Elder Jacob Anderson's latest letter: "My hardest day."

I need to be short. buttt lets talk about one of the best worst weekends every!!! So Saturday it just started out WRONG...

The house i am living in right now is very...dirty old.. Literally falling apart... and Things are literally growing out of the wall..

Thats cool. No its not.

To make things better. Someone visited uninvited friday night. They stole me shoes.. Not cool.. They stole my X-companions towels that had his name written in them.. They stole the neighbors dog.. Normal.. I hope its still alive..

But suprisely after this I waasnt effected at all. I was still happy and ready to go. That afternoon we literally my best baptism planned of my mission. I was super excited for me and the next day Elder Holland, Yes Jeffrey R. Holland the apostolo would be coming here personally.

So i took the LZ to your baptism.. He passed the interview. I cut his hair to help him get ready be his best!! We left to go eat lunch. When we got back he decided he didnt want to be baptized (he wanted to wait).. HE baptism was planned to be in less then an hour and a half and a memeber would be there in a hour to give him a ride. We sat down prayed.. talked... prayed.. talked.. Read sciptures.. prayed..

talked.. prayed.. Scirptures.. prayed.. Talked....

In short he wasnt baptized.. Probably one of the hardest point of my mission. Working that day only slowlly went down hill.

We had planned to have the entire world(the lives inside of our area) go to church on sunday. Elder Holland was going to be there personally.

So after i apologized to our ward for not actually have a baptism. We decided to do everything possible to help everyone who already said they would go to church sunday, just remember that they still needed to go..

In short we had almost everyone give there sorry why they couldnt go... The walk home of defeat was not very fun..

But Elder Holland gave an awesome talk.. Elder Cruz was there too...

THe lord wants 10 percent of our life as. ANd he wants it when we are younge. CHoice good friends. Dont date until 16 then date smart. Serve a mission with out question. Then get married IMIDiatly after. That was his advice..

The church is true The book is blue and mormon is on the ball.

Elder Anderson

For behold I am a disciple of Jesus Christ

Latest letter from Elder Ray Vejnar

     So like always I will start with the beginning of the week, so this week as a mission we decided that we needed to talk to our mission president, he is also the president of the MTC and a very busy guy, so we did need to wait two weeks but we got a meeting with him! the purpose of this council was to discuss the role we are to play in the wards that we are over, the problem is that the chats that we take are starting to be taken by other missionary's in visitor centers around the world this leaves less and less fur us to take and less and less of a chance to find someone to teach. So we have tried going to wards to get referral's from those people in the ward. However this is not what we are told we are to do but it is our only hope in busting our success we are trying to be proactive instead of reactive. That is the reason behind this meeting with president Nali so we went in and he gave us permission to go into another stake I thought this was great, every one else in the mission feels like the meeting did not go the way they wanted it to go, but I think that the only reason for that is because the want to fix something that is not broken, I honestly don't know much about why they do not think that it is going to be successful they try to explain it to me and I still see no problems. Any way that was the meeting with president Nali.

     The next big thing that happened was Elder Cuevas the only Spanish speaking elder here at the moment got his visa and is now going back to Mexico I am not even going to try to explain why he is waiting for a visa. That is all good and well but that leaves Elder mason. Elder Mason is the most annoying elder in the mission by far! and when this happens he will need a new companionship, apparently he got to pick it and guess what? yeah I am back to having two companions. I am going to need some patients with Elder Mason now. Because of this change I am also going to be sleeping on the bottom of a bunk bed that brings back some memories. haha. But enough about that.

     Last night we found a box filled with pictures for free so we took the box and went through and took the ones we liked.I don't know how many I will keep but they are cool so I am going to keep them for now and maybe frame them later in life,or just hang them up on the walls in our room I am not sure yet. 

     The ting I learned this week comes form a Mormon Message called "come what may and love it" this was based on a talk by Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin in this talk he tells us that life is heard but the way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life. that is exactly what I will be trying to do over the coarse of this next companionship, As well as the rest of my life so I love the words of Elder Wirthlin's mother come what may and love it, there is just so much that we can be happy for in this life! I hope you all have a good week, I wish you the best! 

Elder Vejnar 

Pictures are of the box of pictures.

Elder Joseph Anderson's latest letter: With pictures.

