Hey everyone!
(a fat lady pops up from behind a horse) "Quit sneakin around!" I forgot her name. Did Elder Anderson get my package? I put a bag of dirt in it so he could have some dirt from Virginia like we planned.
First of all, a big shout out to Grandpa and Grandma Davis for a WHOPPING 61 years TODAY!!! (cheers from the crowd) Congrats! And happy Birthday Grandpa, you don't look a day over 32. I can still remember when you would hold us down on the couch and tickle us and we couldn't get out I would think "Wow this guy is strong I thought he was supposed to be old" We all know you're still 18 at heart and I want you to know I'm thinking about you. You too grandma :)
I want the whole Anderson family, including Jordan, to know that it took me until this morning to figure out his movie quote last week. I pondered on "I live in a majical place where it never rains... The end" for a good six days. I was getting so frustrated.
Woo! This week will be so good! Elder Tramell called me yesterday to let me know Makiah will be getting baptised this Friday! She is a lady Elder Tramell and I found and taught for three months. She wants me to come back so I've been making calls and I have a ride to go back to Richmond for Friday! Yess!! I am so excited it was just a boost of confidence and spirit. I'm just blown away I didn't expect that call. I'll send some pictures!
I have been sick like all week, It's evolved from stuffy head and head ache to sore throat for a couple days back to head cold. We stayed in all day on saturday because I was coughing way bad and I needed some serious rest. Elder Richardson was getting so stir crazy all day and I felt bad so we went out that night and that wasn't smart. The air here is COLD. I am much better today. We went to this gymnastics place that a member owns in hampton and played dodgeball as a zone. I got to play first responder for an elder who knocked himself out though and was bleeding pretty bad from the head. It was crazy, he had to have jumped like 30 feet across this huge pad to hit his head on the other side but he's ok. He just called us and said they gave him 5 staples and an ibuprophen. Haha.
We have some neighbors across the way that like to party. 3 nights a week they are outside yelling and laughing and I wake up at like 2. I usually get back to sleep but wednesday night I was sick and they kept me up till about 4. I was so mad, so yeah of course I called the cops. I'm standing by the window at 4 am watching these people and to my dismay, they all go inside or get in their cars right before the cops came. I was like "oh you have GOT to be kidding me" this was the 4th time they had kept me up. Haha I felt like a fisherman watching his hook pass right by a huge fish. I watched the cops drive around york circle for a minute and leave and YEP, sure enough, choncho and liberty babtist (names changed for privacy) come right back outside and start up laughing and carrying on again. OH WELL. I'll get em next time.
Man I don't have time to go through every day but I don't think I've told you this story. I told you about Thomas and Megan, she is less active and he is one of our investigators. They called us to give their baby a blessing and we ended up giving both of them blessings. I think I may have told you that part but check this out; she called us this week and told us that despite what the eye doctor had said previous to the mri about Leeam being partially or fully blind, the MRI has come back COMPLETELY normal. WOW. I was so amazed. He is just going to need glasses. We just said a prayer right there on our knees to thank The LORD. I can't tell you how real this work feels to me right now and how stinking thankful I am to be on a mission and having expiriences like these.
Teresa finally called, after about 13 voice mails and a couple notes on the door. She appologetically said she wants to come to church, but then she rolled her ankle suday morning and called us from the hospital to tell us she couldn't come. MAN ALIVE I just want to wrap this woman in bubble wrap and stick her in a closet in the church. We'll feed her, don't get me wrong, I just can't believe all of the things that get in the way of us meeting with her. Breaks my little heart.
Thomas loved church and priesthood, he even came without Megan. We downloaded "On The LORD's Errand" for him because he has grown up never knowing a bout prophets but he's excited to see what the one we have today is all about. He's progressing well.
Jabena and Shawnell read every day. We love them. They are on their way too, we just can't get them to come to church because they are such a big part of the church they go to. They are coming around :)
I was glad to hear that ya'all are studdying from Preach My Gospel. It is so amazing. My favorite chapter is chapter 6. Honestly, all anyone has to do to preach this gospel is live this gospel. Page 115 paragraph 3 says this "The restored gospel allows you to become like Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ" What a statement. I LOVE IT! The other thing that I have seen some serious progression from is the personal study on page 152. Don't do one sentence though. Do a whole page. When missionaries are called to their missions, the Apostle who calls them looks at a screen with the picture of the missionary and a screen with a map. He roleplays by saying "hello, Elder/Sister so-and-so, how are you today" he then proceeds to see a vision or feel a prompting, not of where the missionary will go, but where they will come home from. By doing this personal study you can connect yourself with this vision and create the same vision for yourself. You can see who you are supposed to be when you leave your mission. Pray for the inspiration of the Holy Ghost and that you can set achievable goals, then start writing. I have loved to look back on who I want to be by the end of my mission.
I love you all and I am so excited this week to be a missionary. Thanks for the love and support. All you missionaries that are leaving in the near or distant future, just do it. The spirit has told you some time in the past that you should go, just follow through now. I choose Christ!!!!!!!!
Love,
Elder Andreasen
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