Bowling, Temple, and Exploring a Homeless Community - Lilburn, Georgia

 WELCOME BACK MY GOATS 

Guys I love being a missionary I cannot lie. I've never been happier and more exhausted in my life. My comp is my goat and we have friends firm on the path  What more could a missionary want ?? LET'S GET INTO MY WEEK 

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Tuesday: TEMPLE P-DAY! We did Initiatories in the morning! It was so beautiful and special. I always love the temple! We went to Talpa for taco tuesday afterward with our district! Elder Hoffman's birthday was this past Sunday so he got to pick what we did for p-day! He picked bowling and it was so much fun! We had dinner with the Palmers :)

Wednesday: We helped the Casillas family move about a mile down the road! Us and 7 other missionaries were there helping. They graciously fed us Chinese food afterward . We had interviews with pres in Suwanee! I always love interviews. Accounting to President is a great experience because most of the time, he tells me I'm doing a better job than I think I am. He always has great advice on how to improve, too. Basically I have to block out the ultimate hater (satan) To end off the day with a bang, we pierced Sister Empey's seconds  they look just marvelous

Thursday: District Council! We stopped by Laverne and she was doing great! She is finding financial stability which is awesome sauce. We got in with a part member family! We're teaching a woman in our ward, Sister Culp's grandkids Lennox and Isabella! They're 10 and 8. They were very excited to show us their cartwheels and had so many questions about what happens after we die. When ending our night at chick fil a for studies, we felt prompted to talk to a woman in her car as we were walking out. She was so happy to be talking with us. She started explaining all the crazy things that don't normally happen that led her to be able to talk with us. (Her phone died so she had to park her car instead of ordering ahead in the drive thru and she was waiting for her food outside) She is a GEM  of a woman and was asking so many questions (where is your church?? What do I wear?? Can my KIDS COME?) Like oh my word a missionary's dream basically. Pray for Zyteriea!

Friday: Most cooked day of all the cooked days of all time. Rough as freak but we got through it! We went to stop by a referral we had gotten when we realized we were smack dab in the middle of a homeless community behind a hotel. Bruhhhhhh. Then we found out the same guy blocked us  We press on. We weekly planned and that isn't always fun but we try! We always feel fried after. We had a ROUGH lesson with this gal and we were trying to explain proper authority in the nicest way but she just wouldn't get it. Even our member explained it in the most graceful and eloquent way ever but the lady was like yeah I have been baptized by the priesthood. NO  We had dinner with the Stallings and I had fun tiring out 3yo James by making him run laps around the house. You're welcome James's parents. We ended the day with a wonderful call with Aria. Our sweet, sweet angel on earth who is getting her patriarchal blessing soon! Yippee!!

Saturday: The busiest days are the ones I cry laughing the most. It literally always happens. We had a lesson with one of our promising friends, Marvin who was so incredibly nervous to meet with us and even broke down crying mid-lesson but he felt the spirit! He said there was something different about us. Brother Saldaña was a Godsend because he spoke spanish with Marvin during our lesson. We finally had another lesson with Marri and Malaisia! They're less nervous about baptism now hooray! Laverne texted us to let us know she wanted to remain baptist and needed to cut ties. (NOOOOO ) We were really sad so we said a prayer and God sent us a referral that we called right away and found! She is so sweet and we're meeting with her on Tuesday. God hears our prayers! I forgot to say this in my email last week, but we put Ashley on date last Saturday! She's set to be baptized on September 26th! (My brother Andrew's birthday) (Happy early birthday my goat) The gift of tongues is so real!! (I fell asleep while sister emp was in the bathroom and she clipped me when she came back)

Sunday: MARRI, MALAISIA, ASHLEY, AND YI MING CAME TO CHURCH! Guys if I haven't already said it enough, I love Sundays. So much. Choir practice is always so funny because us 5 missionaries make up half the choir. We stopped by a lot of inactive members and had some doors slammed in our faces but seeds were planted don't you fret. We had dinner with the Dahnekes! Little 1yr old Milo is really good at choosing who prays. He puts his hands together and death stares at who he wants to pray. If that person doesn't pray he WILL get mad. We went park finding after dinner and ended up talking about the law of chastity in a first contact... (they were 75 and both divorced and had admitted to doing some interesting things and asked us if that was okay in God's eyes since they had already been married to other people before) VERY interesting convo to say the least. We're talking with them more on thursday 

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I love yall, the Lord loves yall!

xoxo, Sister Anderson

Pday Bowling!

Sister Empey

Fell asleep while waiting for Sister Empey to come back into the room

 I love when the elders use chairs as pillows 

Piercing Sister Empey's ears

Atlanta Georgia Temple

Meehyang and Everything all at once - Lilburn, Georgia

Hello my fellas and fellitas! Wow wow WOW what a week. A LOT happened.

