tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66835645324214998712024-03-05T03:50:10.659-08:00Elder Hansen in HondurasSan Pedro Sula East Mission
Hansen Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07796585840766023057noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683564532421499871.post-76809106001270284642016-03-13T14:13:00.003-07:002016-03-13T14:13:43.979-07:00
March 12, 2016<br />
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Ok, the answers! Yes, everybody was thrilled to see me. </div>
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And speaking of that-meeting the people-I´ve always said
that I wouldn´t return to honduras but I´ve totally changed my mind. You all
want to come here? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>Thanks for the camera. It will be put to good use, I´m
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And holy cow. So busy. But I love it. No time for getting
baggy. We finally finished the multizones and we are doneeeeeee. Huge burden
lifted off my back. They all turned out great though. Super spiritual, well run
(there were some technology hiccups on the second multizone but the substance
of the meeting still was excellent). The little workshops my comp and I had to
give included a recent convert that just got endowed giving a little spiel and
a question and answer session focused on the book of mormon and how to use it
as a missionary tool. But I love being busy. Going to bed at 10 being dead
tired and then waking up at 5:30 to get everything ready. And then, all of a
sudden, everything wraps up and we´re just regular missionaries and we can
enjoy living with 6 people and its a blast. We have a lot of fun. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There´s always issues between 6 people but I get along with
everybody. I just need to be more patient and less uptight with the
secretaries. Mission secretaries always have a reputation for being incompetent
and its not always far off. The one exception is the financial secretary, the
vegas kid, he´s solid and works like crazy. It just stresses me though when
stuff doesn´t get done-like, literally, you have ONE job and had a month to do
it and put it off til the last minute and didn´t get it done. It´s a work in
progress. But we have fun, lots of practical jokes and board games. Throw having
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<span style="font-size: small;">And the office boys. Our house. The AP´s (us) and the
secretaries. From left to right-Ruelas (from Lake Placid, Florida, now lives in
TX), Hansen, Aldrich (From Vegas), Solis, Perez (from El Salvador), and Ramirez
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Solis - He´s my second comp
from Costa Rica. Basically after the mission I have places to stay in a steady
route from mexico to costa rica. And driving is a BLAST. first, many of the
roads are dirt so drifting around corners is a plus (The mission gets a new car
in july so I don´t feel too bad about it). Second, everyone drives crazy and
you just have to be real aggressive. I´m cutting and weaving and cutting people
off but here that´s how you avoid accidents. And there are never wrecks because
everyone is on high alert while driving instead of texting and eating and
reading the paper in your car like back in the states. Plus theres always like
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I just feel good about life. I feel comfortable in my
personality and how I do stuff and I like who I am, even though there´s a whole
lot I need to improve. I also really need to improve my patience, I used to be
so patient and tranquil but I think being AP has made me a little short. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And yes, we deal with problems on the daily. Not big
problems but yes, no doubt. Had to send a missionary home today, early, but it
ended up being a good experience for him and he´s got hope. I was able to talk
to him a little bit and share a little of my history and it was a good
chat. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>And I´m gonna take curtis down as soon as I walk in the
door. Establish real quick that I´m still the alpha around here. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>And our ward is great. Its a small but very effective ward.
there´s also a big group of single adults that are older and have flexible
schedules that help us out in the work alot. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>Our investigators-my two favorites right now are still Flor
and her son Brayan, and Jose Machado. Things are just clicking, they like the
doctrine, see changes in their lives, do the things we ask them to do-Jose
keeps on attending institute and surprised us the other day asking us to
explain vicarious work and he loved the idea. I also gave a couple blessings
this week, one of them to my comp-he had been really sick all of a sudden, just
zika symptoms (which is actually a huge deal here) and not even 5 minutes after
the blessing he was just fine. I don´t know when I´ll actually get it in my
head that priesthood blessings actually work. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Also, the coffee. Coffee unroasted just smells kind of sour.
Not real attractive haha. Plus it always comes into the co op wet and their job
is dry it and re sell it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyways, that was my update! I´ll be on for a little while
longer if you all want to chat. I´m thrilled that everyone is doing so well
though! Time is flying but its time to see the family. You and Dad are looking
great too, you look younger than when I left. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Love you all! <o:p></o:p></div>
Hansen Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07796585840766023057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683564532421499871.post-727116643175225082016-03-13T14:02:00.003-07:002016-03-13T14:02:57.054-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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March 7, 2016</div>
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love this place so much (LaCeiba)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and the best part was is that I went out and visited with
navas as well, just a regular ol walk down memory lane. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Also, here´s another funny picture from our little roadtrip
to Ceiba. I think they forgot he was back there and took off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Hansen Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07796585840766023057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683564532421499871.post-52463160859970326552016-03-13T13:55:00.000-07:002016-03-13T13:55:04.959-07:00
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March 5, 2016</div>
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So, I have very little time to
write, because after getting back from Ceiba last night at 10 after a multizone
and visiting people and bringing fridge to missionaries houses, we woke up and
decided to go to morazan. So I got to to visit some of my old people again! I
loved it. Felt like home. Loved seeing the people. Here are the pictures from
Morazan. Pictures from Ceiba will come on monday, Ill have time to write then. <br />
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Also, ceiba was excellent
because I got to see my converts and all the people I love so much there and
spend time with them, and it was great because I could see all the fruits of my
labor that I couldn´t see at the moment. People that had gone back to church or
that are getting sealed that I had worked so much with. Really gratifying. And
people gave us so much food. And they were tickled with the visits because
missionaries always say they´re going to visit and then never do. I´ll fill you
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Oh, and the multizone went flawlessly.
I was so happy with the results because it was my first time and there is a ton
of work that goes into it but it turned out well. two more and then I´m done
til the next set rolls around! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Love you all!<o:p></o:p></div>
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And yup, you could say I am the
big cheese now. AP 1, right hand man, all that good stuff. Just hoping my head
doesn't get too big. I've learned that my job isn't really all that much work
(except when I'm in my area like a regular missionary) but what it really is is
being able to be trusted when it really matters. I may not do anything for a
couple of weeks except make reports and go on divisions with zone leaders and
then all of a sudden (this week, for example) we have three multizone
conferences throughout the mission and I'll be training and speeching and
organizing everything from catering to the handouts. And giving my real frank
opinions to president Klein. I've learned so much by working closely with
President Klein. <o:p></o:p></div>
As far as our people go-we
haven't been able to find Fanny! Their house is all closed up, and I'm bummed.
But Flor and Brayan are progressing wonderfully and are made for the gospel.
Their home has made a 180 turn and its things like that that keep me on the
mission-seeing the real changes in families. Brayan told his mom (flor) that he
loved her for the first time in his young adult life the other day. We havn't
even taught anything about the family, but we just get them feeling the spirit
and the spirit does the rest. We also found a new investigator that is
excellent, his name is Jose, and we found him because he was already attending
institute on his own...talk about solid. We've had 2 lessons and he went to
institute again and to a movie night we threw in the chapel. He gets things and
just wants to learn and learn and has accepted baptism. He's talked about how
he's tried other churches and nothing else has filled him or given him answers.
One of those honest truth seekers. And we had a ward movie night yesterday and
watched The Other Side of Heaven and it made me baggy as heck but everybody
loved it. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Also, this week Solis and I will be roadtripping! We'll be
driving to ceiba for the first multi zone and we'll get to visit converts. He
served in the area pegged up to las colinas so we'll drive around visiting
everybody and I'm pumped! <o:p></o:p></div>
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And about Curtis. Partly its
the age, I pretty much quit reading the scriptures from 16-18 apart from
seminary and I'm turning out alright. He'll be just fine. Just look at all the
kids in our ward that didn't do jack squat when they were young and now they're
great missionaries. And In the mission I've known so many missionaries that
couldn't tell matthew from malachai and they turn out being super solid. And
its the kids that start out super strong that fizzle out later on, thats
another thing I've seen on the mission. I think the important thing is that you
don't push him too much. He'll grow to resent it and associate spiritual things
with force and obligation and nobody wants that. Plus you all are just good
solid parents and teach by example and have fun while doing it so I wouldn't
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Hi Kate! How's Aaron? You still
haven't told me where you went camping! How fluent are you in spanish? We'll
have to have a good chat with srta ohl. Howd you end up making friends in
waterford lakes? <o:p></o:p></div>
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big fan of his .22! Where are you going shooting?<o:p></o:p><br />
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And I'm glad sunburst is going
well, at least in Orlando! Where are the sales coming from lately? Do we get
the villages or is that Tampa? <o:p></o:p></div>
Also, a little request. I no longer have a functioning
camera. The cheap camera I bought in Roatan finally kicked the bucket. Think
you could send me a basic point and shoot? I'd like to finish my mission with
lots of pictures haha. <o:p></o:p><br />
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And I love you all very much.
Not a whole lot of time left! Also loved the pictures and everyone is looking
so big and adult. <o:p></o:p><br />
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I do! His name is Elder Solis and he's another from Costa
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And Hodson, good old riley. We saw his plane go off and
everything, the airport is right next to our area. He was kind of all of the
above. Pretty calm about it though. He's just gonna go bum around for a few
months, and then move to idaho for the summer to date his girlfriend, and then
start school in a community college in Vegas. </div>
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On housing, I don't know. Just find me an apartment, I don't
wanna miss out on housing waiting around on Tobler. Let me know when you have
some good options and I'll look them up. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And Sarah, ya gotta tell us how the church ranch kid turned
out. My buddy Gillens has family that work on the ranch, maybe they know
eachother. Also, tell Irish hi for me, Irish she was my girlfriend. But gosh
dang it dark haired girls are looking attractive. Really at this point any girl
is looking attractive. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>And yes! Get that garden growing! We gotta make good use of
our land and follow the prophet and all that, I say you just keep on
planting. Also, I don't know what we're doing wrong, because Honduras oranges
are way better than florida oranges. I'm gonna bring back seeds with me. How
are the chickens? As soon as I get my own house I'm getting chickens and a
garden and running a cow if there's room. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sterlings getting the ruger? I still reccomend the wood, its
just classier. They're pricey though arent they? Its a great gun. Have you
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And Dad, you better believe I'm planning on the roadtrip!
