Ants, Church, beautiful family dressed in  white, FHE

A Lovely family baptized!

Hey my family that i love so dearly :)

Hows things, Hows everything going. In Ukraine that's really scary for my sister!! Will she be alright Dad??

This week has gone so so fast!! So fast!! Me and my companion have been really busy here in Stop- alginado!!

The other day, I went to have some breakfast and ants had got into it.  I did not want to throw away my cereal so I got out the sieve and sieved out the ants.  Here's a picture.  I won't give in to the ants.  I won't.

We had our baptisms with the Bulleno family!! Thy are so special and it was a pleasure to witness their baptisms!! The son John-mar baptized his whole family. Jennecel , Mary- joy,sister Josephine and Brother Sonny!! Their testimonies after were so sweet!!

One thing that was funny, I showed a picture of our family,( the photo that Nopera took) and while I was showing them, they all pointed to Dad and said, Pinoy siya??? hahah that was a really funny moment!! pinoy siya means, is he a phillipino? haha because dad's so black in the photos. They are so funny here.

In my  personal study:
I have been reading the account in Alma when Alma the younger is talking to his sons, Helaman, Shiblon and Corianton!! The book of Alma is so interesting i cannot put it down!! 

One thing i like in there is the love Alma has for his sons!! One thing I like in Alma 37:32 is where Alma's speaking to Helaman and says "Teach them an everlasting hatred against sin and iniquity" - WOW, I thought - how powerful is that!!

This stood out to me because my job as a missionary is to do as Alma the younger did and taught  his sons which for me now is crying repentance to the people here in Bacolod.!! And as sons and daughters of our God, we need to stay as far away from sin and keep on the straight and narrow path and as Jesus says in 3rd Nephi13:30 -31 The lord will give you the things you need in your travel!!

The language is coming along, just working hard on my speed and tone!!

I know this is the ONLY true church here on this earth family!! And I know Jesus Christ visited the Americas and will come again.

Love you Family and have a good week.

Elder Anderson

Catch up - By Dad

Sorry for not keeping the blog up folks.

The last was 17 December 2013.

Heres a little bit of info:  I will now post his weekly letters.  I won't try to catch up, the editing will take half a day. Elder's tend to sit down and type like crazy in lower case with errors and all because of time restrictions on computers.

Elder Anderson spoke with us at home on Christmas Day.  The connection was very poor but it was nice to speak.  He is doing well and now has a companion from the Phillipines who is a great cook, so the menu has a bit of variety now.  Elder Anderson has steadily improved in the Cebuano language and is now teaching most of the discussion when required.  His testimony has grown immensely.  He loves the Phillipino people with all his heart.   This coming week he has four baptisms.  He is so excited.

Elder Anderson has been notified that his original assigned mission has reopened and that he will in time be back in Tacloban mission which was wiped out in areas by the cyclone in November.  He looks forward to this.  He speaks very highly of his current mission president.

Elder Anderson loves photos of his little sister Pepe-Anei.  We send them almost daily.

Our impression as parents is that he is being an obedient and hard working missionary. His personal warmth and sense of humour is a blessing to the people.

Dale