12/9/13

Hellooooo!

Goodness gracious i miss all of you so much! First things first. Love and miss you :(

Second. This week was a bummer. I was so unmotivated all week long.   Ugh i hate when i get like that. I was sick one day with a killer headache (boo) and then i stayed home with Sister Fia the next day because she wasn't feeling well. But the other days, I just honestly did not want to go out! It was cold (I know not as cold as it is at home, thank goodness. Im pretty sure when i come home in December i am straight up going to freeze to death.) and i just felt yucky all week. Besides Lisa (which she is doing GREAT. i actually think she might be getting married tonight? im not sure.. haha) we have nothing else to do, except visit inactives and part member families and its soooo hard to keep doing when house after house doesn't answer. It's just so frustrating. Maybe i am lacking faith or something, but something is not right!

With the holidays, i guess i have expected people to be more receptive but those dang expectations always get me down. Our OYMs have been real rough lately because no one listens. Over and over again we get rejected or denied. I guess i did sign up for this.. i just didn't expect it to be this hard!

Christmas time especially has been really hard to be away from home. I just see everyone with their families, doing their fun family traditions and it's super hard to be away from that! I'm so glad that i only miss one Christmas, but at the same time it is a great time to be a missionary. Christmas gives us an even better excuse to talk about Christ and help people come closer to Him. I just pray that we will somehow be able to touch the hearts of the people we talk to.

This week was hard for the other sisters as well.. so this morning i walked around the corner and Sister Jenkins hit me in the face with a handful of shaving cream hahaha so of course i ran and got some and we had a nice shaving cream fight. we were rolling on the ground with it everywhere, laughing our heads off. It was so much fun and greatly needed :) We also thought we were cool and made a 6 and a 9 for how many months we had been out and burned it in the sink.. then later realized how dumb we were hahaha but it was still fun :)

Being away from home makes me realize how much i love all of you and how grateful i am for you all! However, i have learned so much from being out here that i wouldn't trade it for the world. we were talking about how hard this is this week, and we were saying how we all have the chance to go home and to stop doing this, but there is absolutely no way i would ever do that, no matter how hard it has been. This is the least i could do for everything that my Heavenly Father and Savior have done for me. It has taught me how to purely have faith and trust in Them for literally everything. I have learned how to be patient (still learning.... ) and how to love people no matter what. I have learned so much about the scriptures and about prayer that i wouldn't have learned unless i came on a mission. This has BY FAR been the best decision i have ever made, and i will never regret it.

I love you all more than i can express. You all have helped me in so many ways that i am beyond grateful for. i am so blessed to have the family that i do, that supports and loves me.

Hope you all have a fantastic week, full of Christmas spirit.. take advantage of being with the family and tell everyone hi for me! I can't wait to skype you all in 16 days! Have a blessed week!

Much love,

Sister Anderson :)

p.s. another prank we did this week.... sister jenkins went on exchanges, so when the sisters went to pick her up, i hid in her shower and waited for her to come in the bathroom and then i jumped out of the shower and scared her sooo bad! I was laughing so hard i couldnt breath hahaha. She was sitting on the toilet screaming her head off hahahaha it was by far the best one i have ever done! Goodness. these memories will stay with me forever!