September 30, 2009
Hey there family!
How are things with all of you guys? Things are going good here. Our investigator pool isn’t too deep right now but we baptized a really cool teenager this week - Eleneilton. Zone Conference was really good. The last pres. here was all about baptizing. His motto was: even if they don’t stay firm its one less baptism that has to be done for the dead. You know the ordinance is done if they choose that, which is good and stuff but President now is working on making the baptisms a little more meaningful, which I like better. It feels we’re helping the people of Brasil more - at least to me. For example, my ward has over 800 members in it on paper but only 83 active. So he wants us to not just baptize but strengthen the wards, so I'm excited for that.
That's so cool Jerry is an elder now. That's cool about the video of Bahia; it's crazy here. Oh and I got your letter at my house yesterday, but didn’t get any packages at zone conference. But I wouldn’t sweat it. I’ve heard some of them take forever to get here. But it was still a fun conference. There is a really funny elder who is from Seattle so we always talk. He is really cool.
Justin, that pink band (honorary band society cords) will look cute on your (graduation) gown. I’ll be back before then though. You won’t be that old when I get back. I can’t believe how fast the whole last month has gone by. I’ve now been out for 4 months, crazy huh. For (General) conference we have to travel to another city but only get to see Sunday’s sessions and I’m not sure yet if there will be a room with English or not. I guess we’ll find out Sunday. I’m excited for it though.
Sorry, time is limited but I’ve got to sign off. Kimbo - wow exciting!! I can’t wait to find out it its a boy or girl and all that good stuff. You have to keep me informed or else!! .... There’s not much I can do to you from here but just do it please. Ha, love you. Good luck with everything. Tell Jared hi for me. Love you guys; take care. And Justin, don’t get too big while I’m gone cause I still wanna be able to beat you up.
Love, Elder Anderson
Next week I’ll send pictures.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
September 23, 2009
What up family?
Things are going good here in old Brasil. Things are going good with my companion. We’re really different but he is a good guy. He is a convert of age 22. He’s 27 now but he works really hard and is really obedient, so it’s good. We do lots of good work and feel the spirit strong. And my Portuguese has gotten a lot better. I’m still far from the Port dreams (dreaming in Portuguese) but it’s coming along.
It’s starting to get real hot now which kinda sucks. You just get to the point where you don’t care cause your just soaked in sweat. My apt has an upstairs and down stairs. The down stairs has the bathroom and the kitchen and upstairs is the big open flooded room where we sleep.
I’m glad you had a good trip Dad. I’m sure that was fun. I would really like to come back and dive here. There are some really pretty places I bet. Yeah I heard about the postal service but, I think the strike is over, and it was only part of the postal system. Like mail kept coming and stuff. I don’t know: it’s weird. But I haven’t got anything yet. The package is probably already at the office but I wont know until the Sept 28th zone conference. I’m sure Monty is keeping you busy. I really wanna play with him. I bet it’s funny. Knowing Justin, he is involved in everything and keeping busy. He’s the man.
Little Heath hasn’t missed a week of church since his baptism and we don’t even have to go get him. This last week he came and sat by me, rested his head on my shoulder, and drew in my planner the whole time. He had never seen a mechanical pencil and he was in awe over it. He said “hey man, it would be so cool to use this at school”... so I ended up just giving it to him. He couldn’t believe it. He hugged my leg ha. It was weird. I felt a real love for him. I felt like his dad. He doesn’t have one. It’s just him and his brother and his mom. He’s the man. His hair is so sweet. I drew his name in graffiti and he just traced it like 50 times. Ha, it was fun. But everything is going well. I gotta go, but I love you all.
Take care,
ate proxima semana
What up family?
Things are going good here in old Brasil. Things are going good with my companion. We’re really different but he is a good guy. He is a convert of age 22. He’s 27 now but he works really hard and is really obedient, so it’s good. We do lots of good work and feel the spirit strong. And my Portuguese has gotten a lot better. I’m still far from the Port dreams (dreaming in Portuguese) but it’s coming along.
It’s starting to get real hot now which kinda sucks. You just get to the point where you don’t care cause your just soaked in sweat. My apt has an upstairs and down stairs. The down stairs has the bathroom and the kitchen and upstairs is the big open flooded room where we sleep.
I’m glad you had a good trip Dad. I’m sure that was fun. I would really like to come back and dive here. There are some really pretty places I bet. Yeah I heard about the postal service but, I think the strike is over, and it was only part of the postal system. Like mail kept coming and stuff. I don’t know: it’s weird. But I haven’t got anything yet. The package is probably already at the office but I wont know until the Sept 28th zone conference. I’m sure Monty is keeping you busy. I really wanna play with him. I bet it’s funny. Knowing Justin, he is involved in everything and keeping busy. He’s the man.
