Mar 28, 2013

week 98


Hello family! Sorry I think this email will be a little shorter. This week
was kind of a slow week...a good week though!! We did a  lot of driving
again this week and were busy with a lot of random little things.

We had exchanges with the APs this week. They just came for a day...it went
pretty good. We had some really good lessons and some new investigators so
we are excited for that. Tupou goes to Suva this Sunday for school. We are
really excited for her though. She will be in a very good ward with a very
good YSA! So she really see how the church runs...correctly. It will be sad,
but Im way excited at the same time  because she has so much potential and
so I feel she will be strengthened a lot when she goes to Lami!

I got a letter from Bishop Geertsen this week. I wrote him back today
actually. He didnt say too much, just a short update of things.  I also got
your package!! Goldfish man!! Trix fruit snakcs! SOOO GOOD!!! Haha they were
gone pretty quick! Yes I shared too! I also got a package from Mindy and the
primary! It was awesome! Tell them thank you!!

We reset our baptism dates, we will be have 2 baptisms on April 7th. Two
kids from Vunivesi and possibly one on the 13th of April so we are excited
for that. The two kids are awesome! They are really having fun in the
lessons and at church and they are learning!

We are going to Suva this week on Thursday. We will be having our zone
leaders meeting. Oh and no we didnt move yet into the flat. It should be the
first week of April. We will be going to Labasa at least once maybe twice
this week. Then next week, we will be going there again and also to Taveuni
again. So traveling never stops here!

The highlight honestly of the week was meeting this American guy named
Warren from Palmdale!!! haha if you were us you would be asking where is
Palmdale? Its in California. Well do you remember the guy in our branch who
always talks about Dinosaurs...well this is his friend and we now know where
he gets all these crazy ideas and what not. This Warren guy is a drunk who
has lived in Fiji for 8 years. He has been disabled for 12 years (he walks
and talks perfectly fine) and he is on death row (all of this is his words).
He supposedly use to work for the most famous and known space place in
Palmdale and build spaceships. Well now he works with the big boys! UFOs and
Sasquatch! He said there are a ton of Sasquatch in America and he said there
has even been one here in Fiji. He is a dang good painter though, Ive seen
his paintings! So I asked him how much one would cost and he said depends
what you want. I told him just like missionaries in Fiji type of thing and
he said what message to do you want give the people? Go higher! Take it
higher! Haha I was like I dont know man! Haha it was funny! Then he got all
church stuff and probably like 10 times told us that we have a lot of work
to do if we want to teach the people. He kept on saying a ton of things
about Revelations and the 7 trumps and how the 5th trump is Satans trump and
he is going to receive a blessing from the pope and go fight Satan and trick
him and all of that jazz, just went off for like 30 minutes talking about
all this stuff. He said there is 2 Jesus' and he is somewhere in China and
he talked about how there is a planet under the planet we are on now and
there is a hole from the North pole to the South pole and thats how you get
there and then Ned Simpson adds his voice and says maybe that explains the
Bermuda Triangle or something and that we need to get this man to church and
all this stuff...haha it was probably one of the most interesting odd
conversations Ive been invovled in in my life! haha He was a way nice guy
though but just different...I really want to see if he can get me a painting
for cheap though! Haha So yeah that was probably the highlight of the week!
Sorry its a short letter this week. Im way tired right now too so thats
another reason haha...But yeah all is good!  Just pushing to the end! Never
stopping! You guys have a good week! Love you guys! moce!

Elder Hansen

Mar 21, 2013

week 97


Hello my family! Hows it going? I am exhausted....weird, what else is new?
but like dad said, I can sleep when I get home! Well we only had a day and a
half in our area this week. We went to Taveuni and ended up having to go to
Rabi also...It's been way busy!!

Well lets give you the answers to your questions.....baptism
interviews....yes we do some, but only for the District Leaders. The DLs do
it for their districts, we do it for the DLs. We just did two on Saturday in
Labasa. That was a long day! Ill tell you about that later.

The pictures. The last one with the two girls is Lusia in the back (baptized
her in November) and Kapopwe (dont know how to spell her name). It was her
birthday. The picture with the old people, that is from Rabi. Our branch
presidents wifes parents on the left. He gave us a massage again! One is
pday, we played touch. The one with the boat is the Sherrys...senior Couple
from Taveuni...they go home this week.

