There were a million MUY LOCO things that happened this week so buckle up!!!
The first email worthy thing that happened this week was on Tuesday, our "car fast" day (we walk everywhere). We had an appointment with Kahm (the guys we chased down the street last week) but he wasn't home. We decided to check our area book app and find some less active members that lived in the area. We headed down to a less-active member's home and met a young girl outside her house. She had literally dragged a couch outside her house and was curling up just about to take a nap when we came and talked to her. She was 9 years old, she's from South Sudan, and her name is Ding. We showed her a picture of Christ and asked if she knew who it was, "Of course I know who dat is! Dat's JESUS!" We asked how He had blessed her life, and she just started laughing. A few minutes later 3 other little girls came running over and sat on the couch with Ding. They were her neighbor friends. Ding goes, "Ask dem what you jus asked me 'bout Jesus." After talking to them for a bit, we asked if we could sing them a song. We sang "I am a Child of God" and they loved it. When we finished, Ding goes, "Okay now les go knock on my friend's door and you guys can sing that to dem too." We were like "Okay!" And we went and knocked on her other friends door. 2 more kids came out, and we ended up having like a whole primary song concert for them on their front porch by the request of Ding. Without us even asking her to, Ding shows her friends the picture of Jesus and says, "Do you guys know who this is?" And she goes on to teach her friends and says, "Whenever I get scared at night, I read my bible and pray and all my fears go away." She looks at us and points to our Book of Mormon and goes, "Here, give dem a bible!" She literally was SUCH A GOOD MISSIONARY we were so impressed. We explained about the Book of Mormon and handed it over to them. Then, Ding goes, "Okay, now let's go sing to my friend Sayda." Us and 6 other children went over to her other neighbors house, knocked on the door, and the parents answered. We asked for their 4 year old son, and we sang "I'm a Child of God" to the whole family. It was the awesomest, weirdest, and most hilarious door approach I've ever had. We were able to talk to their parents for a minute too before we left. When we left we turned our area book on to remind ourselves where the less active member's house was, and we realized that the house we just sang at WAS THEIR HOUSE!!!! So you know what we did? You bet your bottom dollar we turned back around and went and knocked on their door AGAIN haha. We found out that the member we were looking for was their younger brother who moved, but we could come back on the weekend because he comes back to visit a lot. Miracle or what? We haven't had the chance to go back there yet, but I'll let you know what happens when we do!
The next awesome thing that happened this week was I had a dinner with a member and her deaf brother and his wife so I could finally use my ASL!!!! It was honestly the weirdest experience of my life. Her deaf brother is named Darrell, and he has a cochlear implant and he can basically hear and talk better than I can, while his wife is completely deaf and doesn't speak at all. She can read lips very well though. The whole family signs and talks at the same time, and poor Stacy (Darrell's wife) sits there and tries to keep up. I've never really signed and talked at the same time before so that was hard for me. They asked me to say the opening prayer and so I said it in straight ASL, thinking that's what they wanted me to do. When I said Amen, they were like, "why didn't you talk? The only person that benefited was Stacy!" And Stacy was laughing so hard. Wow I was so embarrassed you have no idea! I honestly thought they wanted me to sign it. Hahaha whoops. We were able to share a short message with them, my companion spoke while I signed. That's all that really came from it, but hopefully I will be able to meet with them again in the future!!!
OKAY!!! Get ready for this part because it's nuts. So on Thursday we still hadn't seen Kahm, the guy we chased down the street last week, and we'd gone to his house twice and called him a couple times and couldn't get a hold of him. On Thursday morning I was kind of having a rough morning, not gonna lie. I was exhausted and the last thing I wanted to do was go outside and run. I prayed that Heavenly Father would help me get through the morning. As soon as we got to the lake, guess who was sitting on the park bench? KAHM!!!! We went and talked to him and were able to schedule an appointment. Who would have thought he'd be right by the place where we go running, at 6:45 in the morning? Heavenly Father really answered my prayer that day by showing us that miracle and putting us in the right place at the right time. So on Thursday we taught Kahm all about how the Book of Mormon can answer the questions of the soul. Kahm seems like he's had a bit of trouble in the past. He's 38, lives with his mom, no car, no job. He's just overall a little rough around the edges. The lesson was amazing, the spirit was so strong. Kahm asked us where we go after we die and we were able to share Alma 40 with him and answer a lot of questions. We got a return appointment for Saturday. This part deserves it's own section because it was crazy.
THE RETURN APPOINTMENT:
On Saturday we went back to Kahm's and he was waiting outside on his porch for us! Kahm's family is Laotian. We asked him if his mom makes Laotian food, and he says, "Actually yeah, do you guys want some egg rolls or something?" We were like, "yeah sure!" We were thinking his mom had already made them and he was just offering us one. He invited us in and his mom was inside, but we were mistaken because he started making us egg rolls right then and there! His mom loves us, we've met her a few times before when we've tried to go to his house and he wasn't there. She was very very excited that we were over and gave us both big hugs, she said something in Lao and we just kind of smiled and nodded. We went and sat down while he was making egg rolls, and a few minutes later we realized his mom disappeared. We suddenly realized she was gone and told Kahm we had to go outside and wait for him. The vibe was suddenly super weird. We think his mom might have the wrong idea about why 2 young girls are coming over to see her single, 38 year old son. AWKWARD!!!!! Anyway, we waited while Kahm brought us egg rolls and when he went back inside to get more we took a picture, which I think is hilarious this whole situation was just super awkward and funny. When he was finally ready we shared a quick lesson with him and took the rest of the very spicy egg rolls to go, and he promised us he would be at church on Sunday! He needed a ride, so a member took us to pick him up the next morning. He was there when we got there, but he had changed his mind (sad).
BUT GUYS GUESS WHAT JUST HAPPENED? Literally as I'm writing this story on the computer at the library, KAHM WALKS IN. He came over and talked to us and asked when we can come back!!! We have an appointment with him tomorrow. We're pretty sure he saw our car and came in just to talk to us because he came in and walked out. Wow. I'll let you know what happens next week!!
Sorry this email is so long! I don't even have time to talk about this -- but we had zone conference this week too! It was amazing and I got to see Hermana Iverson again which is always such a blessing. It's sad that there are only 2 girl companionships and like 1000 elders though, I miss seeing girls my age! Also, I forgot to mention that I have been translating a lot more at church lately into Spanish and it's been going surprisingly well. The gift of tongues has been working very strongly lately, we teach MOSTLY in Spanish and it's been so awesome.
That's all I have for now, this week has really shown me that as we strive to be exactly obedient, Heavenly Father WILL bless us, answer our prayers, and show us so many miracles.
LOVE YOU ALL!!!
-Hermana Hansen
PICTURES:
1-2: Ding and her friends
3: We stopped at a Mexican Ice cream cart and got Arroz con Leche ice cream, it was DELISH
4. The pic we took while we were awkwardly waiting for Kahm outside his house HAHA
5. Hermana Iverson at Zone Conf <3
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