Week 95

Week 95

Hey everyone! This week was awesome! We have been working super hard and really giving it our all. That’s why I haven’t had so much time to write.

I’d like to share a spiritual experience with everyone. So it started last Sunday. We brought up in Elder’s quorum that a family we are teaching was in need of some help. Their yard was really low, so whenever it rained it would flood really bad. So the Elder’s quorum decided that they were going to reach out to this family (Wills family) and really minister like the Savior would. They leveled out the yard and it really touched Sister Wills and all of the kids as well. They really felt loved and supported by the branch. Sister Wills and her 5 kids got baptized this Saturday. It was so awesome to see the love that Sis Wills has for her children and the love that God poured out on us all.

I love you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Andrus

Week 94

Week 94

The baptism in Trinidad was moved to this week. Liseth is really awesome. Her and her family wrote me a nice letter and gave it to me before I left. It was awesome. I think that I will probably leave from here. That is ok though. This has been my favorite area and it’s been such a great privilege to come back to be here! I love it here and its awesome to see all of the people that I taught and they are all baptized now.

We are working with a really cool family that is going to get baptized this week on Saturday! The Wills family. So its Sister Wills (Mom) and all of her kids! Rachael, Ruben, Terrance, Tyra, Trisha. So that is going to be awesome. Also another lady is going to be baptized as well. Her name is Cyntica. She is super awesome as well! It’s been really exciting. Should be awesome! Wish us luck we are going to need it! 

Week 93

Week 93

I think that is something that everyone needs to learn. Because when the floods come its too late to build a dam. I really think that that is something that you and dad taught us kids well. We just never listened to you.

This week was really awesome. I have to be really short this week. But I would like to share a very special experience. We had a baptism this week of a man named Eon. He is really awesome. He was really struggling with his family how was putting up a lot of opposition but he made the decision and has fully committed to the gospel. This is what he wrote this.

“Almighty God I pray as I was baptized today help me keep away from sin of the world guide me fill me with understanding.

As I become a new person, give me the word I do not have. Give me wisdom I lack.

Let my glory restore on me once again and your blessing come into my life again.

Let all who help me be lifted up in your name.

I am not being baptized for riches but for the second chance you have given me through your Son Jesus Christ and the atonement.

As I try to bear your name help me resist temptation.”

I love you all so much! Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Andrus

Week 92

Week 92

Yes I’m in Guyana now! I got in on Wednesday night. The flight was really good. Up and down with no fireballs. I’m sad to leave Trinidad just because I know that I’m not going to be able to go back. Does that make sense? because my permit runs out in May. It was hard to say goodbye to everyone. It was sad the last Sunday in an area is when you say all of your goodbyes. 

I really love Elder Norton. We are getting along great and we have so many people to teach it’s kinda crazy! HAHA we are teaching a few families so that is really awesome! One baptism in Trinidad is supposed to be next Saturday so that is really cool. I’m happy for Liseth she is really awesome! Also, We have a baptism here in our area this Saturday too. His name is Eon. He is really awesome and is going to be a great member! Keep him in your prayers for me. 

So we are living in the same place that I was living before. Its nice. We are close to lots of nice things. So that is good!

Week 91

Week 91

Well everyone, this week has been crazy! The biggest thing for me is that I’m going back down to Guyana! Yay! Not AP anymore, so that is awesome. And I’m going back to Georgetown area! I’m so excited, that is the area that I left to come up to Trinidad so that is really cool!

Conference was great! I love to hear God’s words! I especially love Elder Taylor’s talk on Saturday morning. It was awesome! “Read the Book of Mormon to know God.” All the changes seem really awesome too! Can’t wait to get working!

Love you all!

-Elder Andrus

P.S. My Companion is Elder Norton. He is from Arizona. It’s going to be great!

Week 90

Week 90

(not a letter this week…this is from ours)

Our week was great! We had tons of fun doing a lot of teaching visits. President Egbert wanted us to do all of our teaching visits this week (we had planned to do them all next week) but that is ok! We drove all over this tiny island and got a few minutes of sleep too! It was a lot of fun. I’m really excited to come home too. Not like trunky just ready for America and to be with family! HAHA I love you so much!

Love,

Elder Andrus

Week 89

Week 89

Hey everyone!