So yeah this week we had our zone training meetings. Both here on this
island and we also did it in Taveuni.We had a problem deciding what to do
our training on, we couldnt think of anything good. Well the morning of the
training we finally figured it out!! Haha last minute! One of our
companionships had a big problem and one didnt want to go back to the area.
For a couple days, they werent talking and the one just wanted to go home
(he's from Fiji). Well with that we decided to go with Christlike
Attributes, chapter 6 from PMG Charity and Love, Humility, and Patience. We
tied it in with our companionship relations. It went really well. We also
heard feedback from the District Leader that it helped that companionship a
lot and especially the one who wanted to go home. We really didn't really
prepare much, just read from PMG and tied it in...It went very good! We had
a really good activity also. We had a push up contest! There were 4 that did
it but 1 of the 4 would have a backpack full of things that was really
heavy. So the one companionship would do as many as they could and then the
other companionship. One would do really good, but then the other that had
the heavy backpack didn't do well. They all couldnt see each other either so
they didn't know what was going on. Well they need to talk about why the one
did so bad and what was the reason.  So gaining an understanding of the
others point of view and a long with the 3 attributes we talked about, it
went well together. So it was a good experience! The one on this island
happened on Tuesday.

WE met with Tupou and she is awesome! We are really hoping that she will be
strong through the time she is here and then when she goes to the ward in
Suva, she will really see a good and working ward! She is way good though!

We had two baptisms planned for last week, but because we have been gone so
much, we couldnt see them as often as we need to so we have to push it back.
We are going to see them tonight and will reset the baptism date.

Thursday, we went out to Taveuni, we drove about 1.5 hour or so, then we
rode the boat for 1.5 hour again.  It was the worse boat ride ever!! Haha.
The waves were so big and the boat was just going side to side and man, I
just tried to sleep so I wouldn't get sick! Haha the boat itself wasn't the
greatest either. We did the ZTM there in Taveuni when we got there, then we
worked with Elder Gardner the DL. That was fun, then Friday morning, took a
boat ride on a speed boat which was much better to Rabi. We had to take a
stove and chairs out there. Oh yeah on the ride out to Taveuni, we saw a
couple dolphins, I couldnt get a picture of them too haha they are too fast!
We didn't see them very well either. Anyway 2 hours on a boat and then
staying in the sun the whole time in Rabi, it's hot!! I got pretty red!!
That was my last visit to Rabi, it was fun, I would have loved to serve
there. We went with the Sherrys and they did a
little training with the leaders out there. After all that, we left back to
Taveuni. We got back and ate and slept! haha Exhausted! Saturday we took the
boat back to this island and Saturday was full of driving! We drove 250
something Ks so that's like 155 miles. We drove from Natuvu where you catch
the boat back to Savusavu, stopped in Savusavu for a bit, then had to drive
all the way to Labasa to do some interviews, and then drove all the way
back to Savusavu. Boy! Sick of driving! I drove that day too. So that day
was pretty shot. We found another new flat for the other two elders here so
we will be leaving  the purple mansion for good! Elder Hogge just came
again, he's the boss of the houses and all that stuff. He saw our drive way
and said thats a reason right there to leave the flat haha. So next month,
both of us will leave. It's a nice house, just right in town.


So yeah we are hoping to have a better week, we shouldn't be going anywhere
this week. So we are hoping to get some good work done. So that is about it
for the week.  I am getting a haircut today...All is well...Keep up the good
work back home....Thats about all I can think of about the week...SO love
you guys!! Have a good week!!

Elder Hansen




week 96


Hello family how’s it going? Sounds like a pretty normal week, nothing too much happened. Well this week for us was really busy and hectic!

We have not moved to the new flat yet. We will move in April and yeah hopefully I will just die here, no point in going somewhere just for a month. Just die here and have a big party when I leave! I’m ok with that. We are leaving the mansion because it is too big! Haha Its soo hard to keep clean. The new elders also want to move so I think we are just going to leave the mansion. We have a couple flats that we are looking at so we’ll see. Especially because it rained pretty much the whole week except Tupous baptism!! She prayed that it wouldn’t rain! Our driveway is like destroyed! It is so bad, the landlord is not going to fix to we will probably just move. Yeah it is pretty cool translating my patriarchal blessing in Fijian. Its hard though! A lot of words don’t translate so you need to think of another way to do it. I have only worked on it once this week, ha we barely did studies we were so busy. I am done with the first 3 paragraphs. 8 more to go! My shoulder is ok ha we don’t really work out much, when we are in town we try to, but lately we have been so beat that we just sleep and  wake up early. We usually wake up around 5-5:30.  Number of missionaries in our zone is 22, I believe...6 areas in Vanua Levu ,3 area in Taveuni, 1 in Rabi and 1 in Rotuma. So it’s good! We had 11 baptisms in our zone this week. We have 2 planned for this week but we might have to move to next week. We have been way busy we haven’t been able to go see them as much as we need to.

