Hello My Friends ,

 

I love my Area here in San José de Ocoa. Im having a great time with Elder Simmions and the other 2 missionaries. We are having much sucess between the two companionships.   We had a great lesson with Kengi. She is an awesome investigator. We had a great lesson and the spirit was very strong. I was told by the spirit to say some very important things and the spirit was super strong. My mind was clear and I had a perfect understanding of the situation. I spoke perfect spanish as We disscussed some  things. It was amazing. She was filled by the spirit and she couldnt hold it in. I felt like giving her a huge because she is so great.   I know that the spirit is real and  that is toches us more than often. We really need to learn how to heed it. Also we have Darina who will get  baptismed is a few weeks. She´s awesome. She knows so much about the Gospel, probably more than many  members. She is really progressing.   We also had an older Family go to churh. My heart was filled with joy and love as they walk in through the doors. After the sacrament meeting  I showed them off to everyone. They now love the church and have tons of friends. They were talking all about the church when we weny over to their house again. They want to invite their friends too. THeir son and his family are great prospects too.  ONe thing that I love to do here in the mission field is do little things of service. When ever I see people peeling Sweet Peas I always ask to help  them. It is awesome. We can give service, get to know the people, and have a great lessons. Its usually always older ladys too who peel and sell htem. I love talking with them and being their friends. I love people. hahaha Well today we played baseball on a horse and pig field inthe mountains. We played with some members and it was fun. We played with a sock ball and a homemade bat. I laso got some sweet videos of me chasing and trying to catch pigs. The members here love me and think Im the coolest guy. I love playing with the kids and helping out the members. Im also hte crazy one here. hahah I  think Im turing back to the Spudman.  Im having a great time here.

 

Elder Anderson

San Jose de Ocoa

Hey Everyone,

 

I´m doing great here in the DR. As I said before I was transfered to Ocoa. This place remindes me a little of McCall. It is way in hte top of hte mountains and is set in a little vally. All around the little city is mountains. I heard there are many waterfalls and caves here. So we will have some fun P-Days.  Also I am 2 bus rides from my old area of Nizao. Maybe one day I will show my kid, Elder Simmons the beach. Also our Area has a bunch of little towns or dwellings in the Mountains. So we went to a place called, Parra. This place was way in the mountains. It is about 8 kilometers up a huge and steep mountain. We spent the whole day up ther and learned that their used to be a huge mini  branch up there. But most of the peple went inactive. I had a feeling that we are needed in that area. So we will dedicate 2 days out of the week to see If  we can get things started up there again.  

 

 The members here are really cool. I have already fell good with the members. I love to talk to them and learn about them and the country.  We have recieved many references and the members like to go out with us. We are living with another pair of missionaries. One American and another a Dominican. The American is from my same group. His name is Elder Johnson. He´s from St. George.

 

Well it turns out  that 2 Dominicans before us did nothing in the Area. So we had to start over again. We have been contacting this entire week and now we have many new investigators. I love being in this area. It is so fun.  The people here love everyone. I have already made some great friendships. We are searching for families and nothing less. I know that the Lord will show us the way to them. There are so many great families here. This branch needs an energizer. The need new families and  strong testimonies. We are already seen hte fruits of our labors. It seems as theough a change has come over me. I´m teaching with more power and with  more authority. I have never felt this good in my life. I feel great as a missionary.

 

Elder Simmons is a cool kid from Idaho Falls. He went to BYU-Idaho before his mission. We love talking about Idaho and about everything. We are always joking around. Im so grateful for this opportuniy I have been given to be a Trainer. It is hard I will tell you that. I cant belive I started off as he did. Now I know Spanish almost perfectly. I´m really soaking up this opportunity to learn too. I told Elder Simmons that we are here to learn together. I´m not perfect and I told him I will make mistakes and that I´m not hte best missionary. I told him I want to share this message and help others come unto Christ. I love this Gospel and I´m traying so hard to help this people accept it. I love telling the story of Noah and how today a prophet is do the same thing.

 

He are being super obedient and are leaving even earlier than usual.  I want to help the people of Ocoa to be the strongest Branch in  the country. What they need are families and Priesthood. It all makes sence. If we preach that families are Eternal we need to be baptizing famlilies then. Many of the missionaries like to Baptize kid and Youth. I have a diffrent look on things. Im not looking for the long run but Im looking for immediate results and blessings. These families need  the Gospel. This transfer i´m going  to really push my prayers and I´m going to fast often. I know that we need his power and help, in order for us to fulfill his will.

