This week was good, and crazy but still GREAT. :)
Monday we had a few lessons including a FHE with a member family, it was really fun. Tuesday we had concilio, and had some really good workshops about teaching better. We also found a few new investigators super awesome this week, beginning with Hermelindo. He lives with his family and really wants to know about the church he just works sundays... and likes coffee a lot... BUT he really has desires to learn and we hope he can progress. :) Wednesday we lost our 3rd companion she went to another part, it was sad, the trio was way better than I thought it would be but it is nice to just be back to two. And speaking of that, I get to stay another change here! i love this place and the people here and I am excited to work more with HermanaTurley. Wednesday we had a different sister stay with us for a day and we had a member so we did divisions and I went with the member we went and visited some people and my comp and the other sister showed up cause they didnt know we were there and then the room where we were was SOOO tiny so we were literally sitting like on top of each other it was so funny!  Thursday we had zone conference and it was good, we also visited IVIS again and she is the best she knows everything is true she just is scared to return to church because of some problems that have happened before. Also thursday it rained SO HARD and we were in kinda a funny lesson, and the kid we were teaching with our member wouldnt let us wait inside his house for 10 minutes or 5... he just kinda shoved us out in tha pouring rain with our poor member hahahaha it was SO funny we just booked it! Also friday we did divisinos and I went with Hermana Muñoz, we got to ride around in a car for awhile... we were spoiled that day by the member ;) also we were in a lesson and a lady was bashing on the Book of Mormon and saying weird things about it,then she started talking about tithing and we showed her right there in the BOM it talks about tithing. Then she was more ready to listen it was awesome. :) I love the Book of Mormon. Saturday me and hermana turley started inviting people in the street to be baptize in our contacts, it was really cool and we want to keep doing it cause it has helped us out a lot. We are still visintg lidia and americo, but lidias mom doesnt really love us too much... but thats okay!!!! I love this gospel

and i love you all hope you have a great week :)

Well really not too much to say since I just talked to you yesterday,but I was really happy to hear all your voices! :) We have been seeing miracles and Elder Alonso coming to visit really pumped us up! Its been a good week and we are hoping for greater this week! :) We are teaching an amazingly cute couple and they are really willing to learn, also we have another family that are incredibly interested but have some doubts about the no drinking coffee... We have been able to see the Lords hand in the work A LOT this week and its incredible how he puts people in the right places and right moments. :) there are so many people being prepared to receive this amazing gospel, and the Lord is not shy to help us see that! :) I am grateful for this opportunity! We are doing good here, hope all is well there! Love you all so much! Have a great week! :)

This week we spent a lot of time visiting and helping Vilma and her
kids, her husband is still working far away, but she is reading the
Book of Mormon and has lots of questions so that is super good. :) We
also taught Ursula again, I think I  have talked about her before! I
love her, we taught her the law of chastity this week because her and her
"husband" are not married. It started out pretty awkward cause we
thought she would be angry  that we were teaching her that, but it all
ended up pretty good and she understood the importance of marriage.
They have a goal set to be married in April! Woop woop! :) The Womens
conference was super good, I LOVED Henry B Eyrings talk, he always has
the spirit so strong when he speaks. Yesterday the Catholics celebrated
the holy week and they had a parade that passed our house at like 9 pm
with a huge float of Jesus and the virgin Guadalupe and they decorated
the streets with this chalk stuff so all day it was SOOOO pretty to
walk in the streets. Its been a good week time is going by too fast but
I really love to be here!!! The gospel is true and we are so lucky to
have it!!!! love you guys

 

 

Sorry!

Yeah im not writing a big email today, not much happened this week,
because my life was spent in the dentist office. Vilma and Angel
brought their family to a church activity so that was super cool but
they couldnt come to church because they went to sell food with their
church ON A SUNDAY. We explained to them that it was breaking the
sabbath and they said.. well its just once a year!!  Also we
have been working really hard with a woman named Ursula she is the best
and her little girl ALWAYS braids my hair, she loves it for some
reason. Sorry but thats pretty much it this week. We went to some
really cool caves today so I don't have much time, Everything is
great here!!! I hope everyone is good I love you all so much have a
great week :)

sista andersen

hey fammm :)

