Nilo received the Aaronic priesthood this
Sunday! ..But wasn´t present in Sacrament meeting. He showed up for the
second hour and when we asked where he was he said he had taken some of
his friends to a sacrament meeting in the Magdalena chapel. Nilo got his
hands on a Preach my Gospel so who knows what he will do next ha. He
asked us if he could go out as a missionary and teach little pueblos in
the provinces of Peru. We told him that he can start as a home teacher
first. He is awesome! He is super excited to go out and teach with us,
and actually tomorrow is going to accompany us. Tomorrow we are doing
our first exchange of the transfer with the Hermanas and it´s my turn to
leave the sector, but luckily I´ll just be going to the other part of
our ward with Hna. Brudnicki. Hna Madsen (my companion in the MTC) is in
our zone now so I´ll get to do exchanges with her pretty soon!! This
transfer started out a little rougher as far as sister training leader
responsibilites go. We had transfers almost a week ago on Tuesday and we
got a call from a companionship of sisters that wanted a change on
Thursday. We went to their room to visit them and help sort things out,
but they just wouldn´t budge! They asked for a transfer, so now we have a
brand new hna named Hna. Lopez from Buenos Aires! This transfer four
new hermanas from Argentina came in, so that was exciting! We are having
to open up new sectors like crazy, and even hermanas from the states
who only have about four months are having to train! There´s just so
many missionaries coming in and our mission is so small. But it´s
exciting to see the work grow!
Yesterday we had a couple
really good lessons with some less active members. We went with two
hermanos in the ward to the house of the Familia Padilla to give a
priesthood blessing to the Hna Padilla who has cancer. They both got
pretty choked up and emotional and thanked us for coming after so many
years. The two hermanos that came with us were amazing and also caught
the missionary spirit. We also went to visit an hermano that hasn´t been
to church in a while, even though he served with Elder Uceda in a
mission presidency! The hermano also got pretty emotional and thanked us
for sacrificing this time in our lives to serve a mission. The spirit
was really strong and we were able to testify that as representatives of
Christ he would be blessed if he turned to the Lord and learned to
depend on him again. The hermano said that he wanted to return to the
church, but needed a little more time. We are going to keep visiting him
and teaching him, and I know with time he´ll return to the church!
Well I think that´s about it
for this week. Thanks for always writing (mom and dad.) Haha I hope to
hear from Courtney and Colton soon! I love hearing about what you´re
doing. Courtney´s got her UVU thing this week right? Good luck with
that! And have fun with baseball Colton. Love you guys so much! Til next
week!!
Love, Hna Anderson
Pics
All my gringa friends!
Hna Gomez and I. She is also from Argentina
My cute little valentine from Hna Rodriguez
Outside the cathedral and the catacumbs
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