Zone Conference & playing the piano

We really enjoyed President and Sister Anderson's training at zone. The night before Zone conference the assistants had us role-play our training to them just in case we had to change our training. It was a good thing because  we had to make a lot of changes to our training to make it more focused for the missionaries. We really felt that teaching this new way is a higher way of teaching and that the missionaries really can benefit from teaching this way, as well as their investigators. 

Elder Brownlee is awesome! He is helping me to take over as senior zone leader if that is the case. He has really let me take control this last week and I have seen how much of a difference I can make as I actively participate. I have struggled to be more confident at times and I have learned how much of a difference it can make when I am confident verses unsure and not confident. 

I am grateful for the chance to be here in Gillette and I love the missionaries here!  They are awesome

I lost my wallet this week, actually 2 weeks ago, and I am canceling all my cards and stuff. 

Dennis finally got confirmed a member of the church. He got baptized last week,  It was great. 

Also it was really warm this week and we loved it this week. I know back home it wasn't fun but on the mission when you have to bike because our car is in the shop it is great to have warm weather! 

Last night we had a lesson with Roy Crowder and he asked me to play the piano for him. It is a really old dusty piano, but I played and he just cried because of the spirit he felt. There was a famous pianist (Josh wright) who used to be a zone leader here and he played for Roy about 6 years ago.  Now every time we go to teach him I play the piano and he cries every time. 

I also got your package! Thank you so much! I was very grateful for the Nutella :)

Love Elder Anderson 

Working hard in Gillette! Dennis's Baptism picture

We are so excited for zone conference tomorrow! We have prepared well and have worked well together as a zone leadership for what the missionaries need at this time. 

Our area is starting to slow down a little bit. We are trying so hard to keep all the investigators we had, but because our car is in the shop, we don't get to appointments as fast because our area is so big. But, we have great members who will take us most of the time, so we are very grateful for them. We had to take care of some disobedience and drama this last week in Gillette. 

The 4th ward elders were teaching an investigator named David in our area and we didn't hear about it until last week and he wants to get baptized this week. Our bishop talked with them and told the Elders that David can't go to their ward since he lives in our ward boundaries and we are still trying to fix the whole situation. We don't have a car this week so we are on bikes. It is a great week for that, nice and warm. I think it reached like the upper 50s this week like the whole week and it melted all the snow. I am glad I don't live here in Gillette because there is no reason to live here except to make money and that's it.

Dennis, who was baptized last week,  didn't show up for his confirmation on Sunday. We will get him next week. We finished our exchanges last week and this week and it was a blast! We love all our district leaders and all the missionaries in our zone. Thanks for all you do back home for me. I am thankful to be on a mission and for all the blessings I have seen. I will let you know how zone conference went and tell Kaylee she will be in my prayers!

I love you all!

Love Elder Anderson