Damage

Yup I have stayed in Wetumpka. Lol im actually running the whole county of Elmore. All of it is under my juridiction. As far as misisonary work is concerned. Elder Reed is a nice guy. He's from Alberta Canada.Lets see anything else......not at the moment. Im glad Dad and dave and sarahs visit went well. really I am. I do remember the slides that dad had. Thats cool taht you made that for him. Im sure that took him back to when things were simplier and they wrote in stone tablets :) As for the crazy weather. The tornado alarms went off like 3 times. A place near us called Prattville sustained very heavy damage. also in my district was a place called clanton and a few people were killed. Also I heared of another place called Autuagaville was washed off the face of the map. Though Florida got hit the heaviest. I dont know too much about all that. We get news at least 3 days after the fact LOL. AS for my baptism....Her name is Karen Park. we found her through a member referal and when we found her she had already read the Book of Mormon and was starting to read D&C. So it was great. She Knew it was true when we found her. After a few weeks She was baptised so its been great. She is smaller than mom I think which I think is funny. Also she gives us Steak.....lots and lots of steak. Organic steak which is WAY BETTER THAN REGULAR STEAK.....and thats the truth. So other than that nothing really new. WE have a few baptisms lined up, but only time will tell. We have been instructed...today that we need to double our baptism numbers.....it came from all the way from the top and a man named Elder Gonzales instructed it So I have my work cut out for me. Also My mission President is one of the best scriptorians in the Whole church! He (literally) knows everything there is to know about the bible and about Joseph Smith. He Consistantly gets phone calls from D. Todd Christopherson. and Also Henery B. Eyring from the first presidency. So we get alot of that kind of stories from him. He wrote the Gospel Principles book. The one that is used in the chuch. and he has published other books as well. So We have a Mission President who knows his stuff. Please tell everyone that im doing Lots better. LOL The Hard part of my mission I believe is over. There is a time that a new misisonary has to go through in the start that is hard. All you have to do is grin and smile. Thats it. Its tough......extremely. Words cant describe. Two years still seem like forever, but it goes lots faster as you hit your 6 month part. (So im told) WEll I love you guys. Give my love to the girls and Everyone! Love you guys!

Elder Andersen

Photo Vomit....

It was transfers this last week, so here is a look at what happened this last week. Also of note:

There were serious storms that rolled through Alabama from Friday to Saturday, including tornados. Talon's area as far as we know did not have trouble, and all missionaries are safe in his mission. It is through the tiny mercies that we are aware of the Lord's hand in our lives.

This is one of them.....

Striking a Pose...

AGAIN!!!!

Transfers & a New Companion

Elder Andersen & Elder Reed

District Meeting?

I'm wondering what's in those boxes...

This would be his "Blue Steel."

(If you are unfamiliar with this- check "Zoolander"

Photo Bomb!!!!

Missionaries

Baptism

Elder Dansie & Elder Andersen

Photo Bomb/Blue Steel

He's in the corner!!!

He's still in the corner!!!

#*$^*%($#&)@&%)#$^%*&^#( #$#*&$#! FART

Heidi,

Sweet! sounds like Kairi is going ok in soccer. good genes thats all im saying good genes. HAHA! Also I can understand the feeling your having. I dont know what to tell you sorry. Wish I could help more. Anyways. Kairi is going to Magic now huh? hahahaha Sweet I like that Idea. Also I found out that I cant play magic here let alone have cards so Im going to send them back sometime :( oh well Ill have all the time in the world to do that after a mission. So I baptized Someone Yesturday. Pictures are up on the mission blog. If you dont know where that is. Dad can tell you. NO MORE SLEEPING TILL 4! LOL Transfers are this week. we are waiting on a phone call to see whos leaving and staying, but those zone leaders are not calling yet so we are still waiting. Our investigators......most are going to be baptized so my job this transfer....if I stay is to find more people to baptize...sigh. Work work work. And I dont get a weekend. LOL I WANT TO WATCH DR. WHO! #*$^*%($#&)@&%)#$^%*&^#( #$#*&$#! FART! I hate everything that ever exsisted*= I dont know how to spell shut up! lol Well I love you guys LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS! give me love to the girls and to Cam

