February 17

Hey everyone!!! wow it is so nice to hear from everyone! This week has been pretty good not much new things happening but still pretty good. I was able to finish the newsletter and i think it looks pretty great but we'll see if Hna. Wilkinson likes it or not. My ankle is feeling great. I'm so stoked to get my cast taken off this thursday. I'm just so ready and excited to get out and work again. Apparently our area is killing it tight now so i'm so pumped to get back out there. That's awesome that ashton dominated in basketball this year and that he is starting up football again. If you guys can send me pictures of him in email or whatever that would be awesome. Yes they celebrate valentines day here. But ya Glad to hear that court is doing great in arbonne. She better have that mercedes before i get back so that we can go to an Eagle vs Bears game!! By the way if jon or ashtono could give me an update on the whole eagles situation that would be awesome. But ya awesome week. Um this week there are changes so it's super busy in the office so i don't have a ton of time to write. But ya i hope that me or my companion don't have changes. But i think one of us will because 28 new missionaries are coming so i think some people will be training. But ya that's pretty much it. Love you guys tons!!

Love Drake

February 10

Hey guys how's it going. This week has been pretty good but uneventful. My companion got a mini missionary as his companion last week then they sent me off to the mission home to be with the secretaries and the assistants. So every day i go to the office with them until 4 then i go back to the house with one of them and just chill out and do the samething the next day. But now sister wilkinson gave me an assignment so now i'm busy making the mission newsletter that they'll be sending out every changes so that's kinda nice to have something to keep me busy a little bit because it gets kinda of boring just sitting around all day. But it's been really nice to be here because it's really opened up my eyes to what mission work really means. President has had me watching the district videos from preach my gospel everyday. Which has helped so much. He's having me do this because in a mission presidents seminar a mission president talked about how there was a super successfull missionary and they asked why he was so succesfull and the missionsary said that he had broken his foot during his mission and his mission president had him watch these videos everyday over and over again. And he said that through that he really learned the concepts of the videos and applied them to his mission. So i'm just so stoked to get out in the field again because i really do feel like i'm learning so much right now. I just can't wait to get back and apply all that i'm learning and actually become the missionary that god wants me to be. 

But ya the taxi company doesn't really have a lost and found. And actually a lot of the taxi drivers here are illegal and aren't part of a company so they said it's basically impossible to find my shoe. So i think i'll just buy some here because i saw an elder here in the office with some shoes that he had bought here in the m ission and they looked pretty good to me. My ankle is still a little sore but it's alright. It's not as sore as my armpits are from the crutches hahah. But i'm doing good. But ya thanks for the letters of Drew and Taylor it's nice to see how they're doing and all. But ya thanks so much guys. Sorry i don't have any pictures again this week i'll try to get some next week i promise. Love you guys.

February 4, 2013

Hey guys!! This week has definitely been one of the most interesting weeks. I'll just start off with the fact that i hurt my ankle playing basketball and i thought it was broken because it was super swollen. So we went to the hospital to get it x-rayed with hermana puckett( the mission nurse). And good news is that it was broken!! it's just a 2nd grade sprain. But i streched the ligament a ton so i have to have a cast on my leg untill feb. 21 so i have to walk around with crutches now. But i'm just super grateful that it wasn't anything worse. But ya now the really bad news. when we were coming back from the hospital my companion had my shoe and he left it in the taxi when we got out of the car. and by the time we got in the house and i remembered the taxi was long gone. So at least i have the right shoe but not the left. But thankgoodness i have my other pair there just not quite as comfortable but oh well. So anyways we havn't been able to leave the house this week because the doctor doesn't want me to move around a ton be cause he doesn't want me to strain it. And it would be tough to go to our area anyways because it's about 20 minutes of speed walking from our house so ya. So it's been a super boring week doing nothing. We're just waiting for president to find a mini missionary to be with my companion untill i'm better then it will be back to normal. But ya that's what happened this week. Um i had photos of the hospital but the internet cafe here in tibas is horrible so i can't send them but i'll try to figure out a solution next week. But ya i just want you guys to know that everything is fine and that i'm alright so there is no need to worry(mom);). BUt thank you guys so much for always writing me and the support that you guys have given me. You guys are seriously the best family in the world! I love you guys tons!!

