Week 78

Week 78

Wee, this week was awesome! I'm so grateful that I had the chance to spend this years Christmas in Trinidad. It was so awesome. I love the Egbert's so much. We had a great time at our Christmas party.

On Monday we went to their house and had a White Elephant gift exchange that was fun! I got an awesome picture from Elder Vance. He is so funny, the picture is attached. LOL  (ooops! I attached that photo to week 77)

But what was most special was that we watched "It's a Wonderful Life" and it is! It helped me to realize how important family is and how special they are. I love my family, I miss them a lot, but I'm happy to be here with my family in Trinidad.

It's been an amazing spiritual experience to feel of God's great love for me and these I serve. It's also been amazing to feel my family's love.

My hope is in Him, out Master Jesus Christ. I love you all and thank you for all the love and support. It's a wonderful life.

-Elder Andrus

Elder Andrus during our Skype call!!

Best day ever!!

Opening his Christmas package!

Week 77

Week 77

Merry Christmas! Well, everyone this week actually was really pretty normal. We didn't have to spend that much time in the office which means, because of our lack of a teaching pool, we spent most of our week contacting! Which is awesome! We contacted a ton of people which has brought back my nice, "Golden Brown" that I lost in the office. :)

Something exciting that did happen this week was the Ward Christmas dinner! #trinifood #iamfat

Elder Rose and I sand "O Come All Ye Faithful" It was legit. But the coolest part for me was a small piece of Revelation that I had that day. The morning I read, 4 Nephi 1:15-16 which talked about how to be happy and that is to have the Love of God in our hearts. I was pondering and thought, "Well, what is the love of god?" (I've had this thought lots) but 1 John 4:6-10 explains that God's love is shown to us by the gift of his Son. Christmas time is when we celebrate this gift. Let us all have a Happy (Merry) Christmas this year by giving and loving all who are around us. Or the way that the Master says it, "Light the World." We have the brightest light around. Don't hide this great gospel. Give it to those who you love. I'll do my best to do that too!

Merry Christmas! I love you all!

-Elder Andrus  

Elder Andrus got this for a White Elephant Gift. Best gift ever!

Week 76

Week 76

Well, this week was pretty exciting! We have been in the office most of the week yay. :/ I want to go teach people! Lol 

We have been going through every baptism record and we’ve been making all the names into a list with some other info as well. Then we’ve been checking in they are in the system and stuff. It’s been good until those naughty missionaries haven’t been turning in their records. Then President has asked us to compile a bunch of handouts and stuff for all of the branches. He sure is nice. Then we checked our list twice. And found out that WE messed up a bit and we really have lots of nice missionaries. Sure does put me in the Christmas spirit and mood! 😊

We also taught a good lesson at Zone Conference. Everyone seemed to like it. We also had interviews and spent the night with the Elders from Tobago. It was a lot of fun! Well, it’s been good. Wish us luck! We have a lot of work to do! Merry Christmas! I love you all!

-Elder Andrus

Week 75

Week 75

Well, this week was nuts #Gottolovetransfers It’s been fun though! It’s cool to meet all of the new missionaries and feel the “greenie” vibes.

I cant wait to be taught and not be the teacher. But I love being a teacher. That is one of the names that Christ has. Teacher. That is one of my favorite names that he has. He is a perfect teacher! I'm not even close. 

Transfers was this week. it was nuts. I sent you an agenda as to what was supposed to happen. It’s just crazy because there is always someone without a companion, without enough seats in their car, without the right keys, without the money and then throw on top of all that, car problems LOL it’s good fun.

Elder Leitch started his mission this transfer. Elder Leitch was formerly known as Kiefah (from Rosehall). It was a blast to see him and catch up with him. He is going to do great! Well, we only had 2 lessons this week. That is ok. We taught the Maughn Family again. It was great! They are so ready for the Book of Mormon nest time! It’s going to be awesome. So the other thing we’ve been doing this last week was going though all of the Baptism records and making sure the numbers are in right and stuff like that. It’s been so cool. We have found 1 person that was baptized and wasn’t submitted properly and now they are. #savin’souls It’s actually been really spiritual. I’ve given out a lot of referrals and most of them have been baptized we all have very far reaching effects. I know that God loves us that is why he sent his Son as a baby. Merry Christmas everyone! I love you all!

-Elder Andrus

Week 74

Week 74

Keep them in your prayers. The Maughn family.

Hello everyone! This week was great! And full of food. 

On Monday we went to Sister Persaud’s house. She is a very wealthy member. Se made a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner for us. It was great. She has a really cool house and she is very nice. 

Tuesday we actually went to District Meeting, wow! We went wth President and Sister Egbert. Thant was great too. 

Wednesday we worked in the office to get ready for Thanksgiving and MLC. It was fun, we had some time to go contacting and we met and amazing family named the Maughn family. The Highlight of my week was that we finally found a family to baptize. I really think that we are going to be able to do it! They are so awesome. So in like September, I talked about our White Christmas in the Caribbean. And the only way to do that here is to baptize a family. So Elder Rose and I have been fasting and praying to find this family. And we did! Pray for the Maughn family, please! We can’t do this without faith and God’s hand. We are so busy and we barely have time to teach. Please pray for us and the Maughns.

Thursday we had Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving, it’s great. Sister Egbert cooked an epic dinner. She is the BEST. We love Sister Egbert so much. If there ever was an Elect lady as God calls Emma Smith it is certainly Sister Egbert. We had turkey, Gravy, stuffing, mashed taters, and the lot. It was great! We all missed our families. 

Friday we had MLC and it was great. I conducted and we did it over skype. It was fun to actually be able to see and hear everyone. 

Saturday we made the transfer plan. We got some driving to do. LOL. Next week is going to be nutso. LOL.

Keep me and the Maughn’s in your prayers. I’m dreaming of a white Christmas. I love you all. I know this work is God’s. We can all save our Brother and Sisters. 

Love-

Elder Andrus