week 72

Hello my family....Hows it? Sounds like things are going good, same old eh?

Boy last week was soo busy! 19 new missionaries came in and I had to help
them their food and teach someone how to drive, take them places and man it
was hectic! We missed a lot of lessons from it but oh well it's all good. My
new companion is Elder Gardner from Enterprise, Utah. He's a cowboy! He is

the man! He is very humble and willing and works hard! He has only been out

for 4 months. I have decided I would be so game to just be companions with
new missionaries for the rest of my mission. He isnt very confident in
things. Fijian is one of them and kind of shy but we are working on that. I
am really trying my best to help him to be confident and learn lots of
Fijian. He is the man. District is doing good, the sisters have improved a

ton! They are doing very well! We went around with Elder Haiman and Elder
Cloud who came to the enlgish ward and we took them to investigators and

members and what not.  I know how it feels to white wash the area so I want

to help them as much as I can. Elder Haiman went to Riverton, he is good
friends with Dalton Gust.. Hes cool and Elder Cloud is a new missionary who

just came this week. We moved out of the nice flat so they could move in. We

moved down to Wailoku and it is nasty! Its like Seaqaqa all over again! It

smells like weed, the carpet in one room is all moldy...It's a bug fest ha!

So thursday we are planning a big cleaning day! Stomach is doing good, still

at 200lbs. There is a huge hill in Wailoku so we are going to start to
train. It's so big that we are just going to walk up it ha. I need to get
going! Work this week was pretty good. We got 2 new investigators. One of
them seems really good. I asked her "If you could ask God one question what

would it be?" Then she said, "why did my mom die?"  I gave her a plan of
salvation pamphlet and told her to read this and we are going to see her

today to talk about it. I'm excited! oh yeah guess what? Vilikesa (Billy) is

getting baptized this Saturday!! Yeah!!! Finally man! I am way excited! He

is the man!! We gave talks on Sunday too. It went well. I talked about who
we are. Who do we want to become. It went well I thought. So yeah sorry it's

kind of a short email! Its just been way busy with the new intake and
all...BUt yeah all is well! Oh yeah these pictures are my scripture covers.

This lady is the best in the whole pacific. She represents Fiji in the
pacific handcraft things. She is dang good!!! SO yeah....Well love you
all!!! Keep it real! Study the scriptures! GO to the temple! moce!

Elder Hansen

week 71

Bula Vinaka....

Man! I am sorry!! I am way late today...It has been soooo busy today! I have

had to help out with these 19 new missionaries and its been way busy! I am

exhausted!! Yes, 19 came today.  One of them I went to jr high with and
played football against. He went to Granger ha! Isa I heard about Cwood and
Utah. Haha that's funny. Isa Riverton, good times! Those were the days!
Well, this week was pretty good.  Alot of things I learned from Zone
Conference. The main theme was being fully committed. I also got this
article/talk called "The Fourth Missionary" by Lawrence Corbridge. I highly
recommend you go look it up! But yeah, this transfer was the biggest in Fiji
Suva mission history! I am not training unfortunately.  I was hoping to but
oh well! I just got a normal companion. His name is Elder Gardner, Tausiga
trained him. I hear he is a great kid so I'm excited. Elder Tremea is going
to Rabi! They speak Gilbertese there, he is way excited! I am in my 3rd
area, he is already in his 3rd area. Haha weird. So yeah, we will not be
serving in Tamavua 2 anymore either, the English ward. We will only be
Tamavua 1 and Wailoku so I think we will be moving to Wailoku and two elders
will come to Tamavua 2. Tamavua 1 just had their ward conference...It was
way good!! THey had 200 plus there. I think they are about to split. It made
one of our investigators be inspired to get closer to baptism. She really

enjoyed it, she said it inspired her to move and change her life for

good...Just to be done with everything. It was awesome. So we should have
her soon. Vilikesa also passed his interview this week!! The only thing is
that he had a court appearance, he is clear but has 2 years. If he does
anything bad he will then receive a sentence. But hopefully it will be ok,
President is checking up on it. Well now, I am going to share with you a lot
of things that I learned this week. Here it goes....First President did a

training on this question...Am I a righteous man? We talked about ways to

become a righteous man and what not so I was thinking about me and how I can
become a more righteous man. We got this version of love one another. I

actually have a few songs I think Bro Astin and Bro Voros would love for the

choir! As disciples we need to love one another.  Faith increases as our
righteousness increases. We talked about being proactive and passive. Being

passive, you let things affect you, but pro active, you can change things

that affect you, its up to you to go do it and change it. We are designed to
be active. There are 3 levels of commitment....First, I'll try...Second,
I'll do my best...Third I'll do what it takes..Which one do we say? We must
set our mind in the right place and not just avoid the bad things. We are
called to succeed. Elder Neal A Maxwell said "No one was foreordained to

fail." Read please...Matt 6:32-33 and Matt 16:24-25 and think about

commitment and we must give our all to the Lord, Law of Consecration. The

Lord says "Turn them all over to me, give yourself to me and I will make a
new of you in my image. Give me yourself and in exchange I will give you
myself, My will shall be your will, my heart shall me your heart."We are all

responible for the person that we become, the character we have. What is our

vision or plan for who we want to become? How can we change? Its not the

excuse, thats just who I am. (I have used that alot) We can and are always
changing. The greatest work and creation is us personally and our

character...You get what you want...We must want it from our heart...We will
truly get what we truly want...We are favored to become like the Savior, we

just need to apply His teachings. If you just let life flow, you will just
become someone in the middle, you will not reach your full potential. 1 Cor

