Go hard or go home

My lovies,

HIIII. I miss you all. Plain and simple.

This week was not as exciting as past ones. Since we baptized basically all of our investigators last week, now we have no one to teach :( So this week was interesting. We did a loooot of finding and found hardly anyone.

You all say it's been raining... HA. It has been over a hundy lately and has been suuuper humid. I don't know where that came from but it feels like you can hardly breathe, even at 6:30 in the morning! Totes cray fo sho.

Okay so back to our lack of people to teach.. Remember Jerry? So his baptism date was for the 31st.. but we got way too ahead of ourselves because, surprise, he's addicted to morphine. Like hard core. We taught him on Thursday I think and he was so wired. He admitted to being hooked, and oh yeah, he takes Vicatin too and chases it down with Morphine. And he's been hooked for multiple years... Completely normal right? I don't know how he isn't dead yet to be honest. So we have to drop him or have someone else teach him because we are very uncomfortable there and we can never get a word in anyway because he talks the whole time. Crazy stuff.

Devon... He is the investigator that we picked up at the baptism last week. Buuuut, another surprise, he's gay. Which is fine.. He has been living that lifestyle for the last 7 years and really wants to change and come closer to God. We taught him the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation and he really loved both of them. The only problem is that he lives in Riverside so we had to give him to the Riverside missionaries.. So there goes another one :(

So this next week.... We have realized that we take way too much for granted. When we are on our bikes, we always say "it could be worse, we could be walking". So this week we decided we are going to walk everywhere. Hahahahaha you think I'm kidding. We thought that we have been disobedient lately so we are disciplining ourselves by walking everywhere. Plus we are hoping to loose some weight (I may or may not have gained 10 pounds already :( People feed us SO MUCH FOOD). So I'll update you next week on how that goes, but the first night we barley made it home because our feet hurt so bad, and we did our nightly planning soaking our feet in the tub :) Hence.. Go hard or go home :)

Okay I actually lied.. We tracted into this family this week that lives right by our bishop. We gave them a harvest blessing, Shannon is the mom, Cleone is the daughter, and they loved it. We are going back on Friday to teach them more.. But a couple days later we went to the bishops house and his wife said Shannon put something on Facebook about us! She wrote that the night before the Loudon's (bishop's family) dropped off some cookies. Later her and her daughter were talking about God and just what they believe in then that next day, we showed up, Representatives of Jesus Christ and gave them a blessing. She said she was really grateful for us and was excited for us to come back! So we will hopefully see some success with them! That was super exciting :)

Since we were trying to find people this week... it was super rough, especially because people were definitely not interested in what we had to say. We had a couple rude people. Last night actually we were at a parking lot, and Sister Nelson went up to a lady and all she said is "Hi how are you doing" and the lady said "Are you Jehova's Witnesses?" (we get that all the time) and we said "no, we're from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints". So the lady said "Oh, Mormons. Even better. I don't want to talk to you". So Sister Nelson just asked if we could leave our card with her and she shot that down fast and said "I don't want anything from you people." So that was nice. Good to know there are nice people in this world :) Sheesh we're just trying to save your salvation. When people shoot us down like that we always walk away and say "it's your salvation, not mine." Why don't people get we are just trying to help?! This other guy let us into his house after a long talk about how we don't memorize what we are going to say, we're not jw, and we are not putting a curse on him..... Weird. Then he made us pray for his church....... No comment.

Okay confession time. We got blessings this week. We all kinda broke down this week, got a little home sick and was lacking motivation. We all were just questioning if this is really what we are supposed to be doing.. so we decided that a blessing would help, and it did! Gosh I love the Priesthood. We have all done a lot better since then, but just thought you should know :)

I'm pretty sure that's all that happened this week.... Not too much to report. But after the blessing I got, I know that this is where I am supposed to be. I know that people are waiting for my testimony and that the Lord will help me be guided to them. I have grown so much closer to my Heavenly Father and my Savior in the last 3 months. I absolutely love it. I know that this is the true church.. I don't understand how people can even question it. The Book of Mormon is so black and white, if everyone in this world would just give it a chance.. There would be no more need for missionary work :)

I love and miss you all so much! Thank you for your letters and love :) It is greatly appreciated!

Much love,

Sister Anderson:)

p.s. Transfer calls are on Saturday already! Fastest 6 weeks of my life!

p.s.s.Sister Nelson and I lost it this week.. One night we were taking pictures of different body parts... Like our eyes, ears, elbows..... and then zooming up on them and crying from laughing at how gross it looked hahaha. Yes that is what we do for fun now. What has happened to me!? Hahaha. Sister Nelson will be a homie for life. We talk about living together after the mission all the time. I'm so grateful I am companions with her!