 

This week was super awesome! We had a lot more time to teach and we were able to have a super spiritual experience this week with our investigator Lisette. She is soo cool. We have been teaching her for like the last 2 months or so. She is from Venezuela and is really prepared for the gospel. In fact she is living with 3 returned missionaries. They are all so cool! Lisette loves her family and is really attached to them. She also believes in God very Strongly! A few lessons ago we were teaching her about the great Apostasy and she asked us; "Who can help me? Who as the power of God?" we testified to her that God loves her and is always going to provide a way for us. She then told us that "When we need him most, God will always appear.” Naturally the next lesson we shared with her the 1st vision. She loved it. Then the book of Mormon. She loved it. Then more about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. She loved it. It was awesome. Then last night we invited her to be baptized. Angles were with us and she accepted the invitation to be baptized on April 14th. Tears filled her eyes and she knew that that was right. We all felt the spirit and it was so great. I hope that I can be here in Port of Spain to see her get baptized. Either way however I’ll be happy. I love you all! Have a great week!

 

I love the gospel. I’m glad that God has made a plan for us and that we are able to be here as his children and that he loves us so much. I know that God lives. I know that he loves us. I have felt it. I have seen his love in my life. I have been blessed with so much and I can’t deny that there is a literally, living , loving, heavenly father. 

Love,

Elder Andrus

Week 88

Week 88

Hi family! This week was awesome. We had lots of fun and some more time to teach. But, first things first, Happy Birthday Amber!

Well a little bit more on MLC last week. It was all about Joseph Smith and the blessings that came from his first vision and how the world has changed. It was really awesome.

Tuesday: We had a meeting with President and he took off to Suriname then Guyana so we won’t see him for a while.

Wednesday: Was crazy…we didn’t lose a single second. We left our house at 8am and didn’t get back till like 10pm it was nuts.

Saturday: those other day were just office stuff. We taught Liseth about the first vision. It was so awesome. She said “When we need him most, God always appears.” She is great.

Then on Sunday we gave her the Book of Mormon. She loves it! I do too. I know it’s true and has the power to heal the wounded soul.

I love you all!

-Elder Andrus

Week 87

Week 87

This week was crazy! We hosted MLC. (Missionary Leadership Council) It was a ton of fun. So all of the Zone Leaders, Sister Training Leaders, and Teaching Assistants, and President and Sister Egbert flew into Trinidad for this meeting. The meeting goes like this. 

Tuesday: All morning pick everyone up from the airport and have zone and Sister training leader reports.

Wednesday: all day business and a really cool devotional on Joseph Smith and the scriptures that Moroni quotes to Joseph. I recommend that everyone reads those scriptures. For Business we counciled on polices, key indicators, and lots of over things to help the mission be the best that they can be. It is really cool.

Thursday: We drove everyone back to the airport! 

Ill have to write more next week. Sorry out of time! Love you all!

Love,

Elder Andrus

Week 86

Week 86 

Well this week was busy for sure! We had lots of fun though. You know how transfers are.

We did our New Missionary orientation on Tuesday, it turned out well. It was fun because we only one sister come in. That made it a lot more personal and we could answer her questions better. On Wednesday and Thursday we just did tons of running around. Picking up and driving around a bunch or broken cars and doing lots of fun stuff. We also got to teach a really great lesson to Liseth again on thrusday.

On Saturday Elder White slept all day because he is sick. But that is ok. I got a lot done in the office and we even found a cot there so he was comfy.

Sunday we had stake Conference. Elder Alonso of the 70 came and presided. It was really cool. Elder Alonso is a funny man.

We taught Liseth again and she is really awesome!

Love you all and have a great week and keep me in your prayers!

Elder Andrus

Week 85

Week 85 

We are teaching a less active that is returning to activity and she was teaching us how the Sacred Grove is much like a temple. Then in my studies I was reading 2 nephi 12: 2 and it takes about how the lord's house is going to be in the tops of the mountains then I read a quote from Elder McConkie about how the temples can be on mountain, hills, and planes. Elder McConkie also talked about what happens in Temples. He said the Temple is a place that the Lord comes in Spirit and literally to teach his people. So in that seance the Sacred Grove is a temple! It was so awesome.

Elder Kearon of the Presidency of the 70 came and talked with us! It was so awesome. Elder Zivic of the area 70 came as well. Really cool! It also stresses out President Egbert which stresses us out a bit too haha! Elder Kearon and Elder White and I role played together and he said that we "look like the Gospel" we thought that was pretty cool! hopefully I can keep on looking like the Gospel.

I’ll do my best to keep on my smile! HAHA its not hard when you have such a great message to share with everyone.

Love,

Elder Andrus