March 31

Hey guys awesome week this Holy Week. Wow holy week here is such a huge thing. Everyone has work off and all the stores are closed then everyone goes to the beach haha. But it was a pretty good week we had a lot of success. This week however has started off pretty slow because my companion has changes and so he just goes around saying goodbye to everyone. But i'm excited to recieve my new companion tomorrow and go to work. That's cool you had the sisters over for dinner i wish he had that happen a little more often here hah. Because i am always hungry now and it just seem like i never can get enough food hah. That's cool that tyler and Court were up in idaho this week. That would of been fun. But i'm here in costa rica. By the way tyler costa rica isn't an island haha. That's so awesome that graham got his call to mexico. He'll also know spanish now! Oh ya can you ask Debbie to write taylor and ask if my letter ever got to him. For general conference here everyone goes to the church or watches it on the internet in there house because it's not on the tv here.But i'm so excited for general conference this week. I love it so much more out here in the mission because all the messages are just what our investigators need to here. So the goal this week is to get all of our investigators to go to conference. But ya anyways i love Costa Rica the time is going by way to fast and life is just so awesome right now. I love you guys

Love Drake

March 23, 2013

Hey guys. Sorry i didn't write you this monday we changed our p day to today so that we could get some work in on monday. We went to the temple today but we didn't get into a session because it was all full. But it's all good because we got to do baptisms and confirmations. I just love being in the temple though it's such an awesome experience! Last week was really good actually we got a new mission leader that likes to help us a ton. He has the same vision that we have and believes that anything can happen. So i'm super pumped for the future of this ward!! I just hope that i don't have changes next week. Because i'm not ready to leave here yet. I'd actually be fine to be here for the rest of my mission. I love it here. This week one of our members contacted somone on a bus then gave us the reference. It's a single mother who's about 32 years old and has three kids. We went to visit her yesterday and she was super excited and wants to go to churcdh this sunday. She even went to our english classes yesterday!! Wow i almost have 10 months now in the mission. What an awfully wierd feeling to know that i'm almost half way done with my mission. 

I'm glad that everything went well with the competition this yeart. It looks like it was a fun one! So i have a question how many people attend our ward in IF. I can't remeber. The investigators are great just trying to get more and more! I haven't got shoes yet but i'm still trying on that it's just hard to find some, But some members told me where i need to go so it's all good! But ya that's pretty  much it,

I love you guys 

Love Elder Anderson

March 17, 2013

THis week was alright. We didn't have a ton to do and we were having some problems but me and my companion had a nice talk and now everything is great and we're stoked to get this next week started. I haven't tried anything else exciting this week. An investigator had me trie the spoiled milk and it was awful and curdled. Um we cook almost everyday for lunch which is chill because i like cooking hah.and yes we have someone to wash our clothes. And i haven't bought any shoes yet because i can't find any i like but i will probably buy some next week when we pass through san jose for the temple. I'm so stoked we get to go to the temple next week!!!!!! But ya this week we had a multi zone conferance with president and it was super cool. We focused the whole time on becoming better teachers in chapter 10 of preach my gospel and he told us that that is our focus for the next 4 months so i can't wait to see the results at the end. I already learned a ton of ways to be a better teacher in this last week. Ya my area is pretty sketchy a lot of drugs and stuff but we haven't been asaulted so that's good haha. The elder that was here before me got punched in the face. but nah everythings good we're careful and we don't do anything stupid so we'll be fine!! But ya the investigators are doing well. Just that we found a nother guy who has to get divorced and then married to his wife before he can get married which is a super long process. Now that makes two families we have to do that with. And tonight we're going to meet a new family that are a reference from some members so super stoked for that. But ya that's it. Love you guys have a great week! Thanks for the recipe mom!