Elder Andersen

Conference Edition

Hey heidi sup? Nothing much going on here. Im still living thats good right? hahahaha. The south is Crazy, but we knew that. So I have a question. Does my card (personal card. the one from mountain America.) is it joined with your account? Because I looked to see hoe much money I had and I saw all this money and was like 1. this cant be right 2. I must have a joined account with heidi. So please let me know. Besides that everything is fine here. watched confrenece the last two days and it seemed to me that some of there talks where on marriage. I was like I wonder if they are talking about me? I always say that im not getting married. Then they just talk about how every young man needs to get married. sigh. Whatever im still not getting married till after college. hahahaha im rebellious! I hope you all enjoyed confrence. There was alot of good things in those sessions. So have I told you latley that the Lord has humbled me.....SUFFICENTLY. this whole mission expereience has put me in my place. hahahaha Im coming home lots humblier.....if thats even a word. I admitt I know jack crap about teaching the gospel. hahaha. Ican see how people come home different from thier misisons, but I will still be me. Will still like to play video games and Halo and all that stuff. But Ill be a better Talon somehow. Thats What the Lord is teaching me. Its been tough. Alot of my hard times on my misison was when I was fighting the Lord. Mostly How I wasnt going to be patient or humble. I could do it all myself. HAHAHAHAHA! that was a bad Idea. I just thought I had all the patience in the world and was humble....The lord showed my that I wasnt. That sucked. I believe Ive learned my lesson. and am able to be a better missionary because of it. Im still Talonious Prime!, but I dont boast in my own strength but in the strength of my god. IM NOT COMING HOME A D-bag. the Lord said I didnt need to. Im still Talon, just getting better. hahaha. I love you all.

Elder Andersen

Letter to my blog

Hello fellow followers of my blog.

Lets see its friggin raining outside and its cold.......I dont know what else you want from me....BAHAHAHAHA!

hmmm lets see.....any news. Not really Just sending my blog followers some love. Yes im taking lots of pictures ans for sure will be sending some at transfers....apr19? So look for those there aree going to be some cool ones for real. The question I think that I need to answer at this time is.

Talon? Have you bible bashed with a pastor yet?

my answer.....kind of. We really didnt get into the bible. WE just talked about what we believed. He told us we were wrong of course, but hey what can you do. I've only been called taht Anti-Christ once and that was by some stupid kids yelling it from 80 yds away! If I wasnt a missionary....I think I would have ran over there, falcon punched them, and laughed. But im a missionary. So I cant do that. THAT DOESNT MAKE ME WEAK! makes me.....reserved? BAHAHAHA! also yes ive had a gun pulled on me. That was just funny! Also something that is quite humerous is people think we a re Jehovahs Whitnesses. I die laughing everytime. Well Im giving MAD props to the people who have written me since ive been out on my misison.

1. Kelsey 6.Aunt Alysen

2.Wendy 7.My grandma :)

3. Heidi

4. Dave

5.Wild on Hobbies

So If you REALLY love me and want to be on this list? Write me. address should be provided but if not here it is.

Elder Andersen

3100 Lorna RD STE 102

Birmignham, Al 35216

Ok folks. thats it for this week. I love you guys. God Bless.

Elder Andersen

Dear Megaron

HEIDI!

MAN I LOVE YOU! thats all I gotta say. Im glad ya'll got the letters from me to the girls. I thought they would enjoy that alot. Well im glad not much is going on. No news is good news at times. (remember that) As for me and the missionary work out here. I do have some news. and thats.......7 people with a baptizmal date. Its been alot of work (and half the battle is getting them in the waters of baptism) but we are confident that it will go through.so our work is paying off. Some more news to report and this is kind of exciting is that this next transfer theres a high possiblitity that ill be taking over Wetumpka and all of Elmore county. Its not offical yet so we will see, but yeah I would be running it. So I hope you all are safe and most importantly happy. The work is becoming easier out here for me. I had a team-up with another misisonary this week and I have to admitt.....he kind of got me out of a robot mode. He taught me how to just be myself and incorperate that into my missionary work. I know have seen and been through the process of becoming a D-bag RM. Thats how it happens. So thanks to him I am able to retain THE " TALONIOUS PRIME" So yeah for him. Also. hahaha while I was there. WE met these one memebers and he is A halo junkie. Like me and dave BUT BIGGER! and He gave me his card with all his gamertags and I gave him mine and daves LOL he said he was going to message dave for me but I have pics of his man cave....ITS AMAZING I ALMOST CRIED! hahaha well Love you Heidi! take care. know that you are in my prayers!

