Week 63: Baptisms, Facebook, Llano Branch

 Hey y'all! 

Another saaaaweet week here in Marble Falls, Texas! We had a ton of great appointments and did a ton of online proselyting. We are seeing some great miracles out here thats for sure. This weekend our ward had two baptisms and it was a great experience to see those people take that great step. We also had a great family come to church with us and we are excited to continue to work with them. Facebook wise we have been getting creative, posting in some fun Facebook groups in normal ways. Its all about getting ourselves out and interacting in the virtual world of social media. We have focused on filling everyone we interact with with positivity and love. We have been posting to help people reflect on what they are grateful for, miracles they have seen, and things that make them happy. We are trying to cure this world one Facebook post at a time haha. 

Transfer news came out last night as well. Elder Hunt and I are staying put but we will be in a trio with an Elder Hunter and will help cover the Llano branch for the next few weeks until the next round of transfers. Not a huge change but we should have lots of fun in our trio. 

Thats all for this week! 

Love and miss you all! 

Elder Anderson

 

 

Week 62: Working Through Facebook

 Hey y'all! 

This week flew by! We were filled with activities each day and worked sooo hard. Here are some of the highlights.

Thursday and Friday we had service with a part member family in our ward. They are a super sweet older couple and we helped them move rocks and weed their gardens. Friday we also had burgers with them before service and it was lots of fun to spend time with them. We shared a couple spiritual thoughts too and it was an overall uplifting experience. 

Thursday we also had lunch with some super sweet ladies in our ward and it was a blast. One of the ladies is a classic grandma and was complaining about the millennials and all kinds of funny stuff. We were loving it. We then helped out mowing her lawn real quick to pay her back for the food. 

Yesterday we had a super uplifting zone conference. It was filled with spiritual messages with a huge emphasis on Facebook work, and more specifically working with members of the church through social media. Something I really liked was the focus on being normal and natural on social media. President Fox stressed taking time to gain trust and talk about common interests before talking about the gospel. He said its okay to be patient and form connections with people we meet through Facebook. We have been trying to apply these principles and have been seeing a ton of success.

Love and miss you all!

Elder Anderson 

Week 61: Service + Member Visits

 Hey y'all! 

This week was a super awesome week. It was jam-packed with service and member visits and all that fun stuff. Here are the highlights. 

Wednesday while doing service for some members we got a call from a lady who we had messaged on Facebook after she said she needed help moving furniture. She asked if we could come up and move some furniture for her as soon as possible so as soon as we got done we headed up there and helped move furniture into a horse trailer for her. She was a super cool lady and we got the opportunity to share a spiritual thought with her. She then put us in contact with her neighbor, who we were then able to help set up a yard sale a few days later. They are great people and were very appreciative of our service.

We also headed into Austin Thursday for a trainer follow up meeting and for interviews with president and I got to see THE Elder Dalin Clark so that was definetly a highlight for sure. 

Other than that we have been doing some good work on Facebook and meeting a ton of the members. We got to go back to church on Sunday and it was way sweet. 

Love and miss you all! 

Elder Anderson

 

 

Week 60: General Conference

 Hey y'all! 

It was a great week here in Marble Falls wrapped up by an AMAZING General Conference Weekend! Here are the highlights.

This week we spent a ton of time meeting members and getting to know them and doing some service as well. Tuesday we went and gave a blessing to an older member who recently broke his leg. It was a good experience and he was super glad to see us and chat with us. Wednesday we visited a few newer members of the church and had dinner with them and were able to teach them a bit too. Since COVID restrictions have been lifted a little bit we have been able to do a lot more in person work which is something I really had been missing. We did some drop bys too to some families in the ward and had some good conversations. We continue our efforts on social media as well and have had a decent amount of success reaching out to local people in the community. 

But the highlight of the week was definitely conference! Such a great two days of hearing from the Lord's prophet and apostles. I don't think there was one single talk that I wasn't totally blown away by. One of my favorite talks was by Elder Soares about resisting temptation. I love how we compared temptation to a magnet and said that "as we distance ourselves from temptation it loses its power over us". I think that's so true and something that is so important for our day. Satan is sending all of his tactics on us now and he is in all parts of our life. However if we distance ourselves from common spots of temptation, we will gain strength and he will not have power over us. 

I am so grateful to have a prophet and apostles on the earth who lead and guide us! Love and miss you all!

Elder Anderson

Also here's my new address :)

1301 Max Copeland Dr #615

Marble Falls, TX 78654