Fourty third email - Christmas

CHristmas‏
12/29/10
Sara Anderson
Mom, Dad
From: Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent: Wed 12/29/10 9:56 PM
To: Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com); Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com)

Christmas afternoon and night was good. I told you about the morning. We visited the Dials and that was great. We just chilled at their house for an hour. We then went to the Winns house and just chated with sis winn and then played a dice game with her 2 girls and there husbands. Well one of them was a soon to be husband. IT was fun. The Dials told me where the Lloyds now live, ends up its in one of our stakes!!! I am guessing they called you after I left. haha. I didnt realize how awkward I am now as a missionary till I went th their house. haha. Maybe I was just tired and not up to being all crazy. haha. Oh they have the most beautiful house ever!!! Its so amazing! We will go look at it in Oct when we all come out.

Well nothing to exciting has happened since I talked to you a few days ago. Love you all. Love, Sister Anderson

P.S. I will be e-mailing on Monday from now on and getting mail on Wednesdays. And no, I have not gotten teh cards from dad or th ward. I did get one from the waltons, andrew anderson fam, desta, fred mullins crew, mcleans, and I think thats it....

fourty Second email - well I will be talking to you in a few days‏

well I will be talking to you in a few days‏
12/22/10 To Mom, Dad
From: Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:Wed 12/22/10 10:00 PM
To:Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com); Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com)
We have had a wonderful week! I love working with Sister Drew.

The members we live with gave a 6 foot tree and some ornaments and so we decorated the tree like 5 days ago and every night we sit under it and either catch up on book of mormon reading or you know I dont really know what we do but its fun.

Oh a huge thing I forgot to tell you last week was our p-day is getting changed to Monday! Startting in Jan it will be on Mon from now on.

The Christmas devo was amazing. Elder Hinckley was just so awesome. And guess what I did, well 5 other people did it too, sang Silent Night in Karen!!! So everyone that was still in the mission field that has served in the Karen program sang, 3 elders and 3 sisters! So great.

If that website does not work that I sent you in another e-mial just go to youth.lds.org and click the mormon messages and click that one on priesthood duty. You might be amazed.

Love you tons, talk to you on Saturday. OH! and I did see the VA winn family today!!!!!! It was so good to see them! I just love them. I will be goign to there hosue on Christmas. Also I will be going to sister Wixums house like the general primary pres. Pretty Legit! lvoe you. Love, Sister Anderson

P.S. I will see Andrew, Heather, Sam, and Emily tomorrow!!! But I am sure you already know!

Fourty first email

This was an e-mail from dec 15‏
12/16/10
Sara Anderson
Sara Anderson
sara.anderson@myldsmail.net
To Mom, Dad
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Thu 12/16/10 3:42 AM
To:
Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com); Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com)
I don’t know if you got this e-mail but I was cleaning out my e-mail and it said it didn’t send so I figured I would send it to you just in case

So last night we decided to go to Young women’s for like 30 min. Iwalked in and they were doing some form of photo shoot. I look at thetable and there was an envelope addressed to Pres Naylor with yourhandwriting so I picked it up and saw it was from you and read thenotes you sent in it too. So I was able to be there when they gotthem!! It was so fun!! Sister Winn was there too because she went outwith us that night. The girl that was taking pictures has a blog but Iof course forgot my planner and it is written in there. But I thinkits, LaLasLens@blogspot.com But not 100% on that.
The powder puff game was so fun!!! I took pictures and will have toprint them off next week and send them to you.
Funny Story. So We go over to Mu Doh's a couple times a week to goover English with her and when we were there a few days ago and someone called and she told them that the "Go low wah (white people),missionaries" where at there house. So within a minute 2 other ladiesshowed up. One member and one non member who we use to teach but hadto drop. Anyway, so they walk in and Mu doh grabs her scripturesthrows them down in front of me and points at them then points at thenon member, giggles, and sits down. Then the other lady goes " I wantto learn about Joseph Smith" Mu doh goes Yeah I want to learn aboutJoseph smith!" We read the book of Mormon story about Joseph smith.haha. Well when we get to the first vision and we show all of them thepictures mu doh goes "OHH!" like a light bulb went off in her head andshe goes "OHH TWO Jesus!!!!" talking about Heavenly Father and JesusChrist. hahaah. That’s out Recent convert!! Don’t worry we correctedher. She is so awesome!
I bought some boots today! I didn’t have any and snow kept getting inmy shoes and that was cold. I got them at payless for $30. Thanks dad!
There are some people that told us that they are going to get baptizedon Christmas!!! So that’s super exciting!!!
Thanksgiving was good. We visited 23 families from 6-9 so that wasgreat!!! I called the Dials to see if we could stop by b/c we were inthere area for a dinner but they were in like Sandy so I didn’t get tosee them.
I got the Christmas package! Thanks!!! Sis. Blyel sent me somethingtoo but I don’t know if I should open it now or wait till Christmas.
Thanks for everything! Love you!

