Hola buenos dias!
This week was full of miracles!!! We've literally been running from lesson to lesson every single day and it's felt like we have had no time to breathe! It's a good problem to have :)
Last transfer we had Brian K Taylor come talk to us at zone conference, and he gave us something called the "YES list." It has a series of inspired questions that we ask members to get referrals from them, and it emphasizes contacting part-member families in the ward/branch and those that have unbaptized children over the age of 8! The word he used for the YES list is "rigorous." It is!! It's taken a lot of work and dedication to do all the items on the list, but this week we finally started seeing the fruits of our labors!!
After asking quite a few members in the branch if there had been anyone on their mind and hearts that they want us to go visit, someone mentioned an inactive part-member family in the branch named the Romeros. We went over, talked with the mom, and she told us that we can teach and baptized her kids!!!! We started teaching them and they are on date for baptism for July 20th! We also have been knocking on this lady's door that has an unbaptized 11-year-old for a week and she hasn't been home. But last week we were just walking through her neighborhood and she was outside! She called us over and said "Hermanas guess what?! We just had a meeting at work and they told us that we can start having Sundays off! I am going to be able to go to church for the first time in years!" We were soooo excited! Then she goes on to say, "My son Adrian is 11 and he hasn't got baptized yet!!! He needs to get baptized!" We were like WE CAN HELP WITH THAT! Haha so this is the first time we have ever met this lady and she literally just told us she is coming to church and asked us to baptize her son. We didn't even have to bring it up! So we will be teaching her son this week :) Heavenly Father just put them right into our hands!
Being in a trio has been SO FUN. It's like having a sleepover every night and we just laugh and have fun all day haha. I love mission life. We found tennis rackets in our apartment so Hermana Johnson and I play tennis in the church parking lot every morning while Hermana Jorgensen runs in cirlces around us hahaha. Gotta do what you gotta do when you have to be sight and sound from each other.
This week we took a couple we are teaching to the visitor center and to the temple grounds! I love going to the trail center because it always reminds me about the sacrifices the pioneers made for us. What they did makes the missionary work we do "nowadays" feel so easy. It reminds me that I should never complain on days that we walk a lot and I should never complain when the weather is bad!!! That being said, we have had so many storms this week!!! The lightening struck our power box on Friday and we lost power for a little while in our apartment. It was fun pretending like we were pioneers without electricity for a little while haha. We really are so blessed to live in this day with such advanced technology! The work of the Lord is moving so fast because of it! :)
Love you all!!! Have an amazing week! <3
Hermana Hansen
Pictures:
1. Us eating Guatemalan tamales from Boris :)
2. A missionary cake a member made for us
3. The missionary cake that landed in the cupholder when I accidentally slammed on my breaks too hard in the car hahahaha
4. Us with Griselda and David at the temple (we were on exchanges so Hermana Johnson didn't come with us)
5. The dog pile hahaha I love my companions
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