Monday, January 9, 2017

January 2nd and January 9th...All is well!

January 2, 2017

Well this week was pretty tough!! Because of holidays and everything else going on a lot of people were either gone or busy so we weren’t able to teach a whole lot this past week! But we did get to do a lot of contacting trying to talk to more Haitians and pretty much anyone and everyone we see! I will say it is hard to go and talk to people all day long and not have a single lesson sometimes but I felt like I was able to learn a lot from this week! A lot of our investigators have been gone and too busy to meet. But we have found some new ones that have a lot of potential! It is pretty interesting having lessons with Haitians when we meet them on the streets and we don’t have a translator because we basically have them open the pamphlets and we point at different paragraphs for them to read! So definitely a learning experience trying to find new ways we can help people understand better! But a lot of it comes down to how well we can explain the gospel simply! Using very very simple language! 

All is going well though! I am super excited to start this New Year off right! Going out and trying to find and teach as many people as we can so we can provide more blessings for these people! The Gospel does provide happiness as we live and follow our Heavenly Fathers Plan for us! I do know that! And a happy New Year to everyone!

January 9, 2017

We had a lot more success in being able to meet with our investigators and finding more people to teach! We’ve been teaching this guy named Patrick that has really good desires to find the right church and so he has been coming to church the past few weeks and is really liking what he is hearing! He reads from the Book of Mormon and also prays so he is well on his way to being baptized once he knows for sure, which will soon come! So we are super excited about that!

Our recent convert Joseph is doing so good! He comes to church every week and has such a strong testimony! Yesterday we needed a member to translate for one of our investigators and we couldn’t get a hold of our normal translator brother Willy so we stop by Josephs and he was in the middle of eating dinner... He puts everything down, gets dressed and comes out with us! He gets in the car and relates himself to Nephi having to leave everything behind and go into the wilderness with his Family! Joseph is so great and he has really inspired me to become better and do whatever the Lord commands! So we had a great week and we are meeting a lot of great people! So excited to see what this next week brings!

Elder Hansen







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