Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite

Hello everyone this week was another good one. So ever since I got here I have been getting eaten by bed bugs, so we moved into the YSA Elder apartment and we have been living there all week. It has been a lot of fun.

On Tuesday I got to go to the departing temple trip to Nauvoo. It was a lot of fun ,we all rode down in the transfer van. We had to go early because the temple closes soon and it will be closed for 3 months. So there was a lot of missionaries with us for the next few transfers that are going home. We got to go to Carthage also and take a tour and then we did some shopping around Nauvoo. On our way home we got stuck in a bad storm and there was a few tornadoes. It was raining crazy hard. So we turned around and stayed the night in Burlington, all 7 of us. The elders there had a projector setup on the wall and we had a movie night and watched the 12-step videos that are on lds.org it was a lot of fun.

Wednesday and Thursday we had district meetings in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. We taught Huey Lewis with a member and things are going okay with him. He can't get baptized until he stops going to his other churches and stops wearing his white robes. He has been fasting and praying a lot to be able to receive an answer on whether or not to do so. We have been very bold with him we are hoping he finds an answer. On Wednesday we went and helped my brother Eric Stannard, our investigator, paint his house. We were with the Trailridge Elders on exchanges, it was awesome and he gave us all his tobacco. Pray for him that he can give up his addictions and be able to come to church soon. We had a good lesson with him and our Bishop at Village Inn on Saturday. Things are going good, we are crazy busy, and we are just hoping to find more time to go find new people. This week we should have more time.

The life is great, I love being a missionary. I'm trying to finish off as hard as I can. I know that this sounds weird, it's because I'm talking into my phone. Oh they also had Gameday and there was a ton of Tailgaters all around the stadium and tons of people everywhere all over town. We tried talking to a lot of them but religion was the last thing on their mind. But it was a lot of fun.

Love you,
Elder Anderson

Departing Temple Trip

Nauvoo Temple

Carthage

With Eric Stannard