Nice and slow. Take our time. Visit Rhys. How cheap is gas? That sounds like a
dream come true and I just hope gas prices are slightly highter in a couple
years for my future oil and gas career! I do definitely plan on taking the
truck out but if I happen to come across a good deal on an older toyota or an
early 2000's silverado I'd probably take it. And if gas prices stay low I can
buy whatever the heck I want, Ill go buy my dodge back! I think I'm pretty sold
on the fords though, my little truck has been real good to me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Provo job-no idea. Any ideas? I'd plan to work the first
year but I also plan to make a killing on the summer job and not have to work
during the school year. But we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>How's seminary going? I did like the story from 2
kings last week. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyway, here's a little update. Had a really good week in
spite of Hodson leaving and all that. Now that Hodson is gone and I'm AP 1 and
training Solis I'm forced to do everything for myself. I've always been that
way, I can't learn until I have to figure it out for myself. But I've got it
now. I'm just being a good AP and it feels good. I'm on top of things (who ever
would have thought that organizational skills would have been one of my
strongpoints) , good ideas, and things are just going well for me. I have
definitely had some divine help though, the whole "weaknesses becoming
strengths" thing from Ether 12 is so true. I love being AP though because
it keeps life interesting. Still get to do lots of missionary/proselyting work
but I get to break it up with lots of office/administrative type stuff. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And Fernando and Fanny are doing great. We had another great
lesson with Fanny and she got an answer to her prayers and she said that she
just felt a "knowing", just a quiet sense of peace and comfort and
she took it as her answer. She's great and just radiates light and just looks
like a Mormon. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Also, another one of our investigators named Magnor, big guy
that's like the spanish version of Kent, was at his job guarding bananas
(seriously, he's a security gaurd guarding banana fields and I really don't
understand the theft risk) and one of his co-workers had a book of Mormon so
they started talking about it and then another co-worker came over and started
critizing the mormons so old Magnor just opens up to a chapter we had read with
him and his family the other day and shares the story of captain Moroni just
macheting the heck out of this guy telling him that we teach good things and
that we teach of God and of families and how Captain Moroni is a good example
of the kind of men we should be. I have no idea how he found the chapter and he
was like "I didn't even know what I was looking for I just opened the book
and the words came out of my mouth!" Just a little funny story but I hope
it strengthened his faith a little bit. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But yeah, life is good here. We have a fun house and you can
not imagine the tomfoolery that goes around in that house with a bunch of
mormon boys and no alcohol. We've got kids from Las Vegas, Bolivia, Florida,
Florida (Thats right, another kid from Florida!!!), Costa Rica, and El
Salvador. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyways. We're gonna go play pingpong with our EQ's
president and then go off to work. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>How's sunburst doing? and North Carolina branch? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyways, love you all! <o:p></o:p></div>
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February 13, 2016<br />
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First, answering the questions! Tobler´s name is Christian,
we haven´t been together in the misison since the CCM but he´s cool and we get
along. We would be good roommates. I just know its on the north side near the
stadium. Kinda far but I would be driving. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Second, it has been cold!! I
have been in hog heaven. Loving it!. It dipped down to 60 degrees one night and
there were a few moments when it started to sprinkle and it was windy and I
actually was cold. <o:p></o:p></div>
Where did Kate go camping? I´m
impressed. And yes, Sarah´s friend isn´t too bad! But who´s the spanish one on
the right? And that´s the great thing about the west-limitless public land,
just go! Although I´ve heard that some fools in Utah and other western states
want to sell public land, and that would be the end of everything good about
the west. Then everything gets put under lock and key and say goodbye to cheap
grazing and open hunting and fishing and camping and hiking. As for shooting
places that aren´t ranges...no idea except ocala. Ask Jason. You just gotta
know somebody. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Send me strawberry pictures,
that´s always fun! <o:p></o:p></div>
And I don´t have a new
companion yet but I don know who he is-he´s another from Costa Rica and I´m
pumped. <o:p></o:p><br />
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And yes, I remember well Lorna
Strang! And I feel bad for not visiting her more often, good for you all! Do it
more often, and tell her I said hi. <o:p></o:p></div>
And yeah, I talk to Orrin every
week. He´s got a broken foot right now. <o:p></o:p><br />
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How are politics looking? <o:p></o:p></div>
And that garage entrance looks
good, holy cow! Profesional level. That might not be too bad of a business,
stuff like that is just starting to catch on in the east and I imagine lots of
people would want it? <o:p></o:p><br />
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And you guys bought her the car right? Good for you all.
Also really glad to hear how well seminary is going. That´s actually one of the
really strong things here in honduras and it makes such a big difference. I´m
gonna look for those scriptures, I´ve never heard of that story. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Why don´t you have any wood??
Nor a garden??<o:p></o:p></div>
And sterling! Gun questions-I
would reccomend the wood stock just because it looks way better. And it will
weigh a little more and the gun will be more accurate. If you can afford it the
ruger 10/22 is an excellent gun and is a classic and one of the best 22´s that
they make. Noah has or had one, you should ask him how he likes it. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Here´s my week. I had a really
good week actually. I´d been kind of in a spiritual rut. You all know me, I´ve
always struggled to be spiritual and to feel stuff so this week I had been
fasting for an investigator and to get myself out of the rut and it worked-we
had an excellent week. We did divisions a few times, inviting zone leaders to
our area, and the week was full of just small, little miracles. This week I talked
less, let the spirit talk more, and just testified more than anything and let
the people pay attention to how they feel and then they naturally follow their
feelings. Keep it simple, keep it loving, and get members involved and
everything goes well. There´s just so much energy in the mission right
now-everything is picking up and the work is spreading and all of the
missionaries are having miracles in the people they teach and it´s exciting.
Our new focus of the mission is working-focusing on personal revelation and
going to the temple. The highlight of this week was finding Fernando and Fanny
(its actually a really common name here, don´t laugh). We´d talked with Fanny
when we were teaching her brother and long story short we got an appointment
and I show up with my buddy Elder Solano from California. We had an excellent
lesson, and we talked about things like God´s plan, the eternal nature of the
family, how to recieve revelation, how to change our lives, things like
that-all very relaxed, not rushed, with lots of testifying-and at the end we
kneeled with the family and listen to the father, Fernando, pray. And we
visited them yesterday with a couple friends that they have that are super
active members and it´s just going along wonderfully. And then on thursday I
was on divisions in Progreso with Elder Patterson (he´s the one who´s the son
of the TCU coach) and in our last appointment we taught a guy named Carlos. We
had to walk through the nastiest hood I´ve seen in Honduras (I hate progreso,
so glad I´ll never have to serve there) passing by gangsters on every corner,
but we made it to his house without getting robbed so no worries. We had a
great lesson with Carlos, full of the spirit, about the law of chastity. He
lives with his ¨house companion¨ who´s an older woman who gets drunk every day
and just criticizes him all day long for having a drug problem. We taught about
baptism and we were like ¨look, you guys have to get married or seperate if you
want to get baptized¨ And Carlos just looked at us, though, and then just
testified about the gospel and how he is going to make changes in his life and
said, in short, ¨I need to follow Christ. What we are doing here isn´t correct.
I want to do the right thing and be baptized, so, we will be splitting up¨. It was
great and the spirit was felt by all. This stuff happens every week, just the
difference is that this week, with a little divine help, I´ve been able to feel
more and appreciate more the things that happen. <o:p></o:p></div>
Also, the other day I was
studying about Adam Ondi Ahman and the new jerusalem and all, and I was
thinking-¨what would happen if I married a woman and then the prophet calls us
to zion and she doesn´t want to go?¨ I need to look for a wife that´s gonna
follow the prophet. I sure have my share of sins and imperfections but when the
prophet or the Lord speaks, I go. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Anyway, times a tickin. Love
you all! And I´ll be able to talk apartments on monday when Tobler gets me the
hookup. <o:p></o:p></div>
Love you all!<o:p></o:p><br />
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It did get here fast! Now that I've spent a little time in
the office I've come to realize that the slowness isn't the governments fault
for once haha. <o:p></o:p></div>
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BYU housing-no idea. All my friends in the mission are going
to USU or the U or other colleges in Utah. I don't have a clue who I'd room
with! And I'm not opposed to an apartment. Save money. As long as its not a
total dump. And being with sophomores is just fine. The kids my age are married
haha. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I'm excited to see pictures of this stoneworking thing!
sounds pretty cool. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And no, Hodson still has a week left. We are super busy but
I was still more stressed as a zone leader. Maybe I'm just in my rythm. The
secretaries have a car and we drive it a couple times a week. They made a
policy change on a worldwide level and now the APs don't travel as much, they
just bring zone leaders to them so the zone leaders learn from the example of
the area of the APs. And It sucks! I was so excited to go visit all of my old
areas. I'll still have the chance but not as much as I was hoping for. So yeah,
we definitely have an area and our job is to have the best area in the mission
and be able to use it as a training ground for zone leaders. I like what I do
though. I'm doing my best to break the whole stuck up pharasaiacal reputation
of APs. Last night we had Navas and his new companion come down and we did
divisions in our area and had a blast. Focus of the mission is on preaching
repentence and getting people to the temple. We're kind of on a back-to-basics
kick and I'm a big pusher of it. Keep it simple. Book of Mormon and revelation.
We're having all the missionaries re-visit the training courses we do in the
first 12 weeks on the mission. Not trying to reinvent the wheel. <o:p></o:p></div>
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These past couple of weeks have been a blur. I really can't
recall much-old Vidal is doing great and loving his calling and he got the
priesthood the other day, and we have a baptism for next saturday. The members
are great and they work. We have a very effective ward. And yes, I'm always
focused. Always baggy but it doesn't hold me back! I'm gonna buy a journal so I
can start journaling again. Nothing crazy happened this week. We had a zone
leader meeting in pico bonito back in la ceiba and I directed the meeting in
jeans and a tshirt out in the jungle and it was the best meeting we've ever
had. We are always still in the same-invite people to change, get them to read
the book of mormon and feel it's power, get them to pray and feel something
from above, and get them to open their minds and their hearts a little bit. We
also have had a couple funerals this week. And gosh dang it I almost cried in
one of them. Young mother in the ward passed away and I watched her husband
explain to their six year old son over the casket what had happened. Really
makes you appreciate the gospel and the security it brings us. We get content
and casual until something shakes us up and makes us see the eternal picture.
And then the other one wasn't quite as sad because it was an older lady that
had been sick for a long time but her granddaughter was all alone when she died
and didn't have any other number to call but ours so we went to her house and
helped arrange the body and funeral operations and called up the members to
help and pay for a funeral. The church really mobilizes here, it's nice. Some
units here get really stingy and forget the reason that we pay fast offerings
and the reasons the wards recieve a budget. so, it was a first time experience
for me dealing with a body and finding a coffin with a family that has no
money. And then we spent a couple hours just talking with the granddaughter
giving her a little love and support out on lawn chairs in the lawn. This life
isn't the end! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I think that's all I got for you all. Love you all!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nothing too exciting this week actually! Did divisions
twice, just lots of traveling and being out of the house. Here´s some answers
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Yes, packages go to the mission office and then get
distributed. We live in the house with 6 elders, from Florida, Vegas, Vegas,
Colorado, Bolivia, and El Salvador. Hodson goes home the 16th or 17th of
february, something like that-he´s done basically. It´ll be fun because I´ll
basically get to choose my next comp and I´ve narrowed it down to two! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> a</o:p>nd I sure hope Sarah gets that job! i think that would be a
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<o:p> </o:p>As for your talk...just for some scattered thoughts...I´m
really pulling up blanks here. It´s just that everybody has to follow those
steps! I can´t think of anything in specific. As far as us taking the step
towards God-Heavenly Father is accesible only through his son-and every time
that Christ preached in the new testament his was always an invitation to come
unto him-we have to take that first step. So many people here are just waiting
to ¨be touched¨ or waiting ¨to be called by God¨ and they end up waiting a long
time because that´s not how it works. In a way though, he does touch people-He
prepares people without taking away their agency. He sends missionaries, gives
people trials, and lets them feel the light of christ when they see something
religious. Becoming as a child. Obviously not childish, but childlike. Just
like the scripture says, as a child submits to his father-not that we are
childish but rather that we are willing to put God´s will in front of our own
will. A boy does what a boy wants to do, and a man does what God wants him to
do. Overcoming the natural man. We have a new investigator this week named
carlos that´s pretty heavy into drugs but wants to change. We talked alot about
the natural man and how to beat it. We told him it would be a long process and
that he would have to win gradually, step by step. We explained that inside of
him are two men-the spiritual man and the natural man, and they are in a
constant fight and will be until the resurrection. And we told him that the man
that wins is the man that gets fed more. Meaning, if we feed the natural man
more than the spiritual man, he wins. The spiritual man is fed by scripture
study, prayer, temple, service, family, etc. Hope you can find something good
in my other baptism experiences, can´t really think of anything more
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That´ll be fun having grandma and grandpa there. You all
have to go and do something fun! What´s sterling gonna get for his birthday?
Also glad that Kendall and Dottie and doing well. I saw some news the other day
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I'm real glad the boys are on the river. Technically they
could get in trouble but it's extremely unlikely that they will have any
problems.What they could get in toruble for is not having a license! You need
to get them to take that hunters safety course ASAP! And as for the river It's
just St. Johns River Water Management district land and its a conservation
buffer. It's not like they're hunting in a state park. I wouldn't have any
problem with it. But boys, first of all, what are you hunting for? If you're
hunting deer you better not be doing it with a .22. Just don't shoot any bears
or bobcats or otters, stick to squirrels and deer and turkeys. But you gotta
eat it! One of the funnest times I had out there back when I was real young
with Jesse and Hyrum and I think Jason is when we went out on a winter morning
and caught some bass and shot some squirrels and ate them back at Julies. And
as to the moral side...I did it when I was their age. Now, I wouldn't. But boys
will be boys, just make sure they're not gonna do anything sick and they're not
just blasting stuff. If they're actually hunting and not just killing i'd be
fine with it. But when I get back from the mission I'm just gonna hunt deer and
let the small stuff alone. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And yes! Lots of oranges here and they cost 2 lempiras which
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How's the new installer? And I'll get you some house
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And I played the mission perfectly. Started out really hard
and its getting better and I'm peaking now and then my last change I'll be able
to pick my area and I'll choose to train in some far out branch in the sticks
to finish up. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>What is Kate gonna do? I think Curtis needs to get a job
too! I'm telling you, the lawn business is lucrative! But no vacation huh?