Fortieth email - Drum Roll

Drum Roll‏

3:36 AM

Sara Anderson
Sara Anderson
sara.anderson@myldsmail.net
To Mom, Dad
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Thu 12/16/10 3:36 AM
To:
Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com); Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com)


BACK TO WHERE I STARTED! hahaha. I am back in my FIRST area. Mt Olympus, Mt olympus N, and Olympus Stake. But this time I dont have the Chinese and Russian program. Sad. But its weird that I'm back where it all begain. And things have down sized. When I covered this area we had 23 wards now its 19.

We have had tons of changes in the mission. We only have 9 zones instead of 11 and they are all renamed. Now I am in the East Zone, not Millcreek. So east zone is most of Millcreek zone and part of Parley. So some of my old zone is still with me! Its pretty cool. Another thing that has changed, we are only allowed to go to the temple once a month. There are other things too but those are the biggest.

My new comp is Sister Drew from Canada! I'm excited! She has been out for like 2 transfers less then me. She cant have gluten so we don’t eat with members. So we will always come home and eat. Glad I know how to cook. haha.


For some reason we had to switch cars with a set of elders. Man are elders gross. haha. We spent an hour cleaning the car after we got it. hahaha. But I'm glad we have a car and sad we hah to give up our old one because that was my first car of my mission so that would have been fun to have back.


Our Christmas Devo is this Saturday! I am soooo excited for it! Elder Hinkley is coming to speak! Speaking of Christmas, I don’t know what’s going on with the call. I am guessing I will call you to set up a time so if you get a call from an 801 number be sure to pick up.

Back to the Columbus Branch. The Christmas party was this past Saturday. It was great. Spicy food! It was good. They told the Nativity story in Karen. It was interesting to see how they acted it out. Nyay Meh and Masha's baptism was after that and it was wonderful! Well, Nyay Meh had to do it 4 times but it got done. The man that did it, Han Soe Win ( who is in his mid 30's), it was his first time baptizing someone so it was very exciting to see. He did a wonderful job. So we went to Mudoh's house last night for dinner and it was great! I just love her family soooo much! I told them they cant move so I can visit them after my mission!

Guess who comes this Saturday! Nate, Kennzie, and Kenna!! Woot Woot. I'm excited to see them.

Other things that I have opened is cookie mix, which I gave to a RC when we did an FHE with them. Ornaments, which I gave to MAsha. I think I told you that already. Um sticky notes! eye shadow. floss, which I gave to sis Morris b/c she just ran out of hers the day before. A bracelet. Thanks for sending those! It is fun to open something everyday!

Thanks for all you do! Love you tons. Love, Sister Anderson

P.s. Do you know how Tyler M, Spence A, and Tyler F are doing?

Thirty ninth email - Hello

hello‏

12/08/10

Sara Anderson
sara.anderson@myldsmail.net
To Dad, Mom
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 12/08/10 9:57 PM
To:
Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com); Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com)We had this crazy awesome awkward dinner. It was with a widowed lady
that was 87! We walk in and chat and then she asks S Morris what her
name is. She wanted to know our first name. We didn’t tell her for
awhile but she was very persistent. So we told her. Then we went to
eat and she goes, "Sara, could you say the prayer?" Ah! hahahaa. It
was great. It was soo hard not to laugh during the prayer. Then she
told me I don’t have long left on my mission. That was a first for me.
haha. Then there was craziness with the dessert and me trying to pawn
off my coconut to S Morris so I didn’t have to eat it. It was just the
best dinner appointment ever.

