Hello Family! So Jennie had her baby!?!?!?! Samuel Kenji
Peterson?? That is soo cool :) I saw some pictures already. Looks
like he will be one cute kid! I am glad that he is healthy and doing
well and that Jennie as well as the whole family is doing great. I wish
I could be there to celebrate and see Samuel! Just give it a couple
years. It'll happen :) I hope everyone is feeling well and happy as
always.
Alright. Well, this week was alright. We had some struggles with
appointments falling through and not being able to find many new people
to teach . . . and only one person showed up to church. But its okay.
We worked hard and the Lord knows that. He blesses us in many other
ways, and in time we will see more fruit.
Anyway, this week was very similar to other weeks. . .
Although there was Halloween! Happy late Halloween everyone! ha ha we
couldnt even go out that much to work. If we had set appointments we
could be out, but if not we couldn't tract or anything, we had to go
back to the apartment. So we had one appointment, then we went home.
On the way home someone pulled over and held a giant bowl of candy out
the window and told us to take a lot of candy! Isnt that awesome?? We
didn't even need to go trick or treating! People just handed us candy
on our way home! ha ha so that was pretty freaking sweet :P
We also put 4 more people on date to be baptized this week. So
right now we have Joseph 10th, Daniel and Margie 17th,
Edgar and Kelsie 24th, Joli 1st. We are going to try very hard to keep
these people on date and help them to be baptized on these days.
Hmmmm other things that happened this week . . . . . . well
there was a pretty sad thing that happened. A less-active lady who we
talked to about 3 weeks ago for like an hour and a half on her
porch passed away... She was such a sweet, kind lady. She was in her
70's I think. She was a widow. It was a sad thing to hear about, but
now she is with her husband so in the end I think it is better for
her. Her funeral was on her birthday! November 2nd. We went to the
funeral to help try to support the family and see if there was anything
we could do to help. The family is taking it pretty well though. So
thats good.
Anyway, Other than that, not much else. I went to a baptism for
someone I taught with Elder Miller in Farmington! Her name is Ashley
Allred. It was so exciting to see her get baptized and to just be
there. It was a great time :) I'll send a picture of that. They are a
little crazy but I love them. The picture is a little weird ha ha.
In church on Sunday an investigator, Augustino, went up and bore
his testimony! He has been investigating the church since 2001 when he
came to this country from Sudan. He already has a testimony of the
gospel and that it is true, but for some reason he wont get baptized.
We have worked with him for a while now and even gave him a blessing
this week to help him get over his sickness, and yet he still wont get
baptized. Its confusing.... but we are praying very hard for a miracle
to happen and for God to help push him in the right direction to be
baptized soon!! Your prayers along with ours would be greatly
appreciated.
Alright.... well thats about it. I taught a short 15 minute
training to uor whole zone last week. It was interesting. I think it
went pretty well. Im not as nervous anymore to talk in front of a
larger group of people. So thats good I guess.
Well I love you all!! I hope you have an amazing week! This work
is real. God lives and He loves us. Jesus Christ is our Savior and
Redeemer. This is His true church restored to the earth today. I love
being a missionary. It is an amazing opportunity. I can't believe that
I have been out for 6 months already. It has gone pretty quickly, and
yet so much has happened that it has felt like a year or two has already
passed.... ha ha but its all good. maybe I'll adjust to the time out
here when I have been out longer.
Love you all!
Godspeed.
-Elder Hansen
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