Hey there. How is everyone doing?? Good? Alright sweet. . I hope all is well in your lives.
This week was crazy... Like . . yeah soo much random, ridiculous stuff.
First off, last Thursday my bike got stolen . . . . .
from right in front of our apartment.... We came home to eat dinner
but we only had 20 or 30 minutes to eat because we had appointments to
go to. The bike lock was upstairs and so we just left our bikes outside
(like we had done like 100 or 200 times before) unlocked. . . We came
back out and my bike was just gone. I thought it was our zone leaders
just being funny err whatever, but upon further investigation I found
that my bike had actually been stolen.... But the other bike was still
there! It was ridiculous. So yeah . . Now we are on foot for a
while until I get another bike or fix this really crappy broken one in
our apartment. Anyway, then on Friday we went on exchanges. And I was
with Elder Weurtenburg. He is sorta crazy . . and pretty weird ..
and not obedient. Ha ha so we didnt get as much work done as we should
have, but I pushed him so that we at least did some work and talked to
people. so yeah.
The best part of our week was that Juan got baptized!!!!! It was
awesome! There were a LOT of complications that were just so ridiculous
that I didnt know how to handle them...
Basically, long story short, he was baptized as Juan Peterson
because thats what the church media referral place had told me his name
was and he also told me himself that that was his last name! But it
turns out that Peterson wasnt his last name . . . . . .. .
.. . . . And he didnt even say that that wasnt his name when
he was being baptized. . It was ridiculous. He is a really shy 14
year old kid so he didnt speak up at all. He also had told us that he
had gotten permission to be baptized from his brother, but he hadnt!
Sooo . . . it was a huge mess. . . . . I was on the phone from 7:00
pm till 10:30 pm trying to figure it out. I talked to Mission
President a lot to figure out what we should do. We also went over to
Juan's house and met with him and his brother and his wife (who are the
legal guardians of Juan right now) and sorted out the problem. He
didnt need to be re baptized, we just needed to put the right name on
the record and make sure that when he was confirmed that it was by the
correct name! So, we figured it all out, and he actually got confirmed
last night so that his brother could make it. It was an overall good
experience though. :) He is a great kid and he didnt mean to not tell
or ask his brother, he just doesn't have the best communication
skills. So yeah.
Anyway, It was good to see him be baptized and confirmed and I will
never forget this experience! It was quite a lot to deal with.
Well. Life is good. We achieved what they call SOE (which means
Standard Of Excellence) this week. It means that we got 1 person
baptized and confirmed, have 3 people with a baptismal date, have 5
people at church, have 8 lessons with a member present, and 3 new
investigators. We fasted and prayed that we could achieve this on
Friday and the Lord really helped us make it happen. We only had 10
minutes last night before we had to go in for the night and we still
needed to find 2 new investigators! We stopped for a second and then
walked over to an apartment, knocked a door of someone that I had heard
we could maybe talk to, and him ad his brother decided that we could
meet with them on Saturday to teach them! So yeah, the Lord's hand is
most definitely in this work.
Well I gotta go, but I'll try to attach a picture form the baptism!
I love you all! Have a great week!
God live and He loves us.
Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer.
The Church is true.
Godspeed.
Love
-Elder Hansen
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