April 21

Hey guys. this week was super awesome. Alot of interesting things happend but super cool! we had 18 lessons this week!! just 3 short of the standards of excellence for the mission. we actually almost had everything perfect minus a baptism:( but it's all good! we're trying to build this area into an area where we can have a baptism every week. That's one of the goals that president has put for us. A little tough but anything is possible with the Lord. Actually we have a baptismal date with two young men named Marlon and Diego for the 4th of may and another for the 11th of may with a man named Cesar. And we have a lot of dates that we're planning on putting this week. We had 8 investigators go to church this week and that's only have of our good ones! I love the willingness of Elder Diaz. He's such a great missionary. I feel like i'm learning so much from him even though i'm senior companion. Tell tyler to get better. And that i'm super happy and proud of him for giving up smoking. I know that it will help him during his life. Keep me updated. I love you guys tons and hope that all goes well this week. 

Love Drake

April 14

Hey guys i just had an awesome week this week. I'm still in Tibás por dicha( thank goodness). And my companion is Elder Diaz. Who is the man. He is super awesome. And we're totally going to kill it together. I just hope that i'll have two changes with him. Wow i can't believe that we're already starting week 3 together. The time is going by way to fast. That's cool that you guys are in Las Vegas i'm sure it's kinda nice to be in warm weather after an awesome idaho winter. We're just about to start rain season here which i'm not really looking forward to. Whooo rain everyday for 5 to 6 months! It's going to be so interesting haha. If you could send me videos of ashton playing football that would be so awesome.  But wow this week has been so great.  This week we found a couple families and they were really interested. One of them was such a random contact because we were in a really poor and dangerous part of our area and then there was this massive really nice house in the middle of all the dumpy houses. And we were just like hmm do you think they would listen to us. We said no but we thought it would just be fun to try so we went and knocked on the door and they invited us in and we had a lesson with them. Then this sunday they came to all of church. This experience really helped me out a ton. It helped me realize that God has prepares people for us no matter what there situation is whether they're poor or rich. EVERYONE needs the gospel in there lives. Everyone. I love you guys and thank you so much for the support. I love this gospel and the oppurtunity i have to share it with the Ticos of Costa Rica. I love them so much and i'm just so grateful to be able to be here with them. 

Love Drake

April 7

Hello family.

Wow how great was general conference. I loved it. I thought it was so spiritual. The only bad part was that i had to watch it in spanish:( which is alright because i can understand it all. It's just super hard to concentrate on the talkers when it's the voice of some Latino haha. My new companion is Elder Diaz. He is so awesome. He has 7 months in the mission and he is from colombia. He is such a great missionary i know that we will have success together. And now the mission leader is helping us with the members and they all are on our side and ready to help us out. I love the member here so much they are literally the best. I really hope that i can be here for 2 changes more. But i don't know because elder Diaz is such a beast i'm pretty sure he'll be training next change. But we'll see what happens.  Oh ya i got my package thanks so much for the cereal and the books. YOu guys are the best. I'm already learning so much from the book Doctrine of Salvation i would totally recommend that to you guys. Um question i wanted to know what is the mail address of Tyler, Brianne and Mark. If you guys could get that to me that would be awesome i love you guys tons. 

Love Drake.

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