Hola!!!
This week was a whirlwind, quite literally! So on Monday night the fire alarm in the building went off in the middle of the night, so we all had to evacuate. We got outside and our neighbors from the Dominican Republic were out there, and another hispanic family we didn't know lived in our building came out too!!! So we were just chillin outside our building at midnight speaking Spanish with everyone. I actually was translating for one of the hispanic guys to the fire fighters because they didn't know how to turn off the alarm and the hispanic guy did. A situation I never would have pictured myself in a year and a half ago... I love being a missionary hahaha. Anyways, we were sleep deprived the next night so we went to bed early, just to get woken up by a TORNADO!! Haha. We were so oblivious and just thought it was a crazy storm, so we pulled the covers over our head and slept through it haha. Luckily we were safe and so are all the people we know here! Just some more flooding, some smashed cars, and broken trees everywhere.
This week we really felt lead by the hand of God. We felt like we needed to go visit a potential that lives in a small trailer park. Of COURSE I got lost and took a rather long detour trying to get there... (classic) but we made it. It was proof to me that there really is a reason for everything, because we got there in time to run into a less active member that lives next door to the potential. He hasn't been to church in a LONG time. He told us his wife was inside and invited us to meet her! She isn't a member and we were able to start teaching her!! At the end of the lesson, his son Adrian walks in, and turns out I actually had met him before when I served in Worthington, Minnesota!! He used to live there and then moved up here. Guess what? THEY ALL 3 CAME TO CHURCH YESTERDAY! We were shocked when we saw them walk in but it was a great surprise. Another guy we are teaching came too!! Yesterday we also taught our very first Spanish Sunday school. They've only had English Sunday school up to this point. A lot of people came and it went so well. The work is moving fast up in this tiny hispanic community in Sioux Falls, South Dakota!
I read this quote in my studies this morning by Elder Neal A. Maxwell: "Our perfect Father does not expect us to be perfect children yet. He had only one such Child. Meanwhile, therefore, sometimes with smudges on our cheeks, dirt on our hands, and shoes untied, stammeringly but smilingly we present God with a dandelion—as if it were an orchid or a rose! If for now the dandelion is the best we have to offer, He receives it, knowing what we may later place on the altar. It is good to remember how young we are spiritually.” Neal A. Maxwell, That Ye May Believe (1992)
I think sometimes we get frustrated with ourselves when we don't see improvement or growth as fast as we hope. But it gives me hope knowing that I don't need to be perfect, I just have to do my best, and Christ will make up for the rest. That is all we can do! And until the day that we will be completely perfected in Him, He is gonna have million of bouquets of dandelions from me at His feet. That is, until He picks me up, dusts me off, and turns my dandelions into roses. I truly am nothing without my Savior, Jesus Christ.
Love you all, hope you have a great week!
-Hermana Hansen
Pictures:
Hermana Phelps and I
Us at a birthday party for little Rebekita
The other day we were just sitting at a park contacting some less-active members, when these girls just came and started hanging out with us. Literally so beautiful all of them. So we took a picture :)
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