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

Week 84

Week 84

No letter again this week. Here is some of what he sent us:

"I'm sorry I haven't written a weekly in a while. It's just a mess being at the office all the time and just to write about it isn't that exciting to me I guess. But I do promise that next week I will write a weekly!"

"Something fun that we did do this week is clean out an apartment that we were done with. It was a mess. Like in the terms of trying to figure out what was ours and the Landlord and stuff. I thought to my self "Mom would have this thing figured out in no time." "

Week 85

Well, it is funny on my last weekly email in wrote "Till next week" so over a month later I guess I'll write. Haha! 

So I'm just going to recap some stuff thats been going on. So the government of Trinidad isn't letting any more missionaries in Trinidad. So that includes senior couples and future Mission Presidents. This is the Trinidad, Port of Spain mission and the headquarter is in Trinidad, Port of Spain. Crazy right? Well, the last office couple finished their mission and now it's up to us to run the place. It's a mess. 

From Jan 16-20, 23-24, we were stuck in the office waiting for a visa that was to be delivered there. The visa did make it, and the missionary that needed it was able to travel. So that is good. On Jan 19th we had to go to the airport in the middle of the night to go pick up Pres Gondolas (Caribbean Area President) LOL that was horrifying.

Jan 23rd Elder Riggs (previous companion) came up to Trinidad to get a police report. We are working with immigration to get permanent extensions. 

Jan 31st Zone Conference it was pretty good. Then we were at the office till 1:30am because President left the next day and needed a bunch of stuff. 

Feb 3rd we got a surprise call and we needed to clean out an apartment that the lease was up. So we had an angry land lord to deal with. 

Feb 5 we went to Tobago! So beautiful! Like it's unreal. 

We are teaching with a family (the Reyes family) and they are awesome. They are from Venezuela. The husband and wife are both RM's. Her cousin is really interested in the gospel. She talks so much about happiness and peace and joy. She is really cool. 

That's about it!

It's great to be a missionary, I love it so much. Keep praying for me! I love you all!

-Elder Andrus

Week 83

Week 83

From our letters:

"So ya last week I was a little bit frustrated. But more so I was very nervous and stressed. So the Stecker's who used to be here were totally awesome and way capable of running a mission twice this size. But they have gone home and now a lot of there responsibility is resting on us. Its just a lot to take in and you know how it is. I want to go out and teach the gospel so its just hard sometimes. LOL but we are doing good."

"This week was better and we got to teach a little bit more that last week. We actually have a lesson set up with an investigator! Crazy right? I'm really hoping he is there President Egbert wants to go with us."

"The office is all moved and they are going to close this one I thinks some time. I'm not sure. Things are all still up in the air right now. We did get be like normal missionaries on Sunday, that was awesome. We only had to go to one meeting with President and it was really great."

"My work permit is going to expire in May and so we are working with the Trinidad Officials to try to get it extended. President doesn't think that it's going to happen. So much so that he is getting more apartments in Guyana."

-Elder Andrus

Week 82

Week 82

Elder Andrus didn't write a big email. Here is what he is up to!

"I really like being prepared. There are only a few feelings worse than being unprepared. So LOL I'm going to try to be better at that!"

"Being stuck in the office and all. Its not that fair. LOL I just wish I could go and teach some people! LOL"

"Well are area is kinda at a stand still because we have only proselytized like for 2 hours this week. Curacao is already apart of our mission so they are looking for a new office there."

"It the words of our beloved hymn "Their ain't no rest for the wicked. Money don't grow on trees. We got bills to pay and mouths to feed, ain't nothing in this world for free."

-Elder Andrus