Wow 8 weeks! I honestly cannot believe it! This week when I read all the letters I got, I was filled with joy! :) Life is passing by and I am enjoying myself, what else can I ask for? :)
This week my "Ponderize" scripture is Jacob 4:10-11. (remember in conference we were challenged to ponderize every week. So my zone challenged us to do it as well!!!)
I really enjoy these verses because its like, who do you think you are to counsel Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ? We need to be humble and listen to everything that they are telling us in this life. And in 11, it tells us all the blessing that we will receive when we are worthy and obedient.
Monday we watched How to train a Dragon:2! I love that movie. I really enjoy Disney, and I am very grateful for the chance that we have to watch movies in the mission, because there are a lot of missionaries that suffer for 2 years without seeing anything. This week I have defiantly been counting my blessings. :)
Tuesday was a miracle day. We found a Recent convert(RC) and his mother in their house, and they let us pass by the front door to talk to them.... During all my time here, I have been passing by this door, knocking and there being no answer. For 3 months I have been knocking, and this week we not only talked to them, but we taught them. The RC is now less-active, and we have the opportunity to rescue him and baptize his mother, who is not a member. They said that this Sunday they are going to come back to church. This Sunday! I am really excited! :)
Also Tuesday I had the opportunity to talk about concilio, which is the meeting with leaders in the mission, Zone and sister leaders, with the president of the mission. Then we take the new things that we learned from president, and we teach our zones the new things of the mission. So this week I had the great opportunity to teach about unified companionships, and it went really well. I could feel the Spirit run through me, because I said things that I hadn't planned to say. The missionaries learned alot, and I think that they understood how the Lord wants them to be in their companionships.
Wednesday: Hna Rowley completed 3 months in her mission. Oh I remember those days. They were terrible. Wednesday I was a lot nicer, and I actually tried to make things a lot easier for her... because I had a terrible flash back... and remembered my life as a missionary. :) Hna. Rowley is doing AMAZING! I really don't feel like I am training her. She is doing really well. Now that she has adjusted out of the new awkward stage, life is a lot easier and things are going a lot smoother. She is teaching these people and is not afraid to do the will of the Lord. We have seen a lot of little miracles these weeks, and I think that it is because we are working better as a team!
Thursday, Friday and Saturday were a little hard, because we had a member scheduled to come out with us for the whole afternoon, and every day she would push it to the next day. So we planed for a lot of men to visit, because we have to have another person with us to visit single men. But our plans failed because we didn't have a member... so those days were ruff, but in the end we did have lessons because we followed the guidance, or voice of the spirit.
Sunday our investigator, Gilmer, attended church for all three hours.... The first time! :) WAHOOO!!! He really enjoyed it, and he took home an Ensign. :)
All in all, the area is getting better, and we are getting to know almost everyone that lives there. Which is really good! :) These people are so loving, and they have really taken my heart? There is a investigator that we are teaching, Chabeli, and is 13 yrs. old. She is amazing! One day I will show all of you guys a photo of her. She is amazing. She calls herself a mormon, but isn't baptized.... Yet! :) She knows that everything we teach is true, and she knows that this gospel is the truth, she just doesn't feel prepared. These people understand God really well, and his teachings, but they are so hard on themselves when it come to being worthy of following Him. I want to see this little girl get baptized, and I don't know if I will in my time here. Ive got 4 weeks left here, in Garatea. I really feel that Hna. Rowley will train, and that I will leave this area. Im honestly really mad about that! I don't want to leave these people. Again, they are taken part of my heart, and have become part of my family. I see Chabeli as the little sister that I never had. And it´s so hard because I don't know in what way I can really help her to the waters of baptism.
Being a missionary is amazing. You really loose yourself in the service of our God. I love it here. Life is amazing. And I know that I can do anything with the help of the Lord. I am so grateful the this opportunity that I have to serve here in Peru. I will definitely come back, and who ever wants to come with me can! :) I love you all so much. I have started to have dreams at the airport, but I know that I am suppose to be here. This is where the Lord wants me to be! I know it, and I have felt it in my heart this whole year that I have been out here.
I love you all! I hope all is well. Keep sending photos and I love reading your cute little stories! :)
LOVE you to the moon and back... :)
Hermana Hansen
10 Wherefore, brethren, seek not to counsel the Lord, but to take counsel from his hand. For behold, ye yourselves know that he counseleth in wisdom, and in justice, and ingreat mercy, over all his works.
11 Wherefore, beloved brethren, be reconciled unto him through the atonement of Christ, his Only Begotten Son,and ye may obtain a resurrection, according to the power of the resurrection which is in Christ, and be presented as the first-fruits of Christ unto God, having faith, and obtained a good hope of glory in him before he manifesteth himself in the flesh.
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