So yeah haha there is the answer to your questions! So let’s see here...here’s something funny, we went to Labasa and there was mac and cheese...we took the whole shelf...16 boxes...well we made 8 boxes of it for dinner with our Branch President and family. Haha it was a whole lot of mac & cheese! The funniest thing was that they did not like it at all!! We don’t really eat cheese here at all so they started eating it and they all gave up. Haha,  they hated it, it was so funny! President Vatu was the only one who ate their whole plate. It was funny. We had a bomb lesson with Tupou before her baptism. We just talked about standing up for what you know and we want to help her be strong and to gain knowledge. We talked about Lehi, Nephi and Abinidai, and how each of them had to stand up for what they knew and they were always blessed because of it. It was a way good lesson and she is awesome! I was so happy! She shared her testimony at the baptism and did awesome! She said that was the first time she has ever talked in front of people. Her parents don’t really approve, she is 23 and her dad is a member but less active. But she is always there walking by herself, but she gets to the chapel and there she has support and friends. She is already a good example to the members of the branch. Elder Moaalii and I almost dropped her but then she just started to pick up and now she is a perfect example fulfilling the Moroni challenge. She asks a lot of questions and most of them we answered back to Joseph Smith and the Restoration and The Book of Mormon. We taught about the priesthood and having to be baptized again like 5 times but she now understands...Its awesome! She is going to Suva to school there next month so she will be moving but she is going to Lami, which is an awesome ward so I’m not too worried...Just get the Elders there to visit her and it will be good.

The two elders are good here in Savusavu, one Elder Trent, who was in my district in Suva and one new one from New Zealand, he is weird, but it’s a really funny weird, I like him a lot. We have been helping them learn the area and meet members and all. So it’s been good.

We will be going to Taveuni this week so that will be fun! So yeah pops I’ll try to finish The Book of Mormon again, but it’s going to be hard, like I said we only studied for 3 days this week...it’s just been busy, but I’ll do my best!

You guys have a great week! Help the missionaries! Magnify your callings, help others to come closer to the Savior! Love you guys!!!
Dou vakacegu toka!

