More Letters!!!

Just so you know, this Elder is doing GREAT!

He really is growing so much and learning how to teach those special people in Indiana who get him for two whole years. Lucky dogs! :) Seriously though, he is anxious to get out of the MTC but thoroughly enjoying learning how to teach by the spirit.

He wrote home this last week to my mom, my dad, and me! Wahoo!
A few lines from the letters...
"I love it here, I mean the MTC actually really sucks, but I love missionary work! We've been teaching an Investigator named Mark and he is the bible Master! I mean seriously, there's no way I would ever bible bash with him because he would dominate. With that being said, he really thrashed our first visit... I got super down on myself because of this and pretty much lost all of my confidence. -From his journal - 'It was really discouraging to me and I felt like falling to the earth, it was though the spirit had completely abandoned me. I felt worthless as a missionary to say the least. I said a prayer asking heavenly father to be with me again so that I could bounce back and be more confident with my teaching ability and studying. There was no answer, so I prayed again still no answer. Later on during the day I went to a workshop on following up with Investigators and how important it is, I couldn't pay attention at all, my heart ached all day! At the end of the workshop someone had made a comment on how we shouldn't expect people to understand what we're teaching and to feel the spirit right away. Alot of the more spiritual experiences happen when people are by themselves pondering or inquiring from the lord. This comment should have been the spiritual experience and confidence booster I needed! But it wasn't...yet. A teacher came up to my companion and I after class and asked how I was feeling today (out of about 50 people there) and Bam! It hit me like a truck. This could have been just a random follow up visit by someone I'd never me before but psh!!! It wasn't... I could see this marvelous teacher just radiating with the spirit and through the spirit he had felt inspired to simply ask what was wrong. To think that I almost left the workshop without learning a thing and still feeling down. I know now that people will not always come to an exact knowledge of what we're teaching them right away. The spirit works through the hearts of people in its own way. God answers our prayers in his own time, but always answers! Even the simplest moments can be so spiritual and bring tears to our eyes. I know God lives and this is his work.' -end of journal entry- It was really hard humbling myself again and asking heavenly father to pick me up again, but I eventually did it! Today we went to follow up with Mark and it was a much better experience! I really could feel the lord speaking through me, the spirit was crazy!!!
...Also, by the way my testimony is so strong if you haven't picked that up already. Seriously, the spirit has filled me up completely. I pretty much tear up every time I read Mosiah 3, it talks about our Savior so perfectly, its beautiful. I love him so much!"

See! He is great huh?
He missed his brothers (Rykers) birthday and was sad for that, but we all missed him for his too! And we all understand. He is such a great brother, honestly!
Miss him, thanks for the thoughts and prayers!

His first letter...

Dear Mom, Dad, Family,

Wow. I never realized how incredibly hard the MTC is! They’ve really kicked me in the butt the last couple of days that I’ve been here. We had to teach some investigators already and it was really discouraging. I felt like I knew really little about the gospel let alone teaching it! No worries though, that just makes me more determined to study extra had and diligently prepare to teach the people of Indiana. I’ve really developed a testimony on how much God loves his children while I’ve been here. I’ve realized how important it is that we show the same love for his children, we’ll be teaching with the spirit, he’ll be working through, so love is huge! I really enjoyed the old cards, letters and my very first baptism book of Mormon (with pictures) I thought I lost those things. (Little did Jason know that Dad pulled them out of the garbage after Jason threw them away and helped on to them) It made me feel real sentimental… It makes me miss you guys a lot more! Thanks a lot! Sheesh……. JK. So my companions name is Elder Wagstaff, I call him Elder “Wackerstaffer”. He’s from Sandy Utah and about the only thing we have in common is that we’re both Utes fans. Seriously…… That’s it. He farts a lot and it’s super annoying!! But I still love him to death, He’s a good man!.

I also share a room with another companionship who are Utahan’s as swell! Elder Elquist (whom I worked with at Watts) and Elder Coajdos. They’re both super tight as well!! Except Elder Elquist snores a lot. That’s really annoying!!.... I still haven’t set up my email or know what it is., abut I’m going to figure it out tomorrow!! Don’t worry I want to start emailing as soon as possible. Writing letters by hand takes a long time(which I don’t really have) Anyways Im sorry this is really short. Next letter will be a lot longer! I just am pressed for time and want to send this our ASAP! I love you guys so much, you mean the world to me, and I’ll keep all of you in my prayers!!! Just remember how much I care and miss all of You! Elder Anderson.

PS Actually I’m an idiot it is jason_anderson22@myldsmail.net. Alesha was right …..of course

Called to Serve

This is Elder Anderson

-and me- the sista that's doing the blog for the brotha

Elder Anderson left for his mission just yesterday!
He is serving in the Indiana Indianapolis Mission.
My parents dropped him off around 12:30 at the MTC to say goodbye for just two years.
We (along with many others) are sure going to miss him!
This is his blog, feel free to leave comments if you have questions or would like to me post something. I will try to keep it updated weekly.
Check back!
Thanks for your support!!!