Sunday, October 25, 2015

Mexico City - Week #59

hey all,

hows everyone doing? this past week was the last one of the change and the last one with my companion Elder Barnett. tomorrow i get the new Elder and área. ohh and that third comp that we had for like 5 days ended up going home. pretty weird story actually.. anyways, barnett and i have had a good time together. unfortunately, i wont get to see hardly any of the fruits of our labor in this área. barnett should have some very solid converts from this next cycle here.
i didnt do much today for pday. just the normal stuff and packing. 
anyways, i got the rare oppurtunity to slaughter, prepare and eat rabbit this past week haha. i wont go into too many details but it tasted good. kinda like a jerky but with chicken meat if that makes any sense.. a converso has started raising rabbits and he let me process the first one because he knew that i was leaving. i think thats about it this week from what i can remember.. 
have a lovely week everyone! i love you guys! xoxoxo

Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #58

hey everyone,

i hope yall hada good week! mine was great. i absolutely loved general conference! it was my favorite one yet in the the mission. i feel like i learn more and more every conference. my favorite talk was a tie between 7 different ones actually haha. it was just a so good.. 
so, i just got news that i will be training along with my companion. only that they will be sending a new area to start or white wash.. it will b difficult but thats why im here isnt it? lol anyways, we went to center today with omar y laura from my last area. they are doing really good and it was a pleasure to see them again. we had a fun time together. i will send you some pics. we also had a zone activity today. we weeded a ladys backyard haha. it was fun. we found a huge dead rat in case youd like to know 😉 . overall, had a wonderful week and i learned a ton.. im excited for these next couple months. gonna be good stuff. i love you guys! have a good one! xoxoxo

Elder Anderson 

Mexico City - Week #57

hey,

hows it going people? i hope you all had a good week. a couple news announcements for ya all. first, general conference. during the last general conference i was thinking, wow, its going to be a long time before the next one, and look! here we are haha. we also got a new companion to look after so im now in a trio again. his name is elder hernandez. other than that, we have had a lot of success contactings this week. we even found a couple of nuevos yesterday which is super weird because almost nobody is home during the weekend here. there are a few families progressing well too. a couple more weeks and some should make it to the water.
 the old lady who we gave the blessing last week passed away about 24 hours after the blessing. she had definitely been waiting for the blessing before she could move on. the only thing i remember saying in the blessing is ¨your Heavenly Father wants to hug you again¨ i remember closing and thinking it would not be long unti lshe passed on to the other side. i still remained shocked at that experience. it was a blessing to be a tool in my Heavenl Father´s hands.
i love you all and hope you can all have a good day and week! be safe! watch ALL of the conference! dont forget to read and pray! xoxoxo

Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #56

hey all,

i hope everyone is doing alright! this last week has been very good. lots of work which is awesome. time flys when there is work. so last p day an hno from a different stake called us with a reference of his amiga diana. he told us that her mom is suffering from some type of chronical cancer and the doctors had given here days to live. so we called diana and put a cita with her for this last saturday night. so saturday came along and we went to contact diana. she opened the door and seemed really pleased to see us. she guided us into a room where her sick mother and the rest of her entire family was waiting. there were around 30 people including all of the brothers, sisters, aunts uncles, cousins, and so. so as my companion elder barnett, and i entered into the room we immediately started como comenzar ensenar. we introduced ourselves and what church we were part of and they could all be blessed by what God has to offer them. not much time passed before we explained about blessings to them. as soon as we started explaining about them, they asked us to bless Fransisca, the chronically sick mother. my companion anointed her and i sealed the anointing. everyone was crying as we gave the blessing including us. but there was a sense of deep peace that we could all feel. as i finished the blessing, we informed the rest of the family of blessings of consuelo and 1 after another they asked for them. after about an hour passed by we had given 11 blessings of strength comfort and assurity. it was the most humbling experience i have ever had during this mission. although we just felt completly drained when we got home that night, we were still overcome with the Holy Spirit. i am so grateful to have been apart of that experience with this family. actually, they invited us back this coming saturday to teach them all. we will be teaching about the plan of salvation. God´s plan for every one of us. the experience we had that saturday night was one i will remember for the rest of my life. Heavenly Father has blessed us with a lot of work in this area and im so grateful for it. keep working and keep trying to become more and more like Christ. He is the only way back to our eternal home. i love you guys and hope you have a great week! xoxo

Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #55

hey all,
 this week was great. the mexico city temple got rededicated. it was awesome. president Eyring and elder Holland came to rededicate it. they also had  cultural celebration saturday night we went to. it was all such a neat experience. i loved it. we are working with a lot of investigadores in this area. i believe we are going to have some good success within the next couple of cycles. i will keep you all updated on the ones who progress well. im happy to be here in las aguilas 1, my new area and to be with my new comp, barnett. its going to be a couple cycle. i love you all and hope you have a good day! xoxo bye!

Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #54

hey guys,
hows it going guys? i hope your all having a great day! sorry i didnt have much tme to write last lunes but we had to despedirnos of everyone in the area. and to prepare for the changes the next day. it was a long day but a good one. it was really hard saying goodbye to a couple families in that area.. it reminded me of when i had to say goodbye to all of you guys. its never fun saying goodbye.. but the good news is that i have made lifetime friends and will be ab le to be in contact with them for the rest of my life even after the mission. so they sent me to an area called las aguilas 1. its about 45 minutes away from my last area. its really tranquilo here though. not to many people surprisely. the roads are practically empty in the night on our way back to the house. the safest area ive been in yet. my new companion is named elder barnett form utah. his a really chill easy going guy. he has 11 months in the mission. im happy about my change overall. just another step! anyways, i hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their day off today! love you all! xoxo
Elder Corson Del Anderson