Week 12

Nov 26th

HEY OHH!

My wonderful family, hello!! It sounds like you all had a great Thanksgiving! 

Well my week has been just splendid! We had a great Thanksgiving. We were invited by a member to her friends' house for dinner. They were so nice! They aren't members by they really liked us missionaries! We have an appointment to come back and teach them more of our message later this week. They were a really nice family, they said they could just see peace in our faces. OOOHH we can help you have a peace face as well! ;)

This week was Hna Clayton's last week. SO SAD! I am going to miss her so much! She is just the greatest! She has taught me so much and she talks to me still even though I am really weird and awkward sometimes. Rare. Because it was her last week she got to go to the temple with the other departing missionaries. Super rude that I wasn't invited, but I got to go on an exchange with another Hermana in a different area. It was so fun! I was with Hna Fish and she is just a great missionary! It was fun for me to go and meet new people and speak spanish with them. For some reason I had way more confidence in my spanish while I was there, maybe there wasn't as much pressure since it wasn't my area but it was really fun. I was really excited to see Hna Clayton by the end of the day though. I don't know what I am going to do without her!

This week is week one of transfer 3 for me. WHAT??!! I am no longer being trained, that stresses me out a bit, I'm not ready to be a real one yet ;). We have the transfer meeting tomorrow which is where I have to say goodbye to Hna Clayton and pick up my new companion. I am so nervous! I know that it is all done by revelation I just hope my ideas are the same as God's ;) We will see!

Well, all is well here in NoHo. I am still learning a lot and I am continuing to learn more everyday. I am pretty scared for the change that is coming my way but I suppose it is good for me so bring it on! I love you all so much!!

Hermana Hansen




                                         Thanksgiving Dinner 2012

Week 11

November 19, 2012

HEYYOOOHHH!!!!

Buenos Dias Mi Familia! 

I hope you are all having a wonderful Monday morning! I am because plus its Pday! Well this week has been a better one! Not so much with finding people to teach, this little North Hollywood is really making us work for it, but its all good (right Adam ;)) However we did find many moments to laugh this week.

We had our ward Thanksgiving party this week and dang, Latinos are so much better at parties. They had a man on the stage with all his DJ equipment and everything. After the dinner they had a talent show and asked us missionaries to participate. (Our district has 6 of us in it and we all cover this one ward) Sadly none of us have talents, so that was interesting but it turned out pretty good. I don't know how to explain this but we did the thing where we look like little people and I was Hna Clayton's arms and I couldn't see what was going on, you know what I'm sayin? I got to hide behind a sheet the whole time and the kids thought we were funny. The Jovenes in the ward did a dance; they did the gangnam style dance (I don't know how to spell that, awkward missionary moment!). It was pretty funny. There were a lot of non-members there that really had a good time and we got a couple referrals from the night so it was a success.

Also this week we had some RAIN. It got serious. It was raining all day off and on, on Saturday but we were determined to get out there so we did. We were probably like 2 minutes from our apartment when we came to a GIANT puddle. Hna Clayton started through it like it was nada, I was a bit more reluctant and decided I would hang back to see how she did. Well she was about half way through the puddle (the water was half way up her tires) when a really nice man in a really big truck decided to swerve into the puddle causing a giant wave coming right for poor Hna Clayton. The wave was taller than her. I screamed and she just trekked on and made it to the other side DRENTCHED! We were falling off our bikes, we were laughing so hard! We kept going and by the time we got anywhere we were completely soaked through, we were dripping like fools. This did not encourage people to let us in. We did stop by and see Juana Eva though!! She was really sick but she was really excited to see us! We are going to go over again this week to see her. It was a pretty great day! We didn't get to teach any lessons because people mostly just thought we were crazy but it was fun anyway!

We are learning and growing a lot together. We are really trying hard to be good missionaries and doing whatever Heavenly Father wants us to do. We sometimes have a hard time figuring out what that is, but we carry on and do our best. I have such a strong testimony of this gospel! I KNOW it is true and I KNOW it can bless everybody's lives! I love my Savior so much. I am so grateful that I always have Him to lean on. This world is super crazy and very dark and lonely sometimes but that is the beautiful thing about the gospel, it won't completely solve ALL your probably or magically make everything better but it shines light on everything. Suddenly is doesn't seem so dark and lonely! There is light and peace instead! That is what's up! :) I love you all! Happy Thanksgiving! Eat hard!

Hermana Hansen

                                                       Sis Clayton on a Rainy Day!

                                                       
                                                     Our Serious Faces!

Week 9

Nov 5, 2012

Well Hey There Family!

How are ya'll this fine Monday morning? As always I super loved all the emails and pictures that were sent my way. Oh, the smile they bring to my face. Dang also all those nieces and nephews of mine are SO stinkin cute its ridiculous!

Well lucky this week has been just super duper! We have witnessed some serious miracles! First of all we got to see our little cholito Jose last week a couple of times and we have just been able to see some changes in him. We had a really good lesson about the love of the Savior and by the end of it he was feeling really pumped and loved! Jose is great! He is just one of our favorite people. He is always happy to see us and is just so funny. We set a baptism date with him a couple week ago for July 27, 2014 haha :) That's the first Sunday after his probation is up. We can't really count that as having a date but it made us feel better. :) He is SUCH a champion. I am a huge fan of him!

Secondly, last Tuesday we got up nice and early as usual however we noticed that Ruby had texted us. I don't know if I mentioned Ruby before but she is 15 but acts like she’s 25, she speaks English so I love her lots! However about 3 weeks after I got here she had texted us and told us she was too busy with school and to stop coming by. SAD! But this is the great part, she texted us early early Tuesday morning saying the she just missed us so much and that she had been READING THE BOOK OF MORMON and she just really felt the peace it brought. She said that she loves the catholic religion and always will but everything we taught her and everything she has read just feels so right in her soul! Oh my goodness we were soo pumped! We texted her back and later that day she called us and told us she had watched the Restoration movie we left her a month ago and we was really sad it was only 20 mins! Can you believe her? She is so precious! So anyways she wanted us to come over that night to meet her mom and teach her because she really thought she would love it too. So we went over later and the two of them are MAJOR talkers. I love them so much! They just kept talking and talking! So we didn't have enough time to actually get to a lesson but we are going back this on wed to teach them the Plan of Salvation. Please be mindful of them in your prayers. We are so blessed to meet the people we do and have the experiences we do! God always takes care of us!

I missed ya'll a lot this week on Halloween. We were told to be in our apts by 6 and deep clean our apt. :) We deep cleaned our apt then watched all the Christmas movies we have while painting our nails and making el dia de los muertos paper dolls. We are SO exciting!

Well anyways-good things are always happening, even when we don't feel we deserve it. I love you all so very much!!

Hermana Hansen