13...If you have not charity, you are nothing...Charity is from the
heart...You can do good things that make you happy but if you dont want to

do it from the heart, it will not benefit you..doesn't matter if you do
those things or not...It must come from the heart. This man was holding up
the scriptures and saying these are of no value  to you if they do not get
inside you. You cant be forced to be spiritually changed. He cannot work on

what he does not have...We must give ourselves to Him...He cant have us
unless we give ourselves to Him..He wants all of us, not just some of us or

some of our time...he wants us completely! Its the easiest way to do things
the Lords way. At the end of this 4th missionary talk he says, Why would you

do all this stuff and not have it benefit you? He explains 4
missionaries...1 disobedient and sent home...2 disobedient but served

dishonorable 2 years..3 good missionary, but he thinks it's right so he

could do what he wanted to do...4 complete surrender to the Lord and the
work...Look it up!! So yeah I learned alot this week!! Sorry I am exhausted
and this computer is giving me a headache! So have a good week!! Love you
all!! Work hard and build your character! Law of Consecration from the
heart..Thats how we gain true happiness! Moce toka

Elder Hansen

week 70

Bula Vinaka saka!
Well first off, yes you guys are correct, I am trying to do a better job at
not showing my frustration...I am working on it! Forgive me my family! I
will continue to work hard at it....Ether 12:27...one day it will become a
strength! I am sitting here with Tausiga and he says hi to you guys. Well
unfortunutely the computer is not working again with pictures, I am still
trying though. We had the two baptisms though. Ha that was weird, my writing
just went to Korean ha. I didn't even teach them but they were awesome!I
love  them. One of them, Luisa just ran up and hugged me. Ha it was awesome.
They were both like 9 or 10. It was good. My stomach this week was whack!
Its ok now. I Just drank a lot of coke. I had coka like crazy!!! It was the
worse I have had in my mission. Tuesday I didnt eat at all, juice and coke.
It's all good now though. My eating is still weird, I just dont want to eat
or I cant eat a lot haha. Boy, we loaded up on neckties this week too, we
got like 15 new ties. We had a lot of fall throughs this week, it was very
slow but the good thing is that Vilikesa came to church this week. Very
happy about that. Tamavua 1st ward is getting ready to split this year. They
had about 150-160 at sacrament Sunday and 76 priesthood holders. They are
moving very well and Samabula has split 5 times already. Work is moving! We
talked with a less active the other day and she was asking where the church
was in Fiji and we were telling her and she was amazed, its good! So I was
talking with Sister Solomone and I asked her about how I could learn the
piano. I have decided a goal I want to have when I get home is to learn how
to play the piano. Also, I have turned into Dad. I was thinking about
Christmas and my birthday and when I get home how I just want to buy books!
Gospel books that is, no other kind. That's definitely something I have
gained in my mission, enjoying reading. I am sorry this is a pretty short
email. We are setting Vilikesa for the 22nd for his baptism. Zone conference
is tomorrow. I am excited for that. Transfers will be this week too. I will
probably train again, I am ok with that though. All is well though, I am
almost finished with 3 Nephi in my Fijian Book of Mormon. I am in Alma in
the English one. I'm also reading Our Search for Happiness. That book is
awesome! I love it..Hope all is well there! Well, I have decided to set my
goal and theme in my life to 3 Nephi 12:48....This is how I want to design
my life or work toward. I dont know how to explain it. I think about this
scripture a lot. It needs to be all of our goals. Well love you guys!! Have
a good week!! Moce
Elder Hansen