Oh another dinner appointment we had 2 days ago was: bananas, oranges,
grapes, and watermelon. That’s it. hahaha. Luckily we had an FHE with a
Recent Convert family and they gave us sticky rice and Mama. (an
Asian top roman) So good!

Oh Mu Doh (who got baptized on Oct 23) got a calling! She is in the
primary. So proud of her!

I have been slacking on my "only in" so I have one for you

Only in this language program does the weather affect baptism and
sacrament attendance. I am very serious. Now that its cold attendance
is starting to go down a bit and another lady said she didn’t want to
get baptized this Saturday b/c it was to cold. Lame. haha. but the good
news is now 3 people are getting baptized on Saturday and not just
one!!!!!! Masha, Nyae Meh, and Paw Meh, which her nickname is Sara!
haha.

I think I told you about this already but every Sunday we go over to
a RC house and work on Personal Progress with one of her daughters,
Pay Li. Anyway, it is soooo amazing to help her! When we first started
we had to pull her out of her room now she waits for us and runs to
get her stuff so we can help her!!!! She has changed so much in these
past few weeks and we have been able to sign off 4 things in Faith!!!
It is just so awesome to see her change. I hope I can work in Young
Women’s when I am older. Well like back in a family ward.

Oh I need a CD case if you are looking for something else to send
me....Sorry I keep forgetting to tell you but if its to late totally
understand

I have opened floss, ornaments, a awesome notebook with colored
pencils, ummm that’s all I can remember. But its been fun so thank you.

Love you all. Love, Sister Anderson

thirty eighth email - Young Women Bowes

YW bows‏

12/02/10

Sara Anderson
To homeevdiva@hotmail.com, toby7272@hotmail.com
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Thu 12/02/10 10:19 PM
To:
homeevdiva@hotmail.com; toby7272@hotmail.com So last night we decided to go to Young women’s for like 30 min. I
walked in and they were doing some form of photo shoot. I look at the
table and there was an envelope addressed to Pres Naylor with your
handwriting so I picked it up and saw it was from you and read the
notes you sent in it too. So I was able to be there when they got
them!! It was so fun!! Sister Winn was there too because she went out
with us that night. The girl that was taking pictures has a blog but I
of course forgot my planner and it is written in there. But I think
its, LaLasLens@blogspot.com But not 100% on that.

The powder puff game was so fun!!! I took pictures and will have to
print them off next week and send them to you.

Funny Story. So We go over to Mu Doh's a couple times a week to go
over English with her and when we were there a few days ago and some
one called and she told them that the "Go low wah (white people),
missionaries" where at there house. So within a minute 2 other ladies
showed up. There was one member and one non member who we used to teach but had
to drop. Anyway, so they walk in and Mu doh grabs her scriptures
throws them down in front of me and points at them then points at the
non member, giggles, and sits down. Then the other lady goes “I want
to learn about Joseph Smith" Mu doh goes Yeah I want to learn about
Joseph smith!" We read the book of Mormon story about Joseph smith.
haha. Well when we get to the first vision and we show all of them the
pictures mu doh goes "OHH!" like a light bulb went off in her head and
she goes "OHH TWO Jesus!!!!" talking about Heavenly Father and Jesus
Christ. hahaah. That’s out Recent convert!! Don’t worry we corrected
her. She is so awesome!


I bought some boots today! I didn’t have any and snow kept getting in
my shoes and that was cold. I got them at payless for $30. Thanks dad!

There are some people that told us that they are going to get baptized
on Christmas!!! So that’s super exciting!!!

Thanksgiving was good. We visited 23 families from 6-9 so that was
great!!! I called the Dials to see if we could stop by b/c we were in
the area for a dinner but they were in like Sandy so I didn’t get to
see them.

I got the Christmas package! Thanks!!! Sis. Blyel sent me something
too but I don’t know if I should open it now or wait till Christmas.

Thanks for everything! Love you!

