Watching Elder Hansen

I had to share...

Samuel has been doing MTC from home for two and half week now. While he’s on zoom calls pretty much all day from his bedroom, I learned more of his experience now that we are in a hotel room here in San Francisco.

I like to hear him laugh with his District. I like to see his smiles. I like to hear the jokes like if they were all his buddies. They are his buddies! They are just young men going through the same experience, not a real MTC experience, but still an uplifting experience.

As I listen to him speaking French, I’m just amazed by the knowledge he already received. I know he has a good basic knowledge of French but this is all new vocabulary to him, one that he never learned with us. The other missionaries are learning at the same time. Some have studied French for a couple of years, some not at all! How in the world can they already say so much in French in such a short time?! If this is not the gift of tongue, then I don’t know what it is. I can’t explain it. Miracles exist. They are unfolding before our own eyes.