This week was good!! great! wonderful!! Loving the mission life! Monday
we had noches de hogar that was super fun with an investigator family
that are super awesome. Then Tuesday we had a meeting with Sister
Curtiss I love her so much, her testimony is so big and after she took
us to lunch at a really cool restaurant. She showed us a video about
hiding your potential and a hatchet cover, I think its new on lds.org
if you have time watch it because it was super good. :) Wednesday we
had district meeting which was WAY good and we went to pizza hut after.
yum. We went to  visit Angel and Vilma they are the BEST!!! They came
to the baptism Saturday and I think they enjoyed it so we are hoping
they will progress, they are soo awesome and they love learning about
eternal families. :) they make me happy!! Thursday I got kinda sick
cause I ate CHOW MEIN, every time I eat it I get sick I hate that stuff.
Its like noodles and chicken and veggies and who knows what else and
its all mixed in a blender then cooked I swear it is so gross, but the
guats love it! That night we visited familia trigero, they are also the
BEST we taught them about faith and had such a good lesson with them,
they really are such cool people!! Friday we had a ward activity it was
sooo fun we were in charge of the temple station, we had a good turn
out. Saturday we went to do exercises at the church and the other
hermanas from the ward came and we just TALKED the whole time oops
sorry exercises haha. We had correlation and ate pizza.. and then we
went to lunch with the zone leaders and one of them found a hair in his
food and would not touch his food after, he hid it in a BAG and snuck
it out we were all dying oh my goodness.  We had a baptism and a
lot of investigators came with us and it was super great, super
spiritual and the baptism was beautiful. :)  I love you all so much
and hope everything is good!!:):):):

This was such a great week. We are teaching the cutest family and
I just love them so much but they need to come to church and so far
no luck. We will keep working with them. Well this week i ate liver
for the first time and I also ate some meat with little hairs in it still...
YUMMY.... And this week we are having cow tail, I will let you know
how that goes. We had a great meeting about bringing others to
Christ... Made me want to work even harder, it is just that important.
I am about to finish the book of Mormon again, I truly love the
scriptures and I love this gospel!!!


have a great week and I love you all so much :)

This week was so good, I was so sad to leave San Cristobel but sister leader training is going so good and I love being with Hermana Gomez again. I got to go to the area of hermana weicks and went out with her companion.  We were able to talk a lot at night, it was really fun to see her and talk with her again :)  I am sorry, I know I stink at writing big emails lately I will try to be better.  We are teaching this SUPER cute family, I will have more updates next week, we have been working really hard. We also had a noche de hermanimiento with the ward and did karaoke. (I sent pictures) it was so much  fun!!! LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

 

okay my keyboard stinks.

SOoo sorry this will be short but this weekwas a good one and SO Fas!!! tuesday we had divisiosand that was fun i was with hna adair here  then wednesday we got some bad news, the member Ingrid, her mom found out that she has cancer, poor thing. so we have isited them, and they are going to the hospital in guate city today to see how bad it is. Please keep her in your prayers :) her name is Gloria. Also this week we visited a MA and her mom, who is not  A MEMBERAND we got bit by somanymosquiotos  that i am surprise i still dont have dungue ;) no just kidding but we had a really good lesson wth them!!  thursday we visited a girl named claudia she has arthrtis really  bad but is really interested in the churchso we will see with her:) friday we washed blankets andclothes early in the morning for Ingrid and hat was fu!! well love you ll1!.9.) happyfebrurary!!

 

Well this week was good, Guatemala celebrates the new year with...
FIREWORKS and more fireworks that sound like a war of gunshots! And
everyone at midnight just lights a bajillion of them! Its crazy! And
also.. You will never believe what we ate... MORE TAMALES. But they
were so good these ones we ate were chicken.. no ducks this time. But
still good, although I am pretty sure I can live the rest of my life
without eating another... Also we ate Saqik its like a creamy soup with
turkey and its SPICY, its a little nasty its like oatmeal with water but thats
what everyone eats with tamales.... this week workwise was good!:) we
found lots of less actives and they were fun to visit, we found this
family and the husband is a member but isnt active.. and they invited
us to dinner this week and we really want to work with them they are
awesome!! We took our dvd player around this week to show mormon
mesages to people and they LOVED them it was super awesome and the
mormon messages are so powerful. :) Although one family thought we
were recording them and were super scared  it was so funny. We
went to one family this week and they were washing clothes in their
pila so we offered to help them.... They thought it was so funny that a
gringa was washing clothes by hand so they took pictures of me, like a
million and its like hello i wash my clothes too.. hahaha but this
family is SOO awesome, I really want them to progerss... they already
have a religion but we have a goal to convert them so we will  see :)
also the RC Vilma left with us to visit this week SHE IS THE BEST! Sooo
cute and she bore her testimony and it is just awesome. :) Thats
basically it for this week, talk to you all next week have a good one!
love you!:)

