Mexico City - Week #73

hey everyone!

i hope your all doing so well on the best day of this calender year. i know i am! today has been a great birthday and i want to thank you all again for making it so wonderful. i love you all! i dont know why but i have so much energy right now.. i dont know why exactly but it feels cool. maybe someone spiked my drink.. anyways, today for my birthday, we went to el parque aragon. its close to the mx city temple and we went with like my favorite investigadores, omar laura y sus dos hijos, yasser y naysa. they are so awesome. they are from panti which was my second area in the mission. we baptized lauras mom and were planning on getting omar and laura married in order to be baptized but then pres sent both of us to different areas. but they have been telling us over and over again that they are getting baptized. and luckily one of my mission buddies is giving them the lessons so it will become a reality before we know it. they bought me this big chocolate cake that said happy birthday corson! and made a really neat sign in english which was pretty impressive. i will send you the pics. so we went their with them and ate tacos al canasta y pastel. pretty great tasting. another cool thing is that an hna in my area just called me and told me her daughter had her baby today! same birthday as me!! pretty cool huh!? i will let you know about the people we are working with in this area next week cuz im running outta time. but just know that i love you guys and im thankful i have you all to support me! i hope you have a great week! xoxo

Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #72

hey everyone, hope your all good! this week was a lil weird and choatic for the new comp, area, and pdaychange. we got back from the temple about 2 hours ago and went to eat with an hermana. the temple was awesome but its been a pretty nasty day with rain and all. mycomp and i both have the cold. so we dont feel to good but we are taking some pills that will hopefully get rid of it fast. we have some good investigadors that are progressing in this area which isgreat. we are focusing on finding more to teach right now. this new area that im in is called la perla. we are the only missionaries in this ward which is cool. we both gave talks sunday along with the lider misional. what are great bienvenidos no? we had a really successful week last week. had zone meeting on monday. it also went well. this week has kinda been a blur with eveything. we have people coming in and out of our apartment to fix certain lil things like plumbing and electricity etc.we just moved into this apartment the same day of changes so we have also been spending the last couple of days cleaning and organizing stuff. but yeah pretty crazy first week in la perla but i like it. all is good in the hood herein MX! love you guys! xoxo Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #71

hey all,

i hope everyones doing well. this week was good. we had some new investigadores go to church yesterday which was nice. i also got the news that i have changes with maletas. im going to la perla which is in the city again so im excited to not have to take comves between citas anymore. it will be a good new years change for me. claudia and lizbeth gave me a lil going away present and wrote some cool things for me. they got me a lil coffee mug with pictures of when we went to the temple stuff. it was really nice of them. im excited to keep up to date with my soon to be old comp rodriguez.. hes gonna do great things here. im also excited to see my new comp will be. all good things from here on out. its been raining a bit today for the first time in a while. very cool weather so im wearing a lot of the new stuff i got from my package from santa. anyways, i hope you all have a wonderful week and i love you so much! xoxo

Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #70

hey everyone, i hope you all had a merry christmas this time around. it was great seeing my family via skype on the 25th. i had a good time talking to you all. for the ano nuevo this year we got permission to watch some disney movies. im stoked about that. any good ones come out lately? let me know today if there have been.. we had some turkey and potatoes for christmas eve dinner and lasagna for christmas day dinner with two different members. the lasagna was my favorite! i cant wait to eat my mothers lasagna when i get home! claudia and lizbeths parents didnt want them getting baptized this week so we have a cita to talk to them tomorrow. how fun right? i think my comp and i ate something wrong within this last couple of weeks cuz we both got some good stomach pains. if it continues, we will go to the doc. at least its a good weightloss plan right? other than that, im doing really good just waiting patiently for the ano nuevo to roll around! have a great year! 2016! love you all! xoxo Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #69

hey all.

i hope everyone is doing well. the área is still good here. it gets cold at night and hot at midday here. just felt like i needed to share that with yall. tonight i will be calling Claudia and Lizbeth to see how their talk went with their parents about getting baptized this week. hopefully all goes well with them. another investigador came to church for the first time named jaunita. we met her at a quesadilla place we ate next to the church once. she mentioned to us after church sunday that something was working inside her and she really liked the feeling of it. im excited for her. we have other investigadores we are teaching that havent gotten to church yet too. i will let you know about them when the start making more progress. 

for pday today we played soccer at church. is was a lot of fun but im pretty tired now. im so excited for friday but i also feel really weird. the same kind of weird ive falt the last 2 times ive skyped. who knows what it is lol. anyways, i hope you all have a merry christmas this year! i know i will. love you guys. xoxo

Elder anderson

Mexico City - Week #68

hey all,

im doing good being here in mexico still haha. today we had our annual Christmas party as a mission. it was fun. first we had a devotional, then a talent show, then a turkeyand mashed potato lunch, then i played futbol americano with some other gueros, then i played a bit of volleyball, then we at hotdogs and nachos, and ya.. thats it lol came back to my area in a comve to write all of you beautiful people. 

as for the area, its good! weve had lots of success. claudia and lizbeth texted us the other night wanting to know of a Book of Mormon that talks about la Navidad. so we gave them alma 7 to read because it not only talks a about Jesus´ Nacimiento but also about what we can to accept Him 😋. youll understand if you read it. anyways, they sent another text later that night letting us know how much they loved it. they are really great. im so glad to be working in this type of work. saving souls and such. yeah, its pretty nice. not to brag or anything. i would recomend it to you if you ever get the chance.

anyways, thats about it for the week. love yall! have a good one! xoxo

Elder Anderson

Mexico City - Week #67

hey guys,

hope everyones doing well. after district meeting today, elder salazar, came to the chapel with his family. his mom is the president of the sociedad de socorro and he returned from his fulltime mission today. i got to talk to him before he got released from being an elder. it made me think of my sister who will be going through the same thing in a couple days. im so happy for the example she has been to me in my mission and also how much of a help as well. from feeling out all my mission papers to helping me through difficult companeros. im so blessed to have had her as MY companion throughout this entire missionary experience. Kylee, te felicito mucho! nunca te olvides de lo que has aprendido junto con tu hermanito en el campo. Vas a lograr milagros en tu vida y en la vida de los demás. gracias por ser mi ejemplo y espero que te disfrutes de nuestra familia a al estar allí para la Navidad. ÉXITO! No debes estar triste. Que empezca la buena vida! Te amo!

today, i went to the center with some investigadores that Whit via FB from an area pasada. they informed us that they wanted to be baptized by me and my old companero who taught them with me, elder perez. it was awesome to hear that from them. they still have a lot of work to do before they reach that point considering they arent married yet and drink a lot haha. they have 2 kids and their hearts are definitely in the right place. it will al work out in the Lords time and how it should so im super excited for them. claudia and lizbeth didnt make it to church on sunday so we wont be baptizing the day kylee goes home which is sad but maybe the day after navidad. others also came for the first time so things are looking bright in this area.

i got my package! its huge! we have are lil Christmas corner going on in our house with everything. its so great! thanks so much family! it will be a special Christmas for everyone this year! love you tons! xoxo

Elder Anderson