Thirty seventh email - DVD

DVD‏

11/24/10
Sara Anderson
To Dad
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 11/24/10 9:54 PM
To:
Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com)

Did you get the Karen Testimonies?? I sent it like a week ago. Plus a new one was made, like with Karen people talking about when they got baptized 2 or 3 times before they got baptized LDS and about the Karen couple that got sealed in the temple! So I hope to send that one to you too but it might be awhile before its all edited and sent out. Can you find out any of the names of the Karen people that the missionaries are teaching back in VA.? That would be great. Love you. Love, Sara

thirty sixth email - Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving‏

11/24/10

Sara Anderson
To Mom, Dad
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 11/24/10 9:36 PM
To:
Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com); Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com)
I guess I never told you what I was doing for thanksgiving. We are playing the powder puff game from 10-12 and then at 1 we are eating lunch with the Karen Family and the Naylor’s and their children and then at 5 we are going to another families houses. At six its back to work. Its just visiting families though. No teaching lessons that night. Somewhere in there we will go shopping for food.

thirty fifth email - It snowed yesterday

It snowed yesterday.....ewww‏

11/24/10

Sara Anderson

Sara Anderson
sara.anderson@myldsmail.net
To Mom, Dad
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 11/24/10 9:23 PM
To:
Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com); Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com)

It snowed lots. We had a baptism last night and people kept calling us and asking if we were still doing the baptism. One service missionary calls and was like we cant do it, we wont be able to make it. She goes I know you have faith but I don’t. We need to move it. An eternal investigator was getting baptized we were not about to push this. haha. It ended up happening and we even had people come out to the baptism. I called the branch pres, who we now live with, and go, Umm I don’t want to drive in the snow so can we ride with you. SO us and the Karen family and pres Naylor all got in the 15 passenger van and went to the baptism. For the Sisters safety sister Winn did not want the sisters for go out after 6 so after the baptism we went home and played with the Karen girls for like 20 min. Oh but right after the baptism when all the adults were eating cookies Sister Morris and I and.....like 8 Karen girls between the ages of 2 and 11 played freeze tag for a solid 30 min. I was so tired after that but it was loads of fun! I will have to send pictures soon.

Elders get to play in Turkey bowls tomorrow and b/c we cant play b/c we cant be touched we got permission from sister Winn to have a powder puff game tomorrow morning!!!!!! Sister Morris and I are planning it out right after we finish e-mailing. I just got the building reserved. things are on the go! I am so excited for it. Plus we are all going to dress up. Naturally being a girl we have to dress the part!


We have found tons of Kareni families!!! Its very exciting. Like 6 in a matter of less then 2 weeks! Two is already on date for baptism in December and we hope to add lots more in the next couple weeks!

I hear there is a new Mormon ad on the youth.lds.org website about missionaries either out now or some time soon so yall should check it out. I just looked and its not up now so hopefully soon.

Thanks for everything you do. Love you tons, Love Sister Anderson

Thirty fourth email - Great week!

great week‏

11/17/10

Sara Anderson
To Mom, Dad
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 11/17/10 9:17 PM
To:
Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com); Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com)

So I have waited my whole mission to do Temple Service......On Monday I got to do it!!!! It was great! There was a conference in the Solemn Assembly room on Sunday so we put up all the chairs and then a couple of us went to the guys locker room to go through the lockers to make sure they were clean. FYI the girls locker room is so much prettier then the guys! I got to see the James E Talmage room so that was pretty cool. The Tooele East Stake (were I use to cover) Was doing service too!!! So I got to see a few people I knew. It was amazing! The best part was that we all wore old baptism jumper suits and tennis shoes. haha.

This past Sunday we took 6 investigators to temple square!! It was so awesome. It was Maunge Pae (dad) Lewla Sa (daughter) Paw Ku (daughter) Chili (future daughter in law) Armuar (son) Paw Eh Sher (daughter) It was awesome. Sadly they are still not on date for baptism but they will be soon enough.

There are 3 people getting baptized on Nov 23. There was supposed to be 4 but the mom of the family feel off date. She wants to get baptized with her friend in the summer and not with her husband and son on Tuesday. Go figure. She told us last night. It was hard to be disappointed because her son was translating for us telling us that she was not getting baptized that week and in the back round she is going " I resign" hahaha. It was funny but sad at the same time.

