Hey there everyone!
How's it going? Reed, if you continue to scare everyone I will beat you up when I come home. Man alive! Well, it's good to hear that Suzy and Tommy had great trips to California! That's so cool about the award Tommy! It sounds like Reed had a great trip to the hospital... again.
Anyway I'm glad that you're all doing well and that the boy is doing better. This week was another awesome week! I love serving a mission and seeing the little miracles every day! This week was a little different because Hermana Mackay was sick and couldn't really breath so we took her to the local family Drs. office (the Drs. and employees are all in our wards and the receptionist is our investigator Angela). Well they told us that we had to go to the hospital to get tests. It was pretty funny because we were there for 4 hours and the DR at the hospital diagnosed her with "shortness of breath." Really? I could have diagnosed that and I don't have any medical background. It was pretty funny. It turns out that she just has allergies. So that was an adventure.
Despite her being sick for a day or two we had an amazing week! We taught more lessons than ever and saw so many miracles! We've been working a lot with the Ward Mission Leader’s, Ward Councils, and Bishops to prepare the area for while we're gone. I've never seen wards that care so much about the missionary work. It is beautiful.
Yesterday we had so many people come to church. Wow! It was amazing! 7 of our investigators came and a lot of inactive people that we've been working with. It was awesome! One of the inactive families hadn't come for years because of an issue about some of the members getting their son deported. They only speak Spanish and have just been so hurt that they haven't come. Well, yesterday they came and it was so great! They love the Gospel and know that it is true and despite being hurt deeply by some members and not understanding a word of the meeting they came to show their Heavenly Father that they wanted to follow Him. I was so happy!
The San Pedro Ward really was amazing yesterday! They saw Angela, Jesse, and Dillon and really made them feel welcome. Jesse is 17 and so all of the priests and the young mens president bore their testimonies. They were all scared but they knew that they needed to do it. It was so awesome. I've never seen a ward/community reach out to a family like this ward has to this one. They had their baptismal interviews yesterday and everything is looking good for them getting baptized on May 2nd. The ward is prepared to contact them daily while we're gone and to visit them at least every other day. The ward missionaries and the ym are taking them up to the temple open house so we're pretty excited. The ward is doing amazing!
I think that I told you about Hazel last week. She's the one from Germany. Well, she went from not believing in God to having stronger faith than almost anyone I know in the past 2 weeks. It's amazing! She is seeking and receiving personal revelation every day and is truly seeing miracles. She is just hungering and thirsting after righteousness. It's amazing! To bad we can't baptize her but the ward is gearing up to have everything ready and in place for her when she gets back to Germany. It's so funny because she wants to meet the prophet SO bad and is trying to figure out what she can do to have it happen at the Temple Cultural Celebration. Some of her ideas are so funny. Her plan right now is to wear a shirt that has the German flag on it that says "Hey, I'm German." We'll see what happens.
I was so grateful for the opportunity to fast yesterday. I know that miracles come from fasting. It really is amazing. Fasting and praying together is powerful. It reminds me of the Bible Dictionary definition of prayer that says that Heavenly Father wants to bless us but it is conditional on our asking for the blessings. I know that as we fast and pray we can see those blessings and see the Lord's hands in our lives. I see it every time.
Hermana Mackay and I have been so blessed this transfer and it has a lot to do with fasting and prayer. I would just like to invite you all to read Doctrine and Covenants Section 123. It is awesome! It is our imperative duty to share the Gospel. People need the truth and every little thing that we do counts! This section has an awesome promise at the end. If we do this "duty" we can "see the salvation of God" and His arm will be revealed to us. That's powerful and true! What a great promise! Fulfill this duty and you will see these blessings in your lives!
Well, I hope that you all have an amazing week! The Church is DEFINITELY true! It's up to us to stay true to it and the Lord! Love you all lots!
Love, Hermana Anderson
ps tonight is transfer call night. We're really nervous because we love this area and these calls determine whether or not we'll be coming here after the open house. It might be a good idea to mail everything to the mission office. Also, next Monday we'll be traveling to the Gila so I'm not sure how it is going to work out with emails. If I find out I'll write you a letter.
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