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Fifty Sixth email - YW broadcast‏

3/28/11 To Mom, Dad Sara Elizabeth Anderson We got tickets to go to the yong womens broadcast!!! We had two investigators with us. Paulina and Jenny. Jenny is from Germany and has been in UT for about 6 months. Her english is amazing!!!! Back at home she said that church was not cool and that only old people go to church. So when she went to the conference canter and saw 22,000 girls there she was blown away! She loved it. The baptism went great!!! Anna. Ang guess what they Young Women sang for hte special musical number, Walk Tall your a Daughter of God! It was so amazing! I was like AH my aunt sang this at my baptism!!! It made me so happy!!!! COnference is coming up!!!! I am so excited!!! Aunt Jennifer sent me a letter and said that she woudl be here. So I guess I will see the Blyels and the Mullins. Yes I got the ticket. Thank you so much!! Things are good! Staying healthy and happy. Thanks for everythinkg. Love you all. Love, Sister Anderson

Fifty Fifth email - life is a whirlwind‏

3/21/11 Sara Elizabeth Anderson Hide message OK so this week had been crazy! Well the abrasion happened Monday afternoon, went to insta care that night and that is when I found out about the abrasion. Went to the optimoligist Tuesday afternoon where he put a contact in my eye to act as a band aid. It worked wonders!!!!! I could see! And I was not re scratching my eye every time I blinked!!! It felt so good to have that contact in my eye. I went back to the Dr on Thursday so he could make sure every thing was good and it was! It was weird to have the contact out b/c I could feel the scratch. But that only lasted for a few hours. Also I got a blessing so don't worry I use the priesthood that I have available. Then there was the S. Tagawa stuff. She got permission to stay as long as she needed so everyday we would talk about what she should do, what would be the safest for her, what would be good for her parents and so on and so forth. In the long run, she went home on Friday. We got to take her to the airport, it was very exciting! I had not been to the airport since Feb 2, 2010. We got the Standard of Excellence this week but it was very stressful and last min. We had everything we needed except 3 new investigators...and it was Saturday. But the Lord provided a way like he always does and we added one new person on Saturday and 2 new people on Sunday. Very exciting. Shiloh Bowmans baptism was great! She was soooo excited! It was so cute to see! HUGE amount of people. Oh and guess who is in her ward.....Calab Baldwin!!!!!!!! So I was standing in the lobby area looking for one of our investigators who was coming to the baptism and I saw a kid that looked like him and then I remember the WML saying his ward missionary was Calab Baldwin and I was wondering if it was the one we knew. So I just stood there watching him and them he comes to the door and he goes "whoa it is SARA!" hahahaha. So he did the classic bishop thing and gives me a handshake and goes I know I cant hug you...and then hugs me. hahaha. I have not seen him in forever!! I was so exciting to see him! I took a picture with him and I just tried to put it on the computer but it didn't work so I will have to figure something out. I really didn't know what though. You might have to wait till I get home to see it. I sent in my appeal to BYUI thanks for sending that to me. They said it would be between 1-2 weeks to hear back so be looking in the mail for that. Next weeks baptism line up is Anna Tidwell. She is in the Dials ward! Well thanks for everything! Love yall. Love, Sister Anderson

Fifty Forth email - Rain then Snow

Rain‏ 3/14/11 Yes pres monson has a body gaurd with him at all times even when he goes to him home ward. He also has a body gaurd at his home at all times chillin in the drive way even when he is not home. He has a couple of cars but they are all lincolns. Yeah I would love to help out with Youth conference! I would also like the 2 tickets for conference. This will be sister longs first time for conference! And my last....sad. Do you know if the surrounding stakes have extra tickets?? Love you tons! So last p-day it was raining for like 3 pm through the night. When we woke up there was like a foot of snow on the ground!! So much snow!! But the good news was that it was like 60 a few days latter and it was all gone!! Oh I forgot to tell you about transfers. I stayed in the same area and with the same companion, Sister Long. But guess who else is with us....Sister Tagawa!! She is done with her mission but stayed an extra week and a half and goes home on Friday. Its good thta she stayed b/c the eathquake happened like the day she was supposes to leave. Victoria and Joses baptism went great! It was a bit on the smaller side but the talks were wonderful! This weekend Shiloh Bowman is going to get baptized! She is 13 and super cute. She has such a great support group from her YW. We are teaching this 11 year old boy, Cooper, (who is on-date for baptism on April 26. I know its forever away but we can only teach him everyother weekend) Well we ended up going to the ward that he was going to that week and after the sacrament was done him and his uncle stood up and started walking to the back. Well he stops at our row and goes "can I sit with you?" so cute! So cooper sat with us during church b/c for some reason his uncle moved to the back of the chaple. But I love this kid. Another kid we are teaching in Nate. He is 18. We were talking about baptism and he was saying May. But sister long an I decided to commit him to April 1. Long story short. He is on date for April 1!!! He was SO excited to call his grandpa about the baptism! And to tell all of his friends at church! Its so exciting to see people so excited about baptism! Things are great here! Thanks for all you do! Love you tons! Love, Sister Anderson

