July 22, 2013

Sanderson Family,                                            July 22, 2013

Nice to hear from you all! I sure do miss those 50 mile hikes, hopefully they will be doing one next summer. All those lake names sound familiar, have we hiked that one before? I think that was the first one that i did back when I was 12 or something haha I'm not sure though. That's sweet that Cody went along too to keep the bears away ;) I bet he has grown up so much.

I'll be honest and say this week kinda sucked haha but it had its silver-linings as well. Thursday morning I got a call from Jennifer that Robert had been arrested : ( Wednesday night we had a lesson with Robert and basically told him that he had two choices, the Lord or his addiction. He chose to serve the Lord and allowed us to take all of the marijuana that he had on him. It was pretty fun destroying it haha. Anyways I guess later that night he started having really bad withdrawals and asked Jennifer for money to go buy some marijuana. Luckily she told him no so he began to get aggressive so she called the cops. The cops just went by to calm him down but I guess he got aggressive with them also, they handcuffed him and so he will be spending a while in a jail somewhere. Super sad story, but at least in jail he can't get any marijuana so maybe he can conquer his addiction. Jennifer is awesome and so strong through all of this and so her baptism is still on for this Sunday!

Daisy did not get baptized so we are going to let her go, which is sad because with all of the spiritual confirmations she has received, she still chose to turn from the light. She went to another church and just loved it so that didn't help at all. She is just almost numb to the spirit and just fails to see the "why" of the gospel. So her family is headed to the temple next week without her which is so sad. Her parents are amazing and are so heart-broken about all of this.

haha so that was my week. It was a big bummer but we are trying to keep our faith high. Elder Killpack is struggling a little bit with that. Its a hard thing when you are such a young missionary. He has been pretty silent lately, disappointments come and he will learn that. But we are going to have an amazing week so super excited for that! Thanks for all you do.

con carino,

Elder Sanderson 

Texas McAllen Mission

p.s. sorry I cant send pictures from this computer for some reason....I'll figure something out and send you some :)