Training, Temple and Transfers.

Hi fam :)

This week felt like it was a year long!

We had a trainer/trainee meeting on Tuesday at the mission home which was really fun because we got to see Sister Pack again! We got some really good training and then we went to lunch with Sister Pack and her new companion so that was fun to laugh and talk together again :)

Friday: We got to go to the temple!! I woke up at 4:30 to be ready at 6.. pathetic right? But when there are 3 girls that need to shower and get ready, we have to start pretty early! But anyway, we actually got to our session too early so we were able to do some initiatories which were fun because I had never done them before. So that was pretty cool. When we were sitting in the endowment room, there weren't enough seats for everyone! There were too many sister missionaries so they had to get folding chairs and bring them in so that there would be seats for everyone! That's a pretty good problem to have if you ask me! The whole session was AMAZING. Oh my goodness I loved it! It was so much more personal and relatable. I loved everything about it, and that's about as much as I can say about it :) But if you haven't been to the temple recently, GO.

Transfer calls were Saturday! We waited alllll day long. Usually if you are training or going to be in a leadership position, President will call you sometime during the day. Otherwise the Zone Leaders let you know where you are being transferred to around 10ish. So we were walking home and still had no phone call so we were kinda relieved that none of us were training. Then at 9:30 at night, he called! He told Sister Nelson that she is going to Corona, which is only like 20 minutes away. Then he told me that I was staying with Sister Pyper and finishing her training. Honestly that wasn't much of a surprise, we all thought I would stay with Sister Pyper. But I won't be in a trio anymore! I don't even know what it's like to be in a regular companionship so this will be interesting! I am excited to be able to do things my way and get reorganized with everything, but it will be hard especially since Sister Pyper and I don't really get along all that well.... Pray for me... Please.

We still have no one to teach. We did walk everywhere which was awful. Haha we got so sweaty and hot.

We talked to this Muslim guy outside one night for like an hour.. He kept telling us to read the Koran and that God is only our creator, not our Heavenly Father. It all started with us not knowing what Mary wore so we don't really know Jesus Christ. (Yes that is exactly what he said). It was very interesting. He told us he commended us for doing this good thing and helping people, but he said we are not telling people the truth and that we don't know what we are talking about. Talk about frustrating! I wouldn't give up my life if I didn't know what I was talking about and if I didn't know this was the truth! Some people... But he did take a Book of Mormon, so hopefully he is able to have a change of heart.

As a result of that visit, I have 28 bug bits all over my body. They don't itch and aren't raised, but just little red dots everywhere. Looks like I have chicken pox or something!

Anyway, I'm excited for these next 6 weeks. They will be hard and very interesting but I'm ready. I know the Lord and my mission President both trust me enough to do this at only 3 months... So I'll give it my all and hopefully everything will work out :) Helaman 5:12 :)

Love you all so so much! Thanks for all your support and love. I can feel it everyday :)

Love your favorite daughter,

Sister Anderson :)