 

7 months

HOLY COW I seriously cant believe Christmas already passed, and that 2015 starts in like 3 days!! This year has gone by so fast and has been such a good one! :)

But this week was also one of the best EVER!!! Monday we got to go sing with some elderly people and it was SOOOOO FUN! They are the cutest things. One of them slapped my companion hahaha and also I got interviewed and was on TV!!!! People have passed me on the street and said hey saw you on the news! And i was like what?! so i have no idea how you could find it, but apparently i am famous in Guatemala WOOP!;) Then tuesday we just contacted LOTS cause so many people werent available.. and we also visited Americo and Victoria I LOVE them and their daughter, durning the prayer she like kissed my cheek haha it was so cute. Also after we left their house we literally walked and contacted ALL DAY so we sat down for a second and this lady comes out of nowhere and is like Ohh let me give you guys a hug, it was sooo funny i think she thought we were sad or something, it was sweet. Then wednesday we had district meeting, it was about the book of Mormon and really good then we helped people make tamales, and we visited a RC named Vilma holy cow I love her!!!! This Christmas was one of the best and so humbling, the people here dont celebrate with huge gifts or anything, but its sooo amazing, the love we can feel from our Savior not only this day but every day and that's what its all about :) On Christmas we ate MORE TAMALES for breakfast and lunch and then I GOT TO TALK TO MY FAMILY :) best moment ever! Cant wait til may ;) Friday we were in the house most of the day actually ALL day cause my comp got sick :( super sad so i literally read and wrote letters like all day. Saturday we attempted to go to an aldea, and we walked for what felt like forever and we asked this lady if we were close and she said NO its still like a half hour in a bus... WHAT!!! our area is giant here but we need to go to all ends of the earth right?? oh also i dont know if you remember me talkin about Cesar from Trebol?? the guy who stopped drinking coffee!! I heard he GOT BAPTIZED the other day!! so that was cool he is so awesome. and yeah thats this week. :) Hope you all have a WONDERFUL new year!!!!!!! 2015!!!!
Love you guys!
hna andersen

                               Christmas Eve with our tree and PJs

                                              Duck Tamales!!

Merry Christmas!

So I really have like no time but I just wanted to say MERRY CHRISTMAS!  The highlight of my week was watching frozen in spanish... I think it is a little better in english but thats alright I was just happy to get to watch it :) super fun!!!! We are working extra hard in this new area and spending so much time looking for the ones who are ready... :) Its an adventure! LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH and remember this Christmas that Jesus is the gift, I love the initiative the church is taking!!:) so grateful for our Heavenly Father and our Savior! love you all have a great week!!!:) CANT WAIT TO TALK TO YOU FAMILY:):):):)
                                                             New Companion :)

Hey all. So this week was SO good! It began Monday night, saying goodbye to everyone in San Benito was a little stinky, but the highlight was this super cute grandpa that LOVES the missionaries gave me a surprise kiss on the cheek HAHAHA super awkward, but yeah he is like 90 something and sweet. Tuesday we got all packed to go to Coban and had a 6 hour bus ride that was super great....... we got to Coban, and I was so excited to see all my old comps!! Hna martinez, hna gomez, I was sooooo happy to see them! It was a little reunion of my companions! Then I also saw hna weicks FINALLY! She has like 4 months in the mish and I finally found her!:) It was fun to see her. Then we got on another bus for 45 minutes to our area, and when we got here we were greeted by the lady we live with! HOLY COW! I dont even know how to explain her. Her name is Ingrid, she is the funniest and sweetest thing on this planet! I love her. My new area is SOOOOO COLD! I literally wear like 3 jakcets every day and gloves, I mean I was asking for a little change from the heat in Peten but not this much!;) But its so great, there are a lot of mountains so I just really like it, its super Guatemala-ish!! Also, EVERYONE and their dog in this area speaks a language called Po´qom. Its freaking crazy and half the peaople dont even speak spanish either so its tough to communicate with them but we try!:) We have some super awesome investigators here, theres a sweet family that we visit, the problem is that the guy is married to some girl in Canada but he's starting his divorce papers so we will see what happens there. We had district meeting thursday and we made pancakes, my new district leader is from Montana, I thought of Bruce when I met him. Also my ZL is from Morgan and another elder in my district is too, they both know the Marsdens!! Also, i dont know why I am the luckiest missionary in the world when it comes to worms... BUT I FOUND ANOTHER IN MY FOOD THIS WEEK! yum. sooo gross hahah. Also we have this girl here who got baptized in like septmeber and i just love her, her name is Vilma. I LOVE HER: I also saw a redneck sauna this week and thought of you dad, its built in like a stove thing hahha super funny. Then yeah thats about my week! Loving my new areal, and my comp Hna Rivas she is from peru and has 21 years and she is sooo sweet. we have the same amount of time in the mission so we will be leaving together. pretty sweet!!!:) Thats all, but have a great week and I LOVE YOU ALL :) 