Okie dokie so this week flew by pretty quickly and I we didn't really have a ton of time to work in our area. On Tuesday we went to resistencia to have a multi-zone conference with President Franco. He taught us about personal revelation and also the importance of unity in our companionship. He also taught us a little bit about the importance of the Spirit in EVERYTHING that we do. It was a very very spiritual meeting and I learned a lot. Its so interesting to experience two mission presidents and how they do things so differently. I think its cool to see how different men can be in so many different ways...yet at the same time be sooo similar with the knowledge and application of the gospel of Jesus Christ in their lives.

On Wednesday we had our reunion de distrito and we learned about planning for effectively for our investigators and focusing our studies on them. We didn't have a ton of time to work on Wednesday because of the district meeting but we were able to find a 21 year old kid named Gabriel who is golden. Literally probably the most prepared person I have ever met on my mission. He is the nicest, most sincere person ever and he is super super interested in the church and all of its teachings. On Thursday and Friday we went on divisions with the zone leaders and I went to their area to work with Elder Howlett. We had a really good time. He working in the office for 9 months with president Heyman and has sooo many stories. I love just asking him about all of the things that happened in the office with President Heyman. It would definitely be a cool experience to be able to work so closely with the President for so long and to learn from him so often.

On Saturday we had an activity at our church and Gabriel came with us. It was a football tennis tournament and churipaneada which is just sausage on bread. But he had a super fun time and there were a ton of kids that showed up. Unfortunately we aren't allowed to play but I will definitely be bringing it back to the states because it is one of the funnest looking games ever and it doesn't involve any running.

On Sunday Gabriel and Ingrid came to church. Gabriel loved it and is excite for his baptism. Ingrid has come to church 4 times now and is really enjoying it, the only problem is that we are having a really hard time helping her understand baptism and accepting a real date. On Saturday we watched the Restoration and set a firm date for the 6 of September with her. I really think she se be able to be prepared for that date.

That is pretty much everything that happened this week. We have transfers on Wednesday and I am not sure if I will still be here but probably not because I have been here for 6 months now, but anything is possible. I love you all and I know that this is the true church of Jesus Christ.

Love Elder Anderson (JOe)

Elder Jacob Anderson's latest letter from Brazil: "We all hear it but sadly we don't all apply it. Its the simply things that make the difference. Saying your prayers at night and reading your scriptures."

Today was pretty cool. We went to an all you can eat pizza place. I ate 27 pieces of pizza :) yeahh i am not fat just fluffy.. I am just progressively getting to fat. Give it another 14 months. The pizza place was cool because 3 return missionaries (Americans) sat down and ate with us. Yep. I miss the USA. It took me a few min after to snap back to reality. I think its interesting that i have never talked to a return missionary (active or inactive) that doesnt recommend serving a mission!

 Repentance is a slow and bitterly sweet process that brings eternal blessing. So my companion and i arrived in Brazil the same day. We have 2 other missionaries in our house. One of them arrived the same day as me and Elder Kampf(my comp).. Its really interesting to see the progress that we have made and how far we have come! It really has helped me see all of the progress that i have made. I couldn't be more grateful.

It has really been a humbling experience for me and i think especially my companion, I am the senior companion. Since we both arrived the same day you would have think we walked the same path and arrived at the same location. The difference is applying the the doctrine. We all hear it but sadly we dont all apply it. Its the simply things that make the difference. Saying your prayers at night and reading your scriptures.

Well thats it... The powers of Heaven exist on the earth today and are available to bless your life!

--

And they call me

Elder Anderson

For behold I am a disciple of Jesus Christ

Elder Joshua Anderson's first letter from the Scottsdale Arizona mission.

