Hey everyone!

Okay soo yeah I don't have tons of time! Ahh internet time always goes soo fast. First of all, thank you to those who wished me a ''happy 5 years'' this week. I have been a member of the church for 5 years and it has gone so quickly. :)

This week is Thanksgiving! Hermana Barbosa and I don't know what we're going to do yet, but we want to celebrate. Maybe turkey sandwiches or something... :) Happy Thanksgiving to all, be grateful for your blessings!

Happy birthday to my dear friend Sestra Megan Moody!! Hope you are doing great out there in Croatia! Love ya.

Soo right now we have super good investigators. Have I mentioned that yet? I love them. We had an awesome lesson with Anibal. We taught him the Plan of Salvation and afterwards he was like ''That should have been the first thing you taught me..'' He loved it! And then we invited him to be baptized and he said ''If it was right now, I would do it immediately.'' I was only half-joking when I asked him if he wanted us to fill up the font. Haha. So he is good, but still wants a stronger answer. He said he wants a week to think and pray and read the Book of Mormon, etc. We said okay and I told him I wasn't worried at all because I know he'll get his answer. Still he said he was going to go to church on Sunday and didn't, and he didn't answer the phone when we called him Saturday night and Sunday morning. So, keep him in your prayers.

Patricia is just wonderful. We love her! She loves all that we teach her and wants to keep learning. She is so great. She wasn't able to go to church because her 5 year old son just started a soccer team and it's Sundays at 10am. Right when church starts. Boo. The good news is its every other week, because the other weekends her son's dad will take him. Sooo she should be coming this Sunday.

Renato, we haven't seen him or talked to him. Understandably he needs some time to help his fam. But we are going to try to get ahold of him this week.

There's this lady, Jocelin, who is like 28 and less active. We eat lunch with her every week and she has 2 kids, one of which is Catalina who is 8. They don't really go to church but we visit them to help get them to go, etc. Well the other week we shared something with them, her and her boyfriend who is the dad of her kids, and it like really hit her. Talked about being an example for your children and raising them in righteousness. The next time we saw her she was like ''Hermanas I need you to start teaching Catalina the lessons again because she's getting baptized.'' Catalina was so excited and wanted to do it this Saturday (the 17th). But she needs to talk to the Bishop, be interviewed for baptism, and probably go back to church a few times before she gets baptized. I don't know how long they haven't been going consistenly for. But so we will be preparing her for her baptism probably in December. :) Hopefully this will help her be firm in her decision to be active in the church, and her husband, Juan, will hopefully have more desires to get baptized himself. They are in the process of preparing to get married too so when that happens he can get baptized. :)

So, this week is step 3 of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Baptism! We all know I talk about baptism a lot as a missionary, and now maybe I can explain a little more of why it is so important.

In the Bible Dictionary, this is some of what it says about baptism. ''Baptism has always been practiced whenever the gospel of Jesus Christ has been on the earth... Baptism is not optional if one wishes the fulness of salvation (and I add, baptism by the priesthood authority of God). Baptism in water has several purposes. It is for the remission of sins, for membership in the church, and for entrance in the Celestial Kingdom. It is also the doorway to personal sanctification when followed by the reception of the Holy Ghost. Baptism is a most sacred ordinance, which a person having received it, can remember throughout life as a reminder of their personal commitment to Jesus Christ.'' In Romans 6:4 in the Bible we read that through baptism, ''we should walk in newness of life.'' I love that, how not only literally are we clean from our sins and born again, we must choose consciously as well to start over. To be a new, better person. 3 Nephi 27:20 in the Book of Mormon says, ''Repent, all ye ends of the earth, and come unto me and be baptized in my name, that ye may be sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost, that ye may stand spotless before me at the last day.''

I am happy to say that it has been 5 years since my own baptism. I love it. I love thinking about it and knowing I made the right choice to follow my Savior Jesus Christ. Each day I try to be more like Him. I love Him, and I know He lives. His sacrifice, His Atonement, is what makes it possible for us to receive the remission of our sins and to be happy, now and forever.

I love this Gospel, and I love being a missionary to share it with everyone! :)

Have a fabulous week. Love you all so much.

Hermana Anderton

                             Saturday morning in Concepcion, community service! Wearing the famous
                  "Mormon helping hands" vests and my new 'do. :)  love y' all.