Dennis's Baptism

This week was great and very busy. We did 3 exchanges this week. I exchanged with elder Mobley, elder Edwards and elder Nuffer. I went to newcastle which is a small town 100 miles outside of Gillette. Elder Nuffer is a new missionary from arizona. He has lots of fire power and he is ready to work. We tracted for 3 hours and we had a blast. Elder Edwards was my zone leader in Casper for 9 months and now I am his zone leader and we get to go on exchanges because he is a district leader. 

While I was in Sheridan, I saw Whitley Beard at the institute class we had with all the YSA.  We have some great missionaries in this zone. The Sheridan district is doing amazing right now. they are obedient and they are finding lots of new investigators. 

I baptized Dennis on Saturday and it was an awesome experience. He had to be dunked twice because he was scared. He cried and felt the holy ghost during one of the talks.  Elder Brownlee and I are without a car for 2 weeks because it is in the shop getting fixed. We are getting along great in our companionship because we are willing to work things out and make it work.

President and Sister Anderson are coming for zone conference next week and we have to prepare a training. I am excited, and I love this work. I know the Lord is hastening his work and I have a testimony of hard work and obedience. I know if you are obedient to God's commands you will be rewarded and you will be happy in life. 

Love Elder Anderson

This last week was we were in charge of the Zone training meeting held in Gillette. The training we presented was about role plays. We prepared for 3 days for ZTM. ZTM went really well! We had much participation and lots of positive feedback. We had a very spiritual training on roleplays and had a funny training to lighten the mood at the end. It was pretty scary in front of all the missionaries (28 in the zone), but I had a great time! It is awesome to see all the missionaries. We went to Rapid city last week for pday to receive our training for ZTM and we had 30 minutes to do our pday stuff. 

This next week we have baptism. I am going to baptize Dennis who is the 70 year old man I talked about earlier. He is very old and doesn't remember the things we taught very well, but he has a change of heart and we had our mission president interview him just to make sure he was ready. 

Well I am jealous that you all are going to Targhee every week. It is sad that Alabama only has a little hill the size of Badger, but there sill be fun things to do there in the winter. Maybe you guys can find a hobby of crockadile hunting in the swamps:) Let me know if you have found a house or not. One thing I am really excited about is that there will be missionaries in Jacksonville and we can help them with their missionary work. I love you all! thanks for everything you do!

Love Elder Anderson

I will write all I can in the short time I have. I am not being transferred, so I will be with elder Brownlee for 6 more weeks. We are doing great things together and we are working really hard. It was really cold this last week, but not as cold as North Dakota. The members are great here and I love serving here in Gillette. I will send a long email next week. I am healthy and not sick any more. 

This week was really great. We have transfers today so this letter will be really short. This week flew by. It really doesn't seem like I have been out very long. So we just found out that the person we helped out last week is really dangerous, but we're excited ;)

I love you all !

Love,

Elder Anderson

(a few words from his companion):

Elder Anderson is the best companion in the world. He is a hard worker and I don't know what I would do without him.  Thanks for raising such and awesome kid! 

Elder Jordan Brownlee