week 99

Hello family! Once again sorry I am late! We have been cleaning and moving

today. We still have some things to move and clean, but we are excited for

our move! Its very small, but we feel its going to be very nice! I also

forgot my planner that has things I want to tell you so forgive me if its

kind of short today! Thats sweet you went with the Muirs, haha they are just

being nice! They are good people! I am glad to hear you got tickets too from

Tremea.  I told him thank you for you. I am excited to meet his

parents...hes the man! Uhhh what day is/was easter?? None of us know...haha

shows you how we celebrated it! The package was good! The eggs held up

really good. Haha I was surprised. Well, like I said today is moving day, so

we have just been doing that.

Tupou leaves for Suva tomorrow. She will be going to school, we are very

excited for her though. She is doing good!

We will be having 2 baptisms in Vunivesi this week. We are excited for that!

They are awesome! 9 and 10 years old. Our zone had 4 baptisms this last

week. So its going pretty good, one area is giving us a headache.  We have

talked to them 3 times and 3 weeks in a row its been the same thing with

their numbers so I think President is just going to call them. We also had a

great Sunday in Vunivesi, we have 2 receive the priesthood! Aisake who is 15

and Semi, the one I baptized before...our 2nd baptism here...big hair guy.

Well he's been reading about the priesthood and stuff and read that they

should be clean dressed and all so he completely cut all of his hair!! Haha

man it's awesome!! I gave him the priesthood. I think that was the first

time I have ever done it and especially the first time in Fijian...haha It

was cool! I had to teach our branch president how to do it in Fijian. It was

good though! There is one more we are working with to receive it...Beni who

we just baptized not too long ago. So that was way good!

We had to go to Labasa for interviews last week and we need to go again

tomorrow for another interview. So we have been doing some traveling. We are

having our Zone Training Meeting on Thursday here in Savusavu and then there

is a Trainers/Trainee meeting on Friday for all those who are training. So

back to back meetings. We are doing our training on Diligence...Just having

that excitement and urge to work! To get things done on time...Studies on

time and leave the flat by 1 and dont come back until 9! Planning how to

fill your day with effective activities so fill up those hours. So we are

excited for it, we have some good ideas..

Our Zone Leaders Council was good also. We went to Suva on Thursday and came

back on Friday. Just a short trip. It was pretty good, we talked about

always being positive. So for these meetings all the ZLs pick a topic to

bring up and discuss on behalf of their zone and also the mission as a

whole. Our topic this time was always being positive. Sometimes we try so

hard to find a problem in the zone and then it seems worse than it really is

so we just talked about always being positive! It went good! I really liked

Sister Klinglers training. I think this one was one of my favorites of hers.

She talked about Charity and Love. But one of my favorite parts of it was

from a scripture in Moroni 10:32-33. A phrase that really hit was "deny

yourselves from all ungodliness". We talked about what that meant and what

not and we had a really good discussion! Anything that takes our mind away

from the gospel or that distracts us in our progression just drop it! Dont

do it! We need to have that mind set that we will not do anything ungodly.

As we study and learn the gospel it helps us with this...As we become more

mature in the gospel our view of ungodliness enhances. I have definitely

seen this with me! I think of things back home before and to me they were

not a big deal, oh well type of thing, but now, it's changed. I understand

why those things are ungodly...big things and little things...So the more we

mature and grow in the gospel, those things will naturally become ungodly to

us. It was pretty cool!

I also had a good study out of the Book of Mormon. Sorry Dad, there is no

way I'll be able to finish it again. Haha.  I just read 1 Nephi 16 about the

broken bow. They face a hard time right there, they couldn't get food, they

were all complaining except Nephi, he had faith and relied on the Lord to

provide help for them. What do you know?? Nephi pulls through again and

makes a bow and gets food! Nephi understood what would happen if he

complained like everyone else or if he relied on the Lord. We all know that

the Lords way is the best way so we should not complain. Richard G. Scott

said something like the trials we face in our life that dont come from

disobedience, is the Lord showing us that we have something to learn or an

opportunity to grow. In order for us to grow, we have to be stretched and

that usually includes pain and discomfort (which I am feeling in my legs!)

haha but yeah it was really good! I am still reading it, its just hard

because somedays we dont even do studies and this week we have been studying

for our training.

Uhh, I am trying to think what else I was going to tell you that I wrote on

my planner...my bad! So yeah things are going good! The last 6 weeks just

going to push push and push! Keep trying to get our branch a little more

organized and trained and with our missionaries just get the attitude of

work! WORK WORK WORK! Just finish strong! I really like the scripture from 1

Chronicles 28 i think 8-9 or 9-10 maybe I can't remember. It's when Solomon

was called to build the temple and it says to know and serve God and to know

the we have been chosen and to be strong and do it! Nike..."just do it"

haha. So yeah things are going good! President is good. Our zone is doing

good, we are happy! So yeah all is well here! Have a great week! If i forgot

to tell you anything I will tell you next week. I will try to send some

pictures today too. So love you guys! Moce!

Elder Hansen

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

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

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

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 9^th 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 19^th. 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

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