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Hope the new year is going great for you guys! This week was another good one for us. Went by way too fast as always so we'll see what all I can remember.
Monday we had changes and they were a little different this time. Instead of having a big meeting in the office with everyone that had changes, President decided to just send everyone straight to their new areas from their current ones. So all the missionaries with changes came to the stake center and from there we sent them in taxi or bus, alone, to the bus station for their new zone and from there they took the bus to the stake center of their new zone. We all thought it was going to be a crazy mess, but it worked out pretty smoothly, only one elder got lost on his way haha.
On Tuesday, we were out looking for new people to teach and we saw an open door, which here is like a goldmine. When we got there, the family accepted us in really kindly and when we started introducing ourselves, just stopped us and the mom said, "we know who you are, we're members" haha so we kept talking and then when we offered to sing a hymn for them, they went back to grab their hymn books. When they came back, they had some of the older edition hymn books from like 1970, which has different hymns and different words and is just a relic now. We both got super pumped (because only as missionaries you get pumped about old church books) and they must have seen it on our faces because they asked us if we wanted to see it. After geeking out about it for a few mintues, the mom comes back with a super old Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants. Seeing how excited we got haha they offered to let us keep them, saying you guys are like kids in a toy store, just keep them" haha Elder Davis took the DC and I took the BoM and its one of my most prized possessions now!
Saturday, we went to go chop again as you can see from the picture. This time we bought gloves, but even then I still popped another huge blister on my thumb haha but it's been really fun, best service ever.
Sunday was another great day. The branch is going strong. A lot of work to do, but we're seeing progress. That night, our last appointment fell through so we went to go look for someone else and found a few of our buddies outside of their house. One of them had drunk a little too much that night and when we got there starting preaching to us basically. Elder Davis started talking more with the guy who hadn't been drinking, and I just let the other one talk out everything he wanted to say haha He was actually saying some really good things, like that we should trust God in everything and love Him and love everyone else so I started clapping a little and getting him more pumped up and then all of the sudden, he jumps up and stands right in front of me and tells me how much he loves God and loves me and loves the world and it was the greatest speech I've heard a drunk man give haha. It was a great way to end the night!
Well, love you guys a ton. have a great week! Talk to you soon!
Elder Hansen
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