Inside joke...
Hey it was a cool week! I got my new companion Elder Herrera and we have been good friends throughout the mission. We actually sat next to each other on the plane to get to PR. He has a terrible english accent and is always singing Bon Jovi - Its my life. Also Bring Me to Life by Evanescence and In The End by Linkin Park haha!! I will try to get a video.
Saturday I had an exchange with Elder Durkin from Las Vegas. He's cool and his brother in law is the owner of the skate brand called NEFF. I thought that was sick. Maybe he will hook me up with some Gnar gear after the mish. But anyways we had a really good day. We found this one lady named L. that was happy to see us. She said she helps her daughter with Girl Scouts and she was suprised that both of us were Eagle Scouts!! haha but we taught her about the importance of families and how the Restoration is a key part in the success of a family. Then we found this one lady named M. She would rather have us teach in English so believe it or not we were struggling teaching in English. I don't get why but it just happens. She really wants to follow God so we invited her to be baptized if God told her and then she accepted. If she goes to Church and prays and reads the BOM she will get her answer. We then taught Eladio. .He is a recent convert about 10 months ago. He is really awesome! We are helping him prepare to enter the temple. His mother died about 2 weeks ago so he is excited to do the work for her. We then found the family that we thought were members just yanking our chain but it turns out - they aren't members. The problem is that the husband is alwaaaaayys working and its hard to get the family together.
So yesterday we had a mission-wide meeting. It was at 7 am and we live like a little more than 2 hours away from where it was going to be held. So President had us leave Sunday night to sleepover in another house of Elders that was closer to the meeting. It was cool! Elder Belleza, Elder Wayman, Elder Chinchilla and Elder Nunez were there. I had no bed so I had to improvise.
Saturday I had an exchange with Elder Durkin from Las Vegas. He's cool and his brother in law is the owner of the skate brand called NEFF. I thought that was sick. Maybe he will hook me up with some Gnar gear after the mish. But anyways we had a really good day. We found this one lady named L. that was happy to see us. She said she helps her daughter with Girl Scouts and she was suprised that both of us were Eagle Scouts!! haha but we taught her about the importance of families and how the Restoration is a key part in the success of a family. Then we found this one lady named M. She would rather have us teach in English so believe it or not we were struggling teaching in English. I don't get why but it just happens. She really wants to follow God so we invited her to be baptized if God told her and then she accepted. If she goes to Church and prays and reads the BOM she will get her answer. We then taught Eladio. .He is a recent convert about 10 months ago. He is really awesome! We are helping him prepare to enter the temple. His mother died about 2 weeks ago so he is excited to do the work for her. We then found the family that we thought were members just yanking our chain but it turns out - they aren't members. The problem is that the husband is alwaaaaayys working and its hard to get the family together.
So yesterday we had a mission-wide meeting. It was at 7 am and we live like a little more than 2 hours away from where it was going to be held. So President had us leave Sunday night to sleepover in another house of Elders that was closer to the meeting. It was cool! Elder Belleza, Elder Wayman, Elder Chinchilla and Elder Nunez were there. I had no bed so I had to improvise.
The meeting was a big testimony meeting about our experience in Conference. I decided to share what question I had. My question was how I can keep being a disciple of Jesus Christ after the mission and I shared the story that Elder Holland told us about how the lady's house was filled with water and the home teachers come at the perfect time but then say that she looks busy and they will come by another day. hahaha!! That is an example of what we SHOULDN'T do so I learned I can help and serve people doing my home teaching. It was a funny story though.
Ok well Love you all
Peace out!!
Elder Cody Anderson
Puerto Rico San Juan Mission
Ok well Love you all
Peace out!!
Elder Cody Anderson
Puerto Rico San Juan Mission