It was one really crazy week. So Monday we went to go see a less active that we had found and we were going to read from The Book of Mormon with her. When we arrived at her house she was just heading out to go to Walmart but she was still willing to talk to us before she left. So we opened up the scriptures and started to read with her. About halfway through the chapter this guy about 40 years old comes up into her driveway, where we are having the lesson, and asks if he can join us. Of course my companion and I said yes but he was not there to learn anything. He wanted to tell us all about how Mormons were wrong. So right in front of this lady in her driveway he is going on and on about stuff that just wasn't making any sense. Literally this guy was crazy. So eventually my companion and I just bore out testimony that The Book of Mormon was true, which he just kept talking through, but when I bore my testimony of The Book of Mormon I felt the spirit so strong! It was the coolest thing! So when this guy finally finished he left and we turned to the lady we were supposed to be teaching and asked her if she wanted us to leave. she told us that she wanted us to stay and finish the lesson. when we finished, instead of going to Walmart, she told us that she was going to go back into her house to tell her whole family about what just happened. So after her we went to another less active to teach her and her non-member son. When we got there this lady told us that her son saw a video on Youtube that he had questions about. so he showed us this horribly made Youtube video on how Michael Jackson was a reincarnated Jesus Christ! I was saw the first Minute of the video and I was so tempted to tell him to just turn if off and that that is ridiculous. But this was a legitimate concern he had so I knew that we needed to watch he whole video so he didn't get offended. But after the 15 minute video we totally just ripped the whole video to shreds... So that's about all we did that day. On Tuesday we got blasted by another crazing guy. We were riding out bikes to our next appointment and we had a little bit of time so we stopped and talked to this old guy on his porch. He again literally made no sense. He was going on about how the Bible was the only correct book and we got him to keep contradicting himself. So again we just bore our testimony and left. and whenever these guys talk to us they never give us a chance to speak. I got so frustrated I just turned my bike around, told him to have a nice day, and then rode off while he was still talking. He kept saying the same thing over and over again and we could have been there all day. but as we were riding away we told us to keep saving souls and to have a good day. Anyways the next day was like completely opposite. We were looking for a referral we had received but it was a bad address. So instead we found this lady that was totally prepared. We started talking to her and she told us that she was looking for a new church and she started telling us all these personal beliefs she had and they were exactly what we believed. She majored in religious studies so she was really familiar with the bible. It was really cool because we would teach her something new and she would say "yeah, that makes sense because it says this and this in the Bible"  Its interesting that people who truly know the Bible totally believe what we say, and then there are those who have just been given a verse from their pastor to share with LDS missionaries if they ever meet them. And when that happens we usually get them to contradict themselves...Anyways on Friday somebody gave us a suicide note... We were eating dinner at Burger Kind and this homeless guy came us and have a sticky not with two pence taped to it. His handwriting was horrible so it took us like 10 minutes to figure out what it said. When we finally figured out what it said he decided to go looking for him. We started with a prayer and asked God that if it was his will to help us find this guy. We looked for about 20 minutes and didn't find him. We decided to just go to our appointment, which we were now late for. So after our appointment, which was interrupted by Jehovah Witnesses, we told a cop about the note we had found. There was nothing he could really do because the guy was homeless, but once he found out there was a warrant for his arrest the said he would notify some other cops in that area.  On Friday we took one of our progressing investigators to the temple and she loved it! He asked her again if she would get baptized and she said yes! so we have decided to take a new investigator to the visitor center every Thursday. Anyways things have been going really great. It can be really hard at times, but missions are supposed to be hard! I have already learned so much and my testimony has grown so much. I love being out here. That's about all I have for this week! 

- Elder Joshua Anderson 

Elder Joe Anderson's latest letter from Corrientes Argentina: "Eating all-you-can-eat cat at the Parrillon"

Eating at the Parrillon

Eating at the Parrillon

Well last week my companion and I got sick. Yeah it really sucked. Last Pday after emailing we went to a place called Parrillón with the zone leaders to eat. The parrillon is the only all you can eat place in all of corrientes and pretty much all they have is straight cow meat cooked over a fire. Argentinians cook their meat very very differently here. They really don't put any seasonings on it besides some salt and they don't trim an fat off, in fact the fat is the best part for them, and then they just through it over an open fire. About as simple as you can do meat (or any other food for that matter). Anyway we went there and started stuffing our faces, the meat is okay its just really really different. One of our zone leaders looked up and saw something moving in the ceiling. Well it just so happened to be a cat and when we showed the waitress she just said told us that its okay there are a ton of cats living here...WHAT??? The place was infested with stray cats and the worst part is...its okay. Haha he stopped eating when he drank his soda and a piece of the hair from the cat above us fell into his drink. So me and my companion decided to try everything that they had on the grill. Well some of that included cow utter, intestines, blood sausage and some other stuff we are not sure what was. So the next day we weren't really feeling too well and on Wednesday we both had the worst diarrhea in the history of diarrhea. Something we ate at Parrillon absolutely destroyed us and we had to spend the entire day in the pencion. 

As far as our investigators go, they are progressing pretty well. Ingrid came to church on Sunday and liked. She is just very unsure about baptism because of her whole family and friends being catholic. It is a very big change for  her. We are going to help her feel the help and love of the Savior so that she can progress to baptism.

