A fantastic week

Well, this week has been full of miracles. It has been pretty difficult actually lately, getting some things going, but we are finally starting to get things rolling, and the confidence of the members back again. Its not that they didnt like the missionaries, its just that they never felt like they were working, so they just didnt feel like anything was going on in their area. It is tough, considering how much we travel, how little time we have in our area. But we have found two AMAZING people, who are SO ready for the gospel. Lidia is 73 and is in a wheel chair, but she is a fighter. She loves the gospel, and has taken the initative to get herself to church, reading the Book of Mormon faithfully, praying, and without us even teachign the word of wisdom, she has decided to stop smoking. There are so very few thing that are impeding her from getting baptized, and it has been amazing to see this progress. well, when she arrived at church, we saw all of the fire of the members going to work. They were helping her with everything. And as such, we started getting some pretty awesome references. One of which was from the Bishop. We had planned to teach Luis about the Plan of Savlation, and we got in to his house and there was just a different spirit about it all. My companion is amazing, and we were just testifying like crazy. He in the short lesson of about 20 minutes, realized and told us that he wants to get baptized, and make all the necessary changes NOW. Not only did we leave him with the Book of Mormon, but he TOOK it from us. He wanted it so bad after being intruiged by some of the things we shared from it. We have also seen a HUGE progress in some of the Less active members with whom we have been working. The Gimenez family, the Sanchez family, the Arbazua family, and a few more. There is so much to do, there is very little time to rest...and that is why what happened to my foot is kind of a bummer. Not to mention that the traveling and stuff starts up again next week....whew. So much to do, not so much time to do it. I love you all and am praying for you always.

Elder Andersen