 

I love you all and I will tell you all the great news we will have next week.

 

Elder Anderson

San Jose de Ocoa

Hey everyone!!!! Im so stoked for these next two transfers. I will be training Elder Simmons. He is from guess where, thats right, IDAHO FALLS. I was so excited. Also I was tranfered back to my old Zone of Baní, remember my little area of Nizao. This time Im in the high mountains of the country and Is actually quite big. We will be sharing all of Ocoa with the other missionaries. There really arent any bounderies. It is awesome. Its pretty far away from everything but it is beautiful. In Ocoa it gets actually cool at nights. It is going to be perfect being in Ocoa for the summer. It gets super hot in the other parts of the country. This area is actually the best Area in the mission as the missionaries say. Im so excited to show my Kid the ropes of the mision. But Im only going to teach the good things. I know we are going to work super hard. He is a pretty cool missionary. He dosnt know any Spanish though. I can´t believe that at one point I was in the same shoes. Now I know a ton of Spanish and I can really work. I know that we will have much sucess here, even though I might not see the fruits I know htat it is worth it. The 2 dominican Elders before us did nothing. One just finished his mission and the otheris a tigre. They left horrible records and barley had any of them if that. But I know I can always try to do my best and to start helping the people of Ocoa to find the love and gospel of Jesus Christ.

 

i LOVE YOU ALL AND tHANK YOU for your letters.

 

 

Elder Spud

I´m Pregnent!!! dont worry!

Hey Everyone. Well I have tons of new news. I´m Pregnent!!!! Or I am going to be a trainer the next Transfer. Next wendesday is the transfer. Tommorow I will talk to president and he will give the trainers a Training. I´m so excited I can´t think about anything else. We are going to work our butts off. He is going to hate me as a dad because we are going to work hard. I will try my best to help him start his his big journey in this country.  He won´t know that much Spanish so we will learn together. Im not  perfect at Spanish so we will countinue to learn. That is one thing that I love about the mission is that one always learns something new. Sometimes we can get into a rut and think we know everything but we are continually humbled. I hpe that I can still strive to learn and get the most of these sweet 2 years.  Well back to the letter. My kid and I will be whitewashed or we will both be moved to a new area. So we will have to work from scratch. I´ll tell ya¨ll where I¨m at the next letter. 

 

This last week we met the new Mission President. President Almonte is awesome. He really loves the people and the missionaries. He is very personable. I really want to learn everything that he knows. He has an amazing vision of the work. He is all about contacting much and talking to everybody. Im so excited to work under his guidence and counsel. I know he is a man called of God to preside over this mission.

 

Today for P-Day we wnet hiking in the jungles north of Santo Domingo y Los Alcarrizos. It was a beautiful hike and I got some awesome pictures. We were searching for a hidden lake but we only found a beautiful river, I felt like I was in Jarrasic Park. My lone Leader adn I did some exploring down river adn enjoyed climbing over rocks and walking on hte side. He actually slipped on a rock as he was trying to jump form rock to rock and got his shoes wet. It was a very fun experiance. A couple of us sat on asome boulders and talked about deep doctrine and about what everything means, and what is coming for us. I felt the spirit very stronly being around such great men and leaders. I learned a lot today about obediance and just doing the little things to be more obedient. We have rules and commandments for a reason. We are here on the Earth to show that we can fulfill all the things that are given us from God. We are expected to be 100% obedient. If we aren´t obedient in this telestial world we sure wont be obedient in the Celestial Glory. We are going to be the same after this life but we are expected to learn form our mistakes. We are here to grow. Gods purpose is to bring to pass the inmortality and Eternal Life of man. In order to do that we MUST learn to be obedient.

 

Well I´m really excited to get out of Los Alcarrizos and to start a new legacy. We are here to bring these people to Christ. I have been called here to preach the 4 principals and ordenances of the Gospel. I pray everyday for the Holy Ghost to guide me to the chosen people of the Lord and that he can bless me with the words and thoughts to touch their hearts. I love this work. It is beautiful and is starting to grow so fast. I know that our Heavenly Fath loves us and that he will show us the truth through Sincire Prayer. We have so many promises and blessings of the Lord waiting for us. We only need to ask in prayer and fulfill his commandments.

 

I love you all and I pray that God will shed his blessings upon all of you. You are all example to me and I hope that maybe I could be an example to someelse. I thank you for all your emails and for your prayers. I love you and miss you.

 

 

Elder Anderson