Hola Everyone!

Hola everyone! How in the world are all of you? What's going on with all of you? It was so good to hear from some of you! I'm glad that it's been a good week.

Sorry this is a bit later than usual. The Tua'ones (the Sr couple) rented a van and took Hna Andersen, Sis Christensen, and Sis Maher and I on an "adventure." We went to the end of our areas/mission. Its crazy because our areas are about an hour and a half long. It was way fun.

Well, like always, this week has been crazy. This transfer sure has been interesting. We had zone training on Tuesday morning. I love zone training! It's always great to get to hear from our leaders and learn how to become better servants of the Lord. President talked to us about how the change in the mission is going to take place. What's going to happen is that whoever is in El Paso, Mt Franklin, and Las Cruces zones on July 1st will automatically become part of the other mission. I'm interested to see what happens and will be happy with either one. Probably the biggest reason that I love zone training is because it gives me the opportunity to talk one on one with President Walker and account for what is happening in my area. At the beginning of the interview he always has me pray in Spanish. After I prayed he told me that my Spanish had improved tons since last transfer. I was super excited because sometimes you can't tell if you are improving or not but it was great to hear from him. He gave me a few ideas of what to do to make the area and my Spanish better. I'm always so thankful for his advice, he definitely is inspired.

During interviews he also told me, Hna Andersen, Sis Christensen, and Sis Maher that we were going on a 3 day exchange. He wanted my companion to learn some things from Sister Christensen before she goes home next week. So for 3 days this week I was an English sister. It was way fun! Sister Maher and I are great friends and worked way hard together. I loved getting to know their investigators and learning from them.

One quick story, so Sister Christensen has been fasting and praying her whole mission to teach and baptize a family. Well about 3 weeks ago, on the very last day that it was possible they met a family. So her last Saturday in the mission she'll see that family baptized! Cool huh?! I'm amazed by her faith. It was awesome to get to help teach this family! Sister Maher and I also went out and met tons of people. One of my favorite things is when we go out tracting and people look at us and say "no hablo ingles" and I say "oh esta bien! Yo hablo en espanol tambien!" So funny. We had some great experiences by tracting with the Spirit. One day she drove around and then we both decided that we needed to stop. Well, the first person we saw used to be taught by the missionaries in Jaurez and believes a lot of our teachings! We're going to start teaching him! Another time this week we were driving and I felt like we needed to get out and knock. We started at one end of the street and when we reached the second to last house on the street we met this man who said that he had just decided that he needed to find a church. Amazing huh?

On Saturday we "blitzed" our area. 4 companionship's came in and we prayerfully chose streets to knock. We all found some potential investigators! Yes! I'm super excited! Things are really starting to look up in this area. I've found that if we don't do it the Lord's way we're not going to be successful.

Yesterday at church it was awesome because a few different people came up to us and said "you visited one of my friends! If you need anyone to go out with you call me." The ward is really starting to trust us! I love it!

Thanks for all of your love and support! I love you all! You're awesome examples to me. Also thanks to those of you who answered my question! I really appreciate it. I'm still wanting more answers so write me and let me know how you accept Christ in your life more. Ok? Thanks!
Have an amazing week! Keep the faith! The Church is definitely true!
Love,
Hermana Anderson