Elder Hansen

Mar 6, 2013

week 95


Ni bula vinaka na noqu matavuvale!!Well man Mother sounds like a stressful
week! Just come take a trip to Fiji and relax! Before I forget, answers to
questions...but first one question from me...are you guys still controlling
my Facebook, some members here want to add me, but they said they couldn't
find me...haha I just told them 2 months but I was just curious. So
yeah...my Book of Mormon reading, I just started it again. But I doubt I
will be able to finish it before I leave. I have been reading Jesus the
Christ too...I am in chapter 12..there is a lot to study. Preach My Gospel,
I tried to read every day...it's hard because we are gone and traveling so
much, we don't even study a few days in the week...like this week only 3
days we did studies ha so that's another difficulty with it. Access to
church handbooks is a yes. Every now and then when I'm at the chapel, I will
read some parts of it...haha I wish I had my own, so I could study it more.
Fijian, yes I write in it too. Write though is much different than
speaking...Writing is the very good proper Fijian but when you speak, you
leave out a lot of things. I have actually just started to translate my
patriarchal blessing in Fijian. I'm on the 2 paragraph haha trying to find
words to use is hard, you need to say it a different way to make sense in
Fijian, but it's going good so far. Reading in Fijian is way easy too. Yes I
have been very blessed with my companions. I just hear stories of comps hate
each other or whatever, but I have not once even come close to that...I'm
very grateful for that! So yeah I think that was all the questions. Oh my
relationship with President Klingler is doing good. He said that I was a
good steward for all the areas in my zone and being an example with my area
in my email today. We barely see him or talk to him though. As Zone Leaders
you do more than anyone, but even that, it's still not a lot... so yeah I'll
give you guys a brief thing for last week. Zone Conference went well...our
training went well about studies and  preparing to teach investigators.
President said he really enjoyed  it. The pacific area doctor and his wife
came also. He was a character.  His wife had a really good quote
though..."Obedience is  the opportunity to be blessed by the Lord." ha
simple eh?? Aps  training was about the balanced effort and how sometimes we
just do what needs to happen but how we need to get it to the next
level...to push ourselves...but that comes from one of 3 motivations 1) fear
of punishment 2) reward 3) Love.  Those 3 things are what  motivates us to
do things...we need to do things and do missionary  work because we love it!
It was a pretty good training.  Presidents training was a little slap in the
face haha he shared the scripture in 1 Corinthians when Paul talks about the
milk and meat.  A big part of why those missionaries got sent home was
because of  abuse of the phones.  He's warned the mission before, but after
that warning came out, for some reason, the number of phone calls and  text
and all went way up. So all his training was the milk. He went over the
phone rules. So yeah it was good though. I think our zone has been pretty
good, there has been 1 or 2 that have been on the line, but they are good
now. Our zone activity the night before went good too. I was so exhausted
after all this was done...ha I was beat! The Hogges came up last week also.
They are in the office and in charge of the vehicles, the housing and all
that stuff. They came to check out some flats. We found one of us that we
are going to  move into. We are leaving the mansion...ha it's too big!! Our
new  house is nice and just a small little thing and we are neighbors with
our branch president which is sweet. So the 2 that will come here will stay
in the mansion.  Oh yeah transfers came too...I am staying. Elder LeDoux and
I both. 2 areas in our zone opened  though...16 missionaries came today and
around 16 or so will come  in the next group. We are getting a ton! I have
another grandson! Haha Elder Vagarau is training and got transferred to
Taveuni so he's in my zone. So yeah we were just driving the Hogges all
around  this side of the island for like 2 days. Our Elders Quorum president
is a recent convert who just barely went through the temple which he
probably should have been a lot more prepared. He has an obsession of
dinosaurs and thought he was going to find out when dinosaurs were on the
earth in the temple. Ha that was an interesting conversation. Well anyways
yesterday in priesthood class, he asked me to go over some ordinances so I
did easy ones like the sacrament, baptism and confirmations. We also went
over the offices in the priesthood. Well the sacrament thing went way off!!
We were talking about how it doesn't really matter what you use  for the
bread and all like biskete or roti (tortilla) type of thing, then they
started going off on how if you use roti, you should say roti in the prayer,
it doesn't make sense to say bread but not have bread haha then it started
getting on the ingredients of the thing and whether it's something with
flour or  starch and man it just got hilarious.  The Terry's, The Wells, and
us were just dying trying to help them but man it was too good!  There are
some interesting people in our branch haa but I love them!! They are good
people. Hmmm what else...oh yeah our baptism went well! Beni is his
name...he's the man!! The service was a little hectic! Usually they would
pay a transport to take people to the river to do the baptism because it's
pretty far, but there is no money. We can't do that so  the 2 counselor guy
just straight up and called President Klingler and asked if we could use a
truck or give us money, haha what the heck man!!? So president Klingler
asked to talk to us and we told him what was  going on and told him we
didn't want to call him but that guy just called by himself and supposedly
he called the district president and asked if we could use fast offering
money to pay for the truck and the district president asked the Sherry's in
Taveuni and Elder  Sherry said NO!  Man it's been a headache working with
that one guy, but I don't know. He asked us what was more important the
money or the baptism? Elder LeDoux got pretty annoyed when he said that but
President  Klingler just said to pay for it out of your own money then we
will  give you back the money so that's what we did and now we just need to
plan with our branch what to do and where a closer place to have the
baptism because we have another one this week so we need to figure it out!!
Tupou will be baptized this week...she is 22 and she is awesome!!! We had a
bomb lesson with her yesterday and I really felt that she was ready. At
first it was pretty tough, but she's  been doing good reading and praying
and so we have witnessed the truth of Moroni's challenge to us...It was
awesome!  Our Zone Leaders Council was this past week too. It was pretty
good, we will go back to Suva on the 28th of March. That's our next meeting.
It's hard to explain now, but when I get home, remind me to  tell you about
smackin juice! Haha that's another reason why people  got sent home, so that
was one of the topics we talked about ha we saw presidents feelings about it
and he does not like it! He was just like drinking juice when you're thirsty
is ok but when you start  staying up the whole night and inviting the
sisters over that's when you get sent home!! It got dead silent! Ha it was
intense! So yeah it was a good meeting though. Transfers will happen on
Wednesday so we will need to go to Labasa to take and pick people up...Get
ready for our baptism this  week...It should be fun! So that is what's going
on here in Savusavu!  Its crazy, headache, but I love it! I have learned
what it means and how to love someone. I have felt my love for people
increase and you truly feel it! I have come to love the Fijian people so
much!  Some certain ones for sure! I love it! Well have a great week! Love
you guys!!!> Vakaukauwa tiko!!