Little Heath hasn’t missed a week of church since his baptism and we don’t even have to go get him. This last week he came and sat by me, rested his head on my shoulder, and drew in my planner the whole time. He had never seen a mechanical pencil and he was in awe over it. He said “hey man, it would be so cool to use this at school”... so I ended up just giving it to him. He couldn’t believe it. He hugged my leg ha. It was weird. I felt a real love for him. I felt like his dad. He doesn’t have one. It’s just him and his brother and his mom. He’s the man. His hair is so sweet. I drew his name in graffiti and he just traced it like 50 times. Ha, it was fun. But everything is going well. I gotta go, but I love you all.
Take care,
ate proxima semana
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
September 16, 2009
Howdy familia,
How goes it in Australia and in the kan? Things are going good here, you know Brazilian stuff. This week there was an emergency transfer and now elder Riskey from my CTM district is in my zone. He is such a nerd but I love him. It’s cool to see someone I know and who is experiencing the same things as me. My comp and I are very different but I like him and I’m learning a lot from him. He is a really hard worker. He is 27 years old! That is probably why we’re so different ha but we get along real good. I realized that I did know a little Portuguese; I just never had to use it so now I have to but we can communicate just fine. About the plaque, you guys can just pick a picture and for the scripture I want 1 Nephi 13:37.
Dad I hope your having fun in Australia and I’m sure you will in Japan (Tim is confused here – Dad is going to Fiji from Australia, not Japan.) Brush up on the old Japanese ha, and Mom I hope your enjoying the little monster. I always ask how old kids are when we’re teaching to try and get an image of how big he is and how he is acting and what he will be like when I come home. I’m sure he keeps you busy. Here is a Brazilian parenting tip; if he is loud, hungry, tired, laughing when you don’t want him to, or just running around, take off your flip flop and whack him. I don’t know if it works or not but every parent in all of Bahia uses it. It’s actually pretty sad, some of the things I’ve seen. But anyways I hope Justin is doing good in school. I know he struggles with learning things, especially facts.
I’ll find out today if your package got here or not. The zone leaders go to Salvador once a transfer and then the president comes to zone conferences once a transfer. The zone leaders left today, but those are the only times I find out if I got mail or packages or anything. If you guys could send a memory stick that would be great. I don’t think there is anywhere in my area to buy one.
Yeah I do get to see the beach everyday and it’s pretty, and the land and terrain here is really pretty. But here is what you don’t see in the internet pictures of this so called paradise ha. Every street corner is used as a dump. Literally it just fills up until cars can’t get through the road and then they just burn it and start over. I wouldn’t go into the ocean where I’m at if you paid me. There are two big rivers that flow into it that are quite literally septic. You can see way out into the ocean where the water turns blue again but the beach here is brown. Some of the areas around here have really pretty water and beaches like Nelson Coasta. It’s really pretty. That’s where Elder Palmer is now. But the terrain and stuff is very pretty here. I do like that a lot. And I still love walking past the ocean; we follow the shore line every week to get to church. I like it a lot.
Ok, well here is a spiritual story before I sign off. we found this 19 year old boy to teach. We taught him in his house, if you can call it that. It was one wall with a door between two other houses with a little roof over it. It had a dirt floor and no back wall or anything else in there. There was a little home made couch made out of crates and a blanket. He didn’t have a mom. He just lived there - him and his dad. He had shorts, no shirt and a pair of flip flops that his feet hung over the front and back of them as if he had grown out of them a couple years ago. On his flip flops, one of the straps had broken and you could see where he had melted it back together. But you could tell the kid was a cool kid and had friends and what not. Oh also he couldn’t read, but we taught him and he liked the message and we asked if he would say the closing prayer. He said he would if we would help him. So my comp said I’ll say the format of a prayer and you repeat it with things you feel, so it went like this. (My comp) Heavenly Father (boy) Heavenly Father (comp) I am thankful for ... (boy) I am thankful for everything (comp) please give me.... what ever it is that you want from God, (boy) God I want my dad to stop drinking in the name of Jesus Christ amen. It was one of the most sincere prayers I’ve every heard, one of those moments where you really stop and think about what’s really important to you. Well I hope you are doing well I love and miss you all.
Love,
Elder Anderson
Howdy familia,
How goes it in Australia and in the kan? Things are going good here, you know Brazilian stuff. This week there was an emergency transfer and now elder Riskey from my CTM district is in my zone. He is such a nerd but I love him. It’s cool to see someone I know and who is experiencing the same things as me. My comp and I are very different but I like him and I’m learning a lot from him. He is a really hard worker. He is 27 years old! That is probably why we’re so different ha but we get along real good. I realized that I did know a little Portuguese; I just never had to use it so now I have to but we can communicate just fine. About the plaque, you guys can just pick a picture and for the scripture I want 1 Nephi 13:37.
