Hola!!!
This was a great week. Hermana Jorgensen and I got to go to the temple because we are TRAINING! It was so so so amazing to get to go. I will never take having 5 temples 20 minutes away from me for granted ever again when I get back home! That is the most peaceful place ever. Such an amazing escape from the crazy world around us and such a good opportunity to seek revelation from Heavenly Father.
So we are in a trio with Hermana Johnson now!!! We are both training her. WE LOVE HER SO MUCH it has been so fun. Heavenly Father has just been blessing us so much. We moved into a bigger apartment to fit all 3 of us and it has just been like a sleepover every night it's so fun. She is from St. George Utah and went to Dixie before she came here and is studying medical biology.
A few things that happened this week:
- We were sitting outside the church when this insane guy just comes and sits by us and starts talkin. He was on MANY drugs haha he introduced himself and the king of france. He told us that his brother is Michael Jackson and that his mom's estate are the Egyptian pyramids. I asked him if he wanted to go to church sometime and he looks at me dead in the eyes and says, "Lady. I am the church." Hahahaha. I was shook. Ah, the people you meet in Omaha.
- We took Guadalupe our recent convert to a lesson with us and it was so awesome. She has the strongest testimony ever and she is not afraid to look people in the face and tell them to get baptized. She literally put her hands up in the air in the middle of the lesson and goes "Javier, sea bautizado en el NOMBRE de Jesucristo!!!!!" (Get baptized in the name of Jesus Christ!!!) Hahaha it was so awesome. I want her boldness.
- It's been interesting to see how much random people open up to us about the struggles they go through. This week we knocked on this lady's door, and she stepped out onto the porch and just told us her whole life story. She started bawling and opened up to us about the personal struggles she is going through and a death that happened in her family. I felt so sad for her. But we were able to testify of Jesus Christ and that he truly can take away her pain! People really do recognize us as representatives of Jesus Christ and know that we will not judge and we are really just here to help. Sometimes I start to feel weighed down by hearing about the trials and problems that people are having, especially when I realize that I can't help them or take away pain. But what is amazing is that we can lead them to their Savior, Jesus Christ - He is the true Healer. Then the weight I felt while momentarily bearing their sorrows goes away, because they are at the foot of the Savior. Oh how I love Him!!!!
My favorite scripture from my studies this week was Mormon 5:23 "Know ye not that ye are in the hands of God?" We are in the hands of God people!!!! He will not leave us! We are never alone and He is always there to help us! Remember that :)
Love you!
-Hermana Hansen
Pictures:
-The temple, our new trio, us celebrating our first night together with pan from Boris' panaderia!
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