Love Drake

P.S. Um the sd card should just be a normal one that works for that camera. haha sorry i don't know which one. But you should call courtnee and ask her which one she used for it because it was her camera. Also my password for hotmail is 11108044. And if you guys could get this from courtnee i'm not sure if you can but i would love to have the p90x insanity workout videos that she has so i can workout in the morning. um but ya that's all thanks again. Love you GUys.

January 27

Hey guys another great week!! I am just starting to love Tibás even more every single day. It is seriously the best area here in Costa Rica. I don't eat fast food a ton here because it's super expensive and because i have a ton of food haha. But guess what the walmart opened up here and they had a huge grand opening with a bunch of cheap food and stuff. But i have yet to find Dr. Pepper here in Costa Rica although a ton of elders have told me that there are some here. But oh well. We still don't have someone to wash our clothes but next week we're almost positive that we'll have someone. it's crazy the difference here in the work. We're so much more successful here than in Cañas. We have about 24 lessons every week here and iun cañas we had about 12. The people here are just so much more receptive and the members love to help us. We have a family that could be baptized this saturday just that he has to divorce his wife that he had before but she doesn't want to give him the divorce so we have to wait while they take care of legal issues but they are so sweet.  
Oh ya i have to teach english classes every tuesday and saturday now. Which is super stressful for me but thankgoodness i have some members to help out that know english because my companion doesn't know any. We're hoping that we'll be able to get some new investigators through this because we have flyers throughout all the city and handouts so we'll see how it goes. But ya um i need a memory card for the new camera because mine don't fit in this one so that would be awesome if you guys could send me one. Also i would love to have some photos with me and my friends if you can find some or print off some. And also some photos of the snow or of mi skiing. But ya i have to go sorry that i don't have any photos this week but i can't walk around here with my camera. Love you guys and miss you tons.
Love Drake

January 20

Hey guys this last week was super cool! The family who got robbed were doing great wheni left and i'm sure that there still doing awesome becuase they are so strong in the faith. But ya anyways i had changes this last week!!! I was kinda bummed out toleave cañas but when i got to my new area i was totally chill with it! I am now currently in Tibás which is just a 15 minute bus ride out of downtown san josé. It's super awesome here because i'm not dying of heat everyday and the members and bishop are awesome and so helpful. It's like 60 to65 degrees here everyday and at night it's niceand cold!! So thanks mom so mu8ch for the blanket because i would be miserable with out it haha. But ya i got my packages and thank you so much for everything you guys are the best! It was so awesome to have to unwrap every single piece of candy haha it felt a lot like christmas just 2 weeks late haha:) But ya when i got here to Tibás i had an awesome surprise. This last weekend we got to baptize a family!!!! And i was so stoked to send you pictures but when i got here i tried to use this usb thing for the memory cards and when i put it in i found out that it doesn't work:( But i promise that i'll send you guys photos next week of it so now worries! But i'm loving it here so far i feel like i could just be here my whole mission! Our house is super nice the ward is awesome and we have a Mcdonalds, Subway, Burgerking, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Walmart, and Pricemart(which is Costa Rica's version of a Costco)! And everything here is so much cheaper than in cañas. The only thing that's not good is that we don't have a cook for lunch and we don't have someone to wash our clothes. So this week will be the first week i've ever washed my clothes by hand whooo!! But we're looking for someone to wash our clothes for us so hopefully this week we'll have someone. But ya my companion is Elder Funez from Honduras( 3 out of my first four companions are from Honduras now) and he is super awesome and chill. I feel like we're going to have a lot of success together. Ya but anyways that's pretty much it.... I love you guys and thanks so much for the packages and all the support and i look forward to talking to you guys next week!!
Love Drake

