Week 52 - One year!

Hey team!

Sorry about last week, not sure what happened to the email. I sent it off but I guess it didn't go through. Like Maren, not much to report this week. Pretty busy week with Zone conference and a baptism in Elder Ramirez's last area, but other than that it was a normal week. 

Limon zone conference

Also as you can see from the picture, we went to a baptism this week. It wasn't our baptism, in fact it wasn't even in our zone, but one the daughter of a man Elder Ramirez baptized in his last area turned 8 so President gave us the thumbs up to go. Really good story. The dad was baptized a few months ago and then decided he wanted to share the gospel with his wife who had left him. Long story short, she decided to get baptized, they got back together, he baptized her and then Saturday he baptized his daughter. Amazing to see how the gospel changes lives.

But something great happened yesterday. Yoser, the dad of the family we baptized a few weeks ago, showed up to church yesterday with a white shirt and tie, dress slacks, and new shoes, with no help from us. It was such a big surprise, I almost didn't recognize him when he walked it haha. After sacrament meeting, I saw one of the members of the bishopric explaining how to bless the sacrament, and he said that next week they're going to have him bless. Can't wait for that. Later that night we went to go visit them, with a nice lesson prepared and everything, but in the spirit of Halloween, we spent almost the whole time telling ghost stories haha but it was just so much fun to spend time with good friends. I love that family so much and I couldn't have had a better one-year gift than that. 

Today for pday we went to the beach again. We were all super excited to go play soccer,  but today was one of the hottest days ever in Limon and after about 10 minutes we were done so we just messed around for another hour or so and then we headed back to downtown Limon. Elder Ramirez and I decided to go exploring Limon, but we didn't find anything all that special. It's a really cool city with a lot of culture, but definitely has it's crazy parts haha.

"I was helping a lot as usual"

But anyway fam, love you guys a ton. This past year has been the best one of my life and I can't wait to see what's in store for this one. There's nothing greater than waking up everyday and getting to serve the Lord. It's amazing how fast the time has gone by, and everyone tells me the second year goes by so much faster. I just want to make sure I do my part before the time runs out. Love you all so much, you're the best fans I could ask for.

Elder Hansen

"We went to the temple this week"