Dad I hope your having fun in Australia and I’m sure you will in Japan (Tim is confused here – Dad is going to Fiji from Australia, not Japan.) Brush up on the old Japanese ha, and Mom I hope your enjoying the little monster. I always ask how old kids are when we’re teaching to try and get an image of how big he is and how he is acting and what he will be like when I come home. I’m sure he keeps you busy. Here is a Brazilian parenting tip; if he is loud, hungry, tired, laughing when you don’t want him to, or just running around, take off your flip flop and whack him. I don’t know if it works or not but every parent in all of Bahia uses it. It’s actually pretty sad, some of the things I’ve seen. But anyways I hope Justin is doing good in school. I know he struggles with learning things, especially facts.
I’ll find out today if your package got here or not. The zone leaders go to Salvador once a transfer and then the president comes to zone conferences once a transfer. The zone leaders left today, but those are the only times I find out if I got mail or packages or anything. If you guys could send a memory stick that would be great. I don’t think there is anywhere in my area to buy one.
Yeah I do get to see the beach everyday and it’s pretty, and the land and terrain here is really pretty. But here is what you don’t see in the internet pictures of this so called paradise ha. Every street corner is used as a dump. Literally it just fills up until cars can’t get through the road and then they just burn it and start over. I wouldn’t go into the ocean where I’m at if you paid me. There are two big rivers that flow into it that are quite literally septic. You can see way out into the ocean where the water turns blue again but the beach here is brown. Some of the areas around here have really pretty water and beaches like Nelson Coasta. It’s really pretty. That’s where Elder Palmer is now. But the terrain and stuff is very pretty here. I do like that a lot. And I still love walking past the ocean; we follow the shore line every week to get to church. I like it a lot.
Ok, well here is a spiritual story before I sign off. we found this 19 year old boy to teach. We taught him in his house, if you can call it that. It was one wall with a door between two other houses with a little roof over it. It had a dirt floor and no back wall or anything else in there. There was a little home made couch made out of crates and a blanket. He didn’t have a mom. He just lived there - him and his dad. He had shorts, no shirt and a pair of flip flops that his feet hung over the front and back of them as if he had grown out of them a couple years ago. On his flip flops, one of the straps had broken and you could see where he had melted it back together. But you could tell the kid was a cool kid and had friends and what not. Oh also he couldn’t read, but we taught him and he liked the message and we asked if he would say the closing prayer. He said he would if we would help him. So my comp said I’ll say the format of a prayer and you repeat it with things you feel, so it went like this. (My comp) Heavenly Father (boy) Heavenly Father (comp) I am thankful for ... (boy) I am thankful for everything (comp) please give me.... what ever it is that you want from God, (boy) God I want my dad to stop drinking in the name of Jesus Christ amen. It was one of the most sincere prayers I’ve every heard, one of those moments where you really stop and think about what’s really important to you. Well I hope you are doing well I love and miss you all.
Love,
Elder Anderson
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
September 9, 2009
Minha familia!
Ok, so the big first transfer... nothing happened to me except Palmer got made zone leader, so he is my zone leader now and I got a new comp and he doesn’t speak english ha, so its been an interesting couple of days. And he only has 2 transfers left but everyone says he is a really hard worker and I believe it. He is all business. We spent like all p-day cleaning up our house and it wasn’t even that dirty ha. Everyone knows its not a mission house with out all those random socks and stuff the last missionaries didn’t want ha, but I just hope we can have fun while we work hard. That’s what I loved about Palmer, he had a good balance of fun and work, but we still worked hard. But at least this guy works hard so I’m excited and my Portuguese will come a lot faster so that’s good.
OK, I thought of a couple things I would like if you guys could send them to me. My red, like sweat pants shorts and my Enjoi hat that’s plaid. Everyone wears hats and stuff on p-day cause it blocks the sun, so if you guys could do that I’d love it. Just those two things, but make sure the hat won’t get ruined and bent :) Love you guys!
Ok so this week we did baptize little Heath. He is very much like a Tarzan, or like the Tom Sawyer of the neighborhood but he was really good during church. He’s the man. But that’s really the only big thing. Not much has happened with all the transferring missionaries and stuff. I hope you all are doing well. I’ll have a picture next week and a scripture, I promise! Love you guys. Dad, have fun in Australia. Don’t die (scuba diving in Fiji). Mom have fun with Monty. Someone kiss that guy for me, he looks like he is at a fun age to play with... but maybe not so fun to babysit ha. Sorry mom, Justin do good in school! I want you to try and beat my GPA ... good luck though. Palmer told me about that BYU game. His brother was there and said it was a nail biter. That’s awesome. I’m definitely ready to perform in zone conference with the harmonica! Ha, love you guys. Peace out.
