Hey Y'all

Hey Everyone!

I hope all is going good out west! Things here have been good but kind of crazy! The ward here in Orangeburg is so nice. They want to help us out in any way that they can, we get fed just about every night. One of the best though is we went to a farm to have dinner and afterwards they wanted to show us the baby chicks they just got and me being the city girl that I am thought oh they probably got like 20 or 30 new chicks.......they had a shed probably as big as our basement with 3000 chicks!! ya it was crazy and then to top it off they had us hold one....I was so scared I would either drop it or it would poop in my hand! EW!! (no worries I got a picture and I'll try to send it)

We have seen many miracles and a few heartbreaks. 2 of our investigators (Wykeria and Nataysha) fell off date yesterday because they didn't come to church yesterday so ya and the other person we had (Candace) will fall off date if she doesn't contact us in some way by tomorrow! AHHHHH! But it's all good we know that as we stay obedient and do all that is good God will provide a way.

We did have one miracle this week that blew my mind! We did not like the plans we had made for that day and Sister Landon kept feeling that we should see a Less Active member that we had already planned to see an hour earlier than we planned. So we started to visit Less Actives and Recent converts near her as we worked our way to her house. We had about another half hour before we went to This less actives home so we decided to go visit a member who the bishop asked us to see. Our GPS sent us to this long dirt road. We parked and started to walk but could not find this house. We came to a cross roads and realized that we were lost. We prayed and asked Heavenly Father to show us which way we needed to go to find this member. We felt nothing and finally just decided to turn around and knock the one lone trailer we had seen on that road. This is where we found Claude. He is this sweet old man in about his 60's. We taught him about the Book of Mormon (while sitting on his front porch because we are always obedient) and he loved our message. We committed him to read and pray and set up a return appointment with him. Then we asked him to say the closing prayer, in this prayer he talked about he had been praying to God all day to show him the truth and thanked him for sending these nice ladies to see him. It was so sweet!!! I will have to let you know what happens after we see him tomorrow!

We also had this great referral from a LA in our area who is trying to come back. Her boyfriend, Dustin, wants to know more about the church....before I continue though I feel like I should explain their relationship. Victoria, the Less Active, has two little girls and a husband (almost ex husband) who is in prison, for what we don't know. Dustin is the girls uncle. So yes she is dating her almost ex husbands brother while he is in jail and up until last Sunday they were living together. This family is messed up!!!! Anyways, He wants to know about more of our church because he wants to marry Victoria, but she has told him that she wants her next marriage to be for eternity and if he couldn't give her that then she was leaving. We taught him the Plan of Salvation and he really liked it, we just keep worrying that he likes it because he wants to get married, not because he feels the spirit....I guess we'll find out. It was interesting though we taught him the plan of salvation first because he recently lost his dad and we felt that he needed to hear it. Any hope we gave him about his dad receiving the gospel and being able to be sealed to him, he kept hinting that he didn't have much hope of his dad accepting the gospel. It was weird!

We had Stake conference this weekend which was really fun. We got to see some of the missionaries from our stake and hear from the area 70. We had some great talks, the only problem was that the evening session on Saturday, like 90% of the talks were on marriage and how to raise a family. My companion and I looked at each other and were like well this information won't be of any use to us for a while. Oh well it was still great.

I hope y'all got to see the broadcast by the first presidency last night! I loved it plus I saw like 3 or 4 people I knew so it was amazing!!

That's about it for this week, I hope all is well and I would love to hear from y'all!!

Have a blessed day!

~Sister Anderson