Well this week has been pretty busy! A lot of things
have happened and Im not even sure that I can remember to include all
of it in this email. But I'll try my best.
Alright. First was Tuesday.
Mission Leader Council in the morning. That is a meeting with
President and his wife, the assistants, the zone leaders, and the sister
leader trainers. It was a great meeting. We got to meet President
and Sister Hansen for the first time. They are awesome. I already love
them. They are both very inspired and straight forward people. It is
such a blessing to see the inspiration that is given to ourselves and
others from the Lord. I am grateful for the confirmation that I have
received that President and Sister Hansen are called of God and that
they are here for a reason-to help us improve and become even better
disciples of Jesus Christ. So ya. The meeting was great. Not many
changes in our mission. We talked about technology and the vision that
may be achieved in our mission if we are prepared and ready. They talk
of us having smart phones and mini i-pads. No more writing everything
down in an area book and trying to figure everything out by hand. The
catch is we don't know when these things will be implemented in our
mission. President Hansen says it could happen in 6 weeks, or 6 months,
or even over a year. So Im not too sure what will happen. I have seen
how useful it would be for us, especially lately in our area. Our
stake president wants to pretty much do away with our correlation
meeting and change it to just going out and visiting people. He wants
us to correlate in real time. When something happens, let them know.
With just our stupid flip phone that doesn't work well in the first
place that could prove to be difficulty. But Im excited for the new
vision for our mission and the vision of work in the specific stake
where I am assigned. We should see a tremendous growth in work here
over the next month or two and another set of Elders assigned to this
stake. Cool right? Should be awesome. We will just try to do our best
and do our part and let the Lord provide the rest.
Next I got sick. Just a bad cold or flu or something. Some
members in the area thought that I had strep, but one of our bishops is a
doctor and he swabbed my throat and I didn't have it. It took a couple
days but I am almost feeling 100% again. So yeah. Wednesday was a pretty normal day. Still felt pretty bad, but got to teach some lessons and meet some people.
OHH!!! I almost forgot something that happened on Tuesday. It was a sister missionary's Birthday in our zone on Tuesday.
Her name is Sister Cardon. She is on a trial mission here for 12 weeks.
She is from Bountiful, Utah. So yeah. Being the undoubtedly awesome
zone leaders that we are (ha ha just kidding, but we try!) we asked her
about what she wanted for her birthday. She kept on saying nothing, but
after our persistence she told us she had been wanting a sweet potato.
So we bought her a sweet potato. Then asked what else she wanted with
it. With more persistence, she called us back during dinner and left us
a message with a long list of things that she wanted for her birthday.
Just ridiculous stuff! SO, of course we decided it would be the best
thing to do to get everything that was on the list for her. We had 3
lessons to teach that night as well. So we went and taught two lessons.
At the second one we asked our investigators mom (who we have built a
great relationship with their whole family) if we could borrow something
that she had asked for. This was the hardest thing to get. She asked
for a chicken.... a live chicken. So after the lesson we asked her and
she said of course! Our third lesson cancelled and we had less than 30
minutes to get all the other things she wanted before we were supposed
to meet them and give them the sweet potato. So we went to the dollar
store. Bought the peas, carrots, pencils, watermelon sour patch kids,
and then got a bike seat from one of the bikes at our place, then got
them 2 more miles to use for their car, and got some shoes-heels from
the same family as the chicken. She asked for all these things.
In the end we got it all, went and gave them the potato first.
Then said, "would you like the rest of your presents??" walked to the
car and pulled the rest out one by one. Then at the end said didn't we
forget something. And her companion thought about it and said, "oh
yeah! the live chicken!" We went to the car and they were like nooooo
way. Yup. We got a chicken. So that all happened in 30 minutes.
Crazy..... word.
Then Thursday
was the 4th of July! Party / Picnic in Bountiful for the whole
mission. It was awesome. Got to see President and Sister Hansen again.
It was fun. Made little rockets and stuff as well. So yeah. There
President informed us that he wouldn't be able to make it around to the
apartments the next day, so those visits were cancelled. Then friday.
Zone meeting. Gave a training on improving ourselves as servants of
Jesus Christ. Then in the evening appointments and the usual work.
Saturday was fuuuun. We did service from 9:30 till 4:00.
We got to tackle cows down after they are roped, tag their ears, cut
off the tip of an ear if they are male, castrate them, and then brand
them. It was super cool. And it was a good time. That was for the
same family that we borrowed the chicken from. And also we helped get
their chicken that was about to die, stay alive and get back to normal.
I don't know if I told you about that either, but it was funny. I love
that family. So awesome. Their daughter is getting baptized on July 27th.
Should be great. But yeah. We might get some pictures that someone
took of us branding the cows later. Everyone that was there was either
not a member or not active in the church. So it was a good opportunity
for us and them! So great. :)
Sunday
was a blessing. Had a meeting with the stake president where we
discussed the changes that I mentioned earlier in his stake. Then had
church all day. And for the first time in this area we had 5
investigators at church!!! :) I was sooo happy. It was a great
blessing to finish a busy, intense, good week.
Last thing. On Saturday evening we were told that we would be giving a training in our zone conference on Monday.
So we had like one day to plan a training to give yesterday (hence the
reason I am emailing today. We had zone conference yesterday so our
p-day is today. :) )
So zone conference was amazing. Learned so much.
The trainings were sooo inspired and were exactly what I personally
needed. We gave our training on having Perfectly Prepared Plans, and
Spiritually Successful Studies. We used alliterations. Or whatever
they are called. sick.
Then came back last night. Had dinner. Made visits. And finally got to relax a little knowing that P-Day was today. :)
So that was my week! That was like Jennie-style from all those years ago when she would call us every Sunday night. :) Those were good times.
I hope you enjoyed the email. This week was good. :) Thank you for your prayers and encouragement.
Have a great week!!!!
Love,
-Elder Hansen
Peak the Strategy
P.S. Here is a picture of us and Sister Cardon and all the stuff we got her for her birthday.
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