week 59

Ni sa bula vinaka kemudou na noqu matavuvale!

That's crazy about Mike! That's soo crazy!! That's way sad man! I didn't get

way close with him but he was a way nice guy. Sorry the Jett pics haven't

happened yet, this week. It wasn't the greatest weather this week and we

need to do it on a clear sunny day! Dad, you are on your way to being a

whole new man with this fishing deal! haha I like though! Don't hurt MY

truck! haha Well we have had a very very interesting week my family! First I

forgot to tell you that we had zone conference last week...It was an ok one.

A few things I did like a lot though were about stewardship. Our role in

that and what we have stewardship over. Time also, which I will need to

master very very soon! I'll tell you in a minute.Time is money! If we had

extra money left over or just money period, you wouldn't waste it, would

you? NO! Same thing with time, we can't just waste it and when we have extra

time we need to find things productive to do! We talked about keeping recent

converts active and how Pres. Hinckley said the three things for a recent

convert...Friend, responsibility, and nourished by the good word of God. How

important these things are and how every single recent convert needs this.

We compared it how if a family had 3 kids and 2 of them died, we wouldn't

say...yeah!! I still have one!! No we would be devastated and what not.

That's how Heavenly Father is...he isn't happy when only some come back to

Him. He is devastated when some don't go back to Him and what not. It was

very good. The last section of PMG is about the commitment to stay active in

the church and I never really noticed or thought about it like that. No

wonder why it's the very last thing in PMG. Pres. Klingler did a training on

"Who do we think we are"?  and "Identity". It was really good. Identity

comes from your values and beliefs, then your attitude, then your actions,

and then that's the reality of who we are....It was very interesting to

think about that. It starts from our beliefs and values...In our beliefs and

values...the reality should be Christ is our identity...That's who we

are...We are disciples of Christ and everything we do, should be like Him.

It was pretty cool to think about. I also heard a sweet quote too. "Any two

people can do anything they want as long as one of them is Christ." BOOM!!

It was like the game 7 game winning grand slam! Haha, It was sweet when I

heard it. So yeah that was zone conference. My interview with President was

good too. It's always short! He did say though that he has always thought

our intake was special, being the first ones they met. Haha, yeah that's

right! So yeah...That's what the pics are from. So the week was ok this

week, for the first month. We average about 13 lessons every week. That's

pretty dang good for a walking area and starting from scratch. Every week we

have had soo many fall thru's where we could get 20 lessons a week. We have

found at least 1 or 2 new investigators each week. Two less actives that

haven't been to church for a long time came yesterday! I was soo happy man!

One of them I was just joking around with and like hey I'll see you Sunday

at church and she came! The other one, Elder Tremea and I wanted to start

working with but he came on his own and said he wants to start his mission

papers... ha it was way random! I don't know what changed but it's good! We

are going to really help him and work with him now. Oh yeah, at church

too...Sister Solomone, wife of the ward mission leader(Spiritual giant guy),

she gave a talk on Motherhood and laid it down hard!!! It was sooo bomb!! We

talked about fathers last week you know and this week she talked on Mothers.

It was sweet!!! She was like you know I don't except this saying that

everyone says.."Boys are just being boys". They are not just boys!!! They

are children of Heavenly Father and are soon to be or are priesthood

holders! It was soo sweet! Yeah fun fact! Soo this is the big news of the

week. Transfers came in this week...Both of us are still staying

here....Estill is now ZL is Suva...we have followed each other the whole

time, so its sweet. BUT... In Tremeas interview President said "I feel that

soon you will have so much work that you won't have time for it".  We were

like yeah that would be sweet! But never thought much of it. Well we now

know why he said that! We are now covering two more wards AND we have a car

AND I am now District Leader! Haha, I think at this moment, next to the

AP's, I am the busiest Elder in the mission! President asked me today if I

have ever taught 40 lessons in a week. I was like uhhh nope but I would sure

be happy to!!! So he said that our goal now is 40 lessons! No idea how we

are going to do it but we will do it!! There were two elders in Tamavua 1

(Fijian ward) and Wailoku (English ward) and they were doing really well! So

many investigators, they were averaging 19 a week. So we are white washing

again 2 more wards. We will have 3 wards and dinner up the ying yang and we

are going to be soooo busy!!! Talk about learning how to plan! It's going to

be nuts!! We just need to figure all this stuff out and try to make time the

most effective. I'm excited! Being district leader will be a good experience

except all the things the AP's don't have time for, they ask us, so its kind

lame but oh well! Ha like tonight, two elders from Kiribis are sleeping in

our flat for a couple days. So it's going to be insane for the first couple

weeks. So we gotta do as much work as we can! So I am excited, it will be

busy, but it was be fun! Wailoku is a way cool area too...more bush type and

some waterfalls, I guess there too. So we will see what happens! That's all

the news I have for you this week! Love you all!!

Vakaukauwa tiko! Keep going strong! Moce!

Elder Hansen