That's all I got time for this week. I  hope my family is doing well in Greenville!!!

Chow Chow Elder Anderson (Joe)

Elder Jacob Anderson's latest letter: "I started out reading Preach my Gospel for 5 min every day; I know read it just as much as The Book of Mormon. There is literally no other guide in the world better then Preach My Gospel if you would like to learn how reach out to God's children. "

This week we had interviews with our new President. He really brings down the fire... It was different... He made quite a few changes in our mission. He also made a lot of transfers... I was apart of one of these transfers. I was a little annoyed at first. Elder Banegas, although he may be from Argentina and really strange, he was a great companion!! WE worked really well together.

My new companion is Elder Kampf. He's apart of my group that arrived the same day from the MTC. Working together will be very interesting. I think we will find a lot of success together.  It's really cool to see the progress we have both made. It's different. The Lord has blessed us both; it's interesting to see how we are both differently blessed.

Being in this new area is really cool because they're soooo many investigators. So right now we are just visting them all; deciding which will be baptized and make progress and who will not. There is a lot of people here who i feel like will accept the gospel!!

I have been really really concerned about how I teach. I have been studding a lot. I think its really funny Joe is always talking about not being able to put the Book of Mormon down. I have the same feeling about Preach My Gospel. I started out reading Preach my Gospel for 5 min every day; I know read it just as much as The Book of Mormon. There is literally no other guide in the world better then Preach My Gospel if you would like to learn how reach out to God's children. There're soooooooooooo many times throughout the week that i miss the Internet so very much because of all the question i have and would like to know. But i am so very grateful that when every i have a question about how to be a better mission I always have the world's best guide at hand.

And they call me

Elder Anderson

For behold I am a disciple of Jesus Christ

Elder Joseph Anderson's latest letter from Argentina: "We found this older man last week named Alberto and he is honestly one of the kindest, softhearted men I have ever met in my entire life"

This week was pretty freaking awesome for my comp and I. The highlight is that we had three investgators in church, which is the first time that has happened in my area in over 6 months. On saturday my companion and I fasted that our investigators would come to church and that our investigator Ingrid would receive an answer about Joseph Smith and the Restoration. We worked our butts off the whole week and Saturday we worked even harder to pass by for all of our investigators and commit them to come to church. We found this older man last week named Alberto and he is honestly one of the kindest, softhearted men I have ever met in my entire life. He is eating up the lessons and he loves reading n the Book of Mormon. He tells us a lot of stories about his life and they are the best haha, me and Elder Lee almost died laughing from one of his stories on saturday. We got kind of worried on Saturday morning because when we called to confirm our appointment with us he answered with a very worried voice and told us that he read in the pamphlet that the members wear shirts and ties to church, but he doesn't have a shirt and tie so he wont be able to come with us. Oh I fixed that one real fast... I told him he could come to church in whatever clothes he had. He was very relieved. When we showed up on Sunday morning to take him to church he began to tell us the clothes situation... he had nice church pants but he held them up to his waste and told us that he bought them when he was 20 pounds lighter and that they don't fit him anymore (I told him I was in the same boat haha) so he asked us if what he had on, a polo, blue jogging pants, and black shiny pennylofers, was okay. We told him it was perfect. But anyway he came to church with us yesterday and stayed with us the whole three hours. He said he really liked it and there was a sense of peace but also the mombers had a clean humor and were normal people. We are super excited for him.

In other news Ingrid is progressing really nicely also. She still hasnt recieved an answer about Joseph Smith but we have a lesson with her tonight. She also came to church and stayed the full three hours. 

The other person that came to church is a friend of Cristian, who got baptised right when I got here. She is a girl that was sent here from Haiti after the huge catastrophe. We are going to have a lesson with her tomorrow

Something else that happened that was funnny this week was a big black guy called me and my companion over (in english) while we were walking through the downtown mall to get back to our apartment. We began to talk to him and he asked us where we were from. I told him Virginia and he said "No way man".  Then he asked me from where in Virginia and I told him Charlottesville and he freaked out (and wrapped me up) and told me that he lived in Charlottesville, Virginia for a long time with his brother and that his brother still lives there. It was pretty sweet haha. He has been in Argentina for a long time and he some some 15 or 20 years ago he used to read the BofM with some other Elders. He told us he would come to church on Sunday but he didn't show up. Oh well we are going to find him again.

