Lovin It - 05/28/12

For those of you who can understand Spanish, try translating this first paragraph.  Good luck!

Este semana fue una semana buenisimo. Tuvimos algunos desafios encontrando personas, pero Viernes encontramos un hombre que tiene mucho potencial. El se llama Manuel Ulloa. Le encontramos tocando puertas, y la primera cosa que el dijo fue ¨Hola Elderes, entren¨. El estaba orando por direccion de Dios en su vida, y nosotros tocamos su puerta la misma dia. Nosotros enseñamos La Restauracion la primera visita y El Evangelio de Jesucristo la segunda visita. El quiere ser bautizado, pero dijo que primero necesita una respuesta a su oracion. El tenía planes para ir con nosotros a la iglesia, pero el es el dueño de un restaurante y algunos maderos estan dandoles problemas, entonces el se fue al policia, pero espero que este proximo Domingo va a ir a la Iglesia.

I figured I´d send you guys some Spanish. I know it's not perfect, my grammar isn´t the best, but they say I have a good accent for a gringo.

So basically up there it says that we had a really good week. We´re still struggling to find new people to teach, but the good thing is that we found one this week. His name is "M", and he is awesome. He is 22 and he owns his own restaurant, and is pretty successful. He was assisting an evangelico church, but he says it doesn´t satisfy his needs, so he hasn´t gone in about a month or so. He was praying for some help from God, and we knocked on his door. It was pretty funny, because when we knocked he yelled ¨WHO IS IT?¨ I was like, "Oh no, not again!"  My companion and I braced for the foul language that we thought for sure would come, but it didn´t. Instead he said. "Oh, Hi Elders, come on in."

What? Ha ha ha ha ha, it was AWESOME! He´s doing really well, and we taught him Friday and Saturday. He doing great considering we´ve only taught him 2 times, and while he had some things to work out with the police, he should come with us to church this next Sunday.

Other than that, things are pretty chill. We´re planning a ward activity for this Saturday. We´re going to decorate the church to the Plan of Salvation. The different organizations are in charge of decorating a room to one of the 3 Kingdoms of Glory, so it should be pretty cool. I´m excited and stressed, but that's the mission in a nutshell.

Also, the Zone Leaders are moving into our house today. They´re changing areas because a bishop was complaining about his misionaries. He blamed all of the wards problems on them, so now he´s getting the ZL´s. Basically, I´m upset mainly because these two Elders are two of the best Elders in the mission, and we´re really good friends. They´re office elders, so they only work from 5pm and on, but they still manage to teach tons of people and baptize as well. Its just frustrating because they really are two of the best Elders in the mission, but the bishop is convinced that they need to go. Lesson to be learned, don´t complain, and don´t blame your problems on other people.

Also, our bishop decided that its our job to be in charge of hometeaching. So we got assigned 8 pairs of hometeachers and 18 families. Fun stuff. More work! Woo hoo!

I love you guys, and I know that Jesus is our Savior. We show our love to him thru our works, so go out there and do something.

Elder Hansen