Mexico City - Week #39

hey all,

this week went well.. for the first time in a very long time, everybody who we committed to come to church, came. so sunday was an awesome day for us. we have two baptisms planned for this saturday so hopefully all will go well in order to have them. we are teaching three different families right now and they are all showing signs of progression. we just have to be patient with them. we have our work cut out for us this week. the area is great and so is the comp.

i cant really think of what else to write.. oh, i ate cow tail this week. it tasted like meatloaf. i didnt like it too much.. i have another apt with the podologo today. should be good. im still learning more than i ever would ve imagined out here. its great! anyways, i love you guys and hope you all have successful weeks! xoxo

Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #38

hey guys,

i hope everyones doing okay. this week was kindof unsuccesful  but ni modo. just that nobody came to church so everything gets put off longer.. p day has been good so far. woke up at 630 to take our laundry to an hnas house then came back and slept for like 3 hours longer. felt great. went to play hockey at another hnas house then to carnitas (street tacos) were really good. i had brain quesadillas and tongue tacos. the brain was a lil bitter but tasted good with salsa. the tongue tasted very tender. it was pig tongue but tasted more like cow steak. pretty good though. also tried the pig knee cap. it tasted like garbage.. that about made me upchuck.. it was very slimey and just nasty tasting. after, we went home to shower and go to the store. then we came here to write. so yeah pretty good pday. love you guys. have a good one! xoxo

Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #37

hey all,

i hope everyone had an awesome mothers day. i sure did. it was so nice to talk to you all. (CLICK HERE FOR SKYPE VIDEO.)i felt like i never left for a moment or two. its amazing how energizing that skype call was for me. i feel great now. ready for the week. i hope all of you guys got closure as well. its a great thing to be able to talk to family face to face even though we are spread out all over the americas.

some other interesting things that happened to me this last week was that i got peed on by a boxer. all up and down my pant leg and shoe. then, i got bit by another dog a twice. now, at least i can mark those things off the list of things to do before i leave mexico.

we had lots of exito this week with investigators up until sunday. 9 different people said they would come to church, we passed for all of them but only 2 came.. i think mothers day kinda made it tougher. but the two that came have dates and we will continue to work hard with them. i think a lot more people should come to church this week. i still love my area and the members here. especially the hermanas. they are soo caring and hardworking for us.

but yeah, i hope you guys can have a good week! i am going to send a lot of pics now. hope you like um lol. love you all! xoxo bye!

Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #36

hey guys.

i have had a great week. we had changes tuesday and i am now with Elder h.-g. from california. hes a latino and hes a great guy. he has 4 months and is super obedient. we had a very successfull last week. and believe we will have even more success throughout this next cycle. the área is way different. its more safe here, completely flat, half the área as my last, working members, good comp. literally all i could ask for.

we have carnitas in this área which is when the guy buys a full pig and cuts it up. you tell him what you want and you get it in a taco. intestines, eyes, stomachs, ribs, bacon, legs, anything.. so we will have some fun the next couple weeks with that. i will let yall know you it goes. i rode on a trash cart thingy. people go around with their carts pulled by horse here. we wear late to an apt. so we hopped on with this drunk guy and his girl. he was a super nice person. everybody was wondering what a White kid in a White shirt and tie was doing on a trash cart lol. it was super fun.

i cant wait to see you all sunday. its going to be great. i love you guys!

Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #35

well all, great news! im finally getting out of my first area. i have changes with maletas which means im going to a whole different stake! im hoping for a cool comp and a flat area so i wont have to deal with anymore inclines. but, im pretty excited for the change. my toes are all good now. just healing up from all of those surguries. i dont have a single problem as of right now which is a tender mercy. 

we found lots of news this week was exciting until only 1 came to church. but he looks like he will progress quickly so thats good. he found a mini football one night so we have been playin two hand touch games after work at nights in the street. very fun and reminded me of when i always used to play with my lil bros in the yard at deer hollow. so much fun. i vomitted the other night. i think it was the buffalo wings i got from a street vendor. they tasted ok but i dont know, i just got sick really fast.. within 2 minutes and the rest is history. i have a pic if you would all like to see it ;) had a zone activity this morning which was pretty fun. we played soccer basketball football and wuffle ball. sports are so great on the mission. we also had tacos de suadero y longaniza. the salsa for them was surprisely hot this time around. so yeah, delicious. thats it i believe. love you all. have a good one!

Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #34

hey everybody,

this week was great mainly because i didnt have to sit in the house all day doing nothing. had lots a good lessons and found some news. but the bad part was that nobody came to church.. it pretty makes you feel like the weeks work was useless. because if they dont get to church the dont get baptized. so it really just puts you back another week. thats part of the experience i guess though.. 

so i have a pretty funny story for you all. and theres not a better day than today to share it lol. i was on splits with my district leader, elder s. the other day. we were contacting trying to get citas fijas with the reciently contacted people. anyways, we just got done talking to a man who actually lived in utah for a bit. but anyways, we went up the street towards another part of my area and a 20ish yr old kid yelled to us to come over. so we talked to him for a while and he told us all sorts of funny things. i forgot to mention he was drunk and high. so usually when somebody is druging or is drunk, they are either super happy nice or mad mean. he was super nice. actually, he wanted to go work with us! we gave him a palabra de sabiduria <Word of Wisdom> pamphlet and tried to leave but he kept insisting to go with us so we were like, oh well, lets do it. so we walking with him for about 5 minutes or so talking some more and then i got the idea.. lets start running. so i told elder s. the plan and he just laughed and then i told the drugged kid. i told him as missionaries we liked to excerize and that he could run with us if he wanted to. i thought that would keep him from going with us but he said sure and was ready to go at a moments notice. so i started sprinting up the hill and then he started. it turned into a race. me and the drugee with elder s. trying to keep up with us while laughing his head off. anyways after about a quarter mile i decided to stop and then we let elder s. catch up to us. i incorporated the run we had just done with the pamphlet we had given him. i told him in spanish, brother, what we just did can be found in the pamphlet we gave you. and that there are more <amazing> things that could be found in the pamphlet that would change his life. so we put a cita with him for another day and he finally let us leave. but can you just picture two white missionaries in white shirts and ties running in an all out sprint with a mexican drug Addict? i dont know, for me and elder s., it made our day..

anyways thats about it for the week. i love you all and hope you guys have a good week! xoxo

Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #33

hey everyone,

i dont really have much to say about this last week at all. i went to get my toe done on tuesday and i have had to stay inside the house the rest of the week up until tomorrow.. was my 8th operation and weve come to realize that the operations dont work because my nails just grow back the same way. so we are going to try a new approach. im going to go to a profesional to get manicures and pedicures now lol. hopefully they will be able to prevent it all. should be a great boys day out on the town! woo hoo! but yeah, ive just been in the house. playing checkers, studying, eating a sleeping this entire last week. im so ready to get back out and start working again.. nothing worse than staying in the house day after day. the time goes so slow. i will probably go for the first time to get my nails cut this week some time. should be interesting.

but thats all for the week. sorry i dont have much. this coming pday should be better. i hope you all have a great week! i love you!! xoxo

Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #32

hey guys!

i hope everyone had a good Easter Day! Conference was great! i learned so soo much and im sure you all did too.. my favorite talks were president Monsons during Priesthood session and Elder Hollands on Sunday. but they were truely all good. i thought they focused a lot on eternal marriage and families on Saturday and, of course, Jesus Christ on Sunday. it was so neat. the talk by Robert D. Hales interested me as well. he talked about our freedoms to believe and so forth, using civil rights citations and so on. it was pretty cool. but i did like them all. like i said, i learned a lot and am super thankful that i had the oppurtinity to not only watch it, but in english. and all of us white elders brought stuff for waffles so we made those too. so great!

we actually werent allowed to work on friday or saturday anyways.. they did the crucifictions on friday here and on saturday, its just a huge water fight all over the city to represent baptizing people. ... very very strange.. i will just leave it at that. so saturday, we played checkers all day. btw, im the reigning champ of the house. and sunday we just went to the church stake building in the morning and stayed all day until we left from Priesthood session.

so we didnt get to much work dones this week but it was cool because we kind of got a 4 day weekend off from work. with friday, Conference, and pday. tomorrow, elder s. and i have to meet president to get another operation done for me and to check s's to see if he needs another. so, who knows how much i will be working this next week.. 

but yeah, thats about all i can think of for the moment.. i have pictures i will send. i know ive been slackin a bit lately. thanks for reading and responding to me! i always love hearing about the home life and such. its reviberating. (think thats a word) i love you all and i hope you all are having a great day! xoxo

Elder Anderson