Feliz Memorial Day!! As for us we completely forgot it was a holiday so we drove all the way to the computer lab and realized it's closed, so I'm typing this on my phone (face plam).
I'm sure all of you have been dying to know how our English class went last week after going viral on Facebook. OVER 50 PEOPLE SHOWED UP. It was literally the best day of our lives. We were surprised because there was a huge storm happening but that didn't stop anyone! It was a huge success and everyone loved it. The best part was that afterward a ton of people messaged us on Facebook saying how much they loved it and a lot of the conversations led us to sharing parts of the gospel with them!!! We know this is going to lead to awesome teaching and finding opportunities 
We had 4 people we are teaching come to church on Sunday!!! That's huge for us. A couple in Council Bluffs, Iowa we have been teaching for a while now took the huge step and came even though the ward is all in English. We went to the first part of their sacrament meeting (they aren't in our area) to get them settled before having to race back to ours to greet Yonatan and Borys that were coming to our branch!
Everytime we have a lesson with Yonatan we are so blown away. We teach him every other day and give him a chapter to read in the Book of Mormon between visits. On Thursday we asked how Alma 34 went, and he said something like this: "Well I didn't know who Alma was, so I read Alma chapter 1 to get some background, then I read Chapters 30-34 but I reread Alma 34 like 4 times to make sure I understood everything it was saying." And then he tells us in DETAIL all the things that liked and felt as he read. Wow. I have never met someone like this before. He said normally when he woke up he would watch TV but instead he just listens to General Conference talks because they're more fulfilling. I had no idea how close you could get with someone in just a few short weeks. The gospel really does connect people A member took us out to eat Tacos this week and they took Yonatan too and we just laughed and ate a bunch of tacos and just had such a great time.
A huge miracle happened for Borys too!!! After much much fasting and prayer, and after being turned down by his boss a few weeks ago when asking for Sundays off to go to church, his boss rearranged some stuff at work and said that he can have most Sundays off!!! Hallelujah!
I doubt this part will even be interesting to you because this wouldn't matter to anyone else that isn't a missionary
But sleep and safety are 2 things that are like very important in missionary work because you can't do missionary work without those things. But on Saturday night at like 10:25 our fire alarm started going off and we were a little worried because the Safety Zone video about the Co2 detector freaked us out a little (these sisters' detector went off and they had to wake up the whole apartment building to save everyone from DYING). But there was no smoke so we turned it off, said our prayers, promised Heavenly Father that if it went off again we would do something about it, and went to sleep. Well a few short hours later at 1:00AM IT WENT OFF AGAIN. It scared me so bad I literally flew out of bed. We called our President and he told us to deactivate it and go to sleep Haha. Long story short we think our neighbor was smoking and set it off lol. Probably one of the wildest nights of my mission. Goes to show how wild missionaries get 
Guess what happens this week? I'M HITTING MY ONE-YEAR MARK. This has been a roller coaster of a year. I've had extremely hard times and extremely amazing ones. I've seen a lifetime of miracles. But the most important thing that happened is that my relationship with my Savior Jesus Christ has grown immensely and that is something that has changed the course for the rest of my life. When you put Him first, everything else falls into place 
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Con amor,
Hermana Hansen
Pics:
1-2: ENGLISH CLASS! We split them into levels according to how much English they knew so here are the 2 groups.
3. A selfie Yonatan sent us with his cute kids
4. A lesson we had outside at Yonatan's house when this random cat just climbed into my lap and sat their for the remainder of the lesson Haha it was very distracting
5. Eating tacos with Yonatan, the elders, and Ricky! After dinner Yonatan asked Ricky to baptize him all by himself Haha we were so proud
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