Forty Seventh email - Connections

Sara
One word connections
To Mom, Dad
From:
Sara Elizabeth Anderson (sara.anderson@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Mon 1/31/11 8:50 PM
To:
Mom (homeecdiva@hotmail.com); Dad (toby7272@hotmail.com)
hahah. Page 9 of the Ensign which everyone seems to already know about! But now that everything is out in the public I can tell you they WHOLE story. So when I got in the Columbus branch 4 transfers ago I told pres Naylor it was my dream to be in the ensign. He told me he knew a guy that did photography stuff for the ensign about 2 months later I met this man. In the beginning of November the, 1st p-day with sister Morris, I get a call from him going, Sister Anderson do you still want to be in the ensign? I said "yes!" He said that his people would call us some time next week and set up a time to do a "photo shoot" !!!!!!!!! I was so pumped! So about 5 days later I get a call from Robert Casey and he says that he has time to do the photo shoot that day. So during our lunch hour we did a photo shoot!!!!! So much FUN! The porch we are standing on is a bishop in my old area. He is the Bishop over the napalis. Backing up. So I got the call on a Wednesday saying that "his people will call me" Well the next day, Thursday, we get a call from out Zone Leaders saying that "a video crew from some youth thing is going to video us tomorrow" We were like yeah we already know. Well we were wrong! I guess the mission office pick sister Morris, tagawa, bates, and I to have the youth website people video us for a bit and then the photo shoot was a completely different department in the church that have nothing to do with each other!!!! hahaha. So we did both of these things back in mid November in a matter of a week! It was wonderful!


Ok shockingly I got transferred. I got an "in zone transfer" They shuffled our stakes around so there in one set of elders that have 2 of my old stakes and another set of elders that have one of my old stakes. And then Sister Long and I took one of the Elders stakes. AND we are all in the same district so at district meetings and on p-day we are all asking about our old investigators and giving each other tips on how to teach so and so. Its great! So now we cover a whopping 32 ward! Its kind of intense but it keeps us on out toes. I like it. I live with Sister Joanie again. She is the one I lived with my very first transfer.

We have a baptism next weekend. His name is Alain and married a member and they have been going to church together for 2 years. So he’s solid! I like him and his wife a lot!
Minte is from Ethiopia! He is sooooo awesome! So funny. CUTE! So black. I love it! He was worried to meet with us b/c we were not boys but after we left we got a text from his mom saying he loved us and wants us to come back.

Jen Anderson- Awesome too! She also married a member and he is just starting to come back to church and he is going to baptize her on FEB 26!

Then we are teaching about 6 girls under the age of 12. So fun. Not all from the same family. From about 4 different families.

Oh just a reminder. When writing me, mainly Abby, Write Sister Sara Anderson. No nick names. They don’t know who to send it to if you don’t at least have my last name on it.

So we spoke in a singles ward yesterday and I was slightly freaking out because first off it was not on missionary work and second b/c I didn’t have a translator with me. hahaa. For 4 1/2 months when ever I did spoke of taught in church I had a translator so it was weird not to have one. Haha. But it all worked out in the end. I sure do love when I spirit takes over. It makes speaking a lot easier. haha. Oh and guess who walked in that sacrament meeting I was speaking in.....Matt Dial. I think I embarrassed him a bit. haha. I called him out in my talk and told everyone taught we were in YW/YM together back in VA. Hahaha.

Well thanks dot all ya'll do! Love you tons! Love, Sister Anderson