Hellfighters

This week has been a crazy fun week! Earlier this week i got the chance to play some ball with some hood rats and they laughed when me and my companion asked to play because we are white but they didn't realize white folks can play too. we ended up beating them and leaving them with a little message it was awesome to see them humble and the way the lord works to humble others! and this friday Elder Thompson and I went to a breakfast with a Biker Christian gang, named the hellfighters! The nicest people i have ever met! one of the guys looked like phil off of duck dynasty it was hilarious! Then this sunday me and my comp had to give a talk, i talked on how i came on my mission and he talked on Joseph smith! it was a great sacrament! Well i hope everyone is doing alright! love and miss you all and talk to y'all next week! 

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Elder Andersen

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Also - A note from Elder Nielson

Elder Andersen & Elder Nielson

Dear Brother and Sister Andersen,

My wife Marcia and I had the opportunity to visit the Florida Tallahassee Mission. During our time there I had an interview with your wonderful son. During our time together he told me how you rescued him and brought him into your family.

He loves you. He is becoming an outstanding missionary. His President and wife speak very highly of him.

Thank you so much for sending him to Florida. We are very fortunate to have him.

Sincerely yours,

Elder Brent H. Nielson
First Quorum of the Seventy

Hard Week

It's been a hard week, had no lessons until sunday, but the coolest thing was the lord did bless us! Childon told us that he promise and no doubt he will be baptized which is awesome because he has so much going against him, he is willing to put 100% of his faith in the lord. That's something i'm growing to learn out here. Without him, we are nothing. we cant do anything without him. Even the people who believe that there is no god. They all soon find themselves talking to our heavenly father. And the most amazing thing about it is he loves us and listens no matter what! ha well that's all i have for this week! Ill keep yall updated and ill talk to y'all next week!:) 

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Elder Andersen

blessings!

This week has been full of blessings and adventures! We had the chance to teach childon again about the Plan of Salvation and invited him to become baptized! he accepted and its crazy because we didn't plan to ask but we did and he seems like we will be ready! its in oct 10 because he needs time to clean up his life but im so excited! My companion and I have been talking to everyone! ha we ran into these guys who were outside a tattoo place and they were tatted from head to their toe and had piercings all over! But we talked to them and one of them just was going off on how he loves what we do! and the guy was so nice he invited us to come in and talk to the boss of the place, so we went in and talked to this huge white skin head. ha it was kind of scary haha but it was funny! He was all tatted up and had a Nazi tattoo on his arm, but the guy told us we are always welcomed in to a drink or to take a break and talk if we ever wanted too. His name was cue ball, ha which is the white ball in pool lol but it was a adventure! ha we talked for about 20 min! Im loving the work out here! Thanks for the support and ill talk to y'all next week:) 
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Elder Andersen

Hard Work!

This week has been crazy! The start of this week I went down to panama city beach for a trade off and it was so much different. like there was a lot of people! Elder Peterson who is my zone leader helped me get over the fear of talking to people fast. We taught a lesson to an older lady and that went well then we went to buffalo wild wings for dinner with a member and it was awesome! I got the chance to catch up on my sports;) ha but when I got back in my area we got to teach carl. we have been focusing on the atonement and repentance this whole week. we have taught him twice. and he came to church. and I had to teach a lesson on repentance in sunday school. Something touched his heart because he was in tears. we don't know quite yet what happened because he left after sunday school but something did. He has come along way and he has been taught for about a year and a half. He is a great man. I have been talking to everyone. like really I love the people here but they are so stubborn in changing. but they have been nice. we had one investigator that we was talking to tell his mom told us to leave him alone. but it will get better. I love and miss you all hope. talk to y'all next week. and that's me and the comp after some Ball. 
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--  Elder Andersen

Loving Thugs

I've been doing a ton of service at a theatre called the vance. we did service this week with a bunch of thugs which was fun lol we had to clean out a theatre and move a ton of seats. but it was funny because we rode with them and they where bumping their rap music and it felt weird to hear that music again lol it was super weird and spiritually bad. but we showed them love and that we care and they love talking with us even though they wont change lol. but they tell us just from talking to us it brings them blessings so they give us money for food and they watch after us so I think its super cool. ha they are all a bunch of young black kids who need the gospel and we are working on helping them. ha We also have and investigator that is 79, a old black man. he tells us a ton of stories how he severed in the Korean war and was a gangster in Miami and took down guys with one punch. haha its been neat knowing him but ill talk to you all next week. peace and blessings  

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Elder Andersen