January 13

Hey guys! This week went by super fast for me as well. Wednesday we had a district meeting and our zone leaders said that we had to look for another house because 2 sister missionaries are going to come to cañas next week. then friday we had to leave at 12 to go to san jose for interviews with president which wass super cool. Then saturday we had our meeting with elder christoferson which wow was so awesome. First we had a photo taken as a whole mission(which i believe i'll have next week to send to you guys) then we took a photo with Elder cristoferson, elder maynes, elder martino, and another elder of the quorum of the 70 and all there wives. Elder Christoferson, Elder Maynes, and their wives all gave talks. It was really centered on faith and love in doing the work of the lord. Then we got to ask Elder Christoferson questions for a hour. But all in all it was an awesome week until yesterday night. When we went to Hermana Grace and Hermana Zeidy's house to visit them because they're my favorites and i wanted to see them before changes wednesday. But anyways we got to there house and were waiting outside for 5 minutes when they arrived in a taxi and they went to open the door and they noticed that something was wrong with there window so they were afraid to open the door so i opened for them and when we went in we found out that they had been robbed. It was the saddest and worst experience i've had in my life i didn't know what to do. They're the sweetest people and they're already super poor. But i know that God has a purpose in all things and that if theycan just push through this challenge that they will be blessed more than they were before. So tonight we're going to go over to their house and read some scriptures with them and give them a blessing of comfort because they're both a little shaken up.
But anyways i'm glad to hear that all is going well. It's awesome to hear about taylor. Can you ask his mom if he's recieved my letter yet. but ya everything is going great here i'll find out tomorrow morning if i have changes so next week i'll let you know where i'm at or if i'm still here in cañas.
Love Drake

January 7, 2013

Hey Guys!!!! This week has been Great!! New Years eve was fun!! We were with the family of Hermana Grace and Hermana Zeidy. These are some pictures of that night and the Rice Krispy treats i made. But new years day was like we were living in a Ghost Town. There was no one at all in the streets or in their houses. Because everyone goes to the river or the beach on new years here. 

 This week we had about 3 new investigators and we have 7 that are looking really good and are progressing awesome i just hope that they will continue to be strong and complete our challenges. we're getting a pretty good amount of lessons but we'd always like to have some more haha.

BUt ya i'm super jealous that you guys are freezing your buns off. I miss Idaho weather so much! Because everyday it's the same thing 80 degrees and super windy hahal. But oh well i guess i can live with it.;) 

Super stoked for the meeting that we have with Elder Christoferson this Saturday. I should also get my packages this day but we'll see what happens. Then next monday night i'll know if i have changes. which i hope i don't have because i really want to be here for our investigators that we have and ahh i don't want to leave some of the members here because there my family now and it will just be super sad when i have to leave them.

But ya i'll let you guys know how San José goes next week. I love you guys and i hope that you guys have a great week.

Drake

December 30, 2012

Hey everyone was super great to be able to talk to you guys this week. Christmas here was definately different here. It was actually super boring because nobody was in there houses they had all gone to the beaches and stuff like that. We only went to some farm for lunch and then walked around Cañas for 3 hours until our next appointment. And there was no one in the streets and when we tried contacting houses no one would open there door. So ya it was pretty boring but its chill. Christmas eve was cool tho we went to a members house and we had cake and chilled out and they had presents for us which had a new tie and a bunch of candy and a mug but it was super sweet of them to do that for us. But wow i can't believe how many people are leaving for missions now its just so crazy. I'm so glad that you guys got some PMG manuals and that you guys are going to use that every FHE it will prepare her so much for a mission. I'm glad to hear that Blake is doing well i hope that BYUI will help him out. Ah i don't really have much to say other that that really sucks about the eagles ahh that's so horrible but oh well at least i wasn't there for this season. But Thank you so much for sending me that book. I actually have an idea on packages because what this one Elder's family does i super awesome i thought. Every 2 changes or every 12 weeks they send him a package for of heygine( wow i don't remember how to spell heygine haha how scary.) stuff with like shaving cream tooth brush tooth paste deodorant body wash shampoo stuff like that because all that stuff here is super expensive. Also i thought you weren't going to send the package right now but no worries just that there were some other books i wanted. The Doctrine of salvation edited by Bruce R Mconkie the three volumes and Believing in Christ by a professor from BYU i believe his last name is Stephenson but i'm not sure. But anyways sorry i don't have pictures this week because i forgot my connecter thing but i promis i'll have like double next week. I love you guys tons and miss you and the Snow so much.

