You Guys:

This is truly a dream come true!

Before I get started on my letter first let me say to my wonderful brother Happy belated Birthday! I want you to know meef that I thought about you all day long and was missing you more than ever!

This week was one of miracles! I love serving a mission. The saying, "a mission is 99% hard work and 1 % pure joy and the pure joy makes it all worth it," is true. This week was ROUGH. At the beginning of the week I wanted to die, quite literally, I was constantly tired, we got lost everyday, and my comp and had some differences, however by the end of the week my outlook changed. There is a talk that I heard while in the MTC, "Character of Christ," by Bednar and I was able to read over that on Wednesday and I realized how selfish I was looking at my mission. As my focus shifted from the things I was missing at home and the life I want when I return, to loving the people I am teaching and knowing my purpose is to help people come to Christ this experience has turned from a burden to endure for 18 months to a blessing to appreciate! 

I do have to say though that family those letters you wrote to me before I left have been well read and have helped me in ways you can't even imagine, each one has said something that I desperately needed to hear! I love you guys and miss you so so so so so many much! 

I have to share the best most coolest experience that I had on Saturday night. We were meeting with K one of our investigators and he had been back tracking and had gotten rid of his baptism date and really shying away from the church. My comp and I were so distraught and on Tuesday we decided to text him and challenge him to start reading/watching General Conference starting with Hollands talk "Lord, I believe," (i think that's the title.) After being worried sick all week about how he was doing it was finally time for his lesson. We planned to teach him the restoration again because he had questions about priesthood and prophets. When we got there though the first thing he said to us was that he had been listening to general conference non-stop and I quote, "The questions I had I realized don't really matter anymore, and I want to be baptized, I want to be baptized before the end of the year." WOW! I was so overwhelmed with love and happiness! I can't wait till he is baptized on the 29th! 

Basically I am loving it, the hard times especially because moments like the ones on Saturday night make those rough times so so worth it! I am in love with this work. 

Much Love, 

Sister Hansen!

P.S.

Haha I look disease ridden. My legs are unrecognizable now due to mosquito bites all the time!