Pittsburgh Mission Memoirs

Folks, its been a good week. An incredible week. There's a main over-arching theme going on too. That theme is exemplified by D&C 84:20. Check it out, or read on if you want to just guess (or don't feel like pulling out your Standard Works - and if that is the case, you should...

This week has certainly been a week of weeks. I'll just jump right into things. We've been working pretty hard on Dan the Man. Dan is a pretty great guy, looking for the true church and he's pretty much decided that he has found it. Which is great. The one problem was that he could...

I got a call a few weeks ago from the assistants to the President. "Elder Anderson, what are you up to today?" "Well, it's P-Day so I'm doing.... P-Day things.""That's great. Could you drive up here to the mission home and pick up a missionary who needs a home for the next day?"Due to our closeness to the mission home and the fact that we have three beds in our apartment, we were...

Missionary Slim is sick and tired of winter. Not only me, but also just about every member of the ward out here in Washington. Over the pulpit, in Fast and Testimony meeting, one of the members said "You can't trust Phil nowadays." Since one of the ward members happens to be named Phil, it did take a little bit of an explanation before the congregation started calming down (Punxsutawney...