We'll make up for it when I get back in August. And thats too bad about Sarah's
job haha BYU does NOT pay well. But, its a campus job so I guess that's part of
the deal. I'm still voting that she doesn't go on the mission but will
obviously support her. What kind of car would you buy? Anyway, I have a ton of
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This week was great. The baptism pic you're gonna see is a
man named Vidal. Awesome convert. Love him to death. We did everything right.
We had one of his really good member friends baptize him. In our ward there are
like 5 older, active men that fellowshipped him. He felt so loved and the ward
loves him and he just wants to serve. He tried to get a calling in his other
church cleaning the church or whatever and they turned him away because he is
nearly blind. So we baptized him and he's already set up with a calling and
he'll get the priesthood next week. He bore his testimony in his baptism
service (which is extremely rare for hondurans, they're actually really shy
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to Miami Beach, which is a super isolated village on a tiny strip of land
between a big lagoon and the carribean-And it was cold! It got down into the
60's so I imagine you all are freezing up there. All the Honduans were dying
and wrapping themselves up in every stitch of clothing possible and Hodson and
I are over here in Tshirts and shorts in the hammock just loving it. The ward
payed for everything and we ate a nice big fried snapper a piece on the beach,
drank coconuts in the hammocks, shot pellet guns, and then taught the latinos
how to play ultimate frisbee and american football out on the beach and they
loved it. Obviously hodson and I dominated but it was still a blast. One of the
future elders we brought along was also a recent convert and this kid caught
whatever I threw at him-made me look real good as a quarterback. Everyone loved
it and the investigators we brought were mega fellowshipped and one of them
actually decided to get baptized after seeing how the leaders of the church act
even when they're out having fun. Excellent trip. Felt like I was in Florida.
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ever. Mechanic and landlord. He messes with people to no end but he's actually
really loving, he's probably one of my favorite people here. He's got a bunch
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On the dock. The short guy is named Orlin and he's a good
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Hansen Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07796585840766023057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683564532421499871.post-78139980797634630472016-01-13T18:04:00.002-08:002016-01-13T18:15:09.054-08:00<span style="font-size: large;">January 9, 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More with my favorite family here. Familia Miraz. Half of them aren't even related but they all live there. Anne is on the right.</span> </div>
Hansen Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07796585840766023057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683564532421499871.post-13054939913863361182016-01-13T17:57:00.000-08:002016-01-13T18:15:35.193-08:00<span style="font-size: large;">January 9, 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Working with Hodson. Having a gringo comp is sweet. We live
in a house with 6 missionaries and its so cushy. Hot showers, a car...It's like
a stateside mission except there are armed guards outside the house 24/7. It's
really gonna be a different side of the mission. I'm not out in the jungle
anymore, now I spend three days out of the week in the office and doing
trainings and working the rest of the time. As cushy as it is though, I still
prefer the field I think. Bucket showers and mosquitos and pure lamanites and
all...feels more like the mission. It's cool though-now I'm gonna live more
comfortably and be more healthy and be able to be more obedient, so it will be
a new experience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hated to leave my old area though. I love Las Colinas. I
have a ton of pictures to send you. Lots of rough goodbyes, love those people
so much. I didn't baptize a ton there but I sure made a difference and changed
quite a few people's lives. I miss Navas too haha he may not be the best
missionary I know but he's one of the best people I know. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our area is cool though. I never wanted to come to san pedro
or the surrounding areas but its actually a great city. The wards and stakes
are strong, everyone lives close together and missionary work is easy, and its
safe...i always thought it was dangerous because of all the cartels here but
they keep the peace. People are out on the streets with children and walking
babies in strollers, little cobblestone streets, palm trees, old cathedrals,
fruit stands...It's like I imagine honduras was 20 years ago. the cartels and
organized gangs keep the peace and as long as you don't cross them life is
good. Every now and then they'll be a pile of bodies without heads dumped in
the middle of the street but its pretty much always because they deserved
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<span style="font-size: large;">But putting two gringos together with a car is asking for
trouble! I've never recieved such attention from girls in my life. It's
disgusting. Just cause we have a car and they think we have money. And their
parents encourage it too. Honduras.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And as far as AP goes...it's really not that prestigious. We
just go to meetings more than anything. When president cant go to area
meetings, or when we have trainings with zone leaders and district leaders or
trainers...not all that glorious. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But yeah, that's where I'm at. Hope I get to hear from you
all!</span> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">alrighty, explanation. First off, Anne did get baptized!
Honestly it was one of the best baptisms of my mission-one of the most
meaningful. She's come such a long way and she gets it. The other night we
assigned her a little reading just to review the restauration before baptism
and then she read it and was just like "I already know this is all true, I
already know Joseph Smith was a prophet and that through him God restored his
true church, when are you gonna teach me deeper things?" alrighty Anne, as
you wish. Super solid. But yeah. Single mother. Typical honduras. She lives
with my favorite family here. Her situation is this-the older woman in the
picture is her "mother in law". She lives with her. The womans son
was the ex boyfriend, and they were shacking up in the woman's home. She was
inactive and her children weren't members. Step by step, she's been getting
active and is now ready for a calling (she's the one that is wanting to get
endowed) and her children have got baptized and have been excellent converts.
After a while, she and the boyfirend (the son) split up, and the family decides
that they like her alot better than their son and they have her stay with them
while her son gets the boot. So she's there, with the baby's grandmother and
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<span style="font-size: large;">Aside from that, I have transfers...I'm bummed. I've always
been ready to leave my areas and now that I want to stay I'm getting sucked
away. I love this area and the people way more than any other area. It's hard
actually, I honestly got really depressed and just wanted to quit and hang out
with members but I muscled up and we kept on working but today and tomorrow is
gonna be just pure party mode saying goodbye to everybody. I've always
said I wouldn't visit honduras but I'd come back here. The interesting part is
that they're transfering me to the heart of san pedro sula. The big deal.
President called me last night and told me I was going to be the new asistant,
together with Riley Hodson. Being AP is cool and all but holy cow...now's
really gonna be the time to man up and go hard. I feel so inadequate haha I was
talking with President and I gave him my humble opionion that there are a heck
of alot of other missionaries better suited for this and I could give him a
list if he wanted but he just laughed it off and said too bad. It'll be cool
though but definitely new responsibilities, new stress, and new things to
learn. I'm excited to be with Hodson though, first time having a gringo comp.
And I love giving trainings which is basically what the AP's do aside from
working normally and doing divisions and managing the material aspects of the
mission. But, I'm gonna have hot showers! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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two zones. It's a little national park with waterfalls and all that. I bought
an american flag up there with me to take pictures with the nortes so that was
kind of fun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Other picture-new year's eve. Looking back it was definitely
against the rules but we went out and bought a bunch of fireworks (dirt cheap
here) and set them off (another reason I feel inadequate for being AP!) We just
did it in the street in front of the house, a few members stopped by, and we're
throwing firecrackers and shooting roman candles. Fun stuff, todo tranquilo. It
was kinda funny because around 11/30 at night President Reyes from the stake
drove by and was just like "happy new year elders!"and kept on
driving. I feel like we would have got the machete for that if we were in the
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just kidding, actually had a great week after we talked. I
didn't get that homesick, we had stuff to do so we just geared up and left and
everything went well. I got recharged without getting too baggy. I
probably would have gotten homesick as all get out if it werent for having such
a great couple of days afterwards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Great videos too! skimboarding and boxing. You'll have to
send me a surf video too. And as always I love seeing the truck get used out at
Julies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And for Sarah's classes-looks pretty good to me. Is there
anyway she can get Shane Reese for stats? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And with the DNA, do you have specific information yet? I
wanna know exactly which Eurpean countries and all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's cool about gary Apfel. I know who he is but have
never met him. I've always kind of wanted to go into the military but I don't
know if I can make the sacrifice-like, I could give up my life for the country,
but I couldn't give up my salvation, ya know? Not like its mutually exlcusive,
there's lots of perfectly active and faithful servicemen, but it would sure be
hard. Good for the boys to see though! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And this week! Birthdays are actually a huge deal here and I
have no idea how everybody knows but holy cow they treated me well. I had two
families call me over for cake (one of them is in the picture, thats the hna
Norey) and I got about 4 eggs broken over my head. Absolute blast. Its a
tradition here, throwing eggs at the birthday boys and its so fun because you
know its gonna happen in every house but you're just waiting. One of them was
really funny because it was two kids, with their hands behind their backs,
standing there, and they're like "hansen, come here! We have a secret to
tell you!" ok. And then its a big party and everyone is running around
throwing eggs and I'm chasing people getting egg on them too. Its a mess and
normally I'd be a little bothered with people filling up my only clean shirt
with egg yolks but its out of love. Fun day, american birthdays suck. Just wish
everyone knew how much I hate cake so I'd be able to quit eating it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I don't know if you remember the girl I told you about
that's going to get baptized? Her name is Anne and she's the white looking girl
in the family picture I sent you all a while back. We'd just been struggling
with her for a while-she didn't want to accept a date-she always read, usually
went to church, and wanted to get baptized but was afraid of the committment.
So we backed off a little and focused more on her salvation than on her baptism-focused
more on preparing her for eternal life rather than for her baptism, didn't talk
about baptism for a week-and then on friday night she sat us down and just said
"I want to prepare myself to be baptized this saturday". Right out of
preach my gospel. And then we're just like "yeah, I think we can arrange
that". We focused on her needs instead of just getting her baptized and
then the spirit got to her and told her what she needed to do. It was just a
cool moment, one of those moments that keeps me on the mission. The spirit is
the real teacher. She will easily be one of my favorite baptisms. And then,
another sister in that same house that we had been activating, out of the blue,
just tells us "I want to prepare myself to go through the temple". We
hadn't even talked about the temple with her. The spirit tells us what we need
to do in spite of what we do as missionaries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And Dad-what did the manager tell you about the sale of the
ranch? How do his job prosepcts look once they cut the ranch in half? I want
his job one day, run a business and still get to play cowboy. That would be fun
though, I think you should do it. And I think I've been to the Ocala range,
it's good. Wait for a good cold front and go! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think that's all I have for you all, Love you all and It
was sure great to talk with everybody!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">December 21, 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(I asked if Scott received his package)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did! And I already opened it too...I waited about an hour
and all that willpower I´ve been practicing on the mission went out the window.
Navas freaking loved his package. He was like a litle kid on christmas morning
(oh wait, he was!) but really, he was incredibly grateful. I was too, thanks so
much for sending that. Made his christmas. We opened them one by one just
having a good old time, after setting up our tree and everything. I was giving
him a hard time for the stuff you sent him, I told him that you sent him so
much hygene stuff because he´s latin and you all are racists and think he
doesn´t bathe, we had a great time. And Lemus...he was grateful too. Really
surprised. It was actually a pretty tender little moment haha he was so happy
to have a package. Worth every penny you spent on it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And my package! You remembered everything I asked for haha!
Perfect gifts, couldn´t ask for more. I gave the rubiks cube to Navas though,
he got a kick out of it and I´d never touch it. All in all, great package and
well done! Even got the christmas smelling tree, lots of candy to share with
people, all kinds of good stuff. And Saunders loves his shirt. You all are
making lots of people happy here in la ceiba!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hope president klein doesn´t get too much of a surprise when
he sees we ruined his zone picture. I´m holding it with saunders<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">my area, in the mountain part<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I´m doing well. A little stressed because the zone is
falling short a little bit, but besides that I´m great. I´ve been real happy
lately, no problems, enjoying the mission, and just feeling comfortable. I know
what I´m doing and its just normal life now. And our ward is something
else...it was pretty chilly when I got here but now we´re part of the ward, I
love it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">December 14, 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Send the email to me, I´ll tell ya if it made sense haha.
