Okay so this week was seriously a  miracle week!! I dont even know how to describe the feelings in my heart because I just feel so blessed!! So remember the woman I told you about that we found and she came to church and loved it?? Okay so lets start there....So Tuesday we went over to her house and she texted us that afternoon and was like hey my angels come over I have hot chocolate and cake for you! We were like sweet!! So we go over and we sit down and she just loves us. So we begin to teach her about the restoration and then we get to the Joseph Smith part and put in the Restoration movie. She was watching soooo intently! Then it finished and I testified about Joseph Smith about asked her if she believed he saw God and Jesus Christ. She looked at me and was like yes, wanna know how? I was like yes. So she was like okay so I believe that God speaks to people and that helps us here on earth because that day you came and found me (Saturday) was a really bad day for me and I was really sad. I wrote a letter for my two kids (because she lives by herself she is seperated and her kids dont have anything to do with her) and I made a drink to kill myself. I was about to drink it and I heard someone knock really really loud so I came to the door and looked out and saw blue eyes (Hermana Bedke) then she backed up and I saw the word Jesus Christ on your plaque and I was like they are coming to save me! So she ran to her bedroom to put some pants on and meanwhile we went upstairs because we didnt think she was coming. So we got regected upstairs and then came back down to see her standing there right? And you know the story from there! She WAS ABOUT TO DIE!!! We knocked at the exact moment!!!! I had the hugest feeling of humilty wash over me and I just felt to greatful that God had performed a mircale and saved this woman through us!! So anyways we just kept teaching her and it was great and we set a fetcha for just this last weekend. She was like well that kinda fast and we said yes it is but....she interupted us at this point and said but I guess its better that way because I will have the Holy Ghost! We were like exactly! She seriously is Golden! So we just kept going back to her house and she would keep making us treats and having things for us and we brought a member by with us and they are way good friends now and just everything worked great with that. She got interviewd Friday for her baptizm and passed!!!!! Saturday we went over and she brought out these gifts for us and she had gotten us the most practicle gift ever!! She bought us tights!!! Thermal tights!! I was very greatful she like I dont want you to freeze! So Saturday night we were also able to go and see out other investigator in the North her and her boyfriend and they had a friend there as well so we taught him too. We invited them all to church. Okay SUNDAY: Well yesterday we go to church and we had 4 investigators!!! It was soo good!! Our bishopric got changed and our new one is awesome! So then after sacrament meeting out investigaor that I have been telling you about in the begining got baptized and confirmed!!!!!!!! It was so awesome!! Its my first baptism as a Senior companion! She was seriously incredible!! We found her taught her everything and baptized her (all becuase witht the help of God) in 8 days!!! I was seriously in shock! She is so strong too! She is like I want to raise my kids in the gospel etc etc. I just am blown away! It just goes to show when we find those that are humble they change so quickly and drasticly when they accept Christ as their savior! I love this gospel!!! So something that happened a week or so ago that I forget to tell you was our Hot Water stopped working and our landlord was out of town for like 4 days so....yes showering was interesting. We boiled water in the morning and had bucket showers. It was soooo cold you could see your breath in the bathroom. They dont have insulation here and there is a big hole for ventilation so ya! haha. We have Hot Water again now so its good. But we lost one of our electric heaters this week and then the breaker kept shutting off so we could use our other one so its been a cold week! Its been like -6 celcius in the nights so its cold and we dont have heating or insulation sooo you can imagine hahaha. I just love it here. We have been working hard and we are seeing miracles. This is the last week of transfers and we get transfered next week. I think I am leaving cause I have been here in San Juan forever! But we will see. I really will miss it here if I leave. I love it and have so many friends here! But anyways Also something I learned that is so cool this week is the importance of taking the name of Christ upon us. When we are baptized we comit to doing that. We were listing to a talk on Hermana Bedkes iPod about how when you want someone to represent you, you want someone who will act like you would and do what you would do if in that situation. So when thinking about it we take upon Christs name to be his representative and if we do that then she should be doing everything he does. All our thoughts should be focused on him our feelings, our actions. Everything!! I have really some to see that here in the mission. The more we do that the more happy we are! That is the secret! How do we come to know how Christ thinks and acts? 
1. By studying about his life
2. Praying (when we pray in Christ name its the same! We should be praying the words he would say. We do that by praying through the spirit. I love the definition in the Bible Dictionary. When the will of the father and the child are brought together...we come to know his words through the spirit)
3. Then act and do what he did. 
I know that as we do this we will feel his love more and know our Savior better. Why? Because we are being his representatives!! How cool is that!!
I love this gospel! I also have just been getting really excited about how simple everything is and how important it is to study the simple things in the gospel! Things like the spirit, prayer, obedience, faith, repentance, baptism, the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end.....what else do we really need. All the rest comes from these things as we study and ponder we are shown more line upon line! I love it! Anyways I am going to try to finish up this week great and really help Hermana Bedke get ready for her next companion if I leave. I love you all and feel your prayers and love!
Love ya!
Hermana Anderson