December 2, 2012

Hey guys how's it going. This week was great as usual a little boring but great. We didn't really do much because we were in San Jose for two days. But the temple was awesome we got to do baptisms and confirm everyone then we went through a session. I thought for sure that i wouldn't understand any of it but i actually understood almost all of it. It was such a spiritual experience. How many missionaries do we have out now in our ward? It feels like there is a ton. We always have to go to San Jose for changes so i'm headed there tomorrow but we have changes on Wednesday this week for some reason. But i don't believe that i have a change because then there would be no one to teach the area to the new missionaries here. But we'll find out tomorrow morning. But ya everything is going great and i love you guys tons. Here are some photos of our zone at the temple and me eating pizza, at a river with some member and a log that i carrie for a kilometer for a service project. Love you guys. Talk to you next week.

December 16, 2012

Hey guys! How's it going? This week was super uneventful except for the talent show that we had in the 2 branches and being a little sick this week. But ya the talent show was super funny. The people here are so awesome and so funny i love it! But ya we didn't even know if we were going to do something, because one of the elders in our house didn't want to, until we got to the church and they said that we would be the last act. So we were like dang cause we didn't know what to do but we finally decided we were going to sing a christmas hymn and so as we were about to go and practice they told us that another act wasn't ready and that we had to go right now. So ya lets just say it was a little embarrasing singing Joy to the World to everyone haha. But ya we had christmas hats on and everything. So everyone thought it was pretty funny so that's good i guess. But anyways ya christmas eve anywhere between 2 and 4 we're going to an internet café to talk to our families on skype. And about the group calls on skype only 1 person in the group needs to have the premium account or the group call option. If on person has that up to ten people can participate in the call. Then christmas day we'll be working like normal but most of the day we're going to be with a bunch of members eating a ton of tamales because that's what they eat here for christmas. But ya that's the plan for next week. um I'm glad everything is going well back at home. Things are going great here. Tell Courtnee thank you so much for the camera. And who is cassandra mallet in our ward i've never heard that name. But ya here are some pictures of us ate the talent show. But ya Love youguys tons and talk to you next week!

Love Elder Anderson

December 11, 2012

Hola Familia

This week has been a super awesome week. And i'm just going to start off this letter by saying that President Wilkinson announced that we will be having an Apostle visit us again January 12th. But i'm not telling you who until the end of the letter. 

But ya recieved my new companion this week and his name is Elder Brindis and he's been out for almost 9 months. He is from Mexico. But the thing that's really strange is something happened that usually never happens. Elder Brindis served here in Cañas for his first 4 and a half months of his mission then i came and replaced him. And now we're companions! But ya it's super cool because he already knows the area so i don't have to teach him the area or take him around to get to know all the members. And besto of all he has a bunch of old investigators that we've been going around visiting. And we are working super hard which is awesome because with elder Garcia he was in his last change so he was a little unmotivated to go out and work hard. But that's all good. But ya we only had thursday, friday, and saturday to work together last week but we found 10 new investigators. But none of them came to church so we're planning on trying to really teach the importance of recieving an answer through church attendence. That's awesome to hear about the new curriculum the church has planned for the next year. The youth are going to be so much more prepared now to go out and serve. About the baptisms thing we're hoping to have one at the beginning of january but we'll see what happens. That's our goal and i believe we can accomplish it. We just need to work harder with the members so that our investigators have friends in the church and don't feel awkward to go. Oh ya another announcement President Wilkinson changed another rule saying that we may use skype to talk to our family this Christmas! So ya i'm super stoked. So I'm going to make an accout this today and give you some more info next week. But anyways here are some photos of the money here in Costa Rica and the landscape of  San Jose at night. Me with Elder Varela in the house and the four of us at the changes meeting.(Elder Garcia is the second one from the right) And me and my companion looking out the window of a bus. But ya i love you guys tons and can't wait to talk to you next week.

