First transfer down!

Hello hello!

First off-- THANK YOU SO MUCH for the package! It was so great! It came at the perfect time because I really needed it that night when we got home! It was such a good surprise!

This week was the last week of the transfer! Crazy that I have been out for 6 weeks already right? Almost 2 months down!

This week was really slow.... We have hardly anyone to teach, so most of our days consist of tracting or riding around trying to find people who will actually listen to us. We found one family sitting outside their house, there were like 10 kids and they were all really quiet and just sitting there so it was really weird. We did our spill, asked if they wanted a blessing, and they said yes! So we got off our bikes and walked up to them. Sister Pack was asking them what they needed/ wanted in the blessing and the whole time I had a good feeling, like this family really  needs us right now. She got to one boy named Wesley, and he said he wanted his dad to get to Heaven. He was only 10 years old so it caught us off guard. When Sister Pack was saying the blessing, I opened my eyes and saw one girl crying so I was just thinking she was feeling the Spirit.. Then later I noticed everyone was crying. By the end of the blessing, there wasn't anyone who wasn't crying, including me, Sister Pack, and Sister Nelson. One of the teenagers told us, in tears, that they had lost someone really close to them that day. He said they don't know why or what happened and it was very unexpected. We found out it was their father who had just passed away. We were a mess. There were about 9 or 10 little kids under 12 years old that were hysterically crying. All three of us couldn't keep ourselves together, and after doing the best we could with trying to comfort them, we left. As we were walking away, one of the boys was yelling "papi" at the top of his lungs. He was literally screaming for his dad and screaming "why didn't someone save him" and "it's all my fault". It was such an awful experience. We walked around the corner, bawling our eyes out, and said a prayer for that sweet family. My heart was broken for those children. We offered to come teach them but they had their minds elsewhere for obvious reasons. My heart breaks for people like that that don't have the knowledge that we do about the Plan of Salvation. I want so badly for them to realize that everything will be okay. We are hopefully going to go back over this week and see how things are going for them.

We also helped this family move this week.. They are MAJOR hoarders and it was pretty nasty. They have a down syndrome baby that doesn't get properly taken care of so their house smells like straight poop. I literally had to walk out of the house so I could breathe. It took us forever just to clean out her garage, and when she would walk away we would just start throwing things in the garbage because she had so much stuff. It was pretty awful.

Yikes.. Okay on a happier note.... Transfers were this week! President Smart called on Saturday night to let us know what was going on! So Sister Pack is leaving :( She is going to Hemet, which is like the GHETTO. She is freaking out. They have never had sisters there so she is opening this area to sisters, and training, and she is serving in a YSA ward as the first sister EVER to do that in this mission! Pretty crazy! I am not surprised, she can handle that better than anyone else! I'm way sad she is leaving though :( Sister Nelson and I are staying and training a new missionary straight from the MTC! That's exciting but very nerve wracking. Sister Nelson and I are very alike and get distracted very easily, Sister Pack was always the one to keep us on track so this will be interesting. I'm excited though :)

Okay so currently, our ward has 5 missionaries. Us 3 sisters and 2 Chinese speaking elders (I haven't told you, half our ward is Chinese and once a month we have to have a Chinese translator. It's so crazy!). HOWEVER. Starting this transfer, we will have 8 missionaries in our ward! There will still be 3 sisters but there will be 5 Chinese Elders! Isn't that crazy? Especially because the other Eastvale ward is a lot bigger than ours and it only has 2 missionaries. That proves something big is about to happen in our ward! I'm so excited!

Dakota got confirmed yesterday and he got the Priesthood so that was super exciting! His dad is still working on getting his Priesthood back so a ward member baptized and confirmed Dakota. Shay went to girls camp this last week and now wants to get baptized too! So hopefully that will all work out! The mom is still not happy and we can only come over once a week when she is not there, then she waits outside until we leave so it is super awkward. The Lord is definitely testing my patience :)

I'm so excited for this new transfer and this new change! Thanks for all your prayers and letters and the package! Ah it was perfect :) (Except the pictures were so small! Next time make them a little bigger please :))

I love my life, I love this gospel and I love being a missionary! I'm so glad I made the decision to come here, it has been one of the best decisions of my life! I know that this is where I am supposed to be and that there are still people waiting for me to teach them this incredible gospel. Why people don't listen to us still blows my mind. I'm so happy with the knowledge that I have. This church is totes awes.

Peace and blessins my little homies. Miss you all so stinkin much!

Love you long time

Sister Anderson :)