Minha familia!
Ok, so the big first transfer... nothing happened to me except Palmer got made zone leader, so he is my zone leader now and I got a new comp and he doesn’t speak english ha, so its been an interesting couple of days. And he only has 2 transfers left but everyone says he is a really hard worker and I believe it. He is all business. We spent like all p-day cleaning up our house and it wasn’t even that dirty ha. Everyone knows its not a mission house with out all those random socks and stuff the last missionaries didn’t want ha, but I just hope we can have fun while we work hard. That’s what I loved about Palmer, he had a good balance of fun and work, but we still worked hard. But at least this guy works hard so I’m excited and my Portuguese will come a lot faster so that’s good.
OK, I thought of a couple things I would like if you guys could send them to me. My red, like sweat pants shorts and my Enjoi hat that’s plaid. Everyone wears hats and stuff on p-day cause it blocks the sun, so if you guys could do that I’d love it. Just those two things, but make sure the hat won’t get ruined and bent :) Love you guys!
Ok so this week we did baptize little Heath. He is very much like a Tarzan, or like the Tom Sawyer of the neighborhood but he was really good during church. He’s the man. But that’s really the only big thing. Not much has happened with all the transferring missionaries and stuff. I hope you all are doing well. I’ll have a picture next week and a scripture, I promise! Love you guys. Dad, have fun in Australia. Don’t die (scuba diving in Fiji). Mom have fun with Monty. Someone kiss that guy for me, he looks like he is at a fun age to play with... but maybe not so fun to babysit ha. Sorry mom, Justin do good in school! I want you to try and beat my GPA ... good luck though. Palmer told me about that BYU game. His brother was there and said it was a nail biter. That’s awesome. I’m definitely ready to perform in zone conference with the harmonica! Ha, love you guys. Peace out.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Sept 2, 2009
Hey!
I'm kinda pressed for time today but I'll write what I can. This week was good though. We baptized a 14 year old boy. He is really cool. We also found like a hidden city in the jungle where a little boy really wants to get baptized and he is awesome. He looks exactly like Heath Ledger. He has hair to his shoulders that’s curly and blond. I don’t know where he got blond hair but he took us for an adventure in the jungle looking for sugar cane, and we found some, ha. It was really good and fun. We also found and ate some cacau. It’s a fruit that you crack open and there are these seeds in it with gooy stuff all over the seeds, and you suck it off. They’re really good. And then they dry out the seeds and sell it to a factory here that turns it into chocolate. In english there coco beans I think, but anyways it was really fun. We're gonna baptize little Heath this week.
Also - bought harmonicas so life doesn’t get much better than that. Every night we play the blues and sing about our investigators that are getting us down. Ha, it’s fun. I still love E. Palmer and this place. Our district is just us two and two other Americans that are in vellala. I like them though. They’re really cool. Me and palmer will prob both stay here is everyone’s guess. The members don’t teach with us much but sometimes they give references. Can't wait to get the voice recorder. We’ll play you some of our blues. Love you all. Miss you. Take care.
Love,
Elder Anderson
Hey!
I'm kinda pressed for time today but I'll write what I can. This week was good though. We baptized a 14 year old boy. He is really cool. We also found like a hidden city in the jungle where a little boy really wants to get baptized and he is awesome. He looks exactly like Heath Ledger. He has hair to his shoulders that’s curly and blond. I don’t know where he got blond hair but he took us for an adventure in the jungle looking for sugar cane, and we found some, ha. It was really good and fun. We also found and ate some cacau. It’s a fruit that you crack open and there are these seeds in it with gooy stuff all over the seeds, and you suck it off. They’re really good. And then they dry out the seeds and sell it to a factory here that turns it into chocolate. In english there coco beans I think, but anyways it was really fun. We're gonna baptize little Heath this week.
Also - bought harmonicas so life doesn’t get much better than that. Every night we play the blues and sing about our investigators that are getting us down. Ha, it’s fun. I still love E. Palmer and this place. Our district is just us two and two other Americans that are in vellala. I like them though. They’re really cool. Me and palmer will prob both stay here is everyone’s guess. The members don’t teach with us much but sometimes they give references. Can't wait to get the voice recorder. We’ll play you some of our blues. Love you all. Miss you. Take care.
Love,
Elder Anderson
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