Hey!

This week has been hard! My comp made me go senior for a week so I have beene having to plan everything and start all the lessons and teach pretty much everything and it was probably one of the most awkward weeks of my life  because I am pretty surer I wierded out almost every house we went to. I would try to say somthing in spanish and then I had no idea what to say next and they were just like... ummm ok.. hahaha so then I would look at my comp and he would fix it :) I seriously love suffering out here!!!!!! Jks it really isn't too bad. but really.. It helps me in the long run I suppose. My  spanish did improve by the end of the week. Seriously I feel like I have no social skills in spanish. I am just like hi. how are you. we are missionaries. ????? ok bye.  so if I come home and act super wierd and need a few months to find myself again just know why. So yesterday when we were going to an apointment it was like 95 degrees outside at like 6 ish and then after a 20 min drive it was 76 crazy eh? Perfect tornadoe weather. There was some super dark clouds and it was super windy but I never saw one :( I cant wait till  I do! Dont worry dont worry I have been trained to know what to do. Ok I really haven't but whats the worst thing that could happen. Dying on a mission is probably one of the coolest things ever. Celestial kingdom baby. But dont worry we all know I wont :) I have to come home and have ginger babies and raise them till their adulthood. But alas, this week has beeen pretty sweet!! I have never relied on the spirit so much and I really didnt even know what was going on half the timee. Yesterday I taught a marriage class to likee  50 year olds. It was super awkward and I had no idea what I was saying. somthing about love and patience and long suffering? hahahahaha well lets just hope they still wanna get married after that!! Anyways. I am still enjoying it out here and we have transfers on wednes so I might leave this area! who knows. Bye!

Elder Anderson

Hey fam! This week has been really good! We did the funniset thing at a ward party for fathers day that i just barely rememberd! We dressed up with sombreros and did the nacho libre song. Like when he sings at the party. the one that goes Iam singing at the ..party... hahaha but we did a remix and in spanish it was seriously the funniest thing in the whole world! Everyone recorded us and it was just hilarious! We had on the biggest sombreros and fake mustaches and brought out guitar and I held a ukelele and we strummed it and it was like oh no.. then we put them down and I pulled out a maraca out of my suit coat and we started singing it was super awesome! Other than that this week has been great! We have been able to talk to a guy that is super awesome! for the past 2 months he would never answer his door but we kept going back and he was outside the other day and we taught him and then he came to a church tour and was super excitd! he was like how come everyone is so happy here?! He was like you should go to other churchs. No one is happy!! so we are working with him and he is super awesome!! Thats really all this week! I love the book of mormon reading we are doing! I cant put it down! I am on chapter like 53 of Alma and I just started 5 weeks ago! Crazy eh!? Anyways love you all!

