This week was the last week I would be learning French! It's been crazy to think that it's already done, time went by so fast. It feels like just last week I was starting the MTC... This upcoming week means I will be starting to learn Tahitian!! I'm super duper excited to learn it, but I'm pretty nervous too. This will be the first time learning a "new" language, as french has been pretty familiar to me my whole life, so it will be an interesting experience.
It was hard to say bye to my teachers, even though it's been 6 weeks. We grew really close as a district and with our teachers. I'm going to miss the other missionaries so much. They made it so much fun and really helped grow my testimony of the gospel. About half of us were able to meet together on P-Days a couple times to play games and just be together and I'm so glad we did that. It's sometimes hard to remember there is a real world out there when you are stuck in your basement all day.
An amazing experience happened to my companion Elder Anderson and I on Monday. We were teaching our amazing amie about the Godhead. I was finishing up the lesson and extending an invitation to pray to ask if the things we had talked about today were true, when my wifi stopped working and kicked me off of Zoom!
My companion was left alone with her in the call, and I couldn't rejoin!! I was super panicked and mad, but not as panicked as my companion felt! He had a hard time hearing french, and he was having a hard time throughout the lesson! He told me later his experience in this moment: "The moment you're picture froze I panicked and was more scared than anything in my life! I said a quick little prayer in my head that I could understand and that it would be okay. She was in the middle of asking you a question, but since you froze she asked me. In that moment I understood every single word she said, and was able to respond perfectly, even with words I didn't know I could say. We talked for a little bit but then she had to go. It went so well! The spirit was overwhelming, I had a spiritual high afterwards haha!!"
It was such a humbling experience for me. While my companion was teaching with the Gift of Tongues, I was yelling and mad I had been kicked off while I was feeling the spirit. When my companion told me what happened afterwards, everything just made sense and I was overwhelmed with the spirit. I never got kicked off of my wifi like that before, but it happened on that exact day, that morning, that exact moment in our lesson when we felt the spirit most. I felt the hand of God in my life that day and I'll never forget it.
Look for His hand in your life and I promise you'll find it every step of the way. Pray to see it, maybe to see where He has been. If things are bad and seem hopeless for you, know that there is a reason, that you can make it out okay! Things didn't look too hot for me in that Zoom call and I felt helpless, yet it was the most spiritual experience of my week.
Stay strong and try to be a light in the world! Strive to look for His hand in your life!!!
A bientôt!!
Elder Hansen
