Hermana Anderson: 6 Weeks in Virginia

Hello amigos! :)

This week went by so fast. I am not sure why because not a ton happened! We had a lesson with two of our investigators....they live together. Angel and Gisella. Angel loves the missionaries. Apparently some missionaries got him out of some pretty hard times but he never has had a desire to learn of the gospel. But his wife loves the gospel so much. We were reading a chapter in the Book of Mormon with them and he never reads with the missionaries but for some reason he decided to read with us. Then we talked about repentance and forgiveness and that really hit him hard. He has some forgiveness issues but he is starting to show some real progress. Then we asked him to pray (he has never prayed with the missionaries before) and he prayed. It was one of the most sincere prayers I have ever heard. It was incredible. The Spirit was so strong. It was amazing.

Two of our investigators are getting baptized next Friday!! I am so excited! They are so cool and have been investigating the church for so long. They have wanted to be baptized for a very long time and it now the right time. Something cool about a couple of our investigators is that they will try and share the gospel with other people. If anyone ever asks them about religion they start to talk about our church. It is so cool that they want to share what they are learning and feeling.

So we have a list of all the members of our branch. We divided them up to the the three sets of missionaries that serve in the Spanish branch and we are going to go and see all the less actives. We have only come in contact with one but it was a cool experience and we are going to start teaching her daughter. (Well, the Elders are going to because it is actually in their area. But cool all the same.

Technology is so awesome. This is one way that we are using technology in our mission. We have some recent converts that got baptized last year that have stopped coming to church. We tried to contact them but never could. Then we got a call from a member who had a previous missionary call them. This missionary was the one that baptized these two teenagers. She said that she really felt like they needed to be visited. We got permission to message this return missionary over Facebook and asked her to contact them for us. She did and we were able to have a lesson with them and she Skyped in. It was awesome. The recent converts were not really comfortable with us because they didn't' know us but now we have a good relationship with them and they want to meet with us more! It is so cool to have this tool available for this purpose. I am so thankful to have the use of technology on my mission.

I love you all!