The gospel is True!

This week has been a great week as always! We have really been able to make a lot of progress with Collin and Karryann! They read in the Book of Mormon every day and watch these D & C videos all the time! We have a few other investigators that we have been focusing on as well! They have some concerns but we are trying our hardest to resolve them.

 Also something awesome happened at church this past Sunday! In priesthood Brother Cooper our recent convert, leans over to me, smiles and whispers, "Elder Hansen... the gospel is true!" I laugh to myself and whisper back, "Yes, Yes it is Brother Cooper!" It was such a testimony to me right there that this gospel is true!! Brother Cooper was able to find that out and we are all able to find that out as long as we simply do what God asks of us!

Elder Hansen

Grab a hold of Christ's Atonement and then we can do all things!

Another great week gone! At the beginning of this week we were down this huge hill in a place called Exton visiting a recent convert. The lesson went great and then we were on our way back up right before this huge hill a big box van, semi truck passes us. This whole time riding up towards the hill Elder Graham and I are just looking at this hill like we will never be able to ride up it! So basically we were discouraged and knew we were going to be struggling! But I have the idea to catch up to this Semi before it starts up the hill. So we hurry and catch up to the van and grab onto these handles that are on the back of the van while it is still cruising! So we get pulled up this huge hill from this van! It was absolutely great! The lesson learned here is that whenever we think we are struggling or that we won't be able to do what the Lord commands us, He will always be there to bring us back up! We are able to grab a hold of the Atonement's handles and bring ourselves back up to safety! The handles are always extended to us, it is our job to recognize the handles and be able to have the faith to grab hold! I am very grateful for the lessons that I am able to learn each and every day out here in the field and I know that through Christ we can do all things! 

Elder Hansen

The Lord never disappoints!

This week has been great! We were able to have Brother Coal and McKenzie show up to church! It is really quite a journey for these 2 to get to church! They have to walk from the bush a good 30 minutes to a road where taxis run and then wait another 30 minutes to an hour for a taxi to pick them up! It is so great to see these people show their faith by doing what it takes to make it to church! Brother McKenzie also had a cool experience where he had no money at the beginning of this week. He told us he wouldn’t be able to make it because of that! We replied telling him that if he truly desires to come to church, money WILL not be the problem! Sure enough the Lord never disappoints and Brother McKenzie got some work for a day so he had enough money to come to church! The lesson learned is that the Lord does not give us a commandment that is not possible! 1 Nephi 3: 7 is exact evidence of this! He will ALWAYS prepare a way for us to accomplish what he has commanded!  I’m very grateful for this opportunity to serve! 

Elder Hansen

I am grateful for this time to serve the Lord!

This week has been great! Elder Graham is an awesome missionary and we really get along! Our investigators are doing well! Collin and Karryanns family come to church every week and are doing awesome they just haven't gotten married yet! Once they get married they can get baptized but they just keep pushing marriage back! So we are praying and working very hard to get them married so they don't have to wait much longer for the blessings of being baptized and receiving the Holy Ghost!

Devin is still doing great! This last week we found a weed plant in his front yard and asked what this is all about? He looks over the railing and says, naaa thats jus a flowa!" Then walks down the steps pulls the plant out of the ground, says, "I hope God don't charge me for this one!" Then throws the plant into the bushes!! It was the greatest thing I have seen in a long time! Devin is the most humble man ever and wants to do good! He obvious has a couple concerns but nothing that the Atonement can't fix! He is doing so well and just needs to come to church!!

Elder Graham is from a place by Portland, Oregon. He has been out for a little over a year and is really a great Elder! He has served in Yallahs, Spanish Town, and Savvanah La Mar. He actually went to BYU Idaho before coming out and has family that lives all around in Jerome! Small world!

Our other investigators are doing great! They want to be baptized as soon as possible! They just need to stop doing some things and start doing some better things in order to do so! 

I am Truly so grateful for this time that I have to serve the Lord! It doesn't matter where we are in the world because the Gospel is the same everywhere! I know that this Church is true and am so thankful for the blessings that come because of it!

April 18 Last recording with Elder Warren and Elder Braeden Hansen

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Braeden's Audio File

Rain and Crocodiles!

 My companion has been here for over 7 months, now so he is due for a transfer. He has also been filling out a bunch of paper work for the Bahamas so he will be leaving this next week. The transfer is next Wednesday. The work has been going good! This last week it has rained every day! It really plays a big role in the work because nobody wants to meet when it is raining! But it is enjoyable to be completely soaked and just ride through massive puddles! A lot of our roads are just dirt roads so it gets super slippery and muddy when it rains! We have a few families we are teaching and a couple men! So we will see how well they start progressing. This last week has really been hard to meet with any of our investigators because they don't want to meet when we are soaking wet so that is a bummer but this next week should be better! Hopefully not so much rain however the people are so happy when it rains because that is how they drink, bathe, wash clothes, cook, grow food in their farms. So it is a great blessing for the people when it rains just a little harder for us as missionaries! However we will be able to push through and our investigators will just have to show their faith by letting two white soaking guys into their homes! 

Last p-day we went to this place that gave boat rides to see wild crocodiles. SO we went and did that! IT was so sweet! Crocodiles everywhere! These Jamaicans would be slapping them and yelling at them to get them to come to the boat so we could see them closer! It was CRAZY!! Way cool to be able to see Gods crazy creations and power through crocodiles! We also got to hold baby crocodiles!

Elder Hansen