Well I just want to say that I know the Lord answers prayers and that fasting is real and it brings miracles. I love love love the scriptures and I honestly just cant get enough of them every day. Almost every spare minute I have, I am reading in the scriptures. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and if I didn't know anything else at all, that alone would be enough to believe everything else. I love you all and hope you have a woderful week.

Love Elder Anderson (joe)

#Kirk out

Elder Ray Vejnar's latest letter from the Provo MTC mission: "Transfers"

 

  So last week I said that I would be having transfers for the first time well it did not go as I thought it would go. This last week we lost one of the elders in my mission and because we lost him Elder Kitchens his companion was on his own (that dose not work in a mission) so I along with everyone else in the mission thought that this would be a great opportunity to give everyone new companions, when the day came the only change that was made was that Elder Kitchens was moved into mine and Elder Heslop's companionship so yeah I was in a trio, WAS. Anyway things where going well I get along really well with Elder Kitchens because he talks Elder Heslop is not much of a talker so the past 4 months have been really quiet not a bad thing but still I would like to talk a little more than what we do already do sometimes. We did not know how long this configuration was going to last so we prepared to settle in for about 3 months ( the time when we loos another missionary) we moved desks computers told each other what we expected out of this companionship and all that good stuff. About two days ago however we fond out that a new missionary was going to be coming in because he had hurt his leg and could not walk so well and then the trio was broken up! this brake up cost me and Elder Heslop a window seat in the office, and one really great person (Elder Kitchens) so long story short transfers might as well have never happened. haha 

     On to other story's this month I have had a lot of trouble with my missionary debit card I had lost it then got a new one and had to activate it so this week I got a message from my district leader saying you have $180.00 on your card the financial office people said they are not going to put any more money on your card tell you start using it again so this week is the first time I will get to use that card in a wile so time to get spending haha! 

     So I guess this week the lesson I have learned is kind cheesy but true this life we will have some curve balls thrown at us, and we will need to know how to react to them, in other words "life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you are going to get" and though we may not know what is in store we do know how to react to it to quote Elder Holland "Trust God and believe in good things to come" I know that when we trust God our lives are blessed and though we may not see how what we are going though is a blessing sometimes I know that in the end it will be a blessing! I love this church I love the Book of Mormon and I know this church to be true. I love you all 

Elder Vejnar

      

Elder Jacob Anderson's latest letter from Rio: "Well the last time Wellington climbed the mountain to talk with God he said that God told him to give his next kid, who will be born shortly, my name. Not who I was named after but actually me. He his naming his kid after me... I feel like a rockstar but I am just a missionary."

I cannt every write about everything that happens in one week... Let me tell you about Saturday... After we had left the house and started waiting for the bus i decided that i wanted to hear about my old area!! So i gave the office a call and asked them to do a conf call so i could talk with my old comp about my old area. I was there for 6 months so I made a lot of friends with members and non members. It was weird to hear how much has changed. Cannot imagine my home ward in the states... In my old area we had one investigator, Wellington, who was very interesting... He had started his own church about 5 years ago because of doctrinal issues. When we taught him the Restoration i was very clear with him that the Authority of God only resides in one Church and that is the Church of Jesus Christ.. As missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ we hold the authority and power of God. He recognized the power and divinity of our message. The next day we returned to talk with him he was teaching people in his salon the message of the restoration.. He started sharing with people in his church.. He admitted that he does not have the power of authority of God but that his faith is real.. In short Wellington is not making a lot of progress in becoming a memeber of the Church of Jesus Christ thou he does recognize that is true.. Surprisingly something that happens on a daily basis.. Brazil is strange. Wellington along with a lot of people here believe in climbing mountains so that they can better communicate with God... Strange but understandable. Well the last time Wellington climbed the mountain to talk with God. Wellington said that God told him to give his next kid who will be born shortly my name. Not who i was named after but actually me. He his naming his kid after me... I feel like a rockstar but I am just a missionary.

Pretty sure its better.

After the day only continued getting better and better! We only can talk on our phone for 3min every day or we will run out of credits.

Short story. We ran out of credits saturday and will not have more until the 16 of this month. So we were walking in the street and i was thinking to my self how in the world we could get in contact with members to help our investigators get to church. As i started

thinking(praying) about this i lifted up my head to see a member waiting at a stop light.. We got everything worked out for sunday..