And lemus....yeah, I know him, thats
cool, all the missionaries are good or they wouldn´t be here. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Was the party fun?? I´m glad everybody mingled well. Catch
any kids making out? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Curtis-why the heck did you ask for a machete?? I´m so sick
of machetes...that´s cool though, good birthday? How tall is he now? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And yes, our zone conference is wednesday. Still haven´t
prepared :( Wish me luck. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And yesterday we actually had a meeting with an area seventy
and all the stake presidents and bishops and the zone leaders-it was excellent.
Talking about working with members and missionaries. Same thing I´ve been
preaching for a month now but now all the bishops are on the same page and some
things are gonna change, and I´m excited. And on the car ride there President
Klein actually asked me about some concerns (not the things I mentioned, but
other concerns) and I told him and then he brought up those points in the
meeting, so that was kind of cool. He´s a good leader, getting input from
everybody. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Get the surfboard! What´s everyone wanting for
christmas? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And talking about scouting-what could kids do to not be
soft? Go fishing and hunting! And diving and work on cars and hiking! That´s
why I´m always preaching that kind of stuff! Plus, scouts is super soft. Get
them outside, find some trouble to get into, get hurt a little bit, get lost,
whatever it be. Good thing our family is good though, let the world do what it
may. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sounds like a stellar christmas break though. I talked to
Julie the other day, it was nice to hear from her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And yeah, Jason emailed me and told me all about it. I´m
excited, I´m happy for him. Good luck on the hire. And Jason told me that
Connor is working a lot better now and is pulling his own weight. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And Honduras is beautiful when you get out of the city. I´ll
do better about sending pictures. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And holy cow, snow in SJ! that´s a ton of snow. I want
snow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And no, I´m good. I don´t really need anything except a usb
port to charge my mp3 player, and as always contact solution. But nothing
urgent. Also, always can use socks and shirts! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here´s my update-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First of all, I just love Honduras sometimes. I mean, I
definitely have my days of frustration and disapointment but I just love how
laid back everything is. Honduras is just like white-trash redneck in spanish.
Anything goes. For example, the bus drivers. Early in the week we´re traveling
on one of the buses, and all of a sudden the driver looks up at the clock, and
then at his watch, and-oop, his shift is up-and he gets up and hops out the
door, while still going 20 miles an hour. He hit the ground running, while in
the meantime his assistant is sitting there looking at the empty seat and
thinking ¨well, I guess I better drive this thing¨ so he sits down and we´re
happily on our way. Navas and I are just dying of laughter. And then on saturday
we get on the bus and our driver is reading the paper-like, a newspaper, as in,
obstruct all of the windshield and drive with your knees, and he´s just honking
hoping to avoid horses and cows and old ladies crossing the street. Anything
goes. It´s sure growing on me though, really makes you redefine what are needs
and what are wants. I could be perfectly happy with a cinderblock house with a
tin roof with some wires pulled through holes in the wall attached to some bare
light bulbs (and robbing energy from the powerpole down the block). I love
unwinding in the night time washing clothes by hand and a washboard under our
tin roof porch listening to some mission appropriate country music. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, another thing I´m learning-I´ve really learned what it
means to love the sinner and hate the sin. To love somebody and work to help
them and preach repentance and tell them what they need to do to fix
it. To be able to love them and respect them in spite of what they do.
Love them to death and ask much from them-have high expectations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But yeah. I just feel good about everything right now. I
always have struggled with feeling inadequate, like I´m not doing enough,
worrying if I´m fulfilling my calling-all that kind of stuff. I remember that
basically the only thing Mom ever told me about Dad´s mission is that he was ¨a
good missionary¨. Never told me if he was a leader, lots of baptisms, obedient,
etc-just told me that he was a good missionary and told me a few stories that
showed me he made a difference in people´s lives. That has always been my goal.
To be a good missionary. And I think I´ve made it. I love people, I serve them,
I have fun with them, and I´m exactly who I want to be as a missionary. Plus
the members love us. I´ve always said I´d never want to come back and visit but
I´d come back and visit this area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, Honduras. Things are getting hot. Lots more crime. We´re
seeing more bodies. When I was off on divisions Navas almost got robbed again
but a taxi parked between him and the robber and they were able to run away, by
pure coincidence. But no worries, I´m still as calm as a summer´s morning. I
still have no other logical explanation for my lack of fear-it´s gotta be the
hand of God, pure and simple. The blessings of the temple, the temple garment,
and the simple fact that I have the faith I´ll be protected-We go where we want
to, we´ve been called to preach the gospel and that´s what we will do and the
little honduran thugs that rob us can go to hell. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On sunday, we came back from our meeting in San Pedro with
President Reyes, in the stake presidency-easily one of my favorite men here.
He´s got a small business and a small farm and he´s just a good guy. He reminds
me of Ken Roberson and Dad. And he´s got some money, he wants to do business
with me after the mission haha and I´m in. Anyways, we´re riding back in his
truck and we stop to eat (on a sunday, ox was in the mire) and we walk into the
restuarant and every single bishop and stake president from the norhern coast
of honduras is in the same restuarant. Cracked me up. It´s like the Cirlce K in
St Johns after church on sunday. And then we saw a nasty wreck coming back,
bodies in the street and everything. It´s kind of sad how stuff like that
doesn´t even phase me even more. There´s just so much death that it´s
commonplace. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another insight-I´m working like never before. I´m seeing
what it is to be completely dedicated-more than just leaving the house on time
and doing our visits, but being completely dedicated to a cause, with no other
distractions-totally focused on the work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I feel like I understand things a little better too now-I
had always questioned how someone can start a business and sacrifice everything
else to establish yourself and work around the clock and put in 80 hours a week
but I get it now. Not like the mission is a business but the same principles of
work and dedication apply. Waking up at 6 and going to bed at midnight, burning
the midnight oil to plan, prepare, troubleshoot, whatever it be-it´s
fulfilling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But that´s all I got for you all, I´ll be on a little while
to chat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have a great week, love and miss you all! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">December 7, 2015</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And how come Kate is the one that has the party this friday,
she´s still got the whole month to go! sounds like a blast though, go big or go
home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What´s going on now that everyone is at home? I´m still
waiting on some river pictures. Still wishing I could have gone on that trip,
sounds like it was a success all around! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And yes, please get a garden planted! That´s cool with the
banana tree, hope the cold doesn´t kill it. Or, better yet, forget about the
garden and plant more citrus and peach trees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I´ll have to see on the shoes. Not sure if I threw them out
or not. But yeah, the jerseys turned out good! Navas is just super gay in a
latin way-always shaving himself, his legs, eyebrows, and takes an hour to get
ready in the morning-he bathes before I do, and then I bathe, and then I´m
dressed and packed before he´s even got his pants on. It´s not that weird for a
latin. Love him to death though, no complaints there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And yes, we have a mormon street where everyone is LDS and
then up in the mountains one of the valleys is all LDS or investigators. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You all liked what Elder Anderson said huh? He came to the
mission and I remember not being particularly impressed-I mean, its an apostle,
but I just didn´t feel the same from him that I did with other apostles that
have visited. That´s interesting about scouting though. I hope they get their
eagles too but...I´m not real worried about it. If scouting was not affiliated
with the church I would never do it, and the non-lds scouters are, on the
whole, pretty weird. Too bad though, the worlds changing! In Honduras personal
progress is pretty strong, and duty to god as well but there´s no scouting-like
program. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I honestly don´t know how missionaries like Nuñez do it.
If I had an iffy family I´d be a real iffy missionary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the shop stuff, how are connor and jason? I hope you find
a good installer. Say hi to everybody for me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have fun decorating the tree...that´s one of my favorite
christmas memories. I think the things I remember most about christmas is the
tree decorating, the alan jackson and josh groban cd´s, potpurri, Christmas
Eve, oranges off the tree, christmas movies, tamales, christmas breakfast,
going fishing or hunting in the afternoon...good stuff, keep the traditions
going! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I´ve got really few things to tell you all! This is gonna be
a good month though-we´ve hit our stride as leaders and we´re more relaxed with
better results. Slow and steady wins the race. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With President Klein- One thing I´m kind of questioning
though is some of the methods/focuses of the mission-some of the things and
methods that are asked of us are just not supported by what I´ve seen in my
time on the mission. In other words, what they ask of us is not what works best
in the long run. I´m real hesitant to bring this up and I fully realize the
improbability of a 21-year old knowing more than the president, but I´ll be
meditating on that one for a while and see if I can´t talk to him about it in
one of our private meetings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But yeah, we didn´t get robbed this week! Saw a body in the
street on saturday night-someone stopped him in his truck and then shot him
through the windshield-but besides that the week was pretty uneventful. Kind of
frustrating, really-all of our work, all of the hours we spent working in the
rain, all week making committments to go to church and talking about how much
they´re changing and how excited to go to church they are and then on sunday
morning they´ve got laundry to do. granted, laundry in honduras is an endeavor,
but my gosh...and then, all of a sudden, people we´d given up hope on showed up
to church and we find new people to teach. I shouldn´t complain, we had 6
investigators in church including Anne, who´s going to get baptized on saturday
(she´s the white looking girl holding a baby in a picture I sent you with the
familia Zelaya a month ago) but still...lots of letdowns. Some people just
aren´t willing to sacrifice and you can´t force people to have the desire. But,
we´re moving right along, the church is growing, and everything is
allright. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our service project turned out pretty cool though-we went
and visited the hospital here and brought gifts to the children, that was fun. One
of them we gave a nerf gun and made a little shooting gallery and told this
little boy with a broken leg that if he shot me he could have another toy. He
shot me right in the chest so we let him pick another one, made his day. I also
found some toy six shooter pistols in walmart and bought those to give out, and
in hindsight that may not have been the best idea but the kids loved
them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sorry this is such a boring email! Don´t even have
pictures. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not even any spiritual insights, I think I studied once this
week. There´s just no time! In other missions if the missionaries don´t have
time to study in the morning they have them study later, but here we´re
straight off to the field ASAP. On the job training. I´m sure glad I´m not in
another mission. In the limited time that I have had though I´ve been enjoying
the New Testament. Surprises me every time how much solid doctrine is there and
how much restored doctrine is there if we read it with the proper eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyways, love and miss you all! Anxiously awaiting my
package! This is my favorite time of year and I hope you all are enjoying
it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love you all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Hansen Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07796585840766023057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683564532421499871.post-82726863190867626872016-01-13T13:16:00.003-08:002016-01-13T13:16:49.879-08:00
<span style="font-size: large;">November 30, 2015</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You guys are killing it with the pictures, as usual. I loved
the pictures! The wood pictures, thanksgiving pictures, everything. Everyone´s
looking so grown up. Curtis looks like me now, Marcor looks huge, Sterling
looks like a miniature Ty Detmer, and the girls are too pretty for their own
good. And Mom and Dad are looking young! Dad´s growing the facial hair out
again huh? Me too, we´ve got three days without water and I´ve got a meeting
with President Klein tomorrow. How´s Mike´s family? Loved seeing everybody, and
I´m glad Jessica made it down, what´s she doing here? And the picture
with Russel made my day, as did seeing Kendall swing an axe. Still got it. And
the slow mo video of sterling splitting wood, and of curtis driving were both
quality. Forget Florida, Arizona´s looking pretty good right now! (just
kidding...kind of) And the boy´s coyote hunt, did sterling have a good time
too? Tell me about it when you get the chance. That´s a really pretty coyote,
gonna do anything with the skin? Orrin was real impressed with how the boys
carried themselves-he said they listened well to instructions, did what he told
them to do, and were just competent all around. Wish I coulda been there
hauling wood, and made me laugh to see the pepsi bottles making an appearance
in the picture. I can outdrink all of you now in pepsi. Like its water. Looks
like a great vacation though. Funny how the best vacations are just chopping
wood and walking in the mountains. I´d rather do what you all are doing than go
to a foreign country or do something exotic. Next year! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And yeah, it´s getting pretty christmasy actually. Lights,
trees, everything. On a way smaller scale because alot of people just can´t
afford, nor care about, christmas decorations but it´s still getting everybody
in the spirit. And a honduran ornament...that´s gonna be kinda hard, hondurans
just want stuff from the states and I´d have to go somewhere touristy to find
something like that. But I´ll try! And the weather has been great too...not
chilly, but I don´t have to use a fan at night now and last night I actually
got a little bit cold and put on socks (I don´t sleep with a sheet so its not
chilly, but its sure a nice break from being hot). Nice breeze and cool in the
shade. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And yup, still with Navas! It´s possible I´ll be here til
februrary but the next change is in january. At least I´ll be here for
christmas. And I´m excited for that because this is my first area that the
people truly love us-everyone invites us over, everyone gives us
references-navas and I get along so well we just have a good ol time with the
members. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And about what Mom told me, about the offended family-I´ll
look for that talk. That´s good advice. At the end of the day they are the ones
that have to choose what they want. Also, on that same vein the other day we
were talking with a less active sister that was criticizing the bishop up and
down, just tearing him up, and we finally got it out of her what happened, and
what happened was that the bishop came to her house, knowing that she was a
single mom, and asks her if there´s anything she needs-how they´re doing
financially, things like that-and she told him no, everything is good! And then
she went inactive because she got mad at the bishop because ¨the bishop should
have known¨ that they were out of food and money and should have helped them,
even though she said no and refused help. There´s more to the story but still,
holy cow! Another problem here is that the people live too dang close together.