Love Elder Anderson

November 25, 2012

Hey Guys, This week went by so fast! I hope that thanksgiving was as awesome for you guys as it was for me. We had a zone activity with ping pong, basketball, and soccer then we ate after. Oh by the way there was 14 missionaries and then the the couple missionary. They are the sweetest people and made a ton of delicious food for us. And we go to the temple in two days on wednesday i'm super stoked. I will get a new companion next tuesday at the changes meeting. We found 8 new investigators this week which felt really nice. Tell the Young women of the ward thanks so much for the package and the support that they're giving the missionaries. Here are some photos of the dinner and the grill like thing we made for p day and also some marking pencils that i wanted you guys to look for at deseret book because they are awesome and if you could by me like 2 packages and send them to me that would be even more awesome. Oh ya and also my camera is being awful right now and is dying about every minute because it says it's overheating or it just randomly turns off and half the pictures i take don't work for some reason so ya i was about to buy a new camera on black friday but then i decided that it would probably be better to talk to you guys first so just get back to me next week thanks. This last tuesday we had a Zone conference with President Wilkinson and wow he is such an amazing man. I learn so much from him every opputunity i have to be with him. He knows so much and is such an inspired man. I wish you guys could`ve been there because wow i can't even explain how special this meeting was. He changed everything in the mission and gave us new goals for the mission. Then this sunday we had another oppurtunity to hear him in the Liberia District conference. And we everyone in central america recieved a challenge from the Area Presidency to read the Book of Mormon before the next General Conference. And he promised us that if we sincerely do this we would see miracles here in Costa Rica. Then he turned to 1st nefi where lehi has the vision of the tree of life and how after he had tasted of the fruit how he had wanted to share it and the blessings of eternal life with his family. And that's what we need to do also. The first thing we need to do once we have felt these blessings is share them with those that havn't had the oppurtunity to recieve them. And i just wanted to extend that same challenge to all of you guys Everyone in the family. That you guys can read the Book of Mormon and search for oppurtunities to share the gospel with others. And i also promise that you will also see miracles in your lives and feel closer to the Savior. I love you guys and i want you guys to know that i'm so grateful for you guys and all the support that you guys give me and for the help that you guys were and are to get me out here in Costa Rica. I couldn't have done it with out you. I love you.

Elder Drake Anderson

November 11, 2012

Hey guys not much happened this week again just trying to survive with no money haha. We forgot how much we had to pay the lunch lady and we had spent a bunch of money before hand so when we paid her we had to use almost all of our money haha but oh well it's all good. That's awesome to hear about ashton making it to the championship game! You better send me a bunch of pictures of it. I can't believe that Jace is in the same ward as Doug that's so sick haha. I'm glad to hear the Carol is doing better i hope that her vision continues to improve. Oh ya so that video you sent last week didn't work i don't know why either is just says theres some error. I can't believe that it's winter. I miss the snow so much. It's hard to believe how fast the time goes out here. That's funny that you guys saw Tamarindo on HGTV we went there last month at a zone it's pretty chill. This next week i won't be writing you guys until thanksgiving because the senor missionaries in our zone are having a thanksgiving dinner for us. But ya i can't send pictures this week because i forgot my cord so sorry guys next week though, Well sorry i haven't had much to tell you guys about. My companion is super trunkie because he only has 3 weeks left so we don't do much. Which sucks but oh well i hope this week we can actually do some work. But anyways love you guys and can't wait to talk to you guys next week.

