Hola mi familia!
How are all of you doing? I hope that everything is going well and that you had an amazing week! Our new apt is AMAZING! Feeling safe in your apt is awesome! Our last one was really old and run down and their had gotten to be some drug problems going on nearby. This new one, however is awesome. They do background checks on everyone before you move in and smoking is not allowed. Most of the families there are military families. It just opened up a few months ago. Transfers are this week and I'm 99.9% positive I won't be moving but I don't know. Sometimes the week before transfers they hold onto our mail at the mission office so that might be the reason I haven't received the package yet.
This week lots of crazy things have happened. Satan is really doing everything he can to stop the work from progressing. Seriously, almost any bad thing that could happen to our investigators did. But, like Joseph Smith said "no unhollowed hand can stop the work from progressing. Persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, columny may defame BUT the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent until it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear; until the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the Great Jehovah shall say 'the work is done.'"
Despite all of the bad things that happened I have continued to be happy. "Come what may and love it" right? I've seen the Lord's hand and guidance in my life. I know that this is His work. He never said that it would be easy, He just said that it would be worth it. I think sometimes my companion is a little confused why I am always happy and optimistic no matter what happens. It's because I have the Lord on my side. There is no way I can fail because I have him.
We have to keep things in perspective. I've met with lots of different kinds of people this week. They are all going through super hard things. The difference in them is the way they react to their situations. If they have faith they know that they will overcome and that the Lord is by their side guiding them and carrying them. The people without faith have no hope for life. They are barely making it day by day. Faith is SO important! We must have faith. It reminds me of Moroni 7. If we have faith we have hope. In church language we know that hope doesn't mean that we hope something will happen. Rather, it means that we EXPECT things because we know that Lord will help us. Our Heavenly Father is the same yesterday, today, and forever so of course He is going to help us. Just like he protected the children of Israel, He will protect us. We just need to have faith and hope.
Also, Moroni 7 teaches us that faith and hope lead to charity. Charity is something that I'm constantly working on. Without it we are nothing and I'm wasting my time and your money here. Anyway, those are just some of my thoughts for the week. We are trying to get more ward and branch involvement because we need them. Dad, in the pamphlet you sent me it talks about what happens if the members are involved. Instead of having 2 missionaries covering North East El Paso and tens of thousands of people we could have at least 500. We are going to try to get some ward mission plans going. I'm excited to see the thing you sent me!
Well, that is about it. I sure love all of you! The Church is so true! Trust in the Lord and lean on Him. He will direct you for good. Have faith and be believing.
Love, Hermana Anderson
ps GO COUGARS!!!!!!!
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