Hey family!!
I hope all is well there! How was the cabin? Everything here has been super super busy. They threw us into the deep head first, with studying and class all day. My district is so much fun! We have 6 Elders and 6 sisters. Our sisters are off to South Carolina which is so fun since that means we all get to spend the next 18 months together and we figured out 5 of us will fly home together as well. Our Elders are off to San Antonio Texas. I got my departure date, I leave at around 1 in the morning on Monday and we fly to Georgia, where we will have a layover for a few hours then off to South Carolina, where we are hoping we can get a little rest before meeting our new companions and start the work!
My companion is so much fun....I think I told you a little about her in my other letter. Her name is Sister Rudy, and she's from Provo. She is a dancer and went to BYU for a year. We have so much fun together and have really meshed well as companions. We have 2 "investigators" right now. One's name is Everett....No I am not kidding Everett like Colton's mission. He's 22, a student, all of his family converted to the church about 3 years ago, but he felt like he was being manipulated so he decided not to join. One of his best friends just went on a mission, so he decided to try again and see what we have to offer. We've taught him 3 times, and if all goes to plan we are going to invite him to be baptized tomorrow so figures crossed!!!! We also are teaching a woman named Claudia, she has been in America for about a year and her husband is working on his Masters degree at BYU. She is originally from Madagascar and very very committed to the Catholic church. We taught her for the first time last night and the spirit was so strong I literally walked out of the room and was proclaiming that the church was true to anyone we passed, which at the MTC is normal and people just respond with "yeah it is" or I even got a few "Testify!!" from some of our Elders heading to the South.
All of the people are so nice here and we have so much fun. I thought you would get a kick out of the fact that all of the girls in my room always give me a hard time about how much hairspray I use. Whenever I spray it no matter how much they all start going, "Oh no look out she's flammable again!" and we all just laugh and be silly. Most of them are from Utah. There's Sister Simmons from Kaysville, Sister Madsen from West Jordan, Sister Clemons from Las Vegas and Sister Eames from a farm in Rigbey Idaho. We always lift each other up and go crazy. Like the other night when we were having room prayer and it was Sisters Simmons and Eames companionship's turn to pray and so they were asking who's turn it was to which Sister Eames confessed, "I don't even remember what I had for breakfast how am I supposed to know who is prayed last night!" At that we realized that we had done so much that none of us remembered what we had had for breakfast. It shows how much the days roll into one another.
Being here has helped me fully understand the love that our Heavenly Father has for each one of us. I have seen how he truly knows a perfectly and knows what we need in our lives to be happy and successful. I've also seen the great power of prayer and how it can help us in every aspect of life. I can not believe how many times I've prayed since I've gotten here.....pretty sure in the last week I've prayed more than I have the rest the last three months combined. The blessings have poured out exponentially though and I can truly feel the love of Heavenly Father and Christ. I read a scripture today during personal study today that really touched me, it is Mosiah 2:41, I think you should all read it and just think of why the church is here and why we do what we do for this church!!
I love and miss you all so much! I hope to hear from you soon!!!!
With love
~Sister Anderson 
PS The church is true
PPS could you please send me my music (and include a copy of Oh My Father) I forgot it and it makes me sad!
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