Ghosted

August 26, 2019

Queridos hermanos y hermanas,

Como estan!? So to explain how my week went, I did a little math. This week we were out of our area for about 2 full days with exchanges and zone conference. But with the remaining 5 days, we had 17 lessons planned. 13 of those people canceled their lessons... On Saturday alone we had 6 lessons planned and 3 of them were lined up for members to come and fellowship. But every. single. lesson. canceled. Hence my subject line... GHOSTED. Please pray for these people to open their doors to us again... they all seem so promising! Although we didn't get to teach many lessons, a lesson I learned is that sometimes life gets so busy that people put the gospel and their faith and conversion low on their priority list... I made a personal lifelong goal to never let life get in the way of my commitment to read the scriptures, pray, and go to church. The little things are the ones that count in the long run. 

A little miracle that happened this week: We started teaching a lady that a member referred to us named Hirut. She is from Ethiopia so we teach her in English (at a really basic level because she doesn't speak it that well). We told her about how Christ came to the Americas to visit his "other sheep." She asked us, "Are we Christ's sheep? How can we know that we are His sheep?" I didn't really know how to answer that, so I opened the scriptures and randomly opened it to this scripture. Mosiah 26: 21-22 "21 And he that will hear my voice shall be my sheep; and him shall ye receive into the church, and him will I also receive. 22 For behold, this is my church; whosoever is baptized shall be baptized unto repentance. And whomsoever ye receive shall believe in my name; and him will I freely forgive." IT WAS SO COOL. That proved to me that Heavenly Father and the Spirit really are the ones that run the lessons we teach... not us. I never knew where that scripture was before, and I just opened them up and there it was! It answered the question perfectly! 

To show you how the rest of our week went... the highlight of our week was that we found this huge fluffy caterpillar. We put him in a spinach container and kept him for a couple hours before we released him haha. His name was John. I'll attatch pics :) 

Hope you all have a great week! Love ya!

-Hermana Hansen 

Pics:

Some from zone conference, Hermana Iverson and I brushing our teeth with our matching South Dakota shirts, my STL and I Sister Nelson, us with our caterpillar John, and a little selfie with our favorite member Fernando - he is 12 and he is basically our little brother haha.