Elder Andersen.

dear Megaron. ( Cameron)

Dude ya'll can send cards ill just be like . Woops......guess I'll have to send them home. I have a hiding place for them. I wont play with them I cant so....If you want to you can! If you dont then thats fine too. Hahaha yeah companions are weird. You just have to get one thats not uptight you know? so maybe next transfer. LOL I hope everyone at the shop got my letter I sent like FOREVER ago. Tell them I got it and laughed (many a time) over it. Tell them all that when I get home that Im going to make it rain......for real. LOL Tell them sup for me and that im thinking about writing them another letter. TRUE, Niki, Derek, you, Dawson, Shawn, and all of them are the stuff! I love you guys. But you most of all. BABY I MISS YOU LOL TURN AROUND BRIGHT EYES!

Elder Andersen

TO EVERYONE

OH YEAH!

Share this story on my blog. Its neat.

"So we were tracting the other day. (big suprise there. I know.) and we got to this one house. It was in some wooded area and we knock on this ladies door. Nobody answers. So we are leaving and theres this dog and im petting him. Right before I was going to leave, this lady opens here door. Now im off to the side a little bit and can only see one side of her. She looked frightened when I think about it. But I introduce myself and explain who we are. She was just a little upset that I had opened her screen door so I could knock on her regular door. (She though I had tried to open her real door lol) I apologized and everything. She said it was cool, but she wasnt intrested. as we were saying good bye I see something in her hand as she waved....a gun LOL she was packing heat and was ready to use it on use. So now I can say that A gun was (sort of) pulled on my! and thus ends my letter to this blog. Ill try to update it with stories as best I can, But until then. Ya'll take care now. You hear?

Elder Andersen

P.S. You all need to send me letters whoever is reading my blog right now. Mail letters too.

Elder Andersen

3100 Lorna rd Ste102

Birmingham, AL 35216

Rough

Hey Heidi,

Yeah things have been a little rough. I wont lie. A mission in the south is tough. (tougher then I thought it would be) Theres just alot thats expected of me and I dont feel that I can deliever. Sort of feel......inadequite? Yeah thats a good word for it. Im not a good teacher when I try to teach the gospel. LOL I feel sometimes that Im behind in some respects, not worthiness issues, but like teaching.......yeah. ITs just been a tough week. Losing really potentious investigators. (though we have others) its still hard to see and watch. The south is a very hard-headed people thats for show. Trying to convince someone that there is more out there. when there whole life has been centered around one way of thinking is a tough pattern to crack. Just for them to listen to us is a miracle! So yeah its been tough. Ive been told (basically by the mission President) that im going to be taking over the Wetumpka area this next transfer. (three weeks) So im stressing out about that because I just feel inadequite really. Then I have this nagging voice in my head that constantly tells me to "just go home" "give up" " your not good enough" and I cant seem to get them to leave. I work hard, probably the hardest Ive ever had to work and I feel like im smahing my head against a wall because nothing is happening. its just hard. I knew it would be and didnt all at the same time. I do know this though. This is something I need to stick out. So that sometime in my mission I wont need to "Stick it out" anylonger. That I will find my stride and be a better teacher. Thats the impression that I get. I believe that this is a humbling phase in my misison. So that I can do those things that I was sent here to do specifically. Theres no going home for me. I just cant. I must admitt though that its been hard being away from family, friends, etc. Its tough. I hope that this phase in my mission goes by fast. Im tired of it LOL. I love you Heidi.

Oh yeah. How are you paying for my mission. Is grandpa sending money? who all is giving so that I may know.