There´s one street where everyone is a member and the houses all touch-you would
not imagine the gossip and busybodying that goes on in that street. I know it
happens in the states too but at least in the states you go a good week without
seeing the other members and when you see them you´re actually glad to see
them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But yeah, really the only thing to report this week is the
role of the spirit. I´ve been realizing more and more how subtely the spirit
works but how vital it is. For example, yesterday I was just walking and I
thought ¨we ought to call Carlos and Iris, see how they´re doing¨ so we called
them and they´re like ¨come and visit us, we´ll be home in 5 minutes!¨ and it
turns out that they had been talking about how they felt a little abandoned by
the church and that the missionaries don´t visit them anymore and as soon as they
had said those words they got a phone call from us. Small and simple things.
Just acting on the impressions that pop into my head has done a world of good
for me and our work, and I´m just now starting to realize and recognize the
frequency of them. Just my little thought for the day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week has been filled with work and projects. We´ve got
alot on our plate right now-monthly meeting tomorrow, service project in the
hospital on friday, we have to arrange our multi-zone christmas conference with
catering for 80 people, training meetings for new missionaries, ward counsel,
stake conference, wedding papers, meeting with lawyers, fundraising projects,
doing divisions with the missionaries in the zone, and that on top of our
regular meetings and missionary work. I´m juggling! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, they opened up a wal-mart in ceiba...I´ve never been
so happy to go to walmart. It ended up being pretty crappy, walmart honduras
style, but I took out some money and bought stuff I´d been in need
of-toiletries, some food, things like that-so I´m in pretty good shape
now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And the robbery-no, nothing. I wouldn´t even know where to
go to talk to the police. And they wouldn´t care-when there´s killings and gang
wars every day they kind of have their hands full. According to the word on the
street the people that live up above in the hills are getting together to form
a vigilante group to get rid of one of the gangs up there, so that could be
interesting. But, the good thing about the gangs-the organized gangs-is that
they protect the missionaries. The problems are the little street thugs that
couldn´t get into the gangs but want to make a quick buck. But this is still a
really calm area, no worries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hope you all enjoyed the pictures, I´ll be on for a while
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<span style="font-size: small;">Nuñez con Navas. Navas is on the far right<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My buddy Nuñez from El Salvador, I was pretty bummed when he
got transferred out of the zone last change. Great kid, convert of two years
and the only member in his family. Sometimes I get worried when missionaries
baptize teenagers without family support but...a solid 20% of the latino
missionaries here are teenagers without a single member in their family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">the mountain part of our area. Half is in the city and the
other half is up on the mountain. We´ve got three little valleys to our name
and one of them is pure mormons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here´s Yohanna and her boys, Emilio and Acner, our recent
converts. Their dog is the coolest thing. At first she always growled at us and
went and sulked when we arrived, but we made friends and now everytime we pass
by their house (which is like 200 yards from the road) this little dog is
running down to greet us, jumping on us and peeing herself from excitement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Today we rented out the stadium here in la ceiba to play
against the other zone and we went and made jerseys for the zone (in la ceiba
there are two zones, we´re zona miramar) My comp - I love
him to death<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love you all and enjoy your last day in AZ and the flight
home! And go back to FL and go fishing for me, december is the absolute best
time to be on the river<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Hansen Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07796585840766023057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683564532421499871.post-90906528161506509852016-01-13T12:21:00.000-08:002016-01-13T12:21:16.593-08:00<span style="font-size: large;">November 23, 2015</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Looks like a blast, great pictures. Cold, dry air,
mountains, I´d love to be there. Keep those pictures coming, everyone is
looking so big. Especially Kent and Jennifer´s kids, holy cow! Tell everybody I
said hi and that I love and miss them. How´s Orrin doing? He told me he´s
pretty excited for the coyote hunt as well, how do you all think he´s doing? we
still talk pretty regularly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, I´m short on time, been running zone leader errands all
day, so I´ll just go ahead and shoot you the update. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kinda been struggling this week. Not personally, but as a
leader. As in, the zone is struggling. Kinda feeling inadequate. Actually,
inadequate isn´t the word, cause I´m relatively capable-this week kinda just
sucked because I didn´t do everything I could have. I didn´t go hard. I´m
always working, but I just feel like I could have done more and it´s not a
really good feeling. But, at 6 pm I´ll be starting a new week and i´m ready to
go. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, this week I´ve really seen how the mission is more
about baptisms and growing the church. It´s also about being a friend to the
friendless, taking interest in people´s lives, truly listening, supporting
people, and kind of being the hands of the lord-trying to bless people´s lives
through our visits and interactions. This week was terrible numbers wise but I
can honestly tell ya that we made a big difference in the lives of a
grandmother who is divorcing, a little boy named fabrigas, and a woman from
tegucigalpa who found us by chance in the hospital and needed a blessing for
her mother. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, by the calm tone of your emails I´m guessing the
mission never called you all! So we got robbed the other night-no biggie, we
shouldn´t have been walking up that street late at night-just a quick incident,
man with a gun says give me what you´ve got and we give it to him and he´s
gone, no worries (and I was just starting to get over my racist tendencies).
The problem is that the AP´s called us to give us the transfers and the robber
answers and says ¨mira puto, we already killed the owners of this phone¨. So,
the AP´s freaked out and started calling up the stake presidency and they
mobilized the ward and the whole ward is driving around looking for us, while
we are continuing with our nightly visits calm as could be. And, as luck would
have it, our last appointment ran late and we end up getting to the house at
10. We round the corner and there´s a bunch of trucks and people outside our
house and we had a little ¨oh shoot¨moment. Even our cook was there looking for
us (her name is mercedes btw and I love her to death). Then we talk to
everybody and everything calms down. It was weird though, I loved the
experience. It was one of those rare moments that I absolutely loved the
mission and wanted to stay in Honduras forever. It felt like a privilege to be
robbed-a privilege to suffer a little bit. I know it sounds strange but walking
home that night I wanted to be a missionary forever and save the whole
country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, the mission´s rough sometimes. This week I washed my
clothes with dish detergent and then set to thinking about how far I´ve
sunk. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That´s about all the interesting we´ve had for this week.
Also went to a birthday party, and we had the job of manning the piñata. Lot of
fun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, I want some advice. We´re working with this really
cool family-the wife is a member, the live-in is not-they´re a riot and they´re
always just bothering the heck out of us, making fun of eachother and all, and
we have a good time together. I love their kids to death. The wife is a great woman
that has had some bad experiences with the church, and for these experiences
the husband doesn´t want to get baptized. What happened was that she, about a
year ago, started fornicating with her boyfriend-in her house-and the bishop
came to visit her to call her to repentence and her mom kicked her out of the
house-so she shacked up with the boyfriend and they feel that the ward members
ignore them and exclude them and they didn´t recieve economic help when her
mother got sick and her family (including the stake president) doesn´t approve
of her live-in because they´re not married. Shocker. The problem is, they feel
so offended, so wronged-they even cried in front of us about how much they were
hurt-that they truly struggle going back to church, much less baptsim. What
should we do? We are very clear with our purpose, that we are there to call
them to repentence, and we have talked about their situation from every angle.
We started off on their side and consoling them and then when we learned more
and figured out what pendejos they´re being we got pretty blunt-but nothing
changes. What should we do? The goo thing is we won´t damage our relationship
with strong words (and if we do, we´re not here to make friends, we´re here to
save them) so we can be pretty blunt. Love hasn´t worked nor has fire and
brimstone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That´s all I got for you all. I´m gonna get some pictures of
Mercedes and some other friends here next week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love you all and am thrilled you´re having such a great
time back in old zion. We´ll have to repeat that vacation one day. Be safe and
keep the pictures coming!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Elder Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Hansen Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07796585840766023057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683564532421499871.post-32652555305039394722016-01-13T12:18:00.001-08:002016-01-13T12:18:14.215-08:00
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<span style="font-size: large;">November 16, 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, I did recieve my package, thank you so much! Contact
solution was much needed as were the vitamins and peanut butter. And Navas´s
first name is Jose. I think. And the marriage papers are a headache. Really we
do everything. The Honduran government is such a joke. bueracracy. It´s
horrible. And the lawyers we work with are terrible. I want to chew them out
but they´re working for free so I can´t. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What´s wrong with skip? Poor guy, find somebody good to
watch him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Already going out to AZ huh? Sounds like fun, that´s funny
about the clothes. What other activities are you gonna do? I guess you won´t be
bringing the guns since you´re flying? Don´t ruin my clothes, I need them for
BYU! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And hey, how´s my truck doing? Anybody driving it? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And curtis, way to go! First in the school, that´s pretty
good! Is he working out? Fishing? And ster is looking great in the picture. The
next Ty Detmer right there, I hope he´s really gonna play. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I´m glad Kirk is in St. Johns. Good for him and good for
dottie and kendall. How´s Kirk doing? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Glad Seminary´s going well. I know how you feel-every now
and then we´ll get into some heavier stuff with long time investigators or
members and I just wanna tell them to go to the temple and then they´ll get it.
Have fun in St. Johns. I wrote them a letter and never sent it, maybe this
week. And hey, go find me a girl in St. Johns. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And washing his sheets every 6 months...haha that made me
laugh. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How´s the ward doing? Bishop Garrett hanging in there?
What´s Adam doing? Any gossip, new families? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I know, I´m so excited for christmas. We´re gonna die.
