Goodbye Hannibal

Hello everyone!

We had a great week this week! Did a lot of knocking. We got a few New Investigators! The first one was on Tuesday, Troy Porter. He is a media referral we got a week or two ago and we have been trying to meet with him for awhile. We finally met and taught him the Restoration and he loved it. He has some kind of disease in his brain that is incurable. It makes him black out every now and then and he can’t remember a lot. But he is really cool I hope they can keep teaching him! We also got another cool guy his name is Trevor, he has been a potential for a while and we were finally able to teach him, he is younger probably in his 20s, seems cool. He is interested and hopefully will come to church soon. Then when we were knocking there was a couple kids playing basketball, so I went over and started to talk to them. One was an older guy and he said he didn't believe in God but the other one is a 12 year old black kid, his name is Markel he is super cool. We taught him the Restoration and then I beat him in Horse haha!

I am getting transferred to Moline, Illinois! It is in the Davenport, Iowa stake! I’m super Excited, I hear it’s a great place! I leave on Thursday, I have loved my time here in Hannibal and wish I could have stayed one more transfer but the Lord has other plans for me.  

Well it was a great week! I don’t have a ton of time because today is not our P day, it’s on Wednesday this week because of transfers. I hope you all have a great week!

Love, Elder Anderson

Me on a tank

At the Shethi's for lunch after district meeting

Yogurt at the Spoon Wave

A deadhead they found last Monday

Busy Week!

Hello Everyone,

This week was busy. We did a lot of finding and found some cool new potentials. We weren't able to meet with our main investigators due to Zone Conference. We had Zone Conference on Friday so we left here at like 3 on Thursday and drove to Quincy, then to Iowa City which is about a 2 and a half hour drive. We got there and stayed the night and then had Zone Conference all day long, it was rough but I learned a lot. We got back Saturday morning and went to the Shethi’s for another great breakfast. I love going there.

Nothing crazy happened just normal things, lots of service and finding. I’m short on time today, I hope you all have a great week! Love, Elder Anderson

Serving at the food pantry

Cops, Tornados, and Muscle Milk

Pretty great week this week! So last Monday I went to GNC to buy some protein powder, and when we were walking back to the car there was this box sitting in the middle of the parking lot and It says Muscle Milk. I ran up and kicked it just expecting it was empty, but it was clear full of protein shakes! I picked it up and ran to the car! Everyone was wanting one so I had to give a couple away but I still have a ton and now I'm gonna get huge! Haha

We have had a few tornado's, one night we were at Wal-mart and the tornado sirens started going off. You could hear the rain coming down super hard and the wind blowing. Then they came on the intercom and said there's a tornado, everyone get to the back of the store. Most people were running to get out before they got locked in haha. But we went to the back of the store and stayed there for about an hour, and then they let us go. It went right over Hannibal but never touched down! One other night we had a big storm but no tornado's.  

Then the other day we were driving out to a referrals house. I was kinda going fast and I came around a corner and Tiwi (the box in our car that yells at us when we go to fast or drive aggressively) was yelling at me. So I was trying to slow down. Anyways everything happened so fast but the cop pulled me over and came to my window and the first thing he said was " Hey that's a nice watch" hahaha. Then he told me I was going too fast and he gave me a warning. It's up on my fridge now it’s pretty sweet! Lol

We also had exchanges with the Zone Leaders and that went great. We found 4 new Investigators, a couple of them seem solid. We weren't able to meet with Reid and Shelby this week they were too busy but hopefully this week. One day we were out knocking and we knocked on our old first counselor's door haha. We didn't know where he lived and accidentally knocked on his house. He let us in for awhile and gave us $30 for dinner haha. We ate good that night! We knocked a lot this week and found a few people so hopefully we can get a lot of lessons this week.

Love, Elder Anderson

Exchanges

4 Months!

Hello everybody, four months down already!

This week was a good one, P day was good, Monday night we had Ethen's Baptism interview and it went great! Tuesday we had Interviews with our President and those went great, and I gave a training on why the LDS church doesn't have crosses. It's mainly because we believe in a living Christ and It says in the Bible "If ye love me Keep my Commandments" not if ye love me have a cross. And to not carry our cross physically but to carry it by living the atonement. But we don't have anything really against it, we pretty much choose not to, and we still respect it.

Wednesday we just stopped by some people and spent some time with them and did a little knocking. Thursday we made programs for the baptism. We also had a short lesson with Terry, Ethen, and his daughter that wants to take the lessons in the summertime when school is out. Friday we went running in the morning and weekly planned. Later we went to Reid and Shelby’s for a great dinner and we had a great discussion with them, it wasn't on anything specific, it was just talking about random things and trying to answer their questions the best we could, I love going over there because I learn so much about so many things and when I can’t answer them I write them down and go study and am able to text them the answers, It’s so cool because we aren't just teaching them they are teaching us and it’s awesome!

Saturday was Ethen’s baptism and it went great. It took three times but we got it done! haha I pretty much had to put the whole thing together and it was kind of stressful I had never done it before and my comp is the senior comp and should know how but he had no idea! That's how this whole transfer has been, I feel like I’m just pulling him and he doesn't really know or care about what’s going on he just goes with the flow. It’s ok though it has been a HUGE learning experience. Yesterday Ethen was confirmed and it went great!

It’s been a great week! We have a great week planned ahead of us!

Love, Elder Anderson

Terry & Ethen

A great day!