Monday: P-day!! I took a fat nap on a church couch and it was marvelous. We had dinner with the Sister Sisters and a new senior couple, the Cardons, that just moved into our complex!! They're from St. George!

Tuesday: We went to the Co-op and saw Beanie again after what felt like AGES (she was in Sweden). HOLY MIRACLE we stopped by one of our yellow dots (interested friends) and right after we prayed that she would be home SHE PULLS UP  Turns out she was going through it and that's why she canceled last time. Everyone please pray for Taniesha's friend, Cindy who has cancer! And Taniesha that she can figure out motherhood. We stopped by a referral and met Miss May, a woman who when we came over, immediately asked for help with her facebook marketplace! We went right in and helped her figure that out before teaching her about covenants. She is a GEM and said she'll bake us a cake next time. 

Wednesday: We had a couple lessons cancel (BOOO ) so we got to knock around a Grey dot (someone who was taught in the past) and ended up finding 2 cool people! There were ducks everywhereee guys like so many ducks. All sizes and shapes. Just like in the grass and street. The Quarantas came over for apartment checks and had a cute little devotional with us after! It was so nice! We knocked a street in Norcross where we met Meehyang. She opened the door and invited us right in. She is the cutest little Korean lady who sat us down with cake and water. She told us she was baptized at 15 in Korea and still remembers the missionary, Elder Lawrence from Idaho that baptized her. We helped her find him on Facebook! She was astonished. It was so cool to see some light come back to her face. She said she wasn't quite ready to come back to church yet but to stop by every month. She was a sweetie.

Thursday: ZONE CONFERENCE!!! We learned a lot about how to unite with not just members, but the entire ward! I'm excited to see where it goes because so far, it's working. We went knocking with a member and we found a lady named Anna. It was so neat to see her go from completely closed off to being super open to listening and meeting with us. Pray for Anna and her daughter who is due to give birth this week! 

Friday: The most chopped day of all time because we were trying to weekly plan but at least we got to have dinner with the Dahnekes!!! Baby Milo makes our day every time. We got to build our own kebabs it was so fun! 

Saturday: 4 MONTHS AS A MISSIONARY  The Lawrenceville apartment is apparently haunted so our exchange got canceled... so don't know what's up with that but oh well. We had Aria be a member participating in one of our lessons!!! It was so cool!!! It's especially cool because I got to see her from the near beginning of her conversion!! She is doing so good. We had dinner with the Bluncks! We always have such good conversations with them about the Gospel.

Sunday: The mission is on the ups!! Our numbers are looking so good compared to last week. President Dent loves numbers but it's because each number represents a child of God. The most important number to the Lord is ONE. I love Sunday night Mission Leadership Council calls because we have the chance to account to each other about how our zones are doing and how we can help them! Our mission currently has 92 people on date to be baptized. Please pray for each of them!!! We know miracles are possible! 

Monday: EXCHANGES WITH WILK IN BERKELY LAKE! What a freaking awesome day to be alive let me tell you. Sister Wilkinson is a flipping powerhouse STLT. We spoke spanish to an awesome family at mcdonalds who was immediately interested (ty gift of tongues) and got their information to send to the hermanas. We knocked into a Vietnamese fella named Jimmy who swore he'd read 2 Nephi 2 before bed (you better Jimmy). We stopped at QT and saw a fella with a cowboy hat on so SURELY we had to talk to him. We learned that his name was James and that he and Angie (wife? mother?) were on the way back from the hospital because his daughter had just had surgery. We read Alma 26:37 with them and they LOVED it. They were so kind and open to listening to us. We had a church tour fall through but it led to us meeting Deno! He was VERY interested and had some really good questions. We invited him to read 3 Nephi 11 but he said he'd rather start from the beginning and we had no problem with that! We had dinner with the bougiest baddie 74 year old member of all time she looks 25 lowk) and had a wonderful conversation about her conversion story 40 years ago. She fed us trader Joe's donuts. God did. We went to a nearby park and saw a lovely couple reading books together on a blanket. (HOW CUTE) Guys... we taught them EVERYTHING. AND I MEAN EVERYTHING . They had SO. MANY. QUESTIONS. We didn't have any more copies of the book of mormon so we left them with all three pamphlets. We were sitting on this picnic blanket for AGES. They were pretty firm in their beliefs but they were pretty freaking curious. Ostrich egg sized seed planted. Then we saw a jarro spider the size of a baseball. I love exchanges so much. It's so fun to see other areas!!!! 

WE WENT TO THE TEMPLE TODAY!! I LOVE THE TEMPLE!!

 I HAVE SUCH A TESTIMONY OF PRAYING FOR MIRACLES. Pray for them and they'll happen left and right. God is so aware of each of us!! 

I love yall, the Lord loves yall!

xoxo, Sister Anderson

Tiny frog

Sweet Meehyang

Exchanges with Sister Wilkinson

Sister Empey and a katydid :)

Zone Conference