So it’s Myit Win and Saw Win Chanu Noo. She, Chanu Noo, is a dry Mormon. She knows that church is true and has an amazing testimony but did not want to get baptized without her husband. Totally understandable but he was not progressing at all! We started reading the book of Mormon with her 3 times a week and she changed so much! I truly think the Book of Mormon is what changed her mind. So amazing! I am so excited that she is getting baptized.

We met a new Chin family. They are cool. We got the referral from a RM that is their case worker. They went to church this past week and they seemed to like it ok. But they allowed us to come back and they said that once they learned more and if they liked it or something along those lines, they would get baptized. They are an awesome family.

Thanks for all you do. I love you all. Love, Sister Anderson

P.s. Thanks Aunt Jennifer for the brownies!

Thirty-Third email - I so called it!

So called it!‏
11/10/10

Sara Anderson

Sara Anderson
sara.anderson@myldsmail.net

To Mom, Dad
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 11/10/10 10:02 PM
To:
Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com); Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com)

I so called Kelsey going to TS!!!! I am sooo excited for her!!!! But I’m sad I will have to wait until march till I get to see her!!! Maybe she will do her outbound in my mission! I guess that would not really be an out bound though. haha. Oh the TS sisters go on "out bound" for a few transfers so they don’t always have to be on Temple Square.

Before I forget can I get Andrew's cell #. Our Ward mission leader and another WML in another ward speak Tagalog and so I want them to call Andrew so he does not forget his language

The baptism went great! Started on time and Pres and Sister Winn both came.

There is a family getting baptized at the end of November. They have only been in the US for about a month. They speak many languages so we gave them the gospel principles book to them in Burmese (b/c that’s about the only books we have to give anyone for this program) Anyway, that mom already read the book once all the way through and is on it again for the second time. We took them to Temple Square last week and they loved it and then this past Sunday was all on temples b/c the first Karen Family (who we "live" with) went to the temple last week. They loved that Sunday and said they wanted to go to the temple. Our standard of excellence in the mission is to have 3 people on date for baptism each week. Sunday night we still had 0 but we knew it was possible. I said a prayer to myself saying that our next lesson, which was the stop smoking lesson, needed to fall through so we could have time to find someone. The Lord went through and the lesson ended up not happening so we went across the street and went to Myat's house and ended up putting his family on date for baptism, all 3 of them! At 8:35 Sunday night a way was provided for us to meet our goal! Amazing. They are just such an awesome family.

I finally got a Karen bag!!!!! Its green! We got it at one of our dinner appointments. Funny story about that. So It was Friday night and we had only had one dinner appointment that week and so our WML bought us litter ceasers pizza and so we went on the house to eat it but the Karen family said they had extra food so we ate with them then they got a call saying that we were supposed to be at another persons house so we jumped in the car and went to the dinner appointment we got there and there was little ceasers pizza. hahaaha. but then we got a Karen bag so it was great!

Love you all thanks for everything! Love Sister Anderson

Thirty second email - Half way mark!

Half Way Mark! Wow how fast time goes...‏

11/03/10

Sara Anderson
To Mom, Dad
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 11/03/10 8:14 PM
To:
Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com); Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com)


Ends up they are doing something new for transfer day. The old way for transfers is that p-day just got pushed to Thursday. But now they just moved transfers a couple hours earlier and we have p-day on the same day.

SO Transfer info. I stayed in Parley and am with Sister Morris, from AZ and she has been out for like a year. Still covering the Columbus Branch. The sad news is, we moved. We now live with Pres Naylor. So it should be interesting to live with my branch pres.

One of our Recent converts, Jola blessed the sacrament this past Sunday!! It was great! Also, this Sunday we were supposed to speak with any remaining time after the 5 confirmations. ( Its a new tradition that they do with us, what ever time is left after 5 or more confirmations, we have the rest of the time. haha) Well for time sake they just did a musical #, which was done by ALL non members. and they sang "Shout to the Lord" It was great! Anyway, they only had time for sister Blackwelder to get up and do a short "departing testimony"

Oh last week Sister Wixum, General Primary Pres, was at the temple with other ladies in her RS. Wow that was one happy and unified RS. It was cool to see. I just love sister Wixum.