Every house gives us tamales-everyone wants to feed us. I´m talking filling the
fridge and eating 2 or 3 in every house, and multiply that by 50 lessons a
week...woo. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, what´s going on with the church´s new policy? We
haven´t heard anything, hondurans couldn´t care less, I just saw it on the
internet when we were sending dats this morning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Alrighty, here´s my updates. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was just a long week. Rain every day. I don´t mind
working in the rain but when you don´t have dry shoes and your clothes don´t
dry it kinda wears on ya. My agendas always get destroyed, and we´ve quit
bringing books-another week of teaching with people´s family bibles and hoping
they´ve got a book of mormon. Made me really appreciate the Book of Mormon and
how much we need it to understand the gospel! It was kind of just a dark week
too. All the news about the terrorist attacks (and by the time the information
had made its way down the grapevine people were telling us about nuclear bombs
planted and all out war and who knows what) and lots of deaths and accidents
among our investigators and members. Add in all the depressing news with rain
and grey skies every day...for a little while there felt like we were on the
brink of the second coming. And when the world gets dark, the gospel is always
a small, shining light-something to hang on to. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We´ve still been working like crazy-I think this week we
only pulled out 40 lessons but I´m not complaining. One thing I´ve really
learned is how much easier it is when we´re truly dedicated-fully given to the
work. I´ve talked alot about our will and surrendering our will and being fully
consecrated in the work and all that-I don´t ever expect to acheive the
complete submission of my will but its sure a whole lot easier when I can quit
fighting between my will and God´s will. I no longer have to question, I no
longer have to have an inner battle about what action I should take-I just do
the right thing because its what I do and it´s who I am, especially regarding
my work habits. My favorite quote from preach my gospel is something like this
¨The secret to missionary work, is work!¨ from E. T. Benson. I´m a believer in
that for sure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I still find myself growing more and more conservative every
day. I´m seeing how poorly Honduras´s left leaning programs are ran, and
I (and a surprising number of Hondurans) wish that Donald Trump would just buy
Honduras and run it already like he joked about doing. Not that I like Trump
but he´d sure do a better job than the current group of narcos and puppet
politicians. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another thing I´ve been thinking about, is how the church
really is guided by the Lord. For example, when the Family, A Proclamation to
the World came out, nobody was even thinking about gay marriage or that even
being a problem, and now, thanks to those revelations, we have the firm
doctrine on the subject and have something to guide us. What I think will be
interesting is all this talk about religious freedom-what´s gonna happen in the
coming years to make the church´s focus on relgious freedom necessary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">Another thing I´ve learned! Be part of the people. Hondurans
are really sensitive about feeling inferior-if there´s any hint of snobbery or
superiority they´ll cut you out real quick. I´ve just learned to take it. Eat
what they eat. Dont´get bothered with dirty things or unpurified water or
breasts or dead people or gangsters. I´ve gotten real comfortable with having a
ton of dirty naked children hanging off of me. I really have a blast with the
people, probably too much fun. They´re good people. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And they have given us so much food this week! multiple
dinners, snacks, soda-I threw up on sunday night coming out of a house, got out
just in time-A big lunch, then someone else gave us pizza with soda, then
someone else gave us cake, then then we ate a huge dinner, then we go to the
last house and more cake and soda-just shoving it down our throat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, and our baptism! Super solid. We started working with a
less active family, got them actived and headed towards a temple sealing,
and they present us their nephew who recently came to live with them. He was
super solid from the begining, and always went out to make visits with us even
before he was a member. His uncle baptized him and I couldn´t be happier with
the progress the whole family has made. His name is Kevin Mungia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think that´s all I got for you all, I´ll be emailing for a
little bit more If I think of anything more. Love you all to death and I´m
excited for AZ pictures and stories! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">E. Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">November 9th 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The house is going up...well shoot. That really puts a cramp
on things. There goes our little field. Time to move? You all just gotta find a
cool lds family to buy it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p>Answering questions! Yes, theres always 4 missionaries in
the office. Do not want to be there. There is a senior couple in the mission
but they work in another city inbetween here and san pedro. And nope, haven´t
got a package, maybe tomorrow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And what are the thanksgiving plans? Where, with who? Tell
me about the football games, is sterling still playing? BYU plays Mizzou right?
That should be a great game. I heard something about the racial problems at
Mizzou, are they gonna end up playing? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What did they talk about in the fireside? I think I´d find
that fascinating too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also got a nice little letter from Kent and Jennifer, great
to hear from them, I miss them. Miss everybody actually!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And you guys are the best. Sending packages to Saunders (and
yes, the shirt is perfect) and Navas and adopting a missionary. Way to
go. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And about my calling-we still do far more proselyting than
administrative work.Aside from days that we have to travel and go to meetings,
we work in our area normal and then do our administrative tasks at night time.
And when we do divisions we almost always leave one of us in the area so it
doesn´t get abandoned. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What´s going on in politics? Any hope for a garden? I
still think you all just need to put in a good garden and make a nice border of
citrus and peach trees around the perimiter. Any fishing reports?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And now for my update!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had a great sunday this week. It was our ward conference
and we were able to get 133 people to church, which was excellent. The best
part is that the members got a fire lit under them and went out and did their
visits. We have a solid bishop-on saturday we ran into him twice on accident;
we walked into the house of an investigator family and he and his wife are
there on the couch talking to the family-how cool is that? He´s visiting our
investigators, much less all the less actives. First time I´ve had a leader in
honduras that actually works. I also just love the church-the themes this week
were perfect for our investigators. We gave the class on the eternal family and
it was a great class with everybody participating and our investigators are
getting ready to get married. Then in priesthhod we talked about the welfare
programs of the church and work and self reliance and it was just solid all around.
Two of my favorite topics, work and marriage, in the same sunday. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And our zone keeps on having success. After our last
leaders´ meeting our zone is officially the best. Not like its a competition
but I do like to know that our methods are working. Not to mention we have a
great area geographically and with good members. If everything goes well my
companion and I will have 7 baptisms in November-we´ve been working with a big
group and have finally gotten all the kinks and problems and papers worked out.
I´m real sick of lawyers and government workers but we should be able to do 3
marriages this month. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And to answer your question-I absolutely am protected. I
have no fear. And I don´t mean to say that I´m a brave, he-man John Wayne type,
but I just feel calm, always. Like when they broke into the house on Roatan. We
were protected, no doubt. You couldn´t pay me to go outside without my
covenants on, but I can certainly feel divine protection. So yes, don´t you
worry one bit. I´m safer here as a missionary than I am doing dumb stuff back
home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And yeah, supposedly there are areas that we shouldn´t go to
but we´ve never had any problems. There are areas in san pedro that I wouldn´t
mess around with but nothing really worries me here in Ceiba. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So right now our main investigators are Byron and Vilma
(getting married this month, they´re as golden as it gets-they´ve made huge
changes and they really get it, and we´re a part of the family) and Arnulfo and
Siliva (also getting married this month, already finished the BoM) Carlos and
Iris (marriage...again), Kevin (16 year old that was gonna get baptized in San
Pedro but then moved here-he makes visits with us, even though he´s not even a
member yet) and Eduardo (15 year old in the same situation) and Anne (family
with Byron and Vilma, real sweet girl) and a ton of part member families and
less actives. I remember thinking in the begining of my mission that acheiveing
35 lessons a week was a huge deal-and I was proud of it. Now we´re working with
a goal of 50 and this week was marginal because of meetings and stuff and we
had ¨only¨ 38. Funny how your perspective changes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I´m tired though. I´ve got raccon eyes from being tired. I´m
going strong but I will be ready to go home when its done. Thats my goal though,
just go hard til the whistle blows. And I think that working hard makes up for
alot of shortcomings on my part. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I´m also getting excited for christmas! Apparently here in
La Ceiba they go pretty big on christmas. People are already putting lights up.
People that can´t pay the light bill all year suddenly have the house strung up
in lights and multiple christmas trees...Can´t be responsible but I´m not
complaining, I like it. There was one lady, the mother of Byron actually, that
had her light get cut on her last week, so we bought her some candles to help
out, and then last night we went to visit them and they had the whole house
decked out in lights like temple square, made me laugh. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No pictures this week, but in the group photo the other day?
the other guy crouching with me is Navas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyways. Love you all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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October 19, 2015<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Me and the boys, Elder Saunders and the famous Elder Magalei
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Zelaya family. The dark skinned one with the baby is
Vilma, the girlfriend of Byron, that are gonna get married this week. I love
this family, my favorite family here. Not pictured are Leidy, who´s already
been baptized and is super active, and Byron, who´s gonna get baptized. They
always give us food, treat us well, and are going to be the best converts I´ve
had besides the Ortiz family. They´ve made huge changes and really, really get
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And don´t worry on the email thing, we were just in the
internet sending dats off. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And my toe sucks, its still not growing back and it hurts
like the devil, and my pain meds are just about out. Good thing I´m in Honduras
and I can buy some good stuff for a nickel. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My new comp! Is the best. Makes such a difference in the
mission. We´re best buds. He´s called Navas, and he´s from Costa Rica. He´s a
universtiy grad, probably coulda gone pro in soccer, and we´re on the same page
with our attitudes and ideas. Laid back, good missionary, and we just enjoy the
heck out of the mission. Doesn´t get offended, he´s just a normal dude. For
example, if I lost the keys, lopez would have been like ¨I can´t believe
this. This is your fault. We´re wasting the Lords time and money, what an
idiot.¨ and Navas would have been like ¨haha freak dude, we´re screwed! guess
we´re going camping!¨ Totally different attitude, stripped of pride and he
doesn´t think he´s all that. We just get along. Share money and everything (I
still feel like I come up on the short end of the stick but its the thought
that counts right?) He´s everything that´s good about the latins and none of
the bad. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And your question-honestly the city is better. I hate to say
it. I love Morazan, I love seeing cattle and trucks and planting pineapples and
working on farms but...for the missionary life, the city is way better.
Honduras is still pretty undeveloped, and in the country areas a lot of people
can´t read, even less are married, the evangelical churches are way too strong,
there´s not modern conveniences (remember my poverty struggle in morazan when
there wasn´t an ATM?) and the food is just better in the city. More variety.
Sure, homegrown beans, eggs, chicken, and corn tortillas straight from the
field is to die for, but after eating it for weeks straight I´m not real
interested in how fresh it is, I just want Wendy´s. Here in Ceiba there´s
american food we can get our hands on once in a blue moon. The wards are way
stronger people are jammed packed together and it sure makes for easier
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Sorry to hear about the shop drama. Couldn´t tell ya what´s
got into them. Tell Peter hi for me, he´s a good guy. Peter has problems with
the latinos because he wants them to work, and he has problems with the white
kids cause they all come from wealthy families and aren´t humble enough! Also
I´m not a big fan of josh, he bugs. He´s a nice guy, never clashed with him,
but he´s just fresa. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That´s so cool about Devin. How´d everything go? are they
honeymooneying? <o:p></o:p></div>
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And no I didn´t make cookies, I can´t remember the last time
I´ve seen an oven in honduras...haha I´m just gonna make the dough and eat it,
I prefer it that way anyways! <o:p></o:p></div>
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And hey, keep on sending me pictures of Rhys, and better yet
his email, I still think that´s the coolest thing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Also, I´m real glad that skips doing better! I hope he can
hold out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But yes, being ZL is cool. I´d rather just be a district
leader but no one asked my opinion. Also, I´ve got 14 months tomorrow! It´s
moving so fast now. Not too fast, mind you, but it´s going. And it´s looking
like I´m only gonna have one more area after this one, hoping I can finish the
mission with 4. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Campout looks fun. Although after a two year long campout
it´s kind of losing its appeal haha. Not really though, I´d still enjoy it.
Sorry the fishing wasn´t great. One day we went out there and did all right
though, I remember we caught a few small bass and a few mudfish. Hope Dad
enjoyed the lack of pressure! How´s seminary? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyway, i really don´t have that much to tell you all, just
work. Pouring rain all week. We didn´t even carry scriptures. I just wrote down
our list of appointments on a piece of paper and put it in a plastic bag with
our phone and that was it. Everyone´s got a bible (although it sure makes
things difficult when they´ve got the jehova´s witness-conveniently-modified
bible and the verses don´t match up) and we´ve got the book of mormon
scriptures memorized so we´re good. Still working like crazy and having
success. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And I´m gonna send Sarah her own email haha sounds like life
caught up with her huh? College will do that to ya, you think you´re doing
great til midterms and then you get a big wakeup call. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyways. I´ll be on for a while if i remember anything else.
love and miss you all!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I´m just emailing doing zl business but just wanted to
let you know that your prayers were answered and lopez is gone! my new comp is
awesome. love you all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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October 12, 2015<br />
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Hey everybody! I'll go ahead
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Yup, magalei's the one with 12.