Love you,

Elder Andesen

More Dear Dad

HEY DAD!

whats up pup. Yes the weather down here has warmed up,but my allergies
are killing me. I thought that yesturday taht it was my allergies
bothering me,but  Iwoke up this morning feeling like crap. I called
this mission doctor ladie and she said after I go do email and
walmart. (for meds) that im to stay in. Sigh. I hate being sick. Its
no fun. anyways. I hope the baptism goes well and gets planned out
soon as well. She is a very nice lady, but it seems the advicary is
working hard on her. So its difficult. For some reason Satan has these
people down here in the south TIGHTLY in his grasp. its been hard to
talk to anyone. Yesturday we got called the anti-christ. it was
intresting. of course they yelled it from afar because they are
cowards. The thing ive realized about the south is that NOONE of weak
testimony is sent here. I keep telling myself that. Also Ive become
quite familiar with the bible. (whether or not im as good to go toe to
toe with a pastor yet....remains to be seen.) but people (especially
from the "church of christ"....have you heard of that sect?) want to
bible bash with us. WE have been directed to just walk away and not
bible bash no matter what. nothing good comes from bible bashing
anyway. Drives the spirit away. Anyway the people from the church of
Christ CAN be some of the meanest people around. I have grown a
distaste for them. Some that we have met are nice and we agree to
disagree. Others invite us in to bash....sigh. Ive run into a few
pastors, now of which except one was kind. One we talked with for like
20 min and he said he didnt want to argue amongst friends. while we
disagreed on some points we left each other in good spirits... I
thought to myself. Why cant we all be like that ? hahaha. So the work
continues. I have a feeling that the "vision of the south" givine by
one of the 70's is true. There are alot of good people here. and
really we should be thanking these pastors. They are taking people
from a telestial world to a terrestrial world. While we (Mormons) take
them all the way home. Well dad I hope all is well with you and Kay.
Tell her Hello for me and everyone there! I hope the economy gets
better. For everyone. Its no better down here. I assure you. Love you
dad

Elder Andersen

Dear Dad

Hey dad!
The work here is....progressing. We now have about 7 people with a
date so I mean half the battle is getting them to baptism, but you
know all that :) Yeah im not good at bible bashing dad to tell you the
truth. Im just not! ITs hard to see that these people wont except the
truth. but what can I do. I guess not everyone is ready. too bad. O
ther then that, yeah we had somewhat of a light show a couple days
ago. Mostly just thunder though. ahahaha the weather here is odd. It
will be sunny one minute and raining the next. Its crazy. Sorry to
hear that Kayliene needs an operation. Thats no fun! give her my love
and blessings. I love you dad.

Elder Andersen

Anger

Dear Heidi,

I've written the girls letters, because... I felt I should. Tell them I love them and tell Cam that also. You know I love you so don't even worry, but just in case... I love you :). Take care. I'm doing fine. OH by the way.... Do I have anger issues? My companion says I do, which I might because he always brings it up. So I'm wondering. Maybe I do? I don't know, I always feel I'm under a magnifying glass. He watches everything I do and its annoying. So maybe I do have anger issues LOL. Love you

Elder Andersen (Talon Andersen)

Dear Kairi,

Hey! This is Uncle Talon! What's up? You being good for Mom and Dad, it helps them a lot! It also sets the example for your younger sisters so they can be good too. So that Mom and Dad don't go crazy! How are you enjoying school? I had LOTS of fun at school, although being a missionary can be fun too! Well I love you girl. Be good for Mom and Dad ok? Also help them by cleaning up your toys, even before they ask.

Love you!

Elder Andersen (Uncle Talon)

Dear Kesslynn,

Hey there Big Girl! You being good? How are things going at home? Are you still going to pre-school? and if so what are you learning? Give me all the details! I'm writing you a letter to tell you I love you and think about you all everyday! Keep being that good girl that I know you are and listen to Mom and Dad. They love all of you SO MUCH! So be good for them ok? Love you girl!

Love,

Elder Andersen (Uncle Talon)

Dear Ellie,

You're probably too young to read this and probably too you to understand. but I'm going to write you anyway! Someday I hope you'll have this letter to remind you that your family loves you! Very much! Everyone! Remember to listen to Mom and Dad. They only want whats best for you, and that goes for all your Aunts and Uncles. Know that we have a strong family with HIGH MORAL STANDARDS. You'll appreciate them as time goes on. I love you girl.

Love,

Elder Andersen (Uncle Talon)