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 :)