October 28, 2012

Hey guys! I can't believe that theres snow already! I miss the snow a ton. Thanks for checking about the Pres. Reece thing. Um for the boy scout patches just some collectable patches and there's six of them so just stuff for six people. And for the kids for christmas i think just like candy and stickers would be awesome for them. And when you say that you would just put money on my card you mean my card from Chase right? Ya i got my other package and thank you so much for the stuff you sent it is so much nicer to shave with shaving cream haha. My new companion is Elder Garcia and he is also from Honduras. He's a pretty cool guy but this is his last change in the mission then he goes home so he's pretty trunkie but he's cool. And Elder Ramirez went to San Ramon he is the Zone Leader of Naranjo. And i did not change areas i'm still in cañas. I can't believe Whit is pregnant that seems so crazy to me! President Wilkinson didn't say much it was just a little 5 minute interview but it was cool and all. We had the same lesson this week in Sunday school( which was the first time i have been able to go since i've been in Costa Rica). It was a really interesting lesson. This week we didn't do much just went around to a lot of the members so my companion could get to know them and also the area. Um but ya i love you guys and i can't wait to talk to you next week! These are some pictures of some people here in the mish. the one where there is three of us with the same shirts is me my dad(left) and my grandpa(right). They do this funny thing out here in the mission where whoever trains you is your dad so the guy who trained my dad is my grandpa haha.

Con Amor 

Elder Anderson

October 21, 2012

Hey guys how's it going! The baptism was really stressfull this week because she just got a job and she works all day every day but we were able to do a late one on friday night at 7 because on saturday all the church leaders were meeting in Liberia. But we got it done and it was just so awesome. She was so happy and then yesterday she recieved the holy Ghost and she just was so different. So happy. There was about 20 members at the baptism. The members here are a lot different than in the states. 

But that is so awesome that the church is recieving that many mission applications! Oh ya so I'm done with my training!!!! I will get a new companion tomorrow at the changes meeting. Nothing really changes tho now that i'm done training only that we have one hour less of companionship study. So we'll leave the house at 11 instead of 12. That's cool that you had your primary program last week. Our primary is having one the 18th of November but our primary is a lot smaller than yours haha. Probably only 20 kids in it. 

Our whole zone had interviews with president this week which was really cool. He's is such an awesome guy. We don't have that many opportunities to do service here because no one ever wants help here. The latinos are super prideful but we always ask and always try to do service. 

The winter here is november and December and it's suppose to be super super windy here during those months. Then from febuary to may it's super hot! then after that it rains the rest of the year. 

But hey there's this investigator i'm teaching here who is over the Boy scouts here and he's been giving me someboy scout stuff and i told him i would ask you guys if you could send me some badges and maybe some of those neck things or the slides for them. But anyways not much happened other than that. These are some pictures of our baptism and also some skinny jeans that Elder Reyes in our house had so we tried them on.

And one more thing is Brother Reese's name Robert Todd Reese cause if so can you ask him if he went on his mission in panama Costa Rica mission and if so if he baptized someone name Miguel Jiminez because he's in our branch and he's trying to find this guys information with that name so he can contact him. Thanks Love you guys can't wait to talk to you next week.! Pura Vida

Elder Anderson

October 8, 2012

Hey hows it going guys this week was so awesome we had our first baptism!!!! It was such an awesome experience. We have another one this next saturday with this girl named Heyli. She is the coolest person. She's 21 and has 2 kids. We just started teaching her last week and she's already in mosiah in the book of mormon. She was prepared for us because we have literally done nothing except teach her some lessons. I know that whe will be baptized next week she is so strong.

Anyways that's so cool to hear about Ashton's football game he is such a stud. Tell him to keep it up. It's so strange to think of it being cold because it is never cold here in cañas. We typically teach about10 lessons a week but we would really like to get that up. And my first package got to me but i'm just waiting on the next one thank you guys so much for the packages. Oh ya and i just have on thing to ask. If you guys could send me the scores of the eagles game with some stats and the game analysis that would be awesome.

General conference was the best it is just so much more spiritual for me out here and just a whole new meaning to it when i listened to the talks. And the announcement about the new ages that's so sick!! There's going to be so many more missionaries coming out in the next year! And we need all we can get there are so many places even in costa rica that don't have missionaries. Elder Eyrings talks and Elder Bowen of the seventy oh and Elder Holland were some of my favorite talks. But i loved all of them so much.

