is.  Not only is it redeeming the dead (which is so important) but it is also building us up.  I don't know how people survive daily life without the temple.  The temple helps me keep things in perspective.  I would just like to invite everyone to think about their temple attendance and see if there is anyway that it can improve.  I know that as we attend the temple we receive so many blessings that we need.  I promise that as you attend the temple  you will feel an added measure of the Lord's presence in your life.  I just love the temple so much and miss it lots.

This week has been amazing!  I've been praying to find the elect and for the elect to find us.  Well, this week we had 2 amazing referrals!  Both were Mexican, middle aged women.  One had ordered a Libro de Mormon and the other a DVD.  Well both committed to be baptized on the 19th!  It was amazing to see them understand and feel the truth.  By the end of both lessons both women said prayers full of tears thanking our Heavenly Father for the truth and for my companion and I bringing it.  It was amazing.  

It is always an amazing and beautiful experience to be able to testify of truth and feel the power of God run through your body.  Those kind of experiences always humble me.  They remind me that we are weak but with the Lord all things are possible.  It teaches me that the Lord is aware of each of us and all of our situations.  He wants to help each of us, we just need to let Him.  We need to be still and know that He is God.  He knows what is best for us.  I know that if we allow Him, He can change us into the people that He wants us to be.  This isn't easy or always comfortable but it is good and right.

I love you all and am so so grateful for you in my life!  I have the best family and friends in the world.  There is absolutely no doubt about it.  Have a great week!  I pray for you every day.  Live each day to the fullest knowing tomorrow will take care of itself.  The Church is true!

Love, Hermana Anderson