My dear family:
Hi :) Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving, I sure did :)
Thanksgiving in the mission field is a huge blessing because it's like an extra pday :) So we hung out allllll day long :) We had a group companion study and just shared our testimonies with each other, which ended up being a huge bawl fest haha. I have been so blessed to be with the other three sisters that we live with. I have made long lasting friendships with them and i am so happy!
This week was kinda rough because of the holidays because everyone was either gone or with their family (jealous) so we quickly found out that we hardly had anything to do! We went from house to house, called people and literally no one answered. WELCOME TO THE GOOD LIFE.
However, Lisa. She is so great. Goodness what a blessing. She is so excited to be baptized and so ready and willing to do anything that the Lord asks. I swear she has more faith than we do! Anyway, her situation is a little difficult. She is homeless haha. She is engaged to her fiancé, Dayne, and we talked about chastity with them and they want to get married the same day that she gets baptized which is good! We just have to find somewhere separate for them to live until then. So we are working with the ward and with President Smart to figure out what to do!
I am absolutely in love with California. It was 83 degrees on December 1st. Hallelujah. I do not miss the snow one single bit.
Well. As it was Thanksgiving this week, I had time to sit back and realize how blessed I am. We all made lists of things we were grateful for and mine could have gone on forever. But really I am thankful for YOU! You all have been such a blessing and answer to my prayers. I was talking with one of the sisters last night about how i was so dumb and stupid in high school and how I regret pretty much everything. I regret how I treated all of you and how I didn't make my family a priority. I took you all for granted and I am sorry! But through God's grace and mercy He has allowed you all to still love me :) I am so glad that I am a part of this family and that i will be able to spend eternity with my BEST FRIENDS!
This email is kinda lame... I'm sorry haha. There really wasn't very much that happened this week! The pictures are of me, sister jenkins and sister fia in some nasty cheetah pants we bought last pday.. we had too much fun with those.. Others are of Elder Snyder and i, he is going home this transfer and was my district leader this last transfer and my zone leader my first transfer. I think there is one of our zone and then these pictures that we made that look like us hahah. super weird. i think i have officially lost it...
So anyways... I hope you know i am happy! I am the happiest i have ever been in my life. I love this work, i love being a missionary and having the spirit with me always. It's such a blessing and truly brings pure happiness. I hope you are all doing missionary work at home! It's not hard! Read Elder Ballard's talk from this last conference and if you aren't doing missionary work you'll want to start after you read that. Don't let me down family!
Love you all so stinkin' much :)
Sister Anderson :)
p.s. This time next year i will be home! Can you believe that?
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