Um our lunch lady is doing fantastic she is such a sweet lady. And then another lady in our branch does our laundry every week which is such a blessing because it would be awful to clean all of our clothes by hand every p day. Our district leader lives in our house so he does divisions with us about every 3 weeks so ya. But anyways tell everyone that i love them and that i miss them ton's but that i'm lovin it out here so they'll just have to wait to see me in 2 months!

Love you guys!

Drake

September 30, 2012

Hey guys wow i can't believe that it's already been 4 months too. That just seems so crazy. sorry this week i won't be able to send you pictures because i don't have my cord for my camera with me. But next week i'll have a lot of photos. Today was really sweet p day we went to tamarindo beach and chilled out and played soccer and a bunch of stuff so that was sick. As for general conference the members will gather in the church where it will be projected and me and Elder Kemp will be in the office watching it in english on the computer. But for a typical day i wake up at 6:30 chill out until seven then at 7 i have my shower time for 10 minutes because there is four of us in the house. then at eight i have personal study for an hour. 9  is companionship study for 2 hours but that's only becuase i'm new usually it's only 1 hour. then at 11 i have language study where i just usually read the book of mormon in spanish. then after that we just go to our appointments or contact in the street. That's funny dad how you taught that lesson in 3rd nephi 8-11 because i just got there in my spanish BOM and it is truly inspiring. I love reading the scriptures in spanish theres just something about it. I feel like i learn so much more. Well thanks for the pictures they were really nice and ican't wait to talk to you guys next week. Hopefully you will be recieving some baptism pictures because we have it set up this saturday at 5 just before preisthood session! Well love you guys!

September 24, 2012

Hey guys how's it going. This last week was pretty good. We went all over our area. We went to la cañas, la juntas which is like a hour bus drive away from our house, and tilaran which is only a 40 minute bus ride from our house. Anyways i hope that this legislation thing will go through for FIRST. I can't believe that it's already that time of the year! That's so sick about the twins those places will be awesome and they will be such great missonaries. I hope that it starts to rain or snow to put out the fires. 

The investigators our doing pretty good. we had to stop teaching a bunch of them because they weren't progressing. which that was hard but oh well they're just not ready yet. our baptism with jason will be next saturday the 6th of oct. because his dad won't be here this saturday so we had to change it. 

That's sweet to here about drew and logan. Sorry i don't have a ton of time because we went fishing today and played football and that pretty much took up all the time. Um that's so sad to hear about Tawsha. You guys need to talk to tara about the plan of salvation. That will help here immensely i know it will. Anyways thanks for the recipes but i have to go i love you guys and talk to you next week!

September 17, 2012

Hey guys time is flying by here in Costa Rica but I'm always excited for mondays to talk to you guys! To answer your question dad they were with us for about two hours and it was just so spiritual. I thought that their message was a little more personal than it would normally be. They were definitly central in missionary work.

I'll take a picture of the house this week. Um p days haha we usually play basketball and then some risk haha because there's not a ton of things close to cañas but one of these weeks we're going to go to Arenal and go look at the volcano there so that will be cool. The Spanish is getting better everyday it's super exciting to finally start understanding everything they're saying.

Um there is no cold season in Costa Rica if there was it's during your summer because there's just a rain season and a dry season. And we're going into the dry season which is suppose to be super hot. Which i am not looking forward to. Oh ya if you guys could put on facebook that everyone can still write me on dear elder it just takes a lot longer to get here but it's free so that's good. Also if you could send me pictures of all my friends that would be the best!

What are you guys going to Vegas for? that will be super fun! ya definitly take lots of pictures. Wow it sounds like President Wheeler's talk was amazing. I can't believe that he's not our stake president anymore that's just so weird! 

Anyways this last week we got a date for a baptism the 29th of september!! It's this one boy named Jason he is thirteen years old and he's in a part member family and we've just taught him that first lesson and he accepted our invitation to be baptised! I hope that this one falls through!! Anyways here are some pictures of some of our other investigators. There names are Kimberly, Sharon, and Cristian. Anyways i love and miss you guys so much! talk to you next week!

