Hey All!
No pictures this week. Sorry. But everything is good here in San Vicente! We are working hard and doing good work here! The highlight has been freezing and below freezing temperatures this week. After not having a winter for a few years that is really nipping me in the bud. I've been thinking alot this week about desires and how inportant it is that our desires be higher and bigger than the simple basic carnal desires. I don't desire to leave every day in the cold and yet I have an overreaching desire to find someone prepared to hear this message and so I leave every morning from the comfort of my home to DO WORK! Our desires are something that we can change. They are a descision. We should control our desires and not be controled by our desires. That is my short inspirational message this week! I love ya'll and am thinking about you! A late but wholehearted birthday shout out to Quinn and Carson and Nathan and Ethan AND Sarah Kruit! You are the best and not forgotten by this Argentine Gringo Missionary!
Love,
Elder Anderson
Monday, July 16, 2012
Short and SWEET
Hey all!
Don't have much time at all! But I want to tell you that i love you and enjoy the pictures of some of my favorite Argentines! THey are funny people!
Love,
Elder Anderson
Rain, rain, humidity, mud
Hola!
Hey all! ¿Que onda? So everything here in Buenos Aires is genial! Elder Phillips and I are doing super well and working hard and seeing alot of mini-miracles. God loves us a whole lot!
Fun things this week would have to be rain and humidity for 4 days in a row. Always a blast when you bike around in a white shirt. My shirts by the end of the day end up a little less than white. That is for darned sure! We had the opportunity on Sunday to have the confirmation of Rafael. He was so happy and content and just glowed. He has come to know all by himself that all this is true! He has read the Book of Mormon, and meditated, and prayed! And just like is promised, he received an answer to his prayer! Amazing how every time God makes a promise he holds up his end of the deal!
I've found that conversion is like baking a chocolate cake. There is a specific recipe for making a chocolate cake and there is a specific way to reach conversion. If you follow the recipe for chocolate cookies hoping to have a cake at the end, you are going to be sorely disappointed. Many people try to find out if the Book of Mormon and gospel of Jesus Christ is true but in their own way. The only way to get the desired results is follow the recipe that God has put in place for us. If we don't follow the specific steps of reading, pondering and then praying for a specific answer if it is true, we will not receive a specific answer. We will not receive the chocolate cake! I invite all of you to follow the recipe and find out if these things are true. Every single person who has been truly converted to this church and this gospel has followed this process and received an answer. There is only one way! We cannot worship God in OUR way and get HIS blessings. We must worship him in HIS way to get HIS blessings. The trick is finding out which way is HIS way. I've come to know that THIS way is HIS way through reading, pondering and praying. It is pretty cool! I love being a Mormon! Apart from being true, it is so cool!
I hope you are all happy and healthy! I sure am! Everything here is good and I'm just trucking along. I'm almost a year old this month! So crazy how fast time flies! Makes you learn and grow up fast!
Love,
Elder Anderson
Yep
Hey All!
Another Great week in San Vicente, Buenos Aires, Argentina!
The highlight was obviously the baptism of our good friend Rafael. He is an incredible guy and is so spiritually and emotionally prepared and is making big changes in his life. It is interesting. Being a member of this church is not like other organizations. You can't just go and be present and that is ok. It is not what we do, rather it is who we are. It is what we do think and desire every minute of every day of ever week of every year of all our life for forever. To really follow Jesus Christ and not just belive in him is really hard. It requires me to do things better, to be better, to do more, than I would doing my own thing and running my own program. So to begin to live this gospel and follow Jesus Christ can be hard. Like his original Apostles, he calls us to leave everything and follow Him. It seems like alot if we forget all the blessings and benefits of being a disciple of Jesus Christ. Really all he is asking us to give up is ignorance, misery, a life without purpose, and in turn he gives us wisdom, joy and a focused direction with goals and help all along the way. Really there is no sacrifice at all! We get paid double!
We've been a little sick from the weird weather here. One day it is freezing cold and the other it is hot enough to leave in short sleeve shirts. Reminds me of the fall in Colorado. Always changing and never what they predict. It makes it fun but all gives everyone a cold. So we were fighting against that all week. But a little cold isn't gonna stop us too much. We worked hard and had some really cool experiences.
Overall feelings of my life right now....content, happy, tired, hungry, and STOKED FOR THE FUTURE! Everything is great even when it is not because tomorrow I get a chance to try it all over again and do better. Lucky for us right?!
I'm running short on time so I'll leave you all with this note and a bunch of pictures and just tell you all that I love you and pray for you a bunch!
Love,
Elder Anderson
P.S. Anyone thinking of serving a mission out their with doubts, here is my advice. Do it! You will never regret it! The world stays the same while you are gone. The only thing that changes is you and the change is that you improve drastically! DO IT!!!! IT IS AWESOME!!!!!
Another Great week in San Vicente, Buenos Aires, Argentina!
The highlight was obviously the baptism of our good friend Rafael. He is an incredible guy and is so spiritually and emotionally prepared and is making big changes in his life. It is interesting. Being a member of this church is not like other organizations. You can't just go and be present and that is ok. It is not what we do, rather it is who we are. It is what we do think and desire every minute of every day of ever week of every year of all our life for forever. To really follow Jesus Christ and not just belive in him is really hard. It requires me to do things better, to be better, to do more, than I would doing my own thing and running my own program. So to begin to live this gospel and follow Jesus Christ can be hard. Like his original Apostles, he calls us to leave everything and follow Him. It seems like alot if we forget all the blessings and benefits of being a disciple of Jesus Christ. Really all he is asking us to give up is ignorance, misery, a life without purpose, and in turn he gives us wisdom, joy and a focused direction with goals and help all along the way. Really there is no sacrifice at all! We get paid double!
We've been a little sick from the weird weather here. One day it is freezing cold and the other it is hot enough to leave in short sleeve shirts. Reminds me of the fall in Colorado. Always changing and never what they predict. It makes it fun but all gives everyone a cold. So we were fighting against that all week. But a little cold isn't gonna stop us too much. We worked hard and had some really cool experiences.
Overall feelings of my life right now....content, happy, tired, hungry, and STOKED FOR THE FUTURE! Everything is great even when it is not because tomorrow I get a chance to try it all over again and do better. Lucky for us right?!
I'm running short on time so I'll leave you all with this note and a bunch of pictures and just tell you all that I love you and pray for you a bunch!
Love,
Elder Anderson
P.S. Anyone thinking of serving a mission out their with doubts, here is my advice. Do it! You will never regret it! The world stays the same while you are gone. The only thing that changes is you and the change is that you improve drastically! DO IT!!!! IT IS AWESOME!!!!!
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