Well first of all, HOW ABOUT THEM COUGARS!!! What an amazing win for the Cougars! And to answer all of your questions. No, I did not watch one play of the game. I was planning on watching some of the game, but got a call on Thursday night saying that somebody that I taught in my old area was going to be getting baptized at 6pm in West Jordan so we left at 5. The baptism got over at 6:30pm and we tried finding a ride. Nobody could give us a ride because they were all watching the dang game. So we just decided to start walking home and figured hey it's Utah somebody will ask if we need a ride. No, that was not the case We got lot's of people honking and waving at us but nobody asking if we needed a ride. We walked from Copper Hills High School which is 7800 South and about 5100 West all of the way to 9000 South and 1300 West. That is the point when the BYU game got over and one of the ward mission leader's called asking if we still needed a ride and he came and picked us up. So we walked for two and a half hours. But I was calling somebody every ten minutes getting updates so I knew what was going on. I wore my BYU tie all day on Saturday and I only offended a couple of people when I rung their door bell so it was pretty good. I am going to wear that tie every game day this year! But bravo to the cougars way to go out and show BCS that we really can play with the top teams in the country.
This week was a pretty good week. We were able to get a lot done. And I was able to learn a lot about myself. We were able to start teaching a couple of people and that is always a good thing, but it kind of stinks because the people that we started teaching are going to take a long time to get worthy so they can get baptized. But that is okay we will continue working with them so that they can have the spirit in their homes and that they can work towards baptism.
Now as many of you know when you are on a mission you tend to gain a little bit of weight. And being in a car I am really getting out of shape. So one day this week I told my companion that we were going to ride bikes. He did not like that idea one bit! I had to pretty much trick him into the whole thing. So after pretty much tricking him into it I finally got him on a bike on Tuesday morning and we were off. (I found out that I am really out of shape) But it was such a great experience. I really want to ride bikes every day now. We were able to talk to so many more people and were actually able to get a couple of referrals because of it. So I am going to try to make him ride bikes a lot more. 1. so that I can get in better shape. 2. so that we can talk to a lot more people and talk to everyone in our path.
So my companion has been out for 19 month's, he is a great missionary but is one of those missionaries that makes things really awkward sometimes. Although he has been out for a lot longer then me I am actually the senior companion in the companionship. So over the last 4 weeks I have learned a lot and have been really thankful for the experience because I have been able to increase my teaching skills a lot!
I also learned something else this week that was really cool. We were teaching a joint young women's class yesterday and I was starting out by introducing myself and I started out by saying, "I am Elder Anderson and I am from Bluffdale Utah," when a girl rose her hand and said, "my brother heard you speak in another ward and told me all about you." I was like oh okay that is weird. But yeah so my story is kind of like making it's way around the mission which is kind of cool in a way. I know that I am making an impact.
I am so thankful for trials I know that without the trials that I have had in my life up to this point I would not be where I am today! I am so thankful to Heavenly Father and for all that He does for us and for everything that he puts within our path and for the lessons that we can learn from it.
I also saw a quote this week that I really liked it says: "In the strength of the Lord we can do and endure and overcome all things." -Elder David A. Bednar-
That quote is so true. We truly can overcome and endure everything with the strength of the Lord. He can help us with all of our trials and everything that we go through.
It was never meant to be easy, Just worth it! This life is not meant to just be a walk in the park we are supposed to struggle through it we are supposed to have our ups and down's.
Our Father in Heaven is yearning for us to return home to Him, we just need to do our part. We have to do our part so that we can return to live with our Heavenly Father.
I know that as we do our part. As we live the commandments of our Heavenly Father, as we repent, as we go to church, and as we partake of the sacrament worthily we will be able to return to live with our Heavenly Father again. What a great homecoming that will be.
I love you all and can't wait for that wonderful homecoming when we will all be able to be with our Heavenly Father, Heavenly Father loves us all so much!
I love each and everyone of you so much!
I Pray for you daily!
Have a great week!
Hope to hear from you soon!
Love, Elder Anderson
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