Week 45 - I love this place

Hey guys! 

Hope you're all doing awesome! This week was a really good one for us, really fast, but one of the best ones we've had. 

Started out the week pretty slow, Monday we only had two lessons, but one of them was a family home evening with a family of recent converts, which is always interesting haha.

Tuesday was pretty normal, had some great visits.

Wednesday was just about the same, really good day. Sorry, I'm not very good with details.

Thursday was great. Went on divisions with Elder Sandoval to do some baptismal interviews for the family they baptized this week. It was so much fun to spend some good time with him and visit Carlos and Lijia and Rafael. It's been so amazing to be so close to them again and actually get to visit them. Elder Hernandez and Sandoval moved into an apartment that has air conditioning and it almost killed me that night haha. It was supposed to turn off after about half an hour, but something happened and I woke up at about 3 a.m. almost dead from the cold haha the windows were all fogged up and all I had was a tiny blanket. Luckily I found the control and turned it off, but I've never been so cold in my life haha.

Jeikel, Joshua, y Didier

Friday was the miracle day. We had done divisions so that I could go do some interviews, but also so that Elder Hernandez could do one for us. It had fallen through on Thursday and wasn't looking good for Friday, but somehow they managed to find him and get it done. The best part was that on the way back, they ran into some kids that were supposed to have gotten baptized last week, but had left for Limon and we hadn't seen all week. They said they still wanted to get baptized so they did the interview, got their clothes ready, and our one baptism turned into 3. All four of us were running around like crazy all day to get everything ready, but it all turned out great. Elder Hernandez and Sandoval baptized a family of 4, one of the best families I've ever met, and we finished the week with 7 baptisms this week. Miracles upon miracles.

Saturday was super good too. We had a lesson with one of the families that's progressing the most. They have to get married and we had touched it before, but they never seemed too excited. A family of members came with us to the lesson and basically gave the whole lesson about why they should get married. It was perfect. They still didn't seem completely convinced, but we could tell they were thinking a lot about it. Really good day. Love Saturdays.

Sunday was special like always. We hadn't had as much time to invite people to church this week so I was a little worried, but the Lord blessed us a ton and almost everyone who had committed to come showed up. Also that night, we had another lesson with the same family from Saturday. They said they still felt a little nervous about it and weren't too sure, so I was feeling a little anxious about how we could help them to feel sure. I'm still not really sure how, but somehow as the lesson progressed they changes completely. By the end they had completely changed their opinion and are now planning on getting married Conference Weekend and baptized the week after that. I love them so so much.

But anyway, that was basically my week. I just feel so lucky to be here, I love this place. The people, the weather, the mission, everything is just so great. Love you guys so much! Have a great week! Enjoy the pictures!

Elder Hansen