Bendecido por Jesucristo

September 30, 2019

¡Saludos! 

This was an amazing week. We had a lot of success and taught un montón of lessons. On Monday night after P-day alone, from 6:00-9:00 we had 3 lessons back to back. Then again on Saturday we had 4 lessons back to back, 3 of which involved members helping us teach! None of them even fell through! Thanks for all of your prayers :) 

I feel like Heavenly Father taught me so many lessons this week. The past couple days I have been so incredibly scatterbrained. Sometimes I feel like everything I do I mess it up somehow haha. For example, almost every week I forget that we need to refill our laundry card so we have enough money on Monday to do it, because the place to refill the card on Monday opens later in the morning than we prefer to do laundry. But this week I remembered! I grabbed the card on the way out the door one day, but by the time we were going to refill the card, I looked around and couldn't find it anywhere. I LOST IT! Of course. The one time I actually remembered to refill it I lost the card haha. The very next day I was having a really rough time driving for some reason. I kept driving over curbs, at one point I got one lane too far over trying to turn left and I was on the wrong side of the street (my companion yelled at me to change lanes though don't worry), and here's the worst part... we went to go get gas, I opened the car door and a huge gust of wind pulled the door open and it hit a pole and I DENTED OUR BRAND NEW RAV4 CAR DOOR. It's just a small dent, but I felt so horrible. I promise I'm usually not that bad of a driver, I was just having a rough day I think haha. But anyway, after all these incidents I was feeling so awful inside. I tried not to show it, but I was angry and frustrated with myself for making all these silly mistakes and I just felt stupid. I even prayed and asked for forgiveness, even though I didn't sin, my scatterbrained-self just kept getting in the way of everything.  

The next morning after I dented the car, I kneeled down to pray to start my personal study. I had no idea what I was going to study so I prayed for guidance. I somehow stumbled upon an article written about the talk Joy D Jones gave during education week. She talked about a time she was heading to the temple and got pulled over for speeding. She was so frustrated with herself she turned around and started to go home, and she had this thought: "Receiving a speeding ticket had nothing to do with my worth as a daughter of God." That hit me. I felt like Heavenly Father was directly telling me that all the silly mistakes I make doesn't make me worth any less. I am His precious daughter and He loves me. I don't need to be perfect, all I can do is my best and learn to react in a positive way to the little setbacks along the path. Joy D Jones said, "As individuals make a daily effort to overcome the enticements in their life and put off the natural man, they begin to experience greater control in their life. The little things don’t bother as much because they are able to see them for what they really are—opportunities to use agency to turn to Heavenly Father and to become as He is." 

I know my Heavenly Father loves me. I know he guided me to find that article because it reminded me that every mistake we make gives us an opportunity to learn, and to choose to react in a positive way. That's what I am trying to do. 

My subject line comes from a phrase that Roberto says to us every time we ask him how he's doing. It means "Blessed by Jesus Christ." To conclude, here is a sweet message he sent us this week.

            "Muchas gracias por haberse aparecido en mi camino. Dios los bendiga y se que están para ayudar a quien realmente lo necesita y por gracia de dios yo soy uno de ellos." 

            It means: "Thank you so much for having appeared in my path. God bless you. I know you are really just here to help people that need it, and by the grace of God I'm one of them." 

I know it was no chance that we ran into Roberto. He is so prepared and excited to get baptized this month. Please pray for him to be able to stop smoking and to forgive himself for the hard things that have happened in the past. 

I love you all so much!!! Thanks for all the prayers and love. By the way I TURN 21 THIS WEEK can you believe it?

Con amor,

Hermana Hansen

Pictures: Sorry we are absolutely failing at taking pictures lately. Here's a picture of a Annette's door that we heart attacked this week, and a selfie with Roberto at church.