week 69

Bula Family...
Sorry I have pictures for you but the computer is whack today....Sounds like
things are busy! Man, I am sweating so bad right now. Sorry if this email
sounds lame when you read it! We went to the temple today and it was bomb as
always. This is the 3rd time I have gone in my mission. In Suva you usually
go every 3 or 4 months, I think. I was going through the session and
thinking about how obedient Christ was. Exact obedience and never complained
and just did it! That's how we need to be! Just be obedient! We all know we
will be much happier when we are. We can't cheat the system people!! Haha. I
am still about 200. Ha, I went to buy a new sulu today and usually I get a
36 but today I had to get a 38. Haha not good!! Man in the temple today... I
got a 36 pant and I had to suck in so bad to get them on! They were sooo
tight on me! Stomach is doing good. Its acting weird right now, but it's all
good.  The other day I threw up for the first time in I dont know how long!
Haha tooo much food!!! We made babakau which is like a scone bun type thing.
We ate a bunch of those and then went to an Elders Quorum activity after and
had dinner. One of the biggest plates full of chicken curry! I had a couple
bites left and my stomach was expanded more than it ever has been before. It
literally hurt to sit up or stand up or anything! Then a huge mistake, I
finished my juice really fast! I went outside and I was way hot and just
started to breathe and walk around then my head started going dizzy and I
knew at that time... I am going to throw up! Haha So I did. I didnt throw up
as much as I thought I would but yeah after that I was set. It was
definitely not healthy. I am never doing that again! Haha...my bad! So yeah,
we had a pretty good week. Sunday was rough. I'll explain that later.
Tuesday we had a combined district meeting. It was really good. One thing I
learned that all of us need to think about and do is that we need to repent
for the things we do wrong but we also need to repent for the right things
that we aren't doing. It was really good! We also worry so much about the
bad but we need to focus all the time on the good! There is also two sides,
Setani brings the bad side but we need to go to the good side! I had a
really good study in Alma 5 and 3 Nephi 24:7. Alma 5...it talks about how we
are invited to come unto Christ through repentance and be baptized and to
partake of the fruit of the tree of life. We have done that but sometimes we
go off track and because Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love us so much,
they invite us to "return" in 3 Nephi. We have come unto Him and now when we
are going down, we need to return unto Him, and even when we are doing the
right things, we still need to return unto Him in the next life. It was
really good. Billy and Vulaca are good. Vulaca was busy a lot last week but
we talked with Billy and he was telling us how he has seen a change in his
life and he feels it but Sunday was a very very very frustrating day! All he
needs to do is come to church every Sunday and he is set...nothing else! He
hasn't come in the past 2-3 weeks so we have kept pushing the date back so
now he cant be baptized on the 15th. I was so frustrated! Satan is working
hard with him! Literally every single weekend!!!! Something will come up
where he cant come! So Monday I studied about patience and a lot of
scriptures talked about if we are patient then we will have success so it
helped a lot. Another one was Wati who lives with members. Every Sunday hey
wheres Wati?? Oh she's at the house (Wati is their house girl). They know
very well she needs to come to church. Frustrating man!! Haha but patience!!
It will all be ok! The good thing for Sunday was that we got a new
investigator from Kiribati. I was praying for a new investigator and
especially for Tamavua 2 ward because that ward is struggling. Well, this
lady was sitting right behind us at church!! Yeah!! Her sister is a member
from Samabula. Ha it was sweet! Oh yeah one thing good about Vulaca. We were
teaching him about the Word of Wisdom. He agreed and he still drinks ti and
yagona a little. He was like wait...I only drink a little but it's still
bad!! 1 cup or 10 cups it's still ti!! Haha He understood it very well!! So
here's a fun fact...In this stake, the Fiji Suva North Stake...there are 40
missionaries serving from this stake. I think the highest ever. I thought
that was sweet! So I told you about Sis. Somica from Seaqaqa that passed
away. Well Bro. Somica called me the other day.  It was soo good to talk to
him! He said they have a picture of me and them up in their house. I love
that man!! His name is Joseph Smith too haha Josefa Somica. He's the man!!
SO yeah Tamavua 2, they used to be a big ward and now they are tiny!! They
don't do many activities. We have tried to talk and encourage them and
talked about ways to pick the ward up again. That's one thing in Fiji,
missionaries contribute a lot more than they should in the ward or branch. I
also had a few very good compliments this week too. I made up that language
study plan and the sisters loved it and said it has helped alot and they
said thank you for always supporting them and inspiring them and said I was
the Fiji Suva missions best district leader haha...Weird! Sisters
man....Also a recent convert, Eta who was just baptized a few weeks ago when
the Rotuma elders filled in. We were teaching her and then unfortuntely we
werent the ones who witnessed the baptism  but she is one of the best recent
converts I have seen!! She is amazing!! She has gone through quite a few of
missionaries and she said it wasn't until Elder Hansen came that it all made
sense. He came in and just like that! I was ready and firm from that time. I
was happy! We have gotten pretty close and especially with her husband
Matai...both of them. Matai was less active before. Matai didn't serve a
mission and she said ok we go! They are only in their 30s but she was like
yeah we will go! They are preparing to get sealed....We talked about
baptisms for the dead and patiarchal blessings yesterday. They themselves
were talking about it too! Haha it was sweet!! Every morning, they wake up
pray, read, pray and talk about the gospel. I was like man!! That is what I
want to do!! I was so happy when they were telling us all this. They are
awesome!! So yeah its been good! All is well here...Mission is the bomb!!
Well love you guys!! Have a good week!!! Be obedient!
Elder Hansen