Elder Hansen




Feb 27, 2013

week 94


Hello Everyone,

Shane was having issues with his computer today. He wrote a long email twice and both times as soon as he tried to send it the computer wiped out the email. He had a good week. He bore his testimony at his last zone conference this week. Reality is setting that he will be coming home soon! They have a baptism scheduled for this week and a few more in March. So all is well.

Right now his release date is May 9th but we have not received an official letter from the church. That is what he has been told. I have asked the bishop if he can speak on May 19th. So that is the plan for right now. I will let you know if anything changes.

Hope all is well with each of you. Hopefully there will be a longer email next week. Have a good week.

Love you all,

Joni

Feb 20, 2013

week 93


Bula vinaka my fmaily!!


Sounds like things are going well. We are going to Labasa after this for our
Zone Conference tomorrow. Tonight will be the zone activity but our
volleyball picnic didn't get approved. So we are having a small dinner in
the evening and then playing 2 games. It should be pretty fun. Then tomorrow
will be our conference. We have our training ready and all. It will be my
last zone conference...haha weird. So I heard from Elder Inu, my MTC comp,
that he thought that our date to leave is May 9th. I am not 100 percent
positive, but that could be it...so yeah FYI.
So that second picture I sent you is pretty cool eh?? haha That guy has been
hookin us up! So I think this week I might buy a couple other things from
him...Anything you guys want??
So I was talking to the elders from Tamavua and Wailoku, my last area, They
are tearing up!!! They are doing awesome! There have been like 3 or 4 people
I think that I taught there that has been baptized! Its awesome! I was
stoked when I heard that! When we got there, it was DEAD! So I was very
happy!
This week we were in the area the whole week! We had 19 lessons this week!
Very good week! Our baptisms are still planned. Tupou was sketch, because of
her parents, she thought they would get mad, but she asked and they said yes
and then at church, she was like so what day can I get baptized?  Haha we
were happy. We still need to work with her on a couple things to help her be
very firm and what not. So we are still planning to have at least 4 baptisms
in March, hopefully 6, but we are still working with the other two. It's
been busy! We have also been helping our Branch President with his tithing
settlement and 4th quarter reports from last year.  It's been tough because
we don't know how MLS works either! Luckily Elder Terry has been able to
help us. Man, this District with money is not so good!! The Senior couples
have been very busy and stressed trying to get all this stuff figured out.
The auditors are coming out this next week so I am sure there will be some
investigations. The Senior couples are HUGE!!! On this island a lot of
people have no idea what or how to do things.  So that's another challenge
on this island because as missionaries a lot of times you need to be there
to help. Our branch president is awesome though. He was called last August
or September and he doesn't give the check book to anyone. He is changing
things to how its supposed to be done.  So every now and then within the
week we go over to help them. He is also head of security at one of the
shopping places here and they have just begun a huge investigation with a
robbery. So he has been involved with that too so we know he has a lot on
his shoulders, so we try to help him as much as we can.. Hes the man!
I finished reading Doctrine and Covenants on Saturday...I achieved my goal!
I was looking back 2 weeks ago and i thought I wasnt going to be able to
finish it  but then just last week I was really close.  So yeah it was
awesome. I want to go into Jesus the Christ a bit and start again the Book
of Mormon.
Well, my Mother, our service we had planned got cancelled! So I had to
adjust and we were at the flat a lot of the day that day, doing studies and
cleaning a bit but what I did was just really thanked and showed how
grateful we were for this member who has been an awesome help with 2 of our
investigators this couple, Orisi and Seriani.  So it wasn't how I wanted it
to be, but it was something small and I felt like he appreciated it...So
yeah. Haha.
Well I believe that is all! We are going to eat lunch after this and then
head to Labasa...Hope you guys have a good week! Tell pops I say hi! Things
are going good! Its weird how fast time flies...just about
2 more months...I was thinking back to my first area and how clueless I was
and how much I thought I knew  but how much I really didnt know!
I've definitely seen the growth! Love you guys! Take it easy! kalougata
tiko!
Elder Hansen


