Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Last week in Brenham, Texas! It's been a great experience!

This week has been great! We got to do a bunch of awesome things! The weather has been colder but the food has been better!

At the start of the week we set this guy named Jose a baptismal date in February so that was awesome! After we had shared the First Vision with him he told that us that he was feeling great! It was so awesome to see Jose feel of the spirit and know that what we were telling him was true. At the end of the lesson we committed him for a day and it was great! Too bad I won’t be here to teach him more but I know that he will continue forth! 

We also got to go to a worldwide Missionary Broadcast down in Houston on Wednesday and that was such a good experience! It’s funny that a lot of the things that were said during the broadcast from leaders of the missionary program have been taught to us by our Mission President already! Our President is such a good guy and seriously knows what he is doing! My companion and I have realized that the whole mission tries to talk like the President! The way he talks is how the whole mission talks. It’s hilarious! But we did learn a lot from the broadcast and have tried to put it into our teaching efforts. It has really helped on being more direct and meaningful to the certain person we are talking to. 

On Friday, we got to take one of the recent converts from the branch to the temple for baptisms! Our President has been working with the temple in Houston so that every 4th Friday of the Month the temple will be reserved for recent converts to go and do baptisms! He has been talking to other temple presidents and is trying to make this happen for every temple! So, we got to go to the temple and watch her be baptized and confirmed for her mom. It was such a spiritual experience and she told us as we were leaving that she could truly feel the presence of her mom while she was getting confirmed! She didn’t want to leave the temple!

Another awesome thing I found out this week and could be the reason I came to Texas was this member in our branch is from Jamaica! He is a less active recent convert and the rest of his family is in Jamaica and aren’t members! Elder Ross, my companion thinks for sure this is why I came to Texas first! I thought it was cool that I was able to find him and talk with him about Jamaica for a bit! 

This week has been a great last week! It is so sad to leave this place because the people here are seriously the best! They are so nice and our investigators are solid! We have set two dates for February! And the branch is so awesome and supportive of what we are doing! Every night we have been fed dinner from a branch member! It’s hard to leave but I know that I will feel the same way about Jamaica once I get there! It has been a fast six weeks and a great six weeks here in Brenham, Texas! I know that as we continue forth we will be blessed!


Elder Hansen

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