Finally the day ended with a very interesting lesson. We visited a family (by the request of the Father) after talking and getting to know them we started to teach the lesson. The father wanted it to end pretty much right after it started. Which was strange. Before we started i asked him what his expections where and then told him ours.

He didnt have any expections and was fine with our purpose. He endured our entire lesson. At the end his wife was freaking out. She was very upset that we are the only church with the authority of God and that she needed to be baptised again. She very upset to say the least. She told me that was going to talk to her pastor about this. I reminded her that he was the one who did the baptism and he was apart of the false prophets in the world.. With him more energy she then said that if she cannot ask her pastor she will ask the bible. She took her bible opened it up and started reading. She read something like "pastor are liars(servents of the Devil) and they lead the sheep of God to hell." She was blown away..

Yepp. God is on our side.

I am so very great full for the power that authority that has been restored to the earth.. Let your light shine bright!!

--

And they call me

Elder Anderson

For behold I am a disciple of Jesus Christ

Elder Joseph Anderson's latest letter from Argentina: "Our days just go from lesson to lesson and they seem to pass by like lightening"

Well here I am another week down in the good old mission. This week has definitely been one of my fastest weeks so far. We have been focusing soo much on teaching the investigators that we have right now, that our days just go from lesson to lesson and they seem to pass by like lightening. I am literally trying to think about what happened this week but it literally feels like just yesterday that I wrote haha.

First of all our investigators are doing well. Ingrid is still reading and praying but she is very catholic and her whole family as well and she just keeps telling us she is not sure about baptism. We are going to help her recognize and understand the answer that she has already received so that she can feel comforted and calm about making her first covenant with the Lord. She tells us that her days are really stressful and she likes to sometimes just stop everything and read in the Book of Mormon because it helps her feel peace and tranquility. She knows that the Book of Mormon is true but she doesn't quite understand that that testimony also means that Joseph Smith was a true prophet and that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only true and living church on the earth today. We are going to help her realize this and I have no worries that the Spirit will testify to her of these truths.

Ivan is mas o menos ahora. We have had a hard time having a lesson with him and his mom together because she works so much and she doesn't really have a set schedule. His step dad is a terrible example for Ivan and his three younger sisters. He gets drunk every weekend and smokes weed pretty much everyday and has no problem telling his kids. He also invites all of his friends over all the time that do the same things. Last night we went by to talk with Ivan and his mom to invite them to and activity that we have in church this Saturday, but there were so many people there high and drunk that we could barely talk to her. It is extremely sad to see that especially for Ivan and his three younger sisters because honestly his three younger sisters are the sweetest little girls ever. It kills me to see the environment that they are being raised in and all I what is to see is the gospel change and brighten their lives forever.

I am so grateful that I had the blessing of being raised in a home and a family with the true gospel of Jesus Christ as the foundation. I am grateful for my parents and for all that they did for me in my life. I know that it is the plan of our loving Heavenly Father that we have a mom and a dad that teach us the principles of his gospel in our homes. 

I am grateful for all of you and I hope you all have a wonderful week!!!

Love Elder Anderson (joe)

Elder Joshua Anderson's Latest Letter: His first from the MTC

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Joshua Anderson <joshuaphillippsanderson@myldsmail.net> wrote:

I have learned so much here. I sent you two hand written letters, let me know if you got it. It turns out i am not aloud to write letters except on my P-days so I cant send anymore of those. But it has been cool here. My TRC investigator can be difficult. She really wants to know the truth but she if she is going to join this church she has to know for sure that this gospel is perfect. She was really concerned as to why God let bad things happen. She was a social worker in Korea and she saw a lot of people do horrible things to children and she didn't understand why God would ever let that happen. but its weird because she doesn't blame those people for doing wrong things because even though they were wrong they dont any better so really God should not blame them. thankfully we were able to show here a couple Mormon Messages on lds.org that really helped. She is so loving. She is not concerned at all for her welfare she just wants to know about the people who will never have the chance to here the truth and why their lives have to be so much harder than ours. It is so weird because I will be studying something in the morning that answers her hard questions perfectly. A lot of the elders have stories like that too. I feel like I communicate the gospel so much better now and have answers to questions that literally just come to me, it is amazing. Well I wish I had more to say but the MTC is really just kinda the same every single day. I got some really cool pictures of the temple. my companion is really good at photography so he kinda taught me how to use me sweet camera. here are a lot of pictures.