I'll get yall a picture with him, he's one of my good buddies here. <o:p></o:p></div>
haha, our whiteboard! Yup,
that's just our area, my comp and I. Papeles is papers, as in, papers to get
married...such a headache. I know the honduran municipal governments like the
back of my hand. <o:p></o:p><br />
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And yeah, that's the great
thing about latin america...we are always well recieved! No one wants to do
anything but they all want to listen! I remember seeing the numbers of the
missionaries in longwood, like...10 lessons in a week. That's the states for
ya, poor guys. And my comp showed up in the pictures I sent you! The baptism
pictures? <o:p></o:p></div>
But yeah, comp still sucks. No
need to complain about it but If I had to choose between spending the day with
Obama and and Lopez I'd pick Obama. I'm in sore need of repentence but I can
only be so christlike...I can only take so much, ya know? I'm winning the
battle, but it's a battle. Not rising to the bait to fight, letting the abuse
roll off my shoulders. But one day I might just snap. I've been incredibly
christlike, I've really surprised myself, but at the end of the day I'm only
human. When one of us have changes (which might be tomorrow-pray!!) I will be
sorely tempted to tell him to kindly go to hell. <o:p></o:p><br />
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And yeah, Sister Klein is
great. She's so gringo. And yes, I got the package and loved it! Shirts
awesome, shoes are perfect, no complaints there! And the video...wooo, I opened
that package after a leaders meeting in san pedro and all the boys gave me hell
for that one. But, I already watched it, 20 minutes every night at a time, and
loved it. Thanks! <o:p></o:p></div>
And I think thats about the
coolest thing ever what Rhys and Dallas are doing...That's my dream right
there. I even wrote about it in my journal. Make it happen in north Florida.
Land costs 1k the acre, super cheap, make a deseret style empire on the old
logging company lands in NFL. Cattle, peaches, lease land, hunting
operations...If there's any kind of possibility of that being a reality I'd do
it. I've got my ranching buddies here on the mission in on it. Great picture of
Kent's family too. <o:p></o:p><br />
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I always love hearing about
everyone's activities. Kate's looking so grown up, she's a pretty girl. And I
hope sterling does do pop warner, I think it'd be real good for him, he's got
lots of potential. And curtis never answered my questions! Just let curtis be a
hunting and fishing fool, my viewpoint is that you have to be really good at
something but it doesn't really matter what that something is. <o:p></o:p></div>
sorry to hear about skip. Hope
he makes it. He's a good dog. But if he doesn't make it just don't bring him to
the shelter to put him down, that would break my heart. Find a way to do it at
home. But I hope he makes it! <o:p></o:p><br />
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Say hi to everyone in the ward
for me. Especially old bishop spencer and sandee. They really are great, seeing
how the church functions here really make me appreciate them. Also, tell Julie
hi! Any updates from them? The boys still frequenting the river? <o:p></o:p></div>
Also, could you all send me talks again? If you can find
them I'd love to get some from Jack R. Christianson-he's not a GA or anything
but I heard he's got some pretty good stuff. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<o:p> </o:p>Update! We're killing it with
the work. We had 9 investigators in church on sunday. And it was a testimony
meeting...but, thankfully, almost all the testimonies were solid. For the first
time in a while I was actually able to feel the spirit in a honduran sacrament
meeting! They're honestly terrible but Its grown on me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It's really interesting how
much my capacity to love has grown. Loving members, and investigators. There's
one family here in the ward that I've really grown to love-the matriarch,
sister merlo, reminds me of you-real active, backbone of the ward, alway
serving and helping, truly dedicated. But for some reason she's kinda rubbed
people wrong in the ward-she's offended some people, and honestly its kinda her
fault, but I just saw her the other night coming back from the third church
activity that sunday and just sit down on the couch, just exhausted, and I felt
such a great love for her, I just wanted to wrap my arms around her and tell
her how great she is. She works so hard and is giving her life in the service
of the lord and her family and is greatly underappreciated. <o:p></o:p></div>
I've also seen alot of
gossiping here-problems in zion-being a missionary is interesting because
people want to tell you everything. I know everything about the ward here. It's
made a big impression on me how everyone has weaknesses and make mistakes but
everyone does what they do because it's what they believe is best or because
they don't know any better. Just gotta love everybody, not get offended, and
realize how damaging are little snippy differences and gossips and things like
that. It kills wards here (the people are extra gossipy in honduras) but it
pains me to see. Don't gossip, love everybody, and remember that everyone that
is serving in the church is a volunteer just like we are! <o:p></o:p><br />
But yeah, I'm definitely
learning alot here. I may not learn a ton about the gospel, about deep doctrine
or what have you, but I sure am learning alot about the practical side of
religion. And I'm learning people. I remember that Kyle Johnson told me that
his mission taught him more about the world and how people work than any
college education ever could and I think he's right. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Cool story for the week, I was
chatting with a sister in church the other day and all of a sudden her huband
talks to me in English-turns out he's a new yorker that joined the marines and
ended up in honduras and stayed. He's a vietnam vet and ended up finding the
church because he had a buddy in his platoon from Alaska, a good old mormon
boy. One day they got trapped and engaged in firefight and he told me that he
was next to his buddy, an endowed RM, and he saw a bullet smack his buddy in
the chest and then fall to the floor, as his buddy reached down to pick it up,
juggling it in his hands for the heat, and put it into his pocket for a
souvenir. He was impressed by the protection of the temple garment and then
later found the missionaries in honduras, read the book of mormon in a day, and
then got baptized. Cool guy. Real grumpy but interesting story. <o:p></o:p></div>
Also, I'm becoming latin. I
don't know how to make jokes or have fun in english anymore. But gosh dang it
I'm funny in spanish. One, the people are real easy to please, they like to
laugh, and second, somehow they like my sense of humor. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Also, enjoy FHE! After I get
done writing we're gonna go have a NDH (noche de hogar) with a family of recent
converts. We'll sit down on their porch on the dirt floor under a bare
lightbulb with a dog laying at my feet and a caged parrot above my head. We'll
sit on a cinderblock bench and hammocks, swatting mosquitos. It'll be us,
Acner, who passed the sacrament for the first time this sunday, and his mom,
Johanna, the woman who got baptized last saturday, and Emilio, her other son
who's a teacher. She'll whip out doctrine and covenants and give us a lesson
and expound on a verse or two and tell her sons how they need to be priesthood
men and good boys, and then if we're lucky they'll give us a glass of coke. At
least that's what happened last monday. <o:p></o:p></div>
Anyway, that's my update.
Pictures are coming! <o:p></o:p><br />
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Oh yeah, I also got surgery this week! Went to a honduran
doctor. Half way through he stops and starts typing on his computer and I'm
just thinking "freak, this guys looking up how to do it on youtube"
but it actually turned out pretty well. Super painful though, I was limping
around for a while. Ingrown toenail. They numbed my toe and then just cut the
thing out with scissors and pulled the nail with medical pliers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Love you all, sorry that time is short! <o:p></o:p></div>
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October 5, 2015<br />
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Happy Pday and happy birthday!<br />
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The office party! Looks fun, loved seeing everybody. Can´t
wait to shoot the bull with the latins. Tell them all hi for me, as always. Any
new office gossip? How´s sunburst doing? Nikki´s family?<o:p></o:p><br />
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And yes, conference was great. More on that later. No
package yet! Maybe tomorrow. But yes, I´d love some more contacts. not too many
more but I am running low. I think -4.0 is what I´m wearing. And I´m good on
garments, thanks for always watching out for me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But yeah, basically I´ll always be writing at this time.
Hope you all don´t mind! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I thought that was so funny that sarah got in begging. Right
on. What are you all gonna do for thanksgiving? Go big! who are you gonna do it
with? And how´s the family? And Dad´s side?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hope dad enjoyed the movie, I think I´ve seen previews for
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What´s going on with the lot next door, are they gonna build
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And that´s what I miss most about conference...before the
mission the actual conference didn´t interest me too much, but spending the day
with the family and the conference breakfast I definitely miss! <o:p></o:p></div>
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That´s funny they were all calling for me, our family´s
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My little reply to dad: Enjoy the weather. we´re still in
full summer here but I was just thinking...this is my last summer here! Well,
my last september. I think september´s the hottest month and I won´t have
another! How´s seminary? And yeah, I´m super open with the president Klein, he
knows how it is. He kinda just laughs, shakes his head, and tells me good luck.
And yeah, I am kinda plateuing with spanish. I just never have time to study.
I´m really good at listening to how people speak but as far as book learning
I´m not progressing at all!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Comp issues; We´re a whole lot better now. Basically I quit
trying to be friends with him and settled on being missionaries and it´s
working out pretty well. We had a long discussion/fight til midnight one night
and since then its been pretty good. I kinda just accepted that that´s how he
is and we´re moving forward. We really did it for the zone more than anything,
it´s hard to motivate missionaries when those that are supposed to be the
leaders are engaged in a big pissing contest. <o:p></o:p><br />
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They´re still feeding us like crazy! We´ve had dinners every
night, and one night this week we had three. They´re filling us up, bless the
relief society here. It makes life so much easier. And we actually have money
and don´t have to eat semitas and juice made from tang for breakfast. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>I wanna tell you all about our typical day. So ya know my
schedule. At 6 we wake up and go to the gym and go hard for an hour and a half.
At 8 we´re studying personally, and then at 9 o´clock in companionship (which
almost never happens due to our constant stream of ZL duties). At 10 we´re
visitng, on a good day we can get in 3 visits before lunchtime. At 12 we head
over to hermana Mercede´s house to get filled up with rice, beans, bananas,
chicken, and stuff like that, with juice made from tamarind seeds or jamaica
flowers. At 1 we study language, theoretically, and at 2 we´re back making
visits. If it´s a good day we´ll get in 5 more plus a dinner of beans, eggs,
and cheese with tortillas and chili sauce on the side. We´re in the streets til
9;30 usually and then we get back and plan til 10, and just about every night
we´ve gotta take care of some matter of business in the zone, and we´re in bed
at 11 usually. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Little funny story from this week, my buddy Elder Michael
(my ccm comp, who´s in the zone about 10 minutes away) got robbed the other
day-they took their phone and some money. And then the other night we got a
phone call from their phone-freak, the thief is calling-so we answered it and
its Michael...turns out the gangster had felt bad, realized that they were
missionaries, repented, and brought the camera back. Cracks me up. That´s
Honduras right there. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This week we did divisions with my favorite companionship in
the zone, Elder Magalei from Hawaii and Elder Jaurez from Guate. I went with
Magalei in his area and we had a blast. He´s kind of a new missionary so it was
fun teaching him some stuff and kinda showing him how to work. His other
companions had been good kids but didn´t push him, and then we went out and
found 6 new people and had 9 lessons in one day he was like ¨this is so cool!¨
lots of motivation, I felt pretty good and prideful about that division. Felt
like I was doing my job. He´ll be a better missionary than I´ll ever be, lots
of potential. Then in the night time on the divisions we invited my buddy,
Elder Saunders, the DL over there, and his comp Villegas (an old comp of mine)
over for a ¨p-noche¨. We had a good old time, had ourselves a little devotional,
sang ye elders of israel, shared our favorite scriptures, and it actually
turned out being a really powerful experience. Everybody was feeling the
spirit. Then we watched Ephraim´s Rescue and got seriously motivated. Great
experience all around. Looking back I´m actually pretty sure it was against the
rules, but...I´m glad we did it. Raised a whole lot of motivation where it was
needed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Alrighty, conference, before I run out of time. Brief
thoughts. Loved Uchtdorf´s first talk. If our church experience is working for
us. And the counsel to simplify. Not let ourselves get burried by programs and
numbers. Exaltation is the goal and discipleship is the journey. And also the
counsel for all the doubts/church history/anti-mormon type stuff. You can be
happy or you can be right. If we pursue shadows, that´s exactly what we´ll
get-lots of things of little substance that don´t lead us to happiness. Loved
hearing sister Marriott´s talk, just for the accent. Couldn´t tell ya much of
what she said besides ¨It will all work out¨but it was a delight listening to
her talk. There´s another Elder here from Texas and we got a little fist bump
out of the experience. I do love what she said though about everything all
working out. I believe that I am always divinely guided-every trial, challenge,
problem, asignment is given to me to prepare me for something else. And I
believe that every one else is also divinely guided-God has a plan, in spite of
sins and mistakes, and he´s sure not looking to send anybody to hell. Elder
Hollands talk on mothers-Love you Mom! Also, I like that they mentioned our
heavenly mother. And Foster´s talk on how society fights to change identity and
mind of our families, and how children our the biggest group of investigators
in the church. I was pretty impressed by the counsel he gave for fathers as
well, the whole ¨I was 9 once too, here´s what you might come across¨. Stellar
advice, I feel like you all did that one pretty well as parents. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And how Neil A. Anderson said ¨The priesthood makes us
different. We no longer stand on nuetral ground¨. Like Joseph Smith said, when
we united with this church we made our choice-there is no longer nuetral ground
for us. We chose to fight on the side of right and if we quit fighting, we are
opposing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I loved Eyring´s talk, when he talked about the EQ president
that activated all the guys in his quorom talking about trucks. That´s my
future right there. I also loved his counsel on leadership too. Despite his
inadequacies and doubts he said ¨As it was the will of the Lord I
accepted.¨<o:p></o:p></div>
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And how Elder Renlund said how the Lord calls us for what he
needs to do through us, in spite of what we have done, not because of what we
have done. And this only works if we do it his way. And, in Elder Schwitzer´s
address, he said that as a leader, one should seek to inspire, not to impress.
