Buenas tardes!!!
I got TRANSFERRED!!!! I am serving in Omaha with Hermana Gubler! She trained Hermana Iverson. She is from Eagle Mountain, UT and this is her last transfer. We are getting along pretty well, the biggest difference is that I'm like 100% extroverted and she is like 100% introverted haha. But we are doing well. She is really sweet and a SUPER hard worker. I mean I thought I worked pretty hard before this transfer... but it's been nothing compared to how hard we have worked in the past week! No time is wasted! I've gone to sleep exhausted every night this week which is a good feeling. I read this scripture this week and I could definitely relate. "Sleep had overpowered them because of their much fatigue, which was caused by the labors and heat of the day." (alma 51:33)
This area feels like a completely different mission! We cover downtown Omaha so there are way more people. And way more missionaries! I serve in an English branch called Field Club. It is a new branch that started in the summer! There used to be an all Spanish branch here, but it got dissolved this summer. There are a lot of Spanish members from that branch that go to Field Club now. We meet in an old Catholic building and it has stained glass windows, it's really cool! The members are SO strong and supportive of missionaries, and I'm so excited to work with them! They invited us to branch council and asked us to talk about each person we are teaching and they all gave us advice and arranged times they could come with us to appointments. DREAM COME TRUE! There are also so many members that are bilingual, so sacrament meeting is translated into Spanish by a member through headsets. We get fed a LOT here!!!! We have dinner every day with members and sometimes even twice a day, it's awesome. In Worthington we had about 3 dinners a week max from members so that is a big difference! I'm going to look like a marshmallow by the time I leave here haha.
I already feel like my Spanish ability has improved a ton since I got here! Hermana Gubler is amazing at Spanish and she has been helping me so much. We basically only speak Spanish together which has pushed me to grow a ton! It seems to me that there are a lot more opportunities to speak Spanish here so that has been huge.
A huge miracle we saw this week is that a person we are teaching named Borys came to church this week!!! Hermana Gubler said it has been extremely hard for people to come to church for the past few transfers. Borys was a referral from a former missionary that taught him when he lived in Guatemala! She recently got in contact with him and found out that he moved, and sent his address to us. He usually works every single Sunday and can't get it off. But there was a snow storm on Sunday so his work got cancelled! Miracle!
This week I thought a lot about a scripture we memorized in the CCM. "Y Jesús le dijo: Si pued
Love you all, que tengan un feliz dia de amor y amistad!
Hermana Hansen
Pictures:
1. The Hermanas at transfer point! From left to right: Hermana Gubler, Hermana Espinoza, Hermana Esplin, me!
2. Us with Borys and at church! (Borys is in the middle and his fellowshipper Pedro is on the end)
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