IAORANA!!!!!
This last week was quite interesting, it was the last week of the transfer yet again and we found out today the news!
I'll be staying here, and Elder McShane will be out of here to Tempe. I'll be receiving a car again and another ward! So I'll have lots of work cut out for me this next transfer. I'm pretty sad there are so many missionaries leaving my district, I began to really develop a relationship with many of them. It was quite a transfer.
We went to IHOP this morning as a district as we waited for our calls to find out where we are going next transfer! I love them all, they are such fantastic missionaries and friends. I'll miss them a ton, we definitely grew close this transfer and it took a lot but I'm glad it happened.
Here's a picture of us with our friend Charlene!! We play tennis and ran with her a lot and she's amazing. She makes us so happy and she loves talking with us and recently took us up on learning more about learning about our church and beliefs! She's great!
Here's a picture of our district at Helping Hands, a organization that helps Muslims (and others) around the world! It's fantastic and I look forward to being there each week.
The sunset's can be so so beautiful out here and I'm even more thankful that I could have such a wonderful camera to take pictures of moments like these!!
One of our members has an awesome music room and I was stuck in there for quite a little bit haha!
A couple weeks there was a less active member who by a miracle saw us walking in the apartments and told us about her son and her other children. We came over to start talking to Joey, her son, this last week and he wants to be baptized!! We got to pick a date and will be working towards it with him!! He's an awesome kid.
Elder Myers is a clown just I can be sometimes and I've loved having him in our house this last transfer. He's definitely helped keep my mind sane, he's from Salem Utah so I'm hoping we'll get to hangout when I come home. We are similar in many ways and so he helped me a ton.
I got my second dose of the vaccine and it kinda destroyed me haha! That night was pretty bad, and the next day felt like a dream. A lot of missionaries felt kinda bad from it, but we're all doing okay now. I haven't heard any news about Tahiti but I'll continue to press forward here in Arizona! This week I will have been a missionary for about 9 months already!! The time is going by pretty fast, it's crazy.
The mission has been so worth it. Yeah there's a lot of things I'm missing and lots of events I don't know about in the world. But I've learned so much about myself, other people, and what's important in life. I never want to forget the things I've experienced and seen myself. No one can ever take away my testimony of Jesus Christ and my Heavenly Father. Nothing makes sense without them. Nothing in this universe is a coincidence. We as humans can be pretty ignorant, and refuse to look at other options and try to learn truth. We have so much to learn, forever.
Thank you for listening and reading these. I don't know who does to be honest, but just know it makes me happy if you are interested in my experiences out here in Arizona. I'd love to hear from anyone at my missionary email: samuel.hansen@missionary.org!
Talk to you next week with all the changes that will take place this week!!
Nana, and have a great week! Find joy!
Elder Hansen