Elder Anderson

September 11, 2012

Hey guys. I was actually in San Jose the day of the earthquake and all of our zone which is such a blessing because our zone is right where the earthquake was. Nothing happened at our house tho and i think there was only deaths which is pretty good for a 7.6 i thought. So the picture of me and the girl i don't know her name haha i don't hardly anyones name it's always hermano or hermana haha. Wow that is such an amazing stake presidency that we have now and that's so cool that you guys had two general authorities. Oh ya i'm sorry i didn't write you yesterday but we were at San Jose for changes and we had a little fireside like thing with 3 general authorities but i'll tell you that at the end of this email so i can just keep you guys in suspense haha. Any ways the language is coming and it's so much easier to understand. 

For breakfast everyday i pretty much have 3 over hard eggs with orange juice and then we never really have dinner unless we're at a members house and they offer us some but that's usually on sunday. Which is fine tho because after a big lunch i never feel like eating dinner. This week we actually had 2 of our investigators come to church which was so nice since we hadn't had anyone for 3 weeks. There names our Kimberly who is 15 and Sharon 10 they are both super cool and we just hope that their mom will let them get baptized. 

Oh ya my package got here last week but for some reason the place you went through sent it to a different address than you put on the box so it was held up for a while and no one told me about it. But your package was correct. Oh ya i don't need English scriptures anymore either  because i found them so it's all good. But if you could some blades for my razor and some shaving cream would be awesome because shaving cream here is 10 $ it's crazy expensive.

Now for the General Authorities we had 2 apostles and a member of the first presidency which what President Wilkinson said had never happened in any mission that he knows of. We had President Eyring, M. Russel Ballard, and D. Todd Cristoferson. We also had President Martino of the seventy and last week on wednesday we had Elder Duncan of the seventy too. About a month ago President Eyring, Elder Ballard, and Elder Cristoferson said that they wanted to come to the Costa Rica mission and so President Wilkinson this whole time was preparing us for it but we had no idea. It was the most spiritual and amazing thing that i've ever attended. I had tears in my eyes the whole time. They truly are called of God and love all of us so much. . Usually when a general authority comes they talk to the members too but they only wanted to talk to the missionaries this time. They helped us all really realize our purpose and gave us a new desire to deliver this wonderful message to the people of Costa Rica. At the end they each stood at a door and we got to shake on of their hands. I got to shake Elder Ballards hand. They told us that Jesus would want them to shake their hands and that when we shook them to imagine that we were shaking our Saviors hand and it was so amazing. 

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Anyways that's what has happend this week and i can't wait to talk to you guys next week.

Con Amor, Elder Anderson

September 3, 2012

Hey guys how's it going. this week has been really good we found two golden contacts that hopefully by the end of the month they will be baptized there names are Regina y Gabriela. They are so awesome. I can't believe that President Wheeler has been president for 9 years that's so crazy! Him and Sister Wheeler will do great where ever they are sent. I'm sorry to here about the lawn that's always abummer when something like that happens. I hope you guys get it all fixed. Anyways San Jose was awesome it was really nice to get to see my friends from the MTC so that was really cool. Um we didn't really have one on one interviews like i thought we would instead we all just me with President in the Chapel. He just told us that we need to always be working and to obey with exactness. President is really serious about obedience he wants this to be a clean mission which i think is great! He is such an awesome man.Ok to name our Investigators we have: Regina, Gabriela, Yareliz, Vismar, Luis, Vismar, Zeyli, Kimberly, Sharon, Corinas, Chata, Eliza, Luis, Maria, Delvin, Dennis, y Alba. They are all such awesome people they just need help going to church. This week we didn't have anyone at church again which was a bummer but that just means we have to work harder this week to get them to church. Um my package hasn't gotten here yet but i think it will be here this week. Any ways this is a picture of me with a girl in our branch. Well i have to go i love you guys talk to you next week!