Love elder anderson

March 10, 2013

Hey guys this week was alright. A little slow and not to much success this week. All of our investigators were not in there house when we went to have our lesson with them. But oh well it gave us some time do go do some tracting so now we have more investigators. Elder Duncan is a member of the seventy and he is the 2nd councler of area centroamerica. It was a super cool meeting. We only had one of our investigators there though.But other than that it was super awesome and spiritual. I'm sorry there is really nothing to talk about this week haha. Um i ate a mango that was bigger than a softball and it was so delicious. Oh ya and i also tried spleen this week and rotten milk. The spleen not to bad it actually tasted kinda good. It was just the thought of spleen that kinda grossed me out. And the rotten milk i would totally be fine with never having it in my life again hah. It was pretty gross. And sorry no pictures it's just that we can't really carry our cameras around here because it's kinda risky and i don't want to get robbed with my camera. But ya that's about all that's happening here in Costa Rica. The weather is super nice. It's like 65 to 80 degrees everyday. I kinda like it. But i do miss the good old Idaho Snow haah. But i hope that you guys have a good week. love you guys

Love Elder Anderson

March 4th

Hey guys! This week was a little slow but last night was awesome. Me and the bishop went on divisions and we ended up knocking on the door of the neighbors of some members in our ward. And we ended up having the oppurtunity to teach a new family. And wow i'm super stoked to go back and teach them. Because they seemed super interested and me and the bishop just felt good after that visit. So i'm stoked to visit them again this wednesday! This weekend is Stake conference with elder duncan and i'm super excited to go it will be so spirtual. We're hoping that all our investigators can go so that they can hear from him. But ya today we went to a country club called the Castillo. And wow lets just say i found a place that we can go to when you guys come to Costa Rica. It is amazing this place. It has like every type of sport thing has a huge pool. Has a castle and there is a train that goes on the inside too. It was so fun. We had a multi zone activity there today so there was about 38 missionaries there. And we all got in for free because i guy who lives really close to us named johnny wong was one of the founders of it about 20 years ago so he just waived the fee to get in and everything. But ya it was super cool. But ya i'm super excited for this week because we have a lot of plans and a lot of new investigators that we have to go find where they live because they are references. So we hopefully will contact all of them this week. There are about 10 of them. I'm so stoked. I love being back to work again. It's the best. My ankle is alright i can walk and everything it's just that i can't run or play sports for 2 months so ya that's kinda killing me haha. But wow this ward here is just the best the members and everything. It's such a strong spiritual ward!! I'm so excited for the future of this ward! But ya everything is great here with me and elder Funez. I think we finally figured out how to work effectively in this area. So i'm excited for this next month of march. Love you guys!!

Love Drake

P.S. Could you possibly send me like my plain gray hoodie and some normal clothes that i can use on p day that would be so awesome. Oh ya and if you guys want to not right no of course but in the future when they come out with the new Philidelphia Eagles Draft cap that would be cool if you guys could send me one because it's super nice to have a hat here on p days. You can just ask jon which on i would like because he knows what i like haha. Thankyou guys love you tons! Oh and here is a pic of the mission with Elder Christoferson in January so now there is like 30 mor missionaries than there are in this picture. But ya love you guys.

February 24

Hey. This week has been awesome. I'm still in Tibás with the same companion. So at least i still have a little time to get used to the area before i get a new companion. Um i got my cast taken off!!!!!!!! Which feels super great to be able to walk again. It still hurts a little bit and is super stiff but oh well i'm just glad to be back to work. I love the members in this ward. Me and my companion have some huge plans that we're working on. Hopefully we should have 2 baptisms next week and maybe a couple more the week after that. Next week is stake conference and elder duncan and another member of the seventy are coming. I'm so stoked from it. Cause they have 2 meeting that we can go to and one of them will just be about missionary work!! Which is what we need so that we can get the help from all the members. one of the new missionaries is in our house with the district leader. He's from mississippi and he's super awesome. It's crazy to see how far i've come in my spanish now when i look at him. There is absolutely now way i couldn't have done it with out the help of the lord. I'm starting to realize everyday just how dependent we are on the Lord. I'm so grateful for all the help and guidance that he gives. Um not much happened this week other than i got back out to work. I have to take it a little slow and i can't play sports or run for like 3 months. So p days are going to be a little boring now. But ya i love you guys ton and hope that all is well. Thank you so much for everything.

Love Drake

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