Happy Mother's Day!

We're looking forward to talking to (and hopefully seeing) Brett on Sunday for Mother's Day. We're going to try to Skype with him, so we'll get to see each other (hopefully!) Kinda sad that he didn't get to spend more time with this companion - they seem to work well together.

Here is his email from today -

First off I´d like to wish all of the mothers out there a happy mothers day! I love you Mom, you´re the best. I´m excited to see you guys.

This week was a pretty good week. It was a hard week, but a good week. Saturday and Sunday we had some pretty awesome experiences. All in all, this past transfer was amazing. I love my companion Elder L., and I´m going to miss him like a fat kid misses cake.

This past transfer has been really fun but really hard to find new people. This area is one of the oldest in Honduras, and its pretty small and concentrated with lots of members. Translation, everyone has heard the Mormons, which makes contacting a little bit more interesting. We've struggled to find people to teach, but on Saturday we had an amazing day. 6 lessons taught, 4 new investigators and many hearts touched by the Holy Ghost. One in particular happened when we were reading 3 Nefi 11 with a woman that told us that she was born catholic and was going to die catholic. After reading the part where Jesus told everyone to go check out his hands and feet, she began to tear up a little bit. We asked her how she would feel if she was there. She couldn't respond. Later in the lesson she said that this passage impacted her soul. She´s having second thoughts about the whole dying catholic thing.

On Sunday I had a meeting with the Stake President and Mission President. Basically we had a meeting on how we could have more success in general in the Stake.  The plan is to baptize more families, and the Stake told us that they will take care of every financial problem. Holy crap, this is one of the greatest blessings we have seen. Money is always on of the biggest stumbling blocks so its nice to not have to worry about where the money is going to come from. Also, President drove me back to our ward building where we found one of our families out in the foyer. Familia R. is super positive and they´re progressing amazingly in all aspects, but their problem is they have absolutely no desire to be married. They stopped smoking, drinking alcohol and café, they read every assignment and have gone to both Church on Sunday and the weekly activities, but they refuse to be married, even though they've lived together for more than 13 years. Strange huh? The sad thing is that this is super common here. Anyways, President Flores talked to them about it. He said You want to be Happy? Get Married. Hahaha, it sounds a little blunt in the email, but in person it was really powerful and really spiritual as well. He talked for another 4 minutes or so, and then we went inside. During the meeting I saw them holding hands. They don´t even sit next to each other in our lessons, but on Sunday they were holding hands. I know the Spirit is working in their hearts and changing them.

Life is good. Wednesday is transfers. I´ll be receiving my new companion on Wednesday. Wish me luck!

Elder Hansen