Elder Anderson

This week has been so great!! We seriously saw miracles! First of all I was sick at the begining of the week and called the mission nurse and she told me to stay in the pench for the afternoon and the next morning get into my bed and not leave...so I did and I felt way better when we went out the next afternoon. I think I was just exhausted plus the stress of training, and my cold on top of it just made everything worse. But now I am all good. So this week we had interviews with President. Our last one! It was kinda strange I felt really sad to see him go but we are excited to see the news changes in the mission thats for sure! I can´t believe how fast the time is flying by! I hit my 7 month mark this week! WHAT!!!!??? I can´t believe it! So this week was really really cool for lots of reasons but one of the best I will tell you about. We went out to work this one morning and we decided to work in an area we hadn`t worked in yet so we go over to this place and we start working....and nothing.....so we started to walk towards the family whose kids we just baptized to teach them the lessons again and on our way we were knocking...and nothing. I was getting really frustrated because I just felt like Man what am I doing wrong! I was praying and asking the lord for guidance and trying to listen to the spirit but the only thought was the one I had well lets just go see if the family is there. So we get there and no! So I was like whatever this is so dumb. So we are walking by the apartment complex next to their house and Hermana Bedke was like have you ever tried here? I said no but I didn´t know if we could. I didn´t know if we were allowed to go and knock in them and then I just thought oh who cares I am a missionary lets do it!. So we went and knocked on the first floor and nothing the second and nothing and the third there was nothing so we were coming down the stairs from the third floor and we look up to see a woman standing in the door we had knocked. I was like oh sorry we knocked your door then I introduced who we were and asked her if we could come in and share a message with her. She said sure! We were like WHAT!! OKAY! So we go in and sit down and I started to ask her some questions to get to know her and all of a sudden she just starts sobbing! Hermana Bedke and I looked at each other and were just like uhhhhh.......so I felt like we should teach the Plan of Salvation to her. She told us how she is alone how her husband and her are seperated and her kids are with him and she doesnt see them etc. I really felt for her. So we told her that God has a plan for her and that she has so much reason to be happy and to have hope! It was so great she wanted to come to church and everything! So we gave her a Book of Mormon too and we asked if we could close with a prayer. She said yes and I asked her if she would pray. She said she would so then I asked her if we could kneel down and pray again she said yes. So we are kneeling and she begins to pray and is just sobbing through it begging God for love and peace and support. She closed perfect and we stood up. I gave her a big long hug and she just cried and said Thank you! She gave Hermana Bedke a hug and as we were leaving she said I feel a peace now a peace inside! I was like do you know what it is? So then I testified about the spirit to her and told her God was answering her prayers. She just smiled and we told her we would be by in the morning to pick her up for church. SO GREAT!!! So now we are walking to the bus to catch to go and get our lunch from a member. She was just going to give us some in a tupperware and so I was like okay. But she called us and said hey actually are you able to stay now? So we said ya. She was going to go to her moms house for lunch but their water tank broke or something so they had to stay home and this is the miracle part of it! We go in and they are hosting this girl from New York who is here for school doing humanitarian stuff for her spanish class! She is 14 and we were talking to her (which is so hard to talk to people other than missionaries in English for some reason) But I felt so confident it was so wierd! The mission has really helped me to develop that. So anyways we are talking and eating and we find out she is Jewish and that Hermana Bedke shared the scripture and so I shared what we were talking about and what the Book or Mormon is. She said she didn´t know if God lives and so I just felt like I needed to bear my testimony to her and so I just talked to her about how she could find out if he was really there through prayer! IT WAS SOOOOO HARD IN ENGLISH but I bore it and I felt after like who knows if one day she will really need God and remember what I told her and what she felt because I know she felt the spirit and that maybe she will pray! I felt really really blessed to have had the opportunity to share my testimony with her. It was really great! So that day in the afternoon we just had so much success too! It was seriously an awesome day!! Then that lady I was talking about before she came to church all three hours and she loved it! I really want to get her baptized this next weekend or the one after! We also had two more at church and one we taught last night and we are teaching this week on Wednesday and showing the restoration movie! I am so stoked!!!!! Today I have been feeling kinda down and really just frustrated I dont know why. I know Satan is just trying to get me down and I just need to be greatful and look at these great blessings I am recieving and not doubt that God is here for me personally. I need your prayers this week and thanks again for the letters I always feel better after reading something from the fam.
Love you all!
Hermana Anderson
p.s. Remember the family we almost baptized that moved out of our area!!?? Guess what we gave their number to the elders and they are going to baptize them and the girls want me to come!!!! So if I have permission from our leaders we are totally going!! It will be soooooo cool!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!