We have Moo Moos, Poe, Pay, and See's baptism on Friday!!! I am so excited about it! Poe is already preparing to go on a mission. Maybe he will go to VA and teach the Karen people there!!

So we do "English" lessons with Karen moms who stay at home with their kids. We read Book of Mormon Stories with them. It’s wonderful. If people say they are not interested in learning about the gospel we just go to plan 2 and do English by reading the book of Mormon stories. Its cool to see how people change. They start trusting us more, pray more, and just are happier. With one lady its we teach 1/2 English, 1/2 normal lesson. Its way f

Once I get all my stuff unpacked and set up I will be able to send you pictures. I printed lots off!

Thanks for all you do. Love you tons. Love, Sister Anderson

Thirty second email - It snowed

It snowed‏

10/28/2010
Sara Anderson
To Mom, Dad
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Thu 10/28/10 8:23 PM
To:
Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com); Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com) We had a mission tour yesterday with Elder Evans. Newly called to the
first quarm of the 70. It was great! It went from 10-4. With an hour
break for lunch. It was intense. But wonderful. During the mission
tour Elder Evans said a shocking statistic. 70% of recent converts
don’t get asked for referrals. So we are working at that now at asking
every RC for a referral. Dad, you might want to tell your missionaries
that and see how they are doing with that.

This past Saturday pretty much the whole mission went to go get their
flu shots. So like 150 missionaries are at the Hospital getting their
flu shots. Great fun. I am sure if you look at the blog (sister Winns)
you have seen pictures from it.

So we had our 5 baptisms on Tuesday!!!! It went great! It started an
hour late but still went great! Pray Meh's ride got lost, very lost so
Pray Meh didn’t come to the church till 7:55ish. The baptism was
supposed to start at 7. It was cool at like 6 Sister Blackwelder and I
did a South Parc run. South Parc in a town house complex that like 50%
of it are refugees from Burma. So we just knocked on like all of their
doors and told them to come to the baptism. We had a huge!!!! turn
out!

It snowed the other day......sad. But its all melted now so its all good.

Transfers are next week do I will not e-mail till Thursday.

Thanks for all you do. Love you all. Love, Sister Anderson

Thirty-first email - Hello

hello‏
10/20/10
Sara Anderson
To Dad, Mom
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 10/20/10 8:42 PM
To:
Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com); Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com)


Before I forget. There are some of our investigators that know people in VA so do you think you could find out the name of the Karen investigators in VA. Plus I have a DVD from the branch of some of the people in the branch bearing their testimonies so I got a extra copy and I will mail it to you so you can have the Karen investigators over to your house and watch it! It would be great! Also, If you could find my baptism picture and make a copy of it and mail it to me that would be great!

The Book of Mormon reading is going great! I love it! Its so nice to set aside 30 min to read it and its way cool that we are going to get it done by Dec. 31!!! I am getting so much out of it!

So Nabila has had a few baptism dates and it has never gone through. So we called her and tried to stop by many times and nothing has been happening. So we have not been able talk to her. Anyway so we had to drop her and then last night she called US! and goes so when can we do this. I was like, do what? Come over to your house? She goes no get baptized. I was like Well we can do it this weekend!!!!!! Then she explained to us how ready and excited she was. Wow. She had her interview tonight!!! We were not going to have any baptisms this week because its stake conference but the Stake pres said that if we find someone that is ready then we can do the baptism and get them confirmed that day. It’s very exciting!

There was a family that came to church last week and so we took them to Temple square that night. Then this past Sunday the 18 year old boy was in priesthood and there was another boy getting the priesthood so Poe, our investigator, asked if he could join in the circle and so they explained why he couldn’t. Then they were talking about missions and Poe said he wanted to go on one! Golden! He is getting baptized on October 26!!! We are teaching his whole family now. Very Exciting!!! He now has a preach my gospel!!! He is so solid.