Fifty Third email - Hello

Sara Anderson sara.anderson@myldsmail.net To Mom, Dad Mon 3/07/11 8:14 PM I got to go to the temple today! I looked for Kelsey but didnt see her. I told a few temple square sisters to tell her I said Hi. I hope she gets the message. Wednesday is transfers. I have no clue what is going on. Two sisters are coming in. One from UT and the other from VA!! So thats pretty awesome. I will probably stay where I am but who knows, I said that last transfer and I ended up getting transfered. Jackie and Madi's baptism was good. Their mom from Tooele, who is not a member, came! They were so excited to have her there. They are so cute. Every time Madi sees me she runs up and gives me a hug! It was sad because they really dont have a mom figure (parents are divorced) so there was no one to help them know what to do with clothes or what not so I was very grateful that it was us teaching them and not elders so we could help them out with that. Do you remember Jen Anderson, she got baptized last weekend. Well her and her husband are doing some detox diet and so they called us last night and told us that they have a bunch of food they are getting rid of and wanted to know if we wanted it! Of course we did!!! So we went over there and got milk, juice, cheese, salsa, tuna, crackers, frozen food meal things, bacon, oatmeal, string cheese, pudding, peanut butter, and even more! So good news is we didn't have to go shopping today! So it gave us extra time to clean our apartment! So not this past weekend but the week before that we had 88 baptisms in this weekend! Awesome! We are going to have a celebration on transfer day! Rumor has it one of the 70 that is over our mission is coming to speak to us and we are going to have cafe rio! Well hope all is well, Love you. Love Sister Anderson

Fifty Second email - who has the best mission, that would be me!‏

2/28/11 To Mom, Dad From: Sara Elizabeth Anderson I love my mission! I get to meet so many amazing people everyday! Ok so you know in General Conference President Monson talks about a retirement place that he loves to go to and goes there many times a year. Well that is the branch Ilo is in. We went to her branch yesterday and I was telling Sister Long how cool it would be if he came so I looked for his car in the parking lot when we got there. Nothing. Oh well. So we get there and we are chatting it up with Ilo in the little recreation room that sacrament meeting is held and we are in the back and guess who walks in. Pres. Monson! I got to shake his hand and say hello to him this time!!! Woot woot! He is so amazing! After the 2 speakers were done one of the counselors leans over to him and goes "Did you want to say something?" Pres. Monson goes " That's why I'm here" So he got up and spoke for 15 min. It was so amazing! At one point he was talking about how his mom has one disappointment in him and he asked her what it was. She said "You didn't stick with the piano" Haha. He told us about one song he remembers. He goes it sounds something like this......then whistles a song and at the end goes "join the navy" I guess it was navy song. All the old people thought it was great. He is wonderful at whistling. The branch had about 13ish people there from the rehabilitation center and then there was all whole branch pres and their wives and about 8-10 singles from a singles ward that it was there month to do the sacrament and talks for the branch. There was about 40 people and Pres monson in this room. So cool. The love that he has for these people is amazing! Well everyone but especially for this rehabilitation center. Its were his parents and his wife's parents were so he said its a very special place. I agree. Jen Anderson's baptism went amazing! We had to do it in the chapel! And it was full! So many people!!!! I went to a WML's house yesterday to get something and his son was there that served his mission in RVA and I told his that I was in Gayton ward and he was so excited! Once he got which Anderson I was he goes " I helped you move in!" Small world. His name is Elder McDonald. Apparently he was there for 6 months. Do you remember him? Well if you do, he's married now. Thanks for all you do! I hope you got those pictures. I got a letter from grandpa long saying I did a good job on doing my job well.....something along those lines. haha. He is so cute!! I cant wait for yall to meet him. Love, Sister Anderson

Fifty First - What a Week‏

2/21/11 Sara Anderson sara.anderson@myldsmail.com To Mom, Dad From: Sara Elizabeth Anderson We had a wonderful week! We got the Standard of Excellence again this week! It is very exciting!!!! Our two baptisms when so great!!! There was so much support for both people. Alishia is 17 and is living with her LA brother now active. She has lived with him for a few months and is from a reservation. I now know how to say I love you in Navajo! Tons of the YW group came to support her. It was great! They all did a special musical number. Ilo was so precious. The first time she went under it freaked her out and so her leg came up. So the Branch pres changed in a white suit and got in to help out. When we went in the bathroom to grab her wheel chair she was so happy and was like it was better the second time! So cute. I tried to e-mail a picture of her baptism but either my memory card is messed up or my card reader thing is messed up but I am gonna go with my memory card b/c it is always deleting pictures. We got to do temple service on Tuesday!!!!! It was weird to walk in with jeans on when other people are walking in ready to do baptisms. I felt unholy. We worked in the basement with lots of dust, wood, and metal (old lockers) The basement is huge!!! So many extra rooms with just random stuff in them! It was awesome to see down there though b/c not a whole lot of people get to. Well hopefully my memory card will get fixed and I can print/send pictures to you. Love ya'll. Love, Sister Anderson