Week 91 - Return of President Hayes

Hey guys!!

Guess who's back!!!! President is finally back! Which means everything is back to normal. It was a really good experience to have Elder Arredondo here, but it's so nice to have President back. I missed him so much. I'm sorry my emails have been so lame these past few weeks, but we finished zone conferences and now President is back so I'll try to do better. 

And I'm sorry but now a lot of time has past so trying to remember everything that's happened will be a huge struggle, but here goes. 

So all this week we had zone conferences and then Saturday was leadership council with a surprise special guest: President Hayes. On Friday we went to his house to decorate it before they flew in that night. We made a bunch of signs and blew up about 50 balloons and made it look super good. We were pretty proud of it haha.

Then Saturday night we took off for Los Santos, a small branch a few hours outside of San Jose, where the President is going to send us once a week to go work with the members. It's a really small branch that meets in a little house, which was really cool because it was the first time I'd been in a house for church before and I felt the Spirit really strong in that meeting. I just think there's something really special about the small branches because the people that come are almost always some of the most faithful and dedicated members. They sacrifice a lot to be able to keep the church going and it was a really special experience. After that we met some more members and went out to visit some less actives and investigators and then took off for home. But I really hope we'll be able to do a lot out there. There's a special feel to it.

And today is transfers so it's been a little crazy but it's always fun. We basically wait for someone to call and say that there's been a problem, but so far we're good! Also a few weeks ago we went to Dairy Queen! That was one of the best moments of my mission. It wasn't the same as the States but it was so worth it haha I was so happy!

But it's been a really good past few weeks. I've learned more in these past few weeks than ever before in my mission.

Also I had to get off the computer to let some other missionaries write and I'm kinda out of time now so I'll talk to you guys next week! Love you all!!

Elder Hansen