This week has probably been one of the hardest/scariest/most rewarding week in my mission!
Okay lets start at the begining. We went and taught one of our investigators this week and she was really incredible. She believes in all the things we are telling her the only thing is her brother is dying so she hasnt been able to come to church and we have a hard time going to see her because she is always with her brother in a different area. But she really is great and she is totally going to be baptized! Also we have this other investigator and we taught her at the begining of this week and she was really great. She is asking us a lot of questions and is really wanting to follow Christ is all things. She isnt married and is living with her boyfriend that she has a kid with he is great though too. She also smokes. So we have a lot cut out for us but are really excited to help her progress in the gospel its so cool to be a part of someone life and to see and hear when they have some of their first spiritual experiences! I always feel so greatful when I hear them tell me about a prayer that was answered or some amazing feeling they had! I love it! 

Now for the big part of the letter. So this week we were teaching 2 new investigators and as we are teaching the our phone rings and it was president! We didnt answer and we just finished teaching the lesson. So after we left the house and got into the street Hermana Gutierrez calls President. So first of all we both know that whenever President calls its always something big. So she calls him and immediately is like WHAT! She looks worriedly at me and then I just was like oh no I am leaving San Juan! She looked at me and just looked concerned and then she was like oh wait me?! So basically what happened was president called to tell us that One of the Hermanas is sick and had to go home for a little bit but will come back out but because we are in a trio they needed to take one of us to Mendoza to fill her spot. So guess who went! Hermana Gutierrez! So guess who is here by herself training......me! Lets just say that the first feelings I felt after and during that phonecall was sick! I seriously felt like I wanted to throw-up! And to top it all off Hna. Gutierrez had to leave the next morning! So I was like oh my word! I was so scared I had to be Senior Companion and Trainer suddenly! I started thinking of all the things I needed to do and the things I was lacking and started to feel really overwhelmed and discouraged! So that night was gathering all her stuff together buying a bus ticket and getting her ready to go in the morning! That next morning was hard. We took her to the Terminal and to our surprise the District leader and his comp. were there and they came to say goodbye to her and gave her some banana bread they made and they gave us some too. So I gave her a big hug and held back the tears cause I couldnt let the elders see me cry. It was hard though I have been with Hna. Gutierrez for like 3 and a half months just me and her. She probably knows me better than anyone! haha. She is one of my closest friends now! So it was hard to say a quick goodbye but we did and she jumped on the bus and we left! I felt the mantle of trainer and Sr. Companion so tangible! I dont really know how to describe it. It was really weird. But I just told myself we were going to be okay and I really felt the spirit confirm that and i know the Lord is going to help us because he has to this is his work. I have really really felt his help this week. So because of all the stress my cold has come back with a vengance and I dont think I have ever been this tired on the mission. I am so exhausted just from everything. So this PDay was really needed. But we have had miracles. Friday was such a hard day though and then Sunday we got our one investigator so church her and her boyfriend and daughter who is 1. It was stake conference and she came and as we were sitting there she leaned over and told me that she was reading the Book of Mormon and that she started to cry and that she had such a beautiful feeling inside! She was like I loved the feeling so I just kept reading! I bore my testimony to her about the spirit and told her God was telling her this is true! She just smiled and sat back. Then she was asking me questions about having to be married and all this stuff. We were wanting to address it so we are going to this week and talk to her about eternal families and the importance! She is great though she believes in Joseph Smith she just doesnt know or has a doubt that we have a prophet today and she was like I havent even seen a picture of him! So thank you mom for the Special Witnesses of Christ movie we are going to show her the testimony of President Monson and give her to conference edition of the Ensign. We are really excited for her! So ya this week I have really seen my weaknesses and seen the Lord make some of them my strengths especially my Spanish a lot of the Elders and people are like your Spanish is sooo good! You have only been here in Argentina like 4 1/2months!!?? I know its only because God was preparing me for this moment and still is. I love Heavenly Father and his goodness for us. I really felt unqualified for this and he is helping me to become qualified. I love seeing his hand shape and change me into the missionary I have been praying to hard to become. Sometimes God works in mysterious ways. Like taking a new missionary that has a lot of faults and weaknesses and having her train a new missionary. Well I say again I feel more like I am the one being trained. I am learning so much and this next week is going to be hard and really rewarding! I know. I need the Lord and have never relied on him more than now. Thank you for your prayers and your love always. I feel it and I need it! Here goes one another week!
Love you!!
Hermana Anderson

Hey family!