We have 5 people getting baptized on the 26th of October. No one wants to get baptized on the 30th. Even though they all will still be confirmed on the 31st. Paw Law, Mu Doh, Hay Soe, Nying San, and Prey Meh are all getting baptized. 4 Karen people and 1 Kareni.

We are having a mission tour. On Tuesday or Wednesday. A mission tour, in case you don’t know b/c I didn’t until yesterday, is when a new 70 member is called and so to "practice" they come and train us. So I am super excited about it.

Thanks for everything! Love you all. Love, Sister Anderson

Thurtieth email - The Lord is full of Surprises!

The Lord is full of surprises!‏

10/13/10
Sara Anderson
Sara Anderson
sara.anderson@myldsmail.net
To Mom, Dad
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 10/13/10 8:28 PM
To:
Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com); Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com)

Like 2 weeks ago during weekly planning we set a goal for 1 person to get baptized. We didn’t have anybody on-date but we still set the goal b/c we knew that some one was prepared out in SLC. Nabila was supposed to get baptized on Saturday Oct 9th. So on Tuesday we went over on Tues and she wanted to get baptized!!!! Very exciting! WE had pur person that was prepared! Well come time for her interview she didn’t show up. We called, stopped by and she never called back or answered the door......Saturday morning comes around. We check tons of referrals and added some new investigators and the afternoon was going great! Lwel Moo called us and asked if we were still coming over at 3. So we headed over to his house. No one in taht family is baptized. A mom, dad, and 2 sons. The boys are 9 and 12. They wanted nothing more then to get baptized but the dad said that they were to young. To make this story even more awesome Lwel Moo had just sprayed for bugs so there were tons! or cockroaches running for life all in the living room and all over our stuff! haha. So we are talking to Lwel Moo about his baptism and he said it was no good for him but it was good for his boys. He has said that before so we really didn’t get to excited about it. So then I turned to the boys and asked them if they would pray about being baptized on Oct 16. They said yes! Then Lwel Moo said that he had to work that weekend. Hmmmm....So we said, How about tonight. Long story short. We had a baptism 4 hours later!!!!!!! This was clearly supposed to happen. Everything fell into place. Everyone that needed to be there could be there. Everyone that we asked to speak accepted and the 2 interviews happened before the baptism! It was a beautiful night!!!!!! And to make things even better we added 2 new investigators and still had 9 lessons that day AND my stitches came out!!!! What an epic day!

SO yeah that was the highlight of my life. Don’t really need to write anymore. hahaha


Sister Winn came out with us last night!!!! It was fun having her. She is a wonderful teacher.

We decided that we are going to invite the Kareni Sunday school class that we teach to be baptized on Sunday. A solid 9 out of 13 are non members. We taught them about the Godhead, Faith, Repentance, Prophets( which included Joseph Smith), Prayer. This coming sunday we are going to talk about Baptism and the Holy Ghost then bam! invite them to all be baptized. It should be interesting. Im excited for it.

Fun fact for ya. THe Book of Mormon is being translated into Napali! I know one of the guys that is helping with it. There are 6 men doing it. They all have their role of what to do. They first chapter they did was 2 Nephi 6. It took them 20 hours to do! WOW! Also for General conference they have about 10 translators for each language. The translators get teh talks weeks in advance and the best translator is for the prophet b/c the prophet is the only one really allowed to go "off script" Also the translators have to be Temple worthy.

The first presidency was at the Temple today. I didn’t see any of them but some of the Elders said they saw them. Lucky!

Thanks for everything you do! Tell grandma thanks for the make up!!!!!! Love, Sister Anderson

Twenty - ninth email - Conference

Conference‏

10/06/10
Sara Anderson
Sara Anderson
sara.anderson@myldsmail.org
To Mom, Dad
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 10/06/10 9:01 PM
To:
Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com); Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com)
conference was great! I saw Katie Anderson and the Lansing's and that’s it. But it was nice to see them! We got tickets for all the sessions but we did not get into the Sunday morning session b/c we didn’t know we had to get there earlier. hahah oops. We just watched it in the North Visitors center. Lots of leg room in there!!!! And then I opened my big month while walking next to the Temple Square mission pres and told Abby who he was and I think b/c he heard his named he stopped us (b/c at this point we had walked past him and were a good 8 feet from him) Then he made us give him referrals. hahaha. Oh so I shook some apostles hands but I don’t remember who they were....haha. I talked to sister Wixom for a bit! I love her! And she remembered me!!!

