So what has happened this week. Well lets see. I was sick! ALL week. I was in the pench ALL WEEK!! I was going crazy! But I have a way bad chest cold the beginins of Bronchitis.....but I am much better now. I was feeling so crappy this week a really really bad cough which I still have and a fever chils and congestion...anywyas it was just bad. So I stayed it the nurse told me I needed to rest and I read A LOT I read half of Jesus the Christ!!! Its soooooo good! I love it! I am learning so much about the life of Christ. Its one of my goals is to become more like Him get to know Him....so I have been doing a study about his life. I am reading the New Testament as well. Anyways so it was just a really great week in that sense that I learned a lot. Hermana Gutierrez and I were studying out at the table together one day and just talking about the scriptures and she was telling me something that she discovered and I love it! Its the story of Alma and his people and how Amulon put them in bondage and they were suffering (Alma 24) but they were sufferent they burdens with faith etc. But if you cross reference the word burden it goes to Matthew 11:28-30 which is one of my favorite scriptures and it talks about coming unto Christ and taking our burdens and that we may be blessed with rest and comfort and in the Spanish scriptures there is a cross reference with the D&C 84 o 94 49-50 and it talks about how sin is a burden and I was like that is brillant!! The scripture in Matthew is an invitation to use the Atonement!! I love it! Anyways I know it seems simple but its great. Also yesterday for P-Day eve we did something waaaaaay fun! Sunday night its going to become a tradition now I hope. All four of us gathered around the table and we had a big comp. study. One thing that we studied during the week that we really liked or that really helped us! It was like the BYU channel. When they discuss gospel principles etc. I love it! Anyways something I shared was about the creation. About how the Lord is always using the creation as a symbol for us. They are always examples of the creation in our lives. I love it because I was sharing just some personal goals about how I am trying to re.create myself physicaly and spiritually. So I start with the spiritual and make a plan and I have some great plans because really the whole purpose of the creation of the world was based on Love. Our Heavenly Fathers love for us to be able to obtain bodies and learn and grow. I was thinking about how I need to do the same thing. I need to start with Love. So I am dedicating the rest of this transfer to studying Charity and not only studying and praying for it but really trying to obtain it. Charity is like Faith. Its a verb. An action. We have to do things to be charitable. If we have all the great attributes and keep all the commandments etc and dont have charity we are nothing! So if I want to be better etc I need to begin at the basics and begin to build myself with Charity. I love Charity and I want it so bad so I am going to work hard for it. I love the chapter in 1 Corinthians 13 that talks all about Charity and the power of it and also in Moroni 7:45 it talks about how like Charity is kind etc all those things. If we want to have Charity then we need to be kind, we need to not be jeleous, not have a temper, be patient, give service, etc. I loved disecting the scripture and just looking at it that way and really trying to see well what to I need to do to get Charity. Its going to be a great experiment and I am excited! Because I have been studying the life of Christ I have really come to see His Charity and his Perfect example for us. Something I really loved that I learned in Jesus the Christ is that Christ had human passions and temptation etc this we know but the cool thing is that he could control his passions because he had complete control over his body through his spirit and this is also why it says they think he was never sick. Because His body didnt rule His spirit. I was thinking about that and how we always are letting our body overrule our spirit. Its like experience when Christ fasted for 40 days and after Satan comes to tempt. him and is like saying all these things and I love it Jesus The Christ says that Christ doesnt even give himself a moment to entertain the temptation or to think about it. He imediately says in essence. Get thee hence Satan. I was thinking about how often we dont do this. We go through this mental thought process of oh well this movie isnt that bad it only has one or two swears or only one bad scene or this song isnt that bad. Or oh I had a really late night last night and I need my sleep to be healthy so I am going to skip church, or oh I will read my scruptures later or I was really busy today and didnt have time to pray or read my scriptures or go to the temple etc. How silly are we! No wonder Satan has such control over the hearts of men. We invite Him!! We have to just immediately say get thee hence satan etc so that we can too better control our carnal selves with the pure power of our spirit. I love it. I was also talking with Hermana Richins and we were just talking about a lot of things but she told me once she heard from someone that Satan knows us so well. We have to sleep because we are human but he never sleeps. He is always studying us he knows our weaknesses. For instance for me Satan knows that I feel guilty so easy and that I dont have a ton of self confidence that I doubt myself and my ability sometimes to receive revelation etc. He uses these to get us discouraged etc. Anyways I feel like this email was way tooooo long!!! So I am going to end it. I think I am going to get surgery this week both my feet! AHHHHHH hahaha. So its going to be great. Dr. Hollingsworth things the reason I am having pain is because my tendon is getting caught on the screws that are coming out...so I am kinda just excited to get them out to be honest! Anyways I hope you are all doing well! I am really excited to work this week!! I am free from the Pench!!!! Hurray!! Anyways I love you all!!!

