Elder Cameron Mark Anderson

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

CH-CH-CH-CHANGES!!!!

February 11, 2013

Hey all!
Little time but big news.
I'm back in my very first area of Avellaneda to finish off my mission!!!! So excited! This is a crazy change which NEVER EVER happens and I don't know why it has happened to me but it sure will be interesting to find out! I'm nervous but happy and ready to endure to the end! Enjoying the journey and learning a ton still! I love you all,
Elder Anderson

Here are some cool pics from last week! Hope you enjoy them! Don't worry, the mug has tang in it! The other is of me in a swing at Sebastian and Brenda Rojas's house. I'm still childish! Some ribs I found and preparing an asado in the chapel! WOHOOO!

Thursday, February 7, 2013

BAUTISMO!!!!

February 4, 2013

Hi all!

Short and sweet this week like so many weeks before! :) Nothing new really! Just working hard and doing our very best! This last week was really beautiful as we had the baptism of one of our good friends here. His name is Fabian and is a 30 year old police officer with his wife and littel one year old daughter. The wife was baptized a few years ago and he took interest recently and made the decision to be baptized. It was a huge blessing and an amazing experience. I am so grateful for God and his goodness.

Love you,

Elder Anderson

Hiii!!!

January 28, 2013

Hey all!

Scripture of the week!

88 And whoso receiveth you, there I will be also, for I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up.

I trust in that promise for me and for all people. It is true and it is good! God is there always! He not only has his hand extended, he is reaching and trying with all his might to touch us, to hold us, and to never let us go! God is good. He is loving and he is there! I know that without a shadow of a doubt.

God will never leave us helpless or abandoned! I have a firm testimony of that! God is many times in the small things and we just don't pay enough attention. Take a look around!

Love,

Elder Anderson

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Wells

Hey all!

Short and Sweet! I found today an awesome scripture that describes basically what I am doing here.

It is Isaiah 12:3. It is also found in the Book of Mormon in 2 Nephi 22:3. It reads, "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation."

I am he that is doing the drawing. The water and well have lots of symbolism that I will leave to you to study. But I can tell you that I am so joyful to be the one at the well drawing up the water. God is so merciful to let us participate in the Salvation of others. To have a front row seat on "the greatest show this earth has ever seen!" I love this work and I love my Savior. He is the digger of the well. He that dug so deep and worked so hard that we too can have our thirst quenched and receive salvation. He is master and my king. I love him and follow him and invite you to do the same!

Love,

Elder Anderson

Trials

Hi Everybody!

Another good week here in Buenos Aires! HOT!

Today officially marks 6 months until I grace the United States with my presence yet again. Really humble right! :) It is amazing how time flies and reality hits. The Sister Missionaries serve for 18 months and the Elders or Male Missionaries serve for two years, so today I am officially passing for a sister missionary status to an Elder Status....I feel like a man!

The work has been difficult but consistant and producing results! So that has helped me keep my spirits up even when it is 40 degrees outside. Not sure what that is in Farenheit but I'll leave the conversion to you guys!

Lately I've been thinking of a scripture found in Doctrine and Covenants. The Lord gave this revelation to the prophet Joseph Smith after the Pioneers had suffered from many massacres and mistreatment in the state of Missouri. He talks alot about "Why bad things happen to good people."

In this occasion he said, "For after much tribulation, as I have said unto you in a former commandment, cometh the blessing."

I truly believe in this principle that is so simple. In other words that are more crude "If it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger!" Life is like eating spinach or taking cough medicine sometimes. Nobody (except for my mother) likes spinach or cough medicine but when we take it, suffering through every moment, afterwards we are blessed. I see that God follows that same pattern in all things. He often passes us through fire to purify us and make us stronger. I have come to realize how grateful I am for my trials (this is in no way asking for more) and how much I have grown as a product of having to pass through many fires. God has never let me down and has always given me all the necessary tools to pass through my trials and afflictions well. God loves us, and for that very reason life is not easy. If it were easy we could never come to learn what it truly is to love.

I love you all very much. One of my greatest trials is being so far away from you all, and yet this time of my life has formed me more than any other....funny how that works out.

I love you all so much,

Elder Anderson

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Temple Pics

More pictures from Cam while at the temple on Jan 7.

"Me, the doors, my comp me and another buddy Elder Prestwich and his Comp, the zone and me in front of the CCM."

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Navidad, Año Nuevo y Templo!

January 7, 2013

Hey all!

Been a while since I've wrote! SORRY! Between Christmas New Years and Bad Stomach aches there has just been no time/ motivation to write! But here I am again!

Christmas was AMAZING with a two hour much needed chat with my family! I am so blessed to have such incredible parents and siblings. Makes me the happiest camper in all the forest!

New years was spent with a really bad stomach ache in and out of the bathroom! YES!!!! Best way to start my year EVER! I got over that though and we are back to normal! As normal as having the runs can be that is! I can't remember what it is like to not have good "stools." Sorry, that was probably way to much information!

The work is going so well. I am still in my little part of Buenos Aires called Luis Guillon and am now with my second companion here. Elder Bradshaw was a hoot and Elder Tracy is more serious, but the both are such great guys and great missionaries.

Today we had the opportunity to go to the Temple here in Buenos Aires. We believe these buildings to be some of the most Sacred places on earth. Places where heaven and earth meet and where men walk with God and angles. On every temple above the doors it sates "Holiness to the Lord, The House of the Lord" and we believe that it is as such. The House of God here on earth! It is a place where I was able to find such peace and comfort and really put myself in contact with God. We believe in Revelation and I testify that God speaks to us especially when we seek him in his holy houses the Temples. It is such a blessing to visit such a beautiful place!

I am doing well. It is hot, humid and my shoes have holes, but I am happy and doing everything I could possible want! It is all going by so fast and I can see the end. This year is big for me and I hope and pray to measure up to my potential and what God expects from me!

I love you all!

Elder Anderson

I feel selfish showing so many pictures of me!