Hermana Anderson's e-mail Aug 11th, 2011

Familia!!

Hola! Que fueron sus semanas? Bien, yo espero... Thanks again for all of your letters, packages, DearElders, stickers, cupcakes and prayers. They are VERY much appreicated by me, especially, but also by my elders, my companions and my compañeras de cuarto.

So.... this email may be a bit brief compared to my others for a reason I will get to in a moment. Because it's time for funny stories now. Claro. Alright. My companions and I had a very emotional companionship inventory outside one day last week. And we stole a whole box of tissues from the bathroom. And we can talk in English when we have companionship inventory, but afterward, we have to speak only in Spanish again. When we were speaking only in Spanish again, we decided we all needed to go to the bathroom and I saw Hna. Ahern picking up her stuff and I said, "Esta bien si no tiene sus cosas en el baño?" ("Is it ok if you don't have your things in the bathroom?") And she didn't understand what I meant, so I tried to phrase it differently. "Esta bien si solo usamos el baño afuera?" ("Is it ok if we only use the bathroom outside?"). This confused both of my companions greatly, and I was finally able to explain what I wanted in English and then we laughed at me for a while. :) And then.... During that same comp. inventory, we were talking about what our jr. high experiences were like, and I said, "Yeah... I was totally captain of the academic games team." And Hna. Martino had a really big smile on her face and practically yelled, "You're cool!!!!" (In a slightly sarcastic manner. Slightly) And guess who I ran into on Monday night!! The Eakins!!! Their going on a CES mission to Micronesia!! It was so happy to see them. We just happened to sit down across from each other in the cafeteria and we had a nice long talk. I'm going to try and find them again and get a picture taken with them. Oh, also, one of my elders broke his clavicle and has to wear a figure 8 just like Bella. But, his is much bigger.

Alright... So why this email isn't longer..... Remember how a few weeks ago I had a little upper resperatory infection? Apparently it didn't get all the way better, because I went to the clinic on Tues. with a fever and they sent me to get a chest x-ray and it turned out to be pneumonia. I got a shot of antiboitics that day and I've been taking pills for the past two days and I feel a lot better today than I have. I spent pretty much all of Tuesday asleep and ALL of Wednesday asleep. And my roommates and my companions and my coordinating sister and her companion have all taken really good care of me. They would take turns staying with me and I haven't had much of an appetite until today. But, every time I would eat something, they'd all get so excited! It was really a great opportutnity for me to help me to remember to be humble and grateful. Which I DEFINITELY am. :)

Tell Lauren, Noah, Jack, Bella, Addie, Terran and Will to be happy and to be obedient and to wear sunscreen (And to write me? Maybe?) ;)

Les amo MUCHISISISISISISIMO!

Hermana Anderson

P.S. (Mom/Dad/Megan:  Can you look up the TSA rules about personal items? I hear the backpacks don't count any more....)