Zone Conference is on Monday!

The area is going. We are teaching many people so that’s wonderful. We sadly have to drop two families but the Lord blessed us and we were able to add 5 new people the next day!!!! It’s amazing how the places people in the right place at the right time. We went to an apartment complex to visit people, no one was home so we figured we would stop by a recent convert to see how they are doing. We were talking to them then we decided to play a matching game with them to review all the commandments. At that moment a guy walks in the house ( karen people never knock they just walk in, so they always say they know its a white person at the door b/c we knock.) so he decided to stay and one of the boys goes, " he not baptized" so we, 7 of us, played this matching commandments game. We then talked to the guy, Say Htoo, and asked if we could meet with his family. He agreed and then gave us his address. Ends up we already got this referral but for his daughter!!!! We have been trying to get a hold of her for weeks! Say Htoo daughter, Paw Kay Htoo, walked in the MISSION OFFICE looking on where to go for school so the cute mission office ladies gave us the referral. So all the pieces are coming together!

Pres. Winn told on yall. He told me today that the blog has not been updated since like august.......haha. I printed pictures off today so I hope to be sending some soon. So you can add that those to the blog.

Hm I forgot my planner so I don’t remember everything I was going to write you about.....hm that’s a problem.

Love yall tons!!!! Love, Sister Anderson

Twenty eighth email - RS Conference was great

RS conference was great!!!‏

9/29/10
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Sara Anderson
Sara Anderson
sara.anderson@myldsmail.net

To Mom, Dad
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 9/29/10 9:12 PM
To:
Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com); Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com)

Sister Winn is awesome and got tickets to the General RS conference!!! It was the most amazing thing ever! Not bashing on guys or anything but the spirit is so much stronger when its just women in the room. It was incredible! I loved Pres Monson’s talk! Well after the session we had a wedding.....at 8. We had 30 min to get from the conference center back to our area and we totally did it!!! We pretty much ran, after we got off of temple square, to the car ( member took us) and she is a very skilled driver in SLC and knew were all the back road and non busy roads. It was great! The wedding went great too! It was Nabila. We dont ahve the Napali/Haven Ward any more, a set of elders have it. So they were at the wedding too. Now Nabila can get baptized!! Very exciting!

Mynt Sein's baptism was good. It was a pretty good turn out and we wore our Karen Clothes again!

Sister Blackkweldre and I teach a Kareni class every week. They are different from the Karen. Kareni are less educated so pretty much what we teach them they accept b/c its just one of those "matter of fact" things. So its loads of fun teaching. The Karen class teacher was gone on Sunday so Sis. Blackkwelder taught the Karen class and I taught the Kareni class. I taught about the Godhead. It went great! I loved it! We are starting to teach more Kareni people so its good that we are teaching the class. A man, Brother Wheeler, teaches a 5 min English class in each class ( Karen and Kareni) every Sunday but he had to leave early so I did it. haha. We talked about fruits and veges and their colors. It was great. I never \ thought I would be doing what I am going now. I’ts awesome!!! Love my mission! I just want to stay in the Karen program forever and learn the language!!

We had dinner with the branch pres a week or two ago and I told him about my dream of being in the conference issue of the ensign. Well on Sunday Pres Naylor comes up to me and goes Sister Anderson there is someone I want you to meet. He then introduced me to a man that is very much in charge of taking pictures for the ensign!!! He told me if I see a photographer at the conference center to tell them that he said to take a picture of me! haha. He said who knows if I will get in it but I might at least be able to get my picture taken! If I was staying the branch for conference, like at the church, then it would be more likely b/c the ensign ppl are going there for a bit. My mission is so cool

Guess who the Dials invited over for Dinner on Sunday....the Lloyds!!!!!! It was the best!!! So cool. An amazing dinner appt! I really need to print off pictures and sent them to yall.

Thanks for everything!!!! And for everything that I am going to get at conference!!! Love you all soooo much! Love, Sister Anderson