I think that´s one thing I´m good at because I´m really not all that
impressive, but I do a pretty good job of inspiring and lifting. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I enjoyed Christofferson´s doctrinally sound talk about why
we need the church-and how it´s a hands on experience. And, most importantly,
how the point of the church is so that a family can qualify for eternal life.
We´re converted unto the lord and united to the church. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And how elder Keetch and Sister Carole said, people are
unwilling to keep the commandments/submit until they understand. That´s so hard
to do with investigators. Get them to understand, really, why they are making
these changes. Pretty much all of them do it to avoid hellfire, but theres so
much more than that. There was a ton I liked but I´m short on time! I missed
Elder Nelson´s talk, because the power went out, but...hope it was good! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Also have been thinking about spiritual experiences in the
past. Elder Uchtdorf´s talk really jived with me...like, how some mornings, I
still wake up wondering if this is all really true or if I´m wasting my time
and my life here-and then, after putting some thought into it, I remember how
many spiritual experiences I´ve had-how many witnesses. I can´t deny it. I know
its true. Early experiences, when I was 16 or 17, just seeing that preach my
gospel manual on my nightsand. I´m pretty sure I never read the thing, but I
could just feel that it was true. I could feel that the book had power. The
same with my Book Of Mormon. Even from a young age, even just holding the book
in my hands would give me a feeling of power. Even though my scripture reading
habits were pretty so-so, I could still feel it. Family scripture study. Family
prayer. Even though there were so many times it felt routine, it made a huge
difference. Up backpacking in Montana with Hyrum when I had 17 years-we got
scared of the dark and a deer we thought was a grizzly, so we started to read
the little military edition of the BoM sister Smith had given me. Reading up in
my treestand hunting in the swamp. Reading on the mountainop in the blue with
Orrin after filling the tag last november. Feeling the power of Repentance for
the first time up in BYU, and many times afterwards. Seeing and doing miracles
through priesthood blessings in Morazan. Recieving revelation from reading the
scriptures in my personal study on the mission-pure revelation like I´d never
recieved before. Seeing families and lives change. If I we´re to deny all that
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reply to curtis: Hey Curtis! What kinda .270 are ya looking
at? What brand? I always wish I had bought a .270 instead of a .30-06. Fishing
gear! braided line just about always unless you´re bottom fishing for grouper
way offshore. I´d say 15 lbs braided line if you can find it. I like Power Pro
or Suffix. And then always fish with a 15 or 20 pound flourocarbon leader of
about 2 feet tied together. If you can´t tie the knot learn! But if not you´ll
still catch fish without it but I think it helps. And you know how I like to
fish the rivers-2/0 wide gap gamakatsu hook with a super fluke jr in color baby
bass or arkansas shiner. Tears it up! Just cast to trees and stumps and twitch
it back to the boat pretty fast. I expect some pictures! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sterling: Loved the football pictures. I miss football! send
the videos! Sometimes I can´t watch them because of the internet connection,
but I´d love to see you in action. And dude...Mrs. Voke is the best. She´s
kinda hard, but I really do think she´s a great teacher. Out of all the
teachers I had in middle school she´s probably the only one I´d like to visit.
And she loves our family. Get to know her! Keep killing it with the football!
One of my best friends here is from hawaii and has 12 brothers and all his
older brothers are playing college football-in oregon, in utah, and hawaii, how
cool is that? <o:p></o:p></div>
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September 28, 2015<br />
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Would you still love me If I got sent home for beating the living daylights out of my comp?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I´m gonna complain a little bit, bear with me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I´ve heard alot of people talk about how humble the latin
people are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It´s garbage. I´ve never met a people so proud. It´s like
Alma says to the outcast zoramites-they´re humble because they´re compelled to
be humble. And the humble people of Honduras are truly wonderful. But as soon
as they get a little money, a little power, a little authority, it goes
straight to their head. I am convinced that The poor here are forced to be poor
because if they were not poor they would head straight to hell. A little
example this week that left a really bad taste in my mouth-There was a
conference a little bit ago in another city in Honduras-I didn´t go, but I
heard about it-And one of the area authorities, a latin, walks up like a
rooster in full strut, and starts calling out the bishop´s name by name. Says
¨Bishop Medina, how many baptisms have you planned for the upcoming year?¨ The
bishop stammers a little bit. The area authority walks up to him, sniffs the
air around the bishop, and says ¨You don´t smell like a sheep. Sit down.¨¨<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The latins have this thing, always comparing
sheep and goats. To call someone a goat is a bad word). And then he moves on to
the next bishop doing the same thing. And my comp is telling the story like
it´s the best thing ever, and how awesome the machete is, and I´m just
thinking...what pride! This leader got himself a little authority and look what
happens. D&C 121. I despise that. And that´s the kind of leader my comp
wants to be. He only wants numbers, only wants to machete people, and basically
he wants us to see how righteous and competent he is and what awful sinners we
all are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now, I love honduras and hondurans, but I can testify
that the Nephite pride cycle is alive and well in their descendents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But apart from all that, Hondurans are great! Still
loving the ward, the members, the bishop, and the investigators. couldn´t be
happier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We also had two baptisms this week, Yohanna and her son
Acner. Love them to death. Great baptisms, solid converts. I baptized Acner
who´s excited as anything to get the priesthood and pass the sacrament, and the
bishop baptized his mom. For some reason he thought that after the baptism we
would be transfered, and he was starting to say goodbye and getting all
emotional and we had to explain to him that we´re not getting transfered. He´s
a good kid and I like him alot. He´ll go far, we have a solid young men´s
program.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Also, my comp just about lost it when I bought a little
bag of water on sunday. We passed by the pulperia and I told him I was about to
buy it, and he´s like ¨It´s the sabbath.¨ and then I was like ¨you are correct.
But we don´t have any water, the ox is in the mire¨. And then he got mad and
stormed off shaking his head, real ticked off to be chained to a sinner such as
I. Then we get back to the house and he´s like ¨hey, wanna give me some of your
water?¨ You hypocrite. I gave it to him though, without comment. I´m improving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It´s hard though. Our leadership styles do not mash. He
gets mad when I talk to the missionaries. He´s jealous of personal
relationships. He erases text messages to hide messages when the missionaries
are like ¨hansen, love you bro¨. I´ll be talking to the district leaders about
their districts, problems, strong points, ideas, and he´s just tapping the desk
whisper shouting ¨Only ask for the numbers!¨ If I didn´t have to put the
example and be a good ZL I would honestly have hit him by now. But I´m happy,
I´ve found a real happy medium. I know why I´m doing what I´m doing, I´m
confident in myself, and he can go burn all the bridges he wants but I´ll just
keep on doing my thing. Also, I have to look at the positives, he´s a really
hard worker and he is truly focused in the work, but...still sucks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Had a real hectic week. We had to organize a multi zone
conference, spend some time with the AP´s, and give a training workshop to all
the ward missionaries and ward missionaries of the stake. I get about 5 hours
of sleep sometimes. We get home at 9:30 from working, plan for us, then plan
for the zone, and then listen to my comp nag for a while, and then It´s 11
o´clock and I realize I have to plan my workshop or my class or something for
the next day. I´m not tired though, I have no doubt I´m being strengthened and
helped because without some divine help there´s no way I´d be able to function
like this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">´That´s basically my update. I can´t think of what else I
want to tell you. In case you were wondering my two favorite latin countries
are mexico and the dominican republic. I´m a big fan of both Mexicans and
dominicans. Laid back, friendly, just good, genuine people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But yeah, La Ceiba is great. Great members, missionary
work is solid, and its relatively safe. Our area is pure mountain and we have
to hike every day but I´m not complaining. And we´re sending a recent convert
to the temple this week! I´m gonna do better next week about pictures, telling
you about people, and throwing in a few stories. And regardless of all my
complaining, I´m doing really well, growing in testinomny still, and I´m
healthy. Every day is a struggle but that´s life I guess.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Love you all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Did ya have a good birthday?? What did they all do for
ya?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It´s so nice having a building. I don´t think the members
here appreciate it. The ward is great and I´m a big fan. Its still Honduras,
there´s still a ton of lazy, shiftless, ne´er do wells but theres like 5
families that are solid and make up the difference. The bishop is stellar, he´s
just like Dad. We get along great. He´s got a little cabinetmaking business,
drives a 90 something toyota, and lives in a humble little house with a happy
family. They fed us on sunday and we got to know them and we just had a good ol
time laughing and joking for a while. They fed us crab soup and balleadas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We´ve been fed every night this week! The relief society
really pulled through for us this week. It´s such a huge help for us. And we
get to know the members too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have all those pictures you want but I forgot my
camera...next week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our house is small and ugly but we´re only there to sleep
so it doesn´t matter too much. I just live with my comp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But yes, I´m so excited for conference. once we get all
our investigators comfortable and settled in I´m off to the bishops office to
watch it in english with all the americans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And yeah, we´re still meeting with Omer. He´s got a
baptimsal date but the challenge is that he fell in love with a member and then
she left him and she still attends church here so that´s complicating things
for him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And the Mt. Timp thing is funny...speaking of marriage,
I´m really learning what I want in a marriage partner. And its still not a
returned missionary, if you were wondering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I´m gonna have to ask sarah about lake powell, holy cow!
sounds like a blast, I´m jealous. Have you seen her grades? How is she doing?
You´re just paying her to party! I´m glad she´s doing so well though, seems
like she´s pretty happy with her choice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And Kate makes me laugh. Typical. I can´t wait to hang
out with everybody after the mission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Do you ever talk to your cousins and extended family?
That´s too bad though, are they all sealed and everything?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And about my comp...haha I don´t even want to talk about
it. He´s just a terrible human being. That´s all you need to know. The worst
part is that he´s a short little guatemalan and I literally have to restrain
myself from hitting him. Not even kidding. If I wasn´t a zone leader I would
have left him hog tied in the closet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And packages! I will always want...little LDS bookstore
things but not cheesey things, good things-little cards, pictures, stuff like
that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I´m still waiting on a picture of the orlando temple!
Also, just for fun, I want some florida stuff too-even if its just a tiny
little gift shop florida flag. Tshirts are always good. And ties! I´m running
out quick. Honduras is real rough on ties. And protein bars. Just so you know.
Not that you need to send all that in the next package, but just so you have ideas
for future packages!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And are you exercising and dieting? You look downright
fit and young in that picture!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And yes, I´m safe and healthy. I have some foot problems
but I´ll be going to the doctor this week, I´ve got a really bad ingrown
toenail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But my weight/stomach problems are over, for now!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And you all are only gonna get two more phone calls from
me! Any more cold fronts coming through?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Anyways, I´m gonna write my update now. Love ya!</span></div>
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