This week has been good! First of I have to say we have been working out and lets just say there is a noticable difference so when the time come for me to return dont look for a skinny red head because I am looking pretty good. jks hahaha but I am filled out alot! ok ok anyways so I had some pretty funny things happen this week! So the other day we had a referal and so we were walking to it and we saw the guy driving a remote control car with his kids and then he looks up and sees us and was like Ven te! (Come here!) But he was talking to his kids and he grabbed the remote control car and grabbed his kids and sprinted to his house! hahahaha it was so funny then we went there and he totally pretended he wasn't there! haha super funny! Also we had a team up tell how when we die bad spirits come and take us if we are bad and good spirits if we are good! hahah I was like im pretty sure that is from the movie ghost and isn't true and he was like oh yeah your right hahaha but yeah my spanish was so bad the other weeks I was just like I hate it! hahaha but then I just started to read the book of mormon again in spanish since in the challenge I am doing it in english but I am reading both now and my spanish just feels a thousand times better! Also I gave another talk in sacrament meeting and it was really good! I had people tell me my spanish was really good! So that was sweet! It sounds like Aaron and Hyrum are still well probably more spoiled now that I the chosen son has left. I expect no rebuke when I get home and ride those little dirtbikes!  :) Lets see other cool things that happened this week.. We had a really good Zone conference by our mission doctor who threw down on the natural man and it just blew my mind. It was really good. He was saying how when that first impulse to sleep in or be lazy or do those things is the natural man talking. But he told us that when we are truly converted and have a testimony then the natural man cant influence us and we have to obey and do what the spirit says. It applies to life at home I think but just a little bit different because obviously we aren't required to wake up at 6 30 and such but It made me think about it alot especially when I have those thoughts and its easier to recognize now and just wake up or stuff like that! Anyways I love you all! I hope you have another great week in the rain and water. I will be enjoying the 90 degree weather. :)

Bye!

Love ya!

Elder Anderson

So I have probably had the most interesting week ever.. Probably because I actually wrote down the funny things that happened this week so I could tell you. So first and foremost, we had a car fast this week so we had to walk the whole day. (Its so we talk to more people kinda thing.) So we had an appointment at 6 at night and so we left our apartment at 2 after showering because we had service earlier in the morning. So anyways we left at 2 and got where we needed to be at 5 45. yeah it took us that long to walk. funniest things was is we didn't see a single person on the streets. It may be due to the fact it was 100 degrees out. Yeah it was so dang hot! OH and while Iam on the subjuct we got in the car the other day and it said 115!! Brutal! I love though am becoming hispanic more and more everyday. The only difference is I have red hair. hahahaha. So anyways back to the story! We were walking and we had some funny things happen. (oh it was 10 miles.) First we saw a dead turtle the size of a basketball, except it was flat cuz it had been run over so that was super gross and smelled like poop. Then about an hour later we had some kids throw a bottle out of their window at us (drive by shooting except with a juice bottle) but luckily sincle we are righteous and pretty much hispanic like samuel the lamanite it missed us :) yeah. it was intense.

Other intersesting facts this week, I watched a cat catch a bird and eat it. It was super sweet! I see lightning bugs out all the time now. Our AC has been broken for 3 weeks and its over 80 degrees in our apartment! Happy Birthday to Hyrum and Erin!! Hope you had awesome Birthdays!! Wow so I guess thats reallall that happened this week. We just finished pouring concrete this morning for service for our branch president so that was super fun. It reminded me of working on the house. I loved the family picture! I realized it was the first time I had seen anyone for 7 months since I have no pictures of anyone. You all look cool still..and yeah I would love some picts of my house and my yard. I figure I will be the one to inherit it when mom and dad die since I am the most favored of them. and yeah its getting ridiculously hot out!  Anyways I love you all! 

