Going viral on Facebook

May 20, 2019

Queridos hermanas y hermanos,

I had a few other subjects in mind but I feel like going viral on facebook was one of the craziest things that happened so it won haha. The other subject lines I considered were "double baptism" and also "BORYS IS GETTING BAPTIZED" so I'll fill you in on everything! 

Going Viral on Facebook:

First things first. So the past couple weeks we have had very little attendance at English classes. We've done almost everything we knew how to do: post up fliers, hand out cards, and text members who don't speak english. Still, we have had like 3 or less people there every week. So we tried something different this week. One morning we joined a private Spanish facebook vend/trade/buy page for Omaha and posted about English Class. We turned off the data and did studies, and about an hour later when we turned it on my phone was BLOWING UP. We are talking TONS of people messaging me about english class. Long story short we threw together a sign up sheet and we have 112 people signed up. I have been getting non stop messages ALL WEEKEND haha. Is this what it feels like to be famous?? Hermana Jorgensen and I were so excited at first but now we are a little scared to see what tomorrow's class will be like... Hopefully this will turn into a teaching opportunity for some of these people and not just pure chaos haha. We had a meeting with the teachers though and we have a plan! We'll let you know how it turns out next week ;) 

Double Baptism:

This weekend a lady named Erin got baptized in our branch! Her and her husband found the church about a year ago and have come SO FAR to get baptized. He got baptized in September and due to some legal issues she couldn't. Through much work, prayer, and fasting, she got permission from the 1st presidency last week to be baptized!!!! So we were able to help her make the final step into the waters of baptism on Saturday and it was so beautiful. Borys came with us and I was translating for him and he whispered to us, "The next baptism is going to be mine!" Our mission President was there and we introduced Borys to him and Borys was in shock that he met him. His eyes were literally huge haha. Anyways, the elders also had a baptism on Saturday it was a big day for our little branch :) So amazing seeing all these people making covenants with God!

BORYS IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!! 

So we have been working with Borys for a long time now. The only issue keeping him from being baptized was that he works on Sunday during church. He already changed jobs hoping to get Sundays off for church but they still make him work on Sunday haha. Last week Borys finally got enough courage to talk to his boss this week to ask for Sundays off, and he said no. He literally called us and we are pretty sure he was crying! He was so heart broken! But the past 2 weeks he randomly got Sundays off so he came to church! We called our President and asked if we would be allowed to baptize him because he has been to church a few times now and is literally doing EVERYTHING he can to get baptized. Our President said that if he gets the day off for his confirmation and just keeps doing everything he can to try and get Sundays off, he can be baptized. When we told him he almost fell over he was so excited. He talked to his boss yesterday and he got work off on June 9th so he is getting baptized on the 8th!!!

The best part about this is that Yonatan (the other guy from Guatemala we're working with) is getting baptized on that day too!!! AND that's the day that Elder Renlund is coming to visit our mission. So basically that is gonna be the best day of my life. 

I'm convinced that there is no fuller joy than bringing people into the fold of God. A lot of people congratulate us when we tell them that we have a few baptisms coming up, but then I remind them that we didn't do anything. Heavenly Father has been preparing them, and the Spirit taught them, not us! After all, we are only just servants of God! Like He said, "but behold, the life of my servant shall be in my hand." (3 Nephi 21:10)

Los amo,

Hermana Hansen 

Pictures:

Not sure what order these will be in but:

1. A selfie that Borys, Yonatan, and Rogelio (guy elders are teaching) took at family home evening. They're all investigating the church and are all becoming best friends it makes us so happy!!!

2-3: Erin's baptism:) 

4-5: Me!