July 7, 2009 e-mail

Hey Fam!

So all is well here! First off the missionary with only one shirt is gonebut if there is more I’ll let you know. Don’t contact the president thoughthey ask and tell us all the time not to have our families do any kind ofcharity work or even fast for a cause here. I’m not exactly sure why but it’sin the white bible and everything, but thank you. I have the samecompanions and will for the whole MTC stay. As AP I’m over the whole 4thfloor and it’s just me. It’s maybe 40 or 50 elders. It’s neat though because I get to know more people and I get to greet the new guys each week. SisterOsborn is doing good. I’ve talked to her a couple times. She is loving it and speaks Portuguese really well. The only other real tie I’ve made here is one of the sisters took aunt Jera’s best friend’s class at BYU, you know the bug guy. I think its K or something. I cant remember but she loved him.Proselyting was really cool. We gave out all 4 of the Book of Mormons theygave us. That’s all they would give us. I gave out two of them. it was really neat, hard though because they would ask questions and it wasn’t easy to understand them or even respond but it was still cool. I’m glad Dad’s trip toChina went well, and I’m sure the high adventure will be fun too. That’s coolthat Bishop is going. I write in my journal every night so don’t worry.Thanks for your note Justin. I love hearing from you. I’m glad to hear yourkeepin up the nerdy presents:) I hope your summer is going good. Keepstudying the gospel, ok. I want some competition when I get home, haha. I’msorry the pictures didn’t work. There’s not much else I can do except print some out and send them next week. But when I’m out in the field I’ll figure outhow to e-mail them to you. We only get 30 min here. I’m glad to hear yourstill riding the motorcycles, ha everyone here rides old beat up bikes andthey drive so crazy but its kind of cool. An ambulance drove by and therewas like 30 bikes behind it cause all the cars have to pull over. It wasfunny. But anyways here’s a spiritual story for you. in the temple today Iwas saying a prayer and I was asking the lord to be with and comfortGrandpa Anderson and I felt grandma so strong and she just let me know thatshe was with me and she was watching over grandpa too. it was really neatto feel her all the way over here in brazil. But I just started crying. Then a guy asked me if I was ok or if they were tears of joy and I actuallyunderstood him! Ha. So it was like a win win but I’ve got to get off. I loveyou all, take care!

Love Elder Anderson