Wow what a crazy and amazing week!! I cant believe it!! Okay so first off Hna. Guttierez and I went to Mendoza to pick up our newby!! Hermana Bedke! She is from California Bakersfield I think. So we went there and got her and then came back and got her all settled and went out to work for a bit in the night. Working in a Trio is soooo different than a companionship but I like it. Its good. Hermana Bedke is awesome! She has a lot of desire and drive and just wants to teach and bear testimony! I love it! So I have learned something very profound this week. Training is not for the newby...its for us! I feel like I am being trained! She is such a great example to me and I just feel like I need to step it up even more! Hermana Gutierrez is still great and she is like one of my best friends I think. Its weird. We have lived together beging together like 24/7 for like 3 months and we never fight. We just laugh and have fun. Sure sometimes we dont agree on things and may be frustrated but we always talk it out and its fine! I love it. So ya I have some great goals for this transfer and I really excited to become a better missionary! So GUESS WHAT!!!! We got 2 BAPTISMS!!!!! YEAH!!!! So amazing! My first 2 of the mission. Two kids 10 and 13. They have been investigating for about 2 years. Their dad is a member but their mom isn´t and so she never would give permission! So after working hard to try to talk to her and the family for 2 months! We finally talked to her and she gave permission! They were both Baptised on Saturday by their dad and it was really special because they have been waiting for quite some time. The dads sister was there and all she kept saying to us was thank you so much! I felt so humbled that I was apart of it. The mom came and was good and her family too. I really hope they felt the spirit and maybe this is the beginings to changing their hearts. So after the service and everything the boy went and hugged his aunt that just kept thanking us and they were both crying so hard. I felt so happy in my heart that we were able to be instruments in the Lords hands to help this family. Its an incredible feeling. Really. I highly recommend it! So we are so happy and are working hard to get some more! It was so cool too because in church they were welcomed as the new members and the boy was sustained?? to be able to receive the aaronic priesthood. I was thinking about how cool that is now that he will have the priesthood and be able to grow up with the Holy Ghost. In short it was an incredible experience one that I hope I will have again and again. So ya this week has been great and its been incredible to see how much I have come in Spanish from my first transfer which was like......3 transfers ago. Its incredible to see how much the Lord has blessed me. I am just speechless. It really makes me want to work harder. We had a great district meeting where we were able to talk about lots of things and our zone leader got up and talked about the fire and drive he had as a newby and that for the first 200 days of his mission he got up at 6 every day and memorized one scripture a day in Spanish! Also talked about his personal study. I felt so......worthless! I am so not a great missionary! I really feel like I have so much to be better in and some times it really overwhelmes me but I have been able to think a lot about some goals for myself and our companionship. So Hermana Bedke and I are going to start waking up early and memorizing scriptures and working together in our language study. I really want to be better in my personal study and really ask and beg for the spirit to help me learn those simple truths that are in the Scriptures. I loved Scotts letter about Nephi and how faith and love work together and obedience as well. I love Nephi too for that reason. He had such great faith why? Because of his obedience and his love of the Lord. I love the final words in Second Nephi.....the lord commands me and I must obey amen. What a great standard to live our lives by. I have never really felt the power behind obedience until now in the mission. Its really incredible! I am just in awe and humbled by howmuch more I need to be obedient and need to look for ways to obey the lord. I feel so inadequette some times because I just have so many great examples around me of missionaries and I need to be so much better...okay enough of my life goals. The mission is great though. I dont think I have ever done something this hard before but I have never been this blessed or felt this happy I think either. I know this is the Lords work and I don´t want to waste a minute of it! Hard to do yes because we are imperfect but how blessed are we that we have a perfect Savior that can help us become perfect through the atonement. I love this gospel and am in awe that people live without it and think they are happy. I want more than anything everyone to feel the happiness I feel with my family, and the happiness that comes when we feel the spirit and the love of the Lord. Thats why we are here. To help everyone become closer to our Savior! Share you testimonies with everyone please!!! You don´t know how much we can help those around us! Well here goes week two in training lets see what else the Lord wants me to learn! Until next week!
I love you all! 
Hermana Anderson