Feb 13, 2013

week 92


Ni bula vinaka! Well we had a great week this week! Our whole zone had a
very good week! We were in our area this whole week and we got some good
things done. We did have to go to Labasa once...so that was it, but it was
only a few hours. Im not sure if Ill be transferred or not.  I am having
mixed feelings right now. I want to because it would be cool to go to
another area, since I only have 4 haha and if I did, it would be sweet to go
to the Suva zone leaders area.  But I would be really happy also if I didn't
because work is picking up and we are planning for a few baptisms in March
so it would be sweet and the members here are really cool...So either way,
Ill be happy! There are a lot of missionaries that worry about the
transfers, they will have transfer list for months and months with their
guesses and what not, but for me its whatever, haha, whatever happens, the
Lord is in charge so it will all work out! I got the box! Thank you! Man I
ate one of those valentine cakes...It was hard to eat! Really sweet! haha
You dont really eat sweets here, so if I eat a lot of them, I cant eat very
much of it. It was awesome though... thank you.

Well lets see....This week we had 5 new invesitgators and 4 people at church
this week! We have 3 kids from Vunivesi and 2 Rabians that live with our
branch president. So we are getting quite a bit now. They have all been to
church too which is awesome. We have a goal for 5 baptism dates this week.
Orisi and Seriana are two we got last week. Haha man...one of our lessons
with them this week was so hard!! We were in the lesson and 3 of the kids
were crying their heads off and running around all over the place.  It would
get quiet and then loud again, it was hard to teach. Then all of a sudden we
had chickens running around in the middle of us! Haha it was hectic! They
are pretty good though.  We have a really good member who helps them a lot.
So it's good. The 3 kids, are very shy and dont talk a lot.  They go to
church every week though and the members there help them also.  Ah
man...Tupou...she came to church again! We met with her earlier in the week
and we were teaching about baptism and the covenant we make. We were sharing
from Mosiah 18 and how it talked about comforting others, being a witness
until death and then it said if this be the desires of your heart, why wont
you be baptized type of thing. So we asked her, is this what you want in
your life, do you want to make this covenant with Heavenly Father? She said
yeah...I mean YES...I do. Then I committed her to be baptized and there was
a pause...Long pause. Then she said I have to be baptized again? She was
already baptized in the AOG church. WE said yes and she said why? ahhh man!!
We have talked with her about the authority and what not mulitple times, and
we felt like she understood, but she brought it up again...haha so close!!
So we are still working with her slowly. She is a very good investigator.
The zone has 17 baptism dates and 21 new investigators this past week.  It
was awesome! I guess last week the whole mission had 101 new investigators.
That's awesome! So its moving! 20 more missionaries will be coming in March
and I think the next group after that is close to 20. There are going to be
a ton of missionaries here.

So there was a tsunami warning here on Wednesday.  We were dropping the
Terrys off in Labasa and on the way the warning came. It was called off
though. We got excited but yeah nothing happened. Zone Conference is this
next week. We will be going to Labasa. We want to do a zone activity on
Monday. Go to Labasa and play volleyball and have a picnic. Then in the
evening have a zone jepordy game...Winner gets a cake! Haha.  So we need to
get the approval from President so hopefully he does. If he does, it's going
to be way fun! We are doing a training on studies...different ways to study
and effective ways to prepare ourselves to teach our investigators. We have
a little white board and for all the trainings, we just write our ideas on
the board. It's pretty full right now, so we start putting it together this
week. It should be pretty good. I am also in D&C 107 in my reading ...So
that is going good.

We had a good sunday school class last week from the Lorenzo Snow book.  I
cant remember the title of the chapter. It was about our destiny and who we
can become. It was way good. It's amazing to read and know all the promises
He promises us and how much it SHOULD inspire us to keep the commandments
and do all he says. Something that I was thinking about is how all of those
things we can become needs to be locked up in our mind and in our heart. We
need to know deep down inside of us all they are true and He will always
fulfill his word. If we do what he says...He will give us all that He says
He will give us.  That should really help us to do the right things. So that
was something I really learned is who we are truly and who we can become.
Not just a wish or a cool thought but it can become a reality. So yeah I
challenge all of us to think about that often! The more we think about it,
the more we will want to do the right things!

Well love you guys! Thanks for all the support and your examples to me! Have
a great week! Be happy! Find time to study the scriptures!
Its worth it! Kalougata tiko!

Elder Hansen