 

Mission San Benito... OVER

So first off we have changes! Both me and Hna Hernandez are leaving our area and heading for areas close to Coban and my comp will be Hna Rivas from Peru (I think). I am super excited, and we are both new to the area so it should be a big ADVENTURE to find our way around and investigators and stuff! I am a little nervous too... but more excited :) And I will be leaving the HEAT!! Bring on the cold I will be able to wear my sweaters finally!:) I didnt bring them for nothing hahahaha.
This week was a good and slow one! We found a PILAS investigator yesterday,and  had a super spiritual and awesome lesson with him, then to find out that we both have changes! Pretty sad. Also speaking of sad, the reason this week was slow is because the wife of one of the members of the presidency of the branch passed away. Super sad so we were at their house a lot this week helping and consoling, it was really sad. But the service they had for her in the church was SOOO beautiful! A guy spoke and said something super awesome, he said ¨´We are born to die, and we die to live¨ I LOVED that. That is something from this gospel that just makes me so happy. I really know that families can be eternal and I am sooo grateful we have that knowledge in the restored church :) Also we saw the biggest rainbow ever, that was really cool, i am going to try to send pics??? i took some!

Yesterday was testimony meeting and SUPER good!!! i love testimony meeting. And also yesterday was december 7th... which in Guatemala for the catholics is BURN A DEVIL OUT OF YOUR HOUSE day. Literally they put like scarecrow looking people outside their house with a lot of fireworks and they burn them and they look like devils! Its so weird. Also we watched the chirstmas devotional yesterday, I loved it :) and just so you know family i still look for George
everytime the motab sings. and i point it out to my comps. ;) hahahahhaah

LOVE YOU ALL AND HOPE YOU HAVE A FANTASTIC WEEK :)

hna andersen

I still love our house...

Buenooooo!

This week was great.  Monday night we did FHE with some of my FAVORITE people, karlita and marina. I seriously love them.  I taught them how to roast marshmallows! They loved it and after we shared our lesson and were roastin the mallows it started to rain SUPER hard. Seriously I am pretty sure that a lightning bolt hit the house because it was SOOOO LOUD. It has been a little colder this week so that was nice. :) We visited a cute family this week and they are SUPER evangelicos, he was scolding us for wearing earrings...  and it was just so funny like he told us they are sins and things like that i have no idea. We are still working with Maria as well. She is progressing but she didnt come to church this sunday, she went to the young women activities but not church so we will see what is going on tomorrow with her, its almost her birthday woohoo. Then we are also visiting a guy named Cesar hes been receiving the lessons for a long time, and has had problems with some things but we visited him this week and he told us he hasn't had coffee in 8 days!!!!! That was soooo cool and we are really hoping he can keep progressing cause he's super pilas. :) There was also a baptism on saturday and it was good we sang in the baptism and it was really pretty. But the crowning event of this week.... DRUM ROLL... RAT IN THE ROOF! So one night we got to the house and planned and everything and were getting ready for bed, when i looked on the top of my closet thing to grab something and saw something moving, i realized it was a worm, so i got a chair and looked closer and there were like 50 worms in my stuff!!!!! well they were MAGGOTS, like from dead things!! and they were just like dripping from the ceiling like rain and me and my comp freaked out cause it was like 1030 and we needed to sleep so we got a bucket and were trying to figure out to do when the POWER went out!! We were soooo mad hahahah but it was sooo funny. So the power came back on and we were trying to figure it out again and the power left AGAIN!!! So when it finally came back on  we  stuck a paper to the ceiling so that they wouldnt fall and then we went to bed. The next day we told the guy who is over the houses about it and they went up and found this HUGE RAT, dead. It was soooo gross and smelled AWFUL! But yeah that was pretty fun. Adventures in Guatemala right?? I am lovin that mission life. :)

love you all have a great week I almost forgot it was Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving!!

hna Andersen