Hermana Anderson

Hey!

Today was seriously so amazing!! We had such and amazing training today by elder gay of the 70 and I think my mind got blown!! He talked alot about the power of god and how we need to as missionaries align our will with god because so many times we think we know what we are supposed to do but more often than not he has another plan for us. I think I am going to see some amazing miracles. I know I dont really write home the same as becca does but thats because I just am different. but I am seriously growing so much. I have never felt more closer to the lord than I do now. I think I am going to really see some amazing miracles out here. I am strengthening my faith so much and I am losing fear to do things I used to be scared to do. I feel so confident promising blessings to people really relying on the lord that he will follow through with what I am saying and I am just learning so much. Iam really learning so much about who I am and really who the Lord knows I am and I feel as I align my will with his and do what he wants me to do and not fear then that is when I am feeling the spirit in my life the most and know exactly what I need to do. I have been trying to fast more recently and that as well has taken a completely different view in my life now. Its awesome! Thats how the sons of mosiah recieved their spiritual strength! I guess in general I am just learning to rely on the lord alot more and trying to be the best example I can for other missionaries I am living with. We are all at different levels out here and sometimes its hard to be the example and do the right things when everyone else doesn't want to do them! But I am seeing the blessings! Anyways. I love you so much! Thats kinda what I learned this week and today! I am excited for when Elder Ballard comes! Aug 13!! yeaH!!

Love ya!

Elder Anderson

So this week has been an interesting one to say the least. We have been working hard and trying to have success. We have had some weird weather thats for sure hot and then really cold. They have a wind here that is called Zonda and its really similar to a chinook. Really hot and then the next day is really really cold. Anyways so its the American Cup down here right now between all of the South American countries so there are lots of tourists. My comp is from Chile and Hermana Gutierrez is from Peru but grew up in Buenos Aires and we have members from venezuela so we have all sorts of rivalry (plus all the elders) So Argentina played the other night and litterally NO ONE was in the streets. SSSOOOO hard. But thats okay. It will be better when its over. So yes my foot. What a pain. Litterally. I have been having like the really sharp pains and hurting where my surgery was and so after email mom and talking with the mission nurse, We have been informed that they need to come out. So I will be having surgery here within the next couple weeks I think. That should be a joy......gross. My mission nurse she is so funny she is like really I could probably do it all I need is like an alen wrench thing and we will just whip those screws right out. So meanwhile I am feeling like I would like to pass out and throw up at the same time. Needless to say we will be having a doctor do it! Thank goodness! So ya. This week we have been just trying to find loads of news to get our teaching pool up and we taught the family from Peru again this week they have a kid and a grandchild that want to be baptized that we have been teaching. They are so great. I love going to their house and teaching them. I love teaching with Hermana Astorga I have learned so much from her already and her teaching style. Thats one cool thing about the mission is we are always learning how to become better teachers. 
So this week I have been studying a ton about Christ about his life and His ministry and His miracles. I love it! I am in love with Jesus The Christ. What an incredible book. I just want to sit and read it all day. But that just doesnt happen. So one really cool thing this last week or so has been that sometimes as a missionary you just dont want to go out and work or when you are out working its hard your tired or your just ahh. So this week I have just loved going out to teach! Like when we are in the streets and knocking doors I just get this energy when we teach someone and testify. The spirit has really been helping me get excited about the work and I am so greatful for that! I need it so much! Its funny sometimes I feel like my spirit and my body are having a tug of war every day. My spirit wants to go out and work and feel that strength and my physicalness (I am pretty sure thats not a word but whatevs) wants to rest or sleep or just not work as hard. But I love the talk by Elder Oaks in General Conference. I know I have already written a letter home about this but its so trye. Our desires dictate our actions. We just need to overcome the natural man and do what God wants us to do. I also loved it I had a great lesson in church on Sunday about the Word of Wisdom but in the sense that we need to have a balance in all of our lives. We need to balance all things. I have really been trying to do that this week and these next few weeks that will be my goal. I was reading in the Ensign and read some things about Geneology and got really excited! I dunno why but I think I am going to need to work a lot more in geneology when I get home. In English and in Spanish! I am glad to hear Scott is doing better with his bowels and I hope you are all working hard and always looking for opotunities to serve those around you and to be better. I really miss the Temple and I wish I could go. I feel so blessed to have grown up around a temple so close and it makes me so sad to think I could have taken advantage of it so much more. The people here have to travel to Chile to go to the Temple. Its the closest and they usually stay for the whole weekend and go to all the sessions. Its so cool. I really want to go a lot when I get back from my mission and really continue my missionary service through Temple work. It is just as vital to help those people on the other side of the veil as it is on this side. 

Anyways I love you a ton and thanks for your prayers and support. I feel it trust me!

Always,
 Hermana Anderson

So I am in Godoy Cruz Centro with my new companion Hermana Astorga! She is from Chile and speaks no English! So this will be great for me! I live with Hermana Richins from my first area and Hermana Gutierrez again!!! WOOOOOT! I missed her a ton and I am so excited to live with her again! So this week was crazy! Leaving my old area was sad and hard I will really miss the members and the people there! Hermana Bedke is going to great and I found out that my old companion from the MTC Hermana Crapse is going to be her new companion!! So thats cool! I got to talk to her a little bit and she is doing great! I am happy for her! I also got to talk to my old trainer a little bit too! Hermana Pelton! So weird!! Anyways so this week here in Godoy Cruz Centro has been so weird! We have such a nice pench the nicest in the mission and we are so close to the offices. We go to church in the chapel by the offices so there ya go! So we have a new Mission President now! President Avila! He is from Buenos Aires and was a 70 but they released him last conference! He is seriously sooo good! He and his family! So he spoke to us and taught us about love and how our purpose here in the mission is not just to baptize but to help these people get to the temple and we do that by really helping them be converted! I was just eating up every word he was saying it was seriously sooo good! He taught us out of the bible and I cant remember the first chapter he used but the second part he used was in Acts chapter 3 and he talked about the 1st 7 verses and about how this man who couldnt walk is like our investigators. We have to tell them to listen to them and help them understand and then when we extend out hand we help then us and dont let go till they receive the strength to stand on their own! I seriously loved it! He also talked about how the mission is the closest time we will get to actually feeling what its like to be a God. Gods life is dedicated to the salvation of his children! Moses 1:39 so we here are focused on the same thing just on a smaller much smaller level. Its cool though because he said its like practice! Anyways so I really loved that and my spanish is improving everyday and the next thing I want to work on is getting a better accent and really spiritually purifying myself. That is my goal with my companion this transfer. She has her last transfer next transfer as well as Hermana Gutierrez and Richins so I am the youngest in the pench and you def. can feel that. They are all tired. So I try to bring some of my energy....Anyways me and my companion are doing a 40 day fast where we fast from the things that are keeping us from the spirit and Christ. We got a paper that explains it all to us last time we had conferences and I seriously loved it so thats my goal this transfer! I had kinda a hard day today and I know that I really need to love of God....the Atonement to help me again... Thank goodness for the atonement and the blessing we have to receive that strength comfort and help always when we humble ourselves and go to God......Anyways I hope this week is a little better. The people here are really really cold and dont want to talk to us like opposite of San Juan but I am here for a reason with my Hermana Astorga so we are going to work hard and walk God create miracles! I am glad to hear Scott is Senior Companion! That will help him grow up a ton in the mission! Seriously when you have to lead you really feel that strength of the Lord helping you everyday and really grow as a person and missionary it will help his Spanish too! Well I think thats about it for this week! I love you all and hope your doing well! Talk to you next week!!

Love, Hermana Anderson

 We had a leadership meeting this week with out mission president and we learned some really cool stuff. One being in Helaman 10:6 and 7 about why god says thou are nephi and I am god. at first we all gave comments like well he is showing that he is more powerful and just different things like that but then it was cool because our mission president told us that as he was reading it he understood it as a blessing from heavenly father. When we give blessings the first thing we do is state the name of the person. (thou art nephi.) then we state our authority, (I am god) hence he is giving him a blessing. It was super cool and then as he says I declare it in the presence of my angels and give unto you power. What is the source of Gods power? Honor. All the elements and everything honor god and hence he has power that they will obey him because of who he is. So he is giving nephi that honor so that all things will obey him. He is giving him the sealing power. I dunno I just thought it was super cool I had never ever thought of that before. Cool stuff eh? well other than that things are fine. Its so hot but whatevs. Only a few months and then it will cool down.

love ya!

Bye!

Elder Anderson!

So this week has been a great final week here in San Juan Centro! Yes I am leaving after 3 transfers. I will really miss this place...the ward...the people...Hna. Bedke....my zone. I really will always have a great love for the people here in San Juan. So I am going to Mendoza!! Godoy Cruz Centro! I will be right near the offices. My new companion is Hermana Astorga. She is from Chile and so this will be great for my Spanish! I think I am going to be living with Hermana Gutierrez! So I am so excited!! So yes this last week has just been finishing things up and trying desperatly to get people to church!! So hard sometimes...but thats life. So I hope Hermana Bedke will continue to work hard in this area and see miracles. Hermana Crapse my comp. from the MTC is coming here to be her comp. So that will be cool! So today for the 4th of July we had a big BBQ american style haha. They raz me all the time about being Canadian but I take it well. Dont worry I stick up for our country. We had some way good burgers and chips and pop. Played some frisbee and football. It was a lot of fun. Hermana Bedke and I went to Centro this morning for Breakfast and had some way good hot chocolate and media lunas. It was fun like a little cafe and then we went shopping. I got a jersey from San Juan here that is wicked sweet and a cool this painting that this man paints with his hand! It was way cool. So today as a great day. Last night we made a sweet fort and slept in it. All my memories from making forts as a kid with Scotty and David came back. We had some intense skills!! I remember we used to even make tunnels! haha. I love it. So ya. Graciela is so great we passed for her some more this week and she is going to activities all by herself now is studying the gospel principles manual and is studying the Book of Mormon. She read the Joseph Smith story and she loved it. She came to church and she bore her testimony and just did it all by herself. She told about what happened when we passed and I dont think I have ever heard a ward be so quiet! It was actually quite comical. Its always noisy cause the kids but as soon as she said she wanted to take her life the ward just went silent. The poor little deacons had huge eyes the little kids were looking at their parents and some of the members were looking at us and giving us thumbs up!! So funny but actually really cool too. I seriously love her she is just incredible! She already has goals made to get to the temple! What a blessing she has been in my life! I will really miss her! I am really looking forward to this new transfer and I am excited about some new changes I am going to be making with myself! I had to say goodbye to one of the members we have been working with for ages here her name is Mirta and she always is coming out with us. It was way hard. She has become a really great friend and I will miss her a lot! I gave her a big hug goodbye and she just cried. I was thinking about the mission and how we are always having to say goodbye to new people and wow out emotions are always going up and down its so tough. But I really have come to learn that all of these experiences are making us learn so many things and how blessed we are that God loves us enough to show us! I really have learned so much here in San Juan and I feel like I am just in the begining parts of learning what God has in store for me in the mission! Isnt it crazy! Every day is an opportunity to learn. Every single day every single moment. I was able to read a talk this morning about Prayer by Elder David A. Bednar. It was soooo good. I loved it because it applies so well to what I have been studying lately. I seriously love this gospel and I am excited to keep learning and keep helping other people learn more about how happy they can truly be. I learn a lot this week was humbled a lot and feel so blessed to have had this opportunity to train Hermana Bedke. She is incredible and is a better missionary than I am. She has helped me change so much and I cant wait to use what I have learned from her! What a blessing!

I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Hermana Anderson