Well biggest news from this week is that Elder Morales and I are official pilots. (see pictures, it's a plane not a tent btw)
This week was pretty normal until we got to the weekend. We had a ward activity on Saturday about the Plan of Salvation which went pretty well, but not as many people came as we were hoping. We had to get up at 6 to start building the plane that was going to "crash" and from there the passengers would pass through each kingdom of glory to see where they want to end up. We were thinking it would take about two, three hours max to set up, but by 4 pm, we were scrambling to get it all set up haha. The ward mission leader and his buddy helped us out a lot and the other elders, Elder Greene and Elder Hernandez, came through for us. We made the frame out of bamboo and bent the thinner pieces to make the arch which turned out to be a lot harder than we thought because the bamboo had dried out and some of the pieces broke when we bent them. But we finally got them set up right and got the fabric over the frame and it started looking pretty good haha at about 6:30 and we had a decent turnout, and everyone that came seemed super excited haha.
Other than that, we've been teaching an investigator these last two weeks who has been one of the fastest progressing investigators I've ever seen. He was a JW for 20 years, knows the scriptures better than both of us, and has investigated a lot of other churches, but in the last two weeks he's made a complete change. He had read the Book of Mormon a few years ago, trying to prove it wrong, but a few weeks ago he started reading to see if it really could be true. While reading, he felt an undoubtable impression that it was true and contacted one of his member friends, who put him in contact with us and the past few weeks he's been eating up everything we have to teach him. When we first started we went into more detail than ever explaining all about the restoration and the whole lesson he was comparing scriptures we shared with other ones he had read, basically teaching himself the whole lesson haha he started reading like crazy in the Book of Mormon and has come the last 2 weeks to church and says that he feels like he's finally found home. Last week, we were a little worried about how he would accept the whole Jehovah is Jesus thing, because in one of his prayers he said, "oh God, Jehovah..." so we came into lesson 2 a little anxious about that. But when it came up, he said, "well obviously they're the same person" and went on to share the scriptures he had found that proved it. Such a big relief, but basically it's just been another testimony for me of the power of the Book of Mormon. The people that read with an honest intent and a real desire to know, are always given an answer and that answer is always a resounding "YES". This book has the power to change lives and answer even the hardest questions.
Today was the monthly check for the new missionaries to see how they've been doing and answer questions, but for most of us it's our chance to pig out on fresh hamburgers and hot dogs and ice cream from President haha. Needless to say, I was very satisfied at lunch today. But it was a really good meeting, the new missionaries are the best. They come with so much energy and faith and its contagious.
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| "Teaching yoga to the new missionaries" |
But life's going great out here. The summer is finally over and the rain is coming back so I'll have to bust out the umbrella again. Super bummed, its been a nice 5 month break from pouring rain haha. But anyway, love you guys a ton!! have an awesome week! Talk to you soon!!
Elder Hansen
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| "Learned to play the